The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Lose 3 Straight, Texans Making Moves, Astros' Bats Heating Up, LeBron Reaches 50,000 Points

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Rockets losing three straight games following Tuesday's 115-102 defeat to the Indiana Pacers. Head coach Ime Udoka joins to discuss how the team looks to bounce back following a disappointing start to the road trip. Matt and Ross also:discuss the Texans re-signing running back Dare Ogunbowale and restructuring wide receiver Nico Collins' contract to clear up cap spacereview where the Astros land on MLB's prospect rankings with Chris Gordyreact to first baseman Christian Walker being scratched from Wednesday's spring training lineup due to left oblique sorenesstalk about LeBron James becoming the first player in NBA history to score 50,000 career pointstell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in New Orleans, where the Rockets will have a day off, and man, they kind of need one after losing last night to the Pacers. Back in action tomorrow against the Pelicans, Pelicans on Saturday, and then we are down the home stretch of the regular season. We have got a lot of different things going on. today, including a move in the NFL, that probably the Texans are going, man, we should

have done that. We'll discuss that. Speaking of the Texans, a lot of veteran receivers are available. We can discuss if any of them intrigue you or any of the Texans fan base. Astros are back in action after a day off yesterday. LeBron James hits 50,000 points in the NBA for the only player obviously ever to do that. We have Major League payroll numbers from last year that are officially announced. And for those...

Oh, Rossi. That'll get down Mardi Gras now, Maddie. You're in New Orleans, baby. Can I tell you something? What? We arrived at the hotel at about a little before 1 a.m. Now, watch that pile of armadale there, Maddie. The city was a silver buzzing, my friend.

It comes to zero surprise. You're correct? Really? What time did you get in, you said? A little before one? Oh, yeah. Oh, that doesn't surprise me. No.

It would surprise me if you said you got it at 6 a.m. And the town is still buzzing. And you'll be very proud of me. The focus on the radio show is obviously party number one. I did not go to the casino, which is adjacent to my hotel. You didn't? I know. And you only got in at one?

I'm actually shocked. I know. You must have been really wiped. It's been tough. Three cities and three days and two games. Yeah. Plus, you know, I got to be my brightest for the great city of Houston, Texas. Now, my plan is to nap between two and three 30 today after the show's over and then be at the

tables until I fall over arm broke. Yeah, you've got to go mid-afternoon. Hopefully the limits are a little lower. Oh, very, very good. And by the way, you and I will be having a conversation through text about how to put some numbers down on a certain NBA or, excuse me, a certain college basketball team or teams. Let me know how them futures are looking, Maddie. Auburn lost last night, so who knows?

Yeah, by the way, congratulations to Aggie basketball. I don't know of any Aggie's care. I know one that does. He cares a little too much. He actually cares way too much, and I thought it was worthy of me texting my son, my middle son, who will be graduate. May 8th will be the day he will be graduating from the Texas A&M University. Next year? This year? Wait, this year?

Yes. He's grown up. He's grown up so fast, the young lad. I didn't realize he was working in Ireland during this time. Yes. Let me tell you something. Oh, Peyton Thomas. I put up with your pathetic take sometimes for two reasons.

one, you're an affable guy and two, your accents. You've already gone New Orleans and Dublin, Ireland on us for some reason, both in the first three minutes of this radio show. I got to bring something to the table, Matt. And as you said, it's not going to be good takes. No, it will not be that at all, especially your food conversations. Oh, my God.

Don't even start, please. Oh, my God. You and your infantile palette. We don't even start right now. All right, real quick, before I get to sports headlines, we're going to play. How much did Matt's service cost? I love this game.

okay so you got a king cake you got the good you got the red beans and rice with the you got the gumbo with the rim of lord that's that's tomorrow okay talking about i woke up this morning at just before nine o'clock and the very first thing i did was order room service because i wasn't going to have time to go get breakfast because the show was starting now at ten o'clock room service thomas oh i like this all right connor connor you're the best when you order uh Eggs Benedict or an omelette or eggs. Don't they normally come with toast, a protein? You're going eggs Benedict?

I did it go eggs Bennett this morning. With the Hollandeys. I love Hollandeau sauce. Okay. I asked if it comes with potatoes, and they said, no, it doesn't. So I was like, that seemed a little odd, but you know what? I want a little side order with my Eggs Benedict. So I got Eggs Benedict.

Uh-huh. Potatoes. They weren't even hash brown. They were, like, boiled potatoes that were. kind of somewhat crispy night. I'll never order. Willed potatoes. What are we in the Depression? It was a little odd.

They don't do the hash browns. You know what we're talking about the ones that you get the Waffle House? Okay. Those are my favorite. And I decided to go downstairs and get coffee because it would be cheaper than having them bring a pot up here. Okay. So ice water, Mm-hmm.

Boiled potatoes, that was called breakfast potatoes. Uh-huh. And eggs Benedict. Now remember, there is tax. Yes. Gratuity. Yes. And a delivery.

charge. Ooh, and a delivery fee? Oh, don't need to get restarted. 4799. 4799. Connor, what is your bid? $5. Wait, hold on, hold on.

50, sorry, 50. We're doing this as Price is Right Style, right? If I go over, I lose. Right. The actual retail price for that this morning for Eggs Benedict, potatoes and water. $64. Oh, my God.

No, you lose. Would you? Wait, I said... Would you recalibrate? What'd you say? I said 50. Oh, damn. I actually said five, I meant 50.

You said five. Let me have this. Yeah, you know what? You can have it. I can't win to tell the truth, but I got this. So, note to tell. Okay, you got... I will never do this again.

What was on this egg's Benedict? Ham. Was it wag you ham? I don't know what it was, but it was holiday sauce was delicious. So let's put this in pretty. perspective. The English muffin, what does an English muffin cost on value? 85 cents.

The eggs are a little more expensive now. That's true. Since the change, we're looking at about, let's say, $3 for the eggs, it's $3.85. The Hollandeau sauce, you're making it in bulk, so that's probably going to be another 75 cents, maybe. So you're looking about $4.60. And the ham probably is $1.5.60. It was like imported from Italy or something?

I guess. The potatoes, there were five of them and they were fine. Oh, I forgot the ketchup was part of it too. Oh, you didn't mention that. Fancy ketchup, I imagine. So you're talking about the, they charged for about $6.60 of product, $63. What a world. Makes you want to go down the street to a residence run and go scrabbs some of that free breakfast.

Yeah, you should just went to the Popeye's on Canal. Let me tell you mistakes. Or is it poignant this again. All right. So, there it is. So you think this life of mine is easy, friends? Yes, it is. $63.

Because you've got it covered, so. And so you've got it pretty em, so. Okay. That's true. I just don't tell my wife about how much money is. Yes, it's just one last bed at the black check table. You know, I can think of it as a deposit, Ross, one more bed that I win and get that money back. Okay.

Yeah. My glasses have full. I like that. All right. To the headlines of the day. We've got a lot of little things going on today. Astros are back in action. It'll be a tape delay broadcast tonight at 7 o'clock here on these airwaves we call sports talks.

Oh, wonderful. People love that. Yeah, people cannot get enough of 7 o'clock tape delay in spring training baseball. People on Twitter love to talk about how much they love it. Yeah, they're like, man, we can't get more tape delay games. But that is what it is. They are playing the St. Louis Cardinals. Let me give you the lineup today for them.

for the stroes. And I wrote this down here. What did I do with it? Oh, here we go. Al-Tubei. Alvarez batting second. What's the number next to Al-Tubei? Seven.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Paredes. Isak? Isak. Walker, Caratini, Pena. Mm. DeCenzo, Dubon, Myers.

I like this lineup. You get an Alvarez in there, and then we're really cooking. He's batting. He's battings. He's back in seconds. Oh, you said Alvarez. I must have missed it. I zoned out.

Bann, by the way, is over in spring training so far. That's good. No, that's great. He's saving his hits for the regular season. We're all good. Remember two years ago people hated Mauricio Dubon? No, was it three years ago? Three years ago.

Two years ago, it was trade out two vei. And then last year it was... That's just kind of a mix. Can you give me something besides a slap single? So, you know, that's what we're here. So the Astros and Cardinals, if anything spectacular happens in the game, both offensively or defense, we will have some highlights and put those on during the course of the show today. We have a shut your bum ass up at 1130 this morning and ain't nobody got time for that.

That'll be at 1130. That's probably our most asked about segment of the week. Was at the Rort Bar the other night where I saw you and your brother. Oh, that's right. And some people that I was with from the Rockets are like, can I just tell you all, I love, ain't nobody got time for that and shut your bum ass up? It is the heritage segment at the moment of the Matt Thomas show. It's a phenomenon, as the kids would say. Yes.

So we'll have that for you today. We have EMA DOC at 1 o'clock. I'm sure he's going to be just in a spectacular movie. Do you know the Rockets have lost, I think, eight straight road games? Is that bad? It's not good. By the way, the Lakers don't want to lose ever anymore. The Warriors don't want to lose anymore.

So the Rockets got a whole nine of that five spot for dear life here. Yeah, they still got a decent cushion with their... Oh, the Warriors now. Instead of the wolves. Yep. They've won, I believe they're 9-in-1 with Jimmy Butler. Yeah, and I believe the Lakers have won 17 of 20. I mean, this is ridiculous.

Come on, man. LeBron James comes to L.A. into the Western Conference, and then they trade for Luca Donchich. You already have the West Powers like the Nuggets Thunder and Grizzlies. Then Jimmy Butler gets traded from the East over the West. I'm sick of it. Why is the West always?

has got to be so tough. Too much. It's too much. And the East is, the NBA is, and I know this is going to fall on deaf ears, Rossi. There are 10 teams that could win

the NBA championship this year. Now, Oklahoma City probably is the heavy favorite in the West. The way the Lakers are playing right now, the way that you got Milwaukee and Cleveland and Boston in the East. I'm maybe that 10.

I'm sticking with the Thunder. Look, there's the heavy favorites, but we'll see. It's going to be, oh, look, I know, Matt, you and I, we stumped for the NBA, and a lot of people have tuned out. The playoffs are going to be good. The playoffs are going to be really good. They were good last year. They're going to be good this year.

Yep, for sure. All right. There is an offensive lineman that was traded in the NBA and the NFL yesterday that you would go, who cares? But it goes to a bigger question of, will the Texans ever do something like this? We'll get to that. LeBron hits 50,000 points.

Astro's payroll was announced for last year, as the rest of Major League Baseball was. Tank Dell is going under the knife today. Nico Collins gets a restructure of a contract, and the Aggie basketball team beats the number one team in the country. I think there's something special about beating the best, even if it's a regular season game. And do Aggie fans even care?

Are there a such thing as Aggie basketball fans? There's some. They're on the tournament this year. Yeah, that was their first win over the number one team. Ever? Ever. That's kind of a big deal, I think. Yeah.

Also speaks to a program that's lacking in history. And the best part of it is Buzz Williams, their coach, told the fans, do not go on the court. Oh, really? That's the common thing to do. When did he do that? I want to say late in the game because there was a video of him pushing everybody aside saying, do not run on the court. You know, we can talk about that.

How do you feel about rushing on the court? We got a lot to get to today, sports argument. This could be a power pack show after all. It is. We want you involved. 713-212-5-7-90. You didn't mention the Longhorn's big win over Mississippi State on the road. Oh, I'm sorry.

That's a quad-one win at Mississippi State's top 25. That is correct. They were first four out now. Let's go. So go Rodney-Terry Contract Extension, baby. Yeah, right. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show.

This with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross via real. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1020 on Sports Talk 790. We don't talk politics on the show, but we do talk about people. Sad to report this morning that former Houston mayor, Sylvester Turner, died yesterday. the age of 70 was at in Washington DC in fact for the state of the union address and password I don't know any details on it but just saw

a bunch of people tweeting it so RIP I've only met him one time he seemed very pleasant again I'm very much apoliticals I don't really get into that kind of stuff but he's a sitting representative right correct yes okay yeah I think he did he take over the spot for Ciel Jackson League yes away so yeah this is a yeah he's a member of the United States Congress So, wow. A University of Houston alum. Yeah.

Oh, I seen a lot of U of H games over the years. Came in a lot of Rockets games, for that matter. Got a JD from Harvard? Wow. Man, I got a BA from U of H, and I feel like that was a lot of work. I thought you got a BS. Well, that's what I think I was giving up since the days of getting my BA at University of Houston. Man, I love U of H, but I could.

I couldn't get, I couldn't wait to get out of there. I just wanted to get into my career and get the degrees so my mom and dad were happy and proud of me. That's good, Matt. You know, did I give some sports tickets to professors? Yes. Did I rewrite a paper ticket from going from an F to a D minus? Yes.

We're proud of you. It doesn't matter, Matt. You got the skin on the wall. I do have the skin on the wall. It's in my office. Thank you for asking. All right. Rossi, there's so many things to get to.

Rockets, college hoops, Astros' payroll, Astros lineup, NFL trade this morning involving the Chiefs and the Bears. What do you want to start on this? I mean, there's so many different things to go to. You spin the wheel of topics. Let's start with the Rockets. Okay.

Your hometown Hoopers. Yeah, we have a tough time with really good guards. Two nights ago, it was Shigilders Alexander. Last night was Tyrese Halliburton. Fifteen assists. Mm-hmm. Two turnovers. Hmm.

28 points. Dominant. Furious rally falls short again for the Rockets, back-to-back meets. Yeah. Which kind of makes you even, probably if you're in a even more pissed that you arrest those one guy, all the guys the first time hoping that you come out a little bit of a fresher look in the second. And well, that didn't work out. No, it didn't.

And is Jalen Green healthy? Yeah, I mean, he played last night. It doesn't look like he's moving well, and he's, the lazy turnovers are getting worse and worse and worse. Yeah, unfortunately for me, for him, he is telegraphing a lot of those turnovers. It looks like to me that he is at least. That passes are being anticipated by other teams. Now, again, there are going to be some good teams that are going to be guys that are going to be deflectors and have it long extensions and just good, intuitive parts of their game.

But there's just, there's been a lot of them that have been in the situation. Rockets last night only scored 19. Hell, they only give up 48 in the second half and lose. because they only put up 45 themselves. Usually it's been one bad quarter this year. It feels like the Rockets just big themselves, especially on the road, in a hole. Last night, you had all five starters and double figures. Jalen did not shoot particularly well.

They had 12 points on 413. Alpi was at 25 and 7 assists yesterday, 9 rebounds. He almost had a triple. God, I didn't realize. He almost had a triple double last night. Dylan Brooks did not shoot well. Really, nobody shot well collectively. as a group. They finished the game

shooting 41% from the floor. Ross, no matter what any nuances you have in sports, in baseball you have to hit it, in football you have to throw the pass, and in baseball and in basketball you've got to hit the shots. And that's exactly what the Rockets, unfortunately, could not do much of last night. It is a make or miss league, as they

say. Nine of 30 from three, and I felt like there were just way too many wide open ones that they missed. It's one of those nights. I thought, I thought, look, I'm not going to cross Dylan Brooks, because he'd been carrying them with some of these offensive performances he's had lately. But it is a fact that he missed some

wide open looks. I'm not mad about it, but it is a fact of what happened last night. Yeah, two games for Dylan Brooks against the Pacers, again, extraordinarily small sample size. He has five field goals in 26 attempts. He went one for 10 the first time around last time he went four for 16.

He's still been great for them all season shooting 39%. The closest thing to 40% shooting from the 3.4 range, no one of nobody else even close beyond that. So the rocket fall. They are still in the fifth spot in the West. They're still not very far from its, even from the Lakers of two, but I'm worried about

what's coming behind the Rockets as compared to what the Rockets could do to get ahead. And thankfully, you've got New Orleans two straight games coming up. And then you have, what do you get after that? You got Philadelphia's coming in next week, too. So there are some winnable games coming up, that's for sure. And along Homestead, this is the last road game we have for probably about two weeks, two and a half weeks. I'm very excited about that.

It's funny we talk about how easy the Pelican should be, but I mean, Zion dropped 37 last night. He's actually fit. Do you understand that? Yeah, I guess. I mean, I think he's down to his lowest weight as a pro. Good. Now, what if that's the Pelicans Public Relations Department embellishing that a little bit, or somebody put him on a scale and said, prove it.

But, yeah. He is one of those players that is, I think, when he's healthy, and playing and vested is unguardable. And it's very rare to say that. Yeah. Because he can post you up, back you down, muscle you in, and then he could stop you on a dime from 16 feet and hit a mid-range shot. Yeah, he's not a good three-point shooter, but he does everything else.

No, but the bottom line is you just can't stay healthy. And a lot of that is because he just hasn't, you know, here's a breaking news fact, Ross. If you're going to play in the NBA where you're expected to play 70, 75 games a year, you have to keep yourself in tip-top physical condition for every month of that year and probably a lot of the off-season too. He's still reeling from playing 70 games last year. It was more of a workload that he's used to. Yeah.

And did not reach that that mark this year. It is funny, though. Remember back in the day and this before you and I were even the business, guys could get really fat during the off season. I'm talking about all the sports. Smoke cigarettes, drink beer, eat tons of fried food, and they go to training camp and they work it out out. Not anymore. You get exposed really quick if you come into a training camp out of ship, no matter what the sport is. Yeah, it's because everybody else is doing it.

You have guys with their off-season regimens, so you have to keep up with the Jones. It's like how people say, like, oh, back in the day, oh, my guys, they all played 150 games. And, yeah, they were all out of shape and worn down by the end of the year. Now you have guys who are taking care of their bodies full year round, so kind of everybody has to do it. And the reality is, Ross, too, these guys are making 900 times what these guys were making 25 years ago. Right. They're not selling insurance in the office. responsibility that comes with it too.

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what we would hope to have with some guys not playing last night. Yeah, and so it's hard to win when you give up 67 in the first half and play uninspired and, you know, black physicality and throwing a ball over the gym

and don't look like we care at times. And so that one hurts because you do all that work to get back into it. And, you know, 13 for 16, or 13 for 26 from the free throw line. Miss about five point blank layups. You know, then you can extend the lead when you're up one and do all that work and then give it back. But more than that, to your point, I care about the fight and effort and competitiveness from the start to avoid getting into that hole.

Oh, Lord. He's grumpy. By the The Rockets are a Bottom 3 free throw shooting team And they've been that way all year long And it's just getting worse Ah, everything he just mentioned

May he frustrated all over again How many easy buckets at the basket Did they miss? Oh my God, I was looking at the points And to paint during the game yesterday And they show you how many points you have And how many shots it took I mean, I think they were at one point

They were And I don't have the real box score in front of me This second I think they were 27 of 56 From the inside the paint which is the, you know, it's the lane area, which is anything is... You want to be, like, above 60% there. Oh, minimum.

Sure. For sure. Hmm. Maybe I should have taken e-may out for a couple of beverages after the game last night. Maybe you should have. At the town. Tell I meet you at the casino at 3.30. Let's go.

At the Rue, Boo, Matt. That's right. Maybe, you know, I'll do. A couple of hand grenades. Go get him a Cafe Dumond at 3.30. I know, I know it's the... I don't think they're open. This afternoon, they're open at 330.

Oh, okay. I thought you meant in the morning. Oh, I bet you they're, do they even close? Yeah, they close. And I know people want to say, well, there's better place. You know what? I'll save this for 1130. Better place guy, standby 1130. It isn't the judge.

It's a touristy trap. But it's still delicious. And I'm wrong with it. It's fried dough with powdered sugar. Mmm, delicious. I mean, there isn't one recipe down the street that's got like cocaine in it. I mean, I guess you could be, actually. Well, it is New Orleans.

Yeah, that's true. All right. Ross, I would never normally, and we got a little astro update coming up a little bit, but I want to bring up an NFL note real quick. I would normally never bring up to you a trade between Chicago and Kansas City that involved an offensive alignment. Okay, but you are. But I'm going to do it here.

The Chicago Bears are trading a 20,000. 26th, fourth round pick to Kansas City for all pro guard Joe Thuney. And apparently they're going to give Joe Thuny a new deal. And you're like, okay, first of all, who's, if I, if you'd ask me yesterday who Joe Thuny, what is it? Tune. Is it Tune? I don't even know who the guy's name is. I mean, I don't follow a lineman in the NFL.

I mean, we have a friend of ours that does, but we don't do that. Two-time All-Pro. Three-time Pro Bowler. Did you know who he was until yesterday? Yes, I did. Okay, well, that's a mistake on my part. I think I can live with myself. He's been part of their really good.

One of the reasons they've been so good the last several years is the really good offensive line. He's been a part of that. Yeah. So I knew they're collectively were a good offensive line. They were beat up a little bit towards the end. So his name is Tooney? Is that what it is? Yes. Okay, so Joe Tunney. By the way, Mrs. Tunney, why does you change that last name? It looks like... It looks like Thunei. But that's

neither here nor there. They bring this up is because... Wait a minute. What's your last name? Thomas. Why isn't it Thomas? I don't disagree with you. you. Don't know come at Rang on other people's last name. Don't come at the Tudis when you're the same thing?

Yeah. I'm a, I'm full of that. Yeah. No, no, I'm a hip-in. I'm being consistent. Okay. So, this is the second trade the Bears have made in the last 24 hours. You know why they're doing this? Why are they doing this, Matt? Rossi, they got a special

quarterback named Caleb Williams. Mm-hmm. Who was running for his life last season. Yes, he was. beat up, concussed, kicked in the groin, thrown down. He lives in Chicago. That's part of the problem. Number two is he needs an offensive line. Yes, he does. And the Texans, excuse me, the Chicago Bears have traded a mid-round fourth pick in order to go get one of the quote-unquote best

offensive linemen and guards in the national football league. Yes. So all I would ask you is, because you are Betelred Ross. Yes. You think the Texans can do no wrong? When are the Texans going to make a similar move like that? Hopefully soon. They need to improve the offensive line.

That is job number one for Nick Casario. What if Casario says, I've got first and second wrong guys literally throw out my offensive line? They need some cohesive talent. He knows Kenyon Green is a bust. He knows that. He has to know that, right? Look, Laramie Tunsell, I know you hate him, but he's a good left tackle.

You don't really need to upgrade there. Correct. They drafted Blake Fisher. They drafted him. Juice Scruggs, jury out. Juice is mid. Shack Mason, we could see you later on that. Yeah, his best days are gone.

So, yeah, you've got some needs to address. I don't know. I would say this. And I would say that it wouldn't move the radar in terms of, ooh, topic, well, it would on one show, but not on ours. But it would be something that would be, you'd go. go, man, that's a general manager doing some good digging, making phone calls, and I'm not saying the Casero's not doing that.

But the Bears, you know, I believe in the lead-by-example category. This is leading by example. They knew they have a star quarterback, and I believe that Caleb Williams is going to be a fine-en-fo quarterback. They just don't trust what was there, and they've made two moves to get better. And I, if I was a Bears fan, while these are very under-radar moves, I think this is commendable of them to do this. Yeah, it's a good move for them. And the Kansas City Chiefs didn't really have the money to extend Joe Tooney, is what I'm reading.

And so they needed to trade them, and the Chicago Bears do have the money. Yeah. Meanwhile, the Texans did restructure Nico Collins contract. Yes. Going to save him $10 million in the cap. It feels like that's something that's happening a lot in these days, is that you have these NFL players, especially at the skill positions, Rossi, that get these mega deals because they want to brag about them,

how cool they are and how much their AAB is every year. And then they come back and say, well, you know, a couple of years, we're going to have to come back and renegotiate this and just move some money around. And usually the player says that's fine. Yeah, well, it's not like he lost any money. It was a restructuring and he gets a lot of it up front.

And they probably knew that when they made the extension. Same thing is C. C.D. Lam just restructured. It's kind of built into these contracts that they can restructure soon for cap relief. Yeah, I remember back many years ago, Treyitman was getting these big numbers to be the quarterback of the Cowboys, and every year he was restructuring his contract

because he wanted to get other players around him. So I think it's sizzle for the agent, but I think when you sign these deals, you go, hey, just let you know that down the road we may need to move some money around to make that happen. And that's smart for the Texans to do that. So whatever that does, it does open up some cap space for whether it's a free agency

or maybe just holding off money, because you got to spend, you have money in the bank for draft picks, too. You can't forget about that. Tank, Del's going to have his ACL surgery today. Do you hear that grunt? Yeah, that was gorty, right? I don't know what's happening right now.

I brought some cake in the studio for you guys. Matt's not here to eat it, though. I'm getting some real cake. I've dropped your name twice already here in New Orleans. Yeah, what did you get? Nothing. Zilch. I've been here 13 years, Matt.

It's been a while. No, I still drop your name around town. I still drop your name at the Harris Garage. That was one of the all-timer moments in the history of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Me being in the back of the car, you turn on your New Orleans accent and getting us a pre-mill parking space. Do you remember what happened 30 minutes after that?

I don't. Adrian Peterson broke our hands. Oh my God, that is right. We saw Adrian Peterson at the buffet, and you remembered him, or he remembered you from Minnesota? Yes, yes. And then he shook my hand and broke my hand. Ross, I'm going to be honest with you, Gordy and I have never held each other like that

so hard in our life because our hands were throbbing. We were in that much pain. What was happening to your hands? Adrian Peterson. all day, shook our hands. No, I just wanted to hear him say they were throbbing. Oh, our hands were throbbing. Trying to get a clip out of this.

I know you're trying to do. You ain't going to happen. It's not going to happen on my way. I already got a thumbs up. We're good. Hey, did you guys... I don't believe in talk about throbbing hands. Excuse me. Did you guys see this just dropped? The asteros top prospect list came out? Oh, I did. I did. From who? MLB pipeline? MLB pipeline. And Jim Kellis and the boys?

Gordie, I want you to run through the top five because there's something that I mentioned on a gut feeling that basically backs up this list. So continue to give us the top five. I'll give you the guys real quick, not on the list. A.J. Bluebaugh comes in at number 11. Colton Gordon, who they've been very high on, number 16, Shea Whitcomb, 17. And of course, the legend of Pedro Leon, he's still on this list at 22. So none of those guys in the top five.

So without further ado, your top five at number five on the asteros top prospect list, Zach DeZenzo. Love it. Very high on him. They list them as third baseman slash first baseman. How about outfield, Zach? We'll put you anywhere. But he's not in the top 100, correct?

At number four, their former first round pick, Walker Janick. Or is it a soft J? Yonick? I'm going to go to Yonick. Now, when I was in school, my eighth grade math teacher, her name was Yonick. And it was J.A.N.E.K. Well, he went to Sam Houston State, right? So maybe it's a hard Jay. Yeah, you go to San Jus.

Hey, that has a Walker Janick down there now. I'm going to call you Janik, boy. Coming at number three. It is outfielder. Will we see him this year? Jacob Melton. We will see if he moves up this list. Coming in at number two,

got up to Sugar Land last year. He is shortstop slash third baseman, Bryce Matthews. And of course, coming in at number one, the legend that grows every day of spring training. It is one Cameron Smith from Florida State. By the way, there are some Astros Twitter folks who want to retire Cam Smith's number already.

He hasn't played a game for the Astros yet. Yeah, he's in the, get him an orange jacket. Let's go. So real quick, my thought was, remember when I said Rossi that EACPredes would not be long for the organization? I think you did. I think this list backset up. He could play sick and base.

He's under arbitration. He could. But, yeah, guys get moved all the time. Yeah, but guys get moved even when they're under arbitration. Just like the Seq Prates did. Okay. I'm just saying, I wouldn't be buying. Who's your second basement in two years?

Who's your second basement now? Well, it's Dubon for now, but I can't give you the answer in two years. It could be Paredes for sure. Yes, it could be. He's on Paredes. If it's Paredes, that means he's hitting the ball really well. Their highest second base prospect coming in at number 14, Chase Jaworski.

Okay, that's Ron's cousin, correct? Spelled differently. No. I try. Well, a good pull for you, by the way, on that one. Thank you, Matt. Is Jaws alive or dead? He's alive.

I saw him in New Orleans. Super Bowl week. Now, my dicka? Not there. He's not a his cigar party. Ross, Joe Thaisman, alive or dead? He's alive. He's alive.

He's alive. Okay. Sylvester Turner. All right. Not a lot. Ross. That was Gordon. Hit him.

That was. Hi, that was Chris Gordy. That was not me, Ross. Although I wouldn't put it past me to say something like that. Some people might have not known. Yeah. You put Eastside Paredes at second. got no second basement. He's under team control for

like two more years. It didn't cost you anything. He's going to hit 30 bombs to over the Crawford boxes and play and play second. Crawford Buck. Oh, here we go. Here comes a subliminal message. No, by the way, guys,

one thing we haven't mentioned that we should about this prospect list would be the ETAs as an estimated time of arrival at the major league level. Cam Smith, 2026. For those folks, out there who want them to start the season. But 2025 for Bryce

Matthews, Jacob, Jacob, and DeZenzo. Dizzo not surprised, but Bryce and Jacob, it says 2025. Putting 26 on Cam Smith feels like a Polillo bit. That feels like every day we're going to be like, Cam Smith batting 350 and still not up on the big league club. What are you doing?

What are you doing, Astro? What are you doing, Dana Brown? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? He's got like 20 plate appearances above AA, or above single A. So let's give it a little time, folks. All right, we're getting nasty messages from Conardy McGovern. Because we here on the show hit our breaks on time, Gordy.

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Sports Talk 790, 713, 2125790. Second 713, 212570. You're so big on this paredes thing about not being moved. This will be his third major league team, Rossi. They can move guys in arbitration years. It can happen.

I'm just saying keep it out there. I didn't say it's impossible, Matt. All right. I know you want to hit all your gut feelings. I know. It will be. So you're really clinging on to this one for whatever reason. I'm going to do this.

That's fine. I'm just telling you from a team building standpoint, if you have somebody who can hit like Esauk Parade is and play second while Cam Smith is on third, then you would do it because you have holes there. You have holes in the infield in theory. In the best situation, if parties is a 285 hitter with power and you want to put them in second because Dubon's nothing more than what he's been as a major league hitter, I'm all for it.

Well, he's a 230 hitter with power. That's true. All right, speaking of baseball real quick, and we've got a lot of things to get to again. EMAOga is going to join us at 1 o'clock. We have shut your ball mass up in about 40 minutes from now. The payroll numbers for Major League Baseball, Rossi, have been officially announced for last year.

Now, this year, obviously things can change because the season hasn't started yet. The top five teams in payroll, and I'm not going to go through all the numbers. but I do want to go over the bottom five and the top five. We'll start with the bottom five. Have you seen the list? The rotten five?

They are. Well, in terms of payroll, I kind of, I glanced. I didn't see the whole list, so I didn't see the whole bottom five, but I'm probably probably already tell you Oakland's least. The worst. They spent $66 million on payroll last year. Okay. I'm going to say Tampa Bay is in there.

Tampa Bay was third at $90 million. Third worst? Okay. Pittsburgh? Second worst. 87 million. So from the worst was the A's at 66. Pittsburgh is second worse at 87. Right. Those are the easy ones.

There's one more easier one than there's Miami? Miami would be fourth. That's 98 million. That was the easy one. That was the easy one, yeah. Reds? Tigers at 101. Okay. Maybe those, do you think it was part of the reason why Breggman's like, eh, I think I'm going to go to Detroit? I mean, I love you, AJ, but you're a franchise that doesn't have a history of spending big money. I think if he were to commit to a long-term deal

word on the street was he wanted to make sure he was going to be at a contender for the duration. So really the short term with optional opt-outs with high AAV was kind of a really good landing spot for him. Yeah, for sure. All right, top five

payrolls. You want to go? And I don't have the numbers here. Mets are number one. Dodgers. 333. The Dodgers were third. Yankees. Two? That's Dodgers.

Philly's? Fourth. Is it? Say it. Is it? Is it? Is it our own Houston Astros? So for all of you that want to call this radio show and say,

Why does Jim Gray spend any money? Not that our audience sounds like that, but disgruntled old Astro fan does. The Astros spent $244 million in payroll last year, Rossi. That puts him fifth most expensive. defensive team in payroll last year in major league baseball behind a new york new york l a and philly yes sir i heard jim kre is super cheap rolls yeah so seriously i look there are a lot of things you can criticize the astros for their lack of honesty when it comes to injuries probably the top of my list okay but spending money ain't one of them and i will i will die on that sword to say that

Jim Crane has certainly been willing to spend money since he's been owner of this team, especially in the last seven or eight years. And especially with the margaritas being $30 at the ballpark. Do you have to keep the glass or is that you have to throw the glass away? I guess you can take home any glass in theory, Matt. Yeah, I could. But I mean, sometimes you really, there's a good value in that glass and there's something just, you know, just plastic. Is your house stocked up with a bunch of free plastic cups you got from various places?

Or is that just me? I think you've been in my house more than you've said you have been. Oh, I think I feel like that's everybody. I would have to say I probably have, we have a cabinet full of plastic cups. Yeah. I would say we probably have at least no lying here, 15 astroscups. I probably, I'm not there, but if not for some recent house cleaning, I'd be there. Yeah.

Like, we've got to get rid of these. Well, I'm going to say this. If my kids are going to spend $9 on a Coke, they bring the damn glass home with you. They have nice cups, the nice pint glasses, too, at Minutemate. I'll get on that. And they withstand the many dishwashing treatment. They're sturdy. They don't fade.

None of that kind of stuff. They're good. Now, would I rather have a plastic cup and charge me half as much? Sure, I'm in for that. But, yeah. So, Astros last year, had a payroll of $244 million. ladies and gentlemen. That is the fifth most in Major League Baseball last year.

And they got 88 wins and they lost in the first round. And the Wildcard round in two games. And the Mets, by the way, did go to the National League Championship Series, but did not represent the National League in the World Series. Phillies won their division. Right. Philly's... Yeah, I mean, these are all teams that have been playoff teams.

I mean, if you don't spend, you don't go to the playoffs except the Tigers, but that was a one-off for them. I mean, I don't know if they'll have that sort of sustained success, but that's a tip of the cap to the organization. The Tigers is the fifth, least expensive payroll. What's the matter? I think I'm one breaking new sounder. Can we save it for the top of the hour?

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Good God Let this not be Christian Walker Scratch from today's lineup Left oblique soreness John Singleton will start today in the place Of Walker

God, no. We need some more of sound effects, Connor. Just throw some crap against the wall. Let's see if it sounds good. No, God. No, God, please no. No! I want my phone lines lit right now.

Let's go. Why can't we have nice things? Can I quote tweet what you just said? What's that? Why can't we have nice things? Oh, no, because people are going to take it serious. but go ahead. You don't go ahead.

I'm going to do why God, why. That's fine. Who cares? It is what it is. You know, people think that's religious. I think, uh, why? See, you have to be so... This is great.

I can't, people can't take any jokes. Can I put... Is there a reason to live? No, can't put that one down. That's not good. Not good. Bill O'Brien. No, Bill O'Brien's like, no, don't do that either.

Um, I'm going to put on any of a cigarette. This is just not great, Matt. Oblique issue. Okay, Matt's tweeting right now, live on air. This is a great radio. All right, I does. I just do it. I need a cigarette and don't smoke.

How about that? Is that better? That's one of your go-toes. Left oblique soreness. That means my rib cage hurts, right? Matt, I'm trying to reinvent the wheel here on this. Let's see. Who had oblique issues?

Was it two years ago? It was Yordon in L-Tuvei? Or was it? Yeah. Obleek's are a nasty thing. thing. Yeah. Especially for a guy who

defends his position so well. Plus he's swinging. I mean, that involves a rip cage. Absolutely. All right. Here's the thing. I have been, Rossi, I have been an Astros fan since I was seven years old.

We're talking about 45 years of Astrofandum. Okay. So I am a fan before I'm a sportscaster. But the reality is the Astros have done a lousy job in the last 10 years telling us how severe certain injuries are. for that matter all sports

seem to have done a lousy job i mean is there anybody that's been overly forthcoming probably not that's a trend now in these sports so if they tell me today it's no big deal then if that's the case he's back on the he's back playing by the end of the week or maybe by this weekend yeah the astros always tell us they're right up front as you say matt

no they're not right up front they they don't transparent they call them transparent strows they're just the opposite of what you just said. Because again, here's the thing that cracks me up is that people think that they're trying to, that other teams are going to get a competitive advantage by you not telling the truth.

It ain't in there, it ain't in there. And it's spring training. Now, if you want to come on and say, he felt sore, he didn't, he didn't think it was that big of a deal, then I can believe that, but I just don't have much history of the Astroser for that matter.

Many sports teams tell him. us the complete and utter truth. So I don't know what to think. All I will say is this. Joe is going to talk about it after a game today, for sure. I mean, he meets with the media very briefly after the games. He does more of his talking in the morning workouts before they actually get on the field and start practicing and whatnot. So I don't know how detailed they'll get on it.

But I can almost promise you, Ross, the answer is coming out of Joe's mouth or Dana who speaks today will be, we don't think it's a big deal. It's just a spring training game. And so I have to take him at their word, but I've heard things like that before, and I'm going to wait to see when Christian Walker returns. If it's in the next three to four days, I feel great. If it's two weeks from now, I'm hitting the panic button. Yeah, it's something that's been bothering him,

but we just want to go ahead and nip it in the bud. We're not concerned at all. Right now, we would say he's day-to-day, and we're going to monitor it as we go forward. Yeah, sounds about right. So, ladies and gentlemen, Christian Walker missing a spring-turning game. Are you concerned? No, I'm going to do that. You can just call the train away if you want to.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79. So John Singleton's like, man, I'm so sorry that you're unable to go, but is just going to help my roster spot guarantee? Couldn't hurt. He said he's in the best shape of his life. He looked like he was in good shape when we were at spring training. How's the spring training batting average?

I don't know. Doesn't matter, Matt. It doesn't matter if he's hitting 700 or 100. John Singleton just simply mashes? He does have the best bat flip on the current roster. Yes, he does. And when he hits home runs the right field,

they're always second tank jobs. They're never those little cheapies over the wall. Doesn't just sneak over the fence. And again, if there was anybody in Major League Baseball that can play with three buttons down in his jersey, it's John Singleton. Yeah, he took over the reins on that from Jose Abrae.

That is true. Well, did Jose ever really have it? And it's a white sock you did, but not as an astra for sure. All right, that's all I got on that. I don't know what much more we can say except prayers for Christians left oblique? Yes. Pray for Christian. Yeah, that's easy.

Pray for Christian. His name is Christian. And you're not going to do the water tower thing, are you anymore? No, I'm not. That was such a great early bit of the show. I don't have Photoshop access anymore. How much for it be for me to pay for it? Because I think it's such a great part of the show.

It's less $100 a year. No. It's got to be more. Would you like me to pay for your auto shop or your blue checkmark on Twitter? You know what they do now? You used to just buy the software and you had it forever. Now they make you do a subscription. That's ridiculous. What a scam that is, right? Yeah, there are a lot of scams.

It's $23 a month. No, thanks. We're good. I mean, are you serious Adobe? That's crazy. I pay for it. But I still have my student discount. Oh, okay.

Can you give me your login? Give me your Adobe login. If you pay for, yeah. We're going to split it? No, I don't need to Photoshop that. It's for the whole creative suite. How about a la carte? You get audition, after effects.

I don't need all that. Okay. Oh, how about a car? One time you used, I'll give you five bucks. That seems fair. That's fine. Speaking of Alicart, why can't we all a cart TV channels anymore? What's, we, I thought,

don't you think technology would have a lot us to do that? This bundle them all up, Maddie. That's how, otherwise you're not going to buy, you know, well, you'd buy Bravo, I guess, and the Hallmark channel. Oh, hell yeah. Are you kidding me? Half the shows on my DVR or Bravo? Not for me.

I don't know. What a scam it is. Like, I would never want C-SPAN. How many times have you watched C-SPAN in your entire life? Zero. Zero. Hey, wait, was the OJ trial on the C-SPAN? Or was it somewhere else?

No, but the only thing I like on C-SPAN is when people call in under aliases and try to prank call them. That's the best part of- Do they have calling shows? Oh, yeah, they used to. I don't know if they'd do any more. But people would call in and, oh, you could, Ross, you get into a rabbit hole of YouTube, C-SPAN prank calls. Okay.

So you're a child like me and have a child to send you? I mean, yeah. When I was a child, I did get into prank calls. Like jerky boys' stuff. Mm-hmm. I thought that stuff was hilarious when I was like 12. We used to prank call people in high school all the time when I was a senior during second period speech class. It was just me and two other guys in the class.

Is your refrigerator running? No, I was much more better. I was a bunch of better than. I would call McDonald's and tell them we were a bus full of kids coming over and the police have 50 big Max ready to left o'clock. Now, see, that's horrible. That's worse. I was, Rossi, how many times have I explained?

Yeah, I know. That 17 to 18 was not a saint. I know, you're a punk kid. Yeah. You're cracking people's back with pool cues. Yes. My friend loved me for that, by the way. You're giving your teacher's technical fouls.

Yeah, I got thrown, I got sent the principal's office on that. You're getting a third base in the back of the bus and the mascot outfit. That was spectacular. at her. You're a bad kid, Matt. Yeah. Going to strip club before I was 21, all sorts of stuff. Wow.

Yeah, you know, it's maybe the person that I am today. Explains a lot, actually. It actually does. All right, shut your bum ass up coming up at the bottom of the air. That's terrible. 713-212-5-7-90. I want to openly ask, we have Aggie to listen to the show, right, Ross? We got Aggie Doug that listens a show.

We have Aggie, Felipe, Aguette. We have Aggie Aden. He's from our French connection. He's our Irish connection on that. Yeah, Aggie Gustav. It's from Germany. Was there a single Aggie fan that listened to this show

that watched you guys beat Auburn yesterday? You took down number one Auburn on your home floor. And they didn't rush the field. Court, yeah. Or court, yeah, that too. Did you watch? And what was it like? I'll pull a Mark Berman.

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713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Jim and Mo City, are you a proud ag? Yes or no? Yes, I am. And shame on you for not remembering me. I guess I don't call enough, but I called you last year giving you some free instant analysis of my team, but I guess that kind of went in one near and out the other. But yeah, class of 90. Oh, that one call from a year ago, Jim? It says Jim in Missouri City. I mean, you're telling me I'm just remember every call that's ever called this show. Come on.

No, I'm going to cut you some slack. I have not called this year. But I have been watching my fighting Texas Aggies religiously this year. I do follow their college basketball team ever since I graduated in 90. And it's quite an experience to watch this team. And especially this year. As you well know, college basketball can be a tough watch at times. This team's really good.

I mean, we were obviously in top 10, and then we went in a little run over the past couple of weeks. The SEC's brutal. Like we had last year, it's similar to the Cougars. We're just a little bit not as talented as you guys. We don't shoot the three as good as you guys. We play relentless defense, but you guys play a little bit better. It's just like we're almost there, just like you saw us last year, give you everything. you wanted in the NCAA tournament. This team can be anyone in the country last night.

They actually looked like the top 10 team. They've been in this whole year. It was a hell of a game. We can turn around and blow the 20-point lead against us terrible T-sips like we did earlier and ended up splitting with him. That game may come back behind us on our scene. Big win last night. Sometimes we don't know how to street free throws. Sometimes we can. can be 10% from the three point line. Like I said, it's college basketball. And then sometimes we can put it together and just knock off the number

one team. So I am looking forward to the March tournament. For us, it's going to be all about seating. And if we can make shots, we have the potential knock on wood to potentially make a good run.

We are a team that can lose in the first round. So I'm looking forward to it. And who knows, we may have a collision path with you guys at some point, depending on where we're at. Well, you will. And thank you very much of the phone call. Jim, don't be a stranger. Make it within a year when you call next.

And that's your Aggie call today. Brought to you by no one at this point. But yeah, congratulations to them. It's funny. I don't know if you know much about the Aggie basketball team. They've got a kid named Wade Taylor, who maybe is one of the five best players ever to play at A&M. And has been hurt a little bit this year. And last night did not shoot well.

It was five of 15 from the floor. But he had three, three-pointers. And the Aggies, not only did they beat the number one team of the country, they'd beat about 11 points. It wasn't even close. So shout out to them. And look, I know college basketball does not resonate in this area. Frankly, my squad, the number four team of the country doesn't really resonate outside of Houston.

But I just think it's cool. I think beating number one teams and getting your mojo back after the, I think they had lost three straight guys. going in and they'd lost a Texas game where Ross's longhorns were up by 20 or down by 20 and came back in one. I mean, my son. Yeah, they choked hard on that one.

My poor son. Oh, wow, they had lost four in a row before that victory. Four and a row. That was three, whatever. You lose track of these losses after a while. Yeah, I mean, three of those are to rank teams and then Ben and then Ben and Bill. All right, so Buzz Williams tells the guys, uh, the fans in the stadium that

Reed Arena not to storm the court. And you have a take on this. No, I was asking your take. When did he do this? Like when the game was ending? Did he take to the PA? He grabbed a microphone? Well, all I saw was, and this is just a video clip.

Look, I was obviously calling the Rockets game and then had a gun on the plane and get that down here to New Orleans. All I saw was him pushing him, putting one hand, one direction, and putting the other, basically saying don't store on the court. Now, if somebody can give me some more details on that, beyond that, I'm all for it.

But that's all I can tell you is that's what I saw. is that he basically said don't storm the court. Yeah. Here it is a video. It's 19 seconds. I'm watching it right now on my phone. It says A&M coach calls off court storm after knocking up number one Auburn. So there was an ad playing before, which is great.

Thank you very much for that. ESPN. Yeah, he's got both hands. He just shook Bruce Pearl's hands, and he put both hands up in the air and said, stay where you are. Don't go out and come out here. And there's a, you know, I'm looking at the video right now, Ross.

Nobody did it. They didn't storm the court. Now, some of the players were out there very good. But yeah, they're telling everybody to stay right where they are. You know what it is? Kind of one of those act like you've been there in moments. But they hadn't been there before. They'd never beaten the number one team ever.

So, to me, a storming the court should be reserved for the biggest of victories. And I would say beating the number one team for the first time in program history qualifies. I would lean towards your direction as well. but the problem is everybody is jumping on the court for any moment now. Like you beat the number 17 team in the country. You shouldn't storm the court. You should high-five each other,

maybe kiss a neighbor, introduce yourself to some new people. But it should be reserved for, what, top five victories, you said? Didn't you storm the field at U of H? Yeah. You guys, who did they beat? Probably something like number one.

Like, no, I don't think that was... I don't think so. I'm trying to remember. I think we won the American Conference Championship that year. Yeah. That had been the reason why. I would never go on the field just to go on the field. I'm that kind of guy.

I'm not that kind of person. Well, this says U of H versus Navy in 2015. Yeah, that was for the conference championship. That was when we were into the... All right, yeah. Storm in the field against Navy? That's a no. No, no, no, no.

You're bearing a headline. Hold on. You just said, what? They won the championship of the conference. They were going to go to the one conference? The American, the power of six. Exactly. Get off the field.

Wait, wait a minute. Get off the field. Wait a minute. And they went to play Florida State when they beat that ass for four quarters. At the peach bowl. What are you talking about? That was a big deal. That was a BCS Buster.

Let's go. Apparently after A&M won, they retired Wade Taylor's jersey. Retired? For real? Yeah. Wow. He raced his jersey to the raft. What?

Yeah. In season retirement? Yeah. Because it was their senior night, I believe. Our guy Jim and most of it. called back and told us, and I confirmed, I looked it up. You know you're good when you're retiring your jersey and you're still a student. I mean, your ego has to be out of control, correct?

That's ridiculous. What? I'm sorry, that's absurd, Aggies. That's just ridiculous. Oh, no, no. You're still playing and you're retiring his number? You know, is that real? It's different.

No, it's not different. Stop. I know you're Aggie Homer. I know you're Aggie Matt. Come on. That is indefensible. If you heard that a Longhorn was doing that, you'd be calling out about how ridiculous it is.

Be honest. Come on. That's absurd. He's still on the team and you're retiring his number? You know what? You know what? You know what they call me? That's Bush League.

They're fair and bounce. It's absurd. You know the reason why it's absurd, Ross? Why? Because you can sell it to your audience next year for when you're playing more rambling. Terrible. I'm feeling more on these you Cougars fans. I forgot about this.

Houston fans rushing field get roughed up by security cards. Oh my God. They were a bunch of idiots, too. Absolute idiots. Sorry, we don't hire great security personnel. Disturbing video shows security punching and tackling University of Houston fans. Well, they didn't get to me, thank goodness. Oh, that's great.

All right, let's do some shut your bum ass up here on the program. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee Montgomery. There's something that's bothering you in the world? We will get to that. Larry and Katie wants to talk about Alex Bregman. Maybe Alex Bregman is bothering him.

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Shit your bum ass up, man. No further explanation needed. If somebody in your life is sending you endless text and you're trying to focus on the job because you've got a big project to. But they're like, how's your day going? Hey, did you see what was on TV last night? Tell them, anybody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time for that? I'm going first, Ross.

All right? You go to a restaurant. You like the restaurant. And you tell somebody, hey, I wouldn't have these great fajitas that say Mamamitos. Or you went to Ros Rucos. Okay, whatever. You just love your place. You got your fajitas.

You got your tacos. You got your enchiladas. You got your tamales. And you tell somebody, hey, and then they text you back, oh, there's a way better place. You should go to Bubba's Mexican barn in Pearland, telling me where to go when I know what I want to eat. For instance, I'm going to go get some bignets today at Kef at Raffey Rurand. It's, yeah, it's a tourist trap, but it's in the middle of one of the most amazing dynamic parts of this city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Let me have my time.

So for those of you who want to tell me, oh, go to a streetcar named Bignet, it's a much better place to go. That other place is trash. Shut your bum ass up, may. Shit your bum ass up, man. Yeah, these people that are trying to be helpful and give you good places to eat, they're the worst. Horrible. They're doing, they're being trash. They're like, you pick the wrong place.

I don't shame you when you want to go get your chicken fingers at that Rarie. I don't. There may be chicken better chicken fingers other places. Are there steak fingers? But you know what? You do you. Man, these people try to be helpful and give you place to eat. They're not being helpful.

They're horrible. They're making. Man, these people try to be helpful and give you place to eat. They're not being helpful. They're making fun of you for the places you win. So bad. Ré Rurand is a tourist place. But it's been a tourist place for 80 years.

Why? Because people like to go there. And it's fried dough with powdered sugar and strong coffee. Sue me. Okay. What don't you put on there? Ross, seriously, why don't you do a little example? I just had the best hamburger in my life at said place.

And I guarantee you'll get 30 places. No, better burgers can be found this place. No, the better. That place is trash. Guys, better burgers will be found somewhere else. We don't need your opinions. Best burger ever had in my life is at Leroy and Lewis Barbecue in Austin, Texas. They smoke.

It's a brisket burger. They smoke it and then they sear it. Best burger I've ever had. I want you to put that on there and see what kind of reaction you get. Okay. You're going to not, you're not going to get. Oh, great idea, Ross. Thanks for telling me.

No, that place is trash. All right. You want to put that where? On my Instagram at Sports RV? No, put on your Twitter. Nobody looks at your Instagram. pictures on there. I've been trying to. I've been trying to build up my Instagram, Matt.

At sports RV. I have to go there. I posted the burger from Leroy and Lewis there. Let me try to find it. Next, 713-212-5-7-9. What do you got, Ross? What's the matter with you? Oh, me? Yeah. Can I just say Longhorn basketball in general? They're up 69 to 60 on Mississippi State on the road.

These people, and Rodney Terry in this late game execution is taking years off of my life. They can't go with simple inbound passes. They never make it easy. I probably shouldn't even care about this in the first place. But ain't nobody got time for this poor late game execution every single game. It's bad coaching. But you won, right? Yes, 8782.

But it was a miracle. And you're going to be in the tournament. I want Trey Johnson to make it, but other than that, I don't care. And you're going to be in the coach Terry for life. Stop. Don't scare me like that. Connor, what's the matter with you? I had a doctor's appointment scheduled for Monday afternoon.

Everybody with a midday job kind of knows it's hard to schedule appointments during the week. No, no, just a regular... FSTD? No, no, just regular checkup. I was going for a checkup, blood work, and a physical. I haven't had any of that done in a while, so I scheduled an appointment at 5.30 on Monday. And I arrived to the office, attempt to check in. But the receptionist says they tried contact to me because they apparently don't do blood work in physicals past five

o'clock. I check my phone. I have one missed call from five. The appointment was at 5.30. Ain't anybody got time for that. Why did you let me book the appointment at that time in the first place if you don't do physicals and blood work at that time? And then why did you wait just 30 minutes before to tell me to reschedule? I already drove to the doctor's office, but now I have to go back a different day and anybody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? By the way, massive fail on the blood work at five o'clock. don't normally have to fast during that time. I think you can tell them if you fast it or not.

Okay. I don't know. Or maybe that's like a six-hour window or something like that where you can't eat or drink anything? I don't know. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. For Astro fans that say that Jim Crane doesn't spend much money,

the fifth highest payroll in baseball last year was the Houston Astros at $244 million. I said to those Astro Twitter folks. Jim Crane spent some money. Shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. Anything else from you? I'm good right now, Matt.

How about oblique injuries? Ain't nobody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time for that? Spring training oblique injuries. Come on, Christian Walker. Well, at least they didn't say discomfort. That's true, I guess. It's soreness.

Discomfort more or less than soreness. It's up for debate. Who knows? I would say soreness sounds worse than discomfort. Okay. Because if you, let's say you sleep wrong on your neck in bed, you wake up with discomfort. It usually goes away. Soreness would be like if you can stick for a while.

Sure, why not? It feels interchangeable. I got you. To the future people that I'll be playing Blackjack with today that are going to stay on 15 against an 8, anybody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time for that. Hmm. To anybody that makes any mistakes at the blackjack table tonight while I'm there,

ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? This is a preemptive. Ain't nobody got time for that. Now you hit a two versus a three, and a three versus two, you stay, right? Correct. Two versus, yeah, 12 is your friend.

13 is not nearly as good of your friend. Okay. Yeah, just remember, 12 against a two is okay. 12 against a three is okay. I don't remember. I'm zoning out here. I just remember. I know.

I'm trying to keep you focus. Two's at your friend. Three's or not your friend. Let's go to Jimmy at 1141. I'm 7.08. Jimmy, what's the matter with you? Man, so I'm coaching Little League this year, 12-year-old. They're pretty big kids.

And I wear jeans or shorts, along with the shirt they give me, whatever's appropriate for the weather. We got this dude coaching another team. He's wearing baseball pants. cleats, eye paint, a belt, some 45-year-old man dressing up like he's a manager, and he does the slow walkout to the mound

and points to his dugout. Ain't nobody got time for this, dude. These kids are 12. You're not impressed them. They think you're an idiot. And just, I don't know if he needs to shut his bum ass up, but he at least needs to grow his bum ass up, and that's like a normal person.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Shut your bum ass up, man. Guys, I need a ruling on this. Should a baseball coach ever be wearing jeans on a baseball field? Jeans? Well, is this like travel ball or like select ball? Or is this just like casual, you know? Feels like we should call Brian LaLima.

Yeah, what does he wear to games? Oh, he's in full garb. He's in the full pants and... No, I think you really should call him. I'm going to text him. Text him and call. I would say if you are coaching a 12 or 13-year-old team, whether it's the neighborhood, not the neighborhood,

like the Little League team or you have to, you have to at least wear sweats or something. You got to look like you're somewhat in condition or you can't run up and run up practice wearing jeans. That's like you're fresh off your shift at Walmart. You came in wearing your blue vest and like, let's play some ball, boys. I agree, but the baseball pants and like the jersey and everything,

it might be a little too much on the other side. Maybe so. But I would, I would, I would, I would much rather respect baseball pants coach over jeans coach. All right. Short time out. We'll get down to this. Should your little league coach be wearing jeans during practice?

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. More of shut your bum-ass up. It ain't nobody got time for that. All is the Matt Thomas show takes you today up until 2 o'clock this afternoon. We got the news at noon. We have E-Madoca at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 7-90. They want to tell you right now about the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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No response. What's he doing? Taking a nap? I should be listening to the show. Well, sometimes he does. Who knows what he's right? Percentage of Little League dads that are coaching in jeans, also with a cigarette hanging out their mouth? I don't know.

I haven't been around Little League Baseball in a while. It'd be weird if I had. Yeah, that's why. I would say your nephews are not old enough to play baseball. No, he's, well, yeah. James, he's turning six. Oh, oh. In a couple of weeks.

Ross, will you coach my team, please? I can see that. No, I'm not coaching nothing. Can you coach first base? Look, everybody's nice. I'll give it a try. I talked about the burger on Twitter. Great idea, Ross.

I'll give it a try. Thanks, Reed. All right, let's take a little here. The beef cheeks and frito pie are great. We're great as well. It says, uh, ZK. So, he'll listen to the show and will not fall for it. Let's go to the phones.

Look who's on line one, Rossi. Hi, James and Garden Oaks. How are you? Oh, wow. I'm much better today, Governor Thomas, than I was yesterday. Yesterday was a day that I just, I got to block out. But I got to give this report to you, and I'm giving it to you in short. First of all, Boost Mobile is trash, all-time trash.

And anybody who owns Boost, well, I guess you like to deal with it because most people wouldn't. I went to try to get my wife's relief. phone sell relief and put it to a normal company like AT&T. It's still, I think, one of the best ones around. But I dealt with a bunch of idiots. And the bottom line is this location specifically over there in Harrisburg on on South Wayside, which I love the neighborhood. But I, I, now I don't have any ideas and wondering why they break their window a lot

because those people are notoriously thieves. And I know it's individually owned. by these franchise people that buy into the business. But that location specifically is definitely a bunch of thieves. And they should be kicked out by Trump because they're not Americans. They're somewhere from one of these Middle Eastern countries. And I'm not a racist, but I'm telling you, they deserve a lot more than having their window broke anyway. So the bottom line is I finally realized I told my wife, so she's in agreement with me,

No more cheap cell phone providers. I just want to say that those people from Boost, whether they work for the 6-1-1 information line and everything, you got to shut your bum ass up and stop leading people on a goose chase just to try to get, you know, the situation rectified. The phone that my wife purchased was purchased legally. It was not an illegal phone. They claimed that it was a cricket-type phone.

And I said, look, my wife ain't going to buy no garbage. She dealt with the garbage from Boost. Oh, my God. Shit your bum ass up, man. And thank you for checking my calls. Jesus Christ. What the hell was that? You got to tighten up, James.

Let's go. Yeah, sorry. My hand slipped. It's a four-hour show, my guy. Holy smokes. We don't need a 10-minute call about Boost Mobile. I'm sorry, Moose Bobel. At Kyle underscore the Welch.

No way. I've had the Bacon hitter for Jacket of Box. Oh, stop. That guy's listening. Thank you for listening to the show, Kyle. I have a response on there as well. Let's see, what did I say? Mission Burger.

What is that? Mission Burger's better in Austin. Leroy is mid. Okay. That was you. You're such a fraud. Hey, somebody bookmarked it, so they must be to want to save it for later.

There you go. 713, 212, 5, 790. Travis, downtown Houston. Travis, what's the matter with you? Well, I guess I'm a bum. I'm really slow in learning on what's going on with this program. I got the question all wrong.

I thought the question was if the Houston coach, Houston-Bastro's baseball coach shows up in jeans. So my answer is if you're asking about little league coach, I think I think I got this straight. Whether I do or not, it's okay. It's okay. It's only at the top. You know, and everybody picks on number one used in Astros.

So if you show up with all your teeth and your legs, it doesn't matter what you're wearing. Wow. That's my attitude. But again, I didn't know you were just talking about, or were you just talking about little league coaches in general? I guess this program moves really fast and I'm roadkill. So shut that bum up. Is that the name of it? Oh, yeah.

I just get your bummed suck, man. There you go. That's what I was looking for. Okay, thank you, Travis. Later. How do I delicately say this? We've had two awful phone calls. We're not going to let this segment go with two awful phone calls, are we?

And we love you, James. garden notes we do love you but you lost this on the whole mickett phone thing okay i'm going to i don't beg very much on this show i don't beg much in life rossie i'm going to beg for a great way to end this segment okay please can we get a one small measly amazing shut your bum ass you anybody got time for that phone call okay because if we don't i'm going to leave the show over and walk across street and start playing some $25 black check where I'm going to watch the guy from New Orleans hit on a 17. Sometimes you're feeling lucky, Matt.

No. You don't want to do this time? I'm going to try something different. I'm going to take a picture of the jerk off that hits a 17. Why would you invade his privacy like that, Matt? Because you know what? You hit 17. You should be embarrassed.

All right. 713-212-5-790. I'm praying for one small, measly, great, shut you a bum-ass call. Ben, the floor is yours. Good. What's the matter with you at 1155? Well, let's go with the Boost Mobile guy. Go ahead and shut your bum ass up.

I don't know what that was about. Shut your bum-ass up, man. What I was going to say is something that drives me absolutely bonkers is whenever these so-called smart scientists people go ahead and say that something is 500 million. years old or now we found out it's a billion years old it's like bro y'all just shut up dude y'all have no clue uh it just drives me absolutely crazy with these smart people be just saying 500 million years old is it's like let's have peace with not knowing you know what i mean you all have a great day shit your bum ass up man i'm still searching for that one great phone call You just told archaeologists and anthropologists.

Shut your bum ass up. Radio carbon dating. Shit your bum ass up, man. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Shut your bum ass up, man. Shit your bum ass up, man. Oh, man. Okay, Rossi, we love our audience, but I believe we're now 0 for three.

It's called science, which is imperfect. But the more you learn, the you correct your mistakes. Rather than staying on one pillar and clinging to that forever. Shout out to me. I brought up two cups of coffee this morning. down from downstairs. Really? The first cup was hot.

I drank it. The second cup was cold. I put it in the tea heater in my room and reheated my own coffee with the tea heater. A tea heater? Yeah. What is that? It's when you pour the water in there and it heats that water up really fast and you put tea back in? You mean like the tea is like a kettle?

Yeah, a little bit of a kettle for high-end hotels, yes. So you put the coffee in the kettle and it's only supposed to be water in there? Correct. You're going to get it clogged up with a bunch of coffee grounds now is what you're saying, and it's dirty. There's no coffee grounds in a coffee. It's already been brewed, Rossi. There's still, there's never remnants of coffee. coffee grounds and a cup of coffee?

There is. I can look at it right now. It looks great. Oh, my God. Corey! Corrie, I'm afraid to ask, but I'm going to do anyway. What's the matter with you? Matt, I have the quintessential shut your bum ass up. Are you ready? Yes. All right. This is to you. Matthew

Thomas. Lewis, Thomas. You shut your bum ass up. You last week went on a rant about John Sina being a heel versus a face. Look, Matt, we all know that he's your dream

to watch greased up men in their underwear running around, pinching each other's nipples, kicking each other in the groin, and putting stuff in each other's face. Nobody else wants it. Nobody else likes it. Nobody else cares. Keep wrestling off

the radio. Matt, do you, Louis Thomas? Shut your bum ass up. Corey, yeah. Corey, there are WWE has 14.4 million followers. Shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man.

Get them, Corey. Corey. Corey. Corey. Suck it, Corey. I'm put the smackdown on you, Corey. People love wrestling talk on the show. They can't get enough of it.

Oh, my, look at these phone calls. We have people that are trying to end this segment. This is great. The segment's open for four now. What are we going to do, Ross? You know what we can do? We can fade it complete. Bradward is going to save this segment.

Last chance to save this segment. Hi, Bradward. Wow, wow, wow. Can you hear me? Yes. Happy New Year, Matt, from Bikini Bottom. Anyway, y'all, everyone in Houston, shut your bomb asses. respect the bit of the time.

Bye. Bootsmobobel does suck. Game view suck. Yankees suck. All of you suck. Bye. That's it. That's it.

We're done. We got it. Eric, Joe and Steve, thank you. We will try to get to you after the news. We will definitely get to you, but we have to go to the news at noon first. So if you can hang through that,

we will take your shut your, we've never gone with a third segment or shut your bum ass up. But the problem is the calls have been just horrendous so far today. But thankfully, Brad, came in and saved the day. So Joe, Eric, and Steve, you had something you want to say, hang tight. We've got the news at noon, and then we'll take your phone calls. It's 12 o'clock on Sports Talk 790, and we're the word right now for Big City Wings. Are you looking for a place to enjoy crawfish? It is Ash Wednesday. You can do that today at Big City Wings.

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But first, we present to you before we get to your phone calls at 713212-5. 7.90, a daily edition of the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, a number of things going on to the Houston area sports-wise. Actually, in terms of the news at noon, I must

let you folks know that there has been a warning issued in Houston. There is some weather coming through. Winds up to 40 miles per hour, Matt, with dust-limiting visibility. Some sort of wind, dust storm from the north is

blowing into Houston. Folks, be careful out there. There is a special weather warning until 7.30 Central time. And that thing you're talking about? It happened in Dallas yesterday. Yes. They had the same thing happened up there. So that's crazy. Yeah, it's

not great. Apparently, there's going to be incoming blowing dust. How'd that happen? Do we have an official weather reporter for 790? No, we don't. We should, but we don't even have a Jorts reporter because Brian Lillima still hasn't texting me back. You know, he's a D-minus textor.

That's okay. I text him two times, and then he's responding one time six hours after it. And then I call him, and he goes, let me call you back in 10 minutes. And that was 14 hours ago, and he has not called me back. Mm-hmm. D-bag. You know what? Shut you, bum-ass.

I'm sorry, are we selling that same? Hey. Continue on. Leave Brian Lillim alone. Yes. You know what? Return my text. Or your phone's going to get locked.

please. National weather. And by the way, Ross, you're a terrible returner or text of two. What did it? What did you and your brother? We're in a bro text just the other day. And you responded like 36 hours after. I responded. Yeah, a day and a half after.

Let me see. Yeah, go ahead. That might be accurate. That is accurate. Anybody got time for you returning text 36 hours after? Let's see. Sunday. No, it was 31 hours later. Guess what?

I texted E. Mae Addoke at a lot. 1136. He responded at 1137. He even calls for a whole day. He ain't and his phone was getting worked on. Whatever. Anyways. Go ahead. Again, NWS Houston normally issues thunderstorm warnings.

This is some sort of dust warning. So you folks, be careful out there. Let's keep it moving, Matt, with the horrible news of the day. Okay, hopefully it's not horrible. Christian Walker Scratch from today's spring training game for the Houston Astros. with what is being called oblique soreness. John Singleton will be starting in his place. And we will get further word after today's game with the Astros and Cardinals.

I know Joe Spottom will meet briefly with the reporters after the game, and so hopefully we'll get a little more clear down that. I guess when they met with him this morning, there was no conversation about this, it sounds like. Yeah, Christian was getting some hacks, said something didn't feel quite right. We're not concerned, but we thought it'd be wise to shut him down now and evaluate going forward. as of right now he's listed his day to day. Is that a gut feeling?

I feel like that's going to be close to verbatim. Yeah, I think you should put your name on that. So we're not concerned yet. We'll hear more as we go along from Astro's spring training. Elsewhere in Houston Sports, well, last night things didn't go the way the Rockets wanted to on the second half of a back-to-back in Indianapolis. Comes back out top of the key to the three-point line.

To his left for Turner. Shot clock shows 10. Turner hands it back to Halliburth. Left side. Step back. 25 foot 3s on the way. That's good. Rockins are getting blown out right now. Well, they ended up losing

115 to 102 to the Indiana Pacers. Alpern Chingun leading the way with 25 points, nine rebound, seven assists. But on the flip side, Tyrese Halliburton, 28 points, 15 assists. 17 to 42 from 3 for the Pacers enough to beat your Houston Rockets, who shot quite poorly. It was there. I saw it. I heard you mention on the broadcast that you are a big fan of the, whatever the arena is called these days up there.

Oh, the Cambridge Fieldhouse? Absolutely spectacular. By the way, did you see that photo I took of the halftime act? Yes. Three smoke show sisters. at halftime contorting their bodies in a variety of different directions. You were hardly able to contain yourself. I couldn't have said it better myself, Sports Harvey.

Thank you very much. All right, Matt, let's keep it moving on the news at noon. The Chicago Bears have made a big move to bolster their offensive line heading into 2025. They have reached an agreement to acquire four-time Super Bowl champion, Joe Tooney from the Kansas City Chiefs. He also previously played with the New England Patriots. Ian Rapp report reporting that it is going to be a fourth round pick given up.

I think there was also a player involved or something like that. I get the whole details for you. Bottom line is the story is that the bears have done two things this off season to improve their offensive line because they don't want Caleb Williams' head to be a scrambled egg. Joe Tuning going to turn 33. The Chiefs do have this according to Ian Ruff. Rappaport the highest paid guard and center in the league.

They can't pay everyone. Now they will go to free agency. Also in football news, Matt, Dario Gubboale, signed back to the Houston Texans on a one-year, $2 million deal. Good to have the backup running back, third down option, and a kicker if you need. Yeah, he is one of those. He does a little bit of everything for the team.

He's good value. You got to have good value in your roster. Dude, one year, $2 million for Darry Gumballel Wally's. a steal in my opinion. You know who's made like a million dollars per year every year in the NFL since he's been in Texan? John Weeks, but they moved on from him, right? Yeah, I think they did, but I mean, guys been in a league

like 12 years, made 12 million. That's great. I mean, he can comfortably retire, clearly, but there are a lot of other guys like, if you're a 10-year vet in the NFL, you're grandkids, grandkids are set for life. Yeah, he gets full pension, right?

Yeah, absolutely for sure. You get full pension. Only, one more Texans. No. Oh, go ahead. Tankdale, Dr. Walter Lowe, who fixed my frozen shoulder about 10 years ago. Today, repaired Tankdale's lateral collateral and medial collateral ligaments. Oh, Lord. Oh, wonderful.

You ready for a semi-hot take? Mm-hmm. Wouldn't be buying any Tankdell jerseys. I can't dispute you on that. I'm just saying. And that's my guy. It is a devastating knee injury. And a freak accident.

We talk about he's small, he's frail, whatever. Like a player ran into him while he was going in for a, while he was going to make a touchdown catch. Yeah, yeah. So all of next year is, not in doubt, he's not playing next year. And I don't necessarily think he'd be a huge part of the 26th roster. Maybe that could be wrong. John Weeks, 15 years, $14 million made.

He didn't even make a millie a year? Oh, poor guy. Well, you start with, you basically make the minimum every single year. the vet minimum doesn't go up until I think to a million until he's like 10 years. What's the most money he ever made in a single year? Last year, $1.377 million. Now, granted, that's going to feed a lot of people, and he's going to be a location. Poor guy only made $14 million.

How is he going to survive? He played in the NFL for, what, 15 years you said? Yeah. Has he ever been hurt? I don't think so. Mama, raise your babies to grow up to be long snappers? Oh, I would go punters. Nah?

Yeah, it's more money. Because here's the reality. You make more money. Secondly, the only time people ever get really mad at you is if you get a punt blocked. Because fiddle kickers make more money than punters. Well, you can shank punts. Yeah, but you can make up for it with a 60-yard boomer after that. I've seen some shank punts in my day.

Yeah, I know. I saw what you hung out with back in the day. Good times. And that is the news that new. Joe and Eric, as promised, we'll get to you. You guys want to get in? 713-212-1-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Winds are right now here in New Orleans at 20 miles an hour. What is going on with our, with springtime? We're not even spring yet, but what is going on with March weather here? You got dust. I got high wind warnings here. Yeah. Wind gusts up to 29 miles an hour right now. Are you kidding me?

They had to cancel some of the Mardi Gau parades in places in Louisiana. They absolutely did. By the way, it's 63 degrees in Belchase, 68 degrees in Galliano, 62 and grand-dial. You're watching the TV, aren't you? Polchon, 48 degrees. What is Pulton-Fon-like? I wonder what that's like. That's right on the tip of the Gulf of Mexico, or Gulf of America, whatever it's called these days.

In Boothville, Rossi is 49 degrees. Wonderful. I don't know why I feel like I'm doing a show in Knoxville, Tennessee with the weather forecast, but I am. I can't put enough Cajun him in my accent. You're doing great, Matt. No, that's a lot. I'm all right. 713-212-5-790.

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Now on Sports Talk 790. We had some holdover sports RV, and we got to take care of the people that take care of us. The great listeners of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk 7. Wow. This has got to be unprecedented. This is a first-time event. Eric, what's the matter with you? Yes.

For those who hate Alperin Sengoon and said in X last night that he was the reason the Rockets lost to the Pacers, suck your bum ass up. Shit your bum ass up, man. They almost had a triple double and led the team in scoring. Who said they lost because of him? I think they were not overly happy with the points in the paint numbers from last night in terms of the number of layups that were missed.

He did miss all the lands. There were a lot of missed layups last night. Field goal percentage for Shingoon has been down this year. I think it's gone down every year the last three years for him or something like that. And what happened to my 75% shooting Alper in Shangoon? From the free throw line? 70 now, yeah. I still like him.

Yeah. And I want that he, if he's going to go the free throw line, eight, nine times a game, he's got to be at a better percentage. He just does. The free throw numbers are just driving me crazy. Now, to expect anybody to make 100% a team is ridiculous. But you should be at the NBA about 77, 78%. That puts you mid.

They're at 75 and it puts them in the bottom three and they've been that way the entire season. Don't give a break. Well, he's got to get better. Men Thompson's got to get better. Those are probably the two worst culprits. Yeah. I remember everybody else.

I mean, Jalen's above 80, Dillon's above 80, Fred's above 80, but Fred's not playing much. So, um, it's a, Alpern Shingoon's got low, well below league average, and his volume is pretty high.

Yeah, yeah, that's the reason why the rocket's numbers are not great. And by the way, Stephen Adams is going to free-thall-line is not a great thing either. So I think he's at 45% somewhere in that range. 44.8.

So I round up. You know, I round it up, Ross. He only goes 1.6 times a game. game. That's true. Joe, what's the matter with you? Hey, guys, this is not the reason I'm calling, but Corey, about wrestling, that was the best hill turn ever the other night with Seen and the Rock. So, Corey, shut your bum ass up. Nobody got time for that. Wrestling Rocks, Matt, keep on talking about it. But the reason

not why I called is Ross. I was thinking about lunch and you know, I'm thinking about running out and getting something and what's close by me. There's a McDonald's, a Sonic, a Taco Bell. And I'm just thinking,

you know, the way you make sometimes fun of Matt for his fast food choices, I'm like, what would Ross think about this? I mean, I'm not some high food you know, some high paid radio star. like you are or

or like Lantern's their line so I just want to say Roth don't be it don't be a food snub okay all I said was don't have the flay of fish which tastes like fish ticks and don't have the McRib which is horrible and luckily for you off menu right now the flay of fish is pretty good

I have to second that thank you shit your bum ass up man you know what he is Joe thank you very much Joe, feel free to call whenever. Ross is a food snob. I mean, I think it's pretty well evident.

Over the years and years of takes about his food, he's a snob. Okay, this is what I'm snobby about, folks. He's a nasty gristled pork sheet in terrible barbecue sauce. And then a horrible filet of fish that tastes like rolled up greasy fish sticks. That's what I'm snobby about. If that makes me a snob. That's been on the menu in McDonald's since the 1970s. If I'm a snob because of the pork gristle sheet and the nasty fish sandwich, fine, I'm a snob.

The filet of fish has been on the menu McDonald's for 60 years. Terrible. Deal of it. I'm sure it's their lowest selling sandwich. No, it's not. You don't even know what a good of fish it was. By the way. What?

I went to AI for the answer of number of McRibbs sold each year. Why don't you just go to Google? I did, but it went to AI for me. In 2007, this is 18 years ago. Okay. I don't know. I can't. You're so rich.

Go ahead, Matt. It says, in 2007, McDonald's sold 30 million McRibs. If it's so good, why isn't it on the menu all the whole time? Because they want you to keep chasing after. They want you to keep searching. No, it's ridiculous. It's one of the best fast food bids ever.

Oh, okay. make so much money on McDonald's. A billion dollar corporation says, man, this sandwich is so profitable and so good. We can sell it all year long, but we're not going to do that. Because they're being respectful of the pork industry.

Respectful? Yeah, like I said, you've got to pile up enough pork gunk in the back corner. And then they're like, you know what, it's time to press these up, baby. It's time to press up these pork tails and make some McRibs. Let's go. Number of filet officials every year. a look at that. I believe the flail fish

is the least popular item. Yeah. Did him. Get him, Connor! Articles. February, 2003. 300 million fillet of fish were sold. That's worldwide. There's like 6 billion people.

You had 30 million of them. You think you've consumed 30 million fillet of fish? Feels like a lot. I hope it's not that many. not how am i here how am i allowed to tell you about it oh my god again

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8889,000 for Scott Callahan and Associates, principal office, Katie, Texas. 26, 20-point games this year. LeBron, open three. 22 seasons, 40 years of age. Only player ever in the history of the NBA. 50,000 points. As my friend Dusty Baker would say, Ross, damn, dude. It's a lot of points.

it's something he's aware of and knows he's held on this long, taking care of his body for as long as he has. I think he knows he's not getting six championships. So if we're talking about greatest of all time debates, he's got to find other avenues. This is one of them. I think you can,

if you told me, Matt, if you tell me right now, I say LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of all time, I could disagree with you, but I can't call you an idiot. No, it is no longer to a point in the LeBron versus Michael Jordan conversation that, you know, when I was in high school and college, learned it taking debate classes. A good debate is something you can argue both sides and win. Right.

As long as you have good facts to support your argument, you have great facts on both sides to defend the argument. Now, whether it's age, whether it is longevity, whether it's about when you're on the court and what you do is compared to just, you know, whether it's what you're doing, in a 48-minute game as compared to what you do over your 22-year career. You can argue that. Whether you want to argue about the type of competition, whether you want to argue about some of the extracurricular things that LeBron has done in terms of arguing and, you know, injuries and whatnot, where Michael would play 75 games a year, where LeBron would take 10, 15 games off.

Again, I'm just throwing things against the wall. I could argue both sides and win both sides. easily could win both sides. It's those guys one and two, and no disrespect to number three, which probably is going to be Kareem or Chamberlain or or Willt, or I mean,

or Bill Russell, or Kobe, if you want to put in that mix. Kobe's not in that league, I'm sorry. No, I'm talking to me. People mention him, and to me he's not of those guys you mentioned. I think the separation from two to three is significant now. I really

do. I think it's these two guys and number three is a little ways off. Not like... Yeah, I got Corrine there. Weeks apart. I'm just saying. I'm with you. I think Karim is there because of the six MVP's as well. Yeah. And he was the all-time leading score until Lebron passed him. All-time leading score, two-time scoring champ. Rebounds. I mean, God. He's in there. He's in the great to the greats at the greats. At the top of the mountain. Yeah, yeah. But what LeBron is doing, and here's the thing about LeBron, and again, I'm not a fan of some of the things he says and some of the, I think he's a little bit of a politician, actually, and I'm not a huge fan of politics, you know in life, much less in sports, but I can separate that. I'm smart enough to say I can watch the game and not worry about what a guy

says off the court. Do you much like I can do the same thing when I watch movies? There are a lot of things that celebrities say in their real life that I just totally dismiss because I don't care what their opinions are. But I can watch a certain movie or a television show and respect the hell out of what they've done in front of the camera. LeBron's drop-off, Ross, ain't that big. It really isn't. He's not nearly as efficient as he was when he was younger.

He's not playing 46 minutes a game like he was when he was younger. But you can look at any box. in the last 12 months, Ross. And this is not a lot of LeBron Love Fest. This is just speaking to the moment in time where we're talking about LeBron James at 50,000 points. And the drop-off is not significant. I remember watching Michael Jordan in his last years as a Washington Wizard.

It was tough to watch Michael Jordan play. Not impossible. And he would put up a few really, really good games. But there's very few nights. Not that I'm watching all 82 of the Lakers playing. But there are very few nights that I go, what are you doing on the court? LeBron, you're embarrassing yourself. Last night, he goes 10 of 18, 5 of 10 from 3, 34 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists.

Now, granted, he's going against a wretched New Orleans team. But there are more nights like LeBron having this against everybody than there are nights where he is 4 of 11 with 5 turnover. He's still 12th in the league in scoring a 25 a game. He's six in the league in assist at eight and a half. He's in the top 25 in rebounding. He shoots 52% from the floor. And for a guy that shoots as many volume shots as he does,

39% from three. I mean, I'm giving him props. You have to. You can't be stupid. I'm still a Michael Jordan guy over him. I still am. But it ain't far behind. If we plopped him on the Rockets with these stats,

he would be their leading score, he would be their leading assist man. Best three-point shooter. He'd be their best three-point shooter. Most efficient player. And he would have, he'd be third in rebounds on the team and second in minutes per game.

This is a good Rockets team. Yeah. There isn't a single NBA team that have offered LeBron James in a trade for something. Now, again, you're not giving up the farm. because he has 40, and there's a lot of a trend on the tires.

And he makes a ton of money. It makes a ton of money. But everybody in the NBA would take him in a millisecond, put him in the starting lineup, play him 70 games a year, and they would get positive return. They just would.

He's got to pass Jason Kidd on assists. He might even pass Chris Paul. He might end up second to John Stockton only assists all time. Because if he plays five more years and there's no reason why he can't. In fact, doesn't his other son actually significantly better than Brony? That was the talk, but I don't know.

I think some of that's cool now. He did commit to Arizona, his second son, Bryce. Right. Bryce Maximus. But, you know, in the world today which we live in, that's one and done typically. Yeah, we'll see. And then where is he?

He's got to be top 20-ish on the all-time rebounds. Yeah. I'm just going to say this. For some of the really stupid things that he says, and his evaluation and his way using a microphone to create narratives in sports, not even talking about politics, I'm just some in sports, are really silly. He's still a hell of a basketball player. 25th in rebounds.

He's must watch television. He continues to be on national television all the time, even though the rest of his teammates are mid. First of all, he plays in L.A. that helps tremendously. Second of all, they've won 17 of 20. Now granted, the Luca Dantzic trade helps them, and Bravo to the Lakers, as hard as from me to say this, they did this and said, this is Lucas team now. The Brown's like, okay, it may be Lucas team, but I ain't going away.

He's 25th in rebounds ahead of Patrick Ewing, Dirk Davitsky, and Elgin Baylor, and Paul Gassal. He's about to pass Kevin Willis and Dennis Rodman and Charles Oakley, all-time rebounds. for a guy that plays four positions on the four. I actually can play all five, actually, if you really want to be honest about it. I know there's a lot of LeBron hate out there,

and there's a lot of things that I sit and watch and him say and do and the way every foul call should be here. I mean, he's an all-time five whiner when it can be. Luke is not going to be learning anything about reserve against officials with LeBron as his teammate. Put it that way. I get Chris Paul ahead of him. I think Luke is ahead of him.

But I'm saying is that Luke is not going to change his ways with LeBron with him. You know, you had the old Lee by example card, that's not going to be the case. But he's spectacular. He's just spectacular. And I'm lucky in life. Ross, you're lucky. I think anybody that's a basketball fan is lucky to be able to say, in our heyday, in our life, watching sports, we've been able to personally see the two greatest players ever to play professional basketball in our generation in and around the same time.

Michael left, LeBron took over. We're lucky for it. That's all I got. Thank you, Matt. The Rockets please win a road game. Tomorrow, the Pelicans must win, Rossi? No. Figuratively, you have must win?

Yeah, they're all figuratively must wins at this point with this West Race. It's true. It's really, really crowded. 713-212-579 if you want to jump in. 7-13-212-5-790. Rossi, I have a list of five wide receivers that are, a.k.a. veteran receivers in the NFL. Would any of them look good in Texans' gear in 2025?

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listen to Sports Talk 790 on any device with our free I-HartRadio app. 3-1 pitches set high in the air deep to left field. We mentioned the wind blowing it back to the outfield. And Al-Tubei makes the play on the road edge of the warning track. Al-Tube went back in a hurry and actually waited for a moment and then tracked it down right at the edge of the warning track. And now he's talking to his bullpen friends out there about the first catch of the game. A couple of days ago whenever Al-Tube got his first action and left, he said it was boring. Then he had one where he went into the wall. Stop shy of the warning track that time and had to come back.

But a little bit of a new factor today with how breezy it is and how much that's going to play with the ball out in left field. Two things, Ross. Robert Ford and Steve Sparks Sound a whole lot different than normally do And number two How many gold gloves is L-2? I'll get the over under at one and a half I'll go

She's got a breeze past that I'm going to five You know what He's going to start lollygagging He's going to start doing basket catches That's how bored he's going to be out there In left field Hot dog in it as they come as I say

Yes I can't wait I can't wait All right We have an hour for now We got believe it or not What is today's topic? No.

What are we playing for, Con? Let's do a little prize tease here. Yeah, we've got Rockets' tickets. And then we've also got tickets to go see the offspring with Newfound Glory and Jimmy Eat World. That's what you play, believe it or not for it, 150. We've had a great show that I'm very happy with how the show's gone today. We had some really awful phone calls. We had your food snobbery exposed for what it is.

What was the snobbery again? That you hate the filet of fish? Did you see the email I see you? Nope. Yeah, you did. No, I couldn't see. No, you don't see text? I just googled a least popular McDonald's item,

and literally the first article has fully efficient number one. Well, of course it is. It's known for its burgers. I mean, do you think that tequito is the most popular thing at Waterburger? No. It's the burger. Come on. Do you think the pasta bowl is the most popular thing at Pizza Hut?

No, of course not. somebody has something has to be the least popular or something I mean think about 790 air stuff if somebody's going to be the most popper someone's going to be the least popular yeah that's got to happen something's got to be number two yeah well that means maybe not very good Matt I think the worst thing at 790 is the best thing that we can get

I mean we have a great menu we're like the real buffet in Las Vegas everything that tastes good on our station okay flay a fish least popular according to this article i found on the internet so it must be true it's delicious and you can't fight me on it nobody can fight me no yeah i literally put up a poll have you had a fish sandwich from fast food in the last year and only 25% of people said yes so that's because people are the other things i mean i'm not going to judge people's food and it's so good you would have one within the last year i didn't have one the last year i have

I only had one because you force-fed it down my throat. And it was delicious. And you'll be buying them again. Sal is our Central Florida Astros reporter, Insider. Sal, what's a good word? Guys, before I get to the Astros, I could not believe I heard you guys actually talking about Hofstra last week. Yeah. And believe it or not, I got my master's from there many years ago.

Believe it. When I was there, I think they were a D3 school. I don't know why in the world they went to Division I. They had no business doing that. But they had a basketball coach there named Jay Wright, who actually went to Villanova and won a couple of titles there. So that's about the only thing that came out of their athletic program. They did have football at one time, and they canceled football.

So I'm not sure what that was all about either. But anyway, I just heard you guys talking about Hofstra. I couldn't believe it. But where are the official Hofster station of Southeast Texas? As far as the Astros go, the wind is going to be the least of Altuvase problems when he's in left field. With all the fans a lot closer to him than he's used to at second base, especially at Yankee Stadium, he's going to need to wear a helmet when he's out there. But I think that the real problem they've got is they've got to add another outfielder.

unless McCormick comes around to what he's been doing in the past. I think they can't go more than 30 or 40 games with him, and, you know, if he struggles as much as he did, and, you know, that's better. I think they've got to get another outfielder after 30 or 40 games if he doesn't produce. And I'll hang up and I'll listen to you guys. Thanks. Thank you very much.

I'm not worried about Altooby and left field. I mean, let me tell you something. In the world of sports, if Jose Altupe didn't hear F. Altubei Yankee Stadium, Ross and he hits a grand slam as soon as he hears it. He ain't scared. Jose and the Astros Rossi have heard it all for the last five years. There is nothing at this point that he couldn't hear. And if people really are abusive about in left field, they'll get tossed.

Sports teams, sports leagues are kicking people out of the ballparks on a regular basis. You're not going to be able to harass and verbally abuse players and be able to send the ballpark and tell about it. And if you want to be that guy that we're going to be that guy that we're going to be. wants to yell at Altovae and tell him to F himself or he's a cheater and drink your nine beers, do so, but you're going to have your ass out of the ballpark in the third inning, so hope you enjoy that. I like it. Death to hecklers, not literally, but let's just enjoy the game.

You don't need to make yourself part of the show. You're not helping your team. It would be like going to the state of the union address yesterday, Ross, and yelling during the middle of the president's speech, it get kicked out during the joint chiefs of the joint staffs of the Congress, right? Same thing, right? That'd be ridiculous. Did that happen? I'm guessing it.

It happened yesterday. I'm telling you, I swear to you, I have a lot of words muted on my timeline. I try to stay out of that as much as possible. Was state of the union on your mute line? I don't think so. I'm going to tell you, Democrat, Republican, and Trump are muted on my timeline, just saying. Tamales are the phrasing on mine that I have. And tamales, enchiladas, and Texas basketball.

all. World's going to hell. Slipping into darkness. I'm just going to try to enjoy it for as long as I can, Matt. Me too. That's why I'm going over the cross street at about 3.30 this afternoon. By the way, this new hotel they have, the new Beezer's casino is impressive. But you saw it since it's been built, the new hotel?

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's the same. They just refashioned it. Right. But, I mean, it looks a lot better. How does New Orleans only have one casino? That's the thing I have. Why isn't Ren Rienn come in and built one a casino?

Yeah, it feels like there's got to be some kind of. government, you don't pay that? Mutual agreement or Langea, government kickbacks. Government kickbacks in Louisiana? No way, Rossi, no chance. I can't believe they're changing from Harris, though. This has got to be one of the five most corrupt states, correct? Harris is literally was the New Orleans style concept,

and they got rid of that and washed it into Caesars. I don't like that. Yep. Yep. Real quick, before we get to E. Mae Adoka, let's talk to Steve in Houston at 1256 on 790. Steve, good afternoon to you. Hey, guys. How are you? Amazing. Thank you for asking. Can you hear me?

Can I have said, make sure and speak up so y'all can hear me. Yes, we can hear you. Okay. So, two summers ago, my beautiful wife and I had the pleasure of attending two ball games in Yankee Stadium. And we sat, the first game, we sat in right field, and the abuse. that came out of those fans, I was stunned. Teenage kid in front of me sitting with his father. F. U.S. U.F. and Cheater.

And like, when I've been to Yankee Stadium before, it was Derek Jeter's farewell to her. And all you heard was Derek Jeter. And this time all you heard was F. Altube. And they were on Tucker all night, talking about his mother. And, I mean, nobody kicked him out of the stadium. I remember sitting front row, right field in Minute Maid a few years ago.

We were playing the Red Sox, and some drunk guy next to me was all over Mookie Betts the whole night. It's not your fault, Mookiee. It's not your fault. Don't worry, buddy. Just, it was annoying. And I never see people get kicked out of the stadium for stuff like this. So has something changed that it's different now? Every stadium is different.

some teams are some stadiums and thanks for the phone call steve are going to allow more than others honestly ross let's not be we're going to be a little stereotypical here you're going to say some things in boston and in philadelphia and in new york that you wouldn't be able to say and say san francisco or um miami or houston or dallas for that matter everybody's going to have a certain threshold of abuse if you go to yankee stadium and expect a g-rated conversation around you you picked the wrong stadium. It's terrible. Think of the children.

Trying to enjoy a baseball game. Nicest big league stadium I've been to in terms of what you thought would be gregarious, crazy-ass fans but are really, really decent nice people, is Wrigley Field in Chicago. Really? Yeah. Okay. I thought it would be nothing but 35,000 drunkers, but everybody was very nice. Maybe they're happy drunks.

Yeah, I think it's better. I think it's better to be better to be. happy drunk than I mean drunk. That's good. In Philadelphia, he's just a pit. I mean, it's the plumber's butt of America, so I wouldn't expect to go there and have a good time. I went to one game there.

It's fine. Thank you, Matt. It's fine. I'm now getting text from my friends Bill about the fish sandwich. I'm telling you, Fish Mania is growing on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Well, it is the Linton season, Matt. It is Ash Wednesday.

We might be able to bump the fillet of fish up to the top three. It's in the bottom number one. You know what you got to do? You got to take it over. You've got to take it over, say, the, what would be, let's see, there's fish over chicken nuggets, right? No. Okay.

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Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Time for us to spend 10 quality minutes with the head basketball coach of your Houston Rockets falling last line to Indiana. Two of the Pacers were part of a three games and four nights. E. May I doke up with us here. Coach, this is our third city.

in three days. I don't know if you were restless last night, irritated, slept well. How are you feeling right now? Is this team takes, I guess, a well-deserved off day? Yeah, ready to get back after tomorrow. You know, try to write the ship here and get back on the winning side. Yeah, get everybody healthy eventually and then start to play the way we're capable of. Let's go back to the Monday game.

Look, I was a different lineup out there. The team was very competitive. Look, Oklahoma City is amazing basketball team. We've seen them many, many times so far. You had guys like Shepard and Whitmore getting a lot of playing time. Was it strange addressing the guys before the game, knowing that so many guys needed to sit out, needed to rest, and you had to look in the world of NBA we're in today,

when you're playing as many games in a shorter period of time and all the back-to-backs, you've got guys with aches and pains that need to heal up, rest up. What was it like getting those guys that were not normal rotation guys in the focus of, oh, by the way, A, playing, and B, doing it against maybe the best team in the Western Conference right now? Yeah, I mean, it was

obviously different, a great experience for them and for us to get a look at guys. Like you said, all these back-to-backs have kind of added up, and then guys have some bumps and bruises, as well as as I'm sick right, being out with the ankle. And, um, for a night at this stage, with all the back-to-back,

it's been a little tough on us, but you have to get the opportunity experience. The message was, go out and get a win, be competitive, and take advantage of an opportunity. So they did that, played extremely hard, extremely well. Obviously, Gildes Alexander got it going and it hurt us as far as that, but we had our chances and obviously, you know, it was a really good team. But it would be a good experience for our guys going forward.

Second half, your team defensively did a much better job against the Pacers last night. This, the ball couldn't drop. And then one number for me that probably irritated you as much as anything else, it certainly did me as calling the game, was the percentage of points in the paint. You got there a bunch, you just weren't able to finish. Was that an aggravating part of watching the squad last night? Yeah, the same point, given up 67 and a half,

that's obviously way too high. We got back to guarding, like we were capable, we put some zone in and took them out of the rhythm a little bit there, but needed some more scoring, obviously. It didn't treat them all extremely well, 9 for 30 from 3 and 13 for 26 from the free-thole line. So when you're getting the stops and you, you know, make your way back to my 17-point deficit

to take a lead late, you know, you want to capitalize. And to your point, missed a lot of easy baskets, you know, a little putback layups. I think it was four or five of them. We didn't get the lead in the chance to stand there. So frustrating part with all that we put back into it, that we couldn't shoot from three free clothes and on those putbacks. One of the things, been seeing the last couple of games, we like the way that Jalen

Green's been playing with, especially when he's been scoring, but the careless turnovers have been cropping up for him a little bit. What do you chalk that up to? Is it some fatigue? Is it just plain carelessness? and what are your conversations with him about those? Yeah, we need more playmaking out of him, especially with Fred and some of our little guards out

and guys that miss some games. So the onus is on him to obviously handle a little bit more, initiate offense, get guys into sets, but also look to score and be aggressive like he always is. And so just the careless ones are the main thing. It's, you know, travels are going to happen or, you know, a tough shot here and there. But the simple ones that are unforced are the ones that really hurt us.

Obviously, I had a few of those last, I think Alpe had four and he had five. And so a lot of them just playing in the crowd and just keeping, you know, he set against OKC, you know, hit singles. Make the simple play when the crowd is there, get off the ball. And we'll get those wide open looks. And so, yeah, just continue to grow in that area. He's done a great job, obviously adding to his game over the year and a half that I've been here

and need him to continue to add, especially with Fred out. What have you seen from Reed Shepard? Of course, we know the big breakout game and then last night. Yeah, up and downs that the young guy is going to have at times. It's good to get that experience for him out there. Up and down, rookie year, with the opportunity and our depth and, you know, different linemen we've been having out there. But I want him to be aggressive, stay confident and take advantage of those other things.

So obviously, really good game against OKC, is a really good defensive team. And last night had some open looks that he missed, you know, he missed a few free throws as well, which is uncommon for him. And I added to our free throw woes. But, yeah, learning experience for him, continue to grow, be confident, aggressive at all times. And use this year to really kind of put your stamp on the NBA and learn as we go. You know, I've talked to you a few times about all these three games and four nights and back-to-backs. It feels like I know the NBA has made a try to at least concern an effort to have less of them.

Do you as a coach's group as a coach's association get to visit with commissioner or somebody at the scheduling? level to say, hey, can we space some things out? I know you're fighting with buildings that are hockey and concerts and whatnot. Is that even an item of conversation on a yearly basis? Or do you know, because look, hell, you've been in the NBA between a coach and a player for 20 years. I mean, you just, it is what it is and you just got to play through it. Yeah, at some point or the other, everybody hits that stretch in their season where you have a lot of back-to-backs or a lot of games, you know, piled up. And we're in that right now with all the back-to-backs before I'll start breaking it coming out. And so you just have to do that.

with it. Some teams have more than us. I think we do have the highest amount of back-to-backs this year. But as I said before, until you prove yourself in the league, you'll get a favorable schedule eventually. And so you've got to continue to build what we're trying to do here. But at the same time, play for our team. The second youngest team in the league, we have good depth. And other than some unfortunate injuries, we have relied on that depth this year to get us to where we're at. We'll let you go on this, Coach. Tar, Eason, you've been not playing him in back-to-backs, and that may not be a situation that's going to,

and we don't know how long it's going to be, but when he plays, he's full throttle. What is it like for him, you as a coach, watching him on the next day? Do you wake up, do you check on him, do the training staff do the same kind of thing? Does he even, you know, check his own body to say, hey, I feel a lot better today than I did a week ago when I played my 35 minutes. And what is it like for you to see him get as many minutes as he is? And then as your medical team says,

we need to take a step back, and it would not be smart to him play in the second half of the, back-to-backs? I think he's kind of improved to the point where he's feeling better after a heavy minute. He's not having the restriction at all, just can't play on the back-to-backs. And part of his being cautious to me a smart big picture going forward. We only have two back-to-backs left in season.

So I want to be smart with that and look at the big picture. And so he's feeling better. He's an increased workload hasn't heard of him at all. And eventually maybe one of the last back-to-back to be in possible to get in there against Phoenix and L.A. later. But we'll wait to go on that and want to be smart. Like I said, big picture.

have any setbacks going into the playoffs. And what do you know about Fred in terms of his ankle situation right now? Is it a re-aggravation? Is it just an awkward step that forces some more time? I mean, look, you're not a doctor, but I'm just, you know, a lot of folks are asking me about Fred and his availability for the next foreseeable, for the foreseeable future here. Yes, literally in the day-to-day game game.

I'm forcing that thing. I don't obviously step on the rest for the first part of the game, but it had to be the same nickel but not the same. It didn't either make the same area that kept them out all that time. So this is a normal sprain. Just obviously I was some sort of the

foot that was already a little bit injured. But good thing is that it didn't hurt the same area. Just a matter against some swelling out and getting the mobility back. But it should be a short term. And obviously, not keeping out as long as the last one did. Coach, thank you for the visit. As always, we'll see you tomorrow night against the Pelicans.

Thank you. All right. It's Amy Adoka, joining us from New Orleans. And he may be the aquarium, Ross. You never know. Maybe he's getting a swim in or something. I don't know. Could be, maybe he's in the, uh, one of the submarines at the World War II Museum. By the way, can I just, and you've been there this year. Oh, it's amazing. It is worth it. And I'm not a historian. The World War II Museum blown away.

You're more interested in the Real Housewives Museum and that's okay, Matt. But the World War II Museum is it spectacular. You know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to do on a Bignet run. I'm going to go to four different places. And compare? and compare the bignets. Glazed bignets at Joe's are pretty good. So you're talking about, they're talking about the glaze and then they put sugar on top of it? No, it's just glazed like a glazed donut. Oh, so basically it's not even a bignet then.

I mean, it's bignet dough. It's shaped like a bignet. All right. I am going to a famous steakhouse tonight. I forgot the name of it. It's so famous I've forgotten about it. I heard Antoine's glazed bignet is quite good as well. All right, there you go.

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Totalgrader.com for Total concrete of Greater Houston. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. On Sports Talk 790. Jeremy Payne had a home run blown foul in that game a couple of days ago as he hit one down the left field line against the Marlins. This ball hit high. in the air to center field hit pretty well wind blowing out all the way back siani that ball's gone Jeremy painting on the first pitch he sees today hits it out to straightaway center field his first home run

of the spring and the asteros have tied the game up at one well the wind might have helped but that was tattooed by jeremy good for him now for this start to spring astros looking for a double play ground ball this is a ground ball and a couple of hops to parades he bobbled he bobbles again everybody's safe including the run scoring. As J.J. Weatherholt crosses the plate, Paredes knew he was going to have to hurry, and instead he fumbled the ball twice, and that error will allow the Cardinals have first and second

and a one-nothing leas. Bases empty and one, gone, the 3-1. And this one is shot high in the ear to deep center, tracking back on it. Ciani's still back, and it's gone. Straightaway center just to the left of the batter's eye. For Jake Myers, that's a way to start swinging it. The Astros use a long ball to straightaway center to tie it up again.

Square 2 here in the last of the third. So 1 and 2 to Altuve with the base is empty and one gone and Yordaun Alvarez on deck. The 1-2 offer and Al-Tuve a fly ball, high and deep to right field, carrying out and it is on to Burman gone. Jose Al-Tuvee with his first of the spring. Al-Tube came out swinging in that AB. He had just watched Jake to Meyer. Jake Myers' deposit one over to the left center field wall. Altube doesn't hit a ton of home runs to right center.

Got that up in the jet stream to right center. And that went a long way. That's his first extra base hit in the spring. And the Astros have three hits, all of them home runs to them. Just getting worried from Reeser's book across the street. The Astro win total went from 88 to 99. Nicely done on this three home run day for Local 9. You're going home?

Well over. is 100 of possibility for the Astros. 713-212-5-790. Did I hear a Jake Myers home run in there, Maddie? You did. We got, baby, let's go. Fan club interest up from 12 to 13 people. Let's go.

Jake Myers fan clubs are ready. How's a Christian Walker fan club? It's questionable. He's fine. He just has some time-love and soreness. I mentioned this, or I'm sorry, so I read this in the Brian McTaggart, quick blurb. Brian McTaggart. Brian McTaggart defined last from the radio program.

Yes, he does a great job on the beat for the Houston Astros and MLB.com. He had, he mentioned that last year, Christian Walker missed a month with an oblique injury. Oh, no. Hit the sounder. Oh, no. What? God, it's okay. Oh, no, it's not okay.

Hit the music. You've got a short segment here. Hit the music. Oh, gosh. I'll have to find it. Oh, no. If you missed it, he was pulled from today's game. Oh, geez.

It's fine. Now, did we ever make a decision about whether a soreness is better, worse, or the same as discomfort? It's better? Or maybe it's worse. No, I think it's worse. I think discomfort is like... No, because if you're discomfort and somebody's need literally Tommy John surgery. So I'm going to say soreness is better.

Yeah, Kyle Tucker had shin discomfort and that was three months. Discomfort could be many underlying conditions. Soreness is literally just muscle soreness. You don't need surgery from soreness. You could need surgery from discomfort. I think he's going to be okay, man. Couldn't they just said he's got an owie in his left oblique? I don't think you can list owies, no.

How about spraying some wind decks on those obliques? Let's get going on that field. No! All right, I'm going to tweet. You cannot be serious! My range of emotions today on the Astros. Okay. Three home runs?

Yes. And discomfort? No, it's Sornis. Soros, we're all good. You sure? Yeah. Hmm. Is that the Luke Skywalker?

What is that from? Yeah. Oh, I nailed it. What a pull! Conardy, you're so good at this. You should be a full-time producer for us. What an idea? What was your favorite Christian Walker's and Astro?

Oh, stop. That's too much. Maybe so. Maybe so. All right. Don't you dare. Was that Ackerman? Yeah, I don't know why I have this. How did Ackerman get on my show? Don't you dare.

Folks, what is more troubling? The Astro is using all their power in a March 5th spring. training game? Or the Sonas for one Christian Walker.

You're either pretty much full of it or loopy. Hmm. Thank you, Chaz. Chaz, your thoughts on this recent losing streak by the Rockets? The Rockets are a bag of poop. You better be careful. You play too many

soundbikes. He's going to send us a total of invoice. That's true, actually. Back pay. It sounds like a a breaching whale. Did we sacrifice a cat on this show for some reason? That sounds like when a whale loses its calf. It's just depressing.

Is that a famous soundbite or a sound effect or do we just find some randomly? It's a meme. You're just a candy ass. Oh, we have to do this on a slow day, Matt. There's this thing I have in this, my audio folder. It says CP versus Old Lady and it's a minute 44. I've no idea. I've no idea what this is.

When one of us takes a vacation day, we can just have Charlie Soundbites, call us a show with the person that's here? We could, which, by the way, I just saved all my sound bites. They were supposed to be deleted next week. I saved them all. They're good until 2027 now.

Good job by you. All right, final segment, if you want to get in before we play, believe it or not, let us know what you're thinking about a variety of things. And I'm going to tweet what I just said about the Astros and we'll see what kind of crazy, irrational takes we'll get from

the normal, lighthearted, easygoing Astros, Twitter audience that's out there. 713-213-2-7-19. 7-1-7-19. 7-1-2-7-19. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Lunch-timers. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 02. Driven in the air out into left field.

That one's going to send Al-Tube back. He's heading back and over his shoulder, makes the catch and crashes into the wall. Turning and heading back for first. is Valet, but Jose Al Tuve runs it down just shy of the wall out and left for out number two. That was not an easy play at all. That was a very impressive catch by Altuve. That one probably was tougher than the one he made here over the weekend on Sunday against the fence in left field because he really had to go into left center field.

It looked like he accelerated the last few feet to make that catch. Rossi Avenue hashtag. Just give him the damn glove. Seems a little wordy. The golden one? Yeah. I'll work on it. The gold one, yeah.

Okay. Give the gold. How about this one? G.G. Altuve. Mmm. Okay. I like it. There you go.

It'd be his second. The raw motions of Astro Spring Training. Three home runs. Altuve working on his gold glove and Christian Walker's oblique soreness. What's next? All right, real quick, and I've failed to mention, so I brought this up a couple of times on the show today. We've had so much going on. It's been kind of fun to do some different things.

Have you seen Rossi the collection of wide receivers that are available for any NFL team to choose if they are inclined to do so? I have not. T. Higgins is not one of them. I know that. Nope. Christian Kirk's going to be released by the Jacksonville Jaguars. That's a favorite of you. You like to draft him every year.

I do, and all he does is disappointing, so I don't want him anywhere near a Texan's uniform. Tyler Lockett's about to be released by the Seattle Seahars. No, I'm good. We can get out of the Tyler Lockett business. Okay. Cooper Cup is available for the Los Angeles Rams. Also older. DeAndre Hopkins available as a free agent for the Kansas City Chiefs.

So if you want a 30-plus-year-old receiver, you're in business. Stefan Diggs is available as a phrasian from the Houston Texans. Devante Adams, fresh off of his New York Jeteropolitan career, is available. Okay. All right, so the question I have for you is, do you kick the tires on any of those? Maybe Cooper, Devante Adams is done. I'm sorry. He's basically just a red zone threat because he's a, uh,

his size and ability there. Stefan Diggs, if you think he can be productive, you can take him back here. I would say the same thing for Cooper Cup. You put him in a slot roll and he can get open and be a possession type receiver for you. It's not going to be breaking any games

in this stage of his career. He's been hurt. He's been constantly hurt throughout his career. Tyler Lockett way out for me. So put it this way. What you've just done here, I've given you six receivers that have had

some level of success to being elite at their position. All available in one-off season, and I'm not going to speak for you completely on this, but you've given me a collective, meh, on all these guys. Christian Kirk, I guess. I mean, he's kind of a

thousand-yard threat, and he's the youngest. Let me see, what's he? He's 20, he just turned 28 in November. It'll be 29 in the next season. Aggie legend. bring them home? I don't know.

I guess a flyer on Christian Kirk wouldn't be the worst thing. I wonder if this is a one-year deal with these receivers all being available in the same, or this is going to be a trend where the NFL teams are just going to say, look, we just can't spend money on receivers past, say, the age of 29, that have had any sort of injuries or they've had slippage in their game. Man, I'll take the NFL. I know that we appreciate the non-guarantees, but these contracts can be cut and sliced and sliced.

released and they're going to gain their signing bonuses and whatnot so none of them are going to go broke but man you the NFL gives you very little wigger room not to be excellent all the time and teams are willing to frankly rossi to take dead money on to get rid of guys I would say because of you yeah Kirk yeah or Cup Kirk or Cup and Nick Asario loves one year Prove-it deals he loves them

so if I gave you right now if I gave you a a chance to win $5 with a simple yes or no answer. Do one of these six guys wind up as a Houston Texan in 2025? That's five bucks I'll risk. Let's all say yes. I don't, I

feel very confident telling you that DeAndre Hopkins will not be Houston. Very confident. Very confident. The rest of guys, I can't say, because luck it just entered the free agency world here. Cubs been out there for a while.

Kirk got released within the last 24. DeBonte Adams earlier this week, and Steph Diggs has always been here. But let's face it, of the six, who's going to give you the friendliest deal? And that's what Nick Cacero is looking for. My guess would be it would be Stefan Diggs, especially if we really do want to believe the reports

that he loved playing in Houston last year before he got hurt. Yeah, and he would be the one I would be most happy about, if it makes sense because they have their eyes on him, they know more about him. So if they're keeping Stefan Dix, to me, that means he can contribute. Yeah. So if I was to do a quick list of what I would want in order of least to, I shouldn't say want,

but in terms of least likely to most likely, I'd go, DeAndre is six, Luckett five, Kirk four, Cup, Three, Adams, two, Diggs one. You feel like it's a good, good breakdown? I would put Adams further down. He's 32. Yeah, I don't know. isn't it crazy in sports ladies and gentlemen that when you were 32 years old i was just starting my life i was just i was married for a handful of years i had had my first child thinking the second

one was on the way i already here in 32 in the nfl world in dog years that's like you're filing for social security oh he's 32 years old he's an old ancient animal he can't move anymore can't walk it's get him a walker yeah there's a funny tweet about that I'd have to find it. Like, look at this guy. He's a miracle. He's 32 years old, ancient. All right, I have a little more thing.

This is non-sports. We should have saved this for, or should have used this earlier today on, shut your bum ass up. We have great advertisers on this show. And without advertising, the world of our show would not go around. But there are some national folks

that spend money when there's some local folks. We appreciate all of them. Friend of the show, Daniel Neemick, at NEM 39-980. says that dying calf sound is what I hear when I hear that Downey commercial 15 times during y'all's breaks.

Shut your bum ass up, Downey. Here's the issue I have with Downey. And Downey, I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to mention you by name because you spend money on the show. I appreciate our lovely sponsors on Sports Stock 790, including Downey. In fact, Downey, I love you so much that I'm going to go to the grocery store

when I get back to Houston. I'm going to wait. At 1.30 in the morning, I'm going to stop by Mowger or Ballbart. and I'm going to buy some Downey because I love you that much. And I will buy the rinse and refresh. I can zero problem with that. And shame on Bonnie Tyler for allowing this song to make it be part of a commercial. Totally clips of the heart.

Yeah. As I'm saying, shame on you. You took one of the most iconic songs of the 80s, and you made it a commercial about Fabric Softener. Do you have no, Bonnie Tyler? How many more hits does she have? Zero. She's had two.

See, there you go. Yeah, I take the money. I'm not crushing Bonnie Tyler for taking some cast. I am two. First of all, it's a heartache is a good song, late 70s. But totally clips of the heart is the definitive Bonnie Tyler song. Okay.

I'm sure she's had a couple other ones. But that is an iconic 1980s song. And you did it for a damn fabric softener. Do you have no shame? Cut the check. I'm on Bonnie Tyler's side on this one. You don't hear Hey Jude being sung during

the middle of a commercial for barbecue sauce? No, you don't. The Beatles make billions and billions. And most of them are dead. So it's different. There's only half that are dead. There are only, it's 50% are alive. Didn't they sell their publishing from,

oh, really? I thought it was three out of four. No. Whatever. By the way, DJ Metcalf, according to Timothy on Twitter, just asked for a trade. And D.K. And D.K. McKaff did as well.

Yeah. I thought they sold all they're publishing to Michael Jackson. Yeah, but then Michael died and they got it back so they can sing. For real? Yeah. Well, Michael did die. You know that, right? I know he's dead, but he didn't.

I thought it went to his family. I think McCartney got its back. And don't hold me to that. I won't. The point being is this. I think if you have a great song, like if you want to, if you want to sell, I will survive. Gloria Garner wanted to sell, I will survive to, I don't know, a, Home Depot. I can live

with that. But total eclipse of the heart is one of the ten best songs of the 80s. And you sold it to Downey. A proud sponsor, Sports Talk, 790. Bonnie Tyler doesn't have however many 20 number one hits like the Beatles.

She has her hits. She needs to make some money. Gloria Gaynor's on that song's on everything. What are you talking about? I'm just mentioning a rando artist. Okay. Yeah. She's sold out. Take them corporate dollars, Maddie. They learn from you.

Hey! Believe it or not, is up next. What? Yes. We're playing for rockets tickets. Dude. Ross, we've been on the air since... We've been on the air since 10 o'clock.

Shut up. Okay. We cannot speak to Ross the rest of the show. He's going to put together in an amazing addition to believe or not next. after I tell you about League One volleyball, there's some matches coming to the Fort Penn Center, county epicenter, in March later this month in March, as a matter of fact,

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and check out when the matches are coming back. I believe there's two coming up in the next two weeks or so. So please do yourself a favor and check out the best. LovB.com for League One volleyball matches in Fort Bend at the epicenter. Coming up later this month at LovB.com. The Matt Thomas show continues. On your Roku. Listen to Sports Talk 790 on any device with our free I-HartRadio app.

Five minutes left to go on the show. We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is, I have no idea what the category is. But when it does arrive... Bonnie Tyler.

Bonnie Tyler, good for you, Rossi. Good for you. By the shit, three hits. Just hit send. I did all eight questions during the break. You're the best. I hate you both. You're right.

By the way, listening to the show, David says that Sony Music owns the Beatles collection. They bought some of it from Jackson, and then when he died, they bought the rest of it. Paul ain't scared, though. He's got plenty of money. I'll read your statement about Bonnie Tyler. Statements completely and utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it.

If the statement's erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Not. Two believer in a row on all things Bonnie Tyler. win your prize. We'll be playing for today, Connor. A four pack of tickets to see the Houston Rockets take on the Denver Nuggets on March 23rd at the Toyota Center. A pair of tickets to see the offspring on their supercharged worldwide and 25 tour with Jimmy World and Newfound Glory on August 23rd at the Willens Pavilion and some 790 T-Turts. Jeremiah on 790.

Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Bonnie Tatter is alive. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Tyler decided to pursue singing after finishing second in the talent contest in 1969.

An accordionist. No, I'm sorry. An accordionist? Finish first. Accordianer? Accordianer finished first. Believe it or not? Believe it.

That's right. You're going to the Rockets. Nice to go. John on 790. John, your favorite part of today's radio show. Back clown, it always falls in New York. All the way it's falling in it. Bonnie Tyler wrote total eclipse of the heart.

about her tumultuous relationship with her manager Peter Grant. Believe it or not? Not. That is right. Ross, this is outstanding. Statement number two for the win. Total Eclipse of the Heart won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Pop Performance. Believe it or not.

Not. It did not. It's an outrage. It's a heartache that she did not win. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Bonnie Tatter's son Tyler. Tyler, Tyler, is that right?

Is also a musician and has several gold records as a sound engineer. Believe it or not? Belief or not? No, you would never name your son Tyler, Tyler, would you're awesome? Celebrities do weird stuff. Yeah, well, my uncle's Thomas Thomas. See? And he's not a celebrity.

Yeah, I go. Gio on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Bonnie Tatter was inducted as a member of the British Empire back in 2022. Believe it or not? Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Bonnie Tudor has released a whopping 18 albums as a solo artist.

The latest was The Best is Yet to Come. That took place in 2021. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, she did. How many songs of the Alton Ross do you have down on your phone? All of them? I have zero.

Last up, Orlando on 790. Orlando, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Don't know. Bonnie Tyler is a karate enthusiast and has practiced it since her teenage years. Believe it or not? Believe it. I forgot. Ross, you get an A-minus.

Thank you. You would have gotten an A-plus, but you did those in four. minutes. It troubles me. We've been doing the bit since 2010. I've been telling you all day since 10 o'clock. I put it on the pre-show tweet. I don't know what else I can do, Ross. You couldn't provide me with a topic. Oh, okay. Tomorrow's topic, all things about, well, Marnigar, oh, is that easy, is it? No, you know what? I stand corrected. Ross, you keep being you. Shell Federal Credit Union, auto loan rates available for three points. 9% up to 36 months by going to shellfc u.org

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