The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Home Opener! Game 1 Of World Series! Gambling Saga Grows

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

Rockets Home Opener! Game 1 Of World Series! Gambling Saga Grows

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-0-1 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You're the one that gets it squirted in your mouth. I don't know why you're trying to bring that up with me.

That was a one-off. It was a one-off, you sure? Yes. You tried it once and you won't do it again? No, I've only had Saki squirted in me once. I thought you did after the rocket change. championship. Oh no, that was before I got on the air. Oh, okay. And I did dry heat three times, so, but never in the studio. Oh, that's good. Drive Heath in a studio?

No, no. 713, 212. You've been in 19 bar fights and they're all by accident. You didn't start one of them. Sure. I, you know, I said jail. Wait, you got an 18 fights in jail? Yeah. that happens in jail. Okay. Are you inebriated right now, George? I want Jonathan to read.

Jonathan knows who Bill Cosby is, right? I got to hear this. I know what Bill Cosby is. I don't know. I'm still like 17, man. I'm smiling here. Hold on. He's been blind.

Sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. This Bill Cosby can't be some of them jail little pudding pops. What do you say that? You don't have to remember him just for that. Can you say it one more time? I don't think I heard you correctly. Go ahead, Matt.

Jonathan, former Astros player, Kaz Matsui, had to go on the, at that time, it was called the disabled list because of anal fishers. I yelled the guy.

What'd you do with the, you had some more fries. No, you basically said, got to fill these fries up more. Yeah, you're going to fill these fries up. Yeah, he said, y'all got to fill this up more.

I did. Don't you short me on the fries, bitch. And I'm the king of short frying you. What does that mean? When I was at McDonald's when I was working in high school. Oh, wait a minute. So you're a hypocrite. Yes.

That's what the anger came from. But. But I was also 17. I'm now an adult now. And I would not do that. If I was serving you fries, I would not short you unless you're rude to me. But let me tell you something back in the day, and I'm sure they do it today's at McDonald's world.

If you're rude at the counter, you order that large fry you're gonna probably get the small fry and we're just gonna stuff the fries and uh yeah that's probably what happens strategically and you're gonna it's gonna look like a large fry

but it's really gonna be small they shorted you all three all the other two of you were like yeah it's shorted yeah a little bit and it was a little light and I was at least at the stones to say something

this converted to go oh what did you accomplish though what stones what did your stones get you uh mr stone is a kid's burger you got so maybe it was because

yeah you did get a Kids burger. They probably try to give you kids fries. You know what? No, I got a single patty. Okay. Yeah. They were like, that's for children. You were wanting to light meal because you were going to eat the rockets. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Good morning, everybody. Hey. Happy Friday, everybody. This is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

And we are with you today on anything goes Friday. Isn't the case in the first 90 seconds of the radio show? Almost anything goes. Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Almost anything. There's some things that don't go. No. Just poking that bear, aren't you big baby? I'm not doing anything. Yeah, you are.

I'm just talking about in general, life in general. Yeah, that's true. We have to follow the FCC rules. Yeah, okay, speaking of that, may I? You may. There is a web, an email service that they got a hold of our email address. I certainly didn't subscribe to it. I'm on a bunch of lists of stuff that I'm like, I don't know if I should be on this.

Well, this is nothing dangerous, but it's just stupid. Okay. So this is an email that they send out prop bad stuff. and they send out who's the favorite for this, who's the favorite for that, yada, yada, yada. And this guy, his name is Josh. I'm sure, I believe you're probably on the email distribution list too. The subject line of this was NBA slash FBI props for sentencing and necks arrested. Oh, really?

That's the whole problem to begin with. So I read down on this email and it says the following. You didn't think we were going to let one of the biggest stories in NBA history pass without a betting angle, did you? Well, frankly, Josh, yes. I don't think about you. I'm not going to promote your website. And this is a completely bogus list of,

like the questions are, who receives a longer sentence? Will Billups and Rozier receive lifetime bans? Next. And then they have a bunch of players they've listed as the next player coach arrested for illegal gambling. Malik Beasley's got to be the favorite.

He's a fair. He's a fair. But if I saw my name on this list, I'd be like, Get my damn name. Get your name on my... Is LeBron James on there? Third. I don't think he'll be arrested. But apparently they got information on his injuries.

Thankfully, from Damon Jones. On this list, there is not a Houston rocket. There are former rocket. Oh, no, that's not true. There's actually a rocket on there. Current rocket. Hold on. Can I guess? I don't want you to guess. On the current rocket's roster?

This is preposterous. And by the other words on this person. No, it's Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant. Yeah. I mean, it's stupid. It's just stupid. So you know what?

Shame on you and shut my own bum ass up. I'm sorry, ladies gentlemen. Speaking of I'm sorry, we have that coming up at 1130 today. I'm sorry that we're not having Frank Gore. I was told we were going to have him. And then I sent out two emails and no response back as to what time. So if he shows up, he shows up, he shows up. But chances are he's not.

We haven't been having the call in line. On a recorded line? Yeah. Anything goes Friday, including maybe Frank Gore. I would say probably the chance of Frank Gore. Gore is one in ten. Okay. And thankfully, I didn't promote where he was going because it doesn't do them any good to me

just say Frank's going to be around. He might be. Maybe he won't make it. But if he comes on the show, I'll be happy to promote where he is. Yeah, all right. But you got, you know, yeah. Let's just stress about it, man. That's all right.

You got a great show without Frank Gore. Scratch my back. I'll scratch yours. Hmm. I'm not going to be anywhere near your back. That's true. All right. Oh, hell.

Let me set the show up for you today. Yes. 11 o'clock. Greg Silver. from KMBR, the sports leader in San Francisco is going to join us for a little 40 on our chatter. 11.30, we got I'm sorry, so we're going to wake the strippers up at 12 noon today. At 1 o'clock, we're going to have Dr. Orto for the fastest 30 minutes of major market radio. We've got non-flora stories, and hell yeah, or not a very busy Friday edition of the show.

But as is the case, every Friday, almost it feels like since the inception of this show. I think close. Pretty close. I don't know. This show is almost going to be 16 years in January. Oh, why do you always, oh. Do you understand how lucky we are? That's not a, oh, that's a ho.

Yeah. I used to feel like I was going to do something in my life. We can get your job in Omaha if that's what you want. I mean, you can break down corn husker volleyball. They're good. They might do that. They're not bad. Omaha's lovely.

I mean, it's not like a vacation destination. Uh-huh. But it's certainly, it's a nice Midwest destination. Great food city, nice people, awesome downtown. Steaks are freezer burned? You don't know that. If you go with that company that pretends they're from Omaha, that's a different issue. They're not from Omaha?

I wouldn't think so. I've been misled? Yeah. Okay. Anything goes Friday. 713-212-790. Ross explained the essence of anything goes Friday. Well, let's see.

Omaha Steaks, we've talked about, fries, burgers, and of course, some sports. Anything you want to get to. Phone lines are open at 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790. We're getting continuing fallout with this whole betting thing with the NBA, the biggest story in sports, one of the biggest scandals, I would say, in sports history. You have the Texans continuing to hold as favorites.

I don't get it. How are they favored? Seriously. It's up to two and a half. Okay, let's, okay, respect the defense. Yes. That goes without saying. And it's Mac Jones.

but he's but they're he's four and one since taking over his starter yes that's true and they haven't played they've it's not a run of the jets you know what I mean they've they've actually I mean they've beat the Falcons they beat the Rams good good the Cardinals and the Saints okay two Terribles and two good to mids to good but I mean it's not four in a row correct and Brock Party was a limited participant at practice yesterday I will tell you this you do need to say what am I missing here it is one of those what am I missing here lines and I'll also say two things are happening that always make me think, okay,

I'm missing something here. I'm surprised that the Texans are holding. Also, I saw that the books are getting 80% of the money on the Niners and they're still holding. So they like their line. Sometimes when all the money pours in one side, they'll move it, be like, all right, maybe we made a mistake. Let's go ahead and hedge our bets here. They're like, no, we're good. They said, let's go. They said, bring it on.

Christian McCaffrey's having a great season. Yes. Texans can't cover tight ends. We already know those things. And the Texans are without their number one pass threat. Dalton Schultz, I think, was a limited participant at practice yesterday. So he's banged up. I'm with you. I mean, no running game. I got news.

I got terrible. And usually we don't make, we don't do a lot of predicting on the show because I think largely when people make predictions on radio shows, it just goes in one or not the other. You got to make your pick, man. I'll put your name on it. I'm going to put my name on it. Oh, you're putting your name on it. Well, I mean, that's your gut feeling.

It's gut. Yeah. Okay. Gut feeling 2113. I'm going to believe the books, baby. 20 to 16 Texas. You were trying to add it together, weren't you?

No. You were thinking about the points, giving the Niners the points. Yeah. You don't want to make it on the line. I wouldn't run to Lake Charles with this. I must. Stay away from it.

But I would, I would... You know what? No. If we were in Lake Charles, I'd be better on the Texans. Because as I said, when I don't understand, and I'm like, what the heck is going on here?

And they're holding the line. I'm like, okay, they know something I don't know. I'm going to go ahead and stick with the Texans. Here's what they're probably thinking. And again, I'm just guesstimating here. You give the Texans points at home. Number one. Number two, you respect the hell out of the Texans defense.

As poorly as they played against Seattle, they were still at a chance in the final two minutes of, as Domingo said, it was a one possession game. I mean, credit for him for that, I guess. Mac Jones was bad against the foul. And Mac Jones is great. And is it a matter of time before Christian McCaffrey gets hurt? Hey, no, I don't think they're not factoring that in the line, no.

But if he's going to get hurt against anybody, it wouldn't it be against a ferocious defense? I don't think that's factoring. I think to me it's more about Mac Jones is due for another dud against a good defense. Yeah, the last, like he was winning games with them, and the last two games he's played, he's got no touchdowns and three picks. So the blooms off that rose a little bit. So that's, to answer our question, it's, there's very little trust in the book line about Mack Jones, would be Mike. Correct. Okay.

So with that being said, I think the Niners win. Okay. I think it's, it's not a question of the Texas defense keeping in close. It's a question of how the hell they're going to score. That's always a question. It's just, it's just a reality. No Christian Kirk goes in practice all week. No Nico Collins doesn't practice all week.

The Mark's Chubb combination was not in, not me. When Dalton Shultz was the part of the offense that moved, you're scared. I would be. Yeah, the Niners are, I mean, they're without Nick Bosa and Fred Warner, but that was the same thing last week. And the Falcons only scored 10 points. Yep. Bejanne Robinson was bottled up. Now, I'll say this.

The Texans need to win this one. I mean, I know that it's not a, it's an AMC game. But look, the Chargers won yesterday. You know me? I'm standing's obsessed. Yeah, you are. And the Chargers will be clearly a team that you're fighting. with for a wild card spot because I think the division

race is over. I think if you're going to get in the postseason it's going to have to be as a wild card. I would agree. So everything so far is not helping out with the fact that the Chargers won yesterday. Not helping out last week that Denver won against the Giants in the final play. You see that you see in that game by the way?

Denver and the Jail. Yeah. It was on Red Zone. Oh my God. That was one of the wildest games. Wow. Thirty-three points for the Broncos in the fourth quarter. Only. Zero points in three quarters and 33 and the fourth, yeah. Yeah. So last night the charges did win 37 of the 10. I was going against Justin Herbert.

I'm not happy about that. That's why I need roller to come through for me. Oh, Jesus. I got to maintain my 6 and 1 record. I'm 1 in 6. And I had Quentin Johnson who didn't get a point. It's over. Sorry for your loss.

That's fine. Okay. I'm starting, this is bad. I'm starting Woody Marks. Are you really? K-Dotten. What is the ESPN's point? Brock Purdy's not going to play.

What do they have for Woody Marks? 9.7. Okay, now remember, in our league, you get a half point for every half-p-pr. And you get one point for every 10 yards. And then it's standard. It's standard with a half-p-pr. So 9.97 means what is he going to do? I'm literally going to be picking up like Tyrod Taylor or Aaron Rogers.

This is bad. Aaron Rogers against Green Bay? That's not a horrible call. Chance to do it against his old team. Did you see, by the way, what he said, I guess yesterday he's like, when I retire, I'm retiring as a Packer? Joe Flacco. What was like a one-day contract?

Yeah, you know, like goofy stuff. Who cares? Whatever. We have the Rockets home debut tonight. Yes, we do. We got to talk about that today. You want to?

Uh-huh. Launch bed coming your way at 6 o'clock. Who's hosting it? That'd be me. Okay. You know what? I might listen.

I'm battling through them and fighting out. I don't know if the allergies or cold or what. Well, you look like hell. Thank you. You look like you're running a fever. Well, I'm going to take a nap in between this and that. Okay. Me too.

I'm going to take a nap too. You want to sleep together? No. Okay, good. I was hoping you weren't. 713-212-2-790. 713-212-5-7-90. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross.

It's an anything goes Friday if you want to chime in. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Anything goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90. Again, there's going to be so many more days of this story revolving around the alleged poker game and the game-fixing and what. whatnot that this is going to go on for probably a year or so right i mean i don't think it's going to be

solved anytime soon yeah it uh even more maybe quick question because this is i was just even this last night talking about this my girl and i was like is this how you guys felt when this all happened with mj and all the gambling stuff was going on back in the 90s and stuff oh that's more of a question for man how much was that even public the whole gambling and then with his when his father got shot and all that i would say it would it would it would The reason why people thought when Michael retired the first time was because he was so devastated about his father's murder. Some people thought it was because he had gambling deaths. Yeah, and that's what's going on.

That's what's resurfacing now. Yeah, I would not say gambling was tied to the immediate Michael Jordan retirement, number one. I would say if you were to look at a timeline, maybe it took Jonathan four or five years and maybe after his retirement to, connect the dots. And I am of the belief that Michael Jordan had a gambling issue. The NBA told him to take a year off. I have no evidence of that. I'm just, this is just one man's opinion. I wouldn't go to my grave with it or I wouldn't put my life's savings on it. But Michael Jordan is extra about everything in his life, from his competition to his desire to win to a desire to win into every level, whether it be on a golf course, whether it be in a pool hall, whether it be at a casino, whether it be on a basketball court, whether it be in business. And so I think when, you know, that's the one thing gambling, he can't control gambling. You can't. And if you have an addiction to winning and being successful, you're going to continue to compensate and get to that level of winning. And sometimes gamblers can't do that.

So, yeah, I am of a belief that there is something that the NBA said, hey, let's go away for a little while. But no, it was not immediately thought of as why is Michael Jordan retiring in the height of his NBA career. It was presumed it was because of his, mourning and sorrow and despair for losing his father because they were very tight. And then you remember about that at all? Yeah, not really. Yeah. So that's how I kind of saw it.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. It's an anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show Ross. Patrick is first up in West University on 7-90. Patrick, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Sorry about that. So I got whatever you got to

I just flew back in from Europe and my sinuses are all crazy messed up but I just called in to complain about my sports teams LSU I'm an LSU guy with the school there I'm getting my second degree at U of H but I'm an LSU guy through and through

and I just don't know I mean I normally love this week because I love talking smack to A&M fans but y'all are probably going to win by at least 17 points and so I have no no typing about this game. My saints suck and Fulham's about to get relegated.

So hopefully the Rockets can pull through for me. Y'all have a good one, guys. Thanks very much. You know what Patrick just did? He just called us and was just sad and said, I've got to talk to somebody. I'm in my car. I have my GPS talking to me. I appreciate him.

Yeah. Fullum FC. That's a tough one. Oh, they're out of the relegation zone. Sitting pretty on eight points. It's all good right now. Okay, back to the other stuff You know, Matt, the bottom three teams of the Premier League get relegated to the, to the, what's called the championship.

Yes, and the second league. Yeah, I hear relegation in my house all the time, and it's usually about me to the backyard. Well, Tottenham's in sixth. They're doing good. Okay, that's nice. Are you talking about your house? I was talking about my wife. She goes, I'm going to relegate you to the back to the garage.

Yeah. She's relegating you to certain duties. It makes sense. Yeah, the Saints suck. Although Rattler's not been terrible. He just hasn't been great. I mean, they've got issues. They don't tackle very well.

They have no running game. They have secondary as a hot mess. Yeah, I was going to say, if you brought up the Pelicans, that would have been even worse, but he's a rocket fan. Well, I'll give him some hope. LSU's only two and a half point dogs to A&M at home. Baton Rouge, Death Valley at night. Let's go. My middle is scared to death about a trap game because A&M has, you know.

Well, how's it a trap game? They're number 20 in the country. They're five and two. but I mean just the A&M football has not achieved this sort of success in a very long period of time. Somebody said this is the first time they're 7 and 0 since 1994. Mm-hmm.

I mean, this is, I mean, think about where this program was two years ago about, hey, we're lucky to be 7 and 5 and you're paying Jimbo Fisher all this money. And oh, by the way, you can't possibly pay Jimbo Fisher all this money firing because you owe them all the money. Well, they did. You know what's funny to me, and that kind of ties into what Mike Elko was talking about,

is how Mike Elko is this hot name and people are talking about him with the Penn State job and he might have been off base saying three weeks ago he was fired but if they lose at LSU which would not be the craziest thing in the world and at Missouri the next week two games on the road against top 25 competition then all of a sudden he won't be as hot of a name

in two weeks in two weeks who they play next one at Missouri oh Missouri can be in yeah yeah Mike Drinkwoods by the way is a hot name for a variety of different jobs or as the kids are calling him drink. That was a real original. I know. That's six, seven. 713, two, one, two, one, two, five, five, seven, seven one, seven, one three. I still don't know what that means and I don't want to know. That's fine. You're not, you're not in the, with the local

jingo. You're not hit me. Local jingo. Jingo. Jingo. Jingo. Oh, is that what the kids are saying, Matt? Yeah. The local jingo. So I did ask what six, seven was, and they're like, eh, we really don't know, but people are just saying it. I actually know what it is, but Okay. So, yeah. Nussmeyer, I mean, ridiculously highly touted. Ridiculously average. Oh, a highly touted quarterback is not playing up to par.

I mean, so you're familiar with these things. Hmm. 66% completion percentage this year, 11 touchdowns, five interceptions. Well, the reality is 66% is good, but, I mean, I'm going to presume that. LSU played a lot of. I mean, the schedule's not balanced, so it depends on who you play. Let's take a look at his game log. And that's the quarterback.

I mean, he was 19 of 28 for 225 and two touchdowns. Which directional Louisiana was he beaten up on? Yeah, I mean, early in the year, they played Lotech and South East Louisiana. Yeah. They lost to Missouri. It's like a barnstorming tour of the state. Except they'll have to come home. That's what LSU does.

Yeah, I know. You know what? It's very charitable of them. They're cutting checks to all these underprivileged programs in the state. It's very nice. Like Texas with Sam Houston and U-Tip. So really you guys are the gift that keeps on giving basically. Okay, that makes sense.

You do a discount when you do it within your system. If you play UT El Paso and you got to cut a check, I mean you are paying Peter to Pay Paul or Paul and Barry? Yeah, you get a little tax break on that? That'd be nice. 713-212-5-7-1. How don't would Peter Paul Murray get into the show? I don't know.

I think I put it in there. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Look, I told Payton, I said, you've got to be nervous. LSU's first of all is an excellent football team. They're not chop liver. Yeah, their losses are by one score to Ole Miss and Vanderbilt on the road. Yeah. So.

That Clemson win is not looking as impressive, but Clemson's rounding in a form, right? Didn't they turn things around? By the way, we got confirmation that there will be no Mr. Gore today. No Frank Gore? No Frank Gore. No, Frank Gore. Is he in the hospital? Maybe next week, Matt.

Family emergency? Maybe next week. The family emergency was it was his daughter's birthday yesterday. Oh, of course he's got to miss Matt Thompson. Yeah, you had to go get her some cake. You know, I think, out of the category of I just don't get it. I've talked to this before. Go ahead.

People take their days off for the vacancy for their birthdays. If your birthday's on a Tuesday or a Thursday, why would you do that? Now you can make a birthday weekend out of it, I get, but if it's a random Wednesday? Again, I will be off for my birthday this year. Yeah, but you're taking an entire week. Yeah, I normally, well, okay. I will say it this way. I don't normally take a lot of vacation early in the year. And generally, I have some at the end of the year that I need to take. And my birthday is December 19th.

So normally it's, I like, hey, I got vacation days to use. I'll use them around my birthday. Yeah, but I mean, I have worked with so many people and have friends that like it's a, it's a Wednesday, August 9th. I'm taking that. But I'll see you on Thursday. Okay. Yeah. No, I'll take it off. See, I'm a big point of working on my birthday because... I know, here you go, because you want everyone to shower you with gifts and adulation. I don't care about that. Not only gifts, a cake would be nice.

I'm cake or whatever. I got a 40. When I turned 40 here, I got a cake with a picture of my face on it. This is the way I see it. It's my birthday. It's the one day where it's all about me. I ain't going to be sitting here next to you. I'm going to be on vacation.

I'm going to be doing whatever I want. I'm going to be on a beach. I'm going to be at a national park. I'm going to be doing something I want to do. So it's torture to be with me on your birthday. I didn't say that. Okay. But if that's what you took out of it, I mean, it is what it is.

Well, I'm going to promise you next June 5th, I'm going to be with you. Hopefully, in an NBA Western finals, right? Shut up. Oh, 65. Oh. Hey, remember when I told you I was going to get you the other day? No, you know, suddenly unavailable. 713, 212.1.7.

Yeah, speaking of which, I need to get on that list. No, you get away from me. Both of you. Matt and Ross. 1037 on anything goes Friday. We got Game 1 of the World Series tonight. So you and I will not be watching it because we're going to be busy with our rocket's responsibilities. I have it open.

I can't. I mean, I guess I have a tab open. Check. You can. That's good. But yeah. I've seen a variety of memes on the social media streets that all of America except a small quadrant of Southern California is rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays. I would say that's probably accurate.

The Dodgers are the evil empire. Now, my good friend in the Spanish announcer for the Rockets, Adrian Trevor is a diehard Dodger fan. Would you go poke him today? Because if he does, he's going to swear at me, and we travel together. He'll swear at me, too. Yeah, it's true.

But it's easy for you to absorb it than me. Okay. Why don't you trash talk him? Why don't you, Mr. Stones? Come on. I trash talked him one time already and it didn't go well. What happened?

He called me names. Okay. Then it went well. What'd you expect? That's how trash talk works, Matt. They weren't the nice name. You know, trash talk somebody and say, oh, he didn't compliment me after I trash talked to him.

No, but they were the rude, like, get the F away from you effing A and goes like a It's the World Series, baby. It's a big time. And he calls the Astros cheaters. He never calls him just the Astros. He calls him the cheating Astros. Okay. He's the worst part of America.

That's why to Toronto, we in North America are rooting for North America's team. He needs to read Evangeloch's book and read how they talked about the Dodgers cheating in that book. Nobody wants to do that. Hello? Nobody wants to look at that. It's so funny. This misinformation in 2025, and it's been for years. And people who just bury their heads in the sand.

And I think I will repeat this. You know how we have the why, what's his name, Trevor Bauer should never be? Here it is. Everybody cheated. The Astros just got caught. They had a snitch. They had a rat. They got caught and admitted it.

Yeah. Other teams didn't get caught. Certainly would have admitted it and didn't have an inside guy like a rat like Mike Fires. Mike Fires. And of course, the players were granted immunity. But anyways. Not that we didn't keep this on a record.

What's I'm saying? We're doing the best of the Matt Ross show. We can just play that over and over again. That's true. And why Trevor Bauer. we've got a best of? We can't do a best off. Yeah, sure.

Sports can't be done that way. It has been. I know, but that's not great. It's not the way you do it. But we could actually, you know, if we wanted to one day. I mean, we really could. We could do a three-hour evergreen, four-hour recorded show. And just take 10, since you and I've been together for 15 years, we could do, there are plenty of things we could get to.

Paying athletes. NIL. NIL. N-I.L. Barry Bonds and Hall of Fame. gambling and oh, Barry Bond's in Hall of Fame, Roger Clemens in Hall of Fame? Should Pete Rose get into the Hall of Fame now that he's dead?

We had one of the ones alive, but now he's dead. He's been reinstated, right? He's not eligible for the Veterans Committee. Okay. Is Matt Scho? Was Matt Schaub and elite quarterbacks? You know what's Evergreen? Is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?

Still in play. You never would have thought these things. Oh, I got one to cover a whole hour. What do you do with the Astrodome? Oh, God. dismantle it. You can't blow it up because... Save this for the Evergreen show.

I'm sorry. Yeah, we're going to say... I'd be five seconds on that. Dismantle it. And you and I are Houstonians through and we agree on this. Right. Correct. You're not from Houston.

You don't know. Like when I came up with that video with the Oilers and people are like, you're not from here, bro. You don't know. I'm like, what? People are so stupid. How do you come in and attack somebody and say, I'm not from here? And I've lived here my entire life.

except for six years in Austin, and I'm born in Houston, Texas. Dumbassus. Sorry. Strangers on the Internet, the worst. Yeah, face-to-face, they're not so brave. Well, how do you type that out and hit post to somebody, and you don't know where they were born? Yeah. I was born in Detroit. I moved here in 1979.

Yes. I was from here from 1979 to 2000, 2005. I mean, I guess it could be a Canadian immigrant. Shut the border down. Wait, you don't, any Detroit teams, Matt. You don't know. No, he was only seven. Easy.

He's a key. As they say, I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could. You're one of those guys? I would go with the weather was warmer. My mom got a good job here. Yeah. It's not Mr. Texas. No.

You know why I am Mr. Texas? Because one of the most Texas movies of all time is urban cowboy. Right? I mean, you, when you think of Texas and. movies you think of urban cowboy. Okay. My mom used to sell cigarette lighters in the machines at Gillies.

And it was one of her places she had to stop. Gilles is Texas. She had a son named me, Matt. We lived off the big liders that were sold at Gilles. That makes us the Texas family. Okay, Matt. You're the Texas family. Profit. Carpet baggers coming down here and profiting

off the locals. And now... Or is that skeleton? Wags. My son is in a sales job, my oldest son, who was in Addessa over the last couple of days. You know what he did yesterday? He took a picture of Odessa Permian High School. The most Texas of Texas high schools. And the most Texas of Texas high schools is

Alde Nimmets. No, that's the most prison-esque types of Texas. That's not true. There's the most crime-ridden. That's the one worth theft. No, there's worse. That's where the detectors came in first, where anybody else. Shout out of Nimitz. Love y'all. 1043 in the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. 7-1, 3, 2, 2.

one, two, five, seven, ninety. We're going to go to San Francisco coming up at 11 o'clock, and we're going to ask Greg Silver of KMBR. What's this? When's this? At 11 o'clock. Okay. I sent this out.

Local time? On Sunday, yes. No, 11 o'clock Hawaiian. Oh, Hawaiian, yeah, I'm going to be here. No, I won't either. But I'm going to talk to him at 11 o'clock, etc. You can do what you want to do. You can work on Believe it or not if you want to.

That was a cat. Play him very often. I was stunned when I asked you if we had ever done a, believe it or not on George Springer. We never did. I just did a quick search of my. Google driving. I didn't see it. Okay, well, my house was pretty good. Oh, you know what? We can do a really fast version of it.

I was pretty impressed with it. Good. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You know who was impressed last night? Who? My daughter's, the Kingwood volleyball team at Big City Wingswood. 790. There's a Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on the conversation, 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790. You see Steph Curry hitting like a 35-footer to send the Warriors overtown last

I beat the Nuggets. Start to the NBA season. It's been good. The script writers are all in one. NBC's double header. And I didn't do the due diligence on this. Okay. So I guess we should go, I need to go look before I brag or go, uh-oh. They had 5.6 million viewers for opening night.

I think that's pretty good. It sounds pretty good, right? No, it's never going to have this. For the NBA. NFL, I think, would be horrible. NFL's like we've got to renegotiate. This sucks. You know, but yeah, it sounds like,

to me, that's a pretty good number for an NBA game on a rando Tuesday night. Now, granted, they also did an amazing job of promoting it. They were on the Today Show. They were on all the NBC shows. Up 87% from last year, biggest audience in more than 10 years. So there you go. They've changed the way, I don't know exactly what Nielsen has done, but numbers are up kind of across the board.

Yeah. Because they've changed the way that they do, I think they're integrating streaming numbers. So when you're seeing that a lot of. Like every week you're like most in 10 years, most in 10 years. And a lot of it's like, yeah, the last 10 years people have been streaming and now they're counting stream numbers, I think, or something like that. Right, right. But so, pretty good. Oh, wow.

This says the Lakers Warriors game was higher rated. Oh, come on. I guess that makes sense. And a game that late at night? Hold on. I'm getting pop-ups. Forget it. Talk about it.

Okay, we'll go to a phone call. Yeah. Yeah. The ratings were good. Apparently, highest in 10 years, basically. That's what the headline says. Well, here's the thing. The NBA, frankly, is going to be able to not have to guess them anymore because don't Netflix, well, it's not on Netflix, but doesn't Amazon Prime literally contain the number of households? I believe so. Because these ratings, and this is the same thing in radio as it is in television, these are just estimates. This is taking one person watching something and giving them credit for a representation of 15, 20, 20, 25,000 people, which is, fair because that's that's a lot of pressure to put on one person to tell me what 20,000 people are watching when you're doing the stuff on them Netflix or Amazon or paramount or um what else

has Hulu or anything they can they can exactly know how many people are downloading a particular event so so that and I guess they're they're counting those numbers now yeah but there's no rebates the NBA is going to has its money and honestly they can tell you they care about the ratings? They just don't. I mean, they've already got the money. It's 11-year deal locked and loaded. You know, do you have this, I kind of just have this sense that there was a major, major gambling scandal that broke. And I just don't know that it's going to have much, if any, impact on NBA ratings. Or am I off base on that? I guess, well, time will tell. But I just feel like in 2025, we're used to like some crazy major scandal rocking the

world like about every week. And it's almost like, and then we just move on. I feel like if this happened in like 1995, this would be on every news, it would be on everything, every newspaper, every magazine, every news item, every, everything. It was just everything we're looking and consuming. It would be talked about and it would make you feel sad about the integrity of the game. I'm just weirdly not feeling that. Let me tell you the two reasons why I think you may not be off.

One, we're talking about two people out of a fraternity of coaches and players that are active about, well, you've got 450 players and you've got about 200, you got about 200 coaches. So, 650 people. Maybe 700 if you include trainers, okay? So the intimate basketball operations fraternity is about 700 people, okay? Not number one. And number two, Terry Rozier, not a household name. True. Chauncey Billups pretty big name.

Johnson Billups, a bigger name, but by no means household. Yeah. And he's coaching a Portland. And Damon Jones. Jonathan, you heard of Damon Jones before this scandal? After yesterday, I didn't know who Chancy Billups was or Damon Jones. Wow. So I was like, I don't know these people.

These kids today. But I knew Tara Rozier had some scandal because back in college, everybody was like, he's throwing games. Like, just like, parlay streets. The parlay streets were already talking about it. And that's another thing. People have been calling out Chauncey on gambling Twitter for a couple of years. And then I told you we have that audio of that guy that professional poker player on the podcast in 2023, talking about in 2019, Chauncey Billups is part of these sketchy poker games.

So clearly what happened was his name got out there on the social media streets and somebody at the FBI said, we need to do some investigating. It takes a long time. Just because you see something on Twitter, first of all, doesn't mean it's accurate. and more times and now it's not. Yeah. But if you're the FBI and you're going to go after somebody that's with an active team and as a recognizable professional athlete,

you've got to make sure you're all locked and loaded with all the evidence. And it sounds like, you know, again, three or four-year investigations tend to do normally do that. I think these guys are going to jail for a while. I think if you're the Hall of Fame, this is not the NBA Hall of Fame. It's the Basketball Hall of Fame. I think if you're the Hall of Fame, you take them out of there. You can't have somebody that is fixing games. in the Hall of Fame.

Yeah. I guess it's just semantics, but I guess he didn't fix the game, but he was giving out information that he was going to sit players. So insider trading. Inside or what are you going to call it? Yeah, yeah. Let's talk to Gil on 790 at 1055 before we go to San Francisco. Hello, Gil.

Hey, which one is y'all, Mr. Texan? I'm Matt. I'm Mr. Texas. Okay. He's not Mr. Texas. He's the worst in Mr. Texas. A little while ago we used to talk about Pasadena. So there's a little place that me and my cousins used to frequent right down the street.

A drive-in? Do you remember that? Mr. Texas? I was too young. I was junior Texas, but I was not driving with my mom to Gillies back then. So I was a little boy Texas at that point. Oh, so you don't remember the drive-in that people would have wrecks on the freeway, taking a right look or a left look?

Mm-mm. Red Bluff driving? Nope. I mean, it sounds like the 10-of-year voice are receding, they were seedy behavior over there. Is that fair to say? A little bit, a little bit. And you were a part of, and you went with a girl?

Yes. What's that? You went with a girl or? Or a bunch of guys. And a lot two or three will be in the trunk because they were no enough to be in there. Or you'd sneak people into the driving. Yeah, red bluff.

X-rated. Is that okay? There was an X-rated driving? Absolutely. Red Bluff driving. Yeah, that seems like a hazard. Gil, how old were you, Gil? How old were you, Gil?

I'm 64 now, so back then, probably 18. I was old enough, but a few of my cousin worked, so we would just hide them in the trunk. You were an 18-year-old looking at pornographic material. How shameful is that? Yep, yep. In Pasadena,

Yep, Red Bluff driving. You never heard of that? No, sir. I never have and never will. Nope. Mr. Texas was only walking down the narrow roads of freedom and good choices. The Red Bluff X-rated driving

sounds like a very Pasadena thing. It does. Thank you, Gil, for the phone call. He said a group of guys go to? I don't know if I... Hmm. It's a different time. Let's move on.

I've got some say to hit a break. I need to hit a break. Yeah. Let's go ahead. It will not be advantageous to me, what I would say. How do you feel about sweet tea? I don't like it. Okay.

Why did you ask? Dr. Pepper? Nope. You're right. It's going to break. You're right. Look, you're not Mr. Texas. Just because you don't, you didn't go to the Red Bluff to watch porn on the, on the driving.

First of all, you didn't even go to the Red Bluff porn with you and the boys. I don't know if 20-year-olds would be said, hey, guys, what are you on tonight? Let's go watch some porn in a drive-in. I don't know if that's probably dudes were, well, him and Gill and his broskies were doing it. Gil. Getting him in the trunk.

What's that knocking on the trunk? It's not his legs. Or his arms. Greg Silver, KMBR Radio. San Francisco next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And then goes Friday.

Continues on Sports Talk 790. Please. I love all of you that listen to show, but I don't need to know if you went to the red blog. driving or not. I'm getting tweets in that yeah, I was there when I was a kid and I don't care what you did there.

I don't care who you went with. I don't care what you did when you were there where you were stuck in the trunk or not. Who you went with? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you went with a girl, I mean, that's good for you, but all right. It's kind of being forward for that first date, right?

Let's snap out of this. Let me get back to sports. One half of the morning, a midday show on KNBR, the sports leader, the legendary station 680 in San Francisco, is Greg Silver. Greg would call me, Rossi, when the Rockets and Warriors were playing all the time. So I thought it was only fair that Greg came on the show today. That's beautiful. And the nice symbiosis.

Yes, we are the Bay Area Sports Leader and the Houston Sports Leader all in one. Greg, how are things? Hey, good to talk to you guys. And yeah, I certainly am overdue for this home and home. So I'm glad we get to chop it up about the Texans, the Rock. and any other intersection between Bay Area and Houston. Yeah, real quick, forget the Niners. What is the reaction of Tony DeVito, the Giants do manager?

I'm just curious. Vitello. Vitello. Vito, DeVito. DeVito. Is he one of the crime family members of the year? That's terrible. That's terrible.

Tony Vitello. Tony Vitello. Tell me about him. What do you like? What do you like? Yeah, interestingly enough, we actually had Tony Vitello on with us in the middle of July, just because the Giants had drafted Gavin Keelan as the first. round pick. And this was even before Drew Gilbert and Blake did well, other former Tennessee

volunteers came over to the organization at the trade deadline. So there's a little bit of a slower time a year. We're looking for ways to shake up the content. And Tony was gracious enough to give us 15 minutes of his time. And I loved it. I mean, you could see the energy, the passion, the baseball IQ. And it is certainly a massive swing in a role of the dice by Buster Posey. Now, I think it's fair to acknowledge that maybe not everybody gets the leisure and the leeway of getting to roll the dice like this. But if you're Buster Posey and you're a three-time champion with San Francisco and now you're taking over as president of baseball operations, I didn't expect the first year

and a month to be this active for his tenure on the job. But here he is hiring a coach who has no prior majorly managing experience coming from the college level. He made a massive trade to get Rafael Devers and take on. all of that salary as well. So, I mean, now that we got the Dodgers in the World Series tonight, I think it's pretty clear that Buster Posey hates losing. He wants to do what he can to turn the Giants back into a contender

and the type of team that he won three World Series with, but doing it in a very, very different way. And I'm really excited for what it brings because I think at the very least, it's going to be a fascinating story to follow. But, yeah, there's no question that this is a major risk here for the Giants. Is Verlander coming back, by the way, in 2026? Do you know? I don't know for sure. I would venture to guess not. I mean, you know, I think the way he pitched in the second half,

he's probably going to get a deal, maybe a multi-year deal elsewhere. He'll probably want to be a little bit closer to home. And as we sort of half jokingly said, too, on the station, look, Verlander was probably due for a lot more wins and for a lot more help on the starts he had. and in the second half of the year it picked it up a little bit, but he got a lot of bad luck here too. So, no, on top of that, I'll also just throw in that Tony Vitello,

his most successful pupil back when he was on the staff at Missouri is Max Scherzer. So I think we're all expecting somebody like Max Scherzer, depending on what happens here in the World Series, to maybe come and fill that of Rlander void in San Francisco. That makes a lot of sense. Greg Silver, KMBR in San Francisco, joining us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, look, Ross and I, my partner, we always argue about Vegas

and how it's only a metric but it's not the most important metric because Vegas can be wrong as much as they can be right. We are still stunned and I don't mean to go to this Vegas card here but the Texans are favored. How in the hell they favor it? Is it because Mack Jones was so porous last week against the

Falcons? Explain to me why you think that those folks that do watch these things very closely have the Texans as a small favorite, especially because of the fact the Texans have many of their offensive threats unavailable to them. There's no ground game to speak of. And oh, by the way, on a short week, they got beat up in Seattle last Monday night. It's a great question. I was stunned to see the

line as well, but what I will say is that as frustrating as it's looked for the Texas this year, and particularly on the offensive side of the ball and now maybe not having Nico Collins. I don't know if there's an official ruling, but I know he hasn't practiced in the last two days. I would just say that even though it's a cross-conference matchup, you can make the case that this This is a little bit more similar to a division type of game just because of the familiarity between these coaching staffs. Now, Robert Sala originally was the defensive coordinator when Shanahan came over here in 2017. Then he went off to be the head coach of the Jets, to make Go Ryans. Fills in does a fantastic job.

He earns this opportunity in Houston. And so Shanahan is seeing one of his old assistants. Now, Shanahan, when it comes to his old assistants, he hasn't had a ton of experience with it as a head coach. but I would venture to think that he still probably has the coaching advantage in this. So maybe it's got to be something to do with a lot of the injuries, the 49ers of safe. I mean, if we're just speaking about it, logically, logic shouldn't be a five and two team here in San Francisco with the injuries to Brock Purdy, Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, Ricky Pearsall, now missing time. Brandon I.U. has not played a snap. George Kittle just came back after missing,

essentially the whole season minus a quarter and a half leading into Sunday night football. So I think with San Francisco, maybe there's a thought that kind of like we saw with Tampa Bay, at some point it just catches up to you. But I do expect this to be a fairly low-scoring game. So I don't know about the spread in terms of the Texans being favored, but I feel pretty comfortable with an underplay here. Ross with you here as well, Greg. And you mentioned all the injuries that are piled up.

And then we talked about Mack Jones as well. How do you assess him the last couple of weeks hasn't been his. good just at least numbers wise looked really good earlier on in the season. What do you think about the way that he's played? Is it the book has gotten out on him and how they want to run the offense with Mack Jones in

San Francisco? Or do you think it's just a bad couple of games that he can bounce back this week? I think Mac has been spectacular for the most part. Again, they're not five and two without having two capable quarterbacks to run this team. And as far as Jones and the numbers, I mean, this last week

guys, this was the first time to 49ers were able to run the ball effectively, and they got Christian McCaffrey on this team. And even well before Christian McCaffrey, that's always been the cornerstone of a Kyle Shanahan offense is that, hey, at the very least, they're going to be able to run the football effectively. So it was a really strange sight to see for a good six weeks

where the Niners just couldn't find a way to crack the run game. Kittle comes back, and Matt Jones just didn't have to do as much this last week. As far as the other games, I think he's been getting beat up a little bit too much, in both Purdy and Jones have been getting hit way too much when they've been on the field. So the offensive line has been a little bit shaky. I do worry about Will Anderson, Deniel Hunter, and this Texan's defense that they got to go against

because Matt Jones for the first time this last week finally seemed to have a game to where he didn't sustain any new injury or find himself not really mobile at the end of the game when, by the way, to begin, he's not the most mobile quarterback in the first place. So I think Mac, as long as he can stay upright, goes the long way in terms of the trust with Kyle Fanahan being able to run the offense as they get reinforcement. But as far as Mac Jones, it's not to me as much about the numbers as it is being able to protect him and keep him on his feed because that's exactly what they did against Atlanta. And he had his easiest outing by far. And you mentioned all the defensive injuries that have piled up, but only 10 points surrender to the Falcons. Have you seen Robert Sala?

Is there any sort of changing in philosophy, maybe blitzing more, mixing things up? Or how are you seeing it? How is the defense continuing to win this way? It's a great question because I think we're asking ourselves the same thing every time we watch this unit play. But they're certainly blitzing more because when you have Nick Bosa, you have the luxury of being able to generate pressure without having to blitz. When Nick Bosa was healthy, this team really has never been much of a blifting team. So that right there changes it up in a lot of ways. and then Fred Warner, I mean, for all the injuries that the 49ers have had over the last five, six years and looking at the stats of most injured teams in the league,

Fred Warner was still that one constant. He'd only missed one of his 122 starts prior to that ankle injury. He suffered in Tampa Bay, which ended his season. So Tatum Bethune did a great job stepping in at the Mike Linebacker position. You might see a little bit of Curtis Robinson take on that role. He also has just coming back from a torn ACL. So it's a lot of new faces, and they've got young guys that are coached up. They've got good energy. Chase Lucas is another corner who spent some time with the Lions. He was on the 49ers practice squad, and he was sort of their preseason hero. He made this incredible fourth-down breakup play to get in front of a ball, an undercut one that was intended for Drake London.

So, yeah, anytime you have a defense that's this young, it's a bit of a wild card. I know that Houston's offense has really struggled for the most part this year, but no, Robert Sala has done a terrific job. He's obviously got the comfort and the chemistry with Shanahan, but I really do feel like every week is kind of its own adventure because, yeah, you held that Atlanta offense and all those top 10 picks and that talent to 10 points. But every single week presents a new challenge, and these are guys that are not only learning how to keep up physically, but also all the mental edges of the game. And that's where I think Robert Sala, Gus Bradley, and this defensive staff has been irreplaceable. All right. So to put things to perspective to wrap up our conversation here with Greg Silver or K&BR. The starting quarterback for this Sunday with Mac Jones.

Is that correct? I believe so. I haven't seen an official designation on Brock, but I just got into the studio. And I think it's very likely that we're going to see Mac Jones for the sixth time. Okay. Now, Christian McAford, we've certainly appreciated him from afar. A lot of us have been in fantasy. football, the number one thing about him is when he's on the field, he's dangerous as a runner,

he's been an excellent past catcher out of the backfield, but attendance is part of the grade. Does that always scare Niners fans about really wanting to make a deep run, knowing that McAfreys had these injury bug hits about once per year? Oh, 100%, Matt. I mean, this is where the 49ers, when we had all these conversations in August, leading up to the season, we're getting ready for football, This was a team we knew was going to rely on youth and a lot of these draft picks. Also had so much invested in their top seven, eight players. And I've seen a couple of these guys go down. But all the while, before they'd even played a snap,

it said repeatedly over the air, the most irreplaceable piece on this team is number 23. It is Christian McCaffrey. And losing Fred Warner hurts in a major way. Losing Nick Bosa hurts in a major way. But McCaffrey, as long as he's out there and available, it's been able to provide some coverage in the receiving game. It's been able to get you that extra couple of yards, even when the team is not running the ball that well.

So, yeah, this team is going to go as far as Christian McAfri could take them. And that was the case with or without all these injuries they've suffered. Now, it certainly hurts to lose some of these other top guys, but I will always stand by that the most irreplaceable team, number one, sorry, most irreplaceable player on the team, number one is Christian McCaffrey and so if he has even a slight injury all of a sudden the narrative

completely flips on a sack for San Francisco well that will let you go I saw Steph Curry last night hit a long range bomb so Warriors off to a great star congratulations on that really happy for you geez Jesus why'd you bring that up one of the warriors going to get old and get

go out to pasture for the love of God please it's my time Greg it's my time not yours I mean, I was there last night in the building, and that felt like the opposite of many times that the Warriors have faced Denver, where the Warriors seem to have a lot of control in the fourth quarter, and then Yokic and Denver kind of hang around and end up doing just enough to take it in regulation or force overtime. But no, he is the greatest showman in all of sports. He's an alien. And all I would say to people out here on the West Coast is to never ever take watching him for granted, because I can understand. why anybody else is driven crazy by it. I don't even understand it.

I can't put it into words, but it doesn't mean we get tired of watching it. Yeah, yeah. All right, Greg, thank you for the time as always. You know where to find me. I appreciate your conversation. Great guest, and we hope to catch up with you down the road front. Thank you. Absolutely, Matt, thank you. We'll see you later. Greg's Silver. KNBR Radio. Did you see the shot last night for Steph?

Yeah. I mean, Jesus. He's the greatest shooter ever walked the planet. I mean, all he does is I'll chuck it up from my midsection. I'll close my eyes. I'll say a small prayer. I'll turn around and make the shot and 19,000 people lose their damn minds.

Unreal. Hand-eye coordination. And strength. Thousands and thousands of jump shots he puts up every year. And he still makes them. And he's a great golfer too. He's just got hand-eye coordination. He's blessed.

Very happy for him. By the way, y'all need to stop sending me captions of what was at the Red Bluff back in the day? I didn't even know about it. That's why, I mean, I really didn't know about it. Why are you winking? By the way, I have a friend of ours that listens to show online. I will not mention who it is and said the following.

Okay. I can verify the Red Bluff drive-in. My parents always visited an uncle in Houston and we passed by once a week. For some reason, I was always attentive and looking at that windows near the intersection. I was about 10 years old. Okay. Have you ever seen porn on a drive-in? No.

What kind of question is that? All you got to say is no. I said no. John, that you never been no driving, have you at all? Never. Yeah,

I would assume that porn would not be the category I'd go to choose. You just go to the driving back in the day. I was a driving guy back in the day. I was a driving guy back in the day. And then they tore it down and made a builder square. Made builder square rest in peace. That's many companies ago. Now it's a Mo's.

Yeah. I asked wrong. that question, I'm by no means asking you that question. So do not call it with your response. I remember being a kid and going there and she took me into the, you know, you've got to take your, your young ones to the women's bathroom. I was mad. I was like, I don't want to go to women's bathroom. The first driving movie I remember ever seeing it was in Detroit, got to be about 1976 or 77. I saw Freaky Friday with Jody Foster, who was a kid.

Uh-huh. That's all I remember. Okay. I remember the cartoon captions. Come to, come to the snack bar to get Coke and Popcorn. go out of the movie lobby. That's what it is, right? Get ourselves a treat. I've been to a drive-in movie theater.

I thought you're driving wheel, you know, like, what he was talking about. 7-1-3-212. Times are tougher. You didn't have everything at your fingertips. Now you got the phone. And other things at your fingertips. Okay. 7-1-3-212-5-7-A. We'll try to get back on the clock and figure out what the hell this show's going to do between now. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry's coming up.

You know what, I'm going to pop. You should. I should apologize for accepting that call about the red love. apologize for being off the clock. I'm way off the clock. 1119 and 790. All right. I'm sorry as we're coming up in about 10 minutes from now on the sports talk 790.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-5-790. Ross, Instagram. I am 15 away from the magical. Now, here's the thing. If I get to 3,000 in the next day or so, we'll have a party. Where are we going? We can't create a party.

there's a reason to celebrate. Okay. So let's do this everybody. Let's, um, let's do this. Let's do, let's get me to 3,000 right now. Everybody get to your Instagram accounts right now. At SportsMT. I need 15 really nice people. 15 nice people. Just say you'll follow them back. Do you get them today? You can happen today. You know what? I will follow you back at Sports RV. If you want to follow me at Sports RV. You know, I've been meeting to post my, I haven't even posted my big bin pictures. I'm going to post my big bin pictures today. Wait a minute.

You know I ran into a bear? That was like two months ago. Wait, mean, you are so late. I've been dosing them out slowly. Slowly is an understatement. You know what I'm a new, Ross? I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to put some pictures of my getting.

I will follow you back at Sports RV and I also ran into a bear. I'll be posting those today. Yeah. Pictures and photos. I'm going to put up pictures when my kids were born. You want to see a, a great. Greasy newborns? No, like when they were a month or two on full.

I mean, Cameron's only 25. Okay, yeah. If you want shriveled up greasy newborns, go to SportsMT. That's ridiculous. If you want one of the most beautiful places on the planet and a Black Bear encounter at SportsRV. And I will follow you back. Matt doesn't follow you back.

That's not exactly true. That's not always true. I will follow some of you back. Yeah, some of you. Well, I mean, I can't follow everybody. Okay. I'm just saying I will because I'm a man of the people. Yeah.

You know what people. do is you say they follow them back and then they unfollow you because they look at you and like it's kind of boring all right let's get back to sports sports and I got to unfollow them sports sports and more sports sure why not all right uh do you watch in the minnesota chargers game last night a very little yeah Herbert three touchdown passes i think yesterday that was good for them

yeah Quentin Johnson zero catches that's great for my family tell Keenan Allen the new squad for me either so don't worry dr. Rortle is going to join us at one o'clock today looking forward to that uh what else NBA from last night Oklahoma City's up to a two and oh start they won You know, they rematch the finals game in game two of the season. That's kind of weird to do it so early. A lot of it is because Indiana is just not the same team without Tyrese Halliburton and Miles Turner.

Yeah. And I want to say Shaggildjus Alexander, he had 40 free throw attempts in the first two games, which is an NBA record. It's sickening. Because you know what it is? You know it's coming and you can't stop it. He had 55, 23 or 26, from the free throw line. And I want to say it's a second straight game

that he didn't do squat in the first half and exploded in the second half. Yeah, they also went to double overtime, which I think they said that was a record too, I think. Starting the season with two double overtimes. Hopefully they're super tired and won't win any more games. I don't think that's going to happen. Rockets tonight against the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons lost to the Chicago Bulls' Cup of nights back. Osser v. Amen and the twin-maskid matchup today. You think they'll switch jerseys? Not telling anybody? Haven't they already done so? and the NBA probably not what if they change bodies what

like freaky Friday yeah like flip them what do you mean like Oster is a man for one night they just say hey let's do something fun let's just flip teams what I was saying yeah I'm just trying to back out of what you were saying

yeah I heard you no I don't think you did I did they shouldn't do that because they're not going to Matt I was joking I don't know Oster at all I know man man's a sweet kid who if you get sideways

you get sideways with him he will throw you down. He's like sweet and sour. He'll hip-tosh you. Yeah. He's savory and sweet. He's a savory. Yeah, like you get the peanuts and the M&Ms mixed together and the raisins.

He's like a, he's like a box of M&M's. You never know what you're going to get. Are you hungry? I am kind of hungry, actually. Just describe trail mix. Yeah. You know what?

That's a man is a high-end trail mix. Okay, we'll run that nickname by him. Trilmix Thompson. No, that's not going to work at all. Yeah. It's not going to work at all. I'm still going with It's a boogieman. I like it. I'm going to be pushing that narrative.

You know what you can do. You can actually go talk to him about this personally. I know. I meant to, but I forgot. We had him in front of us. Yeah, but you can, tonight, well, you can actually talk to him before the game if you wanted to. Go in the locker and say, hey, I'm Ross. Remember we talked before. I want to call you the boogeyman. See how it goes. Okay. He's such a nice kid. He will not be rude to you back. He'll be like, that doesn't fly. I'll just make coach by 515. I'll be all right. I'll see you then. Okay. 6.30 broadcast time here on 790.

Actually, 6 o'clock with you. Yeah, 6.30 in the network and then 7 o'clock with the game call. Why normally sit next to you during that? Well, that one seat apart. You can come next to me if you want to tonight. Unless the Lakers are in town, then we've got to be next to each other because the place is full. All right, now it's time for you to apologize as a people. Oh, crud.

I already issued my apologies for the week. It's always good to repeat him sometimes. If you want to say sorry for something you've said or done. And I'm looking at you, Rossville, Ariel. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Time to apologize next here on Sports Talk 790. This is the most cathartic 30 minutes of the week.

All the things you said are nasty and mean. You get to do this right now. Call us and say these beautiful words. I'm sorry. So sorry. No other radio show the marketplace cares that you've got a lot of weight on your shoulders. Nobody, you know what? A lot of other stations in town want to get into whether or not Al-Ziz Al-Shahir is going to be a good covered linebacker.

And we can do that too. But we're four hours a day. We're 20 hours a week. And we know the answer that. He's not. He just gets late hits all the time. He gets fined $13,000 in the NFL for rando hits. Hey, the whistle hadn't blown, according to Aziz Al-Shareeer.

Yeah. And, by the way, Sam Darnold was a runner in that play. No, Sam, Al-Shez is going to get more penalties and more fines base of reputation. That's BS. He's got that rep. Tim Settle shouldn't have been flagged either. Tim Settle, that was a terrible call. So you know what, NFL, you need to apologize at Tim Settle and say you're sorry.

You should. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There you go. You should be. Kami Fairbairn. you owe the city of Houston and your coaching staff an apology your coach told you to kick the ball out of bounds or kick it way in the back of the end zone

not kick it so they so the Seahawks could return in burn six seconds off the clock says you're sorry has spoken about that yes he has he said okay he said he said he was told to do so and did not correct he said he did not execute so he you know he's good with that I was wondering about that I wonder if he was going to be like no no me told me that Boo, if he had, if he just said, everybody on the planet knew it, though. I mean, we're all sitting on our couch is like, they got to kick this out of bounce.

Well, Dan Orlovsky was losing his damn mind. Did you like, I love Dan Orloffkin. I think he's good. Yeah, I thought he was good. I thought he and Lewis Rick were both good. Like, he could call him Lou. That's when you're a good friend when you can call somebody Lewis Lou.

Lou Riddick? Yeah, because I think most people when they want to go with their full name, that's for, there's for a reason. Sweet Lou. Not everybody has to be sweet Lou. Why not? I just don't think it fits every single time.

It's not sweet Louis Riddick. It's Louis Riddick. Sweet Lou Rawls. Okay. Sorry. He wants to be, he's not Lou. If Lewis Reddy came in the studio sat down with us, and we'd say, hey, Louis, what's going on?

I know we'd say, Louis, it's nice to have you on the show. I would say, Mr. Riddick. That's true. Was Louis Riddick a guy wanted to be the GM of the Texans? Was he that one of the candidates? Or he was in Pittsburgh or something? I think it was. No, he was.

I think you're right. I think you wanted at least an opportunity to talk to somebody. Okay. I said, no. Hannah's like, no, we got this guy Casero because we love the New England ties. Seriously, we've got. Remember we used to go get Colorado State coaches and players? The Texans did with all the Kubiaks.

Remember there was always a Kubiak train? There was always a Kubiak or a Colorado State player involved. For sure. And now we've got this insatiable thirst for mid-level small division three schools. John Carroll. I want it worries John Carroll is it is it in the ball southeast I thought yeah you know how to do next time I go to see if my daughter goes to college when she goes to college I'll go to John Carroll take some pictures I'm sorry it's in Ohio same difference that's what you know why it's tomato potato is because they were there for training game remember they went to play the Cleveland Browns or something yeah it's outside of Cleveland okay okay whatever it's goofing up the organization oh it's right next to a Ben and Jerry's John Carroll is I'm sure there's a food court right close to it, right? Mm-hmm.

All right. 713. 713. 2-1-2-5. 17-9. Jonathan, what are you going to need to apologize for this week? You know, I'm thinking. Look at it.

Oh. You look, what? I look at a good week. I don't know. Got nothing to nobody. You didn't cut anybody off, no, getting angry. You know, you can snap. You got a temper on you.

I've been a good driver. You know, that's good. You know, we don't have to be apologetic for something every single week. If we're sorry for everything every once a week, then we got a roll. We got a lot of problems in our life. Maybe sorry for the scam callers I blocked today? I don't know.

No, maybe the right thing on that one. I'll come back to you. Rossi, what do you got this week? I'm sorry for advocating as much as I did for legalized gambling. Sorry. It's not working out well. I mean, I honestly didn't think there were going to be some big issues. I don't know.

It was stupid. Everybody, by the way, on their national podcasts and radio shows are presumed. I mean, this is only going to get worse for it gets better. Are you in that group? I think I would disagree. And also another thing, people want props off the board now. And I'm like, well, because the props were on the board, that's how they caught these guys. So if you keep the props on the board, then you can, it's easier to monitor, correct?

Or no? Well, you can just eliminate them all together. Yeah, that's what people want. If you eliminate them all together, then you're going to be manipulating spreads and that's maybe harder to catch somebody. It's easy to catch Terry Roseir when there's 200,000. thousand dollars of extra activity on Terry Rose your props. Yeah. So I don't know.

Well, at bare minimum you're going to see even, you can't spend a lot money in these props to begin with. I just wanted it legalized. So if I wanted to put 20 bucks on the spread because I feel like it, I should be able to do that. But this advertising with the sports books on every little

bit of every little bit of a sports broadcast and the pre-games and the halftimes and all the type of stuff, it's crazy. Well, then I want you to go to those television networks and tell them to turn their advertising money down. They're not going to. And you're spending... You're code

987 when you sign up for draft kings pick six, but always gamble responsibly. That's all I'm saying. And as we said before, when we speak to you about these ones, we have a variety of advertisers do it, we're doing it because you guys just want to have a little bit of fun. We're not doing it because you're trying to create an income over it. I load up a few bucks on

Draft Kings Pick Six and I put a couple things together and it makes the games more interesting. That's all I'm doing. That's all I want you to have some fun. Yes. And not compromise the sport in what you work in. Correct.

Or give insider information. Even if we were all whack jobs in terms of spending crazy money, we don't work. I mean, I worked directly for the NBA. So if I was doing it, there would be an issue because I'm going to be, I'm going to have some availability of some information that the general public is not going to have. I've known about injuries before you guys have known about it. But I can't say anything about it. Oh, by the way, did you see this? What?

A halftime show? Tell me. For the Rockets and Pistons tonight? May I guess? Sure. Paul Wall. It's Paul Wall. I saw it on Twitter last night.

Actually, I got it. I'm sorry. I just thought of it. I want to say, I'm sorry. I'm my mom. Okay. When I came back to Dallas, she always tells me, okay,

text me when you get home because she doesn't track me in a little bit. Oh, no. So I got back and I just started doing laundry. I started cleaning up. And I just get a phone class, 730. FaceTime and she's just staring Oh, she facetimed you too That's even worse

With a stare, didn't say a word It was like a good one minute stare And she's looking at I'm just saying I'm sorry I'm sorry And then she's hung up the phone So, I'm sorry I got home safe

I just know Gotta let your mom I thought you were asking for gas money Or something I don't know You know what I've never face time my parents ever Have you? Do you do on my mom

I'm not my dad Yeah He doesn't have he's got Android No, no, I've never, I've FaceTime my wife and my kids. That's it. Never my, never my mother. Okay. She got an iPhone?

Yeah, we should FaceTime her. I probably should. It's good to, well, maybe. See you a little boy's face, you know? See the young lad. Tom and downtown, who are you apologizing to? All right, I'm apologizing to the girlfriend. We were talking on the phone, and I was like real short to get off the phone

so I could watch the Rockets finish up. They're, you know, the game against Oklahoma City, not realizing we're about to go to two overtime. Tom, we've met what a couple times over the years, correct? Yeah. Yours always involve women. And I don't know what's going on if I should congratulate you or feel sorry for you because your conundrums in life have usually been around the opposite sex.

Do you care to explain? you know dating is difficult that's all I'll say at least you put yourself out there Tom he's always running around scaring up something I don't again Tom Tom may make

Thanks for the phone call Tom may have like a secret life It's a good life Because again every time he tells us something It's involving a relationship Maybe it's not good Maybe he wants to settle down You don't know Matt

I'm playing in the field run around and get tired. Go to church thing. Meet the girl there. Is that a no from you? I'm just saying, the crazy ones that are at church too. Oh, they're really?

Okay. The ones that know they know. That's sometimes with the craziest ones. That's true. I've heard. The guy, when I was in my 20s, before I met Kim, the craziest parting I ever did as a young adult was with a son of a preacher.

Mm-hmm. And I told some people about him and they're like, yeah, typically preachers' kids are the craziest because they have been not necessarily sheltered, but it have been contained for much of their young life. That once they become adults, they can go out and experience things. The greatest thing this guy every day, may he rest in peace? Is he flip somebody on the road? We went to Fort Lauderdaleigh of the Houston Texans. He flipped somebody's car? No, he flipped a girl.

What do you mean? She was lesbian when she got to the restaurant. He turned her straight. I was impressed. It's a chance move. Sorry. And I mean, we knew she was lesbian because she was with her girl and there was a lot of holding of hands and whatnot. Then five or six beers later.

Oh, so he homewrecked her. Yeah. In Fort Lauderdale. When was this? Got to be 90. 394 orders are still around I told you about young rabble-rousing Matt Thomas

I didn't do it he did it you were involved though I witnessed it but I was impressed like he's like witness just no just the relationship developing not the actual

but he's like I'm going to flip that I'm like what and he did hmm I don't know how the other girl felt about it but she didn't go home with the girl she came with She went home with my buddy.

Hmm. Wow. That's Matt's story time for now. Thank you, Matt. 1143 on Sports Talk 790. I'll wake the strippers up in about 10 minutes. We have the news at noon coming up. We have to Rockets.

Opener tonight. Yeah, if y'all go on the game tonight, would you please get there at 7 or no later than that? It's all I'm asking. You can ask all you want. It's Katie's debut. Come on. home debut at least

Yes I wouldn't hold my breath Okay I want you to text me At about 710 When the games let's tip off And let's in I want you to have your first We'll have the same perspective

But we gotta make sure we're gonna match We're matching Okay So you're come on Everybody If you have tickets for tonight You know what game time is at 550 Sure

Right we can I mean when the 830 games people seem to be there on time. Yeah, but everybody else They have some 830 home games this year. They have a lot of TV, national television. But I mean, other NBA cities get there and be there at 7 o'clock than have crappy traffic too.

Chicago, they're there at 7 o'clock. Toronto, their games are in downtown in Toronto. They're there early. Matt. I'm sorry. I just want us to be better. There's a handful of things I ask for. One of them is a nice full building.

I mean, this could be a, I mean, you want to over embellish it. This could be a potential NBA finals preview. I don't know if Detroit's going to be good enough, but the church's wide open in the east. That is an over embellishment. That's fine. Ryan, what are you apologizing for? I want to apologize to the guy I work with. His name is Dan.

We were at a job site the other day, and I kind of MFed him a little hard, kind of laid into him. And I just wanted to say, Dan, I'm sorry. I was on called for. And what did you get mad at him for? You're just trying to undercut me on price of shingles. It really upset me, but he has a job to do, so I shouldn't have reacted the way I did. I didn't mean that.

All right, well, you know, it was nice. So I would suggest you now call him and apologize. See how things go. Thank you, right? Although the public platform of 790 is also very powerful as well. That's true. Absolutely. Because if you're willing to say what you've done and embarrass yourself

to force an apology and put it on the airwaves that actually means more. There's a larger audience available to you that way. Let's continue on. Let's go to something called Q. Q. What are you sorry for? I got a three part. I'm sorry. Wow. I'm sorry to those Seattle Mariners.

The cheer for a man getting hit by 98 miles. I'm secondly sorry. I got the number now. But last but not least, I'll pick you off. Oh, okay. Q, I want to say I'm sorry for our phones. Seems like it's usually like the 11 o'clock hour, too. Is it a certain area code that gets us?

I mean, it's unfortunately we've got it. No, I think it's a carrier. No, it wouldn't be area code. Yeah, the topic is either the IP address with a carrier or. I mean, it shouldn't be an issue regardless. It's never supposed to be your fault. So we don't blame me. So we say we're sorry, Q.

We have phone issues sometimes. Daily. Everything's better on the internet. Everything's better on the web. But he was talking about Mariners fans. Yeah, they should apologize to George Springer. Oh, they did. They should apologize for putting shoes on their head.

You're big on that shoe on the head thing. It's so stupid. What do they call that pitchfork thing? The Trident? Yeah. Yeah. That's, of course, Poseidon's weapon of choice. Is it?

How many choices did he have? I mean, Or Aquaman. Aquaman had Trident. Aquaman was good. Aquaman had... I mean, how many crimes committed on the sea? What I'm saying? How many maritime laws can you violate?

He was the least worked superhero. Yeah. Batman was always busy. Superman was trying to save the whole globe. Wonder Woman was taking care of the female generation. That was the, you know, Aquaman just had to take care of the waters. What was the name of Linda Carter? Ooh.

All-timer. All-timer. We ever got a Wonder Woman live action movie? Like recently? Who was it? There's multiple! I don't want, I didn't see it. Galgado!

Oh. Galgadoo very nice. Honestly, the first Wonder Woman, like, I couldn't even look at the screen. She was so hot. I was like, I can't even watch this. This is making me, it's like, she's so hot. You were sweating in the movie theater? She's beautiful.

Oh, my gosh. Now, she's a horrible actress, but she's beautiful. You said it to her face? Oh, she asked me? Hey, what do you think of my acting skills? I'll let her know. Remember we told you to stop being so honest? it doesn't help.

Yeah, I know. Well, I... Whatever. You would say Gail. You'd call her Miss Godot. If she said, Hey, Ross, what do you think of my acting skills? I would have to be honest.

I would absolutely want a percent lie. I'm not going to tell her her acting skills are terrible. No chance. She doesn't care, and she wouldn't ask me. And I'd probably actually, my lip would be quivered. I'd be able to say anything. What should be doing? Yeah.

1155. Best actress ever. Next Friday? I mean, have you seen her? Yes. Yeah, I'm very impressed. I just forgot about her. Hello, Gio.

What are you apologizing for? Hey, guys. Matt, I'm just coming on here, man, because I want to tell you sorry, man. I already apologize to you on Instagram. I called you Juggernaut Thomas yesterday. Juggernaut Thomas was very rude. So, so rude.

In all fairness, Jonathan did call you Megamine. I said you could have got out of the megal- That was worse. That was worse. In fairness. In fairness. I'm sorry, man.

We'll see you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. By the way, we will have a 3,000 Instagram party. It happened today. I am at 3,001 Instagram followers.

Thank you very much, everybody. Party to be determined. Hell yeah. You got 15 followers? 16, actually. Oh, man. You know what I'll do? I'll give you all shout out right now, the brand new followers.

This is what I'm going to do. I can't, I can't guarantee a follow, but I can guarantee a... What do you mean? One of the worst. Because you never mentioned Instagram until I started talking about mine. You're the worst. Shout out to Darkness VJL. Codfish 59.

Hold on, hold on. I want to see, because I want to shout out the people that followed me, but didn't follow, I mean, followed you, but didn't follow me. Okay, codfish, we're good. TP Petty 20. Yeah, we're good. Terry's Road to Recovery. Oh, Terry, I'm wishing you the best on your road to recovery. You didn't follow me.

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And Michael L. Golden. Darkness V-G-L and Kurdashin. among those. Thanks, everybody. Follow me on Instagram. If I missed calling you out, I'll eventually get to you, I promise. At Sports RV. I'll follow you back. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1203 in H-Town. Goose is our three at the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Sports Talk 790. I've been heard my Bill Cosby and along. That's really not bad. See, I mean, he's a dangerous, terrible person, but it's a good impersonation. I mean, there are people who have been impersonating terrible people all their lives. No comment. Some people will impersonate great people, too. But that Bill, I mean, you should apologize to the Cosby family and the Cosby Foundation.

There's no such thing as the Cosby Foundation. And if it is, it's probably out of business. It's probably for a legal defense fund. Yeah, it's true. Man, we've had some... In our lifetime, we had a Heisman winner, the first running back ever to run for a 1,000 yards, a television and movie, not superstar, but star,

a guy who transcended their sport, and we had one of the funniest comedians in the history of comedy, both become the worst human beings on earth. What about a Hall of Fame basketball player and current NBA coach with mob ties tipping off mobsters and participating in rigged poker games. Yeah, too. What war we live in?

Crazy. By the way, real fast, we get to the news at noon. Did you know there were four mob families actively running around these streets? I mean, I've heard of the five families. Yeah, that's very, now you don't get into mob stuff. I understand. You went to the mob museum with us and your son, right? We did a great time.

It was a great museum. Yeah, they talk about the five families there. but I mean it's 2025 I think in 1978 there were a collective group of people that were maybe perhaps way more concerned with the mob

than we should have been in 2020 I think I guess obviously they've evolved into I mean there's a lot of legitimate businesses that they run now these days and then of course there was a lot of the RICO cases of the 60s 70s 80s 90s it wasn't that there was a whole bunch of there was a whole bunch of cases and there was a whole bunch of cases

and there was like a name for it. It was like the something winter or whatever. But I mean, we don't. I'm going to ask your son because he knew everything in that museum. My middle boy, he knows his mom stuff. I thought I knew a lot about the mobs. Yeah. I literally just read a book on Al Capone

and he knew more about Al Capone than I did. Well, he's a history major. You know what I'm saying. He's impressive. Your son is very, very intelligent. So, but the point is that I think in the news, if we were doing, if we were doing a talk show in the 70s or maybe the 60s, we'd be hearing about these mob.

like, oh, did you hear what happened? Oh, that's terrible. We haven't heard of a mob connection. Well, it's called Underground, Matt. But, I mean, even underground stuff becomes mainstream. And we've said in the Mord Mob more times in the last 24 hours, we've said in the last five years, 10 years, easily. Probably.

It's just, yeah, I knew they were operating. They were just hanging more under the radar. And a lot of stuff that they were doing back in the day, you know, running numbers. And I guess you could still do loan sharking. There's still CD-owned underground stuff. And they bought off police, which I'm presuming they don't buy up police anymore. You never know. All right, 1209 on Sports Talk 790.

It's time now for the news at noon. And with that, we go to the Tom Brocah of Sports Journal. How about? Tide at Houston, Texas. You have the Houston Rockets facing off against the Detroit Pistons. For their home opener, Kevin Durant, making his Houston debut. As it will be Paul Wall. the halftime act for your Houston Rockets, Matt, your favorite Paul Wall song.

My teeth look pretty. Are these girls still a bit? I'm going to go with the way I am freestyle. Now, of course, that's a little underground for some of you folks. Some of y'all real ones know what I'm talking about. But it's on the M&M. It was on one of the Swisha House, either before the Kappa, one of the after the Kappas, perhaps, Matt.

I know you're a big fan and purveyor of those. Why are you making a face like me? I'm speaking Chinese. To me, you are speaking Chinese. You completely lost me here. Some of you all know what I'm talking about. After the Kappa, before the Kappa, Swish a House, Freestyles.

The Way I am, Freestyle, Paul Wall, that's the greatest of all time. Paul Wall's song, if you ask me. Okay. We can't play it on the air. I wonder if we get Paul to the broadcast booth. Why? I don't even know who he is or know his music.

What do you care? But he's obviously famous. Yeah, he is very famous. Is he famous outside of Houston? Like ridiculously. Not ridiculously. But yes, people know him. He was on Drive Slow with Kanye.

That was a great song. He was on Grills with Nelly. That was a great song. But, I mean, how many people are getting grills, generally speaking? It's just him and his buddies? Yeah, him and TV Johnny. TV Johnny? Oh, geez.

Yes, Matt. I'm here to educate you. That you are. Thank you very much for that. Okay, well, there you go. So, Kevin Durant making his Rockets debut, and the tip-off is at 6. 15. Okay, listen, it's 7 o'clock. Please get there by like 645. The food is good and it's expensive,

but you're spending money anyway to go downtown anyway, so what's a difference? Be there and cheer on when Kevin Durand gets announced with the very first time. And of course, bring your radios with you. All right, elsewhere in the news, Matt, the New York Giants, Brian Daibu, and Cam Scadaboo, all fine. Stimbing from violations of the concussion protocol surrounding the evaluation of rookie quarterback Jackson Dart during the week 6th game. If you remember, Brian Dayball immediately rushing into the tent. Basically, get out.

He's like, get him out of there. He's like, I don't want to, my job is on the line, and Russell Wilson is on the field. Please, for the love of God, clear Jackson Dart. That's right. That's exactly what it is. That's pretty much what happened. Well, he claimed that he was just, I was just trying to check on Jackson Dart.

But he said he understood how the optics were bad. While the Giants assessed a $200,000 fine for violating the protocol. Brian Daibald himself find $100,000. And Cam Scadaboo find $15,000 for conduct detrimental to the league. I like it. Should have happened. Absolutely.

You cannot mess around with a tent. You just can't. No, you can't get, especially when it's concussion. They have to follow the protocols. You get the independent physician. Team physician Dr. Scott Rodeo was being yelled at by Dayball as as Daibol was a waiting word on whether

Dart would be cleared to return to the game. Coach said he was simply trying to see if Dart was okay. Not trying to coerce. That is a complete and utter lie. The average person lies four times a day and it's probably a little higher for NFL head coaches. He's like, you better clear his ass.

By the way, who said that Cam Scadaboo was going to have a better rookie year than Ash and Gentie? Just tell me. Did you say that? No, I'm just curious that but you did. You didn't say that. No, I didn't say. I was going to say. No, I mean, I said that I said that's going to get what the yards per carry are. Probably close. Cam's got to who's scoring a bunch of touchdowns for sure. Well, he's been way more impact. Now, granted, now I was going to say the Giants aren't, they're not significantly better than the

Raiders, but they're a little bit better. But still, Genty has been, as I thought he would be, mid. Yeah, said it. And I'm probably going to lose eventually when he rushes for 1940 and 21 touchdowns. But right now he's been mid. He's, yeah, they, they're, I believe their offensive line is 28th in football. And the Texans are 29. Not that it should not great over there. Because the Poonhounds don't always know everything. That's true.

One data point, folks. You just want, not in all be all. Not going to hurt you. And one more quick note, Matt, of course, a World Series. Now, you call it tipping off in basketball. You call it kicking off in football. Are you pitching off in baseball? No.

You just say first pitch, obviously. You're saying first pitch. Oh, you're calling an opener. Opener of the World Series. By the way, we'll check on how much tickets to cost when we come back. Okay. Boba Chet has had a sprained ankle since early September. He is on the roster for the Blue Jays.

Now, does that mean he's going to play or a pinch it roll? We'll see. Also, Clayton Kershaw is on the roster. Unfortunate for a lot of people here in Houston, the greatest outfestros outfielder of all time. one of the greatest should be an Astros Hall of Famer was left off the roster.

This feels like this is tongue and cheek what you're about to say. Joey Loperfito, not Joey Loporffito. Well, he's off the roster. Astro's Twitter, go get Ross. At Sports RV. Get him because y'all are ferocious. Every Twitter comes after me this day.

Come on, baby. Everybody, go attack Sports RV because he doesn't like Joey Lopofito like you do. You can hurt me because I believe in myself. You also believe in the mute button. That's an old man. Oh, it's your friend.

It is my number one friend. on social media. And go ahead and follow me on Instagram at SportsRV as Bonnie Joe was saying Fancy Matt won't follow people back, but I do. Bonnie Joe, do I not follow you? I'm going to go follow Bonnie Joe back right this second. Great front of the show. Hater. No, I don't hate you. I love Bonnie Joe.

At Sports RV for a followback. We're extending it by 15 minutes. No, no, no, no, no. He's going to unfollow you this weekend. That's not true. Not true. I'm at least consistent. Not true. I'll just go look at his follower account in about two days. It will be 719. 10 to 15 lower than it is today.

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Come on in, join us. Dr. Roto with us at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. All right. Texans taking on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. As Vegas is holding steady. It went up a point when Purdy was for sure out. Yeah. Two and a half folks.

We had to Greg. over on from San Francisco earlier and he was actually way more bullish on Mac Jones and perhaps the rest of America is. Yeah, well, Mac Jones has been, had been good when he first started, but the last two games, he's got no touchdowns and three picks, but also they've been getting, they haven't needed them to throw. Yeah. The defense has been playing well, even with Fred Warner and Nick Bose, I mean, not only the two best defenders on the Niners, but two of the best defenders of football going down and they've still been able to get it done. That West is

super competitive. You have the Rams? I mean, could it be crazy enough to say maybe the Rams, Seahawks, and Ford-Anders, I'll make the playoffs? They're all five and two. Are there enough playoff spots for them? They're all in right now, I think. I'm going to look this up. Oh, you're looking standings, aren't you? I'm so proud of you.

The worst. Love standing. Yeah, they're all in right now. Yeah. And and this is, I mean, unfortunately, the Texans are playing a year where this is the, they're having to play the NFC West regardless of record. They have to play all the teams in that division anyway. So, you'll be done with them except for you get the Arizona game coming up

but Arizona is just a mess right now. Texans, not in the playoffs right now. And again, last night with the charges winning, it did not help. That's one of the teams you'll be fighting with for a long car position. Or are they division leaders right now? I think they are, right? Until the Chiefs play.

Yeah. Yeah, because they've got a game. So let me ask you this. If the Texans lose this game on Sunday. Oh, oh! is it a must win game? No, no, I'm going to go even a little bit deeper than that. Okay.

Are we going to do what the Chronicle did to the Astros and put it in Burryum? Two in five is a little early, but you're close. It's completely over as far as playoffs, if they lose the next two, right? Then they'll be two and six. Texans are, oh, by the way, Denver's coming in next week. Denver, a team that wants an AFC wallet card spot. Denver's good, but they've had a couple of slip-ups too. But they're five and two.

Now, granted, Jacksonville was four-in-till until they looked like complete dog crap against the Rams in London. I mean, the records can be. They absolutely, when you have to score 33 points to win a football game in the fourth quarter, you do give them credit. But my gosh. They beat the Jets 13 to 11. Yeah, they won against the Eagles. I mean, they're better than the Texans. They're better than the Texans.

But the Texans will be home. And then, let me tell you, the Texans are going to beat the Jaguars badly. They just are. So you got one guaranteed win in the three coming up. I'm just going to say it. You think they're going to be, I don't know. Jacks are no slouch, really. They looked, did you see the game in London last week?

They were terrible. Everybody looks sluggish in London. No, that's not true. The other team looked very good. The Rams, Matthew Stafford threw five touchdowns. That's the anti-sluggish. He looked all right. He only threw 180 yards, though. But five touchdowns.

Yeah. Devante Adams caught three of them. That's anti-sluggish. Well, before that, the Jets and the Giants were, it was like a 13 to 11 game. Jaguars are still better than you. By record wise. By record. By point differential, they're not. But also the Texans blew out the Titans and the Baltimore Ravens that were walking wounded. Oh, see, here's the problem.

The Jaguars, before they come to Houston, we'll go to Las Vegas to play the Raiders. Raiders are not very good. So the Jaguars, if they're going to maintain a spot, is competing for a wild card. They're going to have to beat the Raiders in Las Vegas. I'll tell you what, November the 9th will be the day that we either keep hope alive or bury the Texans.

Just win, baby. So the question I will say to you is, are we burying them this week if they lose? The answer is no. I will wait till November the 9th to put the Fed can play on the Texan season. 20 to 16. Texans win this weekend. You heard of here first.

Texans lose. 2113. They can't score. They're going to. I mean, they may get a defensive touchdown. J-O-L season. I mean, he showed some... Are we going with Noel?

I think we'll go to Noel. He showed some signs. Now, Higgins has not done much. No. Xavier Hutchinson, he's going to be blocking like a muddha. Set in the edge, baby. You don't even believe yourself. What do you mean?

He's a good blocker? Yeah, but I don't need good blockers. Kevin Walters was a good blocker. Yeah, he was. Walter. Walter. Yeah, Walter and Daniel. Owen Daniels.

Very confusing. There's no downfield threat. There's nobody that scares him. Now, can Noel be that guy? Braxton Berrios. Downfield, baby. Braxton Berrios, it's painful to watch him play. It's not painful to watch him play.

I don't think I'd get to delight out of it. He's a good return guy. Yeah, but I don't want him taking 20 snaps. He's a good fifth receiver. Did you say how many important snaps he took against Seattle last week? Way too many. He's just a guy. That Dalton Schultz play action.

kind of having him leak out play action to the right and then having Dalton Schultz leak out to the left or a strong side and then having him leak out weak side I don't know that's going to keep working because that worked about four times last week that's obviously on tape so we'll see what happens I don't expect nine catches for 98 yards

that Dalton Schultz got last week let's do this now we're not doing props we're just talking about we're just talking is the FBI listening Will he even get nine targets this week? I mean, if you're the, aren't you the Giants? Aren't you?

I mean, if you are Salah, who knows, who knows defense, he's a lousy head football coach, but he knows defense, aren't you going to try to say, you know what, I'll let Noel beat me, I'll let Hutchson beat me, I'm not letting Dalton Schultz catch 10-yard crossing patterns all throughout the game, because that's exactly how the, probably not going to happen, but I mean, it's easier said than done. Everybody has to do their job. nobody wants anybody to catch any passes but you also are going to chance practice against one of the best tight ends in the business

when George Kittle when you were practiced during the course of the week and George Kittles is way more accomplished than Felton Schultz is that is true so I don't know I just Rossi I can't see them scoring and what you know what

they don't have to score enough you know what get to Kemi Fairberry and three field goals and a defensive score their protection has been better at home um the mix of Nick Chubb and Woody Marks is not terrible. Far from elite.

It doesn't scare anybody. Shouldn't scare anybody. Maybe you can get a little something. I mean, some couple of good runs out of them, some good play action game, and you're going to win with your defense. That's what you're doing. Going to win to an ugly game. Maybe it's ugly than what I'm talking about, like 16 to 13.

Yeah, if the Texans win, if they win, they don't have to score 20. it's going to be Mac Jones throwing multiple interceptions which we've seen other quarterbacks do in this building before. Look, when y'all are loud at 12 noon or whenever you all get there at 1230, y'all can be loud.

But the question's going to be, this is a team that has been largely disappointing. The fans don't show up on time. It's not a raucous environment to begin. And I think, I will say this, and I don't mean to put too much on fans because, look, you buy the tickets, you show up when you want to go.

Well, they've never accomplished. They've never made it. aFC championship game in the 20 plus years. I mean, if people aren't showing up, it's understandable. But a football vibe can certainly, I think, move things a little bit more. A basketball vibe of a full building can certainly help that, especially if it's late in the game. Well, that's how we roll in Houston. If you want to be two in five and not accomplish anything, the people are two, whatever,

yeah, there's two and four. Two and four, people aren't going to be showing up. And they'll be there, but they're going to be out of telling you. We need everybody to be passionate and ready to go and loud. It's like, okay, give us. something. Yeah, don't give us three and out. It's not been beautiful football. And don't give us multiple false starts and illegal contact downfield. The penalties and the

intention of detail are my biggest concerns long term. And guess what that is? That's coaching. It's on Domingo Ryan. Yes, absolutely. I'm with you. I think we have to stop and I think you and I have been pretty protecting of him. We're going to have to back off on a little bit of that. I think, I think it makes us look silly. If we say that D'Amico doesn't have to wear some of this. I've never said at all that he's not responsible for any of this. Well, I'm saying now I'm starting to change my tune because from his word salad and his generic and it's oral in one possession away, well, you're again, 90% of NFL games are within one possession. Join the club.

Win games. Go out coach to detail matters. Every small mistake piles up and you can't afford because the margins are thin in the NFL. Yeah. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach. show. We've got anything goes Friday if you want to get in on the Texans. You want to talk some college football. My Cougars are taking on Arizona State tomorrow night in Phoenix. That'll be a 7 o'clock start. If you want to listen to it's on 950. We'll begin that at 6 o'clock. We have Texas A&M

really nervous about LSU, at least the Aggie family members of mine. And your beloved Longhorn is going to Mississippi State, right? That should be a win, right? They need more cowbell. Six and a half. Six and a half. Yeah. I'm going to turn the sound down. The cowbell bit is awful. It's fine. You say it's fine, but I think your ears are going to ring in three and a half hours into it. You just are.

I'll make it. I'm not that word. 713-212-5-7-9-5-7-19. You got a partner named Tim running 20-inch rims. Well, you were getting really nervous for a second. I was like, why you guys? I sent it to him. I thought maybe he thought I meant for him to play it. I was scared.

No, no, no, no. I just played it. I listened to it. I want to pretend a license. It's all good. Okay, thank you. We're all good. Everybody's good. Everybody calm down. Nothing to see here.

I don't think anybody noticed except you. Frank Drebin. I just saw you getting nervous. I started the new naked gun, by the way. Oh, how long did you go? The first 20 minutes are good. And then the next 20 minutes, I'm going to watch something else for right now. The first. I had a lot of laughs. The first 20 minutes, I told you this before, flat out belly laughing. And then the movie went south.

I'm going to finish it. It's just I wasn't motivated to. Naked Gun the remake. Oh, Matt, but you say it was like a five, Matt? Five out of ten is that what you gave it? Well, here's what you gave it worse. No, no, it was a nine in the first half hour, and then it fell down to a two, so I think I averaged it out.

You know what movie I saw? It was very funny, Matt, and I thought you would like it. Some type of comedy. Ball's a Fury. That ping pong movie? I haven't. I've only seen bits of that. It's actually really hilarious.

It's actually really hilarious. Yeah, Matt might like that. Yeah, I've never heard of it. Like a slapstick. You got to look at it. It's on Tooby, I think. Tubey. Okay.

Is that a pay channel or a freebie? Tube's free, but it has ads. That's fine. I mean, if you're not going to charge me. Oh, at least you, yeah, you got pay stuff with ads now. Disney Plus used to not have ads. By what, do you see who's adding some more commercials to their presentation? Oh, is it Red Zone?

They're going to add a few more. See, of course. See, this is a thing. When you have these water-carrying people like Ian Rapaport and Adam Schaefter who are protecting the shield and being like, guys, it's only 60 seconds. Yeah, that's right now. I thought they were going to add more like next year.

They're doing more in like week eight. They're already adding more. I knew it was going to happen. But you already know it's going to happen. But I've watched two straight weeks of six hours. Yes. There's a handful. It's not even bad.

It's not that it's not bad, but it's about the sanctity of what Red Zone was. Scott Hansel would come on there and say, get ready for seven hours of commercial free radio. Of course we can live with it. Of course, but this is just all emblematic of the way of the world. More and more and more and more and more and more and more money and charging us more and wages staying stagnant and all this other. It's just, it's just, don't even give me all my soapbox.

We're talking about streaming services and ads and all that stuff. Yeah. Like, do you guys, like, as the age that came up to it and it was like we want our own, when we don't pick what we want on TV and everything, do you guys kind of regret that? Like a la carte you're talking about? Yeah, like how Disney Plus and all these streaming platforms are there now before it was Like you had cable and you had the line, right? Cable was better, but you have more, you can watch, I don't know what's better.

I'm actually surprised in 2025 we can't just call our cable operators or call our satellite providers and say, hey, I want these 19 channels and they say, all right, that's a dollar, that's $1.50, that's $1.75. You would think technology would be able to do that by now. No, because, I mean, there would just be channels that nobody would get. Like the ion channel or whatever. Yeah, those poor ion focus. I mean, we're going to catch a murder, she wrote. Yeah, I don't know. They want to make a package deal, especially the companies, whether it be Viacom or whatever.

The reality is this. Here's how I do this, the Red Zone. I upgrade my satellite TV sports pack. So for $12 a month, I get all the regional sports channels, which those are dying. And they don't have anything on their eye. Most stuff blacked out on those. And they're blacked out, so it doesn't do me any good. But as part of the $12, I get the Red Zone.

So for me, I'm paying $12 a month for the next five months to watch NFL football. That's $60 for me to get seven hours of Red Zone with a few commercials. That's not a terrible value for me. I feel like Red Zone's a greatest channel all time. I get what I'm paying for comfortably. I'm getting 17 weeks, no, 18 weeks when you have to buy us. 18, off weeks. You get 18 weeks of, if you can to watch the Red Zone channel for $12 a month, that's

fine, I can live with that. I mean, you want everything to be discounted and everything to be reasonable and you, and you, something you just say, I just can't do it. This is one of those situations that I say, I can stomach this. It's just, yeah, it's crazy how splintered it is and how many different things are and how they keep going up and they keep adding ads. Like I said, Disney Plus used to not have ads. I think Netflix, does Netflix have ads one now, I think, too?

Yes. You're going to pay extra for no, there used to be no ads on Netflix. Hulu definitely has ads. Hulu has kind of felt like you always had ads. You know, Amazon Prime, you watch a Thursday night game last night in the NFL. They've, you could just as many commercials you would have during a regular NFL game. They've added ads. You know, I just don't get that because if you have Prime video and it says a movie on there,

you still have to pay for some of the movies, even if you have. You know why that is is because I don't pay for Amazon Prime video. I'm an Amazon Prime member. My family is. So we get the channel for free. In theory. In theory. In theory.

In theory. So I can see why they're like, well, we're giving you this channel in theory for free. so we're going to throw people things. Yeah, but now it's an extra $3 a month if you want no ads. It used to be free. It's every, it's every, it's honestly for me, it's all calculated. As a sports connoisseur, 90% of the stuff I watch on Amazon Prime will be the NFL, which has been on Thursdays,

and then now the NBA is going to be on there once or twice a week. So that's what I'm going to, like tonight's the first Amazon Prime NBA doubleheader. Here's reality, if you're an NBA fan, and we're going to see this with baseball eventually, and maybe even the NFL, film. It's going to cost you a couple thousand dollars to watch these sports. And no one's going to, and if you're a diehard of the sport, you're not going to blink an eye. But for the cash, the casual fan, they'll be like, you know what? What's on is on. Like, I have, I have a lot

of friends that live and die by YouTube TV. YouTube TV does not have a space city network. So anytime, the only time they ever get to the rockets is a villain on NBC or on ESPN. And they're not bad in the night of that. Or if you have DISH Network. Or some other carriers. And these are decent people that I know that are sports fans. They just said, you know what? They, we just, we just, we just, we just can't surpass it.

And you have to check out and you have to pick and choose. You've got to share some passwords. That's a lot. Talk on your breath. Yeah. Or you go to the illegal streams, but a lot of times those are unreliable and they fall apart and they skip and you got to refresh. Fresh and you got to go to this stream and that stream and the other stream. and it's just, whatever, it is what it is.

But the revenues keep, all these sports leagues want their revenues to keep going up. So what does that mean? More ads. And no one's turning it down. You know, look, the NBA doesn't, and I love the NBA, but the NBA doesn't care if how you watch anymore, they've got the checks coming in. They've got paid.

And they're hoping that you will join those networks, those channels. It's more exposure for them, right? I mean, the last couple of years, it's only been ESP and ABC. We will have the, there'll be over 200 nationally televised games. What was the last couple of years? Because now NBC and Peacock, in addition to ABC, ESPN, well, I would presume it was. It was just, it was just NBA TV and then ESPN, right. Yeah, Span and TNT.

Who else? Oh, TNT, that's right. So there was, let's say, I want to say it's almost double. It's almost double the amount. So if you are a, now again, how many hardcore, I'm not talking about a huge. I'm talking about just in general. How many hardcore NBA fans want to watch a random Minnesota versus Portland game? I don't think very many.

But if you are, it depends. You got a chance to see it. I was watching Spurs Mavericks on Wednesday because I saw Wemby dominating and I flipped. I saw it on. I saw it on. I was like, oh my gosh, he's going nuts. I'm going to flip it on. And then he's just ragdolling Anthony Davis like he's his little cousin.

He was a little kid that came in to the corrupt. karate class and just beat everybody up. It's like, Kramer? Yeah. That's what it was. Yeah. It was crazy. I'm scared, quite frankly.

I don't need him to be this good because he's going to get in the way of my ring, and I can't have that. Oh, my God. We've got to get it this year and then, Matt. We've got to get it right now. Yeah, exactly. I want the ring now. He went overnight from MVP to MVP favorite.

I know. Overnight. Until Steph's hitting 40 footers to go to send games to overtime. Yeah, we'll see. And Shade Gilles Alexander to score in 40 points again, two nights and double over time. The most talented player in NBA history. I can't say that right now. Yeah.

Because I think we were saying about Yannis two years ago. I just feel like America was doing that. I don't know if I was saying about Yonis two years ago. He's never had the shooting touch. Yeah, but a guy his size and his ability to, the greatest downhill player maybe in his history of the NBA? I think I've been probably sticking with, I mean, Wilkins. Chamberlain, this is the short list, I guess. Wilk Chamberlain, LeBron,

like those types of Wimby's on that short, Kevin Durant, Will Chamberlain's on that short, I mean, Victor Wembeiam is on that short list. Already, to me. I'm not thinking about it. I know, it's choking you up. I'm sad too, because he's in San Antonio,

and we wanted him here. Don't forget, we wanted him here. Don't let anybody forget that. I love him to be here. We don't love him in. Yeah, we love him in Thompson. I love him in terms. He's great.

He's my bestie. I don't know if he knows my name, but we're besties. At 1251, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dr. Rodo coming up in about 10 minutes from now. It's the fastest 30 minutes in Major Market Radio. My 6-1 Toro's already down heavily to Justin Herbert. Remember our old producer Trey? He's beat me like by 37 points.

He's already used two players. Even his kicker got double-digit points yesterday. Cameron Dicker. Oh, Texas. Yeah, I know. Longhorn legend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 113-212-5-790.

Let's talk to Dave and Spring on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Dave, how are you? Hey, good. I hope your phones are working today. Hey, listen, I just heard Ross talking about Wenbinoa reminded me. I wanted to call you guys. I hope you don't mind if I bust on your buddy, Adam Clanton, a little bit. Just good nature here.

But I got to tell you about a call. Last spring, I called him. He went on a rant about how the Rockets were so lucky that they didn't get the first pick two years ago in the draft. because they would have taken Wendanyama and missed out on Amen Thompson. I called him and I said, that's the dumbest take I think I've ever heard. There's not a GM in the league then or now who would ever select as good as he is, Amen over Wembe.

And now we're seeing, you know, you didn't need to wait until now to see how good Wembe Namo is going to be. But he defended that position up and down, told me I was an idiot. So it's too bad it's not to shut your bum ass up in that opportunity here. but that is what I would say to Adam Clanton, pass it on. All right, thank you. Adam listens to show occasionally, so if you're Adam, if you're listening. Usually around now. He's getting ready.

He's in the shower right now, washing his back? I don't get, probably bathing himself. That typically what you do in the show? Well, washing his legs as well. Why his legs? That was a big debate on Twitter. People don't wash their legs. Who doesn't wash their legs?

Oh, man, I got scared. I'm glad you do, Matt. Yeah, I was a little worried. Actually, I was in a comedy show recently. Yeah. And the dude came on stage and he was like, what do you do? That's nobody else does.

And he says he doesn't wash himself below the knees. Who said this again? I was on a comedy show and said a random dude from Houston said that. Oh. That's a thing. Yeah, it was a huge Twitter controversy because there were people like, yeah, I want to wash my legs. You just, the soap drips down there.

We're like, what? You got to scrub yourself, you dirty ass? I, no, I wash everything. Mm-hmm. Good. Who's fault? This is your fault. Why don't you look at you?

Anyway, so, yes. Well, we were talking about Wimby the other day. And then Adam Clinton was texting in about how I, I don't know, I crown him or whatever. No, I mean, just because you have the, a dynamic player does not guarantee a championship. I mean, Kevin Durant's been one of the, and LeBron James have been two of the greatest players ever to play in the last 15 years. And they don't, they, I mean, they both got titles, but you don't win them every single year. I love a man Thompson. I may be the biggest

a man Thompson fan outside of Adam Clinton in this marketplace. But I doesn't mean, I can't appreciate what Victor Womenyama is going to, in theory, do for the San Antonio Spurs. The only thing you got going for you, if you're not in that Team Wembe club, and I'm not on Team Wemby, but I appreciate it, is the fact that 7 foot four, 7 foot five guys have a history of not staying healthy. I understand. Me personally, I do. my best not to let biases get into the way of

why I love sports is to see the greatest athletes and competitors on the planet. Basically the best of what the human race is capable of or can do in pressure

situations and athletic accomplishments like I was talking about and Adam Klan was disagree with me on this too like show hey Otani look I understand he wears Dodger blue and we don't like Dodger Blue, but six innings a shutout ball with 10Ks and three bombs. That is all-time historic insane stuff. And Victor Wimbunyama, now, of course, it took a lot of qualifiers.

It was like 75% true shooting percentage, 40, 15 rebounds, no turnovers. Like, that was an all-time historic stuff of what he did in the opener. But if you open your eyes and take off your rockets red glasses, And watch what he is able to do at 7 foot 5. He's doing left-handed in-out dribbles, stepbacks crossing up, like mixing up cross-up stepbacks. Like he's Steph Curry, who is 6'3. He's 7 foot 5. It's insane what he's able to do.

I mean, he's doing the pump fake around the cradle, around the basket, reverse dunk. almost hitting his head on the rim, basically just standing there. It's insane what he can do. And I understand he's wearing spurs, silver and black, and we don't like the San Antonio Spurs, but I can separate that

when I watch what he does on the floor and on TV and these highlight reels, that he's an alien. Like his nickname the alien, that works. He's an absolute freak of nature. And the reality is this. If he stays healthy, I don't think he's going to change.

I think he's only going to get better. I think he's going to be as unguaritable as any other player would be in the NBA. He's, and look, there are a lot of, there's a handful of unguardibles. He may be the number one top. But remember again, I need to see attendance. Yes. He's 21 years old. He's about to be 22.

And what he can, what he's done already is insane. And if he's really 7.7, I'm really scared. He's listed at 7.5. Bobon said he looks up at him. Bobon 7.4. Real quick before we get to Roto. Gene, you're on 790. Good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon.

I know you're talking a lot of basketball, and that's great. Love it. But I want to know, what do you think the Texans' chances are this weekend in the game? The Texans? I think they're going to lose. Great chance. They're going to win. They're favored.

They're going to run the ball. They're going to win with defense. Matt Jones sucks. Gene, the defense can keep the Texans alive. I just don't know how they're going to score any points. They have their two Christian Kirk's not been on the main go-through threat, but when you have no Nico Collins,

your running game has been non-existent, your offensive line is rotating guards. CJ Stroud still takes too many bad sacks of long distances. I think it's going to be a low-scoring game. I think the Texans will have their chances, but I just don't think they're going to have a very difficult time getting in the score in the end zone. I think if the Texans win,

they've got to get another defensive touchdown somehow, some way. Is Mixon never going to come back this year? I don't think so. they have been super, super quiet about it and don't dare ask or they'll get, they'll scold you. I see. Okay. Look, you all, you have a great weekend. Thank you, Jean.

Appreciate it. Let's get to Dr. Roto next. We'll do that and get you ready for your fantasy football week is 1258 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I don't know waiver. I need to try. Roto, give me the news. I really don't know what I should do.

Last is 30 minutes in major market radio. We present to you the one, the only. Dr. Roto will take your questions and your comments about your teams in the second segment of the show. 713-212-5-790. Dr. Roto, tell me you were watching the Giants Denver game, and you were talking about Bo Nix or thinking about how bad a Bo Nix game was until he put together the 33.4th quarter, and his fantasy numbers skyrocketed literally in 50 minutes of play.

It's so crazy because I remember telling everybody how much I liked Bo Nix last week, right? I was like, oh, Bo Nix, there's going to be a great game. And then all of a sudden you look like you have no idea what you're talking about. And then the Giants defense, what is up with that? Shane Bowen, how does a guy keep a job? I mean, 26 to 8 in the fourth quarter, late in the fourth quarter, you've got to close that game out. So, I mean, you can cut the kicker all you want. It's not just a kicker's fault.

This week, though, we're going back to Denver, going and playing the Cowboys who play who decided to change up from a zone defense to man coverage because they weren't doing well in the zone. Don't want to. They don't do well in man either. You know who does do well in man coverage? Bo Nix, Cortland Sutton, Troy Franklin, load up on your Broncos again. Loading up on Broncos, things we never thought we'd say in 2025. If you got a question for the good doctor, we'll start taking those coming up in a matter of moments at 713-212-5-790.

713-212-5-790. All right. So what do we want to start this week? Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. The Patriots, we kept waiting for Drake May to have an off week. It was very good, not spectacular. Can he get those numbers back up against the Browns this weekend in New England? Yeah, MT, I know you have him.

So look, what we love about this game is that the Browns very hard to run against. So last week we knew, right? we knew Ramandra Stevenson was going to run the football. We knew that that's how you beat the Titans. How do you beat the Browns? You throw it. So, Browns play a lot of man coverage. Who do we like?

We like Stefan Diggs. We like Kishon Bouté. We like Drake May. I think Drake May throws at least two touchdowns this week, maybe even a third. I mean, not going to be the highest scoring game. I think this game finishes like maybe 2420 or something like that. But I have the 24 points.

It's probably going to come through the air because it's really hard to run on Cleveland. Are we back and all in on the Eagles after their win against Minnesota last Sunday? I think we've got to be very careful. A.J. Brown has not practiced this week. There's a good shot. He's out. If he's out, DeVant to Smith is a lock button. I mean, I also think, look, the last time these two teams played, Barclay did nothing. I don't think that happens a second time to you. So I think they lean on the running game. I think they lean on Devontas Smith. As of right now, AJ Brown, very questionable. Harts is, of course, in play. I mean, you're going to get a tush push, most likely at some point. during the game, but I mean, he's not going to have the game he had last week where they just threw it all day.

Do you get as mad as I do watching the tush push? First of all, I think there's an illegal formation or a shift almost every single time it happens. And now, I just get angry about it. I don't have a dog in the fight because I just don't go against many eagles and don't have eagles on my team. But it's just irritating part of the game for me, honestly. No, I'm with you. And I think, look, make a decision.

Either say it's good for every team or just outlawed. I think it's just easier if they outlawed. It just feels like a play that someone is going to. get really injured on. Does Aaron Rogers go against his old team this week and have success? Yeah. I mean, look, you don't think Rogers is circling this game on his calendar. Of course he is. You know, this is one of those games that you live for. The Packers defense has been not as good as people think it is, right? Oh, the Packers defense, it's been great. Have they really gotten a pass rush? No, I think this is going to be a higher scoring game than people are anticipating. Steelers defense has

also let up a lot of points as well. I think Jordan Love has a good game. I think Aaron Rogers has a good game. I think we're going to play Metcalf. We're going to play Josh Jacobs. You know, look, you better have a big league going into Sunday night because a lot of guys can be scoring in that game. Romeo Dobbs, Tucker Kraft, you know, load up on this one. All right. Buccaneers an off week last week in Detroit. I don't know if it's off because it was a Monday night game on the road. But tell me, what a difference going from a legitimate NFC title contender to a Saints team, it's one and six. If you've got Buccaneers, you're loading up, correct, this week?

Well, you are loading up. But I think there were some bad calls there from the refs. I mean, reviewing these K.Doughton play twice. Have you ever seen that in the NFL before? Not really. Baker was really annoyed all game long, and I don't blame him. So look, losing Mike Evans is terrible. K.aten has become a player that people are going to want.

Tess Johnson is a player that people are going to want. And Bucca is a tremendous play. Rashad White is a play. The Saints are not a great team, but they play quickly. So the pace is high. It's a game where I think you want to load up on your Buccaneers. Baker has a good week. Rashad White, like I said, Kate Ott, and I love him, and Bucca and Tess Johnson on the other side.

You can't run on Tampa. So what are you going to do? Spencer Rattler's likely going to throw it. Maybe Rattler has a better day than we think he is. Chris Alaveh, Rashid Shaheed, all names you want in what could be a track meet. Is it time to give up on the... skill players for the Baltimore Ravens, especially because Lamar has practiced so little this

week? No. I am all in on the Ravens this week. I could not be more in on the Ravens than I am this week. I think Lamar is going to come back and have a really good week. He's practiced in a limited capacity. I think there's no need to push it. I think he'll be fine. I think Derek Henry

is going to score. I think Zayflowers is going to have a really good week. On the other side, keep a watchful eye on Cole Commet's injury. If Cole Commet is out, Colston Loveland, the rookie out of University of Michigan, he will be in. Ravens do not stop the tight end very well. This could be, it's national tight ends week, could be a Colston Loveland score touchdown week.

All right, what a terrific segue into the Texans. Dalton Schultz was the main go-to threat. I would assume that Robert Sala is going to game plan to make sure that he is not a part of the game. With that being said, if he is the go-to guy and has been for much of the season with Nico Collins, probably not going to play this week, is Schultz? heavy play. Tell me about the Texans offense. We're really worried about how they're even going to score any points so we can get to the Niners. As well, you should. I mean, it's not like Schultz is a picture of health either. So if Nico's probably not playing, I don't think Christian

Kirk plays. I'll tell you the guy who is super sneaky for the Texans, Jalen Knoll, because the one thing the 49ers don't really do well, they don't cover slot receivers well. So I think Noel could be sneaky. I mean, Dalton Schultz, obviously, with C.J. Stroud's number one guy. You need Nick Chubb to do something. Nick Chubb, we knew was going to, bad matchup for him last week, right? Seattle, very good against the run.

I think that Nick Chubb has to be able to get those on first down. Let's make it second and five. Let's make it, you know, second and six. You've got to get four or five yards on first down or you're in big trouble. On the other side of the football here this week,

I expect Matt Jones to play again. I expect Ricky Pierce all back. I think George Kittles probably going to score a touchdown this week. I mean, he did nothing last week. I don't think that happens two weeks in a row. So the Texans is a tough little stretch here for them. I think they're in trouble. All right.

Time now for the sports RV weekly roto question of the week. I don't know how much I have. I'm just curious your thoughts on some of the backfield splits. You mentioned Woody Marks and Nick Chub. How viable you think either of those are? Are you sticking with guys like Rico Dowdell? and some others who have been splitting carries, Isaiah Pacheco, just some of these backfields are kind of muddied.

Yeah, so what happens is, is that you really need to look at each week and the matchup. So I was all in on Woody Marks last week. Why? Seattle lets up the most receptions to opposing running backs. Now, the crazy thing was they should have used marks more out of the backfield. They gave the ball to Schultz more than marks. But what we did know was that Nick Chubb was going to do nothing, right?

So that each week when you go into a game, you've got to say, how is this team going to play? So against Buffalo, how do you beat Buffalo? You run the football. Rico Dattle's going to get at least 15 carries. Chuba Hubbard's going to get at least 10 to 12. I mean, they're going to try to ram the football down the bill's throats because you really don't want to throw on the bills.

So that's one. I don't love Pacheco. Keep your eyes on Breshaad Smith. They're trying to get him more snaps. He's a very exciting young player against Washington. The Chiefs are going to have their way against Washington and Mariotto. So this is one of those games where don't be shocked at see Brasht Smith's first NFL touchdown. All right.

Time now for you to get your questions. And for Dr. Roto, you may do so. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Dr. Roto with us to the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk, 7-90. The one-only Dr. Roto with us to the bottom of the hour. Come on in and join us. It's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

You all right? Sorry, I was thinking about Prime Mariah Carey. Go on. Dr. Roto, your thought, is she a doctor Roto? That's a first rounder right there, Dr. Roto. Is she a lock of the week? That's the first rounder. That's a lock of the week.

Locked that one. All right. 713, 2125.790. Let's talk to Josh on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Josh. Hey, guys. I got two separate flex questions, please. Juan Jennings, B.R.B.

or Terry McLaureen. And then on the other team, it's Debo Samuel, Terry McClaren. are good marks. Okay, so as of right now, the expectation, I don't know whether we know, well, that's not true. McLaurin practice fully, so there is a chance that he plays. It's not a great matchup for him, but if he's out there and both Debo and McLaren didn't have limitations,

so obviously I think I'm going to lean toward Debo on the second one and McLaurin on the first one. All right. Thank you very much for that. Let's see, Dr. Roto, do they have flex-start Kroski Merritt or Chuba Hubbard? I have Rico Dottle already starting. What are your thoughts about the Carolina backfield right now? So listen, they're going to run the ball about 28 times against Buffalo.

So I don't think it's the craziest thing to have both guys in there. It's like this week, Bajon Robinson and Tyler Alger, they both could do well. So Kroski Merritt, I like the player, not a good. matchup against Kansas City on the road who stops the run real well. So you almost might want to go with both Panthers, who you know are going to be committed to running the football with Andy Dalton back there. All right. How about Kroski Merritt or Chuba? And if you can choose one.

That's a Chuba. That's Chuba. Okay. Very good. 713-21-2-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-790 for Isaac on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Isaac, what's your question for Rodo? Yeah, hello, what's up, y'all?

I got two separate ones. I got Chris Olive or Terry McClaren, I mean Terry McLaurant. And the other one is Kyle Pitts or Mason Taylor. Okay, so first we're going to lobby for sure. That game is going to be high scoring and I won every part of that game. Second one with Pitts and Taylor, we will only play Mason Taylor only if A, he goes, because right now he's questionable, and B, if Tyrod Taylor is the quarterback. If Justin Fields is the quarterback, don't even think about it. play Pitts. But if Mason Taylor starts and Tyraot Taylor starts, play Mason Taylor. He's got a good

matchup. All right. Thanks for the phone call on that. 713212-5-790. Let's go to JP for Dr. Rodel. Go ahead, JP. Good doctor. Got two questions. Tight-end and wide receiver. The tight-end question is, should I go with Kraft from Green Bay or should I go with Dallas Goddard? And then for the wide receiver question, Waddle versus Pittman, Jr. Yeah, okay. So first of all, I'm going to craft. I think that's going to be a high-scoring game. I don't hate Goddard, but I really do like Kraft.

The only thing I might say there is if A.J. Brown is officially out, then Goddard becomes more interesting to me, but I still feel like this is more of a SACON and the Devontas Smith week. On the other side there, this is a tough one. I think Miami is in big trouble. but Jonathan Taylor is going to run all over all over Tennessee all over so this is going to be one of those weeks and Josh Downs is back so this doesn't feel like a I need Michael Pittman week but Miami's going to need Jaylon Waddle

so I think I'm going to go Kraft and Waddle All right on the email side of things Clifford says which three of these receivers Boutet Jennings Born Undunzee which three Which one sits of that group I think you're going to fit one of the 49ers. You're going to play Boutte. You're going to play Romiton, Zay, who I think will have a better week. Give me Joanne Jennings, but it's close.

All right. And which tight-in plays? Kittle or Kraft? Man, two guys I really like a lot. I think the better matchup is Tucker Kraft in the higher scoring game, but don't count out George Kittle. Just because he did nothing last week, doesn't mean he's going to do nothing this week. I like him. I like him. All right. Lamar Jackson or wait a week and start Bo Nix this week. What do you think? Oh, that's an interesting one. I'm in on Lamar Jackson. I'm in on Baltimore.

They lose this game. It's over, M.T. It's literally over. Now, I do think Bo Nix is going to have a great week, too. But look, when Jackson goes crazy, and this is one of those games where he could go crazy, you can't miss out. All right. 713-212-5-790 for Dr. Roto.

7-1-3-2-5-79. Janice, you're on with Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Janice. Janice, you're on. Oh, hey, not a question I would normally ask, but based on last week. Kittle or Kelsey? Yeah, no, it's a fair question. I like Kittal this week. I really do. I think the thing

with Kelsey moving forward, now that you have a healthy Chiefs offense, right, and this is a completely healthy team, not completely, but pretty much healthy. Rishie Rice and Worthy and Hollywood Brown and Jujoo, I don't think they're relying on Kelsey as much. So it's not that he's not a bad play, he's a fine play, but

Kraft is a special player, and I think if we had a draft right now in fantasy, he'd go two or three rounds earlier than Kelsey. Kelsey or Goddard in your mind? This week I think it's Goddard because once again I do think A.J. Brown's going to be out. And if A.J. Brown's out, Goddard has to be looked at. All right. Devante Smith, Scadaboo and Higgins. Who does our Twitter follower sit in that three? Well, look, you never want to sit Scataboo because when you would have done it two weeks ago, I don't want to play this guy against the Eagles. What are you doing? At three touchdowns.

Well, Jailene Carter was out. And I think Jailen Carter will be back. And I don't know whether it'll be great, but you can't rule that guy out. The problem with T. Higgins is this. Sauce Gardner's out. So without Sauce Gardner and without Garrett Wilson, Cincinnati's going to put up five touchdowns, but you've got to think they're going to run one. You've got to think Jamar Chase is probably going to get one or two. So it's not that I don't like Higgins, but it's harder to trust Higgins.

McMillan, Dobbs, or Pickens? Which two of those three play? I'm playing Pickens for sure. I think I'm playing Dobbs. It's not that I don't like McMillan. I just think they're going to commit to the run this week. All right. A lot of us are without Jemir Gibbs, including Yanez on Twitter. Algier, Tracy Jr. or Kareememh, Hunt, as an RB2?

Yeah, so long as Al Jir suits up, I think you play him. So here's the interesting thing about the Falcons. Bejan Robinson, right? He can run the ball. All of a sudden he runs down to the 18-yard line. Okay, they give him a breather. Al Jir comes in, and he scores on that next play. You're like, whoa, did I just lose a Bijon Robinson touchdown?

You did. I think Alger could go for 16. your 70 yards in a touchdown this week. So it's just one of those games where, you know, the more Falcons you have, the better. All right. Green Bay or Cincinnati's defense? Cincinnati's defense. I know that's a shocker, but without Garrett Wilson, I'm not even sure who the, is Josh Reynolds,

their number one receiver, has to come to that? Okay. Flex this week, half-point PPR 14 team league, Troy Franklin or Alger? And is Josh Downs dropable for Franklin? No, Josh Downs is not dropable, right? I would take Josh Downs, because when he has a big week, he has a huge week. I think, look, Franklin's fine, but did you see how he scored his touchdown last week? The ball bounced off the Sutton's hands, and Franklin caught it.

I don't want to rely on that every week. So long as Algiers playing, and he was a little questionable early in the week, if he's playing on Sunday, you play him. Like I said, feels like a real good bet for touchdown. Robert on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Robert. Hey, how's it going? Do I go with Caleb Williams as QB this week, or do I pick up Bowenicks?

Look, I don't dislike Caleb Williams. I don't trust Caleb Williams, okay? Bo Nix is a very good player who runs well, who I think, even last year. He just got more confident as this season went on. That game last week gave them a lot of confidence to come back like that. Now you play a Cowboys defense, which is terrible. Please give me Bo Nix. All right.

Starting Daniel Jones or Drake May. Ooh, this is a closer one. The only reason I'm going to start May is because I think that the Colts game could get out of hand. And when it goes out of hand, maybe Daniel Jones throws like for 180 yards in a touchdown because Jonathan Taylor ran for two. Maybe the defense got a defensive touchdown. It's going to be a Colts onslaught. So I think make it at two or three touchdowns. All right.

And should a listener drop Jackson Dart and pick up Jordan Love? You know, I never want to tell you somebody to do that because Jackson Dart runs the football. ball. So in those weeks where he gets like 40 or 50 yards rushing in a touchdown, it's 11 points right there. He throws for another 200 in a touchdown. He got 14. I'm not good at math, but I have 25 points right there from a quarterback, and that's going to win you a lot of weeks. All right. Let's go to Gino in San Antonio or Houston, depending on where he is. Gino, you're on with Dr. Roto. Hey, what's up? I'm in San Antonio right now, but I'm wondering, I guess you kind of almost answer my question. Who should I start, Daniel Jones or Baker Mayfield?

Oh, Baker Mayfield all day. I have those two guys in one of my leagues. I'm starting Baker Mayfield in a game where they're going to be throwing. Baker's annoyed after last week. They're on by next week. I think they could put up 40 this week. All right, ladies, Jim, we asked Dr. Roto once week to give us an unbelievable selection. The guy is going to make our week for us.

He is my friend. He is Dr. Roto, and he's also going to provide you. Dr. Roto's lock of the week. MTs. Is there a worst team right now defensively than Miami Dolphins? They can't stop the run. Dejan Robinson, hello, my friend. 125 yards and one touchdown, maybe two. This is going to be one where Mike McDaniel may not even make it out of the stadium.

He could be fired on Monday morning. Ladies gentlemen, you're going with a Texas long-long-grate as this week's Dr. Roto, pick of the week. Where can we find you between now and Sunday, friend? All right. You could always find me serious X-M fantasy sports radio every Saturday morning from 6 a.m to 9 a.m. Eastern. Can find me over at Dr.rotto.com into the promo code win. We'll get you 10% off our monthly or our seasonal packages. And of course, over at X, a DRROTO.

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Up next. Every radio show in this country gives you the Florida story what's happening in Gainesville or an Ocala or Fort Lauderdale or in Pensacola. We're going to give you stuff that's happening outside the Sunshine State. We simply call them non-Florida stories. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people.

of Hugh, it's time for... Again, eligible non-Florida stories literally can be from anywhere outside the state of Florida. It's our non-Florida stories part of the show here on Sports Talks. I believe it or not, today is all things about... Is it hell you're not? Was it San Francisco 40-Hen, is that correct on that? Yes.

Okay. I thought I was going with a Houston story. It just didn't make sense. I'm going to go on to a other story somewhere else. gentlemen, a lot of people go to church to hear their sermons, get their sense of spirituality, it's a place of quiet, it's a place of reflection, right? All the things that the church can offer you to each his own. Well, congregants at Legacy Faith Church in Doppan County, Pennsylvania, well, they had a different type of service. They were confronted by their pastor, Philip Thornton.

You're saying, well, what did Philip Thornton do? He was wearing and wielding an assault-style rifle to illustrate his points during a sermon. Thornton used the firearm to, quote, clear the room or use spiritual violence against unbelief. At times, Thornton pointed the gun at the congregation with a laser bouncing off of church members. If I'm going to church and my pastor has got an assault-style rifle attached. to his body, I'm running out of there as fast as possible. The church released a statement after concerns were brought to light, saying the gun was disabled, the firing pin was removed.

It was cleared and publicly known to be ammo-free. But Thornton also said, I could get you, any one of you. The statement closed with gratitude for bringing, quote, great attention to the church. After all, there's no such thing as bad publicity. I believe there is. I am not of the belief, Rossi, that there is no such thing as bad publicity. I think a pastor or a man of the cloth up on the dais saying what he's saying with a firearm is not the great way to really inspire the congregation.

That's one day to get people to donate. You better donate. This thing's staring at you right now. You're going to click at that wall now. I'm in church. I don't know. I've never been threatened to church by violence like that. Well, you know, I've been badgered by the pastor in my day.

I mean, he wants you to contribute for sure. He just wants you to stop drinking so much coffee. That's another level. Yeah. But man, I don't need a salt-style rifle. You know, you're just, you just, you go to, you know, you're in the middle of the homily and you go get a cup of coffee. They're like, you just stay in here. You've done that?

Once. Okay. It was during, it was during, it was during, it was during, it was during, catharty, uh, the conversion classes I would take it. When the holy water burned your skin. Yeah. So that, so did that, so did that delicious caffeinated coffee that I needed for a 9.30 wake up. Get some sacrament wine. You be high.

Yeah, I didn't think I should be judged by that. But again, I don't think an assault-style rifle should be up in front of the day. Probably not. And that's my non-flora story. Where is this? In Doppan County, Pennsylvania. Okay. I forgot to check with Jonathan.

Just go, just go. You're not in Baltimore, are you? No, no, no, no. Okay, nice. Baltimore's a sweet spot for us, by the way. Baltimore County. Where there was a young man named Taki Allen. Taki.

Taki. Taki. Taki. Okay. Or Taki, maybe? No, I think Taki sounds good. to Key Allen was sitting with friends Monday night outside of Kenwood High School, eating a bag of chips after our football practice, just hanging out. And about 20 minutes later, police officers showed up with guns walking towards him. Eight cop cars came pulling up, according to Mr. Allen.

No relation, I don't believe, to Jonathan Allen. You got any family in Baltimore? No, no, no, we're good. At first, I didn't know where they were going. Then they started walking towards him with guns, talking about get on the ground. And I was like, what? Well, he was informed by police after being put on his knees, held with his hands behind his back, and cuffed that an AI detector looking at cameras thought he had a gun in his hand. What did he have?

A bag of Doritos. That's a very easy misidentification. I just saw this actually He had a bag of Doritos in his hand and this AI detector alerted authorities that he had a gun so they all pulled up with guns drawn

and put him down and cuffed him. Thankfully nothing crazy happened here but this is what I'm highlighting the dangers of AI. May I ask one very important question? Yes. Cool ranch or were their regular flavor? They were it looks like they were nach.

I wish I prefer the cool ranch. You know the first Dorino ever had was the old OG taco flavor. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They don't do those anymore, man. I don't think so. Everything is like fire now. Yes.

Salsa verde. So unfortunately, the principal, of course, had to release a statement apologizing. Please know that ensuring the safety of our students in school community is one of our highest priorities. Blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was just a Doritos. bag. Thankfully, nothing worse happened, but he was cuffed. And then he was like, once police determined that he did not have a weapon.

Can he sue the police department for this? It feels like you should be able to do this. Artificial intelligence saying, I've got a Doritos bag, and they're saying I've got a weapon in my hand. Not a great. And they're pulling up with eight guns drawn. I mean, that's a lot of emotional distress. For sure. At least get like a lifetime bag of chips or something.

Yes. because I'm sure he didn't want to eat the chips that he was sitting on because all right, thank you very much for that non-flora story. Jonathan, what do you got this week? Okay, mine is from October 10th during 9 a.m. at a mass at St. Peter's Basilica

in the Vatican, an unidentified man climbed the altar of confession, dropped his pants to his ankles, and urinated on the site. The mirror reported hundreds of tourists looked on as plain-clothes officers approached him. The holy

P-er, not my pun, that's fine, that fine. Somebody wrote that for you. It was quickly removed from the premises after flashing a full moon at gathered masses. Pope Leo was reportedly shocked and it was unclear whether he or another efficient

was leading the service at the time. What is it with all these strange things happening at our churches? I don't know. What's going on? I don't know what's going on, man. I mean, if you've got to go, you've got to go, but you can't go in the holy water, right? There's bathrooms all over the place of churches. Even the old churches have bathrooms. Yeah, I think he was probably trying to make

a statement. Ah. Yeah. By taking a whiz in the holy water? That's like one of the most secure places on the planet. That's what I'm saying. How much time we're going to get from that? That's like 30 years, probably. I mean, you can't. People use that. I mean, that's very important to a lot of people. I understand,

Matt. Thank you very much for that. No. Forrest. Boy, these are just we got AI. We got a We got a weapons, pasture on the pulpit. We got somebody urinating in the holy water. This world's gone mad. Yeah, you also had a, I didn't use this one.

A man assaulted a woman with a Christmas tree. Do you know I can see that happening? Let me tell you, the Christmas tree bristles could hurt your face. Yeah. They are pretty sharp, right, yeah. Apparently they were in an altercation. I don't know if they're fighting over the Christmas tree. Is this artificial or a real one?

It's October 24th. That'd be artificial. You get the Christmas trees already up? No, no, no. That's the bad boy's going to be back. Gone by Hanukkah. Would you, I'm going to tell you something right now because we're all family on this show. Okay.

How many months in a row has a Thomas Christmas tree been up in a Thomas house? Over six. I was going to go under four. Oh, so I'll stick with six. 13 months. Oh. You went the whole year? Let me explain

Just like Cheeks Yeah Cheeks is still in the freezer Isn't he? He might be Oh my gosh We had the tree professionally

decorated And it's so nice That people were like We want to come see it And so it was happening a lot And we were like They're making pilgrimages To come see your tree

I felt like you're charging an admission You did it? No I mean, we should have. Look, I spent several hundred dollars in this tree being professionally put together. Yes. But we don't have enough now. But that's been a couple years since we've done that.

And one more quick note about our stories, the best flavor of Doritos? Flaming Hot, Cool Ranch. Is Flaming Hot just everything the best now? It's the purple. But what if you don't like a Flaming Hot, Cool Ranch, so good. What if Fleming Hot is too hot for your stomach? Grow up. Oh, we've got people with sensitive stomachs.

I know. All right. Let's... Spice in your life. I don't mind the spice in my life. I just don't mind where I have to go spend part of my life. Salsa,

Veda used to be the best, but now they'd hardly put any dust in it. Taco just is just there. It's just there as a chip. It's like it. I mean, nacho and cool ranch are the classics, but flame and hot cool ranch, change your life.

Okay. If you can handle spice. If you're going to be sweating like Matt. Yeah, I don't hang. I don't like the sweat that much. 713-212-2-5-790. We're going to play, believe it or not next. It is a hell,

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You don't make fun of me for taking Rol's advice. You're literally taking Rolts advice as you show. I'm not really even listening. I'm just making waiver claims. It gets me in the fantasy mood. All right. Five. Reminder, we've got Rockets basketball tonight.

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on Sunday. Actually, you know what? The concert is also on Sunday, too. A pair of Sunday events, either the Alice Cooper and Judas Priest, October 26th, or you'll see a pair of tickets. It's for the doubleheader between A&M and Arizona and U of H against Mississippi State in the preview college basketball exhibition. Tickets for that event are available at FBepicenter.com. That's FBepicenter.com. Let's play. Hell yeah. Or not. I will start today with, and my screen is freezing up, Ross. I'm going to need you to help me for just a second. If you do not mind, let's go to Scott on 790. Scott, you're ready to play hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. Scott, other names considered for the Niners franchise included the frontiersmen, the pirates, and the golden bears. Hell yeah or not. Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Joe Montana is the all-time leading passer for the Niners.

Second is Steve Young. Hell yeah or not. not that's right it's john brodie boss you're a big john brodie guy right love him all right let's never heard of that guy before today yeah hall of famer correct like i said sure uh robert on seven o't thousand yards yeah robert on seven on a ninety ready to play hell yeah or not hell yeah the first stadium the fortnighters played in in san francisco was candlestick park hell yeah or not hell yeah no's kazar stadium from

between 1946 and 1970. Duh. Steve on 790, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Getting through on the phone to say, hell yeah. The San Francisco 49ers were the first NFL franchise to reach five Super Bowls, the very first one. Hell yeah or not. That's a hell yeah.

Sorry, thank you for playing, though. Thanks for saying, hell not. Gill on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not, Gil. Hell yeah. The San Francisco 49ers do not retire jerseys, but they have 12 different players inducted into their ring of honor. Hell yeah or not? Not. That's right.

They actually have many retired jerseys. Statement number two for the win. The San Francisco 49ers have lost three different Super Bowls since their last win back in 1994. Hell yeah or not. That's a hell yeah. How do you not have their listing of their season-by-season record in front of you? That's just terrible. Louis on 790 Lewis your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show

Matt Thomas from Mr. Texas 2028 That's what I'm talking about I can rush to run for governor I know the state so well Terrible. The San Francisco 4-9ers all-time leading rusher is Roger Craig Believe it or not or hell yeah or not Not that's right it's non-guess Frank Gore Statement number two for the win

The all-time sack leader for the Niners is Charles Haley Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, it's Cedric Hardman. I'm sorry. You just want me to run for governor. I think I got a shot? Yeah, I think you should actually.

That's a good idea. And do they pull up and say he was born in Detroit and then you lose all your family? It makes a lot of sense. You know what I'll do? I'll go on a campaign of enchiladas. Oh, my God. I will go on a campaign of tamales. Dr. Pepper?

What else do you hate? Dr. Pepper. Sweet tea. Sweet tea. I'll eat every sort of brisket, whether it's good or not. Yeah, you're out.

And I will... I think you should run. And I will allow casino gambling. Now you might actually win. That's all I need to do. And whatever Stephen A. Smith says, I will believe just the direct opposite of it. Let's go like that way.

Have a great weekend. We're not done. Ross will have the Rockets launch pad at 6. I'll have the call of the Rockets. the hated Detroit Pistons at 7 o'clock. They're not really hated, but it's an easy way to sell a little bit. The twin battle. It's twin versus twin.

Up next couple of twins themselves. It's Adam Wexler and Adam Clayton. Two similar-looking fellows, one state of mind. It's the A team, and it's next on Sports Talk, 790.