The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rocket Lose Round 1 vs Lakers, Texans Sign OL, Texas vs NC State Tonight!

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Rocket Lose Round 1 vs Lakers, Texans Sign OL, Texas vs NC State Tonight! 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 101 in H-Town. Good morning. Tuesday edition, Matt Thomas Show, Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. It was a cross-court pass

and it's intercepted by Austin Reeves. This will seal it on Robes James James. One hundred to 90 with 39.9 seconds. Lakers up by 10. All right. I'm going to tell you. something, I get highly compensated to do this show and I love it.

I'm going to give you an hour's worth of pay. Okay. Because I don't know if I want to speak until 11 o'clock. Well, I did an hour on the postgame show. And I listened. Until 12, 17 in the a.m. Screaming at people.

You weren't screaming. You were very diplomatic. You had two nuts of a calls in a row. But other than that, Oh, we had like LeBron's biggest fan talking about how he dominated. Okay, he had 18 points. Look at Donchitz dominated that kid. He's the third wheel. And if you're LeBron's your third wheel, you're good.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Even though the Lakers sucked last night from the perimeter, I mean, Austin Reeves brick, Marcus Smart actually hit some. Luca hit some, but everybody else was just, I mean, my gosh. The Lakers weren't even hit. The Lakers weren't good last night. No.

Rockets were worse. 100 to 92. And it hurts. And well, save your tears for another day. Maybe like late April early May. So that's the weekend. And I'm not familiar with this work, but sometimes I acquiesce.

Is that what the term is there? To you and to Jonathan for songs that are maybe post-1990. Yes. And you went with one. And it fits. It's a clever song. Concede, maybe. Let's go to concede. I don't know.

I was going to say lend your expertise to. Well, the theme of that song is save your tears for another day because I'm going to leave you later anyways, basically. So that's what I'm going with here. May I model along for one minute and then you can have the rest of the hour. You can do the... I've already did 17 minutes today.

So you can go. Oh, that's right. You've already gotten 17. I'll turn my mic off. I'm going to sit my coffee. Go ahead. I love the Houston Rockets. I have a qualifier.

No, no, no, there's no qualifying. There's a butt coming here. I know. I'm leading up to it. I have been a part of that organization for 13 years. Three, when I was in the PA in the 90s, when they won two championships, you're welcome. And 10 was now as the radio voice and half of that all radio and half of that PA and radio. So, I take losses greater than I should.

knowing that in an NBA season, if you go 52 and 30, that's a successful season. That's what the Rockets went last year. They were in the number two C in the Western Conference. You're going to lose games. You're going to lose games on back-to-backs. You're going to lose games when you shoot poorly. You're going to lose games when you give up a defensive play late in the contest. You're going to lose a game when you miss a free throw.

I mean, there's a variety of ways to lose it. In my 10 years, that's a top five aggravating fourth quarter. So let's put it this way. I've called 80 games a year, give or take. for 10 years, and that's 4, it's 300, how many quarters is that? 80 games a year, four quarters per game. It's 3,200 quarters, right? I'm sure, why not?

That's the top three for me. The Austin Reeves, Jackson Hayes, Marcus, Martin, whoever you wanted to put, insert two of the three, the double team to Durant, and it was turnover after turnover after, Turn over. And then when they were not turning it over, they were missing threes. And again, I don't mean to pregnant pause, but I just, I'm, I'm really, really down today. And I try to as the voice of the team remain up. And I will always remain up because, again, I would, it's hard to score 12, just 12 points in a quarter. I mean, that's, it's hard to score 35 and a half. College basketball all the time.

48 minutes, the 24 minute NBA, 35, that's hard. So I would like to call that a one-off. But the turnovers are grading on me sports. They just are. Well, they're not getting any better. And the fact of the matter is, you don't have enough ball handlers. Alpi last night, first of all, could have helped with spacing. Alpi could have helped with low post threat scoring, as obviously he does.

He's a 21, 9 and 6 guy every single night, just about every single night. Yeah. And does handle the ball more than any other center not named Nicole Yolkich. if you want to double team Durant and you can flash Alperin Shingoon to Durant to come help Alperin Shingoon can turn around and A drive to the basket and collapse the defense

B, he can find the open man because he's a good playmaker when you take him off the floor and the next guy that Kevin Durant is throwing it to off double teams is Dorian Finney Smith or God love him but he's not a great playmaker Tari Isson, it becomes a different situation. Here are the realities.

You don't have enough perimeter shooters right now. And one of your perimeter guys who you relied on in the first three months of the year, Sports RV has hit one three-pointer in the month of March. We're talking about Taris. I've never seen, and I've called everyone at Taris games except when I was doing the PA. I've never seen, I may, maybe I've done every one of its games, I don't know. I've never seen Tari struggle as badly. and when you don't have a lot of permanent threat to begin with

and your third best three-point shooter can't knock down a three or can't hit a shot period. Either it's the minutes, it's the number of games. Remember, this is the most games he's played in a row since going back to his leg injuries of a couple of seasons ago. He's either out of gas. The ball doesn't, and Wax and I were talking about this during the game last night, the ball doesn't even leave his hand right.

You know there's rotation to it? Yeah. And there's a spin to it. And you go, that looks good on takeoff. I can tell from even my spot of this. the upper end of the top side of the lower level. If a ball's got a chance to go in, it leaves his hand poorly.

There's nothing in Tar Heason's game right now, except for his offensive rebounding that's been redeeming at this point. Yeah, and the funny thing is he's still shooting a higher three point percentage at this moment than he has ever in his career. So that's the thing we have to remember, too, is that he went

way, way, way up. And so how much of this is the legs, how much of this is the shooting form, how much of this is just being out of sync, and how much of this is just statistical regression that we should have anticipated that we did anticipate but it's hitting so hard

it's getting smack to the ground. Yeah, guys that will shoot 48, 49% from three could go on a three for 10 for four or five games. Kind of like what Reed Shepard. We was off to a hot start regress and now it's back to where he's about 40%, which you accept. It's like you get a couple good shoes in blackjack. You're like, all right, we're going to get a bad shoe.

But then you get the worst shoe of all time. Like four blackjacks in a row. Insurance? No, nobody should buy insurance. She can't have it again. Oh, I got black, I got to take even money. No, no, it's a 6-5 table. You can't take even money. You can't take even money at 6-5? No, you may not, no.

Don't get you all around up there. Okay, let's focus. Let's focus on the Rockets. You didn't know that? That's interesting. No, because I never play it. Well, you're smart. Yeah, that's what's happening. He got two pretty, really good shoes.

and they're like, all right, well, the next shoe is just going to be maybe break even. Next shoe ain't break even. Next shoe is taking it all back. That's what's happening right now with Tari Easton. With, as you said, playing all these games in a row and everything, it's all rolled up into one with him. He doesn't look good out there. He's getting beat off dribbles more than he normally does. His body language is as great as it normally is.

I would imagine that if I'm having the worst month of my NBA career, that my body language is great. Absolutely. I don't mean that. Because some people bring that up and like, oh, the body language, the body language. the body language, he's good. Well, they're human beings. Yeah, yeah. They get tired. They get hurt. They get bumps and bruises. They get in their head. Yeah. He's having a bad month. And you roll that in with, I mean, Jabari Smith Jr. was great last night with the pull-up middies, but he was two of eight from three.

Your best two, three-point shooters, Kevin Durant, 0 for three, Reed Shepard, one for six. And you had looks, too. They weren't even contested that much, honestly. So I'm a frustrated man this morning, Houston, Texas. It was frustrating. It was just, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, maddening and the hits keep coming it keeps it keeps getting harder and harder to rationalize and say this is going to turn

and they can make a deep playoff run. You got smoked by the Spurs, you got destroyed by the Nuggets in the second half of that game and then you're going up against another contender and you do that at home with two days of rest. Before it was like, oh you're on the road

it's the Spurs, you shot bad from three. Oh, you're at altitude, second half of a back to back whatever. What was the excuse last night? There's no excuse. I mean, Shug Shingun being out. We can go there. Yeah. But that game was winnable without Alper and Shingun. Well, yeah. It was a back and forth game. Rockets at a double-digit lead. Yeah. And oh, by the way, Rockets play the Lakers again. And then you've got maybe the hottest team in the East, the Atlanta Hawks coming in on Friday. I think it won 10 straight. And then you have the Miami Heat, Bam out of Bio,

once put up 83. He's not going to do that. No, he's not. I wouldn't think so. So I speak to you openly and honestly as a humble. man that lives in Kingwood at 1013. He would use that one one. That was every day. That was a while. That's a while. Yeah. I'm defeated sports Harvey. Yeah. But we have something

to embrace, love, and go after today. And that is Texas in the playing game in the NCAA tournament. Tonight. Big watch party. You're really trying to piss me off. Why don't you just go ahead and say you're Mr. Texas and then I'll be, I'll be full-blown.

in a fit. I wouldn't say that. Go ahead. No, I'll let the audience do it. I didn't mean to throw you off by saying you can't get even money on 6'5. No, that didn't piss me off. I mean, that makes me mad for sad for you. I know.

I'll be playing 3-2 in New Orleans next week. Don't worry. It's going to cost you depending on the time of night. I mean $50 a hand, but that's how they're here or there. This episode is brought to you by Spreker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

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publish it. Don't do continuous shuffle either. Yeah, all little tricks. Trying to make the house win. You need that break. You need that break between shoes sometimes. I do. I need to the bathroom.

Leave the chips there with three I got left. That's why they keep you there. The continuous shuffle is genius. You cannot count cards. and it's fewer breaks and then you lose track of time and you don't get up to go to the bathroom and then you just sit there and lose.

It's genius. Genius. All right, Matt and Ross with you here. We have gut feelings at 1130 this morning. Jonathan, your gut feeling on the Rockets not going so hot so far. Oh, can we skip gut feelings today? I was just what to say.

Can we just move past that? We're going to have to... We must acknowledge and defeat what we say we're in danger. I want to abstain from gut feeling because all of my gut feelings about the Rockets are very bad right now. I've missed for the last four weeks.

Yeah, I don't, I don't. What are we doing wrong, folks? What, what, what, what, what, what, what's in our gut that's so bad? We got bad digestive issues right now. Uh, 1230, our buddy, Reed Geddes, uh, who I work with on the ESPN broadcast of the Cougar basketball is going to join us. He will give us a thought or two about Texas. A thought or two about Texas Tech.

A thought or two about our Houston Cougars. And all things about the Texas teams and incident will determine. Reed Gedis, a great friend of the show and one of the best analysts you will find in America. We'll be on the show today at 1230. We have, believe it or not, at 150, we have your phone calls all the way until 2 p.m. 713, 212, 570. 7190. 713, 212 5790. This is a day, ladies and gentlemen, frankly, I am a few words. So if you don't like dead air, you should call and say hello and just talk to Ross, and I'll just sit back and listen and I'll brood.

Can I brood today? Is that a good brood day? Not on the radio. You got to talk. Let's go. Talk radio. Let's go. 1015 on Sports Talk 790. 1021, Sports Talk, 790, Matt and Ross with you on this Tuesday. 713, 212, 579. If you want to chime in in our conversation, we're going to hear from Kevin Durant coming to the bottom of the hour.

You have a few things to say. I've watched Kevin Durant. I mean, I haven't watched everyone in his games, but I've watched a lot of Kevin Durant over his career. I've been honored to call his games this year. He always was a turnover guy. That was always the biggest detriment to his career. His turnover count was higher than some of the players at his

a level, but everything else he does beautifully. They threw, and this is where Ross, you have to admit your weaknesses, and my weakness is I'm not an analytical person. I can call what I see, but I need an analyst to help me explain why, and this is your strong suit.

Walk me through the fact that Kevin's bringing up the ball up in the court as much as he is, and Reed Shepherd is setting the screens. That's not going to necessarily give him any separation, because those screens, those pick and rolls are set just beyond mid-court to give Katie a little separation, to get rid of the double team. The Lakers were fighting through those rather easily.

Yeah, I don't know exactly why they were doing it that way. He was getting doubled, I mean, from the jump. And the bottom line is Kevin Durant's not a point guard. Kevin Durant isn't supposed to be in that role. He needs someone to be setting him up. He is more of the tip of the spear, and he can create some for himself, and he can get to the basket. And he's the second greatest shooter of all time, in my opinion, but he's not a point guard. And so in those types of sets where you're going to be able to play four on three, the Rockets needed somebody to step up and then to be able to roll downhill and create and break guys down off dribbles and be good passers.

And that just didn't happen. You had guys fumbling the dribbles. You had guys making inaccurate passes. How many passes in that game sailed into the second or third row? How about Dorian Finney Smith to throw them in Thompson? was two rows deep. Oh my God, that was so on a fast break too. You threw away, not only did you throw away the ball. Anytime you throw away the ball, you're throwing away points, but you threw away a guaranteed two points. So you had inaccurate passing, bad ball handling, bad offense,

bad shooting, basically bad everything from the Rockets last night. And what you're dealing with right now is just a bunch of imperfect players. Kevin Durand is not a point guard. Reed Shepard has defensive issues, and while he is pretty good as a facilitator, he's not a great playmaker. He's not a great dribble driver. He can do it some, but he's not unstoppable. He's a great shooter, but he was one of six from three last night. Amin Thompson can't shoot, but he can do some of the other things. You're dealing with a bunch of puzzle pieces you're trying to fit together because everybody has an issue. It's like you're on the Wizard of Oz and you're on the yellow brick road and it's like, hey, I'm a man Thompson. I can't shoot. Hey, I'm

Kevin Durant. I'm not a playmaker. Hey, I'm Alpern-Shingon. I can't play defense and I can't shoot threes. That's what it is. John, then put the headset on for a minute. Can you hear us okay? I've been working with Ross Field Oreal for 16 years and three months. That might be a top three analogy I've ever heard. Yeah. You went Wizard of Oz on the Rockets. Yes. And I guess he made dope because Dorothy. Who's the Wicked Witch? Don't even answer that question. Sam Presti.

You. Wembenyama. God, I hate it when you've done something well. Because I have to give you your props. Thank you. You just went Wizard of Oz. They all have value. Yes.

We all love all four of the characters. I love the lion. I love the scarecrow. Ten man's a good dude. He's a chill bro. He's got issues. We're going to play Ten Man by America coming back from the break now that I think about it. It's a great song. So that's what you're dealing with.

How did you come up with that? I don't know how you came up with that. You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's the Ross show featuring Matt the rest of the way. I'm sorry, I can't top that. Yeah. I don't know if we're getting aaz. Now, I can put it in the late 70s. Can we ease on down, ease on down the road?

Oh, you know the whiz, man? I love the whiz. Are you kidding me? Diana Ross, Nipsey, Russell? Oh, hell yeah. Not the other Nipsey that passed away. Husty Hustle? No, he passed away. A Nipsey Russell's also dead, too. Made the Nipsey's

rest. I love EZon. I saw the ways back when I was a kid. I loved that movie. Yeah. I hated the Wizard of Oz. Still do. Every time the witch goes on that bike, I run on the bathroom, shut the door, lock it. I'm 53 years old. Still happening. On the phones we go, let's talk to Steve on 7.9.

I had 1026. Steve, good morning. Yeah, good morning, Matt. Thank you for taking my call. Ross. Great to be with you both. everything you just said is basically what I was about to say, although I might say it in a slightly different way. When it was announced in the offseason that Kevin Durant was coming to the Rockets, I think the expectation was that he was going to take the team from, let's say, slightly above average to really one of the upper upper echelon teams.

And the net effect is he has made a difference in that he's made them. Good. But I don't think they're great. I don't think they're anything even close to great. And yet, Kevin Durant himself has been great. You know, I don't question his individual greatness, but what I'm saying is he's been so great that in a way it's kind of its own liability in that it has maybe softened the rest of the team because they're relying so much on Kevin Durant. I mean, I don't know. What do you guys think about that? This episode is brought to you by Spreaker.

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Start your show today at spreeker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. What I'm going to give you a nice simple answer of, when Kevin Durant came here via trade, his point guy was supposed to be Fred Van Bambly. I mean, and I don't want to go back to that, but it matters. It certainly matters. It does. Yeah. It absolutely matters. And it doesn't necessarily have to be Fred Van Vleet.

It just has to be a, look, a men Thompson, I'm one of the biggest of men Thompson fans. You know I've talked about how untouchable I think he is. Love him in. And Reed Shepard has taken a significant upgrade in his playing ability from year one to year two. But neither one of them are a true point card. No. And when you are, when your salary cap, you're in a tough spot because of contracts, you have a backup to a backup point guard, Aaron Holiday.

That's the kind of play you'd probably get either trades are hard. Free agency pickup, just picking guys out of the streets. You're picking up Aaron Holiday type guys. If Emey trusted Aaron Holiday, he'd be getting some serious minutes in crucial moments. He just doesn't do that at this point. So they're saying, I'd rather go with athleticism. with Tari and with Reed Shepardin shooting and with a men being a quasi-point guard, I'll take that over a guy that I just don't think of that they can give me 15, 20 minutes

a night. So that's the Fred Van V. Flit, said easily, factor, cannot be talked about enough. I mean, that's the whole thing. And I've got nothing but good things say about Kevin Durant. I know y'all are having him on here in just a few minutes, and I'm really looking forward to that. but you know that that that's not enough and to your point i mean yeah it needs to be a sum total

there needs to be a totality of effort i mean it is a team game after all it is so i hate to do this because i don't want to be that guy but the team that we're watching for almost 65 games of the season is not the one that we thought was going to be the one when the deal was made to begin with it's just not yeah i think we have to remember that and and i think a lot of times we just kind of to brush it off because we've been used to it the whole season but that's also it's how the team was built it's what they were expecting it's what what was planned by rafel stone is not what you're seeing out there on the floor and so the caller we're playing some kevin durant audio we're not we're

not going to be we're not either of mine i don't think he wants to come on me he would but it's his time yeah we've had it before yeah yeah um yeah you're you're missing every piece you you could have look i i don't want to like put everybody in tears and stuff like that but fred Van Vleet, it hurts and it hurts you in so many different ways. Because you got him from, you're getting him for zero games, zero.

If he got hurt for the first 50, they could have figured it out. If he was coming back today, you'd be like, all right, let's get down these last 15 games. Get a little bit of working. Get some working. Get your rhythm and get ready for the playoffs. He's gone. He's gone for the year. Same thing for Stephen Adams. Like these are, I know they've

happened months ago, so we've kind of just filtered them out of our brains and our consciousness, but they impact what's happening out there on the floor and what you're seeing out there when you say, why can't they get into their offense? Why can't they? We saw it last year when Fred Van Vleet had an ankle injury or missed a couple of games. We're like, oh my gosh, you really miss Fred Van Vleet tonight.

The fans are crushing him because he would go cold from three because that's just what they do. But what he does for them, especially last night, in crunch time situations where you need to get into the flow of your clutch time offense, Kevin Durant doesn't want to do it. I think he feels like he has to do it.

Yeah. You're just, you're missing. You are. And it's not going to change, but it is what it is a reason of why you're seeing what you're seeing on the floor. 713, 212, 579. We'll talk to EZ. We've also got some sound from Kevin Durant being open and honest on the podium yesterday. Times late when things are real and people share the gift of.

You brought up the tin man Some are quick to take the Oh so this is my fault No I think it's terrific Take responsibility for you up Put this jam on Jonathan Here we go here we go This is not bad

But I've never did give nothing To the tin man I can see this You're on the lake It's about 72 degrees and it's breezy Slight breeze yes But you've got the sun too. So you're not cold because

the sun's on you. Right. And the breeze. You're laying back. You weren't a hat or no. You're not thinking about the rockets at all. You're not thinking about clunky offense. I'm going to listen to this America letter today. Yeah.

You got like a nice, maybe like a Moscow mule, like a refreshing cocktail. Something maybe with a little pineapple or like... It's more it's more wine cooler, frankly. Wine cooler's fine. Is something, yeah, maybe a little fruit infusion. Like you're not drinking hard scotch on a neat.

No, you know what I'm saying? You have Zima's with a Jolly Rancher. No. You're always way off the bingo board. I don't like Zima, so that's fine. I'm just, I mean, we work well together because I'm off the bingo board in some things and you're off the bingo board and others. But Zima's and Jolly Ranchers, what are you are you, what, are you 16 in 1986? I didn't like him then and I don't like him now. I was talking about you.

Me? I don't, I've never had a z. Hold on. Come on now. I might have had a zeme in my life. Do you have with a jolly rancher in it? I might have stole it. You know, I'm getting an unlocked memory right now. I might have stole a sip of my dad's when I was like a teenager.

Sorry, Dad. He's fine. You've done worse. Oh, and how. It's funny because my mom listens to show sometimes. She's like, did you what? Dude, my parents always tell me. They're like, oh, I heard you're going on vacation.

Oh, yeah, dad, I'm going on vacation. Yeah, I heard you on air talking about going on vacation. This is how your father finds out? By the way, I am father of the day, by the way. Oh, you are? Yes. I told you this all fair, and I will tell Jonathan and the rest of you on air. Okay.

So when we play 830 games, I typically will get a room at a hotel close to here because it gives me a chance to go take a legitimate nap. I nap here at the office sometimes on 7 o'clock games, but 8.30, it's even an hour and a half later. So I get a hotel. And Cam had my tickets for the game last time. My oldest did. And he's like, man, I got to go up to work early more than next morning.

And I'm like, well, why don't you just take a day? with me at the hotel. So we got a hotel. I got a hotel with two double beds. He comes in after the game. We're sitting there mad about the game. Good night, son. Good night, dad.

Sleep well. Earbuds always travel with ear. My son, on a one to ten, is gaudy-like. Nine and a half, 9.75. The only time he would stop. No, that I was a good part of him.

That I allowed him to stay in my room. Oh, you did. So you're not kicking out your first born son makes you father of the year. With snoring and needing good rest? Spending time with your, okay. That's your specimen. That's what you made. Yeah, that's you. He's born of you.

Yeah. I always, well, I learned this. You threw Gordy on the bus already. So I always, well, I'll throw my brother into the bus too. I always make sure I travel with earbuds and or earplugs. But why is it on us? Sleep on your stomach. Do something.

No, I, my wife's like, did you wake? I said, no, because that's my boy. I'm trying to push him on his side. Because you're going to snore less on your side. I have an important question. Had he had a few? I don't think so. Okay.

He might have one of the game, but that's about it. Because you got no shot. If they've had a few, it's that they're going to snore no matter where you put them. All right. I owe you some Kevin Durant. Let me give you a couple of cuts here. We'll play a couple more here. We've also got easy and gearing the line.

Let me go to Kevin Durant about what went wrong in the fourth quarter of last night's game. I mean, I just feel like, I just felt like we didn't make shots I mean we didn't we five for 26 from the three and that usually helps when team of W a half core you swing swing, swing, make three

but I missed two wide open threes when we were up to one point I could have pushed us up for us. I just felt like I lost the game for us tonight. That's simple. I mean, my teammates could I mean, of course we probably can make more

threes, but it's all on me I mean, to be honest. I'm the offense and the opposing team is going use all their resources is not let me get comfortable. First half, I got comfortable in ISO, comfortable coming off a pin down, picking rows,

and they decided not to let me get comfortable no more. So I got to be smarter, better with the ball. I got to maybe shoot over some of them double teams, but like I said, space out, be ready to catch and shoot, be ready to be a screener, just be in a dunker spot, just being able to be there as a resource

for my teammates to provide space and I didn't need to have a ball as much as I did tonight. Yeah, but the problem is he can't shoot over the double teams when he's 40 feet away from the basket. Yeah, he was so far back. And there's a video. Do you know who World Wide Wob is? He's always on the NBA Twitter streets.

He put together a compilation. I just retweeted on my Twitter if you want to see it at Sports RV of all the final possessions. Like they had some open looks. They had a couple of open threes. They had Tari pushing the shot up in the lane. Lots of all things and rebounds in a fourth quarter. It was actually, I thought it was even worse than it was. It's just because the result.

A lot of the shots weren't that bad. they just weren't going in. They couldn't make anything. And again, five of 26 from three. You're not going to win. You turn the ball over 24. You were giving the wrong number of turnovers.

I was like, you started 21 for a while. I'm like, rah, it's higher. Yeah, it's 21 points off of 24. So I kept reading the wrong number. I figured it out. I was like, oh, my God.

24 turnovers. You're not going to win. You're not going to beat the Washington Wizards with 24 turnovers and shooting five of 26 from three. Easy on 790. Good morning. Man, I got a couple of things to say today, Matt. That fourth quarter yesterday was about as frustrating as the one with Phoenix when they were up 20 to win that game and going down on to the Choke City times.

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So to that caller that called Ross, the LeBron fan, and that punk-ass ginger that fired me, shut your bum ass up. Happy St. Patty's Day, fellas. to go fishing and drink some beer. All right, easy. Sorry about your situation. Take it easy as a little, well, I don't mean it that way, but yeah. Take it easy.

I'll work out for the best. Yeah. Deep breath, he's doing it right. He's going to go fishing and relax. Just don't drink too much. Play your mind, no. Don't drink too much. Don't do anything rash.

Right. Take your time. Also, introspect. What could I have done better? You don't want to hear that right now. I know. I said down the road. More Durant, more phone calls, and we're going to

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Going to be watching all the action. They got crawfish out there, Maddie. You peeling a fire? me? I will not be peeling the crawfish for you, but they've got great crawfish out there at Willis. They got some delicious eat. You've got some tasty beverages. Thursday, that is Willys, Grill, and Ice House 290 and Barker Cyprus. That'll be me, Ross Villariel. And of course, you want to come see Matt Thomas. That's what you really want to do. No, you can, it's fine. I'll be nervous as a wreck anyway. 9-10 first tip off of the Cougars against Idaho.

Well, you got to take it. This is a late-night-night. week for you. Yeah. Rockets 830. Rockets 830, Cougars 910. Yeah, on Thursday. And then Friday, Saturday back, it's a long week. And I was going to say at least it's two hours, but not normally in college basketball anymore. And also not in the tournament. Those 30 second timeouts are 75. We're going to see a lot of, we see about two hours of Jake from State Farm. And Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith and Samuel L. Jackson and Capital One. For Rapidle Dunn. Yeah, for Rapidle Dunn. With a 19% interest rate. We see more of them than we see Kelvin Samson.

That's true. All right, a couple more from Kevin Durant. We brought up the double teams. We brought up the wrong of the fourth quarter. How about he's saying that he maybe doesn't need to be the key part of the Rockets offense? He will tell us this.

We got Jonathan working on video editing. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I think we just got to convert. Maybe I got to just got the way, getting the corner, space the flow out for other guys. I think just that, when I get the ball getting certain teams

they're just going to settle out and just say you know we're just going double and play a little zone behind it and see what happens and if we give an open shots that's cool but maybe I just need to get out the way you know be honest

set screens be able to be ready to catch and shoot just space to fly out for my teammates you know it's been happening throughout the season but you know I'm starting to figure out I think I just need to get out the way

and let other guys dribble the ball agree or disagree believe him or not does he believe what he just said. I like the first, do you hear the first second of that? Play that first five seconds again.

I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I think we just got to convert. Stop. You may, right? I think so. Okay.

I don't know. That's an easy one to go to. Ask Coach. Here is lastly, Katie, on the impact and not having Freddie around playing the team. I just feel like they'll do that

with Fred's out on the floor, too. You know what I'm saying? So, a lot of teams are going to just say just settle out and say all right this sort we're going to try to take away this source of offense and see what happens and you know that's what teams are starting to do

around the league is try to take out the best players and you know make other guys beat you but yeah I feel like it's going to be the same with Fred in the lineup too I think but I think Fred will for sure make teams pay a little bit more with the three ball and his aggressiveness so

yeah but But I feel like those coverage is going to be the same regardless of who in court with me. I miss Fred. Yeah, I don't think it's understated. When somebody's getting double-team, somebody needs to get up to him. They need to find the open lane. They need to not just stand directly in front of him when he's getting doubled. So he can't pass through human beings.

You've got to get around. You've got to flare around, and it's got to be somebody who's ready to get downhill and make some decisions and get the ball. You can't just be the outlet and just stand there because that allows the Lakers defense to reset. You got to catch the ball. running, get downhill, either attack the basket yourself or find the open man. It's four on three basketball.

You're in the NBA and you're four on three. The rockets should be able to thrive in those scenarios. And with Fred Van Vleet and with Alper and Shingoon, if you outlet to Alpi, as I said, he can get downhill and find other guys. Fred Van Vleet would have been able to do that. So let's get our crystal ball out. How many times we're going to see Kevin Durant bring the ball across the timeline tomorrow night against the Lakers in round two? I mean, it depends on what the situation. philosophically change things right away.

But one thing that you also have to do is you're going to have to deal with this. You're going to have to learn how to play four on three. If you want to be at your best, Kevin Durant's going to have to start a lot of your possessions. So you need to figure out this puzzle before you can't just say, ah, you know what? We're never going to, you can't go. We're never having Kevin Durant bring the ball up ever again. You can't do that. You got to figure this out.

Because you don't have options. And maybe that's part of it. Maybe I Medoka was like, hey, go figure it out, guys. Because you're going to have to deal with this. especially when you see the same team over and over and over again in a playoff series. Gary before the top of the hour, hi Gary. Hey, good morning, guys. I just want to chime in on the Rockets, you know, just sitting and listening.

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you might as well publish it. The point guard, that is affecting four different positions of huge importance. That, minus Fred, you've got, you bring in in Thompson as a point guard. he's not a point guard. So you're taking him out of the position where he's strongest at, which is either off guard or forward, small forward. So that's two spots that are out of kilter. Then you got Ethan as a starter, and he's a damn good player,

but he's not a starter on this team if we had our full boat. He would be coming off the bench and one of the best bench players in the league. And then you've got Duran having to play positions like that. So you have a team of five, players that one guy out is causing four positions out of filter or kilter. So they can't be play at their potential when four of the five positions are not in the right spot. So I think that's what's going on here.

I think they're doing good considering all that. And it's too late to bring in a guard or change anything other than with what you got. So just thought I put that out there and see if you see that also to where just the point guard missing is a fact. affecting four other key positions. So hopefully they can get that corrected by running some different type offensive. Anyway, so just wonder what you thought about that. Thank you, Gary.

Yeah, when I do Rockets launch pads, I say your guard, when I do the starting lineups, I say your guards are none, they're not guards. I'm in Thompson, 6-7, Tari Easton, 6-8. They're not guards. No, Tari does very little ball handling, occasionally, but that's not one of his strong series. And he's not terrible at it, but he's not great. I like men's versatility.

Yes. I don't know. He would even admit, I don't think he wants to be a point guard for 35 minutes a game. That's why you see Reed Sheppard when he comes in ball handle most of the time moving men to a dunker spot. You know, maybe Rockets Twitter got it right. Just put Reed at the point guard spot. But I like him coming off the bench. I do too.

You need bench scoring. Well, you know, look, again, Tari has had, I mean, the numbers for March, really the number. numbers for the last two months have not been great. But March is, he's just falling off a cliff. And that hurts. And Alpy being gone. Yeah. You've lost low post presence because God love Clint,

but Clint's doing the best he can't, but Clint's not going to give you 30 minutes a game. No. It hurts. Yeah, you're down, you're also down Alpi. Are we overreacting? You're down, Fred. You're down, Stephen. You're down Alper. I mean, I'm speaking for myself. You're down Alpy as well.

Look, Alper and Shingoon is not without his warts. But if this team is going to be at their best, he's on the floor. He's 21, 9, and 6. Over, yeah. I'm sorry. He was an all-star. Now he's an all-star replace.

But he's an all-star caliber player. Rossi, I know whether the, or Archmanning is going to play professional football in one year from now. You do? I do. Hmm. He's playing professional football right now. Now, could I say, he's playing in Austin right now.

I wish I could save it for gut feelings, but I'm going to put it in early. Okay. And back it up with gut feelings. Okay. That's what we have. Start the second hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Hour number two, we've spent a lot of time on the Rockets this first hour. We'll get you an Astros update as well before the hour is over. We've got gut feelings at 1130. Now look, we put our gut feelings out and we write them down. We reserve the right to change them. So bad that we need you guys to come help us out because, you go to us for our gut feelings to hit. We're not hitting lately.

Collectively, we're not here. I reserved a right to get rid of this rocket's hangover and change my gut feeling, but it's not, I'm not feeling great right now. All right. Early gut feeling half hour before we start to do it. Go ahead. Your home for Arch Manning in 2007. Okay. Gut feeling early on, and I will back this up in 25 minutes.

Sure, why not? The Miami Dolphins. Oh, okay. I got you. He's been traded from Miami to Denver in exchange for first, third, and fourth round picks in this year's draft. Okay, they're getting starch for arch. Malik Wallace is their quarterback. He's going to have a, he's going to be great.

He's going to be top 20 in QBR according to, I believe, Yankees Keith. And no Jalen Waddle. Devon A.C.N., got to be not far behind, right? He's there. Can I interest you into David Montgomery. Nicky. I love that phone call. He's happy with Montgomery.

They're going to suck. Yeah, they're going to be bad. And I'll tell you what, Arch will go to Miami and he'll love it. That's not a bad landing spot, honestly. It's a good landing spot. It was great, nice out there. He's real nice. I'm just saying,

you trade your best receiver and you supplant your quarterback without his best receiver for a guy who's been below average, 98% of his NFL career. That's a recipe for disaster. Now, you can answer this question better than I can. If you want to go somewhere and see extremely attractive people and feel out of shape and or just not attractive, L.A. and Miami, I got one too.

Which one are you going over the other? No, Miami's more fit than L.A. It's crazy. Because they're on the beach, too. Well, they're on the beach in L.A., but it's a little further. Yeah, I think you're right. because you can get outside of LA you can get outside of

LA County and get fat yeah you can't if you're with if you're Miami Fort Lauderdale Palm Beach Boca Raton all that you can't have any body fat in anywhere of a hundred mile radius

lowest wind totals on the board yes sir Miami Dolphins 4 and a half Arizona Cardinals 4 and a half New York Jets 5 and a half Raiders 5 and a half Well, the Raiders aren't going to need Arch because I'm assuming they're going to put it. They're going to take a Mendoza.

You don't want to go to the Jets. No, no, no. Arch can't go to New York. He'll be miserable. I'm telling you, he's going to look good in Miami Dolphin gear. I can picture it. I can picture Quinn Ewer's in that gear. He can come back with Quinn.

He can reunite with Quinn. That'd be funny. Backing up Quinn is for his rookie year. That's very funny. All right. So that's the NFL note of the day. wanted to pass along. That just came along just a few minutes ago.

That's good. That's one less. And I thought that Miami was a contender. They weren't. But Denver now looks better. Yeah, that's, that's, at the end of the day, it's bad. That's bad for the Texans. And the question's going to be, will Bo Nix be every bit as good as he was last year,

even a year, even being better with now they's got a year more experience underneath this better. I'm not super sold long term on Bo Nix. He had a good year. It's just to me, mid to me. Sean Payton's a good coach. They had a great defense. Yeah.

And all they were, was it. Jarrett sent him away from going to the Super Bowl. Yeah. And then a second half snowstorm. It feels like they should go. And not going for a field goal and they should have took the point. Got those points. Seahawks probably win the Super Bowl no matter what. But I think they would have put up a better fight than the Patriots. Yeah, I think you're probably right.

All right. How do you reach us this morning? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. You see that Jose Altovae was in the crowd last night in Miami, rooting on his team Venezuela. They took care of Italy and they're playing the United States for the W. be a BC championship. Yeah, so he started, he put on his eye black and his spikes. He's ready to get out there. Can I be a eighth inning pinch hit guy? Yeah, can he do, literally, can he do that? How does that work? He was sitting in the stand. Oh, the insurance, I guess. No, yeah, they're like,

no. Can you get insurance for one pinch hit appearance? Apparently not. Okay. So USA versus Venezuela. For the whole kitten caboodle. Yes. For all the Tostitos in Miami where they're drawing people, they're excited, and they're like, Can you all play WBC games nonstop because the Marlins are starting in a month? Yeah, they're like in this concession cash. They're getting more in these handful of games that are going to get like the first two months of the season. Could you imagine building a stadium for a team that's going to perennial lose 90 games a year? Well, people are making a great point.

Like, clearly the city can support baseball. Absolutely can't. Miami's a huge area. I mean, the whole South Florida. I mean, there's 8 million people down there, Ross. You know what you need? A salary floor. You know, it's funny.

I was listening to Dan this morning on the morning drive. he was like, come on baseball. Come on baseball. You can't do this to us. WBC's got good buzz. New national TV contract. Crowds are good. I wanted to call Dan and text him and send me.

Then they are so ready for this. They are fully prepared. They're locked and loaded for this. The players union, they are building up the war chest. Yes. To help everybody with fun disbursements, I'm sure. And we got to start doing that for the concessionaires and the people that work at stadiums because they're going to lose out on this.

I hope so. I don't know about that. Unfortunately, it's going to hurt a lot of people. It's going to take them some athletes. The billionaires and the millionaires are fighting. Why can't the billionaires give the... Why can't Jim Crane take care of his own employees? I think it's a great question.

Billionaires versus millionaires. I mean, honestly, that's the negative. And Ross, we have people to listen to our show that work at these games. And I feel terrible for them because they're going to lose money that literally gives them and pay their bills. Yeah, they're people that live and breathe Astros. That's why they listen to them. to us and that's why we appreciate them.

Yeah. Yeah, you, I mean, I don't mean to get Debbie Downer because it's been a Debbie Downer hour and 10 so far at the show, but y'all just got to get ready for this. We know, I mean, we need this. We've been talking about this for two years. They were settling in on this. At some point, we need a segment of positivity. At some point. We can get it all out. Well, we can't do it until, we can't do it.

No, I know, at least until afternoon. 30, got to maybe. We got to re-getters to 1230, maybe. Can we go? I got to be honest. We're going to have to go an hour 40 of this more. I'm going to throw up. No, you're not. You're fine. Okay, 12.50 until 150. Ooh, I can't do an hour of positivity. Did you watch that fourth quarter?

Okay. One segment of positivity between 1250 and 1 o'clock today. Man, it's going to be fine. Got another thing for you. Went on Wednesday. I don't think it bothered me yesterday. Go ahead. So when I can go spend the night at a hotel,

I will sometimes get food after, which is terrible, terrible idea, but you're hungry, you're hungry. You're hungry, you're hungry. And so I went to Ruger Ring yesterday. Okay. I'm doing a bunch of new commercials about how they're going back to old school. And I ordered me a bopper with cheese. Yeah? With onion rings.

I don't like their fries. And so they give you the onion ring sauce. I don't eat the onion ring sauce. Oh, that's good. It's not my thing. It's zesty. It's fine. I mean, I would eat it.

So I said, can I have some ketchup and said? He goes, we've only got three left. So give me one? What do you say to that? I took all three. How you would. But here's the thing. It was 1140 at night.

They keep their drive-thru open, I think, till 2 a.m. if I'm not mistaken. So you're telling me they're going to go two hours and 20 minutes without any catch-up for anybody? I would have taken one, Matt. Oh, hell no. Why do I care about the other people behind me? There wasn't anybody behind me, but it makes sense. Stop. No, this is fitting like a glove.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You would not have taken. making just one ketchup. That's a freaking lie. She lied to me. There's no way she only had three ketchups left. I'm sorry. She just didn't. Maybe she did. There's no way. She lied. And you know she did. They're in low supply.

That's why I took all three because I knew she was lying. She's like, I'm not, I'm sick of people giving away ketchup eight ketchups at 11 o'clock at night. I'm going to... They never give you eight ketchups. You ask for eight? They probably give you three. You ask for eight? No, I said, can I have some ketchup, please? I said, can have lots of ketchup? If you would have gotten three, she'd nobody would have said anything. She said anything, right? She goes like, she got three left.

You know what? I got a problem with, I got beef with Butterburger because they gave me one ketchup last time. All about this, for a medium fry. I got Butterburger over the weekend, no napkins, no receipt in which I asked for, and no ketchup. So I wore a letter. They didn't respond to yet. A letter? Not like an email on their website. I was going to say.

Hey, me might get a gift card out of it. That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah, it'd be nice. Because I thought, you know, the drive-thru wasn't crazy long. I'll go in there and do it, and I got none of the above. Sorry, Matt. It's fine. I asked for spicy ketchup, and they're like, okay, yeah, you've got one.

Remember that Alabama guard we were talking about yesterday? Yes. We have an update on him. Uh-oh. It's not good. Felony charges. Bada-bum, but-bum, on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Felony charges. How much prison time will he go? Well, let's see, how much prison? For how long ago? For how long will he go? Yes, yes. We should write these things ahead of time. I've got to workshop that.

Thanks, thanks, Jonathan, for help us with that. Thank you, Jonathan, for the critique on that. 713-212-5-790. Alabama point guards who sell weed. Will he play this weekend? That's next year. Will it be a plea deal or no? Continues on Sports Talk 790.

1119. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Nice to have all of you with us on this Tuesday. Reed Geddice. We'll talk some college basketball with us in an hour. And he will fire up Ross Fielder Realty because he will discuss the Texas Longhorns. A little bit, I'm assuming. I'm going to step out and cry.

Why? Come on. It's just one extra game. probably their favorites now i don't know what flipped the uh what flipped the line they were one and a half point dogs now the longhorns are no wait what what's just flipped again what the heck what's going on maybe you're watching different lines no i thought yeah maybe i was looking at the women's line they're actually good yeah north kiala state is a one and a half point favorite right now yeah i just saw i don't know weird maybe it was a typo or something i got i got i i kind of half excited have sad hush all right whatever we'll see what happens well as will wait the coach north

John State, is that where he went? Yes. Has he headed back to LSU? It's NCAA infraction coach versus NCAA infraction coach. Wow. And the NCAA tournament. Okay. In-depth preview.

Reed Gettis, talking about the Cougars, too. Love it. All right. Sports Talk, 790. 7.1.3.212. 5.790. Real quick, before we get to gut feelings and we get to our buddy Koso. So we talked about yesterday our friend,

and you know our friend, Aiden Holloway. about his arrest Monday morning on felony drug charges. He had a pound of weed. Yes. Come to find out, Holloway was, quote, removed from campus and not with the team four days before its term an opener, which is obviously this Friday. Hours earlier, authorities found more than a pound of marijuana at the home.

Quoting coach Nate Oates, who is a bastion of integrity himself. Yes. We got standards in our program, and we've got ways we've held our guys accountable. and we try to keep everything in house. Obviously, some of the situations you can't, and this is one of those. We found out about what was going on this morning.

I found out this morning, I guess I all went out down this morning. We have to spend him pending the investigation. We're certainly disappointed in his behavior, but that being said, we still love him. He's still our guy. We're helping him get the help he needs, and we're going to continue to help him wherever we can. But as far as our team goes,

I thought we had a great practice. We're going to prepare to play without him this weekend. What do you mean to recover? What do you mean the help he needs? He was looking to make some money and some legal help. Oh, okay. He's going to need a lawyer. West Alabama Narcotics Tax Force.

Well, they went deep in the weeds for this one, Rossi. They searched the local residents and found, quote, more than a pound of marijuana plus paraphernalia and, of course, cash. So they found a trap. It's time for a plea bargain. Sounds like a setup. He's planted there. Yeah, he's been set up.

No, I'm saying... By Bruce Pearl. They found the trap. That's what happened. Oh, okay. They found the trap house? Yeah, that's what happened. What do you think in Alabama

Drugs Task Force guy sounds like? I threw that to you. Don't hit it. Take it outside. Take the pitch. Don't swing at it. Don't take it. Well, now, we're all right in the hallway.

He had a pound of marijuana on him. We had to ask him, what do you doing with a pound of marijuana, young man? Then we found some paraphernalia. And we arrested them right up. Boy, you have to be plumb stupid to be caught with a pound of marijuana there. You're playing for the beautiful, wonderful crimson tide. You represent that weird elephant, and you represent our great state of Alabama, and you're selling marijuana? No, it's that strange lettuce.

The hippie lettuce? That just ain't right. I told you I had to do this. You know, yes, you did. No, I said, this is your fault. I said take the pitch. This is no one's fault but yours. John, did I tell him to swing in the pitch?

Well, I went full Yonner Diaz on it, Matt. I can't help myself. Yeah, you just threw a pitch to Yiner Diaz. I'm swinging. Now, I might swing and miss a lot. I'm Zach Colin. Can I be somebody better? Hold on.

Why don't you drop out of Zach Cole on us? That's not nice. He swings and miss it a lot. How does Alabama football handle? He had in Alabama football. How does Alabama football have? I don't know. Do you think bass football players get preferential treatment over basketball?

Well, probably. If he was quarterback of the Crimson Tide, that'd be a different thing because I know Kailin, DeBore personally. So, Jonathan, is paraphernalia? Are we talking about a bong? Is that we're talking about? Or what are we getting here? Yeah, it could.

Are the kids using bongs these days? It could be or like, you could have a pipe. No, you're right. It would probably look like a bong or like. Like how much cash is laying around? I mean, are we talking about $1,000? $2,000. A swish or sweets?

Now I'm a Philly man myself. Maybe there was a pan of brownies or something. You don't ever know. Yeah, maybe a pan of brownies. Yeah. Yeah, he had an apron and oven mitts in there. Mixing up brownies. Now, I had marijuana brownies as an accident as a kid.

Now, he went with Duncan Hines. I'm more of a Betty Crocker, man. If I gave you a brownie with marijuana and a merry without it, would you tell the difference? Is it noticeable? I would imagine. I don't know, Matt. I'm going to think, if you don't know, you don't know.

I'm just telling you, I accidentally as a kid had some of my dad's and I don't do drugs and I'm saving myself for marriage. You are just the saint. I know. Your peers are a different sound. Bible study after the show, 2.30. Let's go. 2.30.

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Let's talk to Koso on 790-11-24. Hi, Koso. Hey, you guys. Can you hear me all right? Yes, sir. Oh, perfect. Hey, man, I got a bong. I use it almost every day. It's cool. All right. We still use them. Oh, nice. Yeah, but you're not, you're not 20, Koso. I mean, no offense. No, I'm not, but I don't have an answer for that. quick question.

Mr. Texas, I was out in a beautiful Marfa, Texas last week. I'm sure you know the place. He's never heard of it. M-A-R-F-A, Marfa, the people and Marfa love me. He's never been. I've been to Marfa. The beautiful people of Marfa and... Did you go by the Prada? Did you go by the Prada store? No, no, no, no. No, no. You don't go to Marfa without going to Texas Burger. I'm sorry, you just don't.

It's a beautiful place. of hipster cowboys and people from Austin that have given up on life. So other than that, it's very pretty. Alpine is beautiful as well. But I was listening to you guys, and I just said, man, Mr. Texas, would be so proud of me right now. Got the Matt Thomas show with Ross on the podcast. Yes.

God love you. God love you. God love you. Yes. Did you go to Bastrop, too, while you were over there? Because those streets are mine, too. Don't forget about Bastrop. You don't know about Bastrop.

I know. You've driven through Bastrop. No, it's not true. How much time you spent in Bastrop? I've been to Bassrop State Park. I've been to the Bastrop Opera House for multiple plays. You know what? I went to Bastrop and Holodas in the same day, so suck it to you both. You ever been to the Bastrop State Park?

Many a time. No, you're such a fraud. Go ahead, Casey. Sorry. You got us bickering. This is your fault, Koso. Go ahead. I went to the Bastrop Gas Station.

They knew who Matt was. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much. That's the guy who yells at us when he did. when he can't figure out how to start the pump. And they love Matt Thomas. That's what I'm saying.

Thank you, Koso's. I am loved all throughout. The 5122. The 409. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. They even love me out in El Paso. And I've been there in 15 years. Maybe even longer than that. Terrible.

You know I have not gone. I'm not going to Midland or Dessa yet. It's a middle of nowhere. That's a business. Are you going to the oil field? Like one city is really rich and one is small. Is that true? Yeah, one has all the money and one doesn't.

I don't which one is rich. Midland. Somebody help me out. I flip the coin. I don't know. It doesn't matter. Yeah. I mean, I'm wishing them the best.

I want to say it's Midland has the money and Odessa doesn't, but I could be wrong. But, yeah. That's the only part of the city of night. I've been Amarillo by morning. Okay. Smells like poop? You went there. Did you go to a steak place to eat or no?

No, I didn't do that. Did you drive up? I went to an Amarillo. Was there? Oh, man, they had a hockey team there. I went to the hockey game. That was fun. I went to beautiful downtown Amarillo.

Is there a downtown? Yeah, I went to where all the cars are planted in the, honestly, it wasn't that cool. It's like the art thing, our, like the half of the cars are like, it's like they're planted into the ground in Amarillo. It was cool, I guess. Let me tell you, how.

Route 66 I went to. Did you ever, you've been in the Buddy Holly Museum in Lubbock? No, I have not. I have. That's cool. Mr. Texas. Moving around on those streets. Okay.

Have you been a Big Ben National Park? Yes. No, you haven't. You're such a fraud. How many lies? That was like four lies in one segment. Oh, no, not Bill. Bill, what are you calling for?

It's not time to win a prize yet. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm kind of still over my limit. I think it's a 30-day gap, so, you know, I think Ross still monitoring me. But anyway, man, you owe me. Yeah, we got to keep an eye on you because you're the all-time. You know that you're the number. You are the Michael Jordan of prize-horring.

Do you know that, Bill? Oh, man, you know, I'm still. and I'm trying to be born again, and you're talking to him like that. Okay, you know what? I'm sorry. All right. Well, we appreciate you stealing and grifting our prizes over the decades, and we still love you. Wow.

Anyway, Matt, you owe me a beverage because the other day he just called in, and you said, the man, sound like Joe Biden. Man, I almost had a freaking race. Was that right or wrong? You were right, Max. I don't listen to closely. The man, do it sound like Joe Biden. But anyway, I went to the sanitary this weekend to see the,

U-I-L basketball game. My wife, you know, she's from Beaumont. Okay. So I went to say, Beaumont, United, and Beaumont, Westbrook. All right. Anyway, what puzzled me, I think Beaumont, Westwood lost to Frisco in Frisco, Texas. And, you know, that is five-star recruiter.

I think it's Bryce and Dawson or something like that. You know, he's pretty awesome. But anyway, what threw me all met, it was about 5,000 on Friscoe side, all Caucasian, and Friscoe's team. old black man old black oh 12 of them that's because frisco does not allow white

basketball players that threw me off man I know but that they that real puzzlement but you guys whites cannot we cannot hoop we can't and that's why if I'm friscoe I don't like whites on the team either I wouldn't do it man they could if you said you know like the ball board

somebody no no no no no no no no no no no no we don't want we don't want any we don't want any we want all the white in the crowd. Thank you for the phone call, Bill. What the hell was that? Very important. It said Rockets Lakers. It did. But he wanted to know he was curious about the fact the team was all black and the fans are all white. Because we,

you know, if you're a good basketball team, you don't want any white players. You just don't. This is not any fun. Reed Shepard's great. The Lakers disagree, by the way. By the way, can we, I got 10 seconds here. Can we eliminate headbands in the NBA? Why? They were all over the place last night. What's wrong with...

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Hey, keep the sweat out of your eyes. Oh, stop. There are hundreds of players in NBA that have hair that don't worry about it. the sweat. Come on. Austin Reeves, even a man, Thompson. Take that damn thing off. Why?

I don't like them. This, you are, okay, you want to shake your fists out at a cloud and also get them off your lawn right now as well. No, I'm just saying, I mean. Had these younger whippers nippers are wearing their headbands. All right. Johnson, really, really fast. Why are they wearing their band? Shush.

Who is the coolest person you know that wears a headband? Right now. Right now? Right now. Right now. I'm in Thompson. Active? Active?

Men's cut that that's up and down I'm talking about consistently Is Austin Reeves a cool dude? No Is Alex Caruso a cool dude? No I mean Thompson does it Josh Smith?

Josh Akogi maybe Josh Smith does it Jaylen Suggs does it LeBron's been doing it for like 20 years Yeah but he even kind of corny He even took the L Yeah I'm if I'm the leader of the basketball

White chocolate Jason Williams He was cool wore a headband Rondo didn't he wear a headband Raja Rondo would wear one yeah Have you ever heard of this guy named Alan Iverson. Was he cool?

It's 2026. Eliminate the head. They're back. You're so weird. Mm-mm. They're just for style points. And Austin Reeves shouldn't be wearing one. He probably breaks this way anyway.

Don't play a defense. Although he's a double team in the rocket's hell. See, if it goes back to last night's fourth quarter. So we can't have that. Ross. Sad. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for gut feelings.

We are so bad at it. we are so bad more of you and less of the three of us would be better for the next half hour if you have any gut feelings at all it could be about your life oh look at it last weeks don't please save us from embarrassing ourselves seven oh there's our guy calling in 713212 thank you for taking my call governor thomas we got w f a n six yeah i'm gonna make a horrible prediction about the yan I'm going to say they're going to the World Series

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And you guys can follow them up at 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Ross, how did we do from last week? All right, Matthew, last week you have the Astros. This is James' fault. Ovon 86 and a half. It's Yalach at a week. Astros over 86. a half wins.

Staying with it. Sure, why not? Mike Burroughs, second starter by the end of the year. For the Astros. Staying with it. Although, Emi might be fighting for that too, as long as he's

to stay healthy. Hey, guess what? If it's a fight between the both of them, I'm okay with that. Great situation. That sounds amazing. That's right. I had the rockets going

four and one on the five game homestand. They're one and one. So that's in play? It's in play. It's not feeling great. But that's okay. I have the USA winning it all in the WBC. I said Brian Abrey will not blow a save while Hater is out.

Love that. And I said Rockets will tap out in the second round of the playoffs. You're not wrong. I might be wrong. I might be wrong, just not in the way that I want. You know, let me give you, this is not, this is literally the today's no one cares stat of the day. Okay. The Atlanta Hawks will be here on Friday.

Yes? They won 10 straight games. What? Yeah. There's still the 8th C in the Easter Conference. Damn. So they're like the clippers of the East. Correct.

Went on this hot run and there's still just, let's see, where are the Clippers? They're in the eighth spot. But how do you win 10 games in a row and you don't move up but maybe a half of Scotia in the Eastern Conference standings? That is so bizarre. That's today's. Nobody cared about stat of the day. brought to you by absolutely no one. Who's playing so well for them?

Jalen Johnson, Nakakangu. Nikiel Alexander Walker had 20. Yeah, and he's averaging over 20 points again. He had 41! There's so much talent. Expansion, I'm welcome. I'm welcoming it. Leaks too talented. You need some more

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Remember, folks, when people tell you, when the NBA is dying and Major League Baseball's dying, they're neither one of them are dying. Go woke and go broke. Well, they're asking for $10 billion for a franchise. I think they're doing okay. No, well, they get it. No, but even they get $7. Billy, that's going to mean hundreds of millions, not hundreds, but what, divided by 30 teams? God almighty.

I think, I guess they have the best international reach, right, of all the major leagues. And that's where all, because the ratings are down, but internationally, I think is where they're dominating. All right. They're $70 billion, right? And my calculator, divided by 30 teams. Yes. Now, the MBA is going to get their share of it, too. You did $70 billion.

Oh, sure. Okay, so they're going to get $23 million a piece. No, no, that's not right. $2.30 million apiece. $2.30. Oh, what is it, Ross? Dang it. Yeah, $230 million apiece.

That seems too high. Per team, that's crazy. $230 million times $2.30 million times $3. Yeah. Yeah, they're going to have to give us. the NBA is going to go. $2.30 million a team. Tellman said,

let's go and expand. That means if it's two teams, you're getting $500 million just for the, to let them in the club. Let me do this. Let me find out for sure the exact number before.

Okay. That seems, because I know what the Pelicans have already said, we're going to take all that money that we're getting and we're going to put it toward rebuilding this movie king center. Let's go.

Let's go. Get some more money for the planet of the plank. I wonder if you're going to trickle down that far. That's probably true. All right, what else you got? Jonathan said the rockets are going to come back and win their next four games.

And then they lost to the nuggets. They beat the Raptors. That was that Tuesday night. Then they lost to the nuggets on Wednesday. And then they lost to the Lakers. So they went two and two instead of four and oh. Sorry, Jonathan. I appreciate your optimism.

Yeah. And enthusiasm. But there you go. Those are our picks from last week. Yeah. I'm reading the story today. Between $7 and $10 billion per team. So you're going to split.

The fees are going to go directly to existing owners rather than being shared with players providing a massive one-time influx of cash. Are we sure the players are agreeing with this? Well, you know what they're going to do they're going to get their open spots. Does they go that with revenues? That opens up with more players. It opens up with more players. Yeah. But think about it.

I mean, is everybody in the union happy with sharing the pie more? The vets are happy. How are the young players feel a feel? Yeah, that's right. All right. The air and holidays of the world are happy. Yep. Gut feelings.

Here I go. I told you this before, 11 o'clock hour. I believe that you will see. Archmanning is a member of the Miami Dolphins. I think they're going to... Malik Willis is going to throw, I don't know, 21 picks before he gets hurt. They will win three games this year. Miami Dolphins, Archmanning.

Okay. Got that written down. Rockets beat the Lakers tomorrow night. You know what, Matt? I'm going to say it with my chest. Rockets are beating the Lakers. On Wednesday, they're not going to show. shoot that bad from three. They're not going to turn the ball over 24 times.

They're going to work on the double team stuff in practice. And they're going to be ready. And they're going to win the game on Wednesday. Lackett a week. Take the Houston Rackis on a money line against the Los Angeles Lakers. Let's go. Love it. I'm ready. Team Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic. Oh, upset. Upset. Upset City. Oh, you anti-American? You hate America. Is this your Alabama cop? Where are you going for the Venezuelans, Matt?

Come on now. Who's starting that game? I don't know. Well, I predicted last week for USA to win it all, so I'm sticking with it. All right. USA! Jonathan, what do you got in your gut feelings? Venezuela upset with Jose Altuve coming out of the stands in the ninth inning?

No, not playing. You know, just so I can hit something, maybe just down the line. Yeah, take it easy. Take an easy one. Tyler Murray is going to do well as a biking. Oh, okay. That can happen. That's not a terrible one.

I got Justin Jefferson down there somewhere. Cougars cover against Idaho on Thursday night. Right now the line is at. Cougars cover versus Idaho. I got, I got U of H minus 23 and a half against Idaho. I will say this, which is also very impressive for, for a couple of Calvin Sampson and his run at the University of Houston. You have like these Bill selves like, oh, we just lost two at 13.

Oh, you know, these, you know, Mike Cheshefsky or whoever, like, oh, no, we just had struggle with the 14. Calvin Sampson opens a can of whoop ass on those seeds because he has a well-coached team that's not taking anybody lightly. They beat some ass in the early rounds. Obviously against better teams, things happen, but they take care of business. And I got one more. Your Longhorns beat. North Carolina State tonight. Whatever.

On to the tournament, baby. Let's go. Longhorns lose in my misery. Oh, geez. You are such a bandwagon. Banwagon. Yeah. Who the hell is on the Texas Longhorns basketball bandwagon? Suffering through Shaka Smart.

And now Sean Miller and Rodney freaking Terry. Yeah. And the Rodney Terry offense of let's roll the ball out and just watch guys play. the Texas tech guy I went to Texas. And Rick Barnes and Chris Beard, who's getting fire from choking out his wife. And Rick Barnes getting upset in the tournament every single year. What the hell kind of bandwagon is that? I want off. If you're on the Texas bandwagon, 713-212-5-790, we go to your calls next here on 790. 1152 Sports Talk 790. Ross, let's go to the phones. Let's go to line number two for our

by day. James and God No, I'm the fan, James. Well, thank you, Governor Thomas, for taking my call and shout out to RV and Jonathan. Listen, I'll get to it real quick. Okay, my prediction,

number one, is that Tillman Fetta will be able to purchase at Caesar's Palace, because I'm hoping, just like thousands of y'all here in Houston, that's got to happen. Now, getting back to the best, talking about best with baseball.

I got the over on the Yankee season win that 90 and a half, 91. That's an easy pick. And I got that. And also, I want to put, I'm going to plan on putting down a $100 wage on both George and Otani winning the MVP in their respective leaves because that would be precedence that never happened where a player has been able to win three MVPs in a row. So I look forward to that. And one other thing.

I'm also predicting that Connecticut will win the NCAA. I'm not sure who would be the opponent because there's a whole litany of good teams in that thing. And I'm still having made my bracket out final year, but I got time to tomorrow to get that done. And one nice thing. Okay, the Rockers will probably acquire Janus next year because I'm feeling I kind of had it like a dream about it. So Janus would be moved and he probably will come here to you. Houston to try to help out KD. Because right now, the Rockers

is just an average team, but if they get Yonis, they're going to be a force. And I know you like that, Matt. All right? So thank you for taking my call. Thank you. And enjoy the NCAA. Thank you very much, James. Thanks for calling us on 66. WF.

Sports Radio 66. We are your New York Sports leader. Jalen, Brunson, Ken, Holbeinad, King's, Jack. Carl Anthony Towns is softer than a shaman six-pack. Patrick Ewing needs to get him and coach him one-on-one. The Yankees haven't been the same since Willie Randolph. Not that we stereotype.

The Jets miss a Kenny O'Brien so bad. C.J., what's in your gut this week? What's up, man, man. It's been a tough man. I know, my brother. I know. I know. Oh, man. Okay, so let me just go ahead and say Rockets, they're not making it out the first round.

Because of the leverage that they're about to lose, they're going to end up being a fourth to fifth seed and have to battle it out first round and probably get eliminated by a team that just has more playoff experience than everybody except KD. That's one. But two, I just want to get into it because I know nobody wants to talk about it, but I'm going to say it, the Rockets failed this season, and they failed miserably because they did not do what they were supposed to do. do. We can all sit here and say that we've seen these issues before the trade that a lot and they could have did something to address these issues. And I know nobody wants to say the elephant in the room, we should have got James Harden. I don't care. You do what you have to do to get James Harden. If he wanted to come here and he wanted to be here, you bring him here. You turned him down twice to basically be an average team and not even a better team than you were last year, this team doesn't have any identity, not even on the defensive end, and it's disgusting.

And Matt, it pisses me off because I listen to you every game, so I'm listening to you. As you watching the game, you could tell, like, the frustration in your voice. Like, it's like, oh, my God. And it's like, this team literally had some type of chemistry last, like, towards the beginning of the season, and it's like they lost it all. The chemistry does not look the same. These guys do not look in tune. and I feel like you got to blame me doke a little bit

because it's his team and I never expected his team to not look focused. Go ahead. No, let's go. Let's look at this. Amin Thompson, Tari Eason, Clint Keppella, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith Jr. versus Luca Donchich,

LeBron James, Marcus Smart, Austin, Reeves, Deondra Aden. Which list just sounded better? Last line, the line was the rock. The rock. The rock. were, had a double-digit leading the game. No, they could have won the game.

But I think when we start coach blaming, I think we also have to look at what the talent on the floor is and what Eid coach has to work with. But is that not Edoch his job to like push them and get the best out of this team, whatever team he has? Absolutely. And that's the past two seasons. Yeah, they're 41 and 26 and they're in the fourth seat.

It's not like they're, you know, the point of trailblazers or something like that. But can we say the past two years that they wouldn't have lost a some of the teams that they lost to this year. Like, let's be clear. Everybody loses the bad teams. Unless your name, well, even the Thunder have some losses to some bad teams. CJ, let me ask you this, though.

We're missing a point guard. Do you think I'd be nearly as exasperated if I had, if we had a point guard that was cutting down on these turnovers from, say, I don't know, 24 to 14 a game? Do you think I'd feel better? Do you think I'd be less exasperated? Yeah. You could have brought Chris Paul in here to do that. I'm sorry, you could have.

You could have bought Chris Paul. No, he's retired. They're all guys you could have got. He's out of gas. He's, C.J. Look, I appreciate C. I appreciate Chris Paul. Chris Ball's out of gas.

And I got a role in this. We get into the news at noon. The reality is this. Chris Paul, he retired. He quit basketball. Nobody wanted him. 30 teams said we don't need this all-time Hall of Fame great. He's not fixing the rockets.

He's slower. The mid-range shot, which has been his repartee, is gone. And you don't, you've already got one coach in the sideline with you don't need four. Oh, with Fred? It was Fred adding it on. Yeah, I don't know the intricacies of whether or not they could have pulled off a trade. Like, there was a guy named Jose Alvarado, plays for the Knicks. Backup Guard.

It would have been flawless for this basketball team. Give you 10, 15, 16 minutes a game, whatever the case may be, run on offense, put it in a true point guard's hands. But again, I don't know what his financial situation was. And I don't know what the Rockets were, you know, what other teams were willing to give. I think New Orleans got a second round pick for him. I don't know what that is. But again, if the Rockets couldn't afford his salary, you can get in those crazy apron things,

I don't even really know what they mean. If you're strapped, because you got a lot of money tied up in the guys, you just didn't have much flexibility. And that's the sentiment I got from the Rockets, and they would know their salary kept at this point better than I would. But it's frustrating. I don't even know if just having a true, legit ball handler would cure the ills. There were open shots that were missed yesterday.

There were three point shots that were going around. And it wasn't just Durant turned the ball over. Everybody turned it over. Durant had was the worst culprit for sure, but it was 24 turnovers. What about Philly Smith? I feel like he was throwing that ball. Yeah, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, the bad one on the fast break?

Yeah, if we're going to play anybody on the turnover, I was just to say Phenny Smith was the main one. And actually, Doreen scored okay yesterday. I mean, relatively speaking about what he's done this year. I thought Durant had nine. now I'm seeing seven on the turnovers, but it's, I see seven, but anyways,

it's 24, it's too many. He had seven. A man had four. Doreen Phenny Smith had three. Yeah, Duran had seven turnovers in 37 minutes. Does the, does the, eight second violation count as a team turnover? That's a team turnover, yeah.

Yeah, so maybe, so. I forgot all about that. That was so maddening. Matter of fact, there were two team turnovers, because you had 22 turnovers, but a total of 24 sets. One end's got to be a shot clock violation, one of them's got to be the eight-second call. Yeah, that was on Jabari Smith, that shot clock violation, I think.

Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. Appreciate you. Well, yeah, Kevin Durant was doubled, and then they threw it to Jabbar. Was that the one when he, no, was that the one when he was at the top of the key? No, I don't know. It doesn't. I don't want to talk about this.

Oh, good. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. Too bad. You can listen to the Hello Lights next. 1201 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Those a cross-court pass and it's intercepted by Austin Reeves. This will seal it on LeBron James James James.

One hundred to ninety with 39.9 seconds. Lakers up by 10. There it is. Does that end of that song game? Turnovers? No. Save your tears for another day because I'm sick. You know what?

Turnover free game tomorrow. Save your tears for early May. Favorite turnover, Apple. Apple's got to be there, right? People like Cherry. I'm not a huge cherry fan. Okay. Apple, I like Apple better.

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because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Arby's. I don't know if they still do or not, but they did a nice job. I'm going to go blueberry number two. Really? Apple one,

blueberry two. Number two for me. Ooh, peach is up there, okay. And the thing about Barbies is they put a little frosting on top of the layers of frosting. What about strawberry? Yeah, I can do that too. I'll go apple.

A little red, white, and blue. I guess you're talking about fil-dough, fruit and sugar? Boom. Let's go. Delicious. Speaking of roll quick sugar. A nice cup of coffee. I've been trying to cut back on sugars in general.

Yes? I went with, and I love apple juice. The Mott's apple juice zero sugar. Awful. Okay. It's not a big Mots guy in general. The aftertaste is wretched. Cogue zero, Sprite Zero, Love You, Root Beer Zero.

You all doing great. Juses, you got to have the sugar. It is what it is. Yeah. Isn't that supposed to be better? Well, I guess if it's not like added sugars. Right. Isn't fruit sugar supposed to be the good sugars or something like that?

I don't know. It's good cholesterol, bad cholesterol. We'll get a new tricatory. Yeah, good fat, bad fat. Let's get. Alicado's good fat. How about, you know, what we, by the way, $12.50 today, it's a whole segment of good stuff. Okay, positivity.

But right now we're going to give you the news at nude. Ooh. That's not going to be great. Okay. Leading the news at noon is what you just heard. The Houston Rockets late last night, 830 p.m. Here, of course, on sports dog, 7. the arena.

That's what I heard. I don't like your fans of the building. Okay, rank and order, I guess, jerseys. Oh, LeBron Luca. Luca won over LeBron. Really? Yes. Interesting.

A lot of Slovenians in the house. Now, can we go with a stereotype? Yes. A lot of African American fans had Luca jerseys on. A lot of white guys had LeBron jerseys out. Really? Yes. Which makes me happy because it doesn't, you know what?

Color shouldn't matter. If you love a player, you should love the player. Were you writing this down? What, what are you talking about? I just like, were you taking note? No, I just happened to me in the bathroom. I was like, man, there are a lot of, first of all, I was surprised. You were looking around in the bathroom.

I'm sorry, man. What I mean, sorry? You should be apologizing to the rest of the audience. Listen to this. Crap. Matt, you're supposed to look stairs straight ahead or up at the ceiling, Matt? I'm looking at the, in the bathroom when people are washing their hands, not when they're dropping the drawers. Continue, please.

I'm out. The stair ahead. All right, anyways. Yeah, Rockets' horrible fourth quarter, 12 points. And it was, that's what makes it that much more frustrating, Matt, is the fourth quarter was further taking. You held the Lakers to 17. They were terrible.

Somehow you were worse in that fourth quarter. You were only able to score 12 points, and the Rockets get the 100 to 92 loss against the Los Angeles Lakers. There was a lot of talk about Kevin Durant and the double teaming that he was facing at the end of that game. Here is Kevin Durant, to the media after the game on how best to avoid those double teams. I mean, I don't know.

You got to ask, I don't know. I don't know. I think we just got to convert. Maybe I got to just get out the way, getting the corner, space the flow out for other guys. I think just that when I get the ball against certain teams, they're just going to settle out and just say, you know, we're just going double and play a little zone behind it and see what happens. And if we give an open shots, that's cool.

But maybe I just need to get out the way, you know, be honest, set screens, be able to be ready to catching shoe. Just space to fly for my teammates. You know, it's been happening throughout the season, but you know, I'm starting to figure out I think I just need to get out the way and let other guys dribble the ball. Was he saying that just to react to the type

performance he had, or do you really think tomorrow the Rockets will come up with a different philosophy? Maybe. I don't know. And, man, ESPN, Shet your bum ass up. What I do now? Their headline is saying Katie on Lakers' loss, quote,

I'm the offense. That is so out of context. That is so clickbait. Come on, man. That's egregious. But, yeah, bottom line was he. I mean, he did say, I'm the offense. But he's talking about at the end of the game.

Yeah, he's the offense and he needs to get some other guys involved. They're running the offense through him. That's a fact. But, Rockets lost. Oh, I don't think it's not an erroneous statement. But you know what? I'll give the offense to him. Yeah, I can't.

Now, when somebody says on the offense, he doesn't literally mean 100% of the time. No, I know, but that's all the headlines says on ESPN. Don't pay attention. All right. Well, let's move along then because that is depressing me. Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle from the Miami Dolphins for picks. It will be the dolphins.

They receive Waddle as well as the Dolphins' fourth round pick, while they will send a first round pick and a third and a fourth. So effectively a swap of fourths And then a first and a third for Jalen Waddell That's a pretty steep price, Matthew Yeah, because they're sucking for arch What's our term? It's starch for arch

No, you use play ass for arch March. March for Arch. That sounds better. March for Arch. Okay. Or play ass for arch, either one. Death March for Arch. Do you want to hear the wide receiver room right now in Miami?

Oh, I was going to say that's magical. term too. You know that tip jar is pretty empty this week. I'm behaving myself. You're doing great. I'm proud of you. Thank you. These are the wide receiver core for Malik Willis to work with. Malik Washington? Jalen Tolbert? Mm-hmm. 2-2 Atwell. And then guys, I quite frankly haven't heard of. Theo Weish Jr.? We should do wide receiver or not for the dolphins. Tage Washington? Stop me when you've heard of somebody. How about stop me when you've heard of anybody?

Marshall Jr. I mean, I know 2-2 at well. Jalen Tolbert. Uh-huh. And they're tied in, of course, Greg Dulcich and Ben Sims. Yeah, you're going to be right on Malik Willis. He's got nobody around him, Matt, and he also sucks. Man, Devon A. Chan, get ready to learn.

45 carries a game, buddy. Devon A. Chan, I'm going to finish two seasons in Miami. There's no chance. Yeah, they're on the March for Arch. There you go. So that's some NFL news. Also, we have an update in Aiden Holloway case, the Alabama Guard, found with, it's been Upt Matt, 2.1 pounds of marijuana. What? Wait a minute. Felony drug possession charge Monday morning, according to charging documents obtained by ESPN.

It is significant because over 2.2 pounds is a drug trafficking charge. He is at 2.1 pounds. It's a good thing he smoked that extra blunt the night before. Okay, Jonathan, time to play the young man's game here. If you were his best friend, what would you know about everything you've heard about him? Describe your best friend to us. What do you mean? Like, is he selling? Is he an addict?

Is he just two pounds? Give us a life story of him. I would say he just had maybe a cousin or something that helped him out, and he was just getting the extra cast on the side. You just, but keeping it to himself, you know, just riding around helping his homies out, type of thing. So just getting what he wants. He's like the Robin Hood of Wheat is what you're saying. He's a giver. But his smallest leg circle.

It's like when I buy gift cards for people for, for holidays, you don't know who you're giving it out to, but if somebody says, man, I could use for a, I can use a gift card to, uh, I just keep a cash. Rick Relay. Here, yeah. That's a good. Actually, okay, Matt, that was not a bad analogy. Thank you. I'll take the gift card used by anybody, including Aidan Holloway. that's called cash

he's not taking Rick Relay cards so you don't think he's selling a lot of this this is for his bros nah I mean he what's his NIL deals looking like

maybe it is his NIL deal maybe he wants to get drafted by the night yeah sign with Alabama we'll get you two pounds he's insisting I'm playing for Denver for some reason

yes you know or he wants to be the expansion Seattle as well that's true or Portland for that matter take me the expansion draft And after seeing the Twitter feed after yesterday, a lot of people have a pound just laying around. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

And one more quick note, Matt. Hawks fans still support Magic City as they wear the gear even despite the canceled promotion yesterday. 18,138 fans in attendance, atmosphere resembling a playoff game. Hawks get a win over the Orlando Magic. still with the fans putting on for their city, despite Commissioner Adam Silver shutting down Magic City's promotion due to, quote, a broad array of league stakeholders

including fans, partners, and employees showing concern. It was the right thing to do. And they were one-tenth straight. And they're coming to town Friday. And they're going to get shut down. Yes. And Kevin Durant's not breaking Jordan's record for a couple more games.

Well, it's good. He only had 18 last night. Two points in the second half. That was in the last 30 seconds of the game. All right. Reed got us in 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. We have some breaking news about Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. All right.

Are we doing these sounders as Battle Red Ross or as actual objective observers of sports? Battle Red Ross do it. Woo! We have some potentials and all fancy line. Put a dollar in the job. Let's go. Texans offensive line. Let's go.

The Texans have agreed to terms in a two-year deal with guard. Wide Tella. Wide Teller. Three-time Pro Bowl with the Browns. Let's get in some Texans. Oh, Lide Talk. He's a three-time pro bowler with the Browns. Teller finds a new home in Houston.

He's 31 years of age. He wears number 77. He enjoys a good steak and has six cats. Six, huh? Yeah. Is that from one litter? I've never thought an offensive lineman for the Texas would get you so excited. Woo-hoo!

Let's go, baby. You are excited. White Tella. It was an enterprise, man. All right, hold on. What? Now, do you want to see one data point? One data point.

It's the one. It's for the hounds. Remember, the poon hounds are pro football talk. Okay, now he was a three-time pro bowler. Teller. 21, 22, 23. He hasn't not made the Pro Bowl in a couple of years. All right.

Two-year deal, by the way. He was, yeah, 31-year-old on a two-year deal. That's got Nick Casario written all over it. Yes. Okay, we can turn down celebration when I give you these PFF grades. Hold on. So you're telling Jonathan to turn the music off. I'll give you his ranks in guard on their blocking grades.

overall in the last six years. All right. He was first in 2020. First in all football. Okay, what year we got to go into? 2020. I didn't hear you. Try again.

Then he went to fifth. 18th. 13th. Okay. 43rd. Last year he bumped back. He's trending back upwards. 39th.

Out of 79th. Grade of 62. He's a pro bowler in 23. He's better. what you got, two-year deal, probably not a ton of money, I like the deal. Well, how would you not like the deal?

We still needed a guard. We, because, of course, I'm Texans, man. And it's also a good feeling hit for me. I said they were going to sign a guard. I'm just one week late. You get credit for that. Thank you. All right, so ladies gentlemen, believe it or not today,

on the show at 150, all things about a guy you've never heard of before until about three minutes ago. Unless you wanted me to make eight things up. I'm just saying. Hey, he started a garage band with his high school buddies. Wyatt Tella. What?

Are we doing this? No, we can't. We get us next. Oh, that's good. Gosh. All right. How excited are you about Wyatt Teller? 713-212-5-790.

Wyatt-freaking Teller. Let's go, baby. Seriously. Do you think Wex is even, he's beside himself? You got the two to six show locked up but loaded. PFF? Poonhounds. Say he's mid.

Two years. deal. Casario perfect. Let's go, baby. Better offensive line today than it was yesterday? Oh my gosh. Of course it was. Absolutely. Feeling good. C.J. Strauss ready to destroy, baby. Dave Montgomery. We're calling him Dave Montgomery now?

I said David. I just said it fast. David, David Montgomery? I just said it quickly. David Montgomery, streaking down the field. Nico Collins. Jalen Noel. Jaden Higgins. Dalton Schultz is back. Woo! Ever going to the Super Bowl, baby? Got billing? What is the Super Bowl odds?

I mean, if they're long enough. I think Wyatt Tellers can help in the Super Bowl? I did 27 to 1 like two years ago. How did it turn out for you? They lost. That's original round. Remember, good value doesn't mean any value if you don't cash it. I know.

I know that with my main city futures. They went into the positive and now they're dead. All right. We're going to talk some college basketball next. Our buddy Reid Geddes who's going to tell us how UT is going to beat North Carolina State tonight. 713212-5-790. Our next guest is a staple of this. program every March.

He should be doing many more national TV games, but he's busy being a successful attorney. That's fine. For the all-time Cougar Greats, and a man that I go for my baseball analysis, read the Astros Outfield in 2026. What are you thinking?

I was about saying, you only call me in March, you really undersell my fandom of the Stroes. That's why I'm bringing you on now. What do you think about it? Think Zach Cole's going to make the team coming out of spring? What's your thoughts? Come on, let's go. Oh, yeah. Come on. The way he played last year, he's absolutely going to make the team. Hey, the bigger deal is all the infielers. And all the people saying, oh, we got too many, we got too many.

No, we don't. That's like saying you have too many shooters going into March Madness. Too many shooters. Don't keep them all. Don't keep them all. So there you go. All right. Thank you. Man, it's good to hear your voice. We've missed working with each other this year because those national people took all of our games from us. That's bad. That's fine. Yeah, they did. We had a bunch of really good games, and they just left us with the. dogs. Yeah. No disrespect to Toledo, but it is what it is.

All right. So let's get first things first. Our beloved cougars are the two-seed South regional. It doesn't look particularly pesky although a potential rematch of Florida for the championship of the South could be happening inside Toyota Center. This episode is brought to you by Sprecker.

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It's really, really good to be a number one or a number two. Other than that, seeds just don't matter. And the reality is the one or two seeds gives you what should be a really good warm-up game. And then after that, you're playing really good teams. Having said that, I would much rather be in the south than in the east. the east is brutal but but i've got i've got the cougs making a run to the final four i got a rematch with florida but let me tell you something uh illinois who's unpredictable um that's gonna be a really tough game and then i i may not care what else happens in the bracket as long as we

don't lose to a nm you got that right it's a second round match of potential oklama city let me ask you this in painting with a broad brush on the cougars defense isn't nearly as intensive as it was last year, but man, it surely showed up for the most part in Kansas City. Last year's defense could mask some offensive woes. Is the defense good enough this year to mask some of them, maybe perhaps, offensive woes the Cougars might have? And maybe you don't have those woes if Kings and Fleming's is playing, you know, 34, 35 minutes a game.

Yeah, that's what I was about say. The answer to that is no, but the good news is we have less offensive woes. Not to be mistaken is no off, but we have less. And Kingston is that good, and he's been that good since the opening tip on the first game. If you watch them play, a kid is just special. And he can go get not difficult shots. You know, Manuel Sharp can go get you, you know, a degree of difficulty 9.9 on the scale. Kingston can go get you shots that it looks like they're wide open 15 footers.

And can come off, you know, can come off on the ball screens and pull up and get you all balanced, can get to the rim. And so he more than makes up for the less, you know, I don't want to say defensive woes. I don't know what they ended up in Ken Palm, but they've still got to be really close to the top 10. Yeah. What I don't understand is why they aren't as good,

because Milo is excellent on the ball. Emmanuel Sharp still as good as anybody. Jojo Tuggler is one of the top 10 defensive players in the country, and Chris Snack has been terrific. So I don't, you know, I would agree with the premise not as good, but I think people are overplaying that. I hear a lot of the national pundits going, oh, they're not as good. They don't have, you know, they don't have, you know, and I'm like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't oversell that. Well, McCarty's played better.

Cinnac is getting better as the season progresses. It feels like to me it's a little bit of a deeper squad that maybe Calvin's had in years past. Absolutely. I just kept waiting for him to have trust in Mercy Miller. And he's a difference maker. I'm telling you, that kid is special. Without a doubt, Matt, if you extrapolated out over 40 minutes, maybe the two, I'll start off with, Chris Seneck is as good a rebounder, and he has relatable skill to the NBA rebounding. Having said that, extrapolated over 40 minutes, Chase Picardy and Mercy Miller are the best rebounders on the team.

Yeah, that's crazy. They have been exceptional bounty. And I see what I see Mersey Miller just to say to heck with it. I'm going out and I'm letting it fly. The kid is really good. But I agree with you. Those two off the bench. And Chase, you know, the fact that he's a freshman, everyone talks about all the freshmen

in, you know, Kingston and Isaiah Harwell and Chris Anak. Chase McCarty's a freshman. That kid is really going to be good. Reid Geddes, ESPN, Attorney DeJure, Faislamma, JAMA, just one of the greatest Cougars of them all joining us here on the Matt, Tomasio Ross. Last question about U of UBH. What type of team, you don't have to get them in particular, but what type of team scares you against the Cougars and potentially running to Indianapolis? Arizona. Yeah.

We don't run into them until we get there. Yeah, that's true. But they, they, the teams, this is crazy. Kelvin Samson has changed the way basketball's played in the Big 12. Texas Tech, now they're short-handed, they duplicated how the Cougars defend in their approach, and they can beat us. Iowa State is almost a carbon copy. They do the hard, they blitz on the ball screens, double, they do the hard hedge, they double down on the – you talk about that meme, you know, Spider-Man pointing to Spider-Man.

That's Iowa State, and Arizona can play that way, too. All right, let's get some other – problems because... Go ahead. Well, I'm just saying those guys don't have the offensive struggles that we do. So those are the teams that scare me. That makes a lot of sense. All right, let's get to

a little bit of the other schools in the state. Texas, are you surprised they're playing this extra game tonight? No, I'm not. And I wanted to pick NC State just because I get so mad at Texas, but there's not a chance in God's creation I can ever articulate that I'm cheering for the

wolfback. Not that right. By the way, Texas is good. Texas has got size, they've got guards. I don't, you know, they've struggled, but that's a team that could jump up, and they could win too. They could beat BYU. Yeah, DeBantz is really, really good.

Everybody else on BYU, I'm not overly impressed with, but he can take over a game if necessary, but enough about them. Do you like Texas Tech? Tell me about what you think about TCU squeezing in. Does SMU have a chance to survive the playing game as well? I mean, you've got quite a bit of flavor in this Lone Star State again this season. Yeah, I got, SMU is healthy. and they've struggled being healthy all year long,

and I've got them beat in Miami, Ohio, and they could beat Tennessee. I don't think they're going to, but that would not surprise me. But I've got A&M over St. Mary's. A&M is all gas, no brakes. They don't defend very well, but man, can they shoot the ball,

and do they crank up the tempo? And so I like them a lot. And TCU, I've got TCU winning their first round game. they they're the kid punch I want to say Donald Punch but I think that's who I went to high school with David Punch

he's he's as good of an interior player as there is in the country I don't think they can beat Duke but I definitely think they can beat Ohio State you mentioned Miami of Ohio if you're in the committee room what's your take on the Red Hawks with the schedule strength of 296

yeah I you know I don't put a lot into that any team that goes into their tournament, what were they 30 and 0 or 31 and 0 or whatever they were, that team deserves an invite. And you look at the bubble teams. I mean, does Oklahoma really have a reason to jump up and down and yell? No. You know, so if there was some team that you just thought, oh, man, they got screwed.

Then I would listen to that argument, but I don't think that team was out there this year. All right. I have, I mentioned this on my show yesterday. If not for Houston, I think Arizona wins the whole thing. So would you like to have backed me up on that? Or does somebody else you think could be a legitimate championship contender besides the Coogs? Without, well, no, yeah, I think there's about six or seven teams that are legitimate contenders. I think Duke would, I think Duke and Arizona are the best teams in the country, but Duke's not healthy. I've got, I've got U of H in Arizona playing for the championship.

Arizona is the best team in the country. They flat out are. Can you of H? Can we beat them? Absolutely, we can beat them. But they are the best team, extremely well coached, but golly, are they loaded with talent. Here's what makes me nervous about the Cougars. And it's been this way, I think, ever since really Kelvin's turned the program around, is that the foul trouble.

And look, Jojo has become a bunch bigger offensive force for the Cougars in the last weekend, per se. but man, when he gets that second quick foul, five, six minutes in the contest, it's like taking the air on the balloon a little bit. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. If you want one key to the game, that is that Jojo doesn't pick up his second foul until the last five minutes of the first half. Because then you can take him out. It won't have that big impact.

But if he picks up his second foul, you know, before the 10-minute mark, I'm with you. That's going to make me nervous. and I don't care who we're playing. All right. You mentioned not rooting ever for North Calistay. I bless you on that. I reign into Terry Gannon in December. Such a good dude.

I said, when you come to Houston for an NBA game, the three of us and go have dinner, he's got to pick up the tab, correct on that? Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, and he can be a good dude, but I mean, really, are we going to break bread with him? You tell me, if you don't want to, I can say that you're sick.

Yeah. I don't know. Let me think about that. I'm still not over it. Nor am I. I'm 12 years old. Reid, it's always good to hear your voice. Get back in the courtroom and we'll visit with you soon. Thank you, friend. Okay.

Thank you. That's Reed Gettis. I think Reed's genuine. I don't think he wants to go to dinner with Terry Gannon. I don't think he wants anything to do with anybody in North Carolina State. Do you have something in your life like that? Like, I'll never shake it. Hmm.

Like, I don't think going on a new UT, I don't think ever that Matt Liner wants to ever have dinner with Vince Young. Probably not. They did a commercial or something together, right? That's because money speaks. I don't know. I don't like thinking. The things I don't like thinking about most would be

Oilers versus Bills. Chris Paul's hamstring. Would I want to have dinner with any Golden State Warrior after game seven? Not after game seven, but I would. What do you mean? Well, as I said, is Megan going to be there if Clay Thompson's there? I'll have to ask his dad. The game last night.

Okay. I mean, I'm not going to say a word. What are you going to do? Just Uggle? Hi. Oh, really? Ogle? Ogle? Or Ugle?

Google? Our boss, Brian Erickson, got on me for saying, Ugle. Really? I guess ogling is more correct, but I think Uggle is accepted. Is it a present and past tense on that? I don't know. I don't think so.

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I got four already. Do you really? Get ready for some nuts. Shame. We might go with Braden Smith, too. Yeah, why not? You can do four and four. That's no problem with that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we might throw in somebody else. Any, any lineman of the Texans have signed. Jared Patterson. Yeah, are you Ed Ingram, Trent Brown? I only owe the tip jar dollar. I only said C and D one time. You started a couple more times

I'm proud of you though I'm trying to get better You're doing great Trying to get better 1247 It's Matt and Ross Till 2 here on 790 1252 on Sports Talk 790

We will hear from Kevin Durant Coming up at the top of the hour He was Trying to explain last night We're also trying to wrap our mitts around it That was Is that the worst 12 minutes of Rockets basketball Since he may have taken over in three

Well I mean I don't even got the first year really I mean that was I will just say yes Yeah, it was Turnovers It was full points Turnovers, not hitting threes Couldn't make a shot

Couldn't dribble, couldn't pass Yeah What do you do on a basketball court, Matt? If I was describing to a five-year-old You shoot the ball, you dribble the ball, you pass the ball What else? You follow the rules of basketball

You get the ball over before eight seconds They couldn't do any of it, any of it Yeah, I know All right, let's talk about something else Yeah, okay, please Real quick, this is a short segment It's supposed to be the positive segment. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. No, we already started off negative. Oh. One o'clock positive. One o'clock. We're scrapping to rant.

Jonathan, do not tell us. When you open up the one o'clock hour, please. I want you to find the happiest song in your brain. Okay. And if you need to go Google, what is the happiest song? Anything. Please. Literally.

Do not tell us what it is. We'll take a medley. Please take something that's very famous and we can all relate to it for us. Yes. Any generation between 20 and 60. So, like, maybe it's, I don't want to give you examples. I know what I want. Just find the happiest song you can find.

One o'clock. Okay. So today's St. Patrick's Day. Oh, it's St. Patrick's Day. It's basically a day for alcoholics, correct? Is there any redeeming value in this day? It's a good day for alcoholics to get out there and get drunk. That, Cinco de Mayo.

You want to put it, you know, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to really respect Irish culture. Yeah, hand me that green beer and let me put. on my green mustache and my green I wish I were drunk shirt. And eat corned beef, which is delicious, by the way. Yeah, that's great. I love corn beef. I love corn beef. I love corned.

Maybe speckles on your, on your face. Yeah. I'm going to have, uh, I'm going to wear no green. You're not pinching me. I did it on, I did it on Saturday. I'm in, I'm in powder blue. When I was out at the Sam Houston Race Park. That's when I did it.

I wore green then. Today, who cares? I don't think I'm wearing any. No, you're not. I'm not wearing any green. That's fine. Nobody in the office, all of our sales folks

are out having cocktails so. Yeah. And by the way, I saw on Twitter, so it must be true. It's supposed to be St. Paddy's Day,

not St. Patis. Says who? Patty is more Patricia. And Patty is more Patrick in Ireland. Why don't we don't believe on that? We've done it before.

Like 50 times? That's true. I can throw some in there. No. I need some help. Wyatt Tellers, let's say, we're running in the end

or a rope on White Teller questions. I put a statement I went on Twitter, I said, Oh, here, I'm going to throw your little quick Wyatt Teller one to reward a listener. Okay. Wyatt Teller, while in Virginia Tech, his major was property management.

That's a believe it. That is a believe it. Yeah. Offensive lineman, property management, makes sense. Go ahead. It says, I said, Wyatt Teller, what comes to mind? And a golf cart kid says, my ex

cheating on me. Hmm. Did Wyatt Teller cheat on Golf Car, kid's ex? Or on golf car? Oh, no. What? Did he lay his wife down sweetly?

Wyatt Teller? Big, Bucksum offensive lineman? Brooding? He can't compete. You can't compete with that. No, golf car kid's probably like five, six, and 115. Yeah, you better go get a personality.

Yeah, golf cart kid. Let's go. How's your 401K? Oh, Wyatt Tellers is more than yours too. You suck. Golf card kid, you may not even want to live life. Yeah, you better buy your flowers. You better just go on.

Find somebody else. You know, Paul Bunyan offensive. of linemen coming our way. It's like there's a Shane Gillis bit. Like his girlfriend's ex was like a Navy SEAL. It's like, ah. All right. So, we were supposed to do positivity at 1250. Yeah, we didn't start positive. So we got to regroup. One o'clock, which is in three minutes. Yes. A totally positive segment. So if you call the show,

yes. It must be something good. Like, hey, I'm excited about the Astros pitching staff. I'm excited about the Cougars in the tournament. I'm excited about the Texans getting a better offensive line put together. Yes. If you get something negative from us, you taser us. If you say something negative, we taser you. Okay. You, the great listeners of Houston, Texas, the Matt Thomas O. Ross, may say nothing negative about what's going on with your local sports teams ending in your life.

713-212-5-7-90 a nothing but a positive segment because we spent almost three hours of negativity here on this radio show 7-13-212-5-7-19. By the way, Sam the sports fan, Jonathan, believes. Now, if this is the song, you can't change it, okay? All right. He is predicting you're playing Farrell's song happy. That's what his prediction is. Okay, that's what? Don't do it.

If it is, keep it is. It is. 713-212-5-790 Sam got it right Wow I was actually surprised Shout out to you Sam It was either this or pocket full of sunshine

One or two How about walking on sunshine Between the waves It's a jam Ross loves that song It's fine You know, can you play a couple of positive rocket highlights from last night? Just go just find a couple of random.

I know there's a bunch in there. It was good for three quarters. Well, two and a half, really. Members? Ah! Taser him! Taser me, sorry. Come on.

It was really a fun time to have any... Go ahead. It was good. Lobbs it back. Jabari, timers at seven. Posting up. Back 15 footer. Got it.

Mid-range. Yes, sir. Jabari Smith. Rockets up double digits for the first time. It's 16. 3.50. Oh, here, double digits. I like this.

Oh, you know what we're missing? Hmm. Reed Shepherd three point line right. Chest pass out. What is going on? Midcord R. Screened by Loravia. Reed Shepherd steals the basketball.

He'll take it himself and jamming down for two. Shepherd with nine. Rockets back-to-back baskets to get within two. At eight, there's 78. Is that the one when Tari was right next to? I'm like, oh, okay. All right. Go ahead.

Let me fight with the ball. One basketball, plenty of spots. It is a happy segment of the Matt Thomas showed Ross. Yeah. Let's go, Rockets. Let me tell you something. Ross can't do it. So you better get that damn team. They're going to win on Wednesday.

Win on Wednesday. They're going to bounce back. Love it. They're going to make their threes. You know what? I will personally guarantee you. They're not going to turn the ball over 24 times. How about that?

Thank you for that. And I got Wyatt Teller wearing a texting uniform. God, life is good. I love being some Wyatt Teller. Four hours of Wyatt Taylor. Let's go, baby. No, Buzz. Can you say you, Buzz.

Let's positive. No, you're not. being positive. You're being sarcastic. You're being negative. Negative energy. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Wrong. Yes. Right. Yes. Right. Wait for it. Too bad. It's got to warm it up. Too bad. It's guy. We got to hit it with the USBC. We got to charge it up. Hold on.

Cole Thompson on Twitter. Texans did get better. Yes, with all caps. Yes, they did, Matt. I think Cole Thompson's an online nerd too. That's good. Yeah, get him. Get his ass. I refuse to be tased. You can get me too. Get him too.

Because what did I do? I said something negative. All right, let's go the phones. Bill's on 790. Bill, thank you for holding in good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon. You're on. The positive stuff.

What I loved this morning was your back and forth about the Alabama point card. Oh, my God. starting with I threw it out there let it go let it be a ball outside don't swing don't swing and then

imitating the arresting officer you guys were slaying me that's the best I told you at the swing of the pitch Bill loved it but Bill thank you that's good

team we're blessed in Houston to have wonderful sports icons and CJ's next all right guys thanks for the show I love it. See, Bill, you saved Bill's day.

You made him a bright, smiley face. Good. CJ's next, baby. Got a better offensive line. Weapons are staying and getting better. And he's making $53 million next year. No, he's maybe. It doesn't matter.

I'm not paying him. I don't write the check. Oh, you'll be writing the check. No, I don't write any checks. Let me tell you something. Those fried cheese are going to cost you $21 a spot at Torotown. I'm not going to Torotown. You just, you told me they don't need me.

But you'll go anyway. No, you told me they don't need me. They don't need you. They don't need you. They don't need you, but you'll go anyway. You can shut you dumb butt-ass up, Bridgland. You're going to want to go. No, I'm good.

Those people over there, by the way, in Cyprus, they're so happy because their property values going to go so high. Oh, I know. Hotels, restaurants, flag football fields, volleyball courts. I won't you take me to? A Toro Town. I will be inside the loop. And then the Toro don't be out there shortly after. Loop adjacent.

Let's go to Javier on 790. Javier, it's a good hour to you, my friend. Javier. Javier? Where are you? Well, of course you're here. Where are you there? Javier, do me a favor.

Turn your radio up as soon as you as high as you can. Turn up all the way. Javier, all the way up. Turn it all the way up. So you can hear yourself. Keep going. Okay, so. All right, good.

What you got on your mind today? I say the rockets are going to be doing this well. With the leadership like KD, we're going to go far. And also, I think the Ashen are going to do very well. Doordog getting his back. Yes. He's getting his swing back. Yes.

Yes. Keep going. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Texas are going to pick Hawaii.

We're going to be back in the playoffs. Yes. She's going to buy back. Yes. And let's go Houston, baby. I answer one question for me. How far will the Texans go in the playoffs next year? AFC championship game.

Thank you, Javier. Let's go, Javier. Yeah, baby. AFC championship. They're going to win it? I don't know. I don't have the crystal ball. I didn't see that far.

Why would I predict them to go to the Super Bowl right now when they could, but I'm not saying they are or aren't. They could. Will you do it outside of this segment? What? You can tell us how you're really feeling about 10 minutes. You can look

at the math, but I'm optimistic. We have four minutes left in this totally positive segment. I like these odds, baby. Let's go. All right, let me give you. John, then you're doing a great job. You're blossoming off air and on and really appreciate you. Let's keep it positive. Positive, here we go. And I'm saying that because I made you do some grunt work

and you did it. Appreciate it. Yeah, he did. He did. Positive. Cougars won by 30. Yes. Rockets be the Lakers tomorrow. Texas wins tonight. You know what? I'm with you.

Longhorns win. Astros outfield gets settled in the next handful of days with nothing but slugging of OPS of a... Matas of Okatis with a double double for the longhorns tonight. Really? Mm-hmm. All right, and by the way, we're going to be on location Thursday. Speaking of positivity. Yes, we are.

Let's go. 290 and Barker Cypress. If you want to come out to Willys, we're going to have some great tournament action. Crawfish season is in full swing. They have great crawfish at Willis as well. And if you come out to see us, Ross is going to peel your crawfish for you. That is not true. Oh, sorry.

Matt will ask you, Matt will probably think that you're part of the bar staff and ask you for something. That's what's going to happen. You're going to be, you're going to be introducing yourself, man, I'm such a big fan. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry. Can I get some more iced tea? That's what's going to happen there. Let me tell you all what's going to happen next Thursday. This Thursday at Willis.

This Thursday, Willys, we're going to be out there for the full show, 290 and Barker Cyprus. 290 and Barker Cyprus. Northwesters, you must. That's not too far from Tarotown, actually. You think about it? Well, we can check it out. You go put a hard head on and get to do some land prospecting? Yeah.

You know what? I'm going to try to invite Cal and Hannah to come in studio. Okay. Think they would come? No. Why not? I don't know this for a fact, but they probably know this show doesn't like them. I don't, who does, I never said I didn't like them.

Did you? I hope they haven't ever caught my impression of Cal. If you just sped it up, it would be perfect. And it wouldn't like, what are you talking about Matthew? Can that, it's a taser? That's negative. Yeah, it's negative. Oh, yeah, you're right.

You know what? Not like Forrest Gub almost. It is Forrest Gump. You're catching on. You're catching on. So that's the thing, Jonathan, I told him if you just speeds it up, it's a perfect. impersonation, but he will never speed it up. It's funnier to be the other way.

I know it is, to you. By the way, I got some more positivity for you. Yes. Astros leading the pirates, 4 to 1 in the 4th. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

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Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Shea Whitcomb with an RBI single. Bryce Matthews with the home run to write. Hell yeah. Zach Cole with the home run to write, 412 foot bomb, baby. He's ready. Believe it. We can't get the highlight of it, can we?

Why not? Couldn't we? I think on tape deal we cannot. We're not supposed to play him? No, we just can. Technically, we can't. It depends because I mean, they're available.

Why don't you go ask us, go text, Josh. Go get clearance. I'll go get clearance. I'll go get clearance from Clarence. And we'll come back with another great positive song. Jonathan, I want another positive song for me, but I want it pre-1990. Okay, okay, okay. Pre-1990. And we're going to try to get Zach Cole's home run.

Okay. It's a mega blast, right? Pre-190. Oh, yeah. That was 36 years ago, you know. Correct. Pre-19. Okay.

1990. Take care of the older folks. Oh, okay. Take care of the OGs. I know some good songs. Yeah, I mean, that's, music was great before the 90s. It was the best music was the 70s, then the 80s.

No, 60s. 70s, then 60s. And then everything else is a distant third. Distant third. 113 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This one's a no-doubter. Right field and deep. There's that, Cole.

Big home run to right field. It's back to back for the Astros, and it's 4-0. The difference in distance, significant, the Bryce Matthews' home run was hit in front of the boardwalk area that a lot of fans watched the game from. That ball is it was hit. The fans on the boardwalk started looking behind them because they knew that ball was not only going to get to the boardwalk,

but over their heads. Don't stop the Astros now. So Bryce Matthews went deep too? Is Bryce Matthews going to make this team out of spring? Tell me, stay off your queen. It's a good song. I love this song. Love it.

What we can do? We're going to figure out way to keep Bryce Matthews on the roster? Zach Allen out? Is that his name, Zach or Jake or whatever his name is? Nick. Nick Allen, whatever. What's his option situation? I'm going to imagine he has some.

So, I don't know, does Penae going to open the year on the D? I don't think he wants to start the end of the injure list. He's trying to do his best to be ready for opening day. Jeremy Paine, yeah. I'm going to, you know what, I'm going to write this back down, retroactive. Guest healing, not opening day, but not I. Can I jump aboard that as well? It feels about right, right?

Yeah, I don't, yeah. He's taking ground balls, now he's not throwing anything, but at least he's out, they wouldn't put him out there if he felt super scared about the situation. Yeah. Although it still only has to be 10 days for players. 10 days out of 162. I'm going to kill you. Yeah, they might.

I'm going to stick with it, though. Pena, not opening day, but not. All right, I'm going to go opposite. I'm changing my mind. Okay, yeah, I could. Jeremy, D.L. Excuse me, I.L. to start this season, Bryce Matthews makes opening day roster.

Okay. Well, he plays a lot, I don't know. But he has been playing quite a bit of outfield, just trying to keep him as versatile as possible. He is the Astros' top prospect. He's the only guy on the fringe of the top 100 list out there. Yeah, that list isn't done just Jack Squad. It doesn't mean everything. Hunter Brown was a top 100 guy.

When is the Astros, Wynelinks is going to be like in the top 15? Is it ever going to happen? What happened when they had these guys named George Springer, Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa? Okay, so we do it once every 15 years? That's what you're telling me? Kyle Tucker, Yoran Alvarez. I think I wonder who their last top hunter guy to come up and contribute was. Is that Hunter Brown?

He was a top hunter guy. Top 100. Derek Fisher? No, I mean, more recently than that. Oh, like recent. Okay. No, Paphito was not a top 100. No.

Blue ball, no. Nope. All right, let's move on. Let's keep it positive. Yeah. Uh-oh. Turn this off. Why?

We got a layout here. What? Our guy had line one. Our buddy. Okay. Go ahead. You want me to throw to it so you're ready to go? Hold on, I'm not ready yet.

You'll be a countdown from three? Click him first. Say hello first. Oh, that's right. Hey, Gerard. How's it going? Gerard, how are you, friend? Good, all right, man.

How are you guys doing? Good, good to hear for you. What you got today? And go. Quick thing we going to go on the game last night, man. You know, that game kind of remind me. You remember when the Rockets played the Lakers in the bubble, the year the Lakers won the championship.

You kind of seen what they deal with James Harden. They kind of trapped Hardin. Got the ballers out of his hands. the other Rockers beat them. You know, they had Russell Westbrook actually on that team, but he struggled in that series. And they pretty much took the Rockers out there at offense. After the Rockers won game one, they won four straight.

So I probably believe that LeBron Day has probably got into coach. Here, Reddick, here told him to say, hey, they got one guy that's dangerous out there. We ain't got to worry about nobody else. I did this back in the day in the bubble where we were a different coach. We trapped him and got to borrow his hands and make somebody else beat him. Maybe they did the same thing to Rand. Durant's basically taking over to James Hardin role when Hardin was. He's the only guy that really is a guy that

that create off the dribble and get his own shot off and set his teammates up. They kind of missed that with Van Fleet. You know, a lot of people talk about Van Fleet, you know, losing him as a point guard, and that's true too. But they also lost another playmaker, another guy that could break the defense off the dribble and get to the rack and score, along with, you know, setting up his teammates for a basket. That's a, that's a missing ingredients that they have missed throughout this.

Yeah, they don't have another playmaker out there. out of the rent. So I thought basically that's what the Lakers did last night. The only kind of tweak was behind the trap. Retic did come with like a zone. They kind of threw the rockets off, but it was basically the same principle they did in that bubble when they beat the rocket and then stick around playoff match up.

Same, same thing. One guy, we've got to worry about get the body and get the other guy, I think the other players have to make plays and the Rockets couldn't do it. So hopefully the Rockets, you know, with a practice today or whatever, Adoka makes the adjustment because it was obviously that JJ Redick, you know, it came over with a scheme that a

Doca and his coached bear couldn't come up with an answer for during the game. Hopefully, I'll be coming with an answer Wednesday, so we'll see what happened. Quick thing on the tournament. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

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I think those are the two best teams. I look at Yulvation as that group of a team that's probably a half a step behind those teams. Like Yovach, Yukon, Iowa State. I think those three teams are probably right behind Arizona and Duke. But Yovic has an excellent chance to get back to the final four with the draw they have. Also put forward in that city group along with Yovacs too. So I think Yovac has a chance to get there. So I'll come down to, I think, Uzar.

I think if he has a good series, him and Sharp, Take some of the pressure off of Fleming. They'll have a good chance. And if a Tuggler can give them something inside, because that's one thing they're missing from last year's team. They can jump the ball down to Roberts. And Roberts can get them a basket inside. If Tugler was able to do that a little bit during the tournament,

look for you were able to make another deep run. But to me that right outside the top echelon team, they got a chance now. You get into one game scenario. They have a chance to win it. I thought I put them a half a step behind Arizona and Duke, right along with the other teams I mentioned, Yukon, Florida, Iowa State,

and teams of that I think those teams are kind of right behind Arizona and Duke. So what's what happened, man? I'm putting for you all the to finally win the championship. You know, Kevin Sampson has had a Hall of Fame career. He's just looking for that last last thing that kind of stepped his name is one of the great coaches

in college basketball. That is winning the championship. Hopefully he gets it done this year. Thank you, Rod. Appreciate the phone call, my friend. Don't be a stranger. What you got? Any thoughts, Ross? I'm good. He's rooting for Cougars. I haven't happy about that. Duke and Zona, one tier, and then, yeah,

Cougars and others and another. Is that what he's going with? I don't know. I'm busy on my Twitter. I know. You said Zona's winning at all, I think, right? I did. I said, if not the Cougars, Arizona. Arizona's the most complete team. Okay. Duke's hurt. How does your wife feel like it? Are they have injuries? Yeah, she's not speaking to me.

Oh, okay. She heard me say it the other day. You know, our friend Kim Pomeroy is saying, don't sleep on Purdue. There were somebody on the national stage that's had Purdue winning. said that being in Indianapolis at the final four will be the difference maker. What kind of injuries Duke got going? I don't know.

I don't know their players names. I need to know this for my bracket I'm feeling out on two days in two days. Yeah. How many brackets you got filled out so far? Zero. I don't like to fill in before the plan. Because you're doing a deep dive

on all the teams. Yeah, I don't like to fill in till the playing games. Yeah, I got my metrics. I got my algorithms. Hey, we're carrying the game today, right? Yeah. Yes. No, it's got to be somewhere, right?

Because we're not carrying the extras. Where's like, with UT games somewhere. It's got to be KPRC, right? Yeah, probably KPRC. So that means, Jonathan, you have an assignment. We have to cut highlights for Texas tomorrow. We're opening up with the Texas. And the Texas wins.

We're opening the show with the Texas highlights. Yeah, rockets are taped delayed tonight. No, they're not. Astros are. I'm sorry, Astros. Yeah. And the UT basketball, the Longhorns will be taking on the Wolfpack, starting at 730.

You know it's an 1850, 815 tip, and they'll probably start after that. Oh, Craig Way. He loves pregame. Craigway's got about an hour and a half of free. Craig's going to give you every elementary school those kids played on both teams. Well, now, the added layer, of course,

you've got to learn from where everybody transferred from. Well, he knows that by now. Right. All right, so here's the thing. When UT wins tomorrow, and Jonathan, we open the show with UT highlights. Okay, okay. What song are we going with?

We're going to go with... Uh-oh, we need some more happy music. What now? Morgan News? 7 to 1. Astros beating up on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hit the music! Shea Wickham, RBI single. Looper Fido scoring. Oh, this is how it outs.

Turn it up. Gio, I mean, I'm not, wait, Kevin Vizio, sorry. That'd be crazy. Craig did it. Single to right. Zat Cole and Bryce Matthews scoring. Station to station, baby. You're worried about the offense, Gordy. It's looking good, baby.

about the Astros offense, Cole Thompson. Everything is fine. Oh, another run, baby. It's a Tijuana. Christian Vasquez. Christian Vasquez? Yes. What?

Christian Vasquez. RBI single. RIP says ourselves as our career. Station to station baseball, folks. The new hit in coaches are crushing it. We give you queen, hall notes, and Farrell all in one half hour. You're another radio station in the marketplace. And Wyatt Teller.

Yes. By way, I've asked people about their Wired Teller thoughts, and we'll get those thoughts from the audience next. Oh, great. Do we trust this website, this Twitter account at ML Football? Agriator. Got 437,000 followers. I don't know. I can't say so for sure.

Apparently, Wyatt Teller, the new Texans guard, is at Disney World right now. Oh, great. and he's wearing mouse ears. Where are you seeing this from? ML football, look. ML football. Look. For you tab.

Shouldn't be going. You got to watch out over there. I'm just saying. Maybe Wyatt Teller is a guy where, maybe we're all going to learn to love Wyatt Teller. Honestly, yes, go ahead. Well, you learn more about him coming up in the next segment. Really?

Chalk full of good information. Oh, man, man, some made-up stuff. All right. So I put a question out about Wyatt Teller, because we are your official home of Texans O'Line Talk. There's really no other station in the marketplace that gives you Texans O'Line talk like we do. Yes, indeed.

Let's see here. So I said, what is your thoughts about Wyatt Teller? What comes to mind? Brian says, help me with my car insurance last week. I saved a bundle. That's nice him to do that. Okay. Should let Altuve play?

Is he related to Miles Teller? Who's Miles Teller? Right. I know who Miles Teller? Miles Teller is the actor. That's okay. He made movies after 1978.

What is he best known for? I would say he was in some superhero movies. He was in a fantastic four. He was in... What is that movie with the drumming? That was great. It was Whiplash. Nice.

Whiplash is an Oscar winner. So he's a great movie. Actor. Penn and Teller? Didn't find them ever very funny. One guy speaks, one doesn't. Oh, Miles Teller was in the Footloose remake? Ooh, that didn't do very well.

Oh, he was in the... a new top gun, of course. Okay. Wyatt Earp. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

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Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Ooh, why it's cafeteria. Whiplash, great movie, by the way, Jonathan. Jonathan's a movie buff. Oh, yeah, that's my guy. I'm bad. Bob says Browns and Texans fan here. He was elite for four seasons.

He was good last year, but not elite. He's a very solid starting O-Lyant on a good team. I love the signing for Houston. David and Austin says he was an enterprise and man. That's a man that listens to show. I love that. And again, golf car. I'm really worried about golf car kid.

He's my ex cheating on me with an unhappy face emoji. Okay. And then Friesen says another month of deep draft discussion. I think the Texans... You ready for a sneaky hot take? Do you think Nick Casario's done enough in free agency not to draft alignment in the first round? No, I think... Well, it

depends on how... You don't have to. I would like him to. I'm still calling a shot on this one that he's going down. He's getting out of the first round. Okay, that's fine. Take two of them. Take two guards in a center. No, he loves extra picks. Two centers in a guard. I mean, look, Miles Teller, he's on a...

a two-year deal. He's 31 years old. He's been in decline. No, no, no, don't sell it that way. Brown's fan loved him. Okay? He's good. But he is not your long-term option. You still draft guys. I think he still should. It feels like to me that this does not preclude the texts from going O-line

in the first round of the draft. Right? Wouldn't that be just, and again, you never should do anything for a fan base. You do it for your owners. just that's reason why they trade up to get another pick to get C.J. Straum. But don't you think the city would not lose its mind positively, but would be like, oh, thank you, Nick, for realizing your offensive line's been hot garbage the last three seasons. Him drafting a non-running, non-offensive linemen

might get fringe Texan fan beside themselves. Well, they should shut up. They'll be fine. We'll see what happens. Let it play out. He's not great at drafting offensive linemen anyways. Yeah, that's true. Maybe there's the new assembled coaching staff Can help that Okay Again, I don't have any opinions about this

Because I want to look at the finished product You can sign all these guys A one two-year deals Two-year blue in the face You know who needs a better season? C.J. C.J. He does.

Of course. And C.J. needs to have that offensive line to be trusted. No to help him have a better season, a better offensive line, better run game, better pass catchers. And Montgomery is greater than Woody Marks, greater than Nick Chubb,

Yes. Greater than Joe Mixin? Jawar Jordan. Not greater than healthy Joe Mixin, but Joe Mixing maybe with his foot shot off, who knows? Slowing the uptick over there. That's all right. He's, it's a lot of work.

He's been worked today. He's been a lot of highlights. Yeah. Thank you, Jonathan. I just zoned out. You know what? That's my bad guy. No, it's okay.

It's a four-hour show. It's tough. I zone on on Matt and I sit in here with him. I know. What? Like tomorrow? I'll barely hear from you. I'm trying.

I'm trying. I think I'm getting better. Oh no, I was going to say I don't wear my Apple Watch every day now to try to distract, but today I'm wearing it. This is an accident. I don't normally wear it every day now. Oh, you know what, Ross? I'm talking about tune out and all that stuff.

What? Matt finally admitted that there was so many people here in spring break. Really? I wanted to hear the on-air admission. I know. Me too. Are you conceding to Jonathan? I just remember this.

No, I will tweet you. I will repeat the text that I sent out to you yesterday. And apparently you did not. There was sarcasm. There was sarcasm, Johnston. No, I'm... Let me read because Jonathan... Well, spring break is for college kids.

Yes. And adults, too, but it's primarily for college kids. It's for college kids. Yes. So go ahead with your tweet or text. Where is it show group? Let's take a look here. Where is our show group? Don't hurt yourself.

While you're here, follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. I really appreciate it. I've been posting more stuff up there. 25 travel agencies all across the country from east and west coast. They're booking flights to Houston hourly. It's amazing the thousands and thousands of almost millions of people coming to Houston. Now, did you see the airports where they're having to everybody have to lay down like in cots and stuff like that in Houston? That's because they're traveling.

Nobody's calling a travel agency in 2026. That's, yeah, that's me taking the travel agencies out behind the barn. Okay. You're only three minutes late on the Joe Bigster. We're going to put. We're going to put. We're going to put you down easy, traveling agency. Look, I never said the kids didn't come to Houston.

You did. I just said, let me make sure I'm very clear. I don't believe the numbers and I'll never will believe the numbers. Because 500,000 people, look, when the Super Bowl came to Houston, Jonathan, you were a young kid, right? When was this? How long was that 10 years ago? Oh, the recent one? Yeah, that was the, was that the Eagles?

Was that the Philly Special? one or the Patriots one, I can't remember. The Patriots and the Welker catch? Oh, no, I don't know. The last Super Bowl apparently brought 150,000 people to Houston. 2017. Okay, I was a sophomore.

Yeah, that's one game. We're talking rodeo, we're talking parties. We're talking, what else? WBC, all kinds of stuff. But that's because the events are here. If the WBC's not here, thousands and thousands and thousands of kids are not running the spring break here the events are spring break

and they're not they're not 25,000 kids at the wbc if they're spending their spring break here they're spring breaking here it doesn't matter what event is happening they're spring breaking here i think matt you just forget oh you know what hey if there was no beach on south padre they wouldn't be going to that they wouldn't be going there that's a land that's a that's a land event i'm just saying but i think matt forgot Miami shut down their beaches that was the spring break this nation oh really can't go no yeah oh really it's a curfew at like nine o'clock or something Oh, really? Over there in Miami.

I didn't know that. Maybe we need a curfew. There's no curfews here in Houston. And that's what exactly. And the radio lasts to what, midnight. And we saw a fight over the big bra. Oh, my God. Carling went Saturday.

She's like, everybody was throwing hands all night long. That's nice. You catch any good fights? She, no, but she was, no. She was like Hagler Hernes out there. She threw a little haymaker on the side. Let me tell them teen girls can fight too, Jonathan. Don't forget that.

I've seen it first hand. I know. No, I never said that people didn't come to Houston. I just, I continue and I always won't, and you'll take the loss, whatever. I'll never believe 500,000 people came to spring break. I just won't believe the number. The number is inflated. Just like when Trump was talking about the millions of millions of people at the Washington Wall for his inauguration.

He embellished those numbers. People in life embellished numbers. Okay. Well, there's a news outlet. Oh, you're right. They're fake news. They said 2.2 million. You can't give him 500,000?

I mean, I've made my judgment. such a discrepancy. I think I can give them a quarter. I can give them a quarter of the estimate. Honestly, let me give you the honest number. I bet you what does spring break? Three weeks? Depending on what time of year you are.

Oh yeah. You can't get 150 a week is 450. I can't get you 150 a week. I can give you 50 a week. Okay, well, I'm going to go with the news outlets over you. I'm sorry. I know you're the, oh, you of all people who doesn't watch the news, now trust the news.

I know you're, I didn't say I try. trust them. I think they checked more sources than you did. How do they try? How do you check a source? You check none. You go, you drive around the streets, go all looks busy. Okay, 500,000 people are here. All right, we're outside of the positive. You're pulling a number out of your ass and at least they checked a source. So you have a made-up number. They have a number, so I'm going to go with them. I'm going to prove it otherwise. I'm open to changing my mind. Let me tell you something. As Mr. Texas, I check all the streets. As Mr. making up a number and living in Kingwood,

and you're insulated. I'm not insulated. I come to the city every single Okay. Except tomorrow. No, I'll be in the city tomorrow. We're coming to the city and you're still not coming for the show? Correct. I got a rocket scheme. But I'll be Thursday. We're going to be out on 290 in Barker Cyprus. We're going to be in Northwest yesterday. Believe it or not, is up next.

What's the category today? A new Texans offensive line, is that right? Ooh, that's right. We're going to, oh, we're going to, oh, I can't insane. It almost cost me a dollar. A new Texans offensive line, 713-212-5-790. Final segment, Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Want to remind you on Thursday, we're going to be

out catching some tournament games. It'll be at Willie's Ice House, 290 and Barker Cyprus. I say again, 290 and Barker Cyprus. It'll be Matt Thomas, of course, and me, Ross Villarreal. Got crawfish season in full swing,

delicious eat, some tasty beverages, and of course all the tournament action you can handle. And if you bring your Atlas map of the city of Texas, I'll sign it. For what? to whatever from Mr. T-E-X-A-S. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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