The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Lose On National TV, Alpy Is An ALL-STAR, Could Astros Trade Paredes To Keep Bregman?

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Houston Rockets losing to the Memphis Grizzlies 120-119. The Rockets move to 32-15 on the season and have their four-game winning streak snapped. Matt and Ross also:congratulate center Alperen Sengun for being named to his first All-Star gamediscuss the latest update in Alex Bregman's free agencyreview who the Texans have interviewed for the offensive coordinator positiontell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Don't suck off his teat.

I'm not... I see, I don't even want to be... I'm trying not to make the montage. See, people can't see me right now, but I'm doing kind of like the grabbing. Okay. Are you grasping at straws? That's what you have to look out.

Are you groping? No, no, no, not doing that. Regina. Yeah. You aren't going on. Regina's sports leader today. Yeah. Watch on. I heard it's rainy.

It could be a little sloppy in Regina today. You know what? I want you to put those metrics and shove them up your ass. Oh, was he? It's going to solo pound town. Only two hours deep. 137 remaining here until half time. I'm going to rest my ear.

I remember talking to phone so long in my life since I was probably dating a girl in high school. all right yes my friends telecommunications is a wonderful thing and was we saying the business Rossville oriel the show must go on even though you've got incompetent engineers in Memphis Tennessee

good morning to you hi Matt how are you I'm fine I'm going to limit how much I talk today well I'm preserving my voice trying to make it through the end of the day really because uh connor said you were feeling better today did he yeah was he lying yeah he didn't know what the hell he's talking about all right that's one lie

he's got three more before the end of the show i also meant to troll you at the beginning of the show and talk like this and say how's it going mad but i forgot you can do that if you want to if it if it helps you i actually feel significantly better than i did two days ago about those rockets last night yeah it's a good game i mean our audio quality back to houston was ridiculous. Oh, yeah, what the heck happened? There was some engineering issues, and unfortunately, the people that are hired in Memphis to engineer aren't really radio engineers. They're just guys that were hired by somebody else out of town to do it.

And so when they have no radio background or technology background or IT background, the auto market team suffer. I've been one of about five or six teams around the NBA that's had problems going there. In Memphis, really, it's been a problem. Yes. Problems in Memphis. Yeah. I was not walking 10 feet off of Beal.

I could have called Reverend Green. He'd been glad to see me. But he said, chance of you getting on the broadcasts, I don't have a prayer. But I do have a prayer sometimes in Memphis. Yeah, that's a problem, Matt. Any engineer can get you on air.

It's the good engineers that can troubleshoot when there are problems. Yeah, there was zero troubleshooting yesterday, and I was actually trying to help them more than they could help themselves, and they had no idea. So I said, all right, well, the show must go on

consummate professional sports RV. The people used to need to hear rockets radio on the airwaves no matter how late at the time of the day it is. And so I said, can you give me at least a landline headset, handset, so I can at least hold the phone as compared to holding my cell phone. And, you know, because cell phone coverage probably in arenas can't be great sometimes. And so I did the first part of the first quarter on my cell phone. And then they were so gracious enough to get me a handset to do the rest of the two-hour broadcast.

Wait a minute. You did the whole game on the phone? Thanks for listening. Matter of fact, why don't you roll through some highlights, Connor? Let's let,

let Ross hear how Delsatone's my word is. Actually, I really would like to hear these highlights. Normally, I don't really care. You should care. You are amongst greatness. Was I?

I was watching the T&T broadcast. Well, I mean, he was great too. I talked to Kevin Harlan briefly before the game yesterday. Oh, man, he's so great. Yeah. All right, so why don't you just, what's a good thing?

telephone, Mr. Telephone Man by New Edition, right? Oh, okay. Or there's a... How about a Hotline Bling by Drake? You used to call me on the cell phone. Whatever. You find the song, and let's play some highlights with it, just to give a little sample for the audience, so how great it was. Yeah, I think New Edition Telephone

Man sounds good if you can find that. Oh, Hotline Bling works. That's fine. Either way, just find a song, and let's give you what you so richly deserve Houston, Texas. Me giving you some exciting rock and highlights off of a phone line. So whenever you're ready, just fire that bad boy away. Oh, this is a guy. I don't know about this, Maddie. Woo!

I love this song. Bill has it. There's a three-point line left. Both feet on that three-point line. Hand it over to Jalen Green, right-hand dribble drive in the paint, turns left, spins right, goes against Edian scores. Jalen Green on the scorecard now. Makes it now 15 to 13 in favor of Memphis. Green, top of the key, swings it out right-side Van Bleak, six to shoot in the quarter.

back to Jalen for a straight on 26-footer and he hits it right in front of Jalen Wells a long three with two seconds remaining to Jaila Green brain's got Jaron Jackson Jr. in front of a crossover to the free-fill on turns he walked with it out straight away for a three-point try Fred B, nuts out a triple rocket's got away with an extra step from Jalen Green Freddy's got his first three-quarter in three tries Rockets back up 10 all right this song is better than the calls I'll be honest

man this is a jam you can't if you can't vibe with new addition we can't be friends we just can't Too bad the rocket sitting win you could have gotten a call from you the eagle has landed

that's one small step for the rockets one giant leap for the western conference yeah that you know that was a true 1969 call that game on the radio last was I haven't done a

game over a phone line, probably either a college baseball game with phone issues or when I was doing Tomball High School football on 700 KSCV in 1991. So about once every 33 or your 34 years. You did the entire broadcast on the phone. The entire broadcast. That is insane. In the membrane. You got that right.

I'm angry for you now. Yeah. You couldn't get one jack hole in that whole arena. Correct. You could fix your internet. Meanwhile, Memphis home. home radio, who is their voice of their team. Eric Houseltyen's a great friend of mine. He had his

connection. ESPN radio was in for the game. They had their connection. Rockets, Spanish, they could hear Adrian, but he could not communicate back to them, so he only talked to them through cell phone during breaks. And then I was SOL.

Glad they moved everything to the internet these days, Matt. Ain't nobody got time for that sports RV. We don't need to go to inside radio, but they used to always use ISDN lines, Matt. Did an ISD line ever fail you? ISDN line never fail me. Never failed.

A very high-end phone line, and they said, yeah, we're going to stop making it. We're going to uninstall it in every sports facility and government facility for that matter. It sounded pristine. It sounded perfect and it never failed and they got rid of it just because it cost a few extra bucks. Right. And installation where the internet is, you know, if they install anything. You don't have to, but it's unreliable. Like you've got to be on the phone, not half the time, but it happens.

And then it just doesn't sound as good. she doesn't. Yep. Yep. All right. So with that being said, my bitch session is over with. I guess the game must go on. It was a really good basketball game. Rocket should have won it, frankly. And honestly, Rossi, I got to be really honest. They should have blown him out. They allowed Luke Knard. And how about this guy, Jake LaRavia to beat you? Jaron Jackson's good. But you had no John Morant last night. Now, granted, the Rockets didn't have Alper and Schengun. All-Star Alper and Shangoon. All-Star Opera, as we predicted.

I thought it was. I was a little surprised, but they rewarded. I think they were like, you know what, Rockets are really good. We got to put somebody in there. Yeah, yeah. Not that I'm not saying Alpern-Shingon not deserving. Yeah.

Rockets just, they just didn't, they didn't, they've had a difficult time in, even during these winning ways of closing out games, getting things a lot closer than they should be, and it finally burned them, beat them up a little bit yesterday. So it is, by the way, and anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rossie, please explain the essence of it. Anything goes Friday.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1018 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is nice to have you with us on this. Anything Goes Friday. It could be your personal life. It could be your favorite ice cream flavor. It could be about Alex Bregman.

It could be about the Rockets. It could be about the Texans O's C search. It could be about whether or not there should be an extra lane on various tollways throughout the area. It's anything goes Friday. 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-9. We spent some time on the show Rossi yesterday. talking about the national recognition the rockets are going to be getting, I think, with their winning ways. And last night's game was a TNT exclusive, which means Craig was watching the game in his bed.

Vanessa was with her family in Indiana, and Ryan was, I think, back in Houston as well. So they had the night off. Meanwhile, I did the show over a mob-el. But our friends at TNT, the ends of the NBA show, it's the most entertaining pre-half and post-game show in television history. Street. Not the most informative. No, not even close, and progressively less informative as years have gone on. Here is the latest example of how when you watch inside the NBA pregame show, you're not going to get the deeps.

Great energy. They play together, but I'm looking forward to the John Morant Jalen Green matchup. Well, John Morant's out tonight. Okay, so John Moran's out, so forget that. So they are playing well. They are playing with great energy. Ross, I have news for you here. Yes. And I'll peel the current a little bit.

He was questionable before the game yesterday. He was doubtful about two hours prior to the game. And about 90 minutes before tip time, they officially announced he was out. Okay? Yes. The TNT broadcast starts 30, actually it was a double-headed day. So I'm assuming, I don't know when that was recorded, what time of the day that was, but there was a pretty good chance that if Shaq would have done one ounce of research,

gone to the internet, called a segment producer, done anything except literally leave his hotel room in Atlanta, drive or get his car to pick him up, walk him in the studio, put a microphone on and say, you're going on the air. If he would have done even an ounce of preparation, he would have known that John Morant was not playing last night for the Grizzlies. Yeah, I do want to crush Shaq. for it and he is at fault for sure shouldn't there been some producer announcing at some point to everyone

hey guys john morant's out or did they all assume that he would know and he'd be paying attention B that's crazy you have to hold your host and your analyst to some sort of research responsible unless you don't unless you just say shack go out there

say what you want don't do any research don't prepare, just do up by the, you know, just, just ramble on and whatever you say, maybe we'll make some funny social media out of post out of it. No, they're just going to go up there and Shaq and Charles are going to mispronounce names and get stuff wrong and they're going to run to the, what is it, whatever, for whatever reason, Kenny runs to the video board and they all run to the video board and try to race Kenny and then they're going to make fun of each other. At some point, Shaq and Chuck are going to threaten to fight each other and then we're all going to have a good chuckle and move on with our lives.

Yeah. I mean, there's some funny quips. Charles is funny on that show. Shack, we actually make fun of Shack because of the stupid stuff, he says. Kenny's like, I'm just here for the paycheck, and Ernie's like, man, I'm, I'm coasting. I'm going to introduce a segment, turn the segment, I'll go to a commercial, throw a couple things and get out of the way. Mm-hmm.

So another case of not being overly prepared is you mentioned, Ross, the Rockets have an All-Star, right? Yes. Let's find out how the folks at the national level pronounce his name. From the Houston Rockets, Al-Farine Sanguong. Al-Far Noghengun, a first-time All-Star. He deserves it to him. I love I got the call out of the rocket.

19 and 10. He's number 9 in rebound. He's shooting 49%. Let's fire off Kenny one more time here and see how close he got. From the Houston Rockets. Alpharin Sengoon. Alpharin Sengoon. Alpharine Sengoon.

And Sengoon. Yeah. Yeah, at one point, Shaq was talking about how great a coach, a greater job coach Uduqua was doing this year. Yeah, we're trying to find that, by the way. We're looking for that, too, don't. So if anybody knows what the clip is of IMA Adoka's name being butchered, let us know.

It's whenever I texted it to our secret group. Okay. Well, I can find it. Yeah, I mean, we need to because, again, here's the bit, Ross. These are ridiculously highly compensated players. I don't need to know them. The audience doesn't need to know what sets of rockets are running. They don't really have to even know who Jay Sean Tate or Jack Landell is.

I mean, it would be kind of nice that they did, but I'm not asking for everything. but Alperin Shingoon has been in the league for four years. He was a borderline all-star player last year. He's an all-star now. Somebody gave him the card that said it. Do you like rehearse it in the segment before during the commercial break? I mean, Rossi, I've been to call in basketball. It's my ninth year of the Rockets.

There are names in the NBA I still have a problem with, but I at least practice them and try to get them right. I mean, my gosh. Yeah, it's such a popular. a show. But I just got to say, it's become a joke. It's a joke. The show's a joke now. It is.

You know what? It's a variety show. You don't, as long as you don't take, as long as you don't go into it going, I need to learn something. I just want to laugh and goof around. And, you know,

because most people, again, typically tune out pre-game halftime post game. You give your chance to go to the bathroom, get something to eat, whatever the case would be. But those guys always seem to have something funny come up. I mean, Charles Barkley is one of the funniest human beings alive.

He just is. Yeah, but the show is just a farce. I mean, it's just don't try to pay attention. And it's fine. It is what it is, I guess. It's not like there was ever great analysis on there, but it's gotten progressively worse. They don't care.

They don't pay attention. And really, they spend a lot of the time. It feels like tearing down players rather than building them up, which is a whole other ball of wax. We can talk about with NBA discourse. Yeah, yeah. NBA discourse, for whatever reason, is to always tear everyone down and say

this player's not as good as player X or never, you know, whatever. Well, it's funny because I don't know, you might have been gone on vacation, but who is Colin Coward's little buddy on his TV show? That guy sucks. I don't even want to mention his name. I know his name. But he's the one that brought it up. He says, why are we giving these guys such shine when all they do is go on their show and rip players?

And I was like, man, I don't agree with you very much. That's not Chris Haynes. Who is it? Jason McIntyre. I'm not a huge fan of his. It is what it is. He's not good. But he was right.

he was right they rip they and and so all those guys on t n t and t now rip him for saying what he said and look i i i'm i we all have a little bit of back in the day when i watched or back in the day when i play kind of thing in our in our back of our minds but you have to be progressive if you are running the flagship show for the network and oh by the way you're about to all make them busting a lot of new money with whatever tv network you'll go to whether you stay on t i go to espn and do the tnc presentation from there you know, you got a lot of eyes,

eye all eyeballs on you. And they just, they, when everything sucks. And I think it does cause some issues. I really do. And like I said, I don't like to give McIntyre shine too much

because he is a very hot taking machine, but he wasn't wrong. He just wasn't. Imagine every day, Ross, if you and I did, you know, look, we are the home of the Astros and the home of the Rockets.

If every day we came on the show and ripped the crap out of those two teams, Why would anyone come to our station to listen to that? Well, people keep going to that show, I guess, and it still carries a lot of weight. You know why? Because ESPN can't put together an interesting show. They don't value Stephen A's opinion. Kendrick Perkins is, I mean, is mid.

And I don't even know if Michael Wilbon has a pulse of the league anymore. frankly the only reason why i watch esPN is for when shams break stories that's it and when woe's doing it before that yeah 90% of my watching is game coverage yeah or if it's not it's like 10 minutes before game coverage and i'm watching yeah i mean we gotta you know you you when you are doing a show you have to highlight the negatives because if you don't then you come across as a show or fake media with a youtube show or or if you if everything is negative all the time then you're like then you have no joy i think it's just it's just it's just it's just it's just a show you're For whatever reason, that's just how it is in the NBA in general.

Oh, LeBron sucks. He's not as good as Kobe. Oh, Jordan was better. Who cares? Oh, you know, anything that we can come up with as far as like James Hardin, people tearing him down and hate watching him. And a lot of these stars and these fan bases and infighting. And, I mean, you go into like Rockets fans. It rockets Twitter itself.

There's a bunch of infighting. Because there's Shingoon fans. There's Jalen Green fans. Oh, Rocket's Twitter's terrible. It's like, bro. It's okay to enjoy everything. It's okay to watch. And it happens in other sports as well.

They're crushing Van Vleet for the shot last night. Okay, look, it was a long three-point shot. And you would never consider a friend to be a dead-eye shooter. But the play was to go to Thompson. Yes. The double team came to him, as you would expect. The kickout was to Van Vleet. It was about a 28-footer, give or take.

But Fred's made deep threes before. It's not like it only like he had two hands in his face. He had an open look. Didn't make it. It sucked. But then it became an indictment. I was looking at Twitter this morning. It was an indictment against why is Fred Van Vleet taking the last shot in the game?

Well, it's because the guy that the Rockets wanted to shoot got double-teamed and couldn't get to the lane. He was shy of the right elbow. He couldn't get there. I saw it myself. I saw it. The play was not drawn on for Fred Van Vleet. Yeah. And Coach Udokas said as much in the post game as well.

And the Simpletons just don't get that. Thank God we've got audience members on our own Sips. That's all I'm saying. 1029 it's a matt thomas show with ross 713 212 5 790 713 212 5 790 it's a matt thomas show with ross we are with you today until 2 o'clock we have the the news at noon 12 noon we'll wake the strippers up today at 12 we've got the non florist stories at 130 believe it or not at 150 but the rest of the time it's you and me and it's ross and it's and anything goes friday with a word for the shell federal credit union 3.9% 8% 8% 8% on interest rates for a new vehicle that you purchase, a pre-owned vehicle that you purchase, or perhaps you want to refinance a vehicle that you're currently in, all today with the Shell Federal Credit Union. ShellfcU.org is the website. ShellfcU.org. You can also give them a call as we'll give you the phone number here in just a second. But most importantly, I want to tell you

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signing in the Major League Baseball. We'll do that in a couple of minutes because it does have an impact on the local nine. Let's go to first Mike in San Antonio and anything goes Friday. Mike, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Happy Friday. I do have

a couple of questions. A great game last night, of course, disappointing loss. I heard some of your discussion. It wasn't the shot. The offense went cold before quarter, as you know. Forget the stats, but they just weren't making baskets. It's still a great game. It's so exciting to watch this team.

You know, I've been rooting for my whole life, and I know it's exciting for you, Matt, and I'm very impressed your call from the phone. I didn't know that I was listening to the broadcasts. But I was thinking about last season versus this season, you know, they were not competitive in these games. And, man, they are playing so well. I'm loving and I'm enjoying watching them.

But I was wanting to know that call in the fourth quarter, not the call, they called the timeout. Yep. and man the grizzlies coach went ballistic and I guess he said he didn't call it that was one question I also want to ask I got something on Wemby that I can

wait on the I went to the game here the other night and it's the Clippers just an observation first time I seen him play in person and he was getting just knocked around by a Zubak and he was playing about the call man

Zubak Yov I mean he got knocked to the ground and won so he kind of went after him but that guy needs to bulk up. I mean, he's good. He had a double-double, but, you know, he couldn't play inside. And I had not seen playing in person. But I was curious what happened.

If you knew what happened to the call, if you actually did call time out or if they just blew it. They absolutely blew it. They heard, they thought, the officials thought that Taylor Jenkins was calling a timeout. Instead, he was in a wind-up as to rush down the floor. I had thought originally that a player on the court called a time-out, but that was not the case.

It was. I thought it was. They showed a replay. Yeah. And they said it was an inadvertent whistle and that they were, they were sorry, but life happens with an inadvertent whistle. So that's why they called the time. Well, they still won, unfortunately, for the Rockets fans. I wanted to tell you, I heard a little bit of your discussion about TNT.

I didn't hear all of it, but they were shown up some big time less for the Rockets. Last night, what I heard, I was mostly listening to your, you know, 790 broadcast. but especially Kenny Smith. Kenny Smith said that he could see the team possibly even getting to the finals. I was like, whoa, he's really bragging on their lineup and the team. And I don't, you know, watch them much. But him and Ernie Johnson were talking about how impressed they were. Yeah.

Thank you, Mike, for the phone call. And good conversation points. Thanks very much. Let me go to the Wembeysa first. Ross and I are Wembe fans. I mean, I'm not rooting for his team to be successful. Let's not mistake that. But as an individual player, I think he is going to be fantastic.

The one thing that will obviously haunt him will be if he does get pushed around and get beat up despite his tall stature. It's a lot easier said than done to have a particular player of his height to gain 15 or 20 pounds because, frankly, it doesn't mean that much of a difference. But with that being said, he probably needs to do that. he still does get pushed around, but part of what makes him so difficult to defend is that he is so versatile

and that he can hit the outside shot when he can, and he can move around the floor with great fluidity as compared to most guys of his size that are clunky, that are low post threats that don't move around very well. That's part of his charm. So there's got to be a delicate balance between what he weighs now and what he does on the court offensively as compared to what he might do defensively

because he is having to go against guys that are going to be at least from a bulk style wise much bigger. So I'm a Wembe fan. I wish you was a Houston rocket. We didn't win that lottery. He's going to be a thorn on the rocket side for a long time. No matter what team he plays for whether he stays in San Antonio

long term or not. There are some deficiencies in his game, but he can block shots, he can rebound, he can in an outside shot, he can attack the offensive glass. He's going to be a pain in the ass for the rockets for the foreseeable future. I know. We in here in Houston don't want to hear that, but yeah, he already is a special player. And he's not anywhere close to his ceiling. He's averaging basically 25 and 10 and leading the league in blocks. And he does need to bulk up. He can't get pushed around by big bulkier.

They're like a Vita Zubots, as mentioned. And, you know, Alpernshingen Gunes dropped 45 on him. But he's got that length to block a ton of shots. But if a big man can get up, into his chest, yeah, he can get pushed around for sure. He also, I think, needs to get better at shot selection, turns the ball over a little bit too much. But he's already an all-star. And he's not, to me, not even close

to scratching the surface of his ceiling with the abilities that he does have. And then, of course, yes, the large thing that's always going to loom over him is going to be health. People get hurt in basketball, no matter what, no matter who you are. So the second he even gets his first injury, we'll see how that

goes. But it's going to be something that's going to be hanging over his career and the big the biggest question mark of his long-term viability is the in the NBA is going to be health other than that he's he's basically built out of a lab seven foot three with handles with the soft shooting stroke blocks everything and he has great impact even even not blocking shots like teams on a three on two fast break they just go out to the perimeter and hang out because he's down there looming he affects shots he affects offensive sets. He's a game changer. He just is. Yeah. So I would say if you are in the ilk of, well, he's just another lean 7-2-73 guy that's going to crater. I mean, there have been

plenty of players that have done that. I understand the lean seven-foot guy has a difficult time. Look, Chad Holmgren's a special basketball player for Oklahoma City, Ross, but he's also had two significant long injuries in his short NBA career. Yeah, miss his entire first. And that was the thing with Chet, too. Same thing. Special player. special traits. Can he stay healthy with that body? So, yeah, health is the number one thing. About development, he's going to have it. Can he stay healthy as another thing?

But yeah, did he make the All-Star team yesterday? Yeah, he's an All-Star. He's an All-Star. He's averaging 25 and 10 leading the league in blocks. He's good. I was just curious if he made it because I've been calling him an All-Star. And I hope the Rockets beat his ass for a long, long time. But right now we've got to deal in realities, and he's a pretty special player.

He needs help, though. will they be getting help from Deeran Fox who you never know that's a really piping hot rumor out there sports I'd really that rather not happen okay just throwing it out there all right

let's uh oh back to we'll finish this NBA up and then I do want to get to the uh afraid and signing yesterday in baseball uh yeah Kenny Smith is always never been afraid to to brag on the rockets and in looking Kenny played for several NBA teams in his career but he obviously holds a special play

in Houston for the championships. And I'm kind of excited to see where if the national pundits, and again, we shouldn't live on national pundits, but they're national for a reason they have the greatest reach. I hope they do embrace what's going on. I hope that people get to know who a manned Thompson is. I hope that Alperin Shingoon continues to develop and is a perennial all-star, that they realize, they figure out who the terror twins are and that kind of thing. I mean, people already know who Dylan Brooks is.

Rossi, it took Dylan Bruns. Brooks less than two years to get blatantly booed in Memphis. He played there his entire NBA career, right? Yes. And he's hated there already. It took him less than two years. Dylan, the villain. The villain.

Six fouls yesterday. Hey, might as well use them all. Not as well. You can't take him back with the lockering, like Bill O'Brien timeouts, right? Right. But yeah, I've always liked it. Look, I'm going to tell you this. I do, again, enjoy the TNT show for entertainment value.

But, man, I just, credibility is everything to me. And I just think if you're not prepared with the simple, I mean, you got Houston and Memphis as your game. I'm not asking you to make sure you give me the injury updates for Charlotte versus Orlando. You know what I mean? I mean, that's your game you're about to work on. And you don't know that John Moran's not playing? That's not.

That's pretty bad. And nobody could pronounce any of the players' names. It was embarrassing. Yeah. All right, the Astros were looking for an infielder, not name Alex Breggman, and that infielder decided to go somewhere else. We'll discuss that next. 1043 on anything goes Friday.

713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross returned. Returned on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, you'll be happy to know I'm on my second full cup of coffee since the show started today. You're a slacker. Yeah, got to the house at 315 this morning. I almost ran into two deer in my own neighborhood. What?

I know. Man, you live up in the sticks, my brother. Oh, my God. Get me a high-rise. Wow. There's deer like that in Kingwood? Yes, in my neighborhood. You saw a trail of breadcrumbs.

You had to solve a riddle from a troll to cross a bridge. And you're out there. Yeah, I saw the way. I saw the wagons coming in from the, from Lufkin. I mean, it's just, I will say this. When we get the city, Matt? That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that takes 48 minutes.

Ooh. It's never going to slow down. You went from hobby to home at 2.30? Yeah. That's tough. I don't like driving around that time. Well, first of all, it's dangerous. Let me come here real quickly.

They're drunks everywhere. So, crazy. I am constantly changing lane just to not even get close to a vehicle. Absolutely. Then I get to Kingwood. I get off at North Park. That's the second Kingwood exit off in Kingwood. And I'm on this, I'm on North Park Drive for a little while.

Do you ever get creeped out if you're at the middle of the night and you're in the left lane or you're in the right lane in the lane right next to you? Do you ever, and you like turn to see what's going on, I swear the person that was next to me was staring at me. And I was like, I am flipping the F out. No, I think you're paranoid. So I've decided that I'm not going to ever be side by side with a car that night ever again because I was weirded out. Okay. You keeping your peace on you, Matt?

No one will them catch you lacquered. I was thinking about, should I make a Waterburger run at 245? Depends. Usually that's when the line's really long. Depends. The water I was going to go to is on telephone. And I don't know if I want to be in that area at that. late at night at the Waterburger.

Oof. Telephone road, huh? For the telephone man. You ever been on telephone road that later later night, Rossi? I don't think I've really been on... I'm going to suggest you don't. I don't normally... I'm not normally in that part of town.

Yeah. The terminal we go to is right off a telephone. Okay. Needless to say, every massage parlor is available. What's that noise in the background? It's Cameron's alarm going off. Oh, okay. These young ins.

They set their alarms for $10.50. I'm so jealous. It used to be you, Rossi. It used to be us. Why are you going to twist the knife on me, Matt? I'd be still asleep. Are you kidding me? All right, let's get back to sports.

That's just our own little personal bitch fest. That's what we're here for. 713-212-5-790. So Jorge Polanco is going to stay with the Seattle Mariners, Ross. Uh-oh. What does that mean? One-year contract worth $7.75 million. He's 31 years old. He's a switch hitter.

OPS of 841 with 22 home runs. Oh, my God, would that have been sweet in Houston, Texas? For 8-milly? For 8-milly? That's value, baby. Yeah, he had a bad year last year, though. But his OPS is normally above that, right? Normally, yes.

You know, I have to really delve into the metrics, Matt, with the hard-hit rate and bad. The last that I was back reported was 2019, so it's been a while. What was his expected OPS though, Matt? You know, I don't like XPA. XSA. Actually, XSA is good.

Adam Clayton believes he has the best XSA on the 7-0-A-air staff. I'm going to... That's probably accurate. Well, Sousy back in the day? Oh, let's break this down real quick. Okay, no, it's Sean. It's Sean.

Let's move on. quarterback in USC? Get out of here. No, there's no holding on. Go ahead. Hold on. Let me give you some arguments here. Wexler, no chance. Me, no chance.

Me, no chance. You no chance. Lelima. Hold on. Let me give you the argument. Sprite. Good looking guy. Brosky.

And. Ball player. Coaches Little League Baseball to divorcee moms. Hmm. Interesting. now. So you think he's accepting favors to get little Timmy more playing time. I don't know if Brian wants to answer that or not.

That's really on him. But I would put the, I'd put Sean Salisbury 20 years old, the leader in the clubhouse, San Diego kid who went to USC. Quarterback at USC, done. Yeah, he wins. He wins.

Clinton, because he just has no cuth back in the day. No scruples, as they say. Yeah, as a kid say, scruples. And then I put a Lima 30. and then everybody else is a distant fourth. Okay. I think we size it up properly if I'm not mistaken. I guess so.

It isn't anything goes Friday. I'm sleep deprived. I'm on second cup of a Pike Place. I mean, I'm good, baby. Let's go. All right. Okay, so Polanco stays in Seattle. The production is significantly down,

but he's there on a one-year deal. Oh, by the way, you brought something up on Twitter yesterday that I 100% agree with. there are people that are having Bregman fatigue. Well, guess what? We're bringing it up because it's still the most interesting thing of the baseball off season here. I was kind of shocked.

Yeah, I made kind of a joking tweet about, you know, that willful Wall Street meme of the, I'm not bleep and leaving that people use when they come back. And somehow, I don't know, it got retweeted enough to where it got into the, you know, sometimes, Matt, you just try to tweet for your peeps, right? People who've listened to the show who know you, who you know you interact with all the time.

The four-utab wasn't your friend yesterday, was it? I guess I ended up at the four-you tab. When you end up in that for-you tab, you come be exposed to the ocean of idiocy. Yeah. And it's like, how are we functioning as a society? These people are out on our roads. They're raising our children.

Right. And they're complete mouth-breathing idiots. Yeah. They're driving our cars or Ubering us for us. No, Bregman had his chance. I don't want Bregman back on this team. Are you stupid? What are you talking about?

If Alex Breggman signs in the next 20 minutes, this town's going beyond being excited. Yes. They're going crazy. They don't care. They're not begrudging. It's not about scabors. It's like, oh, you know, he's too much of a drama queen. It's been too much drama.

Alex Breggman hadn't said one word. Alex Breggman went out there. He hit the market in what is called a business to try to do what's best for him and his family and his future going forward. And if he ends up back here in Houston, we would welcome with it open arms and we show. Yes. He lives and breathes this city. He came up with this organization. He's been there through the greatest renaissance at Astros history.

He absolutely 100% will be by the masses accepted with open arms as he should be. This isn't Miles Straw. This is Alex freaking Breggman. Let's go down. Come on. And it's not that we talk about it four hours. I mean, we don't talk about it for four hours a day. But it's going to be talked about because it's still the most interesting thing about this Astros offseason.

Because first of all, it's one of the greatest players. has ever to put a uniform on. Second of all, it does give you a little bit of background into how the baseball franchise world works. And third, if he signs, it does create a very interesting future for the greatest astro of him all on how he finishes his career. Yeah, and it became a story again, because as you started off mentioning, Jorge Polanco signed with the Mariners.

The Astros were trying to get with or are trying to sign Jorge Polanco, and now they're turning there, according to Chandler Rome. from his athletic story. With Polanco off the board, the Astros attention will turn toward a reunion with Bregman, which General Manager Dana Brown has described as a long shot. Houston is also exploring trades for another outfielder, but still has longstanding six-year, $156 million offer out to Bregman.

Tigers, Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Cubs remain in play for Bregman, according to two league sources. Again, this from Channel Rome. Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's, I think there are some people that would like some resolve to it, Because again, and mainly probably Alex Brinkman's the top of that list. Because spring training is coming up in a couple weeks. But it's, I mean, we're not browbeating it over.

We're just giving you what, you know, we wish every person listened to every minute of the show for four hours a day. It's just doesn't happen. So are there people bumping around town today that didn't get to listen to the show for three days because of the work or something else going on their life? Yeah, I mean, so when there's something going on, and this is a relevant news item in relation to with the Astro because the Astros won in Horace Polanco. They did. I don't think he hit the fact they were actively looking for Jorge Polanco to join the Astros.

Perhaps a short-term deal in which he's staying in Seattle. So that's the news of that of the day. And it does have relation to the fact that the Astros may be thinking about making a significant change in their greatest player's future in terms of what he does defensively. 1057. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713-212. 5-790. 713-212-5-790. If you're going to visit with us on Twitter, you may do that as well. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern. Second hour, Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We've got the Texans' another name on the list for offensive coordinator. One guy that I've known since he was in college is a candidate.

1057 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. It is 11.01 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program in today until 2 o'clock today. It isn't anything goes Friday. Anything you want to get it to when it comes to the Super Bowl,

which will be one week from Sunday. Rockets losing last night to the Memphis Grizzlies. Unfortunately, we'll not get the series sweep against them. As the Grizzlies gain a game on the Rockets of the final. playoff of the second seat in the Western Conference. We have Jorge Polanco resigning with the San Bernardners. Does that impact the asteros? By the way, we've got an update from Jim Bowden on Alex Breggman,

and you'll hear that coming up in about to 20 minutes from now. Texans continue to search for an offensive coordinator. First of all, and again, I'm going to bring the, I don't necessarily need to bring the names up because they don't do much for anybody. It sounds like Chip Kelly is a thanks, but no thanks. I've not heard any buzz about that whatsoever, which is okay. I mean, it feels like, as you brought up yesterday in the show, Ross, and maybe this is a, let's throw the name out to see if we can get some more money from Ohio State.

And if that works, that so be it. But Brian Johnson has been brought up as a candidate. To show you how old I am, Ross, I called Brian Johnson's games at Utah when he was a quarterback. Really? You guys are Broskis or what? I don't think we've, no, I would not consider his friends at all. Oh. That's unfortunate.

Yeah, I mean, maybe, you know, know what? I'll tell you what, if he gets the job here. Wasn't he a coach for the Texans at one point before, I want to say? He was the OC for the Houston Cougars. Oh, is that what it was? 2017. Okay. Yeah, with Major Apple one, I think, right? It was when he was coaching. I'll take your word for it. Yeah. So yeah, Brian Johnson with, I believe, Philadelphia, I want to say? He was with Philadelphia the last couple of years. I have his resume. And he's with the, he was the passing game coordinator with the, commanders this year.

Okay, so he's moved around a little bit. Yeah, Utah, Mississippi, State, Houston, Florida, Philadelphia, Washington. That's a coach, that's life. God, could you imagine moving around that much in your life? Baytown Lee, graduate. That's how we became pals because the year that I called the game,

games that we were both, you know, we were both Houston guys living in Salt Lake City. And you were like, aren't you a grader got out of Baytown? I don't think I took any direct shots at Baytown. I was subtle about it. Okay. We love Baytown. Baytown takes care of us.

I like the Ruckies out there, and that's about it. I believe we're the number one show in Baytown. We are. Yeah. We've been on the way to Lake Charles and gotten stopped by people in the Baytown. Ruckies. Yes. We should do like a remote show.

Yeah, you're like a star over there. Like, are you Matt Thomas? The Matt Thomas? You know, the first question I usually get is, where's Ross? It's almost like we're hooked arm by arm at all times. You don't got a gut punch me on a Friday like this. I got news for you. You're attached to me for the rest of you.

I know. It's pretty disgusting. It's not that bad. We getting buried next to each other? I don't know. I think Kim might be offended by that a little bit, but that's to each his own. I mean, you can bring that up with her. Yeah.

Do you want to buy burial plots with each other next to each other? Yeah. where are you being interred you have any uh i don't i haven't been thought about my interment well you bet it's time to start thinking matt no it's not i don't get you on a payment plan by the way do you see jean hackman to a turn 95 over the jean hackman's alive there's no way yes you would have got me on that one no i swear i would have said not with full confidence we need to do it dead or a lot we haven't done those in a while maybe next week we'll do it one day one day we'll do it but yeah uh jean hackman 90 and dick van dykes uh hansky i think

We've got some stars still around. No, I thought he died. No, he's alive too. Oh. Oh, I'm thinking of, not Dick Van Dyke, but the, um, who is Martin Sheen's dad? Wait. No, Martin Shee. No, not him, not him.

Who is the, who am I thinking of? Kirk Douglas? Kirk Douglas. He died. He died. He's dead, yeah. I get Martin Sheen and, you know. All right. So next week, a dead or alive, believe or not coming up on the show. Okay, good. You can't do Gene Hackman now.

Well, I probably forget. Yeah, well. Your memory's not great. All right. 713, 2125-790. Rockets last night fall to the Grizzlies. Three games to won. The season series goes to the Rockets,

so they are tied in a playoff position. The Rockets would have the tiebreaker over that. Our friends of T&T are mispronouncing their names. Alperin-Shangoon is an All-Star. Will that made me want to watch the All-Star game anymore? Can I be brutally honest, Ross? Nope. Shingweenie.

Shingweeney. But apparently that's their nickname for him, somebody said. So it's still bad. Well, how about this? I've never heard him pronounce it properly. Yeah. It's really not that hard. Well, it's funny because the ESPN radio crew was in town for the game yesterday in Memphis,

and the radio guy asked me, said, how do you pronounce it again? Because everybody wants to make sure. I said Shen, S-H-E-N-G-O-O-N, Shengoon. It doesn't look like it pronounced that way. I mean, I'm the first one to tell you that. It doesn't look like the way it's pronounced. Yeah. That's how it works.

Like Omer Ashik? I guess maybe the Turkish S is a sh. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what they do over there, but yeah. I don't know what they do over there. I mean, I haven't been to Istanbul lately. You haven't?

Can you name a second city in Turkey not named Istanbul? Is there a Turkey city? I was about to say Turkey City. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to steal your bit, my bad. I know there is one I can't think of it off top my head. Okay, with the aid of Google, Bursa sounds familiar. We could do a believe it or not, is this a city in Turkey?

We could. Oh, you know what? We're going to do that. I'll give you a nice and some fun ones to pronounce. No, we still don't have prizes. Wait a minute. Connor, you were supposed to get us some prizes. Do you send the email, Connor?

What was their response when you sent the email? I didn't get one. Oh, he was told to. shut his bum ass up. Let me check, though. Let me see if there's anything left over. Ross, what bothers you more? A non-return of a text or a non-return

of an email? Well, I do both, so I don't. None of it bothers me. Yeah, I texted you this morning. I'm not heard of response yet. Yes, I did. No, you didn't. I did.

Let me see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was like half awake and coughing and a coughing fit when you sent that. And why don't you have this? you were it was not we recorded on your phone that's why i don't have it yeah but i sent it didn't i send it to you i'm not deleted it i hope not we could play for a pair of monster damn tickets that's all we got is one pair and some seven nine t-shirts oh yeah how about you know we ought to do one pair

Connor here's what you're gonna do what don't we do dancing lessons with you like one hour of dancing like for there's some people that are you know want to get back in the clubs because they're single or they want to just hang out and be you know not socially awkward at weddings we do a cut a rug class with Connor D. McGovern. Sure. Isn't there like a dance studio like our author Arthur Maria or something like that? No you have the

you have see this is okay Matt texted me asking me for a video that we shot on my phone you have by the way the video is about something work related I don't want to get your mind out of the gutter here my mind wasn't in the gutter I even think about it but I guess you're right because your mind is always in the gutter Yeah, it's for work.

It's just for work stuff. You have it. I sent it to you. Do you delete it? Probably. I don't know. Go look at your... Oh, Lord.

That's why I was like, oh, God, I don't have to deal with this right now. And I went back to sleep. That's why I didn't respond. So sleep was more important than just a quick response of, oh, I'll do it or, hey, can you... I was going to have to look at my phone, and it was already something that you should already have

because I sent it to you, so this is not something I should be having to deal with, and I went back to sleep, yes. This is great radio. I love this. Hashtag 790 teamwork. Hashtag asking for something you already have. Hashtag.

Do you delete it? Probably, yes. Why? I don't know. I mean, I'll go back and look. God, I'll go back and you. No, I air dropped it to you. All right.

Remember? This is great. It's anything goes Friday. I love it. Ross is still sick. I'm working on five hours of sleep. This is why the radio show is where we are, the magic is. Yeah, I'm not taking blame for this.

No, you shouldn't. You could have covered my ass on this, but you didn't. You fully exposed my ass instead of covering it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. By the way, next week, Ross, we are not going to Radio Row. We're not? No.

Oh, that's fine. I'm going to send out a tweet Sunday. and it was a bit last year and it really worked out well we're going to send out a tweet of guests we're not having on the show that we've been offered and i mean it is a who's whose who's list of amazing guests that gordy could have booked i think there were some good ones actually the list he's given me so far are not great now apparently gordy is going to super bowl for a while i don't know well you know at least well never mind is he going i mean i don't know i'm not heard of

I'm not sure. The latest is I think yes, but I don't know. So if he gets us somebody good, we'll take him. Or her. That's right. But if it's... I mean, most of the guests first on the history of the Matt Thomas Hill or Ross at the Super Bowl have been C-minus at best.

I don't know why you're being so rude. We've got some good guests on over the years. Go ahead and name them. Maurice Jones Drew. That was a good get. Sean Salisbury. Good get. Ryan Leaf.

Okay, get. Emmitt Smith's been on with some show before. Not ours. Oh. The best guess I ever had was when I was in Minneapolis. I got Barry Sanders on the show. See, you got Barry Sanders. What are you wanting about?

But it wasn't with this station. It was another station. Oh. Remember that time we had Dalton Schultz on the show until another station town stole us from us? Yeah, that was that Radio Row? Yeah. That's tough of there, though. All right.

So get ready for the Sunday tweet. It will be guests we will not be having on at Radio Roll during the Super Bowl. It is 1111 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. Alex Bregman update from yet another MLB pundit. You'll hear from him next. 1112, Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790.

It is anything goes Friday. The news at noon is coming up in 44 minutes. We'll wake the strippers up as well. We'll take your phone calls at 713-212-1-2-5-790. We will get into Texans OC search. Huge. I mean, it's not huge. It's whatever Hannah wants.

Hannah's not making this call. Stop. Oh, please. Stop. She is not calling who the OC is. By the way, man, I found a radio row. list of interviews from, I think the last time we were there was 2020, but I found

2019. I couldn't find 2020 yet. Okay, go ahead. See, these are all the people you're whining and crying about how we have, how about Dan Marino? Do you remember that interview? I was really good. Hannah Storm, Andrea Kramer. Like that? Charlotte Flair. Yeah, but

it was kind of a weird interview. Well, it's weird about it. You couldn't look up? I mean, hardly sure. How many times do you say, eyes are up here, pal, pal? she is bucks him i'll take you that kareem jackson that was a good one

mark schlareth good Charles haley see look we got good names you know what shut your bum ass up leave me some room here I apologize miss morning you got some good kids right there

you can say Chris cordy you can apologize to him Mark Summers I forgot about that one oh yeah we were hating on Drew Carey big time we loved that was a good one Longhorn legender Michael Finley all right you're not helping your cause here.

Jeff Garcia? Not bad. Carson Palmer? Jerry Rice? We had Jerry Rice in the show? Yes, we did. I took a picture with him. 100%.

See, you're just a whiner, dude. You know what? Again, Chris Gordy, I apologize. Okay, here's some different... Jim Stucky. Ooh, I don't longer apologize. Chris Myers. Work done.

The Fox broadcaster or the center? I believe it was the Fox broadcaster. Okay. We had Carl Mecklenburg on one year? Worked on. We had him on like six years. Oh. But yeah, this is all, this is all from 19. Apparently, Gordy is going to go down to Radio Row. And?

We have, well, I don't know. Can I announce it on air? We have at least one good guest booked and two others offered. Okay, so here's what I want you to do. I don't want you to announce what it is. I don't even know who it is. Okay. Can I be pleasantly as well? If I don't know who this is until like two minutes prior to the interview, will I be okay with doing the interview still?

Oh, like, are you going to be prepped? Right. Do I need to do any deep research on this person or are we going to be okay? Hmm. You'll be okay. Will I fan boy over this guy? You will probably fan boy over this girl. Oh, it's a girl.

Okay. I will just say two words and we'll move on. Sideline reporter. Okay, there it is. Hey, I want to get Greg Olson on the show next week. I'm a big fan of her. She says great work. What's that?

She does great work. Oh, this silent reporter? Is she over the age of 40? I don't know. Probably around there. Okay. So that's the half plus seven rules in play. What?

Matt. Happily married, Matt. Yes, I am happily married. But I'm saying for those that are not happily married. Aren't you home? Yeah, but she's out. I was going to say, you're trying to get whipped while you're at your house? She knows the bed.

What are you talking about? For those men that are not married, you have to get put that in perfect. Go ahead and tell people what the half plus seven is, which is just a rule made up by older men. If you are a man and you are interested in a particular woman and people ask whether or not they are, it's age appropriate for you to be interested in this woman, take your age, cut it in half, and add six. Okay. So the rule would be for me 33 years old. That's ridiculous.

It's not ridiculous. It feels appropriate. Well, what, 100 year old? Get it with a 57 year old? No, it's not appropriate. Well, first of all, 100 year olds aren't getting with 57-year-olds, unless they're, like, clinically and medically enhanced. Hmm.

But, hey, Bill Belichick's hanging out with somebody a third of his age, right? Yeah, that's not the half plus seven. No, he's not going by that rule. It's just a made-up rule. Of course. made up. I mean, there's no, it's not in the, it's not in the constitution. It's not? No. It's not the preamble?

No. It's not the Bill of Rights. That'd be pretty funny if it was. Yeah. All right. Trust factor on Jim Bowden, Ross, on his information. I thought he was great with Florida State for all those years, but I didn't know he was breaking news now. Um,

no, that's Terry Bowden. You're missed, no, that's, uh, uh, uh, Boughton. Bobby Bowden. Oh. This is Jim Bowden. I'm sorry. You know what? I like to apologize, Jim. He probably gets that all the time. That was low-hanging fruit, and I bid it. Yeah. You know what? They call you Mr. Low Fruit. Here's Jim Bowden. I believe on the MLB network. I don't worry where he's from, but he has asked quite frequently to size up various things he hears around baseball, and here's what he has to hear right now about Alex Brinkman. I think the tigers have the best offer on the table perhaps, right?

I'm just not sure that's where he wants to go. But the tigers have been right there. I mean, they're sitting there, and he's been their priority. The whole offseason doesn't mean they're going to land them because they haven't so far. I think in terms of Houston, you know, Breggman makes sense as long as you have the Paredes trade in, you know, ready to go for that left-hand hitting outfield that they're going to need. I mean, they need help in the outfield. Now, if you can take Paredes and you can spin them for a left-hand-hitting outfielder and then sign Bregman back, that makes sense. If you sign Bregman now, then, you know, you're kind of complicating things a little bit, right?

Because, you know, you want to put Paredes at second. He's not a good second baseman. And you're going to take away one of the best defensive second baseman in Altovae, and you're going to put him in the left field where he doesn't have an arm to throw. Baseball-wise, that's not a smart play. And what I'm being told from people in Tampa, they don't think Paredes would, be adequate enough in left field to be the everyday left fielder there. So to get Breggen back, to me, the only thing you do is you now spin Paratus.

They trade paratus, but... Hmm. Possibly. Is this a concerted effort for the Astros to get out of Holt-El's two-of-e-playing second base? It seems like this left-field stuff is growing steam. And Jim Bowden is wrong. He is not an elite defensive second baseman anymore. Okay, so we have to dismiss the report then, basically, right? I think. No, I mean, he could be getting good sources, but

I believe the Chandler-Rome article also talked about the Astros exploring additions via trade. I'd have to pull that back up. Well, yeah, just because Pratis is wearing Astro gear right now, doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be doing this for the long term. Yeah, from the Chandler-Rome article on the Athletic. Houston is also exploring trades for another

outfielder, but still has its long-standing $656 million, offer out to Brighman. So 6156 is still there. Yes. Does Dana Brown know this? I'm just asking for a friend. This feels again Rossi to me like this is more Jim Crane driven. At least he's saying, hey, Alex, we've had this deal on the table for you for quite a while.

We're not taking it off. It's yours. You mean everything to this organization. We just have a threshold we're going to go to. Meanwhile, if you're the general manager, you have to operate like he's not here. So I don't think Dana is airing any of this, don't you? I mean, don't you agree? You don't think he's what?

Erred in this process. I think he's... No, I don't think so. I mean, the show has to go on. Dana's got to fill out his 26-man roster here. He's got to have depth chart. He's got to have position players. He can't be...

He's not... Dana's operating like, I can't be sitting here waiting for Alex to decide in two to three weeks what he wants to do in order to facilitate my roster for 2025. Yeah. He needs some solid bets rather than a long-shot parlay. Let me get you going on a gambling card. I can appreciate that.

Speaking of a gambler, David is with us in Las Vegas on 790. David, good morning to you. Good morning, gentlemen. This is going to put the test of anything goes Friday because it's about the Turkish alphabet, but not actually. It's really about the rockets and a relationship with my family because of the Turkish alphabet. You're asking about the letter S in Turkish, and they have two of them. One is the regular S, and it's pronounced S.

you know, and then one has a little curly cue on the bottom called a Sedilla, like you see in Spanish sometimes. And that changes it to a Shuh. And Alpi Shingun has a little Sadilla, so he's a Shingun, not a Singoon, okay? Now that's that. But my family, they know that I'm a big San Francisco Giants fan, they know I'm a big Houston Texans fan, and they know I'm a big Vegas Golden Knights fan,

but they never seem to have any appreciation for how much I love the Rockets. I don't know why. Just that hasn't stuck with him somehow. My brother, I have a brother who spent about half his career living in Turkey. And he happened to be visiting me here in Vegas, and the Rockets happened to be on national TV. So I got him to watch a game with me. And it was Alpi's rookie season that he comes on the floor.

And I say, hey, look, brother dear, they have a Turkish player. And I said, what's his name? said shangoon and he says to have the sidel on this uniform on the bottom of the s there and i said well no they skipped that part and my brother at that point decided he didn't like the used to the rocket so that was just the end of that true story it sounds like you lost family strife there oh dave that's the story and it's anything goes friday you ask for it so mixing in family issues and the turkish dialect ross is what this show is about here which one of one

this show. Thank you, David. Yeah, I don't know if any other show on the marketplace is going to give you that right there. No. I don't have any other show on the marketplace wants to give it to you, but we'll give it to you regardless. We wake the strippers up in one half hour. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If that right there isn't the essence of anything goes Friday,

I don't know what it is. So come on in, be with us. We'll talk to Alex about, oh, to Michael Finley's story, just what the city of Houston looking for. Yes, let's go. So it would be basically Texas, admiration segment straight ahead. The Matt Thomas show Ross continues here on Sports Talk 790. It is 1131 on Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show Ross. Rossi a very happy birthday to Ben Verlander who wishes that the Tigers would sign Alex Breggman. Okay. Heavy birthday, Ben. Hope you have a great one. Wishing you all the best. Yeah, continued success.

Um, and, um, just general excitement. Looks for nothing but the very best. Hmm, I'm proud of you, Matt. Yeah, I'm changing my ways. Really? Yeah. You've got to change your evil ways. Yeah.

I'm going to imagine your lover now. Really? Mm-hmm. I've decided I'm not going to, um, take, uh, uh, much warranted shots at people that deserve them, but I'm going to just bite my lip. Wow. It's a new you in 2025, Matt. Happy New Year at everybody.

Matt, it's almost February. I got it until February 15th. Based on what? I have my own rules. Is this like the 50 half plus seven rule? That's right. It's the 45-day roll. Alex is with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Our time is 1132.

Hi, Alex. How are you? Good. Matt Ross, Connor. Happy Friday, fellas. How's it going? Thank you, friend. We're having a great day. Thank you very much. All right. So Ross said, Dr. Michael Finley, U.T. legend. Well, before he was a U.T. legend, he was a East Texas high school football legend.

He went to die ball. We went up and played them my sophomore year in high school. I thought we had a pretty solid team, district champs. Well, Dr. Michael Finley just went on to put over about 200 yards and three or four touchdowns on us as a receiver tied end. and when he wasn't catching his breath on the sideline from running 70 yards downfield to score, he was busting through all the offensive line. And as a defensive end, just wrecking havoc.

It made it look like Calvin Johnson was playing against a Pop Warner team. It was crazy. So he was a monster. Yeah, he was great. People forget. His name is kind of forgotten in history because he had all those neck and head injuries, so he kind of had to retire early in his career. But I remember when he was at Texas, how special he was.

I wish he would have stayed another year for that two, But they lost it anyways because Colt McCoy got hurt in that game. But yeah, he was a physical freak in his prime. He was huge. He high-pointed one ball on our free safety, who was the best athlete on our humble team and probably jumped up about four foot in the air, caught it over him, and just ran 60 yards down field. Nobody could catch him.

Yep. He was just different, Alex. Anyway, Dana, let's bring Breggman home, run it back. Go Rockets. I'm out. you go. You know what? That's a call right there

from a Jamichael Finley High School Memories to bring Alex pregnant back to the Astros. Mm-hmm. Again, I find myself asking you, can you find another radio program in the marketplace that's going to go from those segways? I don't think so, Matt. By the way, I've got a new favorite Twitter account I'm following now.

We already know what your favorite Twitter account is. How's she doing? I don't know who you're speaking of. You know exactly 100% who I'm speaking of. It's called Houston Air Watch, and it's at Houston AirW. Okay. And it's got various things about there. Most of it is serious, but some of it is lighthearted.

Talking about these people listen to air scanners, they walk in helicopters, look at flight patterns. I just found one yesterday from 11 hours ago when I got on the plane to go from Memphis back here. That was funny. and they always put the hashtag H-O-U scanner. If you were to use hashtag, you'll find it. Houston Air Watch 11 hours ago. Carolina and Dallas at the dirt bar.

She's refusing to pay her tab. I think that's funny. A bit of the old dirt bar a time or two. I might have gone once. It's the pre-game spot. You can pre-game there for the Rocket. You can pre-game there for the House of Blues. Yeah.

I just think it was funny that something as mundane as somebody not paying the bill is worthy of getting on the police scanner. Hmm. And then it gets a little darker occasionally. One has said, here, let's take a look. One says, 23201, Louisiana, four males, all with hoodies and ski mask.

That's not great. That can't be turning up very well. Why not? Well, I mean, what are you using ski mask for when it's 60 degrees out? It's cold out, Matt. It's not. I think the lows are in the 40s? Mm-mm.

I don't believe. it. Let me see. What was the low? A low of 49 today. A little chilly out. What if they're just walking around in ski masks, what's the big deal? If you don't have an issue with it, I'm okay with it. I don't necessarily believe it. I don't think you believe it either. Not bothering anybody. Just hanging out in the chilly air. Okay. Man. Yeah, Ross, that's, Ross, Ross finds innocence in everything. mask at 10.30 at night or whatever it was.

Yeah, it's 11 at night, Matt. It's chilly out. So maybe the girl at the bar at the bar, got bad service. That's why she's not paying. Maybe it's, maybe it's the benefit down on her end. Maybe they served her the wrong drinks. She still drank them, even though they were wrong. Well, maybe she didn't. We don't know. You don't know the both sides of the story, Matt. You're just assuming.

Yeah, that's right. We should have, all it says is she's refusing to pay her tab. We probably has had 50 and or 20 cocktails. Maybe. Maybe she ordered a Cosmo and got a Tom Collins. Yeah. Let's go to Patrick on 798-1137. Patrick, good morning to you. Hey, morning, guys. Started listening to y'all on iHeart radio as opposed to 790 a.m. and you don't sound completely different. I had to double check. I was on the right station the entire time.

But my question was, at what point is, I have kind of two questions. At what point does Dana Brown tell Bregman, he either needs to poop or get off the pot with all this? And then also, I haven't kept up with much of the minor league and winter league. How did Zinzo look in left field over in the Dominican Republic of Puerto Rico where he was playing? And how close do we think Melton is to being ready? I know he's not going to be no call Tucker, obviously. But he was a top 100 prospect last year. So hopefully something a little bit better than our every day.

what we're looking at now. But thanks guys. You all have a good weekend. I'll hang up and listen. Thank you very much. Now, he said we sound different on the IHeart app. Yeah, we sound better. Yeah, we sound crystal clear.

Stereo. Let's go, baby. Yeah, Matt, and I was curious, how do you thought Zach Dzenzo looked in the left field in the Puerto Rican League? Okay, I didn't go. The 790 travel budget did not allow me to go. Normally, I do go every year. Puerto Rico is lovely.

I'd never have been. I don't think Desenzo is considered a long-term, future Canada for the Astros in terms of eight games and left, ten at first and one at third base in Winter Ball in Puerto Rico for Zach DeZenzo. Yeah, I think it's a to-be

determined on DeZenzo and what he really brings. I think it's the name we're going to be thinking about during the off-season. Did you guys talk to him during Fan Fest? I think, yes. He was on with Sean and Brian, I didn't catch him. Yeah, I mean, I think he's... I think they said he was really good. I think there's an undefined role for him right now at this point. I mean, he's not, Pasolena as being a starter, but, I mean, I don't, I don't know, I don't know enough about him.

I didn't see enough of him to have a, oh, this guy is a budding superstar or this guy is a foray player. I'm going to give you an incomplete of it, but in terms of the recon on what he did in Puerto Rico, that's something for Dana Brown. And Ross and I are going to Florida a few weeks for spring training. We'll be able to get some more information and stuff like that. but that's just not one of those situations that we don't have any. I don't think even Puerto Rico games are on television, are they? I've never seen one. I don't know.

Maybe closed circuit. No, maybe stream. Maybe you get streaming. You haven't streaming Puerto Rican ball games? I think some of the winter leagues you can't stream. But never a Puerto Rican baseball game, no. And then as far as Jacob Melton, MLB Pipeline listed as ETA is this year, is 25. Yeah, I would say.

So probably later into the year. Yeah. I don't think there's a zero percent chance he makes a team coming on a spring trend. you think zero percent zero percent he's 24 what are we waiting for um i mean again i'm only going off of what i've been somewhat told yeah yeah top 100 guys i'm not holding him back no i'm not saying he is yeah i'm just saying probably melting first before matthews is what i'm kind of hearing on the streets does that make sense to y'all probably

eta this is just from mowb pipeline eta for brys matthews they have is 26 2026 same thing for cam smith yeah of the names you just brought up the Cam Smith acquisition looks like to be the one that's going to be the He's the highest ranked prospect right in the organization? Yes. And he wasn't even an asteroid 30 days ago. What was he like the sixth Cub prospect or something or fifth? I can't remember what it was.

You know that's got to drive Dana crazy that his prospect list. I think it was the athletic that did the latest list. Or it was ESPN, one of the two groups, we're just not making that much inroads into the minor league system. It shows you that when you have spent, years of taking your draft picks and your prospects and using them in trades, whether it be for Zach Grinke, whether it be for Justin Furlander, whether it be for, help me out, Carlos Gobes, Furlander the first time.

Verlander the second time cost you. Burlander the second time. Cost you a couple prospects. Oh, the Kukuchi trade. You, there is a long-term effect to that. And also getting punished by not having the draft picks in their system. So, because you know, Dana was brought here. I mean, let's make no mistake.

Dana is obviously involved in the day-to-day operations. But Dana, I mean, what Dana's selling point was, look, I know how to build minor league systems. I helped do it in Toronto. I helped do it in Atlanta. I can do it here. And I have seen nothing more than the Astros being 28th out of 30. I don't think it's Dana's fault. I just think that he has been very hesitant.

to use those minor league players that he considers as prospects, but yet has been, you know, the team needed a starting pitcher. You just weren't, you need it. You say Kukuchi was absolutely needed for the Astros to win the division last year. Or for the ball card. They won the division. They won the division, right? Yes.

Yeah. If you don't have Yusay Kikuchi, you're not one of the American League West. And I know that it's going to bug some people like, well, you gave up all those guys. You needed you say to win the division. You lost in a wild card round. It sucked. I get it. Unless Jake Bloss becomes a 20-game winner for the Toronto Blue Jays long term,

and Joey Lopoedo is slugging, you know, 640, I think we're going to be okay. I think he's OPSing under 640. Okay, well, don't let that interfere with a good storyline. How do you get rid of Joey Lopavito? What's Dana Brown doing? He's an idiot. I don't know why we have all these New Yorker fans that pretend they're actually. Fans don't know I went to that accent, but it happens.

I think it's because I'm saying the word Joey Lopofito. Joey Lopo Fido sounds like a guy that would give you football picks. Hmm. Joey Lopo Fido. Yeah, maybe. This is Joey Lopo Fido. I'm on a recording line. It is a November to remember.

I've given you nine winners in a row. We're into L'October. I'm going to hit 14 pallays in a row. I got so much in from sign information. The insiders don't even have this inside information. That's how connected I am. I'm Joey Lopofito. 1144.

We're punched drunk here on a Friday. I don't if y'all realize that or not. I'm making it. I think we sound great. That's just what I heard on the IHeard radio app. I think generally speaking, people are entertained. I mean, we can get into some deep-seated tech. What's the Texans do in the office?

And kind of conversation if you want. And remember, the big tweets coming out this Sunday of guests we're not going to have on from Radio Row. Is the Radio Row even a thing anymore? Yes. Gordy's going. Are we paying for that? I don't know. That's above my head.

I don't want Gordy a pound out of his own money. Should we set up a GoFundee account for Gordy? He's got family in New Orleans. He's fine. He's just drive on over there. It's like a five and a half hour drive. It's still going to cost some gas money. You've got to eat.

Got to park the car. He said a goal for a game. By the way, I got a ruling on a go fund me a situation coming back. We'll come back. It's anything goes Friday, right? Absolutely. I think I know how you're going to rule on this. I think you and I are going to be on the same page.

Ooh, okay. It is 1145. It's a Matt Thomas show of Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to visit with us through Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGuverd.

1145. Strippers in 15 minutes on 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on... Sports Talk 790. We have the news at noon coming up. We'll wake the strippers up. We've got 9-4 stories at 130.

Believe it or not, today at 150. What is the cat? Oh, the category is about Googlable, right? Based on a topic we talked about earlier today. Is that correct? Is it? I think it is.

We're doing cities in Turkey? We're not going to bring it up. People are going to start Googling it now. That's fine. All right. Here's my ruling. Got a buddy of mine. I will not mention his name.

Not even know who he is. Not even live here. it's getting married. That's great, right? That's great. And it'll be his second marriage. Married a girl. It'll be her second marriage.

I find he sends me a note and says, hey, I'm going to this small island to get married in about a month. Okay, that's cool. Then he's going to have a bigger family get together on another island in a couple months after that. Okay. So it sounds good, right? Sounds like fun.

I go to his Facebook page. He doesn't have a GoFundMe account. Okay. But he's got a gift card kind of website link that can help them pay for things they would do on these getaways. Snorkeling, couples massage, gift cards to two different airlines.

hotel certificates. Like a wedding gift. Correct. I need a ruling. Okay. I've always been told that if you're getting married for the second time,

you don't really ask for gifts. That's on you, Jack. If people want to give you some money or give you a gift or say, hey, what can we do for you? Then you can say, that's awesome. Thank you very much. Yeah, you head to the JOP like an adult and maybe have a party. Yeah, well, you pay for it, frankly.

Yes. I didn't have the stone to tell this guy, the buddy of mine. We've been friends, but you should. I'll tell him. Let me know. I want to say, bro, it's not my fault that you're both of your first marriage just didn't work out. And if they didn't work out because of the other spouse, I'm sorry for that. And I'm happy you all getting married. But I don't think anybody should be.

And again, they're going to two different islands, one to get married and one for a family wedding reception. They obviously can afford these things without going to the gift card card on their Facebook account. That's ridiculous. You've been your good friends with this person? One to ten, like you and I are two and a half. He's probably one. Oh, come on. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. No, real life one to ten is probably a five? How long have you known him? About ten years? You want me to talk to him? No. I'm going to start, you know what, I'm going to start a service where I have tough talks that people don't want to have with their family members or friends.

Me too. Like, I want to create the website. You know how you have marriage cam at sporting events? I want divorce camp. Hmm. What does that have anything to do with what I said? Because I want to hire an attorney to go to a game and hand the divorce papers to the girl at the game as compared to handing it, you know, putting the knee down and saying, will you marry me?

Okay. I'll help facilitate that. Yeah, I just thought... You didn't go from A to B, you went from A to F. That's fine. We're all trying to think about Get Rich Quick. You were trying to think of a Get Rich Quick thing. Yeah, hi, I'm Ross from Tuft Talks.com.

You have a tough conversation that you don't want to have with a family member. Let me do it for you. Fill me in the details. You know what, let's start. Hold on. Stop right there. Let's do a little sample. Let's see how this works.

Okay. We've only got about three minutes left in this segment. Sure. Can one person call the show right now that has a similar situation that they need a Ross tough talk. Now, my two other companies that I've created in my life have been both successful. One is remote for you. That already floundered.

And 1-800 go-f yourself. Which one's that one? That's a subsidiary of what you're talking about. Okay. Where you have a boss at work that you don't like. I call them and say, hey, can I speak to Mr. Miller, please? Yes, may I just calling? No.

I need to speak to Mr. Miller. I said, Mr. Miller, on behalf of some of your employees, they would like you to go F yourself. Okay. And then what you do is, they'll say, who is this? Who paid for this? I'm not going to tell you, because I want you to think about somebody in this company spent money

for me to call you and tell you to go F yourself. Okay. How's that business going? Both are thriving. That's why I'm working two jobs now. Yeah. You can tell. All right.

So if anybody needs a tough talk, help. About a minute left. So call in right now. I don't want to get any like medical profession. I'll do like a drug intervention or something like that. No, let's just going to be something more lighthearted. Something more lighthearted.

Like you don't like your buddy doesn't, you love your buddy, but you don't love your buddy's girlfriend. It's time for a Ross tough talk. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7. I don't think I need a tough talk. I just think I'm going to avoid it.

Okay. Because I went, looked on his Facebook page yesterday and no one's buying anything for him. Give me one thing wrong today. They said, look, we're going to the JOP, and then we're going to go down to Galveston where we might get a stop at the Chick-fil-A on Seawall Boulevard. I mean, then you feel like, okay, let's give him a couple of bucks. Wow. Can at least go to shrimp and stuff?

Rimp and rough. But to go to one island and get married, come back, and then go to another island with family, And then you're asking me for... If you're going to two island trips and you're asking for money, shut your bum ass up. You're asking for... You're asking me for Marriott points? I mean, come on now, bra.

I wouldn't even do that for a first wedding. You're going on two trips and you want money? GTFO. If it's a first marriage, I can kind of get into it. But I haven't been invited either one of them. I mean, I'm not... You didn't get an invite either? No.

The first one is intimate family and then it's more of a family going on the second one. No. but I don't think I want to buy them a couple's massage Cupple messages are ridiculous Couple massages basically i.e. sex I'm not paid for your sex Is that what it is? What percentage of people have a couple massages

They don't want them having sex within two hours of it? What? Yeah, I thought it was you just getting a massage And you're like on tables next to each other That's my point. You get finished with a massage You go back to the room and go, babe, that felt great And they want to have having sex What the hell are you talking about?

Not saying you having sex with a massage there but I'm saying like you're having sex with your partner after the massage. Why not before? That's when you get really relaxed. Yeah, but you're going to be all tense before the massage. Then you have the massage. No, you get untense before the massage, and then you go to the massage. All right.

Let's get one in before. Jason and Kingwood, Ross is here for you for a tough talk. What can Ross help you with? I got two tough talks. One, Ross, I need you to have a conversation with your city guys about y'all not winning the league this year. Oh my God. Arsenal's not winning either.

And I need you to have a conversation with Astros fans about Alex Bergman because that's going to be a very tough talk. Okay. Like when he doesn't sign or what? Yeah, when he doesn't sign. Oh, okay. I think most people are, I know that he's probably gone, although people are getting their hopes up.

Yeah, that's kind of that. Man, I'm going to hang up, but yeah, no, that's going to be an extremely tough talk with a lot of these guys. Y'all have a good one. Ross City sucks by. All right, we'll see this weekend, baby. Arsenal versus City, Matt, it's a big game. All right, here we go.

The Real Sanders says, FYI on those wedding sites where it says you can purchase whatever activity for the bride of groom and actually takes your cash and gives it to them to spend it how they choose without you without telling what you picked. Wow. FYI, second winning, no gifts just my take. Thank the Real Jay Sanders. By the way, at something got a change says it's probably the bride's idea.

probably if you're getting married for the second time I'm very happy that you found somebody else again again and remember it takes two tangles so maybe you were the good spouse and the other one was a douche I mean I get that

that can clearly happen but I don't think I'm going to contribute to your second honeymoon or your second wedding or your second family reunion wedding or whatever the hell you're having I'll send you a nice text that's your wedding gift Yeah. Congratulations to you both. I'm very happy for you.

Boom. Done. I took the time to care. And not so many cache. 12 o'clock. We wake the strippers up and the news at noon next on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1204 in H-town. Welcome to the third hour of the night. Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790.

Don't suck off his teat. I'm not, see, I don't even want to be, I'm trying not to make the montage. See, people can't see me right now, but I'm doing kind of like the grabbing. Okay. The grabbing, grasping at straws? That's what you have to look out. Are you groping? No, no, no, not doing that.

Regina. Yeah. You are on going on Regina's sports leader today. Yeah. Watch, I heard it's rainy. It could be a little sloppy in Regina today. You know what? I want you to put those metrics and shove them up your ass. Only two hours deep. Oh, was he? It's going to Solo Poundown.

137 remaining here until halftime. I'm going to rest my ear. I remember talking to phones for long in my life since I was probably dating a girl in high school. All right. This may be one of my favorite montages because it features as much Ross that does me, which makes me happy. And you've got the ability, Ross, to make Dan Matthews uncomfortable during these shows when he comes into. fills it occasionally. It can happen.

He's kind of squeamish, if you will. Hmm. Interesting. I was thinking about it. I have not done a game over the telephone since I think I was doing college baseball in the late 1990s. That's how long it was until last night. So you've got a little thing that held the phone to your head, or what was the deal? No, I know.

It was a literal hand, you know, like a phone system. I know we don't have phones in our office anymore, but people do have phones at their desk. Back in the day. Back in the day. And they brought in one from, I guess, the front office of one of the offices at FedEx Forum. They still couldn't figure that out because it was connected to a circuit as compared to just a phone line. So I did the very first segment of the Rockets Grizzlies game on my cell phone yesterday. We took a break, came back, and I was on the landline the rest of the way.

Okay, like holding the phone to your head. holding, I'll shoot a photo of what I was doing. I didn't put this on Twitter yesterday? I don't know. I don't pay that much attention. You've muted me, right? No, you're not muted. All right.

I'm going to add this. I'm going to put, this is me, I'm going to put me calling the game yesterday. Calling the game from Memphis. By the way, you know what's time for, Rossi? What is it time for the news at noon? Oh. Yes, Matthew.

It is time for the news at noon here on Sports Talk 790, where we bring you all. the top sports news of the day, including the fact that the Houston Rockets lost last night to the Memphis Grizzlies, as it was a thriller in Memphis. Unfortunately, the Rockets falling short, 120 to 119. There was some controversy at the end of the game, but at the end of the day, the Rockets were unable to get the victory. And, well, before the game on TNT, you did have some confusion from one of the panelists on TNT.

Great energy. They play together, but I'm looking forward to the John Morant Jalen Green matchup. Well, John Morant's out tonight. Okay, so John Moran's out, so forget that. So they are playing well. They are playing with a great one. God. Oh, I get it. Look, this actually works. You're calling the game, Matt. Ha, ha, ha, ha. God. That's one of your worst lines ever, and you've had quite a bit of bad material. No, you put it out there.

Yeah, but I didn't say I didn't say what you just said. So now there's no longer theater of the mind. That's exactly how I sat for two plus hours. Like I said, I haven't been on a phone call that long since I was dating girls in high school. Remember we used to do that when you were younger? You talked and talked.

No, you hang up. No, you hang up. Oh, God. I love you. I love you more. I love you more. I'm like, I hung up at like 6.50 in the morning. Eight hours.

Yeah. It was stupid. We did stupid things we were 16, 17 years old. Interesting. Back to the news at noon. Okay. We're back to the news at noon. Yeah.

Well, you can comment on the Grizzlies or what I had to say about Shaq, not even knowing that John Morant was playing. And by the way, Opren Shingu did not play. It did make the All-Star game early in the day, but he had a little bit of hip soreness. So I think if last night was a playoff game, you would have played. But you know what?

You don't want to test things. We've got a rigorous schedule coming up. Saturday. Brooklyn will be in the building and then we'll go back on the road for another four-game trip next week. Yes, Matt. Yeah. I think, do you get tailored headlines now on ESPN or something? Because I was looking at the top headlines and it's about Arch Manning and Manchester City's in there.

The algorithm. The algorithm's got me down to a T. They do. I think they do. Well, let's actually get to something else. Astros related. as you know, Matt, Jorge Polanco, signed by the Seattle Mariners. According to Chandler Rome, that means the Astros will be turning their attention towards Alex Bregman,

still trying to improve the roster. I mean, we've said we didn't expect this to happen at all. How are we feeling right now, Matt, as far as percentage chance? Well, you have been more boastful about it than I am in terms of it's not happening. I don't think it's even fair to part. a percentage on it. Either he wants to do it or he doesn't, right? If he, if the six, 156 is still there and he's, and he still says no, is he not waiting for every possibility of somebody stepping up and giving him the six and maybe more than 156 or offering a seven? I think the seven

bit is long gone. I think that is not even in play. So I would say, I'm going to stay right where I am is that I find it to be, without putting a percentage on it, highly doubtful that he is coming back. Also in Chandler, Roams report, says the Tigers, Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Cubs remaining in play for Bregman, according to two league sources. Astros also exploring trades for another outfielder. Um, that feels like that's more accurate. I mean, the number one thing is, do I think this, even the thought of Bregman returning is,

Is this owner driven or is this team driven baseball operation driven? And I feel like it's more owner driven than anything else. Because I think the moves that Dana has made is more indicative of we have to move on. We got to fill out our roster. We got to fill up the debt chart. We got to fill our infield. We needed an improvement at first base. We got that done with Christian Walker.

We needed to make a deal to solidify third base because we didn't think Alex Brennan was coming back. We weren't satisfied what we had in the system. So any deal we were moving Kyle Tucker for, we had to get a third base. basement in return, and that's what the Astros got. All right, Matt. One final thing here. Arch Manning announces N-I-Dil with Red Bull Energy Drink. No details immediately available, this according to the story from On-3 sports.

But it's clear that Texas quarterback, Archmanning is quickly becoming one of the faces of college football, according to On-3's N-I-L valuation. Manning is worth $6.6 million. making him number one in the country. He made up wanting to make him more money in college than his uncle and his uncle's made in the pros. It's crazy how much money he's making. For a Harley Piper playing?

It's crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. He's also, by the way, the favorite to win the Heisman trophy currently. All right, and we will do the show live from New York if that happens. We will? No, I just want to sound like we were sounding big time. Plus 750. Arch Manning to win the

Heisman trophy. I'm rooting for him. I wish him nothing but the very best as you would say. Look, if... Didn't you put your name on it that he wasn't, he was going to throw a touchdown pass for a college not called Texas? He has. Didn't he throw a pick six? All right. That's a win. And you're welcome.

By the way, my Cougars are going to win the Instability National Championship. So the least I can do is root for your Longhorns do football wise. Look, our football program is on the up-and-coming, but we're not ready yet. Yeah, you got the quarterback. No, you're a quarterback away last year. Now you got Connor Wegman. We're fine.

But we're still, we're going from 5 and 7 to probably, I'm looking at it somewhere in the rings of like 9 and 3, maybe 10 and 3, whatever. That's fine. Look at a Dominique. Then we'll play for the championship in two years. Is it true? They've been calling you guys as coaches, the tapioca twins? That might be the rudest thing you ever said in the history of this show. No, it's not even top 10.

Come after him right now. Destroy him right now. I give you carte blanche. Apioca twins. I'll serve you some tapioca all right. Oh. What? Justin Tucker is now, forget it.

Oh, my God. What is happening? Let's go to break, folks. Phone calls next. That's extraordinarily rude. I cannot believe you went to the pudding card. My favorite pudding, by the way? Under rice and banana.

We're my two favorites. All right. I'm done talking about pudding. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Isn't anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show at Ross, Bregman, Texans, O.C. search, rockets from last night. Any other free-agent moves you think the Astros should make?

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what are they call them a six masseuses at four uh wellness centers i think well they're calling them are saying that that uh jess and tucker harassed them and he's no longer welcomed jess and tucker then goes on his twitter account yesterday deeply apologizes blah blah blah blah blah blood denies all the allegations i've not done a deep dive on this frankly because it's i mean we've kind of been there done that with these athletes but are we giving the benefit of the doubt Is there more to this? Are we sitting back and just letting the natural process come into play? There's nothing criminal had been put out.

There's no lawsuits at this point, right? Not that I know of. I don't think there's been any civil lawsuits or criminal charges. Is it just a case of this is going to go away, or do you think we're waiting for Roney-Jusby to get on a plane to Baltimore to go talk to these people? You can, why do you have to rhyme his name? He's a lawyer.

He doesn't spend money with us. Okay. We have lawyers to spend money with us for sure. I guess. What do you think? Are you buying his argument? I mean, all I was told, I was given a little tip yesterday about him and that Justin is gregarious in nature.

He is, this is coming from somebody that used to cover him. when he was in college. And again, people mature as they get older. Obviously, he's been the NFL a long time. But was perhaps a bit full of himself. But by no means a... As a kicker? Yeah.

I mean, dude, he was one of the greatest... The greatest NFL kicker. The greatest NFL kicker. And clearly, he was obviously very good in college, too, right? I mean, you were disappointed with his work then. He hit the game winner against the Aggies and what had previously been the last game and then as Texas won.

and now, well, Texas now has won the last game again. Yeah. So just kind of not full of himself, but a high value of himself. There's a difference. Okay. And that he was a big singer in the locker room and was not just, there was just, how do I put this? He's cocky?

The volume was always turned down in his life, who he was. You know, there was no low-keyness to him. Okay. He was high-key. He was high-key. So with that being said, that doesn't mean that all of a sudden he became a printer in a wellness center. But the only thing I go back to this on, and we're not going to spend a whole lot to this, but it is worth at least a small discussion point, is that, again, Baltimore is a big metropolis.

There's obviously four corners of town. There's a downtown. There's a residential area. But I just don't know if you're in him. Do you need to go to multiple wellness centers? If you find one that you like or two at the very most, don't you kind of stick it out with those two? well, if you've been kicked out of two, you've got to find more. I think the sheer number of places he's gone to doesn't make him look particularly good in this situation.

I tend to believe these accusations. I mean, a report has, I mean, multiple reporters have been on this. Right. There's six masseuses. There seems to be like they're, you know, we talked about the deleted tweets about people saying he's been canceled and stuff like that. Right. I don't know anything about anything, but I'm just saying, in my. opinion, I believe these allegations.

Like, I believe, Ross, we should create a bill of rights, but a code of conduct for athletes. And I'll start here, and if you want to add some more and let me know. I think if you're a professional athlete out past 1 a.m., you're destined for trouble. Doesn't mean it's fair. Doesn't mean you're guilty by association. doesn't mean you're guilty by time. But I think as long as you're a professional athlete, knowing that you make a lot of money,

your high profile, that people may be targeting you, just you got to get to where you need to get and be in your place for the rest of the night by 1 a.m. And that's number one. Number two, if you love massages, and look, a lot of professional athletes love it's a huge part of the recovery process.

In fact, the rockets travel to massage therapists with us on the road every single time. And they're great ladies and they do a spectacular job. And with the rigors of an NBA schedule, they absolutely get these guys back and going as fast as humanly possible. But if you're a professional athlete, the NFL Major League Baseball NBA teams will set you up with proper massage therapists that will do exactly what they're needed to do. I think going on your own to these wellness centers and moving around. around the different locations. Ross, nothing good comes out of this either. Go to the team.

Let them do it. Let them charge you or they'll give it to you. They'll find the massages for free for you. Going on your own, probably ain't a great thing. Yeah. I mean, but I've also heard of former NFL players who do get massages and consensual things happen. And consensual things can happen often.

Yes. When you're talking about famous rich, rich, famous men with, I mean, some of the most finely tuned athletic bodies on the planet. Yes. Things happen. Yes.

Yeah. We should fairly discuss their side of it. There are places that these athletes can go that if the masseuse wants to take it to the next level, they're more than happy with doing that. Correct. And we are certainly... It's...

We're right along that... I mean, look, If there's, if the word no happens and a therapist does not want anything to happen, then, yeah, Justin Tucker or Sean Watson or whoever else, anybody. Right. And he's in there. And if he's been kicked, if he's been banned from multiple places, as this story alleges, that sounds like, yeah. Because he's engaging in deviant behavior. Here's another reality, Ross.

If you're looking for someone who will say yes, it won't take you very long to find one. Right. I don't mean to be crass, but that's just life. So, yeah, I don't know. I just feel like, and this is unfortunately, this is what these, this is what police officers and security people tell these athletes all the time. It's not fair that you don't get to do everything that a normal person does, but you also get to take it, you also get an opportunity to do some things in life that the average person does.

You're going to get security. You're going to get preferential treatment at a hotel or a restaurant or, or a place of business. But there are going to be some downfalls to it. One of them is you're going to have cameras looking at you and people watching every move you make. You're going to have police officers. They're going to look at your expensive car and see what's going on. You're going to have people trying to.

I mean, look at the number of robberies we have seen with professional athletes in just the last year of people staking out their houses. Yeah. Didn't Joe Burrow had multiple break-ins? Yeah. I mean, there's been, didn't Pat Mahomes and Travis Kelsey had their house walking into? So there are going to be some ups and downs, way more pluses than minuses than there are in being a rich professional athlete. And one of the negatives is you need to be pretty darn careful what you're doing with the massage therapist. And you have Deshawn Watson as a prime example.

Deshawn gave everybody a see what happens to me. Don't let this happen to you. or don't act like this. So, yeah, I don't know. The multiple locations makes the red flags are going up with Justin Tucker. Well, now, will it ultimately affect his future for the Ravens? I don't know. I mean, there's no way you can equate his subpar season to what's going on with him off the field.

But you know that Baltimore Radio is probably talking about it. It's just bizarre. It's just bizarre. bizarre is what it is and for a 28 year old who's a stockbroker nobody cares but when you're the greatest kicker of all time making multi millions of dollars playing for professional NFL team the microscope's going to be on you it's 1220 is it 1231 my clock is off here it's 1231 you're doing great I am how are you doing I'm fine making it you sound off gay thank you I mean your energy is made but that's okay we're working on it I get some more coffee I'm going

for my third cup here in a break here. I'm proud of you. You want to have a coffee fest here? Who can drink most coffee in four hours? No. I'd like to keep, no. There's a history of heart disease in my family. I want to try to keep away from that. I thought coffee was good for you under certain amounts.

I think you're not supposed to, oh God. I believe, please Google and fact check this. I believe it's, if you're under 400 milligrams a day, you're fine. I have caffeine. So far I've had two cups of coffee and that's it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Google. com for up to 400 milligrams of caffeine today appears to be safe for most healthy adults and how many

milligrams are in each currig i don't know probably under a hundred probably around 100 okay you know what i'll take a break then you probably it's smart i do i'm going to go give me a glass of water let's continue the conversation and anything goes friday at seven one three two one two five seven ninety everybody's off in opining on the alex bregman future tigers maybe red side Maybe. Astros, maybe. When is it maybe going to be a definitive? More of that coming up. Plus, the Texans continue to look for offensive coordinator candidates.

It's an exhaustive search. Are you surprised they're going to this level? I would say no on that. 1230, 1232 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Rockets fell last night to the Grizzlies in Memphis. Late night game.

8.30 start time. 8.35 start time. Man, we Central time zones get, we take the brunt of this. Oh, Central's good. It's okay. Mountains perfect. Mountains the best, for sure. But, yeah, I mean, look, we're going to be getting some 830 games in Houston, babe.

I'm just telling you, with the Rockets playoffs coming up, you know they're going to be playing All right, babe. You know what I meant. You know. Yeah, baby. You went to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. By the way, I think when Gordy joins us from New Orleans next week, he should only speak to us with his New Orleans dialect.

Absolutely. Full on. It'll definitely not, it won't be the same if he doesn't give it, you know, perspective. Part of me is, look, I do enjoy, and we always tease about going to the Super Bowl. It is fun. It's interesting. It's a different week of shows. It just feels like the last four or five years the A-listers have gone to the national shows,

and they just don't have any regard for the local product. Well, we haven't been out there a while, so we don't know. Yeah, I mean, we'll go when the Texans go. Eich, couldn't be a while. That would also be a Nostrongus L. Yeah, Nostarongus Hill. But you've only been better rid for a couple of years. Yes, two years now.

But there have been a lot of battle reds. So what? 22 years and not even one championship game appearance. Bubbling at the surface, Matt. Is that what it is? Yeah, a heating up. Is there simmering right now? I'm going to go to a full boil next year.

I feel like if we could get an audio air check of you saying that exact same thing 12 months ago. Well, we'll see how the offseason goes. Remember during training camp? those YouTube geeks like, man, they got DeNeal Hunter. It was great, pro-bowler. Joe Mixing. Fantastic, wonderful season. Stefan Diggs.

Well, he was pretty solid. He was a year older and wiser. And Bobby Slovick's the greatest offensive mind in the NFL right now. Thank God he didn't go take an NFL job with someone else. He's with us. Cal and Hannah are cool. He's shaving their beard hair on the field. serving burgers, everything's cool and great.

And yet, we're right back where we were a year ago at this point. We're right back where we were five years ago at this point. Yeah, 10 and 7, division champs, final four of the AFC. It could be worse. It's fine. It could be worse. You could be Carolina. It's crazy how Texans' expectations and a lot of the fan base got spoiled two years ago.

We forgot the Davis Mills, David Cullierra. Things are pretty good. Two years ago we've forgotten. We forgot Brandon Cooks? He had like 2,000 yard seasons, 2,000-yard seasons. He didn't want to play. And he got traded. He's got traded like six times.

Yeah. That's fine. Who is it, Justin Reed? Charles of Menehue. Didn't he have, hey, that's the Longhorn legend, Charles of Menehue to you. Yeah, I know. And perhaps Super Bowl champion? You know, we could get a one-on-one with the Manehue at Super Bowl, right?

If he went? Maybe. Maybe Gordon didn't get that down. Yeah. When he's not schmoozing at the media party. Maybe we should send the list of the do list for Gordy while he's there. Okay. What do you want to put on that list?

Get us Morton Anderson. Morton Anderson. Saints kicker, goat. Okay. Bobby Abear, quarterback goat. Yeah. Drew Brees. You know what?

Why don't we go? We can get the band going back in the background again. We can recreate one of the greatest moments in the history of the show. It was one of the greatest moments. moments in the show. Not even an inside baseball part of the show. It was a full-on, if you're, if you've been listening to show for any length of time, you know exactly what

happened. All right. 713-212. 5-790. Let's go to Joe at 1240 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Joe, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I was just wondering why

why would they let the offensive coordinator go if they didn't already have somebody in mind he must okay let's say he's not great but he won the only two he won the first two seasons

he led us to the championship and first playoffs and okay so they didn't like him something must have happened they must have had it out somehow because okay so they let him go but if I'm going to let somebody go I've already got somebody in mind and I guess they didn't have anybody in mind unless they just let him go see I disagree Joe

thank you for the phone call I disagree I if you're going to make this move this is the most I mean you have three very important coaches in this case you get two because Domingo calls a defense if you're going to hand the keys to the offense over to somebody, I do want them to go through an exhaustive search. I have zero problem with them going after talking to everybody and their mother. Why not? And first of all, you can't have somebody pre-ready and locked and loaded to go because unless they're out of work.

But my guess is you're not looking to find somebody that's out of work to replace Bobby Sloak who is working. So do I think something got sideways? Probably. I think production, namely. is the number one reason why he's out? Could there have been relationship issues? Sure, that's certainly a possibility.

Remember, you've got to keep your quarterback happy. And if your quarterback's unhappy, you're done. You know, quarterbacks can be coordinator killers, Ross, just like players in the NBA can be coach killers. And that's why I absolutely 100% believe that you have to, that CJ Stroud is going to have a significant role in this decision. because he's your franchise quarterback. Everything's going to go through him.

And if you want to keep him happy for an extension coming up in a few years, you better make sure the coaches are in his place are happy to. Yeah, when it happened with Bobby Sloick, I kind of was figuring that maybe there would be some sort of... Because when did it happen? Was it last Friday? It was on a Friday news dump for sure, yeah. Yeah. And kind of took them a few days after they...

were eliminated to announce it. So that kind of made me think maybe there was some sort of plan in place as far as who they would go with. But yeah, search as many, don't leave any stones unturned as they say. Find the right guy. Find somebody that CJ's going to like working with because he is your franchise quarterback. And let's go. And by the way, get better players.

No matter who the offensive coordinator is, they need to get better on the offensive line. Yeah, go draft two players in the line. that one becomes a starter and one eventually becomes a starter. But whoever the first linemen the Texans take is going to have a lot of pressure on them right away. Not fair, but that's the brakes, right? You get taken in the first round, you're all, every first round big has pressure. That's right. That's right.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Coming up today at 1.30, it is non-Florita stories. Ross, where is your story from? Uh, that would be it's, uh, from Poughkeepsie, New York. Hmm. Oh, I really painting myself at a corner, didn't I? You're going to have to go to the Poughkeepsie Journal Review to get your story that basically.

That's what you try to tell me. Yeah, when you hear my story, cat stuck in tree. Mm, you wouldn't go to that simple story, would you? Maybe. All right. Also, uh, believe it or not, today is highly Googled at 1.50. Is that right? We're going to go with that?

I guess. I can't come with any better and I'm feeling tired. Go get you a cup of coffee. I got one. I'm drinking it. 900 milligrams a day of coffee. 400, 400, man. I think you're more in the 900 category.

By the way, I read that the curing pods, what kind you got? Anywhere between 75 to 150 milligrams. Oh, God. I'm having two cups already? Oh, I'm screwed. Does tea have less caffeine? Yes, it does. I may go with the breakfast.

Depending on what you get. You're going with English breakfast is going to be higher, Matt, than saying Earl Gray. I'm going Earl Grey for the win. Okay. By the way, Earl Grey is a name that I use as a hotel surname when I give the check-in. Earl Grey? Earl Grey?

Mm-hmm. Sounds like a bass player back in the 70s. Oh, the jazz clubs in New Orleans? And ladies, tonight on the bass. Mr. Earl, you know, he's not Earl Grey. He's Mr. Earl Grey. Yes. He's born in Mobile but calls New Orleans home.

Yes. I'm on another saxophone, Mr. Earl Grey. I like that. 713, 212, 5, 790. 713, 212.5 is 790. It's 1245. It's a Matt Thomas Hill, Ross, 713-212-5-790. Please join us here as we take you today until 3.2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 7-90.

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713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-79. Jorge Palak. one-year deal with the Seattle Mariners going to stay there and that means the Astros still he was on the short list for them. I don't think even the Astros will even denied they were interested in any time you see a report

out there. It's funny that everybody has got, and I feel like I'm doing this right now with not only Breggman but just the Astros in general. I'm rotating between Heyman um what's his name?

Bob Nightingale Jeff Passon Who was the guy We were the MLB guy we had on earlier today That you made fun of his last name It's just like I'm Jim Bowden Jim Bowden

Jim Bowden Everybody's trying to catch on what's going to happen with the team You got our buddy Chandler Rome working on On the Houston perspective of things You got Ken Rosenthal involved This It's almost like

it's all Bregman all the time and even Pete Alonzo's not getting a whole lot of run because everybody's kind of presuming it's going to go back to the Yankee, to the Mets. And frankly, this is about it when it comes to off-season moves in baseball. Because after that, by the time

these two deals are done everybody's headed to spring training and that's when things really start to quiet down. That's when the real, real fringe major leaguers get that one year off to either come back or try to make a roster with another baseball team. Yeah, right now, it's like the Horio-Polanco deal.

That's operating in the norm. One year, 7.75 million, like some guy who kind of had a down year and can bounce back. That's like regular baseball off-season news to have that kind of deal in mid-January. Do you think, now, again, Juan Soto was the big outlier this year, and you could never ultimately prove that Major League Baseball owners are colluding with each other. but maybe just the baseball universe has said, you know, there's a certain team in southeast Texas that has won a boatload of games the last seven or eight years.

And they take care of their own, but they don't overextend their own. And that I really do believe the norm of the, I'm not coming off of my max six-year offer by what Jim Crane has done is going to be probably more widely regarded and more thought of than seeing what San Diego's done in the past, the Angels have done in the past,

the Yankees and the Mets have done in the past. I just, I get a sense that these eight, nine, ten-year deals are going to be a thing of a past. Maybe one or two athletes per year might get it. And that makes me think about what next year's free agent market will be with Kyle Tucker. Will he get that kind of mega deal? I think he's been searching for him. maybe the large part of the reason why he knew that he needed to move on from the Astros

because the word seven or eight, the number, would never be put in front of him when it comes for potential contract negotiation. I think Kyle Tucker is going to get a big deal. We do have a bet on that. I think the seven and a half. I got the over. You have the under. Yeah.

So we'll see it happens. I mean, he's going to have to have another good year. Staying healthy would be nice as well. So let me ask you this. Let's say he misses, not the shin, because that was fluke. Anybody, again, anybody holding him back because of that chin injury, that's just not smart baseball. I mean, that was as fluky as it gets. It's not like he's had recurrent arm problems or he's pulling hamstrings left and right.

That was a foul ball that was off his shin that put his shin into about 14 pieces. Although we kept hearing it was a bruise for like three months, but that's not here or there. Yeah, the three years previous played 140, 150, and 157 games. Okay. let's say he gets to let's say for some reason he's got one stint on the on the injured list this year and he gets to 125 games will how much will that impact him in terms of having I mean are we are the belief now that every player has asked

going to the deal IL for at least one stint per year I mean that's obviously not has to be the case but do you have to when you think about players especially as they continue to play and wear and tear on their body that maybe IELs are just part of life. Like I think in the NBA Ross, I think guys, if you're expecting to sign these guys to 40 and 50 million

dollars and expect them to play 80 games a year, you're fooling yourself. Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. That's why we always have always to talk about this injury prone injury history. It's like these these are athletes that are pushing their body to the absolute limit. So sometimes they're going

to go over the edge. Sometimes other things are going to happen. Things are going to happen. I would say if Kyle Tucker misses like 40 games next year, depending long as it's not some sort of degenerative back issue or something like that. I think it would have zero bearing on him getting a long-term deal. Yeah, I don't know. Who else in that for ageing classes next year? Obviously, we've been thinking about Kyle.

Frumber Valdez will be in that for agent class next year. The big names, Vladdi Jr. Okay. I'd have to, he comes to mine. I can't really remember. It's supposed to be a pretty good class, though, I think. and does it hurt that you have so many guys

if we're talking if Vlad and Kyle are the two guys that's a pretty good little one-two punch for this phraging class of 2026 where this year help me out it was Soto was one and then they dropped to two

Bregman Pete Alonzo all right here's an MLB list yeah JT Real Muto Salvi Perez is catchers uh Vladdy Jr Josh Naylor, Yandy Diaz Luis Arayez, Ozzy Albies,

Ieulgenio Suarez is going to be available again. Boba Chetch. So it looks pretty good. Kyle Tucker, Kyle Schwerber, Cody Bellinger, Luis Robert, Marcel Ozuna, Dylan C's,

Zach Gallin, Framber Valdez, Seth Lugo, Seth Lugo has a club option. That'll probably get picked up. So, man, that sounds like a pretty good list. It's decent.

Yeah. Guerrero and Tucker the headliners. With Boba Chet in the mix, Kyle Schwerber is going to be old. How old is Kyle Schwerber these days? He's 31. I thought he was older than that. So the over under on our Kyle Tucker

$1.00 bet is seven and a half years. No, it's lunch, brother. Oh, we're going full lunch? Well, I can go check the, I'll check the archives. Like a smash burger type place or something like that? I don't know if we've said. I'll go, I'll go look. By the way, isn't everybody smashing their burgers these days?

Absolutely. Smash burgers. It says fast casual lunch we actually specified. Oh, okay. This bet was made on August 14th of 2024. And I'm still feeling good. It's going to be seven or less. I feel really good.

Matter of fact, I'm ready to- You want to hop it? Let's go. Let's go. So I don't want to go to like Uber fine dining, but I don't want to be more than fast casual. Barbecue? Barbecue would be a little more expensive.

Oof. Barbecue, you've got to take out a loan these days. Okay. Forget about bar. How about... Barbecue costs as much as a steak dinner these days. How about Mexican restaurant? Let's see.

Kyle Tucker. Well, he'll be 29. Yeah. I thought he was going to be like 27 or 8. Let's go. Let's up it a little bit. 29, 8 your deal. I'll stick with fast casual lunch for right now.

All right. I think it's a good bet. I still like my side, but I don't want to up it that much. It's fair value. Yeah, nobody needs odds. Put it that way. All right. Final hour of the Matt Thomas.

with Ross is coming up. We'll run through the main headlines the day, including the rockets set back to the Grizzlies. If you want to get into that, and if you watch the TNT broadcast, and I wish I would have listened to the radio, but look, we had some unfortunate technical problems yesterday because of incompetence in Memphis.

Not my being, but by the engineers. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-5-790. Did you like the way TNT presented the rockets on a national state? besides the studio guys mispronouncing name. But my man, Kevin Harlan, do the Rockets good. How was Reggie Miller yesterday?

Usually Reggie is enemy number one. By the way, you see Ross that Reggie Miller is now going to be going to NBC Sports after this season. Yeah, I did see that. He's going to be their lead analyst. He's fine. He used to be horrible to me, but I think he's gotten better over the years. He doesn't bother me. I don't go to go.

Man, I can't wait to listen to what Reggie Miller says, but he doesn't bother me. as much as I think other people are bothered by him. I agree. 713-212-5-790. 7-190.7-19. We have non-Flority in one-half hour. And the hell yeah or not is coming up in about 50 minutes. Right now I want to tell you once again

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which does and feature the Rockets losing last night to the Grizzlies. And Ross, rarely ever I come to you and say, the Rockets should have won that game and frankly should have won the game by a comfortable margin. It felt like to me that was a game that they're going to look back and go damn, we should have won that game by at least eight or nine points. Jaron Jackson Jr. is a good basketball player

and Santhi Aldama's a nice role player. Desmond Bain's good, but John Moran's the star of that team and he won on the court and the Rockets should have beaten him. They let Luke Kandard beat him. Hey, Luke Kinnard isn't he like one of the greatest three-point shooters in NBA history?

He's always routinely like top of the association, top five. I think he's been number one most of this year. He's such a lefty exclusive guy, although he had two little mid-range with the right hand yesterday. I was shell-shocked by that. Yeah, the Luke card's out there bawling, Matt. He's second NBA history behind Steve Kerr. And he should also go to the, to be,

he's trying to do with the comb over for a guy his age is not the great look. Seth Curry seventh. Where's Steph Curry? It's funny. Seth Curry is what you said seventh all the time. He's been probably with like six teams, right? Somewhere in that range. The stats don't always bear out what a guy is ultimately worth to a basketball team.

Godard's been with a few teams. What? Clippers. Now Grizzlies? Was he somewhere before L.A.? Yeah. I mean, he's staying employed. That's good. Making money. Mm-hmm.

Winning games. Backing up John Moran. I mean, he's doing. fine? Career earnings $57 million. Oh. For Luke Conard. Somebody referred to him as a Lowe's home improvement assistant manager. Oh, really?

That's rude. It is rude. It's a terrible stereotype. That's one thing we don't do on this show is stereotype. Certainly wouldn't do that daily. That'd be terrible. That'd be terrible. Luke Conard's made $57.5 million? Yes. That's not including this year's salary.

God, raise your children to be basketball players, seriously. That's that easy. Get them in the association. Yeah, just make, you know, make a side corner pocket three once in a while, and you can carve out a ninth, 10-year NBA career. Yeah, to me, last night was a rocket, was a game of a rocket, should have won. That one, that one stings just a little bit.

None sting a lot because, look, they're, they had a great month of January. They've beaten the Celtics, the nuggets. they've beaten Cleveland two times. I mean, there's no lot of, none of all boo-hooing on this. But maybe it's part of this is for me, and I always feel the same way about this when it comes to the Astros and the Texans were on the national TV. I want them to win every one of their national TV games.

Because if there had been a segment of the population last night, I don't know how big that group is, but they had been a segment of the population. It's like, so I hear a lot of good things about this rocket team. Let me see what they can do. Yeah, I was sitting there on my couch, rooting. I was like, okay, they did all this hyping up of the rockets. I wanted Jalen Green.

Jaylen Green went five and ten from three. I was like, oh, thank God. I didn't want one of those games where he goes like four for 18 and misses all his threes. So Charles and Shaq start crushing the guys because this is like, it's a very small sample size. It's a limited opportunity. Clearly, none of them can pronounce any of the team's players' names or even know who the coach is and even know who's playing. So this is a small window of opportunity to get some national shine. And so I wanted them to perform well.

They didn't win, but I thought, I mean, Thompson looked really good. good. Jalen Green for stretches as well and unfortunately Alpern Shungoon was hurt. Yeah, he didn't play last night, obviously after getting the All-Star announcement. But it's almost like, you know, we talk about this with the Texans. The Texans don't make a lot of national TV appearances.

And so when they lose at Kansas City during the regular season and they embarrass themselves on Christmas Day. It hurts more. It, and there's really no reason for it. Because we're not stockholders. No. We're just true fans and we want

we want America to see what we've been enjoying. Yeah, there was like Jalen Green was knocking down stepback threes and Kevin Harlan's like, pretty shot from Jalen Green. I'm like, yeah, you're right, Kevin Harlan. That was a pretty shot from Jalen Green. I don't know why. It's like a sense of pride, even though I'm just sitting there on the couch

downing lozenges. Oh, I thought you're going to change it, like, downing something else. Like, we're drinking whiskey showers or something else. No. 11 o'clock at night. No. That's funny. But it is weird because I'll

even do it on Sunday night base. baseball. Yes. It's one of 162. Astros won 100 games a year, but if they lose a 7 to 5 game to the Phillies on Sunday night baseball, I'm like, I go into a fetal position. You're right. That's how I am.

I'm like, come on, Jake Myers. Show them what you've got. Show them your power, Jake. And then, well, he strikes out to a slider low and away. Well, not in the month of May. Yeah. Literally every other month. There's a great chance to happen in the final four months of the year.

The first two, he's okay. We'll always have that month of May. Seriously, I want you to do me a favor. Go look up Jake Myers' main numbers from last year. He had OPS over 900 in that month. Oh, my gosh. I'll look it up if you. That's when the fan club, that's, that,

we were humming on all cylinders, folks. The fan club was like a stock. You couldn't, you couldn't buy enough of it. I saw your enrollment numbers. They were going up high. Yes. Or like, I want to buy a platinum membership. I want to do this.

I want to do that. And then June 1st, rolled around and it's like, oh, no. And then July 1st, well, you know, maybe it needs an all-star break to kind of, to settle himself down a little bit. Maybe a few days away from the ballpark will help. It didn't. He had that month of May and he still ended up with a worse OPS plus than the year before.

Month of May, 25 games, 329 batting average OPS of 924. You want a frame. You should do as you take a photo of that in framing. You're right. You're a fan club, like, offices. We'll always have May. The fan club offices. You have like a bit.

You were searching real estate. You know, you was, you were looking to expand your family, Ross. Like, hey, we're going to have two, three kids, picket fence, everything, big backyard. Hmm. And then in June, came around, your wife comes back to you and says, you know, maybe we should downsize a little bit. Maybe get ourselves like a two-hour. No, I didn't get ahead of myself. If you think I was believing he was going to OPS-900 for the rest of the year, you got another thing coming.

And then in September, you got a one-bedroom of faith. I'm my first rodeo. I've seen the baseball up and down. that comes down from the top of the wall or something like that. All right, that's enough. Hey, let me tell you, we like Jake Myers. We love Jake Myers. And you stay true to the fan club.

You do. I'm still a fan. He's your starting center field right now. You better be a fan. Chazzy Fizz. Maybe, you know, we ought to do what we had to invite the Chazzy Fizz fan club to join the Jake Myers fan club. Yeah. It used to be at odds.

Now they're on the same squad. Yeah, that's true. Now they're at the fight for playing time. They're on the same. Yeah, exactly. I like it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

On Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsMT, at Sports RV, and at Conner D. McGuverd. 112. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We take you today until 2 o'clock. Non-Florist stories coming up in a minute. We will also talk to Roger about the Rockets. If you want to talk about the Rockets,

did you like the way the national folks perceived with their perception of what they saw last night between the rockets and the grizzly. 713-212-5-790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villariel. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Nothing can stop me. I'm all the way up. All the way up.

Ross, normally I have a difficult time finding good non-flora stories. I may have two in one week for you. Wonderful. I can't decide which one I want to go with. You can get both, and I'll just write, believe it or not. Yeah, but I think part of your charm is your stories, too. You don't disappoint. I mean, you just want a lot of things of general sports analysis and will and desire for the show, but you're not Florida stories are pretty good.

My will is, I'm here every day, Matt. I could have called in sick the last three days. You know what? I don't want you. If you need to call a sick day next week, you're more than welcome to do that. I'm here, pal. Except on Wednesday. Mm-hmm.

Wait, you're not going to be here next Wednesday? Yeah, another travel, but I wish I didn't have it that way. I don't control the rocket's travel schedule. My God. Now, if I was doing the noon to three show, I could fly in the morning to get to Minneapolis on a commercial plane. But we're out 10 to 2 weekdays.

That ship is sailed, Matt. By the way, happy birthday to Adam Clinton. It's his birthday tomorrow. Is it really? Yes, I just received the company email. How old is he? I don't know. Younger than you.

Yeah. He always calls me the voice of his childhood. And it depends me. Well, that's just because, Matt, you were a, what you would call a broadcasting prodigy. You were, you were in reaching heights. No one had ever seen before at such a young age. It's true. I was 22 when I was in the PA for the Rockets in the first championship.

Yeah. And he was, I think he's got to be what's, how old is he? He's probably 43, 44 somewhere in that range. Mm-hmm. I mean, he's aged in the last couple of years. Ooh. The way gains will be more apparent than your experience. That's not true.

The hair is gone. He's looking svelt. Is he? I guess. He was doing that brob kind of exercise. What would they call that? CrossFit. CrossFit, yeah.

If I said Adam Clinton and CrossFit, you'd be like, yes, and? And CrossFit was very profitable for him in some ways. Oh, you know what it was? And I don't think we'll discuss any further in case Mrs. Clanton's listening. Yeah, he enjoyed the CrossFit lifestyle. And the workouts. Yeah. And then he went to exercise.

713212-5-790. Rogers with us at 119 on the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Roger, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt. Adam Clatton and CrossFit. More like Adam Clatten in the Misfit. Just kidding. Anyway, so yesterday's game kind of remind me of those nature shows where, you know,

the killer well is playing with the seal, and it's just playing with and flipping it up in the air. and just flipping it up in the air. And then he finally loses it and comes off and goes and swims to freedom. That's what the Rockets did with the Grizzlies. They were just playing with their food the whole night. And then decided just to let the little guy make it, you know, at the end. That's exactly what it looked like.

And yeah, they did show well on the national stage, and that's always good. And I just feel like Kenny and the T&T guy just mailed it in yesterday. You got Kenny Smith showing Plummer's ass and you got Barclay just rambling on like he usually does. And then she checked there in the headlights again with not putting in zero prep war, which I know you love to see that, being the premier, play by their guy here. Thank you very much. I just don't understand why these guys can't do any legwork. I just don't get it. Guys get paid handsome salary and then just mail it in.

Anyway, that's all I got, guys. Have a good one. Thanks, Roger. Maybe they intentionally, you know, and I wouldn't say the intention. No, they don't. It's not intentional. They just don't ever think about coming in and going. Maybe I should look at the two teams we're about to watch on television for two and a half hours.

Like when Larry King wouldn't do any research for his interviews? Yeah. Which is lazy, by the way, Larry King. By the way, I got one for you, too. So Howard Stern always has his reputation of being the greatest interviewer of all time. Yes. When it comes to celebrities. I listen to his show.

quite a bit, especially late night when I'm coming back for, like, I listened yesterday on the way back home from the airport. He makes a lot of mistakes, too. He lost his fastball? What does he get? No, he'll mix up his stories. Well, he's getting older, you know. Isn't he 60s now?

Yeah, but he's also made hundreds of millions of dollars talking about sex on television and radio. Why do you just veer so far off course? I'm just, we're talking, oh, he's 71 now. Yeah, he's great. He's the king of radio or whatever. What did he call himself? Kingwall Media?

He's a good. We're here at Ross Villarreal. Ross, one of the things I find so interesting about you is that you just despise soccer. You hate it. You don't want to watch it. You don't love it. You make fun of people that do like it.

I mean, that'd be like, that's how he gets it mixed up. Well, he's in his 70s, Matt. Give him a break. Well, I'm a break. You know what? If you're in your 70s and you don't want to do anymore, just retire and hand it off to somebody else. I mean, didn't, I don't know if I don't really have comfort.

information on this. Didn't he basically save Sirius XM radio? Yeah. I mean, no, it's, he's been worth every dollar they've paid him. I think he only works like 30 weeks a year anyway. Oh, really? Every time it's on, it's always a repeat of something else I've heard before. Now, he does get good celebrity, he gets good guest. He had, uh, he's had, Nikki Glazer recently right after the, uh, the, the roast, he'll have share on. He's had all these musical groups. He's had a lot of celebrity. I mean, a lot, a lot of celebrities. He's He had Kamala Harris on during the campaign.

I mean... Oh, really? Did he get Donnie? He's had Donald Trump on before. Yeah. I mean, because you equal time doctrine, right? Doesn't he have to do both? I don't know if you have to do it with satellite radio. I don't think they have the same broadcast.

Yeah, I don't know. Okay. All right, that's all the guy. Do you want to guess his net worth as estimated by celebrity net worth? Give me a range on this. That's a lot of million dollars. What range you want? Is this what is current value is or what is current net worth?

$600 million. Wow. You Googled it. I don't believe you. No, I wrote, what is it? 650. Oh, that's not bad. He's doing okay.

The guy works 30 weeks a year. What do you think Robin his little sidekick's worth? Ooh. She's been with him since the 80s. I mean, she's been on there almost as long as he has. What's your name? Robin Quivers. Oh, Quivers.

No, she does his laugh. jokes and says ha ha ha ha that is funny good i mean people love her for just basically she didn't even mess with him it's like it's like if i had you on the show and all you did was just laughing all my stuff uh google says 76 million dollars good for her wow good for her let's go to raymond on 798-124 raymond good afternoon to you hey matt hey ross a long time how are you guys nice to hear from you raymond what's up hey uh first off uh Howard turned, fantastic. That interview was share was really good.

I'm not a sure fan before my time, but wow, that was awesome. Hey, I got to make a note on Adam Clayton and his birthday. Ever since he's gotten on TV, I've realized, like, I can't tell the guy is 25 or 55. It's like, you know, he looks like young but old. It's kind of odd that you brought that up. So it's interesting about his age. Yeah, when in doubt, he's closer to 55. Okay, yeah.

Could go either way, though. So you look at him on TV. But hey, you've been calling great games this year with Rockets, Matt. It's been all so far. And I know you've got a front seat for a men Thompson. You know, I think he's like third on the odds of being sixth man of the year. But I can't imagine he doesn't get that way he's playing. Just wanted to point that out real quick.

Great job, Matt. To my Astros point, real quick, I have a hypothetical. I haven't had a good conversation about this yesterday with somebody. So a hypo here. You know, Bregman stays, right? Paredes is apparently a third basin and a third basin only from what I'm reading, which I don't understand at all. And then would you have Chaz and right field? So my question would be, Bregman has to stay in the infield.

The guy has been snubbed from a gold glove in 2019 by Chapman. The guy's, he's a vacuum on the infield. So whether it's shortstop or which won't happen or third base, he's got to be there. So what does that do with Paredes? And then, you know, how did things shipped around? I want to hear your thoughts. Thanks. Thank you for the phone call on nice words.

From what Dana Brown has said that it would be Altube playing second and left field as compared to exclusively moving to left field. Ross, I think from what I'm hearing, it would be Paredes to second base would be part of the time, yes? I guess so. Yes. So this Paredes being exclusively at third baseman, I don't think is accurate. I let me if you Alex Bramond is coming if he comes back in science

he's come back as a third baseman yes you're not taking a gold glove guy out of his third base position you just not no you're already below average at second base now so moving perities over there necessarily wouldn't be the you're you're not making yourself worse at least from a defensive perspective so yeah I don't

I don't think that's the case at all all right let's go one more before we get to non-flority stories I actually got some nice folks on the line I want to talk. I love this. Let's go to Lewis and Sugarland at 127. On the Matt Thomas show with Ross Lewis. Good afternoon.

And thank you very much for holding. Hey, guys. How you doing? Happy Friday to you. Same to you. Hey, I have two questions. First, I actually like when we're on national. Not that we're on very much, but, you know, the way Barkley, I think he went through one period last night where he mispronounced, I think,

almost everybody's name on our team. You know, I thought that was pretty funny. You know, Amen Thompson and, you know, Albi Sanguin and all that kind of stuff. I think that's pretty funny. My question, Matt, is you were doing the game on the radio last night, right? Right. When they scored, and we called the timeout, just curious, in your mind, who did you have or want that you wanted? to take the last shot because I don't think the play was drawn up for Van Fleet.

It was not. I'm just wondering. E. Mae Doca told me after the game, I think he told the media the same thing. The play was to go for a man, Thompson. The double team came to the right side, right of the elbow, and it was limited time. He saw an open man. I don't blame Fred for taking a shot. Fred has made deep threes before.

Fred did not have a hand in his face. It just didn't go in. But I think the play 100% was drawn up for a man, Thompson, to penetrate the right side of the lane to get the layup. is what it was in my mind. To kind of do what they did against Boston at the end, right? Correct. Yeah, the Eurostep, mid-range shot, that kind of thing. It's somewhere in that vicinity.

Not to the heart of the lane because I think he was too far out for that to happen. Not enough time on the clock either, but no, the play was not for a long, deep three from Bamble. That was plan B for sure. You know, a three-and-one road trip, I'm happy as hell with that. I'll think that all day. For sure. But I'm just curious, do you think that this changes? their mind or about going out and getting a closer or do you think they're going to you know

dance with those who brung you and matt in case you don't know that's from darrell royal at the university of texas the university of texas thank you very much lewis ross they're going to dance with the brung him i think i if they make a move and i will stand pat on this not that e-may's telling me this or rafel stone the general manager it's a vibe i get. The vibe is they want to see what this team does right now. And then if they're going to go make a splashy move, more likely to be done in the off season, that would be done at the trade deadline, which is about a week away. That's just my gut feeling on that.

That's my gut feeling as well. But also trying to improve the team for the long term. No, they're probably going to stay the course. Trust the process. All right. We'll talk to Johnny about Jose Al-Tube and the non-flora stories. I've got two newsies of non-flora stories. They're up next, 130 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We'll get to non-Florida stories in just a moment. But Johnny has been holding, so let's get Johnny real quick. What's up, Johnny? What's up, fellas? No, I just want to check back in with you guys. So we are thinking about it being an option that Altuve not play at second because a month or so ago, y'all were counting on me because I mentioned that as an option and put Dubon, which I still stand by at second.

But if Brevin comes back, then for sure Altuve would have to find some other place to play, be it left. And if that's the case, then Dubon at second and Altuve at left is a better team, I think. I don't know if they would be putting Dubon in there. every day. But yeah, I mean, look, initially it sounded wacky that they would put him in left field, but apparently it's something that the Astros are considering and probably going to do at some point, depending on how the roster shakes out. The only strange part for me was hearing that they were going to split

time. I don't know how you can split time between second and left field. I think if you're going to make Jose Al-Tuba your left field, or you've got to make a concerted effort to let him get out there and get acclimated to it. Yeah, it'd be more likely if Bregman were back, or if they were going to sign Jorge Polanco, who's only been an infield. but Polanco now of course is Seattle Mariner.

How much of this do you think is that maybe they're just trying to get El Tobia out of the second base spot period? It could be part of it. I'm just saying Matt. I can't find a website that has him as a good second baseman. Just Jim Bowden. What? What, Matt? You're right. I mean, I can't argue.

I just, I'll be honest. Seeing eye test to me and look, we don't deal, baseball doesn't deal in seeing eye anymore. It is what it is. I don't think of them going going, oh, this, he's a liability. I don't think he's great. I don't think the range is what it used to be.

But I don't go out there and go, oh, God, he's at second base where screwed. I just haven't thought that way about him. Have you? I mean, you tell me if you had that. I thought he's been okay. The numbers back to your side of the argument, not mine. Right. I would say he has over the years missed more throws than he used to,

doesn't make as many plays. The range is limited, of course, because of his height and he's not as fast and as he used to be. He's into his mid-30s now at this point. Okay. I mean, look, it's not just us. It's obviously the Astros. When you go after Jorge Polanco,

when you are trying to make a move to go get another infielder, when you're trying to resign Bregman or at least Jim Crane is, if you've already made the two moves you've already made this off season filling out positions in your infield, there's clearly a line of thinking

that the best days if Jose Al Tuvae the rest of his major league career as an astro should not be being played at second base. If you want to go just on fielding percentage, he had a really good fielding percentage, great fielding percentage, 989 last year, but that's also,

it can be misleading because if another second baseman is getting to more balls... Right. And has a lower fielding percentage, you still want the guy that's making more plays. That's right. It's all fair point. All right, let's get to some non-flora stories. And I will give you two this week.

but I'm not going to read them back to back. Is that seem fair to you? Sure, that sounds great. All right. But we were going up to hell of the air not coming up in just a few minutes here on the radio show. Ross, I'm going to take it to Mobile, Alabama. You ever been to Mobile? No.

Sneaky little fun town. They have Rar Rucks there. Okay. And on January the 10th, a Rar Rar Rucks. Rucks customer went through the drive-thru to order a drink, obviously. And apparently

in this vehicle, there was a pet aotus monkey. A what now? Aet Aotus. Aotus monkey? Yeah, aotus monkey. This Aotus monkey jumped out of the car at the drive-thru window and into the restaurant.

The monkey ran up the employee's arm to her head and started biting her until a co-worker grabbed it and threw it back out the window. What? Mobile police said the monkey's owner, Tammy Elaine Gardner. You know you're in trouble when they bring her mental name in the mix. Drove away from the restaurant before police arrived.

The wounded employees said Gardner, who had another monkey in the car, later returned to the restaurant to check on her but wouldn't give her name. The owner of the animal could face charges. The Rar Rucks location has banned Garner and her monkeys from the drive-thru. Quote, from the employee at Rorux. She's welcome to come inside if she leaves them in the car. And that is what non-floor story was. So note to self, any of you driving around with monkeys in your car,

just be careful what location you go to because they're not welcome in Mobile, Alabama. I can follow that. You ever had a monkey Throwing a jump back to you? No No Norby Does that mean you're going next

Connor? Yeah Okay Are monkeys nicer or chimpanzees Are they about equal What? Emotional value What'd you say?

Monkeys are chimpanzees What about them? Which ones are friendly of the group? I think I think chimpanzee is one species, right? And there's like a thousand species of monkeys? Hmm, okay. as you were.

Go ahead, Connor. Okay. So a couple of months ago, I told you that about nearly 50 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. Yes, you did. So apparently, according to local authorities, the last four of the escaped monkeys have been recaptured after almost two months of living in the woods. The monkeys first escaped after employee did not fully lock their enclosure at a facility that breeds them for medical research. The monkeys even survived the area's first snowstorm in seven years. They were lured back to the facility with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and high-protein biscuits.

So almost 50 monkeys that escaped a facility and were wandering in the woods near local suburbs for almost two months have all been recaptured. What great ending that story. We were worried about those monkeys. Wasn't there a George Michael song about a monkey? What? No, you're thinking of a brass monkey. No, no, no. George Michael did a song about monkeys. No, that was about father figures.

No, touching your monkey or something? I don't know. Am I making this up? Excuse me? There's a monkey on your back, George Michael. Yeah, he knows. Yeah, Connor knows. It's the song. He's not a lot. He went to the clubs with this song back in the day when he was a... He went to the clubs? Mm-hmm. The pre-teen clubs. Huh. Okay. Man, I don't have my Jerry Jones...

monkey drops anymore. What happened? It's nothing sacred. Technology with our company. That's fun. Ross, what is your known for the story? Yeah, Matt. Let me take you to a place called Houston, Texas. Oh, no. Oh, no. Matt, did you know during the snowstorm, did you see the viral video posted by a man of a Houston police officer doing donuts in the snow? Yeah, I saw him.

Houston police officers caught doing donuts in a recent snowstorm, now facing discipline for their actions. Oh, no. Can't these police officers have a little fun once in a while? Hammond Brown is the name of the man who posted and recorded the video. And he says the police officer's union is now out to get him. Apparently, the Houston police officer's union went on Facebook to call him, quote, a snitch. And share videos and photos of him. Brown said, quote, I ain't really think it was going to go viral like it did. Just leave me alone.

I don't want no problems. Brown said the officers were having reckless fun and doing exactly what they told the citizens not to do. Oh, that's what it is. Lead by example. Police union president, Doug Griffith said, we are human. We like to have good time just like they do. He took it a little serious and things went off the rails a little bit. You know what?

Just pay the gas bill and let's call today. Let them get away with it. but let him just say, just don't know to do it again. We don't have, I mean, we get snowed once every 25 years. Come on now. Brown also said the police were setting a bad precedent, say, it's really messing with me because y'all posting my business on social media. Y'all are doing a lot to me and getting me real scared.

I ain't did nothing wrong. Y'all were in the wrong. Apparently, there's beef between this guy, Heyman Brown, and the Houston Police Officers Union. Keep us updated, Ross, from the news bureau. All right, my second down floor story. We're going to go to Taipei City, Taiwan, Ross. Oh, I have been there. It's lovely.

Well, there's a plastic surgeon there in Taiwan City who is being called the bravest man in Taiwan. You're saying, what makes him so brave? Explain. Yes. He shared on social media that he performed his own vasectomy. Jeez. Chen Wing-Nong recorded the surgery for educational purposes

and presented the 11 steps necessary to complete the procedure. Quote, it was a strange feeling to touch and suture my own urethra. We've alsoed that once or twice. What? He reassured followers that the surgery was performed outside of work hours and under the supervision of a urologist. And while they experienced some discomfort following the vasectomy,

He felt fine the next day. Which begs the question, do any of you want to perform your own vasectomy? No. A certain member of my family is sitting next to me, and she's chuckling at this story. Because if you know me and you've known my past, I've had a painful procedure with such events,

so just throwing it out there. Thanks, Matt. Sorry. Have any of you ever performed your own vasectomy? 713-212-5-7-9. Let us know. How to go. Can you price on a vasectomy?

He did it after hours, Ross. That was a key part of this. He did it after his work hours. Yeah. Some people do different things with their free time. Some people put together a ship in a bottle, and some people suture their urethrus. Have any of you ever sutured your own urethra?

Do even know what urethra is? 713. Yeah. should, Matt. Well, some people got gross, fat issues. They can't see their eurythrus. Jesus. 713. 212-5-790.

Hell yeah or not is up next. 146. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. As you listen, we thank you for doing so to Sports Talk 790. The Rockets have Red Nation. Matt has Maddie Nation. Things are going to start happening to me now.

You've made it. I'm somebody now. More Matt Thomas now. Rossi, your buddy, Tom, and downtown says this is the drug reference. I don't think about anybody's monkey. Really? A song in the 80s is about drugs.

Yeah, I know. Stunner. Turned up. Color me shocked. Conard D. McGovern on the clubs in 2025 and ripped him to this song. He's going to do just fine with this song. All right, there you go. Let's go to a phone call before you play.

Hell yeah, or not. Let's talk to Nathan at Minute Maid Park on 7.9. Nathan, good afternoon to you. How are you guys doing this afternoon? Good. So I'm calling. I was listening to your story, the Hammond Brown deal with the Houston Police Officers Union. If you go on to their page on Facebook, you'll see a good back and forth between the two.

But Hammond Brown out of Houston has some pretty serious charges that caught the attention of not only Houston police, but Harris County constables. and a bondsman or two because he's got some, I'll just put it out there, some family domestic violence charges. Yikes. So he snitched on Houston had his Facebook page wide open, and Houston police officers found all that

and posted it for everybody to see. Well, there's a lot of, Ross, there's a lot of, thank you for the phone call, Nathan. A lot of layers of this story, Ross. Did you even realize that what was going on? No, I didn't. I just read the news story that I found. You know, run to Facebook.

So I've got to do for more of this story. This is maybe this is a one we need, like a part two next week on the show. Hey, we got five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? Should we? America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it a B. Leave it or not.

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Hell yeah. If the statement's erroneous for the bonnet, you'll say this. Not two Hellier not to win your prize. Connor, what are we playing for? We got a four pack of tickets with pit passes to Monster Jam on Sunday, February 2nd at Energy Stadium. That's this Sunday, and some 790 t-shirts. This Sunday, Nick on 790, ready to play Hellier and Ann. Hellier.

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As a youth, Alprin Shingoon was a competitive swimmer and his parents encouraged him to choose swimming over basketball. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. Alprin Shingun is the second Turkish all-star in NBA history with the first being Hito Turku. Hell yeah or not. I'm going to go hell yeah on that too. No, you shouldn't.

It's Memento Curse. Sorry, though. Duh. Edgar on 790, Edgar, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? You waking up the spirit first. Akeem Elijah on stated that while working with Alperin Shangoon, the trait that impressed him most was Shangoon's creativity. Hell yeah, or not?

Not. Oh, what he loves his creativity, don't you, Ross? Don't you love his creativity? Duh. Mike on 790, Mike, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? All of it. Alprin Shingun's career high for rebounds is 25, which he notched in February of last season versus the Brooklyn Nets.

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, just 21 against the Hornets. Why don't it get his Wikipedia page job, people? Come on. Grant on 790. You ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Alperin Shingun's hobbies include playing chess and playing the saxophone. Hell yeah or not. Nah. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Alper and Shingo learned to speak English partly by playing video games, including Call of Duty.

Hell yeah or not. That's the hell yeah. That's right. You're going to see the Big Monster Jam this weekend. Shue, Ross, we had one prize that we gave it away. Crisis averted. Thank God. All right.

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