The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Nerves, Rockets Predictions & Dusty Baker

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

Larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. What's happened in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. 10 on the shock lock, here's hard and drives the lane, gets by two defenders, and he blows it up and in. Rockets are rolling here offensively to start the second half.

That's 24 for the beard. Turnoff in the inbound. Gordon with the other steel. It's a foot race, Gordon dries and lays it up in. Great stuff. Rockets up 20, dominating the start of the third quarter. Timeout, Thunder. Eric Gordon's Paul Prince all over the Rockets' success here in the second half with 7.43.

Eric Hibington for three. Lead change. Rockets 92, the Thunder 91. EG left corner, shot clock at 10, he attacks the lane. He scores, and the Rockets have now a three-point lead after trailing by as much as eight. Hart, step back, three-in-front-shooter shooter. It is good.

A sweet stroke for James Harton with just five on the shot clock. That's the third triple for the beard, 97-92. You know, when it gets to clutch time fourth quarter, some people built for it. Some people shy away from you. A hot mess right now. I didn't think I was going to be a hot mess. I went to go get some breakfast this morning just to kind of calm my nerves.

And you were shaking. And I was disturbed by the fact that the word additional was spelled with minus 1D. There's only one. There's two Ds in the word additional is only one. I was texting with a very close confidant. John McClain? You always go to the John McClain. First of all, John McClain doesn't follow me on Twitter.

He says he listens, but I don't think he can because the other station will get mad at him if he followed me. That's fine. That's okay. Sonny? Or who would you get mad at? Well, the station he works. The wave? I think 102.

5 in Nashville wouldn't be particularly happy with it. That's true. Probably not. So I said one to ten. How nervous are you? And I said a three because I was trying to soft play. And the person responded, I'm at a 30. Wow.

Right now. Now. Here's what. Let me, let me set it before you finish. I'm not nervous. They're better than Oklahoma City. Yes. I'm nervous that they do the mistakes they've had in two, four, and six to lose seven.

Anything can happen in a single game. Game sevens, you just throw the previous six out. We know that. And that's what scares me. And now could anything could happen good on the rocket side. Maybe James Harden goes eight for ten from three or something like that. But it's just, yeah, the nervous level for me is, I would say four-ish, but I know after Rockets launch pad when the game starts, and then certainly

in the fourth quarter, if it's close, I'm going to be at like a 90. I'm going to be a nervous wreck. I was a nervous wreck there at the end of the game on game six when they lost, and I was, I was actually watching game here because I was doing the post game show. I was jumping and clapping, and the producer in there was laughing at me and stuff like that. So I'm going to try to keep it calm right now because it's a marathon, not a sprint right? now, Matt. It's an 8 o'clock tip. Yeah, uh, my wife asked me, she says, do you want to go out and watch the game somewhere? And I'm like, uh, no. So I'll be at the house. We're having spaghetti for dinner tonight. Ooh, with meat. Spaghetti-Os or spaghetti? No, no, no. We have power, Ross.

We have power. Still a nice treat, Matt. It's not a treat. It's an, it's an absolute 100%. Do you have to have it to survive? Yes. SpaghettiOs delish. Now we're going to meat sauce and mushrooms and some garlic bread. It'll be a higher carb dinner than what we'd like to normally have. Is it a homemade meat sauce or you got storebought? No, store bought. We don't have time for that.

It's disappointing. Yeah, we're busy for you. You can't chop your own basil and whatnot, Matt? I mean, we could. You're a good spaghetti sauce maker. Oh, I make a ragu. I make a nice ragu. Yeah.

With some Italian sausage, and yes, I chop my own basil. So, yeah, I can't go out tonight. I might be able to, if you all want to go out and have a couple of pops to watch Rockets Lakers early on in early games, but game sevens are not meant to be. out in public. I don't like to be out in public for Longhorn football games and I don't like to be out in public for Rockets playoff. Yeah, and I was with you in the privacy

of our hotel room in Las Vegas and you destroyed furniture in the room. So overblown. Yeah, it is, but it helps. It helps. But you get my point. I can get a little testy if things aren't going the way of my team that I'm following. All right, so let's set the agenda for the show today. 1230, Dusty Baker's going to be with us.

By the way, that Astro team yesterday was not the one we've normally seen the last five years in terms of a defensive effort. They botched the 10th inning very poorly. It was terrible. It looked like a Little League team. That's how Little League teams win games. Yes.

Bunt to the pitcher. Catcher goes out and says, I'll throw the ball to Deep Right Field. Marty Melden. I know who, by the way, applied a bunt. Yes, he did. So to say that catchers can't bunt, not true. That's a couple of sack bunt's for him now this year. I like it.

I like it a lot. So we have that. 130, the season debut of Dr. Roto. Has Roto been with this like for like eight years, I want to say? We had somebody in like the first. year of the show. And then he just went away. Oh, okay. We had, this is what we had actually. I'm glad you know this.

We had, see, I am the Matt Thomas show, his official historian, Matt. Yeah. Scott Engle was the first guy. And do you remember he liked to come into Kiss music? He would not, he would refuse to come on if we didn't play a kiss song for him to come on. I, I, I don't know with an E. Okay, I don't remember that, but I trust you. I also think that Kiss is one of the most overrated bands in American history. Kiss is terrible. Tiss is Jim. Nobody respects Kiss is an all-time great. There are, there are, there are novelty act. I had a roommate that was a kissaholic that he would dress up for Halloween as an adult as a member of the band. Oh no. And he would, this is before all of us were married, he would have, and Darren, if you're listening, what's up, dude? And he would have kiss posters in his, we used to live with sharing apartment. And we were in our mid-20s. I think that rule about posters in your mid-20s is a little bit of a stretch.

Mid-20s, you're a little too. Yeah. I had like Simpsons and Goodfellas posters when I was like 20. Like I used to have girl posters. when I was a teen. Like, I'm never going to build to touch a girl like that. Oh, with like the Farrah Fawcett poster? It was like two girls' laundry models. You didn't know who they were. Oh, okay.

So I was 20. I don't know what happened with that. We were roommates when I was 22, and Darren's got to be five or six years old than I'm. So he's got to be 28, 29. Okay. Yeah, and he had kiss posters. Okay.

Well, Scott Engel was a huge kiss fan. Okay. Then, week one. Scott Engel was supposed to come on at, like, let's just say, one o'clock or whatever. It was like 12, 45. We hadn't heard from him. And he goes, hey, guys, I can't do it this year. Here's Tom Lorenzo. I do remember Tom. So we had Tom Lorenzo. Was he any good? He was all right. He was really nice.

He liked both of us. He used to follow me on Twitter. I don't know if he does anymore. Okay. And then we found Rodo. And then Tom Lorenzo's like, I'm going to be a Memphis Grizzlies blogger or something like that. Wow. Great call on your part. Here's Dr. Roto. Yeah. And he's been with us ever since. And look, not Roto's not for everybody. But if you have been with us from the beginning of the show or close to the beginning of the show, he has been a staple. And I think he's more popular than that. Some people just don't like fantasy football minutia. And that's fine. You can't be.

You can't have everybody love everything. The research shows, it's a popular segment. Yeah. The research shows, we got to draft tomorrow night. That's right. You've been doing some reading up, Matt? Are you ready? No, but that's why I have Rodo on.

Okay. Because he's going to help us draft our rosters tomorrow. So Dr. Rodo for a half hour between 1.30 and 2, he'll normally be with us on Thursdays to get us ready for the season. And then, we are unable to secure an Astros player what we thought for today at 2.30, so at 2.30 this afternoon, I will announce the Game 7 starting lineups, and then we will open up the double clutch bus.

Yes, can't wait. Brendan, you ever been on the double crush or clutch bus in your short term? I was going to ask you what that is. So it's this bit we used to do when the Astros were going well, when they're in big-time playoff games, and we would act like we're getting on a bus. It's basically a rip-off of Club Astros bit that the morning show used to do. So they'd be like, hey, call us in.

We're going to get you into Club Astros. What are you drinking? What are you doing? So now, instead of that, this is more of a mobile party on the way to the game. Now, we can't get to the bubble in Orlando. Right. You know how pub crawls are where they take those little bicycle things? Yes. Oh, the pedal parties?

Petal party. That sounds like way too much weird. Yeah, that's what we just, we let somebody else do a little heavy. It's a party bus. It's a two, it's a double-decker party bus. Yes. It has a stripper pole. Now, sanitization has always been a priority in the double-crush bus.

We've talked about the Purell stations on both floors. That's right. So there's still, now there's going to be even, now there's double crush Purell stations. There's four Purell stations now. The issue is, gentlemen, we're going to have to be a little more discreet of how we allow people on the bus because our buses are not known for social distancing. It's going to be hashtag mask up. Use the Purell stations and keep your distance. So, Brandon, people will call it.

We do temperature checks at the door. We are? Yeah. All that? That's a lot of work. Yeah. I got my temperature check. Just go pick.

up some out tempo yesterday. Okay. So the bottom line is people will call in at 2.30, I would hope. If they don't call it, then we're probably going to have a very lean bus. And optimism is not very high. People calling will ask them what they're wearing, what they're drinking, that they want to get on double. And what's going to happen.

Yeah, and double clutch bus. So that's at 2.30. So you just sit back, relax. And you're invited on the bus. That's right. So we're giving you a free fare. You want to wear. Yeah. You're thoroughly confused. I'm just confused as to why you guys care what I'm wearing. We ask everybody what they're wearing. Matt, you want to know.

know the real words. Speaking of the MT historian, Matt used to ask the women what they were wearing and got creepy. So he started asking the men, too, so to balance it out. I'm an equal opportunity asker. I see. It makes sense now, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. All right.

Are you ready to make a prediction? Right now? No, after this short time out. Okay. Plus, the listeners can make their predictions about the night. Let's go, baby. Dusty Baker, bottom of the hour, 713-212-5-790. 7-190-7-9.

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So I have been a large connoisseur of television. over the last 36 hours about this game. And like I said, we'll get the double clutch bus coming up at 2.30. We got Dusty Baker coming up at the bottom to talk about, I mean, generally speaking, things are going well. But yesterday's 10th ending was just not the prettiest thing you ever want to see in your life. How was the 10th inning show, though? Hmm. Hmm.

Spectacular. Well, I mean, I hosted it. So it's going to have a level of excellence to begin with. There's a baseline level. The floor is high. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't... A ceiling, maybe.

Well, it depends on it. When they went extras, that's when I was like, you know what? I don't give a damn anymore. Just somebody finished the game off. Because I was afraid Bunt guy was going to just creep his ugly head in. And there you all are all excited about a 7-10 start, and then it goes extras. It's unfortunate. I just feel like you can never mention time, but we'll move on.

So yesterday on first take, and again, you should hit me every time I watched that show. Yes. Man, there's a reason that. call it worst take. So blustery old Stephen A. Oh, geez. I don't even do a Stephen A. Do you do a Stephen A impersonation?

Not really. You want to try? You want me to? Basically, he's like, if they lose this game today, I don't care how Mike Dan Tony, Mike Dan Tony going to get fired. The Rockets losing this game would be absolutely preposterous. Yeah, that's actually better than mine.

Okay, that's all I. Just louder and it's perfect. Louder. The Rockets losing this game would be absolutely preposterous. I don't care about James Hardin. I don't care about Russell Westbrook. I don't care about Danilo Gaula Marie. Mike Dan Tony, this is on you. Is that what he said? Oh yeah. He completely threw Mike Dantonian on the bus. Okay. Well, here's here's hot take evaluation. It's easy to say that because Mike Don't Tony's contracts are worth. That's true. Well, Mike

Dan Tony might be gone. That's a fact. Certainly if they lose this game, I think there's a close to zero chance he's back. I think there would probably be a massive. I mean, Mike Dantonee was also the coach when they blew them out by 34, correct? I don't remember that. Yeah, I'm just wondering. I mean... I don't mean to do that because I don't mean, that sounds maybe annoying to people, so I don't want to annoy people. I do that anyway with my commentary. Mike Dantone told Russell Westbrook to chuck the ball into the stands instead of the Robert Covington there at the end with a minute to go. How do you, if you're Mike Dan Tony go to Russ and say if I ever see you try a top of the key jumper again and it doesn't hit

anything but air I'm going to have to punish you. You know, it's also something I've been meaning to bring up with Mike Dan Tony, but it doesn't because we have them on every week. Russ is also not good at two for ones at the end of quarters. I mean like watching the clock? Yes. Like getting the shot off between like 34 and 31 seconds so that you can get a two for one. He just ignores that. Chris Paul was great at it. James Hardin's fantastic at it. And that to me matters. Here's here's what a, makes me super nervous. James Harden and Russell Westbrook can be the two of them,

five most elite players in the NBA. You're asking them to do that tonight. You shouldn't have to ask them to do that against Oklahoma City. This should be, you mentioned this before we went on the air today. We should be talking about game one of the Western final, a semifinals right this seven. Yes, we should.

It should be tonight. But they're in game seven. So here's what's going to happen. They're going to win this game today, and it's probably going to be a knock-down dragon fight. I think this game is going to be ridiculous. chippy. These are seven games with the same opponent, okay? You got Chris Paul, who is ready to just na, nah, nah, nah, nah on James Harden. And by the way, I think you and I are in a minority

on the Chris Paul country. Everybody is saying that was major shade thrown at James. Yes. Well, I think they're all like me because I thought it was major shade when it was the small context. When you get the full quote, it doesn't seem like it. Yeah. If you listen to the 30 second comment, you get a different feel for. But I agree. It's all to what you. you want to interpret it as. But the five-second one definitely sounds like that's an arrow thrown riding. I think that's what 90% of people have heard. Probably.

Because I had not even heard it until we brought it up on this show. All right. So what was I going with this? Oh, I don't, Russ has to be really good tonight. I mean, Ross has to be what he wasn't in game six. I mean, taking better shots,

not even thinking about a three, being careful where he throws the basketball. And James Hardin's going to have to be better than the four. quarter than he was. You know how I feel about James starting and playing multiple minutes in the fourth. When he starts the fourth quarter, it scares me. Yeah, he came in pretty early. I think 10 minutes left. Yeah, he usually comes in about the nine minute mark. And that seems just about right. I think the warning signs will be up if we see James before the nine and a half point in the fourth. But it's game seven. So I mean,

you have to throw everything at the, you can't worry about the next game or his health or how tired he's going to be in game one against the Lakers. You got to get to game one against Lakers. Which is in two days, by the way. So you know what? Hey, just blow them out like in game five. Russ can rest. Hardin can rest.

Yeah, Scott Foster is on the game. And I've told you this before because I am Mr. Calm the Waters a little bit. He's very highly regarded by the NBA. They grade these guys out like you wouldn't believe. He is as high on the scale. He's higher than Ken Maurer is. he's higher on the scale than Tony Brothers is.

Scott Foster might be, if you were to list the officials in terms of how the NBA feels about their officials, he might be number one. And I'm not kidding. He must, when he grades out, must do an exceptional job. The Rockets have won games with Scott Foster this year.

They won in the past. Frankly, the guy that should be wigan out more about Scott Foster officiating is Chris Paul, because Chris Paul and Scott Foster have gotten sideways in years. pass. Yeah, that's the thing. It evens out, right? Yeah. Maybe he hates Chris Paul even more, so this is an advantage for the Rockets. No one sees

believes on on Twitter right now. You know Chris Paul's going to be complaining the hardest. Well, Rockets got some complainers too. PJ complains about every foul. Eric Gordon throws Eric Gordon with the hand throw up. I don't, when Eric Gordon is in a nursing home, he's going to throw his hands out and say, where's my pudding?

Yes. Or why don't I get any even when he makes the layup with minimal contact. Hey! Yeah. That's, don't change. Hey! And that's That's the NBA player thing too. When you think you got fouled, the universal NBA languages, Hey!

Yeah. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah, Eric will throw his hands up for everything. Yeah. Where's my parmesan cheese and my spaghetti? Wait! Where is it?

Yes. Love E.G. Don't change. I'd like him to make some threes. Except from three points. If he would make some threes tonight, that'd be really nice. That clutch fans tweet that got out about him and, 18%.

And Lou Dord having the same percentage. Yeah, but. Eric is a better shooter. Oh, he is. He's got an ag pocket, though. Okay. Let's go. Let's see it.

There's one shining moment where he made three of four in the third quarter of game, I don't know, five or something. There are going to be technical fouls on the game today. There's going to be pushing and shoving. There's going to be separation. And that might be a factor in the game. How much will the officials, because again, these are seven games with, tremendous amount of history between these two teams, especially because the trade involving the two most,

two of the three most recognizable players just happened last year. Mm-hmm. There's a lot on the line here. There is. Game seven. There is too much in the line. The best two words in sports, Matt. No, I like off day. I like game seven.

I like, we are the champions. That's too many words. That's a lot of words. We champs? Yeah. I told you one of the ten I was nervous three That was a fraud Okay where are you at now right now

36 I'm still at about a four Are you sure? Yeah well I think like I said When the game time I gotta pace myself Matt You can't have high blood pressure for eight straight hours And then a two and a half hour game You've not met my position You've not gone with me on a physical

You gotta calm down You gotta ride the wave All right I'll ask the audience And we'll get to Dusty Baker Maybe get some of you as well Are you nervous? You excited? Are you scared? Because the easy narrative, if you are anti-James Hardin is James Hardin doesn't come through in the clutch.

Elimination games are not his specialty. Because he's been limited every year. Every time in his career, he's been eliminated. He has not been able to hoist the banner. So at some point, and do this if he can, Ross. I don't know if he can. But is there a game, is there a final Rockets game or for that matter of Thunder? More so for the Rockets because he's a different player than he was.

Okay. Did he ever have a definitive final game for the Rockets in the positive side in terms of, wow, 44 points, 12 of 14 from the floor, got to the free throw 15 times. Did he ever have one of those moments where the Rockets lost despite him leaving everything on the floor? It doesn't feel like he's had one. In this series? I'm talking about in general in his career. San Antonio elimination game? Terrible.

the Golden State game of a few years back, 10 turnovers. The 3 for 27 or whatever, 3 for 30, whatever it was that game when they miss all the threes. I mean, last year he had like 30-something points in the final game. He was like 6 against Golden State. So that answers the question. The Rockets. He doesn't, like people on Twitter like to say that he wilts away. Like the guy drops, when he drops 35, he's not wilting away.

No, you get over 30. You're not wilting. Yes. You're just not. All right. Dusty Baker next, 1228 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-2-5-790. You want to go watch the Astros tonight

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Dusty Baker is a manager of Houston Astros at 1233. He's on here on the Matt Thomas show. Skip, first of all, good afternoon. Thanks for the visit, as always. I've got to be honest with you, I have been a fan of this baseball team since I was seven years old, and the emergence of this organization over the last five years to become a title contender's been awesome.

And part of the charm of this team has been its work defensively. So I got good news for you. I don't think you're going to see many more 10th innings like you saw last night. Well, I don't think I'm going to see many more any innings like we saw last night. I mean, it started off in the first inning, you know, like we made an air, and then, you know, our Golden Glove guys, I think Carlos is first air in 90 games. And then, you know, you saw Maldonado. You know, I mean, he's one of the best defensive catchers in the world.

And, you know, these things happen. Like I said, I hope we got it all out of our season. system at one time because you hate to die at slow death. You know, one day it happens and the next day it happens. And so get it all out the way right now. And, you know, we were kind of lethargic last night. You know, I mean, you know, we hadn't played in a couple days. And, you know, it seemed like the guys were kind of like a half a step slow.

We didn't wake up until like the six or seventh inning. So, you know, we got to put that behind us. I mean, it sure hurt. I mean, last night, you know, to give another one away, especially when you see the season. winding down. But, you know, our guys rebound the night, and, you know, we'll play much better baseball tonight. How disjoint and has it been for you with those guys,

with the fact you've had the off days because of the decision on Friday and then the hurricane stuff before? Have you seen the 10 or the team changed because of that? Well, a little bit because, like, you wake up in the morning, the first thing you do, you've got to check to see if you're going to play. And then, you know, see if they're going to go in and test, Like usually we test every other day, you know, for the COVID-19. But now we're testing like, I think we got to test today again, you know,

four days in a row to the spit test, which isn't very intrusive. But at the same time, it changes your, you know, your whole, you know, routine. You got to get there earlier. I mean, it has to be done. But, I mean, this has been a different, you know, different year. I mean, every day seems like there's something, you know, something new. And, you know, when you're dealing. especially when you're dealing with a lot of young guys.

I mean, really young guys, you know, that they're really trying to figure their way out. You know, they're depending on, you know, a lot of the older guys to direct them. And I think we've got a good match of players between the youth and the veterans. As you know, obviously, Skip, the A's Sunday game has been rescheduled for Oakland. And my broadcast partner, Ross and I have been kind of debating about this. I would have liked to have seen Major League Baseball allow you guys on that. that one day on the 14th because you were off. They were off to play the game at MinuteMade Park.

I understand, frankly, how off days are so important this time of year, but the decision was made to play in Oakland. You tell me how you feel about that decision of being the home game for one of those double-headers. Well, I don't think I've ever done that, take truth, in my whole career. But, I mean, there's nothing you can do about it. I mean, you can fight and fuss about it, but the commission's office is going to do with the commission's office what to do. And they're doing what they think is best for,

everybody's travel. Is it the best for us? No. You know, even though we're playing a home game there, you know, I think I'm not sure exactly what the numbers are. You know, I think we're playing eight games there to their two games here. You know, I mean, that is a definite home fill advantage for them, even though the one game there with a home team.

So, you know, we just have to adjust. I mean, it's been a year of adjustment for us. It's been a, you know, a year of tough occurrences. But, hey, man, every time they knock us down, like that Michael Rose, a reggae song says every time they knock us down, we get stronger and stronger. So, you know, this is how I think this team is emotionally and mentally strong. So we just have to deal with it. Dusty Baker on the Matt Thomas show here.

And Dusty Ross here. Speaking of the days off and being mentally tough, you had yesterday, Frambervaldez, gave up a couple runs early and then settled in. Was that because of some of the days off? And is that a concern for you with the pitching staff going forward? I don't know if that was a cause or not. You know, he's had a little trouble throwing to the bases in the past with no days off. So this is something that we have to address. Now, I'm a little concerned about the picnic stab because, like, last night, you know,

Peretti's hadn't thrown in a week. You know what I mean? He hadn't thrown since San Diego, I think, since he gave up, you know, the Homer in San Diego. And so, you know, Sneed hadn't thrown in a week. Taylor hadn't thrown in four or five days. I mean, we got guys down there, you know, that hadn't thrown. And when you get in there, you're probably overamped. And I believe that, well, not that only me believe it,

but I've been told from the day I got in this game that guys rushed out, they don't wear out. And so our guys are a little rusty. So now we've got to find a way to get them work and win games and put them in a position where they're most likely succeeded not have them be in a situation where we don't really need them, but just to get them work. And so, like, we got, you know, I keep a stat every day with an asterisk about it,

you know, like short, middle, clothes set up. And then there's another one I put NTP, which means need to pitch. And then last night I had about six guys that need to pitch. You know what I mean? And you can't get them all in there at the same time. so hopefully we can get some guys in games tonight, tomorrow, especially before the double-hitter, because they'll probably all pitch in those double-hitter games.

I got news for you, Dusty. The NTP list may be small when you have those double-hutteres in the next road trip coming up. So you're right. You don't have to worry about need to pitch. You're like, Skip, I need a day. I need a day. Help me out here.

I know. And some of the guys are like, some of the guys are like, oh, skip, man, you know, when you don't get me in there, I said, okay, man, your tongue's going to be dressed. tagging in about a week or so. So, you know, we'll get you in there. Talking about days off, we're almost done with the season. Crazy to say that.

How are you doing that versus slumps versus, you know what? The schedule's not going to allow these time off because, again, you got two double-headers coming up on this next trip. Well, and that's one of the reasons I caught Malbinato in that two 17-8 double-hippers other day because the game was so important that I needed him in there. He's probably been close to, you know, between him and Tucker, you know, our MVP. P's probably on the team. You know what I mean? And so, you know, guys are like, hey, I can play every day.

But no, I got to keep you healthy. I got a juggle between, you know, you getting sharp and you staying sharp. Or like Michael Brantley's, you know, guarding his leg, but we need is bad. And so it's a daily juggle. But you got to leave certain guys in there, whether hot or cold, so they can get their stuff together because, you know, you're going to need them in a long run. Yeah.

And so, you know, like the Altoves and Bregman, hopefully get him back soon. And Correa, you got to guard, you know, he has a history of back injuries. Uly, you know, you really got to, you know, take care of Uli and Reddick and, and shoot, Springer. And so, you know, we'll see. I'll tell you one day, I keep my fingers crossed a lot. And I check a lot with the trainers on, you know, who's ailing, who's hurting, who needs a day, but also, you know, when we need the game. So it's a delicate combination.

Well, enjoy the Houston cooking for a couple more days because you're going to be gone for a while. We wish you the very best than only tonight. And on that road trip, we'll talk again next week. Thanks for the time as always. Well, you've got it, man. Hey, I just went by, this is it, in the third ward to get some to get some fish and some oxtails. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm enjoying this.

Well, but you knew about it. this is it before you came here. I mean, you've been coming here for decades. Oh, yeah. Oh, I sure do. Like I said, I got the smelling good in my car. I'm trying to get off so I can go eat. I'll see you guys later. I'm going to hang up on you right now. Thanks, Skip, for the time. We appreciate it. All right, later. We'll see you. Dusty Baker. I have never been to this Zee. You've been before? I have not. I think we should. I think you've definitely heard of it for years. You mean, Duss ago. I've heard about it for decades. Yeah. I don't think I've ever even had Hockstales before. So I don't know if it'd be, I mean, what I enjoy it's good. It's good. Is it?

Is it an acquired taste or do you go, man, I wish I had this five years ago. No, it's just beef. The thing is, you just have to cook it for a really long time. It's good. You'll like it. Yeah, when I lived in Minnesota, Lutifisk is the worst fish ever. But there are some people in Minnesota that do enjoy. It's the worst fish I've ever tasted in my entire life.

Okay. I once took one bite and threw the entire pan in the trash. The pan included because the pan included. Yeah, because the smell reeked into the pan and we couldn't get rid of the smell. That's weird. It's that awful. Okay, I'll take your word for it. So if we were going to Minnesota, I'm not taking you up for Lutavis.

Yeah, please don't. But we should go to this. I would rather not go outside at all in Minnesota. Me, you, and Dusty going to talk about his old school baseball days, eating it. This is it. I'm all for that. I'll set it up. Well, let's win a World Series first, because he's probably going to be busy up until then.

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Nothing but nylon. Yeah, okay, Craig. Still my bits. You're doing all the games on radio from here on out. Yeah, go ahead and do that. Still my, nothing but nylon. Sets, fires, hits, hammer.

Take it all from me. All right. There is a debate that Ross and I have had for a long time. others have as well you flip flop by the way yeah I convinced you but I'm back to the right side

you know like I've said I've never voted for the same political party two candidates two presidential elections in a row so I'm going to stay with that I'm going to be I will flip and flop on my consumption of food I will say this however the side I'm on now is on the right side

and that is chicken wings not boneless chicken wings. They're just executive nuggets. I don't care what they're called. They're the superior food product. I don't know. Good, well done, drum is as delicious as it gets. Flavorful, juicy, delicious.

Chicken nuggets? It is what it is. But some people like the boneless. They just do. I'll eat both, Matt. Well, there's a gentleman in Lincoln, Nebraska. By the way, I think why, I think why, You know how you have public access channels?

In small towns, they put up the city council meetings on those public access channels. Yes. I don't know if the city of Houston does that. They used to. I have direct TV, so I don't have the local, like, you know, Xfinity local channel. I just because I have direct TV, so I don't have that. So I don't know if they do this or not. But in smaller cities, like, when we go to college towns, all the time.

Lake Charles puts it on their city council. Well, Lincoln has a city council meeting like most cities do. This is Lincoln, Nebraska. And a gentleman came to the Lincoln, Nebraska council meeting with some very, very important words that I think all of us should stand behind. Lincoln has the opportunity to be a social leader in this country. We have been casually ignoring a problem that has gotten so out of control that our children are throwing around names and words without even understanding their true meaning and treating things as though they're normal. I go into nice family restaurants and I see people throwing this name around and pretending as though everything is just fine. I'm talking about boneless chicken wings. I propose that we as a city remove the name. Excuse me. I'm trying to do. Yeah. Excuse me. Come on. I propose that we as a city remove the name boneless wings from our menus and from our hearts. These are a reason why. Number one, nothing about boneless chicken wings actually come from the wing of a chicken. chicken. We would be disgusted if a butcher was mislabeling their cuts of meats, but then we go

around and pretending as though the breast of the chicken is its wing. Number two, boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders, which are already boneless. I don't go to order boneless tacos. I don't go and order boneless club sandwiches. I don't ask for boneless auto repair. It's just what's expected. And then number three, we need to raise our children better. Our children are raised being afraid of having bones attached to their meat. That's where meat comes from. It grows on bones. We need to teach them that the wing of a chicken is from a chicken, and it's delicious. I propose that we rename boneless wings in the city of Lincoln. We can call them buffalo-style chicken tenders. We can call them wet tenders. We can call them saucy nugs or trash.

We can take these steps and show the country that where we stand, and that we understand, and that we understand that we've been living alive for far too long, and we know it because we feel it in our bones. That man is an American treasure, period into story. Well, I'm totally on board with the changing of the name because it's a misnomer. It's like when you go order a burrito bowl. Barito has a flour tortilla on it. Well, the Brito bowl, the reason why I can defend that is because the bowl is covered

with a tortilla. I guess. No, it's not a guess it is. even if you get it without a tortilla, you still call it a burrito bowl. I don't know. I don't think you do that. If you don't have the burrito,

if you don't have the tortilla. You don't cover it with a tortilla. It's usually on the side. No, no, no. You put a tortilla over it? No, you put, okay, here's your bowl. Yeah. Hand of the bowl.

Yeah. Before they start putting the ingredients in it, they put a tortilla on it, and they push it in. And then the contents. Where do they do that? Have you heard of that, Brendan? I have not seen that.

I think at Chipotle. Is that how they do it at Chipotle? Yeah, you take the tortilla No, they give you a bowl, they don't put it under there Oh, okay, well, I've been to many places where They put the tortilla in the bowl And then they put the contents in it And they cover it with lettuce and they call it the breederable

At that point I like the idea. No, usually the tortilla and a breederable is on the side of it option Okay, well, then I stand correct in them Because it's not a bretoeval My favorite place to eat when it comes, What do they call that? Flash Tex-Mex?

What is Chipotle and places like that call? You would call that fast casual? Fast cat. Like burritos. Five guys. Bouritos. Bullritos. Well, Freebirds is number one.

Freebirds. There's a place called Cafe Rio in Utah and in the West. I took you there and we went to Vegas, I think, one time. Did I not not? Where? To Cafe Rio? No, I don't know. So I get a salad from there and they give you the salad bowl.

They put the tortilla in and then they put the content of the salad in the top of the tortilla. Well, that's just weird. Why do you might as well have a burrito at that point? Precisely. The point of burrito bowl is to cut the carbs. Okay, so you're telling me that a burrito bowl does not have the tortilla anywhere near the salad. You can get it on the side, yeah. Okay, all right.

So that's what I'm saying. Like, it's a misnomer. I'm totally with that. Whatever you want to call it? You are a boneless guy. Yeah. So would you like to re-I-I mean, he said saucy nugs. Okay, well, he said, I like saucy nugs.

I like, and yeah, they're just tenders. He called them tenders. He also called them trash. Well, you know, the funny part. Yeah, well, okay, trash is a little strong. But when you used to, I don't know, is pluckers still like this? When you order boneless at pluckers, you just get tenders. So to me, that was the first place where I would get boneless.

I don't think there's a difference between, except for the formation. Is the chicken tender different than the boneless nugget? And one's just segmented, yeah. Just one's a chunk. Yeah. Exactly. And a tender is flattened out. It's more sliced, yeah.

I mean, it's a more sliced tender. So yeah, you can change the name to whatever you want. But he's right. Boneless wing makes absolutely zero sense. I'm with you on that. totally agree. I didn't name it. I don't go into the menu and say,

hey, I'm going to order, I would like the ones without the bones. I would like saucy nugs. They're not going to know what I'm talking about. I got to say what's on the menu, Matt. By the way, our friends Joan and CEO Fosho say that Houston does have all access channels that do include city council meetings. There you go, Matt.

So you want to sit down and watch some city council meetings. Well, here's the thing. You're all good. If any of y'all watch city council meetings and any of them get really whack, like that was whack. to go to the city council in Lincoln, Nebraska to do that. And we've had other people do the same thing. Remember, there were some people that were complaining about mask and whatnot.

I want audio of that. And usually Twitter does a pretty good job of finding it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You don't have to sit there and watch six hours of a boring talk about redistricting and what the latest houses of ill repute are doing on Westheimer. You can just find the highlights on Twitter. So send us highlights if you ever see anything on those city council meetings. We want that.

By the way, CEO, for sure was excited about 120. We've pushed the departure time of the double clutch bus to 230. Yes, 230 double clutch bus. If I say crush hit me because it's so easy to say. I'll walk over the wall of you. You need to. You need to. All right.

713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Boneless wings done with. To be consumed or for that matter talked about. Love you big city wings, but you know I love those bone-in wings. That's my jam. second hour starts of sports talk 70. We got a game seven tonight.

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I'm Matt. Dr. Roto starts at the bottom of the hour. You all taking notes? you ready to go? Our fantasy draft is tomorrow. I am ready, Matt. I'm not. I'm ready as I'm going to be.

I go to the ESPN cheat sheet and call it a day. That's not going to take a lot to beat you, Yehus. Whatever. You got lucky one time. I'm a multiple time champion. No, you've never won it. I think I won at least twice. You want to bet?

No. Because we can go through the history on ESP. You just keep speaking these lies into existence. I feel like I've won some money over the years, though. Yeah, you've made the playoffs. But you have not won the league ever. Well, maybe I'm just that on the couple. I don't believe.

Because we can check the years. ESPN, we have the technology. We can go back to every single year. Let's not do it right now. Well, I'm going to do it. We'll look at it eventually. All right. So let me set what's going on.

We've got Dr. Rodot at 130. We have the double clutch bus at 2.30. Although the lineups there, too, to get you ready for that. Game 7 tonight. Astros get back at it tonight as well. And by the way, I love me, those 7-10 starts. 8-10s are a drop. Yeah, it's terrible.

Even for home games. It's terrible. And I know why they're doing it because they want to make sure though the West Coast audience gets as much there. And frankly, there have been no 9 o'clock this year, which is a good thing. But it's still pain the ass. So the Astros will play at 710. The Rockets game will start probably anywhere between 810 and 825.

So if you would like to chime in on either one of those events, including the horrific defense that was played by the Astros yesterday, 713, 212, 5, 790, 713, 712. 579 if you want to get in. If you want to get in through Twitter, you can do that as well. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Scott underscore. Did you watch any of the Denver Utah game? That's why tonight scares me.

Because the Denver Nuggets were down 3-1 in a series. The Utah Jazz were beating their chest, get ready for the next round of the playoffs. And then Yokic and Jamal Murray go off in the last three games, win the series four games at three. a highly climactic, highly dramatic game last night. And Utah is going home again. Yeah, I watched the majority of the second half.

And that's, you think, I mean, you see it on your TV guide. Oh, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets, cool. But there's a lot of good young stars on that team. And that's what I love, both of those teams. And that's what I love about the NBA playoffs. Certainly as you get deeper and deeper into it is all the amazing talent and young talent, especially in this league right now. I mean, like you mentioned, the Jamal Murray's of the world and the Don,

Evan Mitchell's and the league is going to be in a good place for a long time. And these are some interesting games that have been happening. And that one last night, while it was kind of ugly, it was low scoring. Oh, my God. Low scoring is an understanding. It was more of the 1990s of what we saw. 2001 loved that game yesterday. I did a double take.

It was like 8480 with a minute left to go thereabouts. I typed it up on Twitter when I saw it. And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. That's what we would see. We got reminded of that during the last dance. It was like fourth quarter, Chicago Bulls, 76, Indiana Pacers, 72. You're like what? Oh, yeah, games sucked like that, didn't they?

But yeah, it was a fun game, though. It doesn't meant, so those games, we still watch in the 90s. That's the highest the rating is since Michael Jordan retired the first time in 98. The ratings have been downhill ever since. So those were games that we watched. So just because it's a low scoring doesn't necessarily mean it's not compelling, and that was a compelling game last night. Well, I'm very curious, however, that ABC went to,

or I should say the ESPN put the game on ABC yesterday where everybody in America I mean most people have the channels they don't have cable but at least me a second to find it actually yeah uh you would never not normally put a Denver Utah game on in prime time any time of the year much less the just before the start of your

fall primetime campaign which I don't know our TV shows really producing and we're going to have brand new shows at the end of the month probably part of the problem is TV shows And people talk about the ratings being down and all that type of stuff. These NBA games are like the highest rated programs of the week generally. Yeah, because right now, the only thing I'm watching on over-the-air television and repeats of Hell's Kitchen. Hmm.

There's nothing else. You should watch Gordon Ramsey yell at people? I want to meet Gordon Ramsey. You do? I think he would be, now I would never want to compete with in a contest he was on or being on one of his shows because he'd rip the crap out of me. But I think he'd be as engaging as all get out. I think he'd be very charming.

he would, if you were a customer in his restaurants, I've only been to, I think, one or two of his restaurants over the years. Very high price, but very delicious. I went to Gordon Ramsey's Fish and Chips in Vegas. Was I with you? No. That was when I got stuck there because of the, there was the storms. So I've been to Gordon Ramsey's fish and chips,

and I've been to Gordon Ramsey's burger. Because I feel like I could actually afford those two places as compared to Gordon Ramsey steak, where it would take me an act of Congress and a ninth job that I'd have to grab. A little malt vinegar on the fish and chips. It was good. But the fish and chips are like,

It wasn't very cheap. No. I had a couple of beers too. If you want to fish and chips, you're going to LJS. And if you remember that at that time, I was looking for the cheapest stuff possible because I got stuck in Vegas for three extra days and lost like $1,200 extra dollars than it because I called your show and you're like, oh, you got trapped in Vegas. I'm like, dude, you don't understand. I got no money right now. This sucks. You were like, you were like checking bus fares. I'm like, you cannot take megabus from Vegas to Houston for $9. The last extra day I got stuck in Vegas because of the storms. I did not even, leave my room. I didn't leave my room except to

eat Gordon Ramsey's fishing chips. Was it Hurricane? It was I can't remember what it was. I think it was like regular Was it the memorial? It wasn't Memorial Day floods because I was here for that. It was some kind of, Matt, there's a tropical disturbance like every five months. Yeah, we lose track

of these things. Melda and Harvey and whatever. Laura. You can't keep track of it. All right. So, yeah, I want to meet Gordon Ramsey. But that's the one show I'm watching. Okay. In sports. The rest stuff that I watch on cable,

and stuff, it's on cable. Why don't you get him on the show? Gordon Ramsey? Yeah. He would swear a lot. Maybe he's probably like a big Liverpool fan or something like that. Yeah, but how do you, I don't think he could name one Houston sports athlete.

Probably not. So it wouldn't really be much of a bit. What do you think his net worth is? I'm going to Google it. Give me a range. Look it up and then give me a range. I'm sure you can find on the internet. I'll guess $20 million.

Oh, I will say significantly higher. Yeah. Don't say what it is. Yeah, you're probably. right because of all the restaurants. Well, he's got restaurants, got the television project. I mean,

you've got to realize he'd been doing this for years in Great Britain before he ever became a U.S. television star. Oh, my God. $20 million could not be more far off. So give me a range. 100 to 500. He's worth $300 million.

$220. Yeah, but I'd like to meet him. Damn. I want him being an A-hole chef? Yeah, but he swears a lot and people love his food and people like you pay $40 for fish and chips. chips.

Yeah, there was not cheap fishing chips. The Guinness wasn't cheap either. All right. So tonight's a good, I think tonight

is a good, if you're not going to Big City Wings for the $8 burgers, I think tonight's a good night to be at the house and just a $8 burger to go. That's true. They do curbside too.

That's an excellent call on your part. I've taken a gallon margaries to go from Big City Wings. Yeah. Don't kid yourself. The key in that is drinking it all that night.

I think when you go to refreeze, it doesn't disson. No, it's actually kept for a couple of weeks. Really? Yeah. Well, I felt like I was eating icy when I was going for round two.

Oh, well, I got the, I got the liquid one. You got a frozen guy. I'm a frozen guy. That's right. All right. And Dan, well, you don't want to kill a gallon. You don't want to be pressured to kill a gallon of margaritas at a single night, Matt. Matt Astros postgame 2013 would disagree with you.

That's true. Especially exerting games against the Giants. Yeah. Oh, Justin Maxwell struck out four times today. Brett Oberholzer on the hill looking to even. his record at two and nine. Good times. No, it wasn't.

Yeah, it wasn't good times, I guess. How did I do that, Ross? That's why I should have gotten a ring. Oh, please. I had to endear myself for days and years and years and years of sucky astro pitching and weak-ass offense. I think outside of owner, general manager, players, me, coaching staff, me, training staff.

I'm right there. Maybe the athletic. trainer. I'm right there. Outside of that, that's it. I don't deserve a ring. No. For all those... Certainly not the guy getting drunk off his ass in postgame shows. I wasn't getting drunk. I was having one to take the edge off. Okay. All right. You all already... Getting hit on by strange women on the postgame shows. I mean, that wasn't the worst thing. I don't know if Mrs. Thomas would necessarily agree with that.

No, I don't think she did. All right? Let's make the predictions. You ready right this second? I'm not ready. Brendan, you ready? I'll let you go first if you're ready. Sure. Rockets okay C The result is what Rockets win Final score Oh I don't know

Can I just pick a margin of victory Sure why not No we need a final score Oh you do okay I'll go first For a line in a total pick I will give you And I'm telling you if this doesn't have Like tomorrow is a saving grace in some respects

You and I aren't doing a show Okay Because if they lose then I just I'll be taking some medicine For a little night night rest For a little night night rest I got my jamming four or five-town-l-PMs. Okay.

We have Astros baseball tomorrow. I'm going to go Rockets, 108, Oklahoma City, 100. That is a cover and an under. I'm going 112-101, Houston Rockets. Okay. So you got his 11-point margin. Yes.

I feel better about the 8. He's right. The scoring part of its heart, because it was low-scoring, relatively speaking, in game 6 when there were other five games in the series were rather high-scoring affairs. And, I mean, as we saw last night, game sevens can get a little slowed down.

And I think, again, it's going to get chippy. I think there will be some technical fouls called really pretty quick. And your buddy, Scott Foster's for a fishing tonight. Isn't that my buddy? Well, I mean, again, I don't have a problem with him. Me either. I mean, honestly, as an NBA employee, I'm not going to have any problem with any officials, but I can tell you that the criticism for Scott Foster, I think, is, I don't think,

I think it's definitely overblown. There are other officials that I have less, trust in than Scott Foster. Game 6 and 7 were very questionable in 2018. He was on one of those or both of those? One of them. Okay. The other one was Tony Brother.

There were 22 calls that were looked at during the fourth, the final, what, five minutes of the game in their day? By the NBA, now they're granting their own. All 22 calls on the floor were deemed correct calls. Or correct non-calls. Okay. And that's how officials are graded. That's how they get graded.

How do you do in the most important parts of the game? So the guys that you think you don't like basically are the ones that are getting called the games because the officials, according to the NBA grading system, get the job done. You're not letting Scott Foster be a factor in this game for you, are you? No, he hates Chris Paul more than anybody, right? He does hate Chris Paul more than he hates James Hardin. Not that he hates either one of them. but yeah

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Yeah. Yeah. I want to thank you, by the way, Brendan, for not playing any kiss during the show today. We had a kiss reference earlier on in the program. Well, our listener, our listener Tim Word loves Kiss. Well, I mean, they are from Detroit. Then do anything for me. Would you say about Kiss, Brendan?

You like them or you don't? I don't think I've ever played them. No, I'm not a Kiss fan. That's unfortunate. Okay. Tim Word told us to put some respect on their name. They've sold over $80 million, $75 million. $75 million records.

Well, I'm not saying people don't like them. Yeah, I didn't say that either. I'm just saying I don't like them. Same. I did like Shannon Tweed back in the day, though. In the 80s. What's that who? What's his name was? No, they're still together.

Oh, good for them. They used to have a open relationship? No, just the opposite. Closed relationship. Gene Simmons said for years on their reality show that he never cheated on Shannon Tweed. Nobody believes that. And nobody believed him. And I think finally they had a lie detector and it basically proved that he was a liar that he had it had some extracurricular affairs.

Yeah, you're a rock star in the 80s. How do you not? You're going to get some trim, Maddie. How do you not? Even by accident. I mean, it's just sitting there waiting for you. As Chris Rock would say, you can stop chasing. If it falls in your lap, really?

It's difficult. That's how the comedians work too. I didn't realize that. Okay. Was it as part of his act? It didn't work that way in sports radio host. Doesn't really fall in your lap on 790 a.m. radio on Houston, Texas. No, no, no, no.

Just in my experience. Especially when you got a ring on your left hand. Really, they shouldn't be falling anywhere. I'm fine. Now, yours, you get that left hand's empty, so you're in a good spot. Anyways. Of course, your apartment needs a little female charm to it, but that's not here. What are you talking about?

Once they're already there, it's too late. Nobody's going to say, wow, your fixtures are terrible. I'm out. Well, you never know. If you went up dating somebody that's in home remodeling. This is my advice to you for the younglings out there, like Brendan. Just keep your bathroom clean and your bed clean and you'll be fine. Yeah, make sure you always have a big can of scrubbing bubbles around it.

If you got like nasty, dirty sheets, yeah, then she might be out. If your bathroom is disgusting, yeah, she might be out. I always keep my place within one hour of looking like nobody lives there. Is that, wait, that's weird. Would you come live with me? Are you going to murder somebody and leave? That sounds creepy. One hour.

It's not. As in like you could murder somebody and then clean up and then be out of there in an hour. That's what it sounds like to me. My house would take two years to completely declutter and cleanse. Okay. I live by myself, though. I think that's different. I agree with you.

You don't have three kids in the house destroying things. Yeah. No, I don't. And a lazy husband that comes home. I destroy enough stuff my own. All right. So we got the rockets winning. Astros need to get back.

The boot cannot go to Arlington. Under no circumstance, especially this year. I mean, if the Astros are not going to win the World Series, that's one thing. But you cannot give the silver boot to the Texas Rangers. Nobody cares about the silver boot. Oh, they do. There were a lot of phone calls in the 10th inning show last night. They were upset about the boot?

They were concerned about the boot. How many people did you get called about the boot? Zero. You fraud. Miss Carroll called and that was it. Was she upset about the boot? No, she didn't care about the boot. Okay.

Yeah, I don't think people really care about the boot. It's nice to win it. The boot was in Texas up in Arlington for like years. It's funny. When the Astros won the World Series in 2017, Reed Ryan surprised us one day and brought the World Series trophy up here. That's right. And I held it like a baby.

I took a picture with it. Yeah, you got one too, right? Yes. We've never had the boot up here. I mean, is the boot with an open top or you can pour like cereal and milk in it if you wanted to? I don't think so. It's not like a Stanley Cup and you just have some cinnamon toast crunch out of it.

Let me put it this way. If the boot was open-ended, where you could put things in it, what in a you, I gave you the boot for a day, what would you do with the boot? Like, what would you, would you try to consume something in it? Alcohol, food, spaghetti sauce. It's probably disgusting in there with like spider webs. Well, I know, but they clean the Stanley Cup.

People have eaten out of the Stanley Cup before. I guarantee you that's happened. Yeah, I know they've eaten out of the Stanley Cup, but you don't know what's down the toe of the boot. It could be a family of spiders in there. No, I think it's going to be fine. I would not worry If I'm going to take the challenge

Of eating something in the boot I'm not worried about the table You just pour some bleach down there Clean out the spiders And then we'll talk Okay So what would you put in it? Margaritas

Margaritas too With one big long ass straw How big is the boot? I've never seen it I think one year Between Houston and Dallas Apparently it's 30 inches tall I think one year

The boot got Was dropped and smashing a bunch of pieces. Don't hold me to that. I don't believe the boot that originally began the Astros Rangers Interleaks, Interleague series is the same boot they used today.

Which is too bad because once, you know, the Stanley Cup's been the same Stanley Cup, right? Mm-hmm. Then you know that you've taken a sip out of the cup like all the other greats over the years. Who's been the carrier of the boot for all these years? who's been in charge?

Has Jeff Bagwell been able to caress the boot like a Craig Bigeo, like a Lance Berkman, like a Justin Verlander has been able to do? The Astros have won the last three silver boots, but before that, it was dominated by the Rangers. They were getting crushed.

That's because remember the Rangers had those two different, what, World Series runs? Remember that Rangers? Remember when you used to be good? Remember there, where they went out from winning the World Series? And now you suck.

That's unfortunate. And your ballpark's got a, looks like a cheap-ass aluminum cover to it. Family dollar. Grill cover. Like a siding cover. You know what I mean?

You know how you have the hearty plank and then you have like the cheap aluminum? Or you know when you're having a cookout and you get those big aluminum bins to put the meat in and stuff like that? Right. That's what it looks like. Yeah. Very much you'd find in the houseware section of your grocery store. It's basically aluminum foil. Heavy-duty aluminum foil.

All right. Enough about their ballpark. So what else is going? on. I'm trying to think of what else I want to get. We got Rodo coming up in just a minute. Yes. Are you ready for the draft? Now we did the research. Oh, yeah? Matt's a liar. You said you won the league at least a couple of times.

I believe yes. It's zero. But go ahead. You've been in top three twice, third place twice. And since we've been running the league since 2010. I've only been in the top three twice as well. I got a second and a first. You have two thirds. But I finished, I think several times four to. Oh, gee. I don't think I've ever not been in the money. You think you've never not been in the money. Well, that's not true. The Houston Toro has been dead last in the league a couple of times. By the way, I'm a fraud when it comes to names.

I was originally a Houston Toro. Then I switched to vice principles, and now I'm back to being a Houston Toro. You're not a fraud. I change names every year. That's fine. I can find the full standings if you want, but I'm just looking at top three. Instead, why don't we get ready for Rodo? If you guys have any questions about your fantasy football draft, because I don't think,

I think some people have had their drafts, but not everybody. This is why the next half hours will be very moving. Even if you've had a draft, maybe you're thinking about making some moves. Oh, for sure. Should I drop Leonard Fournett or is he going to land somewhere? Stuff like that. Ooh, that's a good call. Also asking about what Texans where they should be drafted.

If you're one of those guys that has to have a Texan on your fantasy football team. Kiki Kootie, deep sleeper, we'll find out. Keeps are really relative term. Very deep sleeper. 127 on sport. He's in a coma. He's so deep. Kimee or where?

It's not Kimey Ware. Kamee Fairbearer? No, it's wearing. Oh, Kahili wearing? Kahley wearing. The deepest of sleepers? That would be the deepest of sleepers. Like does it get on the football field?

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I'm glad you are in good health. I'm glad that you are ready to go. with us this year. And the number one question, I always ask you in the season opener of the Dr. Roto segments is how many fantasy leagues are you going to be in this season? Yeah, at first I thought it wasn't going to be that many, but I think it's going to, it's morphed into like somewhere between 15 and 20. So look, this is what I do, M.P. I got to play fantasy football, and I love it. I'm here to help everybody win. And you've been going to Vegas for big conventions every year. Is that still happening this year?

Yeah, well, it is for some organizations, but not the one that I work for. And to be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone this year anyway. But hopefully I'll be back in Vegas next year. But I'm still doing the high-stakes leagues and still giving you the high-stakes information. All right. I don't mean to ask you this, but I'm going to. What's the biggest entry fee for one of your 15 leagues? About $1,500.

Stout. I like that, Dr. Roto. That means you've got to provide the information for yourself and for all of us. All right. So I've already been through one draft, and I joined the league that had a couple of keeper. So I'm going to put that aside. I've got another one our station draft tomorrow. When you're sitting down and you're ready to make those picks, tell me the difference in how your draft style would be if you are the third pick in the draft as compared to pick number eight and nine.

Yeah, I think depending, you can win from any spot in the draft. But, you know, depending on where you're picking. So let's say number three, you're probably looking at Ezekiel Elliott, right? Because number one's going to be Christian McCaffrey. Two is going to be Sequin Barclay. You're looking at Elliott. Some people might look at a Michael Thomas. I think you've got to start with a running back. You're picking 8 and 9. Now you're looking at Derek Henry, maybe you're looking at Joe Mixen. And if you really like to live life on the edge, Clyde Edwards-Hillair.

So no matter where you're picking, there's a guy who should be in that spot based on the average draft position. I was in that Keeper League this past Saturday. And so the trend was even with those keeper picks that running backs were going very, very quickly. I felt dirty because I took David Johnson in the third round. and I put that out there on social media, and people are like, yeah, that's not the worst thing they've heard of. What does that say about a guy that had been falling off the map in Arizona, going to a new football team, and all of a sudden he's been considered third-round commodity? What does it say about the running back position as a whole right now in 2020?

I don't know if it's as much of that. I think it's more about Johnson, and I worry about the Texans this year. I really do. I think this could be the beginning of a decline, and I hate saying that because I love the team. But, I mean, you trade your best player, your best offensive player, one of two arguably, and you bring in David Johnson, who has clearly lost the step. And so, you know, you should have gotten a whole lot more. Now, here's the thing about Johnson.

I think that you will see fantasy-wise, he might get you to the fantasy playoffs, right? He's going to get about 20 to 25 touches a week. But I think in those winning weeks, weeks 14, 15, 16, I worry about a drop-off. Whereas a guy like Jonathan Taylor for the Colts, he may start out slowly, but by the end of the season, he may really be killing it. So, I mean, look, Johnson probably right now in my league is a fourth round pick, but in the keeper league, he could be a third rounder, but probably not a guy that I'm taking. How many drafts have you been through so far, and have you noticed any tendencies or players that would come up that were like, man, I can't believe they are drafted that high or that low at this point?

Can you name as to me two or three in each one of those categories? Yeah, I think that, you know, the certain players, when I do my draft, I kind of know where guys are going. So, for example, you want Tamakers, he's going to be in round five. You want Rahim Moster. You're going to have to get him in round five. You want James and Crowder. It's round seven. So you kind of know where guys are going. If you can get lucky, though, like for example, Terry McCorrent, he's the number one receiver for Washington, and he's arguably a top 10 guy.

So right now, you might be getting him in round five, and he could be a round three type of player. So I think there's always guys that will be available. I like this kid, Zach Moss, a ton in Buffalo. And I think you can get him right now, like maybe round nine or ten in your whole leagues. And I think this guy could get about nine or ten rushing touchdown this year. I think there's value to be had. All right, I want to spend some time in this segment. And again, if you have a question for Dr. Rodo about anything related to your draft

or what's going on or trade possibilities, we will take your calls in segment number two at 713-212-5-790. We'll also get Roto's thoughts on position players for the Texans also coming up as well. But let's get to some players that are new situations. Tom Brady in Tampa Bay. What are you thinking? I love Tom Brady this year. I mean, in all my drafts, I think I have Brady and,

like 90% of my leagues. I have bought in. I really have. He is playing with the best receiver tour he's ever had, and with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, who I absolutely love this year. Rob Grancowski is now with him in South Florida, and you've got this kid, Scotty Miller. Don't sleep on him. Brady's been saying great things about him in practice. I think Brady gets 4,200 passing yards and over 30 touchdown this year. I am all in. Cam Newton in New England. You know, I've never been a real Cam Newton fan, but I think he's going to get the job there, obviously. He is a good

player. I just think he doesn't have great weapons. I'm hearing that Mohammed Sanoo is probably not even to make the roster. So you're looking at Julian Edelman, McKeel Harry. Here's my problem with Julian Edelman. Brady knew where to throw him the ball. Camelho throws the ball like 10 feet in the air. And Edelman's 5'9. So I don't know how that's going to play out real well. I

think Edelman's going to see his numbers go down. Philip Rivers in Indianapolis. So this is a good player. This is a great player in a really good spot. He knows the offense. And he's got T.Y. Hilton, who I think is totally undervalue this year. I mean, Hilton was a second-round pick just two years ago.

And he's got a good, good young receiving court, too. Paris Campbell's there. Michael Pittman Jr.'s there. Let's not forget Jack Doyle. I love the running game. I think Rivers is one of those guys, and you know what I tell you. M.T. Never take a quarterback early in your draft. You got it.

I want you waiting around 8, 9, 10. I want you taking Daniel Jones this year. I want you taking Matthew Staff. And at the end of a draft, at the very end, you want to take Philip Ritz as your second quarterback, I'm fine with it. Teddy Bridgewater in Carolina. All right. So I want you guys out there to think about this. If you think Christian McCaffrey is going to be good, which I do. If you think DJ Moore is going to be good, which I do. If you think Robbie Anderson is going to be decent, which I do. And Curtis Samuel and Ian Thomas, then how bad

is Teddy Bridgewater going to be? Right. If all these guys are going to catch a lot of receiving yards, somebody's got to throw it. I think Teddy Bridgewater is the most underrated quarterback. in fantasy this year. I know that sounds crazy, but I love Joe Brady. I love Matt Rule. They're going to be behind by about 30 in every game. They're going to be throwing at all second half, and I think Teddy B could actually get 4,000 yards and 25 touchdowns. Let's go to the running backs. Todd Gurley in Atlanta. I'm not touching this guy at all. I mean, look, Dirk Codder is already saying he's going to get somewhere between 15 and 25 cars. Well, which one is it, Dirk? Plus Atlanta's defense is not

very good, so they're going to be behind. We don't know how Gurley's knees are going to hands out playing on the carpet there. I don't know. I'd much rather take Eto Smith in round 18, which I really got in every single draft than take Gurley in round three. Because you're going to have to take Gurley in round three. I'd much rather James Connor. I'd much rather Odell Beckham. There's a hundred guys. I'd much rather Kenny Gallaudet. I don't want Todd girl. Melvin Gordon going, staying in the AFC West, but on his way to Denver now. Yeah. Look, I think Denver's underrated. Here's another young sleeper for you. I like Drew Locke. I like Cortland. I like Jerry Judy. I like Noah Fant.

Adding Melvin Gordon will make all those guys better because now you have to respect the running game. I don't think teams respected enough with Philip Lindsay. Melvin Gordon is a very good player, and I was wrong on him last year. He looked terrible the first few games back, but then he slowly as a season unfolded. He got a lot better, and he became Melvin Gordon again. So I think he's in a good spot this year. All right, I've got to take a deep breath on this one. We're going to go to a wide receiver, and you know where I'm going with.

DeAndre Hopkins is an Arizona Cardinal. Yeah, I know. It's a sad day, isn't it? So there are a lot of people out there and a lot of experts who, you know, I think are very talented to what they do who think that Hopkins is going to struggle this year because it's hard to come into a new offensive scheme. And, of course, during the pandemic, how much time have they had to really work together? That said, I'm not buying into that totally because Hopkins is a special talent.

And Kyla Murray is a pretty darn good player, too. So I think Hopkins will be very good. I don't know if he's going to be great. but if I can get him as my wide receiver too, I'd be very happy with that. Stefan Diggs goes to Buffalo for quite a haul. Yeah, I mean, look, Diggs is a very good receiver, but the question is, Josh Allen going throw for 59 percent, or is he going to throw at 62 percent? So I know they're going to take chances down the field.

The bills have a good team. You have John Brown. You got Stefan Diggs. You got Cole Beasley. You got a good running game. I think Diggs is only going to see maybe six or seven targets a game. So all those targets that we were used to in Minnesota, I don't think we're going to see anymore. So I think this is a guy who goes

four for 70 most weeks and maybe a touchdown every other week. All right, we mentioned our Nogranc in Tampa. How about Jason Witten as a raider? Yeah, I really have no interest in Jason Witten. I mean, I think, I like Blake Jarwin better, the guy who's taking over from Dallas. I think

Jarwin is more of a sleeper. Witten is interesting, but you got Darren Wall there, and down good player, so I just don't see it right now for Witt. All right, we're going to come back. We're going to get Dr. Roto's thoughts on the Houston Texan skill position players. couple of rookies to keep an eye on this year, maybe three or four. And if you've got any questions or comments for Dr. Rodo, then that will be the great time for you to get them in. 713-212-5-790.

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Real Texans talk here. The good doctor with us here. Normally with us at 1.30 on Thursdays, but because We have a day game tomorrow. And then next Thursday, Dr. Rodel, we're going to have the debut of games next week. We're not ready for that. Are you? I know, right.

We're used to preseason. We're used to all this information. But look, I'm getting ready, baby. I'm getting hikes up. I know. All right. So with that being said, before we're going to the Texans position players, by way, if you got any questions for Dr. Rodel, we've got a segment here to get them in if you'd like to join us.

713-212-790. 713-212-5-790. Rookies, we'd have no idea what they're going to potentially do. Let's get to three or four that you absolutely believe should be drafted and then tell me where you would draft them on your boards. Yeah, if you're in a PPR format, which is point per reception, I wanted you to draft Clyde Edwards Hiller in round one. Yes, he's that good. Yes, he plays on the best offensive team in the NFL, and he's going to be the starter from day one. I love him. If I was picking five or six in a draft, I would absolutely take him. I think Jonathan Taylor is a special player.

I know he's got some fumbling issues. I get that, but he's a good pass catching back out of the backfield, and Marlon Mack really isn't. And Taylor's got another gear that I don't think we've seen before. This guy runs like a 4.39 and a 40. I think he's really going to be special. And I'm a big fan of Cam Acres. I just read somewhere. Somebody's like, well, Cam Acres didn't even average five yards of carrying college.

That's because he played with for Florida State, whose offensive line was trash, whose coach got fired in the middle of the season, the fact that this guy broke 1,000 yards should tell you how good he is. And the Rams want to play with one running back this year, and I think it's acres, and I think he's really good. You didn't mention a Dallas-wide receiver. Well, look, I like Z.D. Lamb. Here's a thing about receivers, and let's look at Dallas in particular.

So you've got one football. You've got to give it to Zeculele at least 20 to 25 times a game. Now you've got to get Cooper involved. Now you've got to get Gallup involved. Now you've got to get Lamb involved. Then there's Blake Jarwin. So I love CD Lamb. If there's an injury, I think this guy can have 80 receptions.

Without the injury, well, now we're looking at maybe 60 to 65. So as much as I like him, it's all about opportunity because opportunity equals fantasy points. All right. Let's get to the Texan skill position players. We've got actually quite a few I want to get to. Brandon Cooks, what you're thinking? He's my least of the receivers there, my least favorite. Brandon coach has had some severe concussion issues.

I worry that if he takes a big shot, he could be out for an extended period of time. That said, when he's healthy, he's good. I think Watson will be able to find him a couple times, but he's not a guy that's going to get eight to ten receptions a game. He's the kind of guy that gets like three or four, but he makes an impact with those three or four. So in the play-action passing game, he's good. Will Fuller?

I love this guy. If there's one guy on the Texans that I want to have, I want to have Fuller, and if I can pair him with Watson, I will. I mean, these guys really have a great connection together. I mean, Fuller's always shown productivity when he's healthy. And if he can just stay healthy for 16 weeks, he could end up the year as a top 15 receiver in the NFL. Randall Cobb? Yeah, I think this is the guy that people are overlooking.

He was pretty good at the end of last year. And I think that you're going to need a reliable receiver who runs, you know, right over the middle, who will make the big catch on third down. And I think Deshaun Watson is going to like throwing a Randall Cobb. He's got good hands. He runs good routes. And I think he's underappreciated. I mean, since he's left Green Bay, we haven't really appreciated him. I think he does well this year.

Any of the tight ends worthy of drafting from the Texans? Probably not. There are a lot of other guys I like more because you've got like this three-headed hydra there. So maybe a guy emerges, but I just don't see it right now. Any draftability in Duke Johnson? Yeah, I think there's draftability, especially if you're in a PPR format. I mean, look, I was a big fan of Duke Johnson. when the Texans got him.

I just don't know whether they used him that well. And now the problem is that David Johnson can catch the ball out of the backfield, too. So if I have David Johnson, if I roster him, I really would like to have Duke Johnson later in my draft. Deshawn Watson. Yeah, I mean, he's a stud. So there's nothing I don't like about him. I think he's a top seven fantasy quarterback. And like I said, I'm very into stacking players.

So if I have Deshawn Watson, I want to make sure to try to roster. at least Will Fuller, and if I can get Fuller and Cobb, that'd be fine, too. And the earliest you want anybody taking their quarterbacks is what round? Honestly, I could probably wait at least until round seven, preferably round nine. I think you can get Tom Brady. I think you can get Daniel Jones. I think you can get Ben Roethersberger. I think you can get Joe Burr.

I think you get Matthew Stafford. You can win your league with any of those guys. Okay. So we're talking about Mahomes and Lamar Jackson being the top two quarterback selected, right? Right, absolutely. And what rounds are they going? Are those first round guys? You know, it depends on the league that you're in, but I can see the Holmes and Lamar going in probably round two.

And if you're one of those people that likes to take a quarterback there, those would be the two guys. I think it's that next groupings. Kyle Murray and Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson, they're all good. But are they that much better than Tom Brady? Are they that much better than what Daniel Jones is projected to do this year? They're better, but I don't want to, in a third round, give me Odell Beckham. give me Kenny Gulliday, give me Alan Robinson, and I think I have a better chance of winning my leads.

Texans defense worth drafting. They were a couple of years. I mean, we know the answer to that. I just want to make sure we were being politically correct. They need JJ to play 23 games a year. Yeah, okay. I think the secondary is a mess. It's going to give up a lot of points.

The question is, can they force turnovers? Because that's what the Texas defense, when it's been in its best, has been able to do. All right. With that being said now, give me three or four. four guys, not that are like sleepers, because they're going to be sleepers all throughout the course of the year, that right now you just cannot believe are being drafted as high as they are. And if you insist on taking them, take them in later rounds because you'll be thankful for it later. Yeah, I mean, so let's go right with there with Todd Gurley.

I mentioned him before. I'm not touching him. Leveon Bell. I think when you hear out at Jets Camp that Frank Gore is the best looking running back there, I don't know how you're taking Levy on Bell. round three, which is where a lot of people are going to take him. I don't want any part of that. I think that could be a big, big mess there. So I don't trust Adam Gates as far as I can control him. In terms of receivers, I think two guys that I like as players, but I'm not taking.

Keenan Allen, a really good receiver, but I worry about Tyrod Taylor. He's very conservative, so I think if you're expecting Keenan Allen to get, you know, 95 catches, I'm not sure that happens. And look, look, I want A.J. Green to stay healthy. I do. but I just worry that maybe there's just something physically wrong with him there, and they do have T. Higgins, and they have Tyler Boyd, and they have Joe Bixen, so I'm going to let somebody else draft AJ Green. All right, Roto, where can people find you between now and the start of the season next Thursday? Yeah, absolutely.

You can find me at Twitter at D-R-R-O-T-O. And, of course, I'm working now at Sports Illustrated, so you can go to sI.com backslash fantasy, and we've got this new football plus product, which I'm extremely proud of. I mean, we've got myself there, Michael Fabiano, formerly at the NFL network there. We have rankings and projections and articles from people who really win fantasy leagues, and that's the stuff that you're going to want. And you and I will visit again next Thursday prior to the Texans and the Chiefs. Very much looking forward to it.

Great having you back and have a great weekend. We'll talk again next Thursday. You've got an empty talk to. All right. That is the good. The one, the only. The good Dr. Roto with us here on the Sports Talk 790s. He'll be with us every Thursday, unless we've got a schedule adjustment because of Astrox.

playoffs or holidays, but he will be largely with us every Thursday between 1.30 and 2. In the final hour of this radio program, we will get to game number seven. Tonight it's going to take place. Rockets and Thunder, what is your gut feel on today's game? Tonight's game. And what could be unfortunately, I do not want to believe this, but potential carnage, if they don't win, I'm not going to believe that. But it's certainly worthy of a discussion.

Astros defense seemed to play a lot better tonight than they did yesterday. as they play game two of the Silver Boot Series against the Texas Rangers. The NFL, and did you see that Donald Trump got involved in Big Ten negotiations? Very, very peculiar on that. Alvin Kamara is holding out in New Orleans, and at 2.30 this afternoon, we have the introductions of Game 7 between the Rockets and Thunder in Orlando, plus the double clutch bus. Excuse me. My turn.

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Cool. Who do you think watches a jump at 2 o'clock central time? Well, we are right now. Well, but I mean, is that like NBA players in their rooms is kind of chilling out? Yeah, I guess they would probably do that. I'm not really paying attention to the show. No, my mind, because people are listening to our show and enjoying it.

And for that we thank them. Yes, the Mad Time of Show. It's an odd time for a show, though, right? A live television show? Yeah, I guess it means. you're normally going to have sports programming at night, so they fill the day with the NFL lives, the jump and all that type of stuff.

I don't, oh, okay. Rockets by 8 tonight. Oh, they're asking right now, who'd you rather have in game 7? I don't. CP3 or Hardin. Don't turn it on. Don't turn it on.

There is a clip. And I don't know, Brandon, can you get this? Because Brian, our program director sent this to us. It was on Fox Radio. It was on the Chris Brousard Rob Parker show, which I have zero respect for either. one of them, especially Chris Bruce.

Oh, that's terrible. No, Rob Parker's even worse. I mean, they work is an idiot. They work for our company, but it's, it's just not a problem with them. But that's fine. I mean, they're doing much better than we are, and that's, we can, I can live with that, sort of.

Okay. So Isaiah Thomas was on the show. Did we have the audio of this, or can we get the audio of this? Which Isaiah Thomas? The Isaiah Thomas, that's the former Detroit Piston, the bad boy. The one that got told you're not playing on Dream Team because you misspelled Isaiah Thomas.

No, I think that's how you spell it. I think Isaiah's, well, that's not true. There's just many Isaiah's with an A in it as there is without an A. No, he's the only Isaiah, I-Z, I-S-I-A-H. You think he's missed, you think the A is a big part of it, huh? Yes. Okay. I'm thinking, Isaiah Ryder was an I-S-A.

How many Isaiah's do you know? I don't know a lot of Isaiah's. But see, he's the first one I remember. So I always think this is the, I guess it's the right way to do it. But point being is this. So Isaiah Thomas goes on the Rob Parker Chris Broussard show yesterday and was asked. So tell me if I can get the audio on that. If we can't, I'll just read it.

You tell me what we're doing here. What does he say? We'll have having a little bit. Oh, okay. I'll really have Isaiah say it. Okay. Well, the question was asked about James. Harden.

Because here's the thing about James. He gets a lot of criticism because he takes too many shots. Yes. And then he's been taking a lot of criticism. And it's whether it's fair or not. That's up to individual personal. person. The way that Russ faltered makes James

part of the responsibility. Right? I guess. It just can't be just Russ. It's got to be, well, Russ is shooting. Why is that? James, where were you? Russ threw the ball away, so it's James Hardin's fault. Okay. Well, no, the argument was, why does Russ have the ball in his hand? That's been the argument in the last

couple days. Well, he's a guard on the team, and he's a future Hall of Fame. He's one in one A. I mean, James is clearly one, but the drop off to one A in terms of legacy. experience success, Rust is right there. Well, it's people being stupid. When Michael Jordan was taking the last shot,

he didn't bring the ball up every single time. Sometimes they found him on a block, or you find him in his spot, or you get off a mismatch, and you have him coming around a screen or something like that. There's just a narrative out there, and this is where I want you to hear the Isaiah quote. It's basically that James doesn't want the ball

in the most important parts of the game. That's what Isaiah says? Well, we're going to let you hear it once it's ready. All right, here is Isaiah Thomas talking about, out James Harden last night? To me, James Hardin is a person as a player that, you know, at the end of the game, I think he wants to be needed. And what I mean by that is he wants the coach to say, give it to James, right?

And I don't think James has the personality to say, okay, give me the ball. I think he's a, what would you call it? He, you know, he's a nice guy. Right. And then I think he's a respectful, I think he's a respectful talent out on the floor. Even though he's a dominant talent, I think he's respectful to his teammates. So at the end of the game, that coach has got to put that ball in his hands.

And then he'll go do his thing. And I think Kauai Leonard is the same way. to be honest with you. I don't think Kauai is one of them guys who are saying, hey, give me the ball at the end of the game and everybody move out of the way. Now, if the coach designs a play and say, Kauai, it's your show,

he'll go with it. And I think James Hardin is the same way. Agree or disagree. Okay, I was ready to get all up in arms about what Isaiah Thomas was going to say. I actually don't really necessarily disagree with that. So what he's saying is, James will do it,

but James wants to be told to do it. as compared to just naturally doing it on his own. Well, he's not going to, like, fight somebody over the ball and punch somebody in the mouth because he didn't have the ball or something like that. Because the flip of that is, if James was to be the ball-dominant player that he has been and it used to be for the most part, then it becomes James, don't dribble the ball for 20 seconds. Yeah. James, the only way you get out of the James gets criticized too much is he's going to have to do it in the biggest

moments, make a big shot, win a championship. There's no middle ground with him. There's just isn't going to be. Well, he's a con, everything is on his resume as far as, I mean, what he's going to accomplish. Scoring championships, All-Star, MVP, all that type of stuff. The thing that's missing off of James Hardin's resume is an NBA championship. So, yeah, he's going to fall under fire until that happens because he's one of the greatest scorers of all time. He's on a Hall of Fame track.

I mean, I'm going to say, he's going to the Hall of Fame. He's going to be a Hall of Famer. What's missing off his resume is, and it's going to bring him criticism is that championship. That's the only thing that's going to bring some of this away. And let's be really honest, Ross, a game seven loss to this Oklahoma City team is going to hurt their legacies, both of them, very badly. I agree. I agree. Legacies are on the line.

That's why we watch. That's why I'm nervous. No matter how much you love James, how much you love Russ or how much you don't like, do like either one of them. And that's what troubles me is that this shouldn't have been a legacy game tonight. The legacies, when you play the Lakers in a knockdown, dragout seven game series, to have this thing. go where it went with turnovers being such a problem in game six when it never should have been this is a team that didn't have turnover troubles in the first well i shouldn't say that they had a little bit but not as bad not to this level they were averaging 11 in the first five games or

55 turnovers in the first five games over 22 in game six terrible unacceptable and that's why they're here and that's why you're in a situation where anything can happen in a game seven and if something crazy happens or or if uh is somebody on the other lou d'ort makes a bunch of threes or Donelo Galanari or something and some freak stuff happens, you put yourself in this position. You should not be here. Yeah, we're going to ask you guys to jump on the double clutch bus at 2.30 if you want to do so. You'll call in.

We'll ask if you want to get on. We will make sure you have your mask. Mask up. We'll make sure you have a shot of Perel on either the first or the second floor. Well, not injected, Matt. But you know, you know what, put on your hands. Yes. And then what are you wearing and what are you drinking?

Okay. Can't wait. Are we going to have a full bus? I hope so. Should be fine. We're going to have eight people on the bus? I'm getting on the bus. How many people do you want on the bus, Matt?

We've got a social distance. I would be willing, as long as everybody's masked up, to not adhere to the social distancing. Are we contracting our normal strippers? There's going to be stripper poles? Oh, there's stripper poles on there. Okay. In the back of the vehicle, we have a carving station, ironically enough.

Oh, really? Yeah. Like prime rib or? Ham, turkey, and roast beef. We've never added a carving station to this thing. I'm a little wary of the roast beef. There's a chakutri board over there as well. Charkutery?

Sarkutery, whatever. And then... What's on the charkutery board? Candid bacon. There's 15 different types of cheeses. Fifteen! Grapes. Wow.

Perhaps a havarity or a smoked guta? If you will. And I will. And there's plenty of spicy mustard. I do love smoked guta. So a charkutery board. Yes. Carving station on the second floor.

Wonderful. On the first floor, And those little weird pickles? What do they call them? The gherkins? Yeah, sweet and sours. Yeah, whatever. On the first floor, ironically,

and if we have one of those rolling stations, you'd see that could be in store with tornado tortillas thing going around or hot dogs or smoke sausages. Which is it? All three. That sounds like it's going to be really hot on this bus if there's a tortilla press. No, no. No, they call them tornadoes.

How well ventilated is going to be. They're like flottas, but they're cheap flotters. You put them on the little roller. What the hell you're talking about? Oh, okay. You don't tell about it. from like 7-11? Yeah.

Oh, that sounds disgusting. But again. Are there multiple bathroom facilities on this bus? You're scaring people off the bus, Matt. It's a short ride. Nobody wants diarrhea tornadoes from 7-Eleven? I don't even 7-Eleven. I think there's a couple of 7-Elevens that have popped up.

I think so, yes. There used to be none, and there was like one or two in Austin. But I think somebody bought, 7-Eleven bought a company and they sort of renaming them. It used to be the one in the 7-Eleven in Austin off MLK. And because 7-Eleven is helping us out. There is an icing machine. Icy, excuse me, a slurpy machine. Yes, slurpy.

Slurpy. They're the same thing, though. But they're better. They're literally the same thing. No. It's the same company. I could take slurpy and icy and I could take the difference. Yes, I can't.

I'm telling you, we Googled it years ago. It's the same machine. Nah. With a different name. This special flavoring in the slurpy that you cannot find. I'm on a mass team. Okay, well, you can be on whoever's team you want. The fact of the matter is there's the same machine.

Like, it's a fact. When this program returns, and again, we'll have the double clutch bus at the bottom of the plus game seven introductions. when we return Dancing with the Stars has jumped the shark Do people know what jumping the shark is? Or have they jumped the tiger?

That's even better. Well, I don't know. Brendan, do you know the origin of Jump the Shark? I have no idea. It's when Happy Days was in towards the end of its run, right? And then Fonzie, they were like, oh, he's going to jump over a shark. It was such a bad scene that the series of Happy Days

never really recovered from it. It was such an out of it was just such an awkward scene that when he jumped the shark everybody now uses it as a jump the shark moment that's actually incredible I mean I don't the phrase but had no idea its origin

the icy and slurpery are literally the exact same frosty product don't believe the internet every time I'll give you an example for those of you they watched days of our lives back in the day when Martin Lena became a demon like a devil type she got what do you call when you get

somebody takes over your body Possessed. Days of Our Lives Jump the Shark at that moment. And I left the show. I'm sorry, man. I think for the 3% that watched these of our lives

know what I'm talking about, that was a jump to shark. The Simpsons jumped the shark when Maude Flanders died. Really? I don't remember. I don't have enough episodes. Season 13-ish?

Okay. So she didn't have to die, but they made her die in it. Yeah. Okay, I got you. All right. So Dancing with the Stars jumps the shark.

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They have a 70-foot-high free fall tower, which is going to be a lot of fun for those that like that kind of adventure. They have a giant maze for kids to run through, a petting zoo. And again, the best water slides you will find in the Houston area. They have zip lines too, and these day passes I speak of start as low as just 2499. Just eight miles off of Kingwood off of 59 in New Caney. Big Riverswaterpark.com is a website.

Big Riverswater Park. ridiculously hot, cool yourself off, cool your kids off with a great day of adventure at Big Rivers Waterpark and Big Rivers Waterpark. Hey, it's Jeff Blum. Blum Fact number 14. I was on the White Sox in 2005. Yeah, sorry about that sweep, H-Town. But we're all good right now, right?

World Series champion! Back to your lunchtime champion, Matt Thomas. Thanks, Plummer. Astros baseball tonight. here on 790, the Rockets game is on 740. We should mention that a few times. Plus, I got to mention something from the Rockets, too, they wanted me to pass along to you.

Tomorrow, they're going to have a second-serving team up for drive-thrued food distribution outside TOTA Center. So the Rockets, along with Second Servings of Houston, have announced they are going to conduct a drive-through distribution center. It's called The Dinners on Us program. It's created by the second service. It focuses on providing take-home chef-prepared family meals to Houstonians in need. This event is free and open to the public.

The contactless drive-through distribution will take place from 10 to noon tomorrow across from the TOTA Center in the last parking lot at 1317 Austin Street. Volunteers from the Rockets and second servings will distribute 3,500 family-sized dinner boxes. That's equivalent to 28,000 meals. It is prepared by the Hess Corporation Food Services team, along with donated to Girl Scout cookies and Frito-Lay chips. So dinner's on us for free frozen chef-prepared family-sized meals for the public. If you would like one of those tomorrow, if you're in need, it's tomorrow from 10 a.m. to noon downtown at 1317 Austin Street across from the to-to-center. So the Rockets helping

out with some people in need this time of year. That's a great story and appreciate the Rockets doing that. All right. We have a double clutch bus at the bottom of the hour. We have, would you like the good news or bad news as part of this segment right now? Good news. Good news is... We've had enough bad news in this year. Well, you're going to get the bad news here, sure. Great, thanks. Nothing involving Houston teams. The good news is, if you're on Twitter, and you've not followed any of the three of us yet, we understand that. Well, maybe not your cup of tea. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley underscore.

However, 92-year-old Vince Scully has joined Twitter. Hi, everybody. And a very pleasant, good afternoon to you. This has been making his debut on social media, and it's nice to be welcomed. I'm delighted to see if I can't serve you in any way, shape, or form. We might chat about a famous date in baseball or a player or a team, and hopefully nothing controversial. This is strictly a meeting of friends having some fun talking about our favorite subject. So, pull up a chair and be ready to do.

to join me, hopefully, in the very near future as we start our careers together on social media. 92 years old. Still sounds in good spirits. Obviously, he's aged, clearly. But an American treasure. You're going to follow him, Matt? Sure. Why so noncommittal?

I don't follow a lot of things outside of Houston. Okay. So I don't know if I want to hear a Ron say story from 1979. If it's told by Vince Cully, it's going to be good. But I will tell you this. If a single soul takes a jab at Vince Cully on Twitter, we as all of us in Twitterverse Ross must destroy that person. We must make their lives so miserable that they never touch their Twitter account again.

he's got 2 1.7000 replies you think there's one that's maybe not favorable probably now how many people how long has he been on twitter for it looks like he's been on for a couple days okay and how many followers do you have uh 48,000 now I told you five minutes ago he had 45,000 so it's climbing quickly I've been on Twitter about 10 years yeah I've got work to do to catch up with in well Vince Cully is More known and revered than you, Matt. And revered, too? Who's more revered? Matt Thomas or Vince Scully. Oh, I'll take the loss on that. Okay. Is Vince Scully the greatest broadcaster play-by-play ever?

Ooh. That's a good one. Now, again, you could separate it by sports and be just fine doing that, and you could justify that. If I have one baseball game I've got to hear, it's Ben Skelly calling it in his prime. If there's one basketball game I've got to hear, it might be Kevin Harlan for me. That's pretty good. Gene Pearson always have a spot in my heart. If there's one football game I have to hear, am I going Pat Summerall because he's so point-to-point, doesn't interject, doesn't overspeak,

lets the drama of the game play out with the sound of the crowd and the whatnot? Well, we know who it is if it's one college football game. College football. It's Keith Jackson. Or you could go Vern Lundquist, but I don't think he'd win that. I mean, I like Vern when he was before he completely lost it.

No, yeah, Keith Jackson. I was leading you to the water. One college basketball game. Huh. Do you separate it? Well, it's got to be Craig Way, Matt. Of course, Craig Way, yes. I mean, who better to call disappointing second round losses throughout the years under Rick Barnes than Craig Way.

We need to table this because I think you can, I don't know if you can necessarily separate it. I mean, if you can just say one voice, period into story. Because does, boy, that's a tough one. I think you have to go by sports. Basketball, football, and baseball. Football may be more difficult because can you, we separated the NFL. in college. I can't imagine Keith Jackson doing a Rams-N-N-N-N-Ras game.

He did do one year of NFL, the very first year of Monday football, but he's known for doing Alabama versus Auburn. Was Howard CoSell more of a color guy? He was not a play-by-a-play guy. He was always a color guy. He was always the color commentary. He was never an analyst. You wouldn't say, hey, here's a replay,

Howard. Tell us what happened. He was always the conduit. He was always the add a little extra sizzle to a broadcast. And he certainly did. All right. That's the good news of Vin Sculley's on Twitter. Great. The Jump the Shark moment for Dancing with the Stars.

Carol Baskin is going to be on this season's Dancing with the Stars. That's funny. What kind of moves does she have? I mean, we know she can move dead bodies. Here's a move she can take. She can buy a, she can buy sardine oil. That's true. And put it on her, allegedly put it on her.

husband's shoes or then the animals with the chew are up and then, you know, digest him eventually. Allegedly. Allegedly, supposedly. Or she buried the, I thought the new, the latest thing was maybe she cut him up and buried him in different septic tanks or something like that. That's one, there's two theories. Either he was eaten alive or he put in a septic tank. Wow, the rest of the, have you seen the rest of this list?

So here's my point before go to the list. The list has to include O.J. Simpson. I mean, if you're going to put Carol Baskin on, O.J. can't. be far behind, right? Probably not. What else is he up to? He's out of prison, right? He's not verified on Twitter,

which makes it really peculiar. What's O.J. Simpson doing right now? Maybe they don't verify felons. Is that what is? Is that the real truth? Okay, I mean, that makes sense. But if Carol Baskin's on there, you don't applaud for her, do you?

First of all, she's nuts. Does anybody vote for her? No, not the public, I don't think. I think the judges, or I don't know, I'm not watching James Win Stars. Or maybe you do. Do you call in with a number? I thought it was a call-in vote.

It's both. Is it okay? Because that's how Sean Spicer kept making it through. Like he was terrible. Do you watch the dancing with the stars? My mom was super into it, so I watched a lot of the early seasons. My mom watches it a lot, too. Call your mom tonight and ask her if she's going to watch with Carol Baskin.

My mom said she is watching. She loves dancing with the stars. Regardless of who's on there. Yeah, she just loves the show. So you're asking mom if O.J. Simpson was on when she watched. I'm sure she would. Really? My mom doesn't care about O.J.

Simpson and murdering. She wants to watch people dancing with Russian hotties, I guess. I think this is a jump the short moment for them. I could agree with that. So also on the, you have on season 29, Nelly

is going to be dancing, Matt. Your thoughts on Nelly? I have no opinion. Do you know who he is? R&B singer? Close. He's a rapper. Okay, fair enough. From St. Louis. Country grammar.

Okay. Also, there's going to be Vernon Davis. Former Titan of the Niners? Yes. Okay. Vernon Davis is going to be on this. How about this one? I haven't heard this name in a while.

Anne Hache. Yes. Ellen DeGeneres' old girlfriend. Yeah, well, I thought they were, I thought they got married, no? No, no. She married Portia de Rossi. That's an upgrade. Anne went both directions.

She's now married to a man. Oh, okay. Well, good for her. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's indifferent. But yeah, that's right. Okay, well, so Anne Hayes, she's going to be on the show. When's the last time she was in anything relevant?

Not that I can remember, no. She in any movie or TV show or anything right now? Just it was available. Okay. A.J. McLean, the former Backstreet Boy? Don't have any idea who that is. Oh, Johnny Weir? The ice skater?

Yes. Okay, go ahead. He's got to, I mean, he's got to have a leg up, right? If you're a figure skater, that's basically dancing on ice. That's not even fair. That's what I was saying. And who was it the other year? Simone Biles.

Tara Lipinski kind of thing. Yes. They all should be judged differently. Are anybody else? Nobody else that I've really heard of. I can start naming people. I don't know if you're... Have you heard of Caitlin Bristow?

Nope. Have you heard of Sky Jackson? Nope. Justina Machado? Nope. Jesse Metcalf? Yeah. Actor on Desperate Housewives.

So you know that one. I think Jesse Metcalf was the pool boy that Eva Longoria... Not the pool boy, the lawn boy that she hooked up with in the first episode of that show. So you don't know who Nellie is, but you know who the pool boy and Desperate Housewives is. I love Desperate Housewives. Okay. Don't you shame me for that. I just made a statement of fact.

No, you shamed me. I was no shaming. Shame, shame, shame. Trishel Stouse? Nope. Nev Shulman? No. I don't have Campbell, not Neve Shalman.

He's known from being in catfish. Okay. And Jeannie Mai. Nope. Oh, oh. Well, I don't know. No wonder Carol Baskin was Soonabilly. They're looking for stars.

Monica Aldama? No. Monica Aldama is apparently a cheerleading coach. Oh, off that Netflix series? Yeah, she's at Navarra College. Okay, I got you. How's, wait, how was old Monica Aldama looking? Why don't we look it up at 3 o'clock while you're, what's in the 18?

She's fit. We got priorities right now, Ross. My priority is Googling Monica Aldama. Game 7, starting lineups. then Ross I'm scared about the double clutch bus why I don't think people are into it I well if you're going to sell it like that they aren't going to be I think it's going to be great

people are going to be on the bus I want to be proven wrong with confidence Matt let's go people are going to get on the bus what are you drinking what are you eating game number seven what are you wearing Chris Paul oh Matt wants to know what you're wearing I don't really particularly care Chris Paul James Hardin

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Home of your Astros. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to game seven of the Western Conference playoffs. Now, let's meet tonight's starters. First for the Oklahoma City Thunder. At Forward, 610 and of Italy, number eight, the Nilo, The center, seven feet out of New Zealand, number 12 Stephen Adams. At one guard, six four from Arizona State, number five, Lou Dort. Another guard is six-six from Kentucky, number two, Shea Gilchus Alexander.

And the other guard, six feet from Wake Forest, number three, Chris Paul. Head coach of the Thunder, Billy Donovan. It's time with your Houston rocket! Guard 6-3 from UCLA, number zero, Russell Westbrook. Another guard is 6-4 from Indiana, number 10. Eric Gordon. At one forward, 6-8 from Tennessee State, number 33, Robert Covington. The other forward is 6-5 from Texas, number 17.

AJ Tucker and the other guard. 6.5 from Arizona State. The beard. James Hardin. The head coach of your Rockets is Mike Dan Tony. Now that's, I think, how you get on the double clutch bus. The bus is back. Rockets are 2 at 0 when you do the one.

as well, Matt. Three and no. Actually, it was a weekend. It's only a good twice. Well, the game got postponed the last time you did it, so I don't feel like that counts. Okay, fair enough. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Are we getting on the bus?

I love this song. It just fits all the time. It's the double-clutch bus. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. What you wearing? Yeah, okay. What you drinking? All right.

Give us a score about tonight. game. How about is it going to do? How's it going to play out? Remember, we got a carving station on the second floor of the bus. That's wonderful. We got hot dog rollers on the first floor. Okay, can't wait. Plenty of Purell. Special Rocket mask. So what are you wearing, Matt? I have a Rockets-collared shirt on. Gray. Okay. With a black Rockets logo on it. Wonderful. I'm going to go with khaki shorts and my boat shoes. All right. I'm drinking Corey's light. Of course. I'm going to stay on the first floor and get two smoke sausages with a little jalapeno cheese in them.

All right. Layer them in mustard, onions, and relish. And then I'll go up to see what's happening at the poles on the second floor. Ross, what are you wearing? I am wearing my gray rocket's shirt. Old? With a huge... This is not old.

That logo's gone. It was from like two years ago. We'll get you something fresh. It's not that old. It's okay. Adam Clampby bought me this shirt. It's got a Nike swoosh on it, so it can't be that old. It's not like it's Adidas.

Okay. I have my hair down. Well, duh. The curls are bouncing today. And you know what I'm drinking? Water. I'm going to have some stomach problems, so I'm going to keep it easy. And I'm just going to have bread for dinner.

Now, what if they are up 15? Will you have a couple of pops after that? Well, if they're down 15 is more likely than if they're up 15. If they're up 15, I should be fine. And the Rockets are going to win. 112 to 111. Jeff Green is scoring 20 plus. Wait a minute.

Jeff Green, whose playoff career highest 22, is going to score 20 plus. Yes. 713, 212, 5779. If you want the double clutch bus, what are you wearing,

what are you drinking, what's the result of the game? Let's go. Scott, you want on the bus? I want on the bus. I want to sit on the third row. Is that okay? There's only two levels, so it would be really probably not very safe for you.

Oh, the third row. I see. I got you. I got you. All right. What are you eating? I'm going to definitely be going to the carving station, but will there be horse radish at the carving station? Of course.

Okay, good. I'm wearing my ketchup and mustard old school jersey. Nice. Like that. Love it a lot. Rockets are going to win by 12 and Eric Gordon. hits eight threes tonight. I love it.

I love the optimism. I don't know if I'm ready for that. Let me tell you something. Hey, if he has eight threes, I'm getting the finest of killing. We're taking shots all night long until we get violently sick. Thank you, buddy. I'm in.

We'll see you later. Shot for shot with Eric Gordon. Oh, every three. Gordon makes take a shot. That's the Brendan Riley rule. Wait a second. I'm in tonight. All right.

Well, I'm doing the post game, so I hope he doesn't make eight. But you can survive with four shots, right? Well, I can survive. How good is the show going to be? Kevin on 790. You want on the bus? I'm going to be on the bus. I'll tell you that.

And I'm going to go take that bus and park it along the perimeter of the out-of-bounds line. So all these players don't have depth perception issues. Oh, so it sounds like you're throwing. It's like a wall that the ball actually gets kicked back into play. Well, no, it's like so the players will have like a, uh, like a tangible perimeter like they do with court side seats and the scorers table and all that. It's helping their eyes. Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

I got you. And you know what I'm going to be eating? What? I'm going to be eating all kinds of apple, peach, maybe even pistachio turnovers, so that way the rockets won't have them. All right. Bring a dessert. I like that. Would it be rude to ask for a hot girl to come on the bus with us?

So far, all dudes. Well, it's fine. Is it? Well, yeah, I mean, you can go out with the boys and have a good time. It's nice to have a mixed company, of course. Oh, look who's here. Ass and sheet we shall receive. Tiffany, you want to double clutch bus?

Yeah. What are you wearing? Red, rocket, pink top, and black shorts. There you go. You hear that? Ladies. Come on, Tiffany. You bring any of your girlfriends with you?

I can see if I can find a few single girls. there you go all right final score oh 115 109 rocket all right what are you drinking uh teetos bringing some lime and some soda perfect you know exactly what to do on the double crush bus and clutch for that matter all right very good see you later tip all right about that tip came through for us what our song go we need the bus say faded out it's okay we can bring it back we need a song back get us back in this week we actually got a good decent vibe going on this one one more call let's go to uh jerry on 790 you want on

the bus? Yes, sir. What you're wearing? Squared shorts and a clutch city shirt. All right. What are you drinking? Bloodlight in the bottle.

All right. Final score? 108 rockets, 100. Perfect. And do you want horse riders with your roast beef in the carving station? Sure. A turkey taco fried avocado would be good, too. Oh, I want to go a little sex mix.

Trici avocado. Wow, very good. I'm with it. We're not putting avocado toast on the bus, by the way. That's only for California games. All right. Let's do one more real, real, real quick. Let's go to Rich on 790.

Richard, do you want on the bus? Oh, yeah. I got to be on that bus, baby. What are you wearing? Well, I'll wear anything. It don't really matter what I'm wearing. It's what we're going to do. I'm going to bring a couple of ladies with me to a three.

Uh-huh. So on break time, you know, they do a little thing for a little spit of change. You know what I'm saying? man. No, but it sounds all right. Yeah, they're going to do their little thing for a little better change. Meanwhile, we'll be watching the game and every break. That's what they do their thing.

Oh, I see what you're doing. You're putting the girls to work. I see. I got you, Richard. Thank you very much, buddy. We'll keep it at that. We kept it as PG as we could. All right, back to play.

Believe it or not, next. We're going to play for some big Rivers Waterpark passes. Very excited about that. Right now, I want to tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. The folks at Shell FCU, want you to get a Shell FCU visa card like I got when I joined their union.

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18 now. It's 3 o'clock. He'll go to 6. Launchpad is off tonight over to KTRH. We have Astros on deck here at 6 with Michael Connor. Yes. 710 first pitch Astros Rangers here on 790. No nightcap.

No. Yes. You go home and take a nap. You'll have the Rockets launch pad. Yes. Can I play Dusty Baker on the launch pad? No, but you can play my nightcap? Mike Dan Tony who's going to speak before the game. That's true. Although his questions sometimes don't go very long.

Yeah, usually he's about two minutes. That's fine. Yeah, but the guys talk to practice yesterday. I usually only only take some of that if there's like relevant injury news or anything like that. Which I don't believe it would be the case. We've had very little injuries in its entire series. When Russ came back, it was just Luke Baimute. Yeah, when Russ didn't look great when he came back in the fourth quarter in game five.

All right. So seven o'clock for the launch pad with Ross on KTRH, tip time between 810 and 825. We'll be on after the game. Yeah, we're trying to get Hannity on for the second segment. You are? Yeah. Keeping with KTRH. And then Mark Levinan, you will co-host the Rockets.

We'll break it down, yes. And how they bow down to China. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports game show. We simply call it B. Believe it or not. And here's how it works.

You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is brought to you by Woodhouse Day Spons. Print out your gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. Category today is whether or not this person has ever been on Dancing with the Stars. I'll read the person's name, the season they were on, and if it's true, you'll say this. Believe it. If it's not made up, you'll say this.

Not! To believe it or not send her on whether this person was on Dancing with Stars will win your prize. The prize today is we still have three passes to give away. We just got them today, in fact, from Big, Rivers Waterpark. Big Riverswaterpark.com. Open weekends to the month of September. There's water slides.

There's lazy river. There's zip lines. There's a petting zoo. A lot of fun. Up along 59, just north of Kingwood, big riverswaterpark. com. Matt on 790. Matt, you ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Matt, good luck to you, my friend. And here is your first one. Oh, geez. My email just went down. Hang on. Here it is. Okay.

Montrell Williams, excuse me, Montel Williams, seventh, finished seventh place in season six. Believe it or not? Not as correct. Ross made it up. Statement number two. Ray J. finished fourth in season 14. Believe it or not?

I believe it. No, Ross ended up too. Sorry. You were close. Dimitri on set. Dimitri, do you work with us? No. Okay, we have a Dimitri that works with us.

There's more than one Dimitri in the world. Well, I just had to ask. It would be great. Tucker Carlson finished 11th in season three. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it is correct.

Statement number two for the win. Tatum O'Neill finished ninth in season two. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is right. You're going to Big Rivers Waterpark. Congratulations. Roger on 790.

Roger, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Flavre, finish 10th in season number eight, believe it or not? Believe it. No, that's a made-up one. Ross got you on that one. Line number five. Tony on 790, are you ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Chris Jericho finished seventh in season two, season 12, excuse me, finish seventh in season 12. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. Yikes. John on 790, John, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Buzz Aldrin finished 10th in season 10. Believe it or not. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finished 7th in season 26. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Believe it. There you go. Nice job. We have room for one more winner. Pedro on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? believe it. Nancy Grace finished fifth in season 13.

Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. Sorry. Jerry on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Floyd Mayweather finished ninth in season five.

Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Mark Cuban finished eighth in season five. Believe it. or not. Believe it.

There you go. You're going to Big Rivers Water Park. Congratulations. All right. We had three to give away, and we're very happy to do so. Before we wrap things up, tonight as you're watching the Rockets game, remember Corey's lights there for you in good times and in bad, and hopefully a lot of good times.

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Adam Wexler, Adam Clayton, going to entertain the heck out of you for the next three hours. They are affectionately known as the A team, and they're up next on Sports Talk, 790. Thank you.