The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Preseason Continues vs Pelicans, Baseball Playoffs Are Not Going In Our Favor

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

Rockets Preseason Continues vs Pelicans, Baseball Playoffs Are Not Going In Our Favor

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. I'm coming to you today from Birmingham, Alabama, where tonight the NBA preseason world, two championship teams Okay, man, I'm selling it too much.

Rockets and Pelicans tonight. Rossi, how the hell are you? The summit of the NBA world is in Birmingham, Alabama. Alabama. You have to talk like Keith Jackson for four hours now, Matt. Like, Keith Jackson here, and are going to be Kevin Durant over there to tomorrow. Wait a minute.

Okay, if the rockets are up 30 at the end of this game, you've got to go to Keith Jackson mode. I need your solemn promise. to you. Yes. All right, listen to me very carefully. Yes. When Keevon Harris, Cameron Matthews, and Isaiah Crawford are all in the next time. What do you mean who? What are you talking about? Those are those pelicans? No, those are three future RGB by Ripers. Oh, okay. Vipers Squad Unite.

Keep on Harris over to Cameron Matthews. Yes. The Akronifer, but that cut the past. Whoa, Nellie. You got to drop him Wo Nellie in there now. Come on now. I'll do it. You know, It's fact. Okay, how about at least give us a woe nelly on some kind of call? Yeah, yeah, wo nelly. Yeah. The SEC headquarters are right next door to our hotel.

Oh, really? So, I mean, I'm surprised Gordy doesn't have the sweats over that. Is it all gold-plated over there? It's like you cannot enter unless you have a seven-figure check. Does it look like a gypson pharaoh's tomb over there? They're printing money. ABC, ESPN, you're welcome to come in. CPS. Get your bumasses out of the building.

That's exactly what it is. We do have preces and basketball tonight again, Rockets and Pelicans. Your buddy, Zion Williamson, who played 30 games last year for the Pelicans, will be in action. And 70 the year before, and he's in the shape of his life, Matt. Best shape of his life, and he had to play

70 because he had to play the playing game. That doesn't really count. Still the 70, though. Oh, my God, you are terrible. You are absolutely terrible. All right, on the radio program today, we do have gut feelings coming up at 1130. D'Amico Ryan's is going to speak to the media today at 1245, so we'll check in on that

see what he has to say as the NFL. They actually get to start practicing this week for a Monday night game. You know, we made so much of it, and I put this on Twitter yesterday, we made so much of the fact that, you know, the ESPN Plus game, the only one was going to be the Texans and the Seahawks. I mean, you couldn't even get on real TV. It's a Internet only game. They're putting it on an ESPN next week.

They must either be searching for programming or like, you know what, what are we doing here? Why are we trying to promote ESPN Plus? we spend billions of dollars. We have holaciously awesome ratings for every NFL game regardless of who it is. So it's going to be on Maine ESPN next week. So it wasn't going to be a big deal here in Houston,

but if you were outside of the area or maybe on a trip or something, you're going to be able to see it on your favorite ESPN channel. Was there any kind of statement on that? You know what? Because I saw it, because I saw Joe Buck promoting it yesterday during the game between the Bears and the commanders, and I'm like, they're not talking about ESPN Plus. And so I googled it.

And, yeah, like a month ago, they kind of just slid it underneath the radar that this is going to be seen by everybody in the country. So, okay. Well, whatever. I'm telling you, Rossi. And we talked with this very briefly on the show yesterday, the NFL television world, my man. It is. That's why this 18th game is coming. That's just a whole new package of games they can sell to somebody.

Yeah, that's one way. You know, every network wants more marquee matchups. And the way to get one way to do that is to keep adding weeks. well the reality is if i'm fox or cbs i'm getting kind of irritated that there's new packages everywhere i mean you mentioned us on yesterday you shouldn't have three games total in the three o'clock window i mean we you know if you get and again it's it's for people that are either have the direct the youtube tv sunday ticket or red zone but you would think you'd want to have three i mean it's so awesome watching the red zone at noon with like seven or eight games bouncing around in one

score. Why when you want to put at least four in the afternoon spot? Now sometimes there are some marquee matchups like when say Buffalo plays Kansas City you don't want to put on anything against that, I get that. Maybe they want less competition than those in that window? It must be. Because again they always put the sexiest Sunday

games, well, besides the Sunday night game they put the 3 o'clock game in there for a reason. All right, what else we got going on? Oh, we have, I mentioned DeBico Rineswell of NFL Rewan at 120. Rosset, your choice today? Are we going to pay our tribute? So, I'm believing or not,

or we're going to go all things Birmingham, unbelieve it or not today? Your choice. Didn't somebody else die, too? Well, I'm sure others have died, yes. Famous? Famous. Famous person? I don't know.

I don't remember either. I don't know. Let me get my celebrity death's calendar out. Yeah. I, you know what? I didn't know that what happened to dying Keaton. I didn't know she was in ill health. Dad, I didn't.

I mean, 79. She was on TV. She's been in movies in the last year. It's pretty young for a celebrity. Yeah. Yeah. What is she most known for? Godfather?

I guess, and I never saw it. I don't know, but everybody... Annie Hall is a good one. You never saw Annie Hall? I have not. Okay. Does it make me a bad person? I'm not...

No, I got nothing to say. You're doing great, Matt. Nope. No words. You know what you're doing? No. I don't even know. I can't even see you,

but you are taking your lips and zipping them up. I know you that well. Well, you get all mad when I crush you for your bad take, so I'm trying to be nice. Okay. Would I want to watch Annie Hall? What is it about? It's about, it's like Woody Allen and she is, it's like the woman he loves, but they break up.

It's kind of romantic comedy slash drama. Okay. And it's a lot of like breaking of the fourth wall. Woody Allen talks to the camera a lot. It was kind of groundbreaking in that way. I found it very funny, but also it's kind of like, you know, it was 50 years old. there's times where they're like in the line for the movies stuff that's not necessarily related

I mean people go in line for the movies these days but not like back in the day you know so yeah there's some moments that I would say aren't super relatable I thought it was funny and I thought it was great okay well I'm not a huge Woody Allen guy so that's not my sense of humor but you know what if it's a sports RV recommendation I'll have to watch it

hey you're not going to but that's fine there's no I don't want to be polite to you that's at least I want to be polite I didn't direct it what was I going to tell you Oh, I would say probably if I'm thinking Diane Keaton, a young Diane Keaton in the Godfather movies, and then mother and the father of the bride where she is the father, she's the mother of the bride, and then she has a baby in the second one, which is odd because she was probably in her 50, or all the character was. It is weird.

Something's got to give with Jack Nicholson. When they're like, oh, yeah, three wives club when she was with Bet Midler and Goldie Hawn. Yeah, that's bad. Sure, why not? I think that will conclude our Diane Keaton conversation. Yeah, she's got some hits. Yeah, she does. She does.

All right. The Major League Baseball playoffs are not doing much for us, sports RV. Last night, got here to Birmingham. I didn't realize the game was in the afternoon or late afternoon. They're really avoiding Monday night football. Oh, my God. They're like, can we put this game on 11 a.m.? Man, a minute.

It's the A.L. freaking CS. Yeah. And Buffalo versus Atlanta's, way more important, says every television viewer. Crazy. And then Seattle's kicking their ass, too. So, depressed. I got the, you went to the restaurant last night. It was

8.3 or some stupid like that. I was like, oh, Christ. Yeah, Julio Rodriguez had a three-run shot in the first inning. And then you had the weirdest 8-6-3 double, eight-six. It was a, there's two in there. There's a two and then a five or a six and then back to two or something.

Yeah, the weirdest double play. you'll ever and I don't even want to describe it because it will just well we could it is confusing to me yeah but we had the weirdest double play ever maybe in I don't know baseball history I don't know you know I don't think they keep track of those types of things but that we had that we had be John Robinson going off last night for the Atlanta Falcons longhorn legend by the way thank you Atlanta you as I mentioned on the pre-show tweet you want every NFC team to beat a FCC playoff contenders because you never know sports RV Buffalo bills looking a little vulnerable They're looking vulnerable, although now the New England Patriots are in first place in the AFC East. Wow. Things I don't think I was going to say. By the way, Drake May having a wonderful season, not only for his Patriots, but for the Houston Toros, who are off to a five-and-one start in the young fantasy football season. And by the way, people are calling me out for my bragging of the fantasy football.

And you know what I said back to you? You're absolutely right. Yeah, you are a fraud because you've been trying to quit for five years. Why didn't you let me quit? You're the sugar Ray Leonard of our league. Yeah. Try to retire every year. Yeah, I'm actually the Michael Jordan in the league.

You've got zero championships. Oh. Yeah, I've got a lot of playoff appearances. Yeah, okay. You're more like the... Carmelone. Yeah, I was going to go with Charles Barkley. I didn't want to relate you to a guy that I'm pregnant at a 13-year-old.

Folks are trying to call in, so Jonathan is... texting his girl and wants to come in and check the phone lines. We can do that. 713, 212-1-2-5-790. Good morning, Jonathan. How are you? Morning, morning. My bad, we're doing technical difficulties over here.

Oh, yeah, technical. For us. We've got technical difficulties. Are you shocked? I mean, come on. No, that's not true. Remember, I've got a new attitude here in October. You know, it's all right, man.

It's just got to figure it out. But, you know, it's fine. I heart media app. They can hear you right now, you know, but. Oh, I love you. Oh, we're off the air. No, no, you're on the air. Oh.

It's just, you know, just... Was it a Tiger team on? What's up? What's up, Tiger team? We got Tom on the way. You know what I mean. Oh. So are we off 790, but on the app?

Is that what I'm hearing or no? Yes, that's what I'm getting information from. That's what is going on over now. So maybe Ross, we could do more Diane Keaton talk. Is it only be satisfying those of you on the end? I think we should do four hours of Diane Keaton talk. That seems like a bit much. Okay.

I can do four hours of other women talk, but, I mean, Lauren Shahati. conversation would be not bad for a couple hours. That's enough. All right. So we are on the app and if you were listening to us on the Iheart Radio, IHart Radio, IHart Radio, I have good morning to you. Whether you're here in Birmingham with me or you are back in Houston.

So, all right? Maybe there's bad, it's got to be bad weather, right, Ross? So you got a bad weather back in H-Town today? Is that what it is? Yeah, there's a little, you know. Is there a cloud? Partly cloudy, a little bit, you know. Partly cloudy.

It's all good, Matt. All right, let's go. Let's continue. The show must go on, Sports Harvey. I've always said that. I've always said that many a time. Oh, yeah. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are on 94.5 HD2. We are on the I-Heart radio app. And this is 790. Hello, I-heart listeners. Hello, Sports Harvey. How are you?

Doing great, Maddie. All right. Well, you know what? We got a little more latitude since we're off the air and we can do just eye-heart stuff. Well, I don't know about that. Well, that's the way I feel. Okay. A girl just won $20,600 on Plinko.

Oh, my gosh. You're watching... The prices, right? Hold on. Hold on. Rod Ryan wants to talk to me. Rod Ryan does? Hey, Matt. Well, this is you mean there now. So wait a minute.

Rod Ryan from the buzz morning. She just came in and interrupted Ross in the middle of his segment. He wanted to let us know we're off air. Yeah, thank you, Rod. Love you. Shout out, Rod. Sorry about your bills last night, Rod. Tell him.

Yeah, you left. Oh, okay. He can listen to us on the I-Heart radio. Yes, he can. He's like, I just want you to know you're off the air. Thanks, Rod. You know what I'm going to say. Rod Ryan's an awesome dude.

Yeah, he didn't have to do that. What's up? You know, he could be this big egotistical FM dude, and he's just a man of the people, quite frankly. I mean, we have some egos in a building. Oh, my goodness. One's in Birmingham right now. Wait a minute. That's me.

All right, so back to my story. So she won $20,600 on Plinkgo. Okay. Planko updates on the show. She comes down the stairs, you know, when you have to the Plinko. Yes. She's obviously a former children. She's doing the splits on the Price's Right stage. Oh, wow.

It wasn't disappointing on it. Honestly, boys. It's going to be honest with you. It was good. It was good. That'd be great. Just throwing that out there. Find you a lady who knew the splits.

You know, flexibility is key in life, Ross. That's what I've heard. Whoa, that was an interesting sigh. No, I'm just taking it. Because we can kind of nurse this a little bit. I mean, I'd like for the most of Houston to hear us, but it's going to be a small one. We are getting some shoutouts through the IHeart Radio. Yes, if you're listening on Iheart, let us know you can hear us by following me on Instagram.

at SportsRV, I really would appreciate it. Wait a minute. You just took an opportunity to plug your Instagram. Uh-huh. In adversity from a radio station? Yeah. Speaking of adversity, I'm 38 away from 3,000. Oh, my gosh.

Okay. Everybody is sending me these emails and tweets. You're off the air. What's going on? Hmm. Hamster. I mean, come on. You're getting hamster wheel memes?

A little bit. That's not good. And I got a good story to talk about, too, that's, I need like a rule. You know, well, I like to do a need a ruling on these things. Okay. It's about free enterprise, sort of. And I use the term free and enterprise in the same sentence. But I want to use it when we're back on the air, so.

Okay. Okay. You want to save the good stuff? Yeah. This is like the opening act. That's why I would not have gone to the girl doing the splits on the price is right. If we were on 790, I would never have done that. Hmm, okay.

26 G is a lot on Plinko. That's a lot of taxes, too. 20,600. Oh, I'm sorry, 20,600. Close enough. Yeah, you're still getting taxed, what, 40% off of that, I think? Okay. Because it almost does you better to win cash on a game like that as compared to taxes.

Let's say you won like a barbecue pit. You know, like a barbecue grill, outdoor kitchen thing. I mean, that's going to be a 14, 15, thousand dollar prize but you're paying you know the tax on that's pretty a pretty heavy amount and if you don't need to gas like you don't have an you don't have an outdoor kitchen in your house you don't live in a house so that wouldn't do you much good now you could sell it obviously yeah like if you want a whirlpool i mean i would want you to sell it to hot tub you want you to sell it to me and you would sell to me at the price you you paid for which would be none because you

won the price yeah you still got to pay taxes on that right yeah so i i mean i would pay your taxes put it that way uncle sam go find you you you know you He won't find you. That's how it goes. Okay. All right. So how much... Okay, so how did you...

There were four sports events on last night, Ross. Let's talk about how Ross... Because you have double TV in your room. Yes. Actually, we're up to triple now, folks. Oh, really? Man. You got to thank Walmart for that.

No. I mean, you look, you can find very cheap. If you go to, like, if you don't want like, you know, OLED 4K sets, which you don't need for your second and third TV, you can find decent like 40-inch old TVs

at a garage sale for like 50 or 100 bucks. Well, if Ramazion Rhyme is having their specials, too, you can get some big TVs too. Yeah. So, okay, so here's what your television options were. You had Minnesota, you had Seattle versus Toronto and the ALCS. Yes.

You had Dodgers Brewers. You had Buffalo at Atlanta, and then an hour later, you had Chicago, Washington. Correct. Yeah, I was watching everything. Or you had other. You could have watched something else. No, I was watching all three at the time, and then once the Blue Jays was out of hand, turn that off.

What happened to our Blue Jays, Ross? Yeah, our beloved Blue Jays. America's, I mean, North Americans, Blue Jays. I mean, the mayors were supposed to be resetting their rotation. Logan Gilbert only went three innings. Ross, they went 15 on Friday night and they're up to nothing already. Yeah, this thing's over. That's not American.

This thing is over. There's no way the Blue Jays could come back from this. No way. I know. I know. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Go, no.

I thought more about this on the plane ride yesterday. I came over here. Remember I soft play the Go Dodgers? Yes. I think I'm coming more towards your side. I think it's a more full throttle, full throat go Dodgers. Well, just if they match up. You can still say Go Brewers.

Oh, hell yeah. That didn't go. It definitely glow Blue Jays. That didn't work out. Sure. All right, we're good to go. I think we're back on the air. Are we back on the air?

Is this thing on? You know what? We need a phone call. It's time for an Instap poll. Hit the music. Hit it, Jonathan, whatever you can find it. I'm available to you. People would have to have just found out that we're on.

Well, we're going to sell for a minute. So, Jonathan, you got time. Okay. Here's the question. Did you miss us? Yes or no? Hey, somebody's telling us that 94.5HD2 was fine. Oh, no, yeah.

We're doing good on the alternate stuff. Yeah. That's good. Did those of you that are 790 listeners, did you miss us? Yes or no. 713-212-5-790. We do not screen the Instapoles. Wonderful.

And Ross, as we've talked about many a time, the Instapol does not lie. By the way, what the hell is this show called George and Mandy's First Marriage? What the hell is that? I have no idea what you're talking about. Is that like Bob Hart's Abishola, another failed CBS show? Hmm. Not that I know of? I don't even watch regular TV show.

What are these shows they're trying to promote? All right, so the question is, did you miss us? 713-212-5-7-90. The InSipoll does not lie. And apparently, we're getting people that are trying to regroup and figure out the 7-90-yes is indeed on the air, Rossi. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. The question is very simple. Did you miss us, or did you like the sound of dead air?

7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's go to line one on the instipole. Line 1, did you miss us? Yes or no. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. Let me appreciate that.

So one person missed us, Ross. Okay. Ross, how was your dinner last night? What did I have? I had some leftover pizza. It was good. Oh, okay. We were going to go to this southern kitchen,

which is very prominent down here in the Birmingham area. And I called ahead. I said there's a group of about 12 us going to have dinner. Can you set up some tables? And they said, yes, we can't wait to have you there. Apparently, there were other tables with 12 there. the manager and the general manager were so slammed. First of all, they never had our table already.

We left. And they had to cook because they had the full restaurant on a Monday night in downtown Birmingham. Oh, my goodness. So we went up going to a canteenah and said, it was fine. Cantina? In Birmingham, Alabama? We were looking for Southern cuisine. We got Mexican food instead.

It is what it is. Line two. Did you miss us or did you like the dead air? Dead air was good, but you're the best. All right. Thank you very much, my friend. I appreciate it. I will take that. He liked the dead air, Ross, but I think he liked us. I'm going to give that as a second vote to us. Line three, what's better? Us or dead air? You are definitely, Maddie. All right, thank you very much. Appreciate that, Ross and Aaron.

Line two, what's better? Us or dead air? Y'all, man, always y'all. All right, thank you very much. Yes, on top of what? I guess he didn't want to finish it. All right, that's the inspo, Ross. Wow. That's a real cliffhanger there.

I want to know. Yeah, what, I'm, he's, don't you hate that? It's like when someone says to you, and oh, by the way, and then they hang up. Like, what do you mean I know by the way? Finish it. Hmm.

Do you ever get those texts on people, we need to talk soon? No. And then you respond back about what. No, I do. Yeah, it's because you're always in trouble. I would say you're in trouble. that feels fair that's what I'm saying

we need to talk soon it's never good like when you respond about what and then either they don't respond or they'll say I'd rather do it in person like oh crap I'm in trouble

you want to get one of those we need to talk soon I say about what what I want is a response oh how your life is what's going out of the family how's the career what's going with the rockets

how's raw I mean that's what's what's what I'm looking for Hey, Josh called back. He said it's better. Dead air is better than anything on 6'10. Oh. Ouch. The competition catching strays, Ross. We're the ones usually catching strays, not the opposition.

Yeah. I prefer this. Me too. All right, you want to reboot the show? Sure. We're going to come back with a song. The intro? Yeah.

Well, no, we're going to come back with a song. that fits where I am. How about that? Okay. You get one, don't even say it out loud. You get one guess and one guess only when I'm playing. We come back. All right. 10.30 on Sports Talk 790.

That's right. I'm in Sweet Home Alabama. Birmingham. Oh, I thought you were going to play the Dukes of Hazard team. I mean, we could. Were they in Alabama? I have no idea. I mean, it kind of fits, right?

I'm trying to look it up. Oh, Hazard County, Georgia. Yeah, now tomorrow I can play. I'll be in Atlanta tomorrow. Okay. So that's good. No, we'll play some Outcast, Matt. We'll play some Outkast.

We'll play some Midnight train to Georgia. What's your favorite Outcast song? What's that? What's your favorite Outcast song? Ooh, by my side forever. Hmm. Which album is that on? That's on Outcast Six.

Outcast Six. Yeah. I thought you were going to go with Southern Playlistic Cadillac Music. That's my second one. That's kind of a jam. The ATLians and Aquimini were better, but... Sorry about that. All right, we are here in Birmingham for Rockets and Pelicans tonight.

We'll have it on 790, beginning with the pregame show at 630. Okay. Do you feel like you need to do a Rockets wrap to kind of get in the mode for the regular season? No. Okay. One week from tonight, the regular season starts. That'll be in Oklahoma City against the Thunder. They're getting their rings that night, big ceremony, which should be just a blast to be in front of.

It should be. It's a very unique experience, Matt. How many ring nights you've been to? A couple, right? Yeah. Yeah, too. Ninety-the-third one? 1995, 1995.

Yeah, I'm trying to think. I don't think I've ever been to an opposing city where they've gotten their rings. But we're the very first game of the NBA season. Pretty sweet. Yeah. Man, where would this team be? I don't know if you notice this and again, it's just for people that's talking about

but the win total has gone down about five games since Fred Van Bleeds injury. Five, really? Yes. Like I'm seeing 47 now where it was in the 52, 53 range. Wow. Not that regular

season win count is a big deal. That can be a bet if you want to. Generally close. Astros won 87. Their preseason win total is 86. And a half. Yeah. So maybe they do. I would have outperformed without the injuries, though. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know. I guess the question would be is if you only get to 48, are you going to be in trouble for being home court in the Western Conference playoffs? Not that it means everything, but it was kind of nice being the two-seat last year and didn't work out, obviously, with Golden State. It didn't seem to matter. Well, last year you had a race up into the last handful of days for whether or not you were going to be the two-seat, three-seat, four-seat, I mean, it was all the way, there was two through seven was undecided until about the last week of the season. Why did it not?

Yes. So, everybody was close. Every game matters. Every get, 82 must win games coming up. Do you hear that, Houston? Now he's just making fun of the situation. What do you mean? You what do you mean what I mean?

You are toying with must wins. It's a very important phrase in life. Okay, very important. Must win game. Coming up. Well, let's be brutally honest. If you're a Toronto Blue Jane and you lost that game and you got your ass kick yesterday the way that you did, and you're now traveling from one end of the country to North America to the other,

Seattle, who almost never loses at home, you're not feeling great. You're not. You're going one, two, three, Calgary. They don't go to Calgary for... Sure they do. Everybody loves going to Calgary. No, George Springer and Alejandro Kirk are not going to Calgary. One, two, three, Montreal.

No, they're not going to Montreal either. 1, 2, 3, Winnipeg. They're absolutely going somewhere warm. 1, 2, 3, San Juan. That's true. 1, 2, 3, Turks, and Kekos. Yeah, that sounds good. You know, it'll be funny.

If you really wanted to do a PR campaign or commercials, you get a bunch of athletes from teams that don't do well, and you do commercials and you instead of, you know, because 1, 2, 3. I want to say somebody did that. Isn't that funny if you could, though? I mean, maybe somebody did? Mm-hmm.

Like one, two, three, Galveston. That'd be a great way to promote Galveston Island. You're zipping up your lip again, aren't you? You put me in these positions. No, I mean, it's a city. It's an island. I mean, it'll spend money with it, so it's fine. It's not a destination for anybody outside of Houston or southeast Texas.

I would say even Southeast Texas, you'd probably run to go to Corpus. I don't know. I've been trying to go to Port A. for the longest time. It's really expensive down there. What makes Port A so damn expensive? I don't know. Crazy.

All right. So, yeah, what we should do is we should start implementing a rule in sports. If your team really is bad, you can't go somewhere cool. Like the Rockies this year were like the worst baseball team, right? Well, isn't that what Charles Barkley was saying? Yeah. But, I mean, we shouldn't implement a rule. He said it should delve some of that dirty-ass water.

It's not dirty no more. It's clean. It's crystal, clear, beautiful, blue. I'm Team Gavis, I understand. Whether they spend any money or not. Love you. Especially when they do. When they really spend money, I really love them.

All right, Rossi. How's the reboot of our show today? It's doing great. We're off to a swimming start. Are we going into the... Is this a Marconi? Are we going to win a Marconi Award off of this hour? Well, not the first half hour.

We were completely off air. It feels like that disqualifies us or something. Well. It must be the treacherous wind conditions and showers that are in the Houston. I don't know what's going on, but we're back on air, so that's good. That's the most important thing. We love all of you that are on the IHeart app. We love you on 94 HD too, but we love the 790 as well.

Find us anywhere. Not anywhere, but those places. I was listening to the Iheart Radio app before I got on the show today, so I was listening here in Birmingham. Oh, you were? Yeah, of course. That's great. You're such a team player. I mean, I wasn't, it didn't mean I wasn't criticizing.

I was just saying I was listening to it. All right. So let's do this. We have, we mentioned the Rockets tonight. Baseball playoffs suck. Oh, do you want to explain to the audience how the double play went last line? The Burbers. No, I need you to explain it.

So he didn't, he caught the ball. No, no, no, no, no. There was never a catch. That was the whole thing. I'm saying, yeah, he bobbled the ball and then caught it. Yes, because the ball hit the wall. Once the ball hit the wall, it became a live ball. Okay.

So the center fielder goes, grabs it, loses it. It gets off the top of the wall. He still catches it off the wall, but it's in play now. He throws it to the shortstop. The shortstop throws it to the catcher. To force out at home. Force out. Then the catcher walks it back.

The third base, I think, is where it was for the first base. the third out, right? Yes. For the double play, and that's where it is. That's how it worked out. So for those of you scoring at home, well, first of all, nobody scores anymore, but,

hey, I score. I'm going to go, it's going to be 8, 6, 2. Am I missing one part of that? 8622? 2.2? Is there an unassisted in there? Because the second one was unassisted.

It's confusing. Get Robert Ford on the horn. No, I'm not doing that. Robertson vacation. He pulls a Craig Ackman. We don't hear from him for months. These guys just working seasonal.

So I should respect me more, Ross, is I'm a 12-month-a-year guy. Out on these Rocket Streets in Birmingham and now trying to entertain the I-heart radio audience at the same time. It's tough. Somebody's got to do it. Veteran official score,

Tim O'Driscoll says it's an 862 with a grounded and also going in the scorebook as grounded into a double play because there are force plays at two different basis. So 862, 2 on the unassisted, correct? Yeah.

He puts it, he gets a put out at home, runs it back and tags a bag at third, correct? That's how it. Hmm. Interesting. But how is it grounded? Nobody grounded, but it's still apparently supposed to be a ground, GIDP.

Yeah, it's, well, if it hits a part of the field, then it would be a ground. doesn't have to be literally a ground ball. Mm-hmm. Well, if it's grounded into a double play, which it was. Instead of grinding down the field on the field of play, it grounded into the wall in center field.

Sure I not. We just confuse a hell out of our audience. I am confused. I'm confused back here. Jonathan, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it at all. All right, 1044 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713, 212,

579 if you want to chime in on the conversation. Ross, we've got gut feelings coming up at 1130 today. We've got the news at noon. Domingo's going to speak at 1245. NFL ReWan at 120, and believe it or not, today, at 150. You may join us right now if you'd like to do so. I will simply ask a question

because we do like to take the temperature of the audience. How did you spend your Monday night? You had two NFL games and two baseball games. What did you watch? how much of it and were you being vicious in your hate towards the Mariners, especially after they got the double digits and have a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series. 713-212-5-790.

All right, two things we're going to talk about in the 11 o'clock hour before we get to gut feelings at 1130. Rossi One of them is going to be up by Kirk Herbstree. Okay. Okay. And number two, we're going to talk about student tickets to college events. Okay. That's two different, I think, interesting topics, not a really meaty week of Houston sports up that I want to get into the next half hour. We'll do that coming up at 11 o'clock.

And it's another case of I need a ruling because you and I have not talked about either one of these things yet. I want to see if you and I match on the opinions on these things. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212. 5-7-90. Stunters with us at 1051 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Stunner, good morning. What's going on, Ross and Matt? How are y'all doing this more? Amazing. Well, Matt, I wish you could wake up the stripper a little earlier for me today, but I guess I got to wait

to 12 o'clock for you to wake them up. But, you know, my thing about Charles Barkley and his Galveston water, hell, he should have been the first one sit to Galveston. If anybody, because he let stock and hit that three point on him, he should have went in. And, you know, it's just one of those things I always thought about since he'd been doing that Java some water. And then my brother just sent me a picture last week. Hey, the water is blue. So anyhow, that was my beef by this morning. Y'all have a good morning.

Thank you very much. It gets blue every now and then for a couple days or something, right? What's going down now? The water is blue. The atmosphere is wonderful. The food is delicious and fresh. The air is sticky and heavy. The people are nice and sweet.

And there are meth pipes in every parking lot. You don't know that. That's not nice. Love Galveston. I do too. For a night or a weekend. You know why? That separates me.

I'm, of course, Mr. Texas. I appreciate all of the Gulf beaches. Yeah, you can appreciate something. I appreciate Galveston. I go. Well, also, I'm not going to delude myself and I'm thinking it's some kind of tropical paradise. Well, Mr. Texas is always positive

about the state of Texas, no matter where it is. Mm-hmm. You want to hang out with drunk parrot heads? To Laredo, to Gobbleston, to McAllen, to all points in between. Mr. Texas. Oh, you love every part of Texas.

There isn't a part I don't like. Hmm. You've never been to McAllen, have you? Many of times. At least three. Okay. You ever been to Opasso? Yes.

Thank you for asking. You ever been a Big Ben National Park? Nope. Oh. It's on my to-do list. You ever been at any state park? Hounsville State Park? Livingston State Park.

I've been to Middemean Park. Southlano State Park. Enchanted Rock. Well, the outdoor, I mean, they don't have accommodations that meet my approval, so that's an issue. Oh, so you're saying you're not an outdoorsman. Correct. But you're Mr. Texas. Yes, Mr. Texas must have nice accommodations.

Mr. Texas doesn't go outdoors. Can you hear yourself out loud? Has been to La Quinterra. You cannot be Mr. Texas if you do not go outside, literally. Mr. Texas has been to the Marriott Marquis downtown. Mr. Texas has been to the finest hotels in Dallas and San Antonio and McAllen. Yeah, you're staying at the Hampton Inn. You're not Mr. Texas.

You've got to be out in the frontier. No, that's not the rule. The rule of Mr. Texas is horrible candidate. You're the worst candidate ever. Embrace it. Worst candidate. it in history. All right.

Let's go to Shea and Pearland at 1054 of the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. Shea, good morning. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good. What's going on? Not much.

I just wanted to chime in on the, yesterday I actually caught some of else's conversation regarding the possible watching of Monday night football, given the circumstances of fantasy or if anybody here in Houston was even remotely interested in. I actually did, I did not watch any football. I checked the score a couple times. I had no fantasy implications on the line, but I was not interested in either of those matchups, and they both turned out to be upset.

So funny how that goes. Yeah, honestly, again, if you've got a fantasy impact on it, it'd be one thing, Shea, if you had a bet on it because you could legally bet the games. You know, it'd be different. I don't know if you're a man at wagers on things. But in terms of just for Southeast Texas, there was only one AFC team involved.

It's upstate New York. It's not necessarily a team that resonates much down here. You know, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of the double-headers. I think one game on Monday night is plenty. But I know that, you know, look, the ABC, ESPN, Disney folks have spent a lot of money to get a certain number of games. And if the NFL is going to say you can pay for extra games,

ABC and the ESPN will take them. Yeah, yeah. Well, I wanted to chime in on that. And then last but not least, I have one question for you all not to change up the pace. But I'm kind of curious if the playoffs in baseball continue to shape up the way they are. I'm having a hard time discerning who if the trend continues, and that means Dodgers and Mariners make it the World Series. Who if either I would prefer to take home that championship?

And I got to be honest, I wish there was a way that both teams could lose. Well, Shea, I'm going to ask you a very important question. Because Ross and I did this to ourselves late in the show yesterday, so we're going to put it on you. Okay? Okay. I'm going to go one, two, three. And after I say three, you have to make a decision. You cannot hang up.

You cannot stutter. You cannot pause. You get to the count of three. Because Ross and I did this on the show yesterday. If it's Dodgers Mariners, who you're rooting for. Are you ready? Here we go.

One, two, three. Mariners. Ross and I both said Dodgers. Really? Yes, because... The only thing I can justify for my answer is they don't have a World Series yet. Yes, they're the AL West rivals. Yes, they kick the crap out of the Astros this season.

But I just can't justify a Dodgers answer. and the only cool thing too about the AL-West side of things is that would mean two of the last three championships went to AL-West teams and people continually tend to, I guess, what's the word, underestimate the talent in the AL-West. So to see Rangers and Mariners take home two out of three years, I think that would be kind of cool. Yes, I hate them, but I hate the Dodgers more.

So I'll hang up and listen to you guys. Thanks, buddy. So, thanks for the time, guys. Thank you. Ross, I don't carry AOLS banner shirts around. No, I don't know. I don't raise the flag for the AOLS. I just don't.

Dodgers already have eight championships. What's one more? Keep the Mariners out. It's mostly their fans. My number one reason of root against the Mariners is their fans. And frankly, if you don't root for the Dodgers, they will come find you and beat you up. There's a chance of you being physically harmed if you don't root for the Los Angeles.

That's true. You might get stabbed. Yeah. I'm voting only for the Dodgers. for the Dodgers because at this point, their fans are less obnoxious than the Mariner fan. Although Bill Plashky, too. Oh, God.

What a D. Seriously, Ross? You know, I can... Let me say if I can... Let me say if I can roll this off my tongue. One, two, three, go... Maybe... Let's go...

No. Screw the Mariners. I can't do it. Screw you, Mariners. You obnoxious heaven won Jack Squat franchise. Sorry. Let's go Brewers. Let's go Brewers.

Let's rally Blue Jays. Blue Jays. Got their backs against the wall. My gosh. Down. All right. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross continues in mere moments here on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1104 on Sports Talk 790. Ross. who got some breaking news to the radio show. That's one. It's only one. My oldest got a brand new job today. Woo!

What is the excitement with Ross? Good job. Matt, he's a hater. Seriously, he knows Cam, too, Jonathan, too. He should be proud of the boy. Yeah, I'm good. Happy for him. I said, good job. What's the issue?

I don't know. All right, back at it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79. All right, Ross, I need a ruling here real quick. Okay. I got the gut-filling coming up. Yes.

Andrew Marshand is a media writer for the athletic. And he breaks a lot of stories about broadcasters. He breaks stories about TV deals with college football, pro basketball. I mean, he's the premier guy to go to when it comes to that kind of stuff. He put a tweet out, yes, a couple of days ago about he doesn't want to hear from sports media personalities about how rough their travel life is. That people travel all the time and, you know, flights get canceled, or there's delays, or the rent-a-car company has not got its car ready, or the rooms isn't ready in hotels. That that's what people deal with in everyday life. Hmm. Okay.

And he was obviously talking about Kirk Herb Street and how, for those of you that don't know, every week, you know that Kirk is doing the Amazon football games on Thursday. He does college game day on Saturdays, and then he does the game, usually the biggest game of the week on ABC or ESPN that Saturday afternoon or evening, depending on where it is. So Thursday, he does the Giants game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Then he takes a Lear Jet charter, private jet, all the way to Eugene, Oregon, to do the college game day on Saturday. Well, he was calling, oh, you Texas, as you know, at 2.30. Well, if he was to end the game day show at 11 o'clock like they normally do, there's no way he could have gotten to Eugene from Eugene to Dallas, by the time he flies, and gets back to the, you know, from one airport to the other, he would have been late for the game. He'd have been probably not there until halftime.

So he left game day early. And ESPN made a big deal out of him, getting a car, getting in with a dog, going to the airport and jumping on the private plane. And that he got on a motorcycle. He did. Well, yeah, he's got on motorcycle. He's been in vans. He's been in jeeps. They've made it a bit. Oh, does the dog get on the motorcycle? No, the dog got in the back of the Jeep. Okay, he gets on a motorcycle with this

Oregon duck mascot with his eyes covered up? This is a bad idea. I wouldn't have done it that way. This is a real bad idea. So, there's a little PS to this. They basically, if there were any travel issues,

you know, maybe there was bad weather, maybe the plane had mechanical issue. You never know. They didn't want Chris Fowler to call the game by himself obviously they wanted to have an analyst well andre ware great friend of mine great broadcaster ESPN oh wow i didn't know this so he did the north texas game on friday the night before uh-huh they paid him oh i'm assuming they paid him to stand by at the cotton bowl just in case kirk herb street couldn't get there in time so obviously kirk gets there uh with about 45 minutes

Spare gets in the booth and calls the game, but nobody knows the fact they had Andre where on standby until the game had already been completed. I didn't know that. And Andrew Marshand's response was, first of all, nobody cares about how you get from A to B to C. You chose these assignments. That's true. If you got to do what you got to do, you just do it and just do it under the radar. But B, you got a Heisman trophy winner who is like, yeah, we'll use you if our guy

isn't there, but if he gets there, we don't need you after all. And that's where the social media rub has come into play. Is ESP and an ABC and Kirk Herbstrick making too big out of a deal of being the most wanted broadcaster out there? Now, I do like Kirk Herbstrot. I think he's an excellent analyst. He's been that way for a long time. I love him on game day. He's great on the game broadcast. He's always prepared. There's never a time. time that I go, man, Kirk should have known that or what is Kirk thinking. I think he's just excellent.

And obviously the networks do is, well, he's working for two major networks. But it just seems like, and this is what Andrew Marchand's bit is that that was pretty disrespectful to have a guy who's been a longtime ESPN broadcast like Andre has. And on top of that, a Heisman trophy winner and a respect to college voice to be, you know what, we need you on standby, but if he gets there, you can go ahead and go home. Yeah, that's kind of crazy. I didn't know that. I want to see your ruling on it is.

Yeah, it's definitely intention-seeking behavior by Kirk Curb Street and ESPN. But, I mean, it's kind of part of the bit. I mean, it's content. And Game Day and ESPN's job is to create content when there's not games on. Right. So I guess I can see that it's kind of, it's certainly some intention-seeking behavior from Kirk, Curb Street. Or maybe it's not him that does it, but it kind of seems like it, all right?

he's always putting his dog out everywhere and he's always like, yeah, look at me, I'm doing this and this and this and this, feels like it. And hey, look at me, I'm doing this. I'm cool. I'm going to game day. And then, oh, you're going to go off on a motorcycle. And then, I mean, he's had to sign off on all this, right?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, yeah. I mean, they have these production meetings that say, hey, Kurt, you're going to do this. Kirk, you're going to do this. I mean, I guess the funny part would be on kind of a, A jovial note, what if you had to do this all commercially? That would be the funnier bit. Yeah, I think it seems certainly a little braggadocious and attention-seeking.

And having Andre, that part of it is, I mean, we can debate that. But there's no debate to me. Having Andre Weir just wait in the wings just because Kirk Herb Street might get a flight delay? Yeah. That's ridiculous. And I'm not going to reach out to Andre because I don't know if he's mad, if he's indifferent. Look, if he got paid, he got paid, but it was. I mean, yeah, he had to say yes, too.

It's been a, I mean, it's been a long time he has been employed. I mean, he has to fully prep for the game, right? Absolutely. And then not call it. Yeah, and you did all that prep work. Now, granted, he lives in Houston, so he's got a good feel of what's going on Texas, but still it doesn't, you know, mean you can't prepare for defensive. No, you have to full prepare for, I mean, you know, man.

I mean, yeah. You got a full, especially for a college football game, especially in the, in the transfer portal era and all that type of stuff. Absolutely. got to know your stuff. And I'm sure Andre Ware was fully prepared for that game. That's a lot of time. I just think the optics

don't look great. And I feel bad for Andre. And I would hope that Kirk would be like, you know, what Kirk should have done. And maybe this was something he asked for when they said no, is I would have probably skipped the game day. Don't they have

like five guys on the panel? Yeah, I mean, you don't think Pat McAfee could have carried Kirk Herbstreys part of the... I mean, he was only on for a couple hours. So he literally, he flew across the country. Yep, it's attention-sitting. Yep, attention-saking. Just go to a more. Yeah, it doesn't know. This is all about attention-seeking to me now.

You know what? Now that I'm walking it through, you're probably right. He goes all the way over there just to be on air for two hours, and then to drive off on a motorcycle with the Oregon duck. Now, I've, I've done travel videos myself, but I've done it as a Joe fan. it's you know here i you know like i was completely assinine i mean to try to take a red-eye

flight to san antonio to watch the cougars was a championship game that i will never do that again i made a major mistake on that i mean i'm glad i went but it took my toll on my body and i'm like it's but i'm also flying commercially change of planes and i don't have the the the wherewithal to be on the private plane like kirk does but yeah he flew three thousand miles to be on for two hours, just so he and the dog could get the private plane to Dallas, I guess. I just feel bad for Andre,

because, again, Andre is very talented. He's been a long-time employee of ESPN. As you said, he had to prepare for it, and all of a sudden, we don't need you. Yeah, and then I thought I was messed up. They made him walk the dog.

Shut up. Oh, I was not very ready for that. I was ill-prepared for that response. They handed him some garbage bags. No, no, no, no. stop right now. I'm not letting this slander continue. People think you're going to be serious. I'm joking about how they're treating Andre Ware. That's the

butt of the joke is ESPN. Not Andre Ware. I mean, can college game day live one week without Kirk Herb Street? Yes. Yeah, of course it can. If Andre Ware was on that call for a Texas OU game, it would have been totally fine. Or, it's good, but he's not God's gift to color

commentary. Well, yeah, what you do is you two, you, choose one of the other. They put him on the 230 game because they wanted to make the travel a bit. Yeah. So, Drey, if you're listening, I don't know if you are, shout out to you, my friend, for being a good teammate.

And hopefully ESPN paid you to work the game regardless that you didn't work it. So, just wanted to give you, I wanted to throw that out there. All right, on the phones we come back, 1114 is the time. It is Matt and Ross. D'Amico's going to speak later on today. We'll carry that for you. And we look forward to

with you. Got feelings time at 713, 212, 5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. 11-14 is a time. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. 1119 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you, our buddy Brian listening to us says, I wonder if Kirk would have shown up in time for the second half, but they have just slipped Andre out the back door with no reference to let him stay in during the broadcast for the second half. they would have kept him on the broadcast. I thought they handed him a vest and a parabolic mic said get to work, pal. You're saying they would downgrade a Heisman, Torby, Winderge because Kirk Herbstre showed up?

Yes. I don't think that's case at all. That's exactly what they would do. Well, it's what they did. I don't even want to ask Drake because I'm not going to pocket watch it, but I hope they paid them for it. I mean, can you even guess? Could you even begin? You could have a much better guess than I could.

No, I could. I don't even know what those guys make. is it a per game basis or is it a salary or for for 10 12 games whatever my guess is kirk is on a salary because he does game day and the games where andre is a per game basis andre's been with the espn probably 20 years right give or take yeah somewhere around there he and i were talking a touchdown club dinner he says man is i'm so blessed i've been able to i mean you know ESPN's gone through cuts they've gone through leadership changes and he's been able to survive it all. And does the Friday night games, those are sometimes really good matchups. Like, for instance, when Colorado played U of H,

that was, I mean, that was the marquee matchup of the weekend, and he got to do it, so good for him. You know, other times it's not so great, but most time those Friday games are pretty decent. Good for him. Texas would be on a Friday night game eventually. No, they're actual big time. Once they reach that level.

All right, let's go. We got gut feelings coming up at the box. of the hour. Let's talk to David in Las Vegas on 790. David, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Well, when you were listening all the viewing options on TV, I think maybe you said it, but I don't think you missed it. It's a big excitement tonight. Tonight is the first week of Tuesday night college football. Now, this is what Charlie Polillo used to call Gamblers Anonymous games, and I have a feeling you're going to say something similar when I point this out to you.

I mean, Ross, you got the three TVs in your living one. Yes, sir. Oh, guess what, pal? Oh, yeah, Arkansas State, South Alabama. Let's go. I got news three Tuesday night games. There are three of them. That's great.

No, I don't think it's great at all. Why not? It sucks. Why does it suck? Because you didn't go to play football or go to a school. Now, granted, you're not getting on national television if it's not on a season. Exactly. You're welcome.

Mama can watch you, Western Kentucky. Seriously. Chill out, chill out. Hey, they're five and one. Okay, that's okay. Yeah, the hilltop. Give respect. I mean.

Yeah, they're going to be on tonight on, on ESPNU. David, well, well, gentlemen, what kind of life are you living? What do you mean? You are watching New Mexico State at Liberty, Arkansas State at South Alabama, or FIU at Western Kentucky. My God. What's the problem? Go get it. In my case, in my case, I will be watching all free because I have five television.

in my living room. Oh, bragger. Look at the baseball as well. There you go. But I just wanted to make the good case for all this stuff. Hey, another thing, did you know that you can get one of these free artificial intelligence programs and you can ask it, what will the final score be in New Mexico State and Liberty game tonight? And it will spit out some analysis and a predicted score.

Yeah, but how good is it, though? I went back and looked at last week, and it was pretty terrible, but you know what? Yeah, that makes sense. So was everybody else that I used. They weren't any worse than anybody else because there were a lot of people who didn't see a lot of upsets last week. David, thank you for the phone call, my friend. Rossie, come on. What?

Just put it on the background. Put it on TV too, Maddie. And there's two Wednesday night games, too. Yeah. Delaware at Jacksonville State and U-TEP at Sam Houston. Houston. Yeah, I think it's college football or NFL is on every day for like a month straight or something, somebody said. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. What's the problem? How many New Mexico State fans are traveling to wherever Liberty is? Probably zero. Probably zero traveling. Maybe there's some alums of the area.

My buddy Chris Peasman is running Arkansas State now. They're at South Alabama. Oh, yes? Good for him. That's in Mobile. Mobile. That's not far from here. I guess I could go to that. Well, No, I can't because the Rockets games This exact same time. FIU. Western Kentucky. Sheesh. I guess you have the week off beforehand

and then you don't play. I mean, I don't think any of these teams play this Saturday. That'd be too quick if a turnaround, right? No, there's no way. That's got to be an awkward part of scheduling. If you're, hey, we're going to pick you up on national TV. That sounds great.

What channel are going to be on? CBS SportsNet on a Tuesday night? Oh, hell. Do we really have to? I don't know. I think you. I think you get very few opportunities, Ross, and I know this is the minority thought of this. You get very few opportunities to have college pageantry on your campus.

I can't imagine the tailgate scene in Mobile on a Tuesday. Well, it's Mobile. Everybody drinks at Mobile. Maybe it's a bad example. Liberty, they're religious schools, they don't party. Do they party at West of Kentucky, Jonathan? I'm sure they do. Come on now.

Absolutely. What else is there to do? I mean, was it? What was the question? Do they party at Westchester? Do they party at Western Kentucky? So when you go over there to the Hilltoppers, and you go on campus,

there's a whole, like in a movie scene, a whole street of just fraternity and sorority houses, like you're at Hogwarts. And you go out in the middle night, it's just TV's getting thrown, everything you can think about. Oh, wow. Why are they throwing television?

What are they throwing television? What are they doing? What do you do when you get drunk and you got your boys around? Loot. Look at the TV and throw out. You start looting and booting. And then you still an air fryer or some silverware from the place and, you know, go home? When I would drink too much, I would go get pizza and hamburgers and fall asleep in my own vomit.

I wouldn't be looking to vandalize things. Here, man, I'm finding you a second TV on TV on Facebook Marketplace. 43-inch Samsung, 60 bucks. To watch Tuesday night football, I'll pass. Here's a 55-inch Vizio, 50 bucks. That's not bad. Yeah, see, you can find TVs. see this is where you do want to have casino you want to have betting and lie

then you'd actually have some fun with it tonight if you were if you could responsibly gamble but if you can irrespective oh 65 inch Samsung 125 you got that mad yeah this is easy when's your birthday June 5th oh wow happy birthday you got me nothing last year that's not true what did you get me

uh that would be the uh that little knick-knack ceramic gnome 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 we're going to do some gut feelings here now where we are going to make some predictions on what's going to happen in the world of sports

and we'll see how we did last week and look ahead to this week and it's going to have to be asked with a question are we preparing ourselves to make a decision about who we're rooting for between the Dodgers and the Mariners if these series shape up the way that we think they're going to.

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We're welcome at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. What is in your gut? Let us hear your predictions right now before we get to it this week's. Ross, how do we do last Tuesday? Well, man, I'm glad you asked. It's a very important question. And the one that we've really been wrestling over

for quite some time. And you're still looking for them. Well, I'm having connectivity issues. You know what? Let me tell you this, Jonathan. While he's looking for it, I'm good now. Follow me on Instagram. Oh, I'm good. See, we're all good. You don't have to do any of that stuff that he's talking about.

SportsMT. I've got the gut feelings. They're brought to you by SportsMT on Instagram. No, they're not. Yes, they are. They're checkmounced. Essoc Parade. This is from you, Matt. Essoc Paratus will not play any second base games next year.

Yep. I hope I'm right about this. I think I am, but I'm not 100% sure about it, so I will keep it as a gut feeling. You also have Texas beating Oklahoma. Bless you. You're welcome. And you had Toronto winning the ALCS. Do you hear my shoulder slump when I did that? Oh, God.

No, no, no, wait. This is from last week. You probably had Toronto. I just wrote Toronto wins. Yeah. So maybe you had them winning their, no, they didn't play. No, never mind. No, I had Toronto win America.

Yeah, I just did. God bless it. I mean, they've still got a chance and it's got to win four of the next six. It can happen. Four of the next five. For the next five, which three of them are in Seattle. Seattle's one of the best home teams in baseball has been all year. Well, they're idiot fans put shoes on their head.

Any grasshopers? Come on, Blue Jays. Yeah. All right. I had the Dodgers winning the World Series. In play. I don't remember saying that. I said Kyle Tucker will have an extra base hit on Wednesday.

Now, he had two singles on a walk. Doesn't count. That's a loss. Two singles and a walk adds up to one extra base hit. That is incorrect. That is a flat out lie. And then he had a home run the next day. And let's see.

I said Jabari's Mitch McJuneer will have the best three-point. percentage of his career. TBD. I also said Sark will not be fired unless there is a losing record. So far so good. He's four and two. I'm telling you, Ross, I still, and I brought this up on to tell the truth yesterday, I think we are firing coaches way too quick. I've been talking about this for years. Ryan Day, if there was not a 12-team playoff, he'd have been fired by Ohio State last year,

and they won it all. Penn State plays the national semi-final game. Yes, this season sucks. Yes, they lost a game at home they shouldn't have lost. They were almost in the final. But damn, I mean, I don't know what? You want to question why kids don't have any loyalty to schools?

Schools don't know loyalty to these coaches. And the coaches don't have loyalty to their schools. That's exactly right. You know what we're missing in sports, Ross? Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. As Kendall Lamar would want to say. He did? All right.

Well, I guess it was Rihanna. All right. Jonathan Allen has the Mariners going to the next round over the Tigers. Good job. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Congrats. Whatever. Oh, Archmanning benched within the next three games.

How we feeling? How are we feeling? He's not doing great, but it's not looking like it. You know what? You're part of the media machine that hates Archmanning, and you're what's wrong with America, Jonathan. I'm keeping it realistic. He should be playing a lot better than what he's doing right now. He looked good on Saturday.

Not great. He did. I'm not going to... Not great. Pretty good. Pretty good. All right. Pretty good. All right. And that's all we have.

Forget feelings from last week. All right. Rockets beat the Pelicans tonight. All right. Hey. It's a gut feeling I have. It's just the preseason. Doesn't matter.

Still counts. Okay. Rockets win. Okay. That's so yet. That's all... For now. I'm just thinking I'm just...

I'm bringing up some ideas here. I know this is chalk already, but Blue Jays aren't coming back. Oh, thank. Oh, God. It's going to, it's, I'm just going to say it. Dodgers Mariners World Series. I never thought in my life as a sportscaster, especially in Houston, I'd have this

much despair over the Seattle Mariners. Me either. I've never been to have so much angst about a Pacific Northwest team. Like, I'm indifferent to the Seahawks. I didn't like the Sonics because he used to beat the Rockets on a regular. But so that, but that was a real rivalry. Yeah. Crimey.

Yeah. Go put some shoes on your head, losers. Oh, they're going to be so raucous too. Oh, I know. Wow. Softie's Twitter. I've got to mute softy for a week, I think. You all hopped up on Starbucks.

Yeah. It's not great. Not good. Texas beats Kentucky by double digits this week. Well, it's a 10 and a half point spread. All right. Then I'll go higher by 14. Ooh.

14 points. Comfortable cover. Ooh, I like that. I'm staying away. I'm team Texas. I don't know why I've been that way. That's good. I guess.

Because I think there's too much talent. Every time you pick up, I lose almost. No, but I had you guys beaten Oklahoma, so you're welcome on that. You had them beating Ohio State. That's true. And Florida. I don't think I've gone against Texas yet this year. Well, you're four and two, just like the team.

That's right. Texans lose the Seahawks. Texans lose the Seahawks. Not a season ender. I'm going to say 24 17. Now, why are we anti-Texans this week? Is it because of going up there? C-Hawks are very good.

Yeah, you're going on the road. You are coming off the by. Seattle had to go all the way to Jacksonville, but they did win that game. Yeah, exactly. They beat Jacksonville, who's 4-2 and pretty good. Yeah, no, no, I mean, they're not great, but they're good. Sam Darnel, I think, frankly, is performing better than we thought he was going to. Seahawks have a close loss to the Niners and the Buccaneers,

and then they've beat the Steelers Saints Cardinals, okay, but still. And then the Jaguars on the road. I don't think they're, nothing to be embarrassed about it on that. Seahawks are better. What is it, is it two and a half point spread? Let me ask you this, if a game was in Houston, how would you feel about it? A toss-up. Yeah.

Yeah, I think there is something about a long layer where that can get, kind of, I mean, we're talking about, look, a one-off week and then you don't play until late Monday night. That's a lot of time off. Fresh. How's Joe Mixing feeling, by the way? I had no update on that, right? No update. It's three in the hook right now.

Three and a half Seattle. Total of 40 and a half. Okay. That's very low. Okay. Yeah, I'm sticking with it. Seattle. by a touchdown.

24 to 17. Yeah, it feels about right. John, then, what do you got this week? At the rate that NFL and college coaches are leaving and getting fired, I'm going to take the gut feeling that John Harbaugh, if he loses

these next two games, that's going to be his end of his 16-year-rated. I think they're going to do a change. We are firing a lot of coaches before Black Friday, that's for sure. All right. give you some. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to stick it out. I'm going to say Aaron Glenn gets the hook this year. Oh, come on, man.

And I don't even know if it's, I mean, I, I've only talked to Aaron Glenn as a reporter to an athlete. He seems fine. He was obviously very highly regarded as a defensive coordinator, but man, they got, I mean, they, Garrett Wilson's hurt now. Who's the quarterback that was there? It's Justin Fields and Tyron Taylor. He can't win with those guys. Oh, he's being set up to fail. This is a hit job on a Nimitz legend. Aaron Glenn is the goat.

It's the Jets, period. It's what the Jets do. It's where football goes to die. The New York Jets. Oh, I got one for you. This is a rando. I got Cincinnati beating Pittsburgh this Thursday night. Really?

Yes, sir. Cincinnati, the upset? The upset. On Thursday night. I want full credit for this. I want full credit for this. You will. That's a nice pick.

They're 5.5 dogs. Yeah, I'm going with it right now. Okay. And let's see. Are we going to see any other high-profile college coaches fired before the end of the year? Why, that's happening a lot? I don't think so, or at least not right now. I think a brother that was in trouble is out, right?

Basically. Oh, I think Mike Elko stays at A&M, by the way. If I was Mike Elko, I'd stay at A&M. Oh, yeah. He'll get some kind of ridiculous. Are you kidding me? You know the Aggies? They're stage five clingers.

Jimbo Fisher won like nine games and they gave them $75 million. And then they re-up them again. I don't think Penn State's a better job than A&M. I'll be honest with you. And I know that Penn State's totally a better. The history is better. The history is obviously better. It's not even close.

Right. But as far as the facilities and the resources, I don't think it is, yeah. Now, is your path to making the college football playoff a little easier? Yes. absolutely I mean I guess you know obviously it would take a lot of wear and tear on you to play one amazing SEC opponent after another but no if I'm Mike Kelko I got my roots this is a huge job big money more money coming the place is full it's got you got one of them I mean not the Penn look state colleges a dominant home field advantage too but they had a white out and lost to Oregon so they're human yeah if I'm Mike Elko I'm going to say gut filling he stays at Texas A&M. Okay.

I'll give you that. I'll give you one. A non-sexy hire at Penn State. Hmm. And I will say that would be a coordinator of some sort. Or maybe a head coach at a non-power four school. All right. You sure?

No. Just in my gut. No. Where's Signetti going to hang his hat? Probably in Indiana where he can just be... He's not going to stay there forever. There's no way. There's no way.

here's no way he's staying there for him. I don't think he's going to stay. I feel like he should stay. Because he's going to get cash whipped by going somewhere else. Oh, young Jonathan. In Indiana don't have money. Who's his own going to have money? Oh, young, precocious Jonathan.

Really? No, what? Cash is king. Yeah. Who makes more money for their football program? Penn State or Indiana. Penn State. Who can afford him?

No one cares about dynasties anymore? He could start a... Indiana doesn't have a dynasty. I will be shocked if he stays there. There's no way. I'll put the name on. There's no way Kirksonetti is in Indiana within three years. I may even say two years, but I'll just give myself a little buffer.

Yeah. All right. If you guys got any gut feelings, let us know right now. 713, 21, 2, 1-2-5-7-90. All right, last call for gut feelings. If you got anything in your gut, let us know. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790. 713-1-2-5-7-90.

Ross has the news at noon coming up in about 10 minutes. The NFL rewind today at 120. We're going to hear from Domeco at 1245, and then we've got, believe it or not, did you decide we're going to go with either Birmingham or Diane Keaton or... Well, let's honor the wonderful life of Diane Keaton. Diane Keaton. All right.

I remember I bring you, I need a ruling. I brought you at one about the Kirk Herbsts situation. Yes. There is a new... business out there that I'm curious how you feel about and I want to get I want to make sure I get the name right. Okay. Take your time.

I know. I should have had this clipped up ready to go. No, it's okay. I was going to get some gut feelings. Follow Sports RV on Instagram. Yeah, that pulls that up. All right, here it is. The name of the account is at student seats app.

Student Seats app. App. Yep. Okay. It is an app where if you get student tickets to a sporting event, you can sell them to other people. Typically, tickets for students are free, or they come via a sports pass. Yes. That is either free or heavily discounted. Now, every school is different.

Frankly, University of Houston, we allow every student to get in free because, you help pay for the stadium, so we're not going to charge any more money. My middle son, Payton, would buy a student pass that got him into just about everything for about $85, $90. That included the student section at Texas A&M, but he had to go get his tickets, but he had to buy the student pass to get that. So every school runs their student pass differently. But this app, and apparently the website, you get the student tickets in which, you get the student

tickets in which you either generally didn't pay for or greatly reduced price and you can resell them. Ross, first blush on that thought would be what? The student section should be for students. Yeah. But I understand, because they are heavily discounted. Now you're going to kind of, our college is going to have to have their hand force to where, I mean, if you're profiting off these, they're trying to take care of the students.

They want students in the building. quite frankly sports are a great way to endear students to the school and keep them donating years afterwards uh just doesn't seem great or i don't even know how schools would allow this well some schools are really strict about it meaning you got to show an id yeah you know we're talking about a hundred something schools that have division one football so this could be a you know and obviously basketball there are there's no set rules but there are some that require student IDs there's some that require a app that is attached to your account at school. I mean, it all depends.

But this different, this new company has been able to find a handful of schools that you can wiggle around this. Yeah, I mean, you used to, back in my day, Matt, you used to have you show your student ID with your ticket. Yep. And you couldn't get in. So those schools, whatever they may be, aren't going to be into the, doing this so this student seats app dude is getting some of it is wow what a genius idea some

of it is you are the most horrible person in the world how how did you do this like here we go this is a guy at box score fb says do yourself a favor and delete this and pretend you never had this idea habachi says garbage yesel puig muzu says you're a blanking loser yes help puig mazoo yeah chef CJ fights and get effed Oh wow Evil Elko says F you and your SID

Idea I should say So basically Again it's He's this guy's responding to some of this And he's saying some schools I can do this Some I can't It depends on how strict your rules are

I don't mean to be that guy That old school get off my lawn guy But you're not getting those tickets unless you are a student. These universities, generally speaking, section off, could be a couple thousand, could be 10,000 seats. To say yes, we want our student body there. To try to profit off of this? Yeah.

Is douchey. Student section is supposed to be the loudest and most raucous and fun and, you know, youthful exuberance, all that type of stuff you're supposed to have at the student section. and I got one more for you. Let's say that you do buy these tickets off of student seats. What if you're some 48-year-old with a heavy gut, and you hadn't been in a college in 20 years? I mean, you're going to be kind of identified as... Oh, yeah.

You're going to be looking in the wrong place. One time, so OU doesn't have a student section, but the students can get tickets. Yeah. And my brother and I bought some off a student, and I guess we were in some kind of section for some school. This dude was, like, quizzing me about the buildings on the campus and stuff. He's like, what's your major?

Oh, dude, I remembered, I remembered a bunch of buildings. So I think I'd pass it off. I was like, yeah, man, you head under the South Mall. You know, I was in the six-pack. And then I went to the student union. And, yeah, I was dropping, like, any building I could remember from campus. All right, you know I have a similar story to what you just said. Okay.

So this is the first time that Kim and I, we were married. that we went to go see Duke play in the final four, and it was in San Antonio. And she calls me and says, hey, I got tickets. I'm like, how did you get tickets? She goes, I bought tickets to the Duke Alumni Association. I said, you and I are not alums. She goes, no big deal. So we're like, are you sure this is going to be okay?

She said, I'll be fine. I said, we're going to get these tickets. This is before you could get them digitally. She goes, we have to go to the Duke alumni party. I said, how are you getting the party? I want to sneak our way in. Then I said, what did people start asking what college we went to? So you know what Kim and I did, Ross, for one whole day?

Yes. We studied the names of a handful of Duke buildings and colleges and dormitores that could have stayed in. That's cool. Just in case somebody asked us about what we studied and where we spent our freshman year in what dorm. And thankfully, nobody asks us a thing. Yeah, you're all good.

I still felt kind of bad. You didn't feel that bad. It was the Alamo Dome. There was 70,000 seats. You can get it. If you wanted to get in, you can get in pretty good. I mean, we had decent seats. We didn't have great seats.

But yeah, I felt a little bit bad. But I think there's a difference in buying alum seats than buying student tickets that you didn't pay for to begin with. That's supposed to be for that section for those kids. So it feels like to me that the reaction. on the social media streets is very mixed. Hey, what a great idea. Hey, this helps put money in my biggie banks

instead of having to donate plasma. Or be get-effed. Yeah, it's a bad idea overall. I mean, I want to say, what would you say free enterprise? But you didn't pay for the tickets. You were just giving them. I understand students are struggling financially.

They want to make some money. Go get plasma like we used to do back in the day. Right. But you're, yeah, you're taking. advantage of I don't know what would you call it an amenity of the college getting the heavily discounted

and or free tickets. Yeah. It'd be like us getting tickets here at the office for a concert and then selling them for us to make proper. Can't do that. Yeah, I don't know how they do it now, but you used to have to buy the Longhorn All-Sports package. Yeah.

And it was pretty cheap and then you got tickets to every football game. How did you do it when you were how do kids get it to if kids want to go to OU Texas, how do they do that? Do they even get to that? OU Texas is generally a separate one. It's a whole separate deal.

It's not, okay, it's kind of a separate deal. You basically can tack it. It's like an add-on. You get all the home games and then you can add on the OU game if you want. Okay. All right. Well, I just wanted to pass that along that there is a guy out there trying to

take your tickets, you 19-year-olds, and trying to make a couple bucks. And he's going to help you try to facilitate that and charge of service fee on top of it. Free enterprise. All right, we got two hours left to go on the Matt

Thomas Showed Ross on this Tuesday. I'm here in Birmingham with the Rockets, Rockets and Pelicans tonight here, and then the Rockets will be off tomorrow. We'll play the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday and the preseason there. And then the following Tuesday, back in Oklahoma City for game number one of the NBA season.

713-212-5-7-9. if you want to chime in on the conversation, 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Control 5 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming to you today from Birmingham, where the rockets will take on the Pelicans. Ross is back in Houston. We present to you the News at Dune. What is the top headline sports rave?

Let's go with the first. 8-6-2 double play in Major League Baseball history, Matthew. Brewer's outfielder, Sal Freelick, tracking the ball, leaping and catch it, bounce off his glove, then he threw it to the shortstop, then he threw it home. How about a 404-foot double play in the Brewers Dodgers game one of the NLCS? Dodgers go on to win the game. Two to one to take a one-nothing lead. That would make home teams 0-and-3 in the starts of the ALCS and NLCS in baseball, Matthew.

So you're telling me that teams aren't guaranteed to win home games. That is correct. By the way, also three of the four teams left did not get a... I'm sorry, hold on. Is it... Yeah, the Mariners and Blue Jays both got buys, right? Right? Yes. And the Brewer's got to buy.

Remember last year, all those all wildcard teams, and everybody's like, maybe you don't want to buy. Maybe it's unfair. You're getting all this time off. And the other team's winning games and building momentum. No, where's that guy? Where's that guy this year? No, I want, are you kidding me? I don't have to burn two or three pitches. Remember all the series in a wild card felt like we're going three games,

except for the since any of Los Angeles series. So, yeah, I'm all four trying to skip. the wall cart if I possibly can't. It's just funny how year to it happens. It happens in the NFL too when teams with the buy are losing like, oh, you know, you just get, you're at a disadvantage to that buy, you're rusty, well, the time off.

And then nobody says that when the teams with the buys are the ones winning. Yep. I totally agree with you. But that's how it goes. Okay, more on the NFL at large coming up in the NFL rewind in about an hour, but you did have some Monday night football action last night, a double header.

Falcons, how about 24 to 14 over the bills holding Josh Allen and that potent bills offense to just 14 points for the balance of the game Bijon Robinson of course with a huge 81 yard touchdown

he had 19 carries for 170 yards I mean Matt you got Bijon Robinson you got Rico Dattle you got all these other guys is it the year of the running back are we back baby

Maybe the year of the Toros, too. Okay. Are you seriously bringing up your fantasy football? Maybe I do want you out of the league. But Rico Donald did great for me last week. Oh, my gosh. Nobody cares. What do you say about everyone's fantasy team when they talk about it?

Nobody cares, Matt. Just like the brackets, I know. By the way, can we figure out who the Falcons are? They're three and two. They got shut out at Carolina 30 and nothing, and since then they put up 34 points and 24 points. How the hell does that happen? On the commanders and bills.

Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of the commanders, they lost in the final seconds to the Bears 25 to 24. Did you see who the kicker for the Bears was, Matt? It's a backup, correct? Jake Moody was cut from the Niners like a week ago. And won the game winner. He was four for eight.

I'm excuse me, four for five, four for eight would be bad. Four for five, 80 percent. long of 48 also went perfect one for one in his extra points and he was huge for the Bears as they pulled off the 3 the 25 to 24 victory there are 3 and 2 on the season they've won 3 straight what the heck's going on out here Falcons are winning games bears have won 3 straight

New England's in first place in the AFC East the NFL's getting interesting I'm curious if you I know you are because, you know, I'm standing watch this guy. If the playoffs were to start today in the NFC, the Texans would not be in it. They are there right now ninth out of the 16. No, they would not be in the NFC playoffs.

AFC, excuse me, ninth. You knew who would also not be in the playoffs? The Ravens and the Bengals. Kansas City Chiefs would not be in the playoffs. Your six playoff teams, if they started tonight. Now, granted, we're only six games in the season. Playoffs, don't start tonight. I'm glad you're pointing out how ridiculous you are watching

standings in week six. Ridiculous. I fully admit this is patently absurd. Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, the Chargers, New England, Buffalo, and Jacksonville. We were representing as the wildcar team. So there would be two AFC playoff teams, and either one of them will be the Houston Texans.

Although, with Buffalo winning yesterday, that did help out the Texans because anytime an NFC team, we beat an AFC team, especially when that AMC team is a playoff contender. That is a good thing. Yes, it is, Matt. All right. Well, let's go to the college football world.

Matt, are you familiar with Pete Nacos of On3 sports? No, because Pete On Three makes you pay for it, and I'm not paying for it. Okay. Well, you're a fairly reputable website. I don't know about Pete Nankos himself. This is probably a question for Chris Gordy. But he mentioned that Pete, excuse me, Penn State. athletic director, Pat Kraft,

is planning to take a couple of big swings at high-profile coaches naming Marcus Freeman. Oh. The Notre Dame head coach, who is in his third season there. He said it by name or just a guess? Pete Nacos mentioned that, yeah. He said that he's going to swing or take a couple of big swings at high-profile coaches, one of them being Marcus Freeman.

Freeman. Can I ask, why did Notre Dame become this mid-level job? Why did, when it's freaking Notre Dame? It's because the academics are so difficult. They mean, they have a, they had a good recruiting class last year. I think they're coming in the 2020s season. They're supposed to have really good recruits as well. Okay, so let me give you what, what is, what is being currently paid out there. The highest paid college football coach is Kirby Smart, who should be suspended for his actions last week. How much is he making? Well, you know what?

I got this from Brian, our friend of the show, and his number one is clipped off. Ryan Day is the second highest pay to you making $12.5 million. Lincoln, Rodley, his third highest at $11.5. I don't even see Notre Dame on the top 23 of this list.

It's a private school. It might not be on the list. Oh, you're right about that. I forgot about that. By the way, James Franklin was making $8.5 million. a year to be the Penn State Coach. He is owed what you said $49 million at this point? They're just lighting all this money on fire. It's crazy. Brian Kelly is being paid 10.175 to be the coach at LSU. Don't they need roads and education and dentists in Louisiana?

Uh-oh. Here it comes. Football brings all that. Yeah, man. Brings dentistry and teeth improvement? Really? Yeah, when they win and people make money. I get my teeth fixed now, man. baby. That of Brian Kelly who won a championship.

All right, Gordy, you're our college expert. What do we know? What's the Notre Dame coach making? Are any idea? Oh, Marcus Freeman. He's making, it's a couple million, but they didn't have to pay him a ton because keep in mind, he's the first time head coach.

Yeah, again, it's a private school so we don't have to know. We don't know much exactly what he's making. Google AI says 9 million, but who knows how accurate that is? Better job. Notre Dame or Penn State? I think they're comparable.

I think it's not an upgrade. Yeah, Notre Dame's a bigger, yeah, it's not an upgrade. Not an upgrade. Notre Dame's the bigger name. It's not even close. But they have the more stringent academics as Rudy taught us. What a fraud of the movie that was, by the way. That's my favorite movie.

Are you serious? Terrible. You all suck. That movie's awesome. I don't hate Rudy. But it's not my favorite. I mean, come on. You're 5'0.

100 and nothing. Yeah, and he played like two plays. Sorry you guys hate inspirational movies. Oh, there's plenty of inspirational movies. We are Marshall inspirational. Remember the Titans inspirational. Matt likes White Chicks? Said it's the funniest movie he's ever seen.

Which one? White chicks. White chicks? I don't think so. Not at all. Rudy made up show about a... Move on. I don't want to. Rudy pisses me off.

It's Rudy does pit. Why is Rudy making you so angry? Because people love that movie. It's a fraudulent movie about some dork that couldn't play football. Like the Serenite Live character, the JJ Watt plays, where there's the same kind of Rudy-S-type atmosphere. The guy gets his ass kick because he's so bad. That's exactly how I feel. That SNL skit.

Notre Dame, the number four incoming class in 2026, by the way. according to 24-7 sports. USC won. Lincoln, we're only going to recruit a defense, though? A&M 5, Texas 6. Look at all, look, listen to all these teams I'm about to list off. You tell me their fan bases don't want a national championship immediately. USC, Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas, A&M, Texas, Oregon, Tennessee, Ohio State, Miami, LSU, Florida, Cleveland.

That's the top 15 in recruiting. didn't even mention Oklahoma or Penn State. Texas Tech. It's hard out there, Matt. Do they go after Texas Tech's coach? It's funny how Joey McGuire wasn't this hot candidate until Cody Campbell started shelling all his cash. Better job. Texas Tech with money or Penn State.

Can I say if you find a coach of a certain level of competency, you can win with NIL, right? I mean, you can win anywhere with NIL. Well, Lubbock's example, especially if you're paying the 30% surcharge. I'm saying Joey McGuire wasn't some hot coaching candidate. All of a sudden, they're undefeated top 10 in the country. Once they get some jimmies and Joe's in there. All right.

There it is. That's the news at noon. All right. Nice good job. Nicely done, Ross. D'emico's going to talk at 1245. We'll carry that. And we've got NFL rewind, and believe it or not all things about Diane Keaton at 150.

I just heard Matt's going to be so clueless. What am I clueless to? This song. Who sings this, Matt? Can I end multiple choice? Nope. I'll let you think about options. Drew Hill, Drew Hill, Tyrese, Joe,

or DeAngelo? DeAngelo. Dang it. DeAngelo, dead at 51. What happened? I don't know. You crank this up. Deangle had some hits, Maddie.

I'm going to shed a tear back here. I know. Can I tell you something awful? What? I never heard of him until you just mentioned his name. That's not awful. It's fine. Are you sure? I mean, yeah. It's like, it was made after 1976, so we're not like... Like I said, Matt, it's going to be clueless.

You never heard this song. You did it like in the background of movies and stuff? No. You know how sometimes you're oblivious to TV shows I've mentioned and stuff? Yes. It's not me here. See, this is one of those songs, Matt, you do put on with your girl. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

And you put the nice lit candle night, maybe a bowl bath with a TV in your bathroom. Yeah, girl, yeah, crank this up. Yeah, Matt, come on. What's up, girl? DeAngelo? You've been running through my mind all day. Yeah. DeAngelo.

Just simply known as DeAngelo. Are we getting back to up on our believe it or not tributes here? Yeah, I don't know what to do now. I mean, your choice. It's your second. We do both. I mean, Diane Keaton would want us to honor DeAngelo. I don't think, no, I don't believe that to be the case at all.

Okay. I believe she says I deserve eight questions on my own. You think she would say that? I'm in a former award-winning actress. I've done television. I've done lots of movies. Yes, she says I won't my own eight questions. If you want to DeAngelo tomorrow, I'm all for that.

I have no problem. Yeah, Brown Sugar was a big album. Voodoo won the, I believe it won a Grammy Award. Well, let's do this. Let's open it up to the audience. What is your favorite DeAngelo's song? Okay. 713.

I'm going Brown Sugar. personally he died from cancer by the way oh no that's terrible terrible 713 2 on cratic cancer oh god i i don't want to talk about pancreatic cancer because nobody ever survives it no oh man that's a tough he was working on his fourth album all cancer sucks but that one really is sucks because it i mean the survival rate is i think less than three percent i think something like that something crazy low is there foods we can eat to avoid pancreatic cancer i don't know we need to eat them i'm ready if it's brussels if it's

a cowflower if it's wisconsin i'll do it if it's brisket i mean i don't think brisket what if it's enchiladas and tamales i'll do it all i don't i mean there are we're all going eventually you know what i'm a jerk i'm sorry that's rude you're a jerk i'm sorry you know what i'll say that for friday

an apple a day keeps a doctor away man enchilada away i believe is an enchilada and guacamole a day stuffed avocado dollars per day. All right. So what was your favorite favorite DeAngelo song?

I'm going brown sugar. I'm going brown sugar. Final answer. Okay. 7.1. I'm not asking you. I'm asking the audience to call out their favorite song. 713-212-5-7-90. Would you like a daily Astros question that I've been mulling over?

Okay, sure. I like this. Are we going to make this a bit? Obligatory Astros question. I mean, honestly, I don't think our audience is really, I mean, there's been so long since the football game has take place. We didn't have a boat full of OU Texas questions yesterday. I talked about it for three segments

while you were gone. I heard. Where I got ripped on, an Arizona state guy comes in. He's going to get his ass kicked in a couple weeks, and the Cougars go to Arizona and win that game, but that's not here nor there. Back to my point, though. We have a huge baseball audience. I feel like we could probably talk baseball 12 months here,

and I wouldn't fill up the show with it for three hours a day, or four hours a day. So, you and I basically agreed they've got to get pitching. It's got to be their main acquisitions, correct? Are you with me on that? I would say yes. I'm going to give you the number one question that Joe Espada and Dana Brown, if they're having brisket together, we'll be asking themselves. Okay. And that question is,

what in the world are we going to do with Jose Altoouva? Think about that for a second, Ross. You try, it was almost at this point a year ago. they must have said to Jose and exit interviews, the metrics say you can't cover the second base position like you used to cover it. We want you to go out to Dyken or MinuteMade, whatever it was called at the time, and we want you to go play some left field and go learn it. And Jose's like, I'm a team player, I can do it.

So we did all that, and he spent some time in spring training, and he spent some time at a regular season. But it wasn't as much as it should have been because of the fact that Yoron was hurt and you didn't want him playing out there a whole lot and then you get your second base position was kind of up in the air as well that's the question is

if you had that conversation with him a year ago what is this year's post season conversation going to be about when it comes to where the hell Jose Altova is going to play defensively in 2006 I don't know yeah I was just looking at the

a defensive run saved leaderboards. Yeah. He was the second worst fielder in all of baseball. If you combine the positions, according to defensive runs saved, which, you know, it's not end all be all. It's one data point, as we say, Matt. Yeah.

He was the eighth worst second baseman in only 66 games there. And he was the absolute worst left fielder in only 47 games there. Wow. Second worst fielder in all of baseball, minus 18 defensive runs saved. Well, here's the reality.

Mickey Moniac, the only one worse. Here's the reality. He can't DH 150 times a year. No, he can't. He can't DH 140 times a year. No, he can't. I don't think it's as, again, the simplistic answer is, split the time?

I got the solution, Matt. Do you really are just going to be some horrendous attempt at humor. Horrentous attempted humor. First base. Okay. I wish you wouldn't. I wouldn't have asked.

I mean, I'm serious. I don't know what the hell they're going to do. Well, if his name wasn't Jose Al-Tuva, he'd be off the team. They would be figuring something out. They would try to trade him. They would get him bunked up with Jose Abrae. No, I don't think they were releasing. I think they would try to trade him.

Yes, you try to... To a team that one was looking for a DH. Yes, because, I mean, he had... has some value. And part-time, second base, part-time. I got one better for you. Would he be playing full-time for most Major League teams? The bat certainly could still do it. 26 home runs, 771 OPS. Yeah. That's a 112 OPS plus. It's not great, but it's better above average. No, no, no. His bat is six days a week, even though the last two months weren't great. The body works as he still can play every day as a batter.

But you just gave two data points that say he's not good at either one of the positions. But that's not even a conversation. Jose Al-Tube is going to retire as an Astro. In fact, I kind of almost insist that he does. Unless he comes in and says,

hey, two years down the road, you guys are in a rebuild, or you've got Bryce Matthews, who's his future second baseman, and you've got Yordon, who's playing every day or whatever the case may be, whoever, whether it's a Jacob Melton is the full-time left field. I'm just throwing stuff against the wall here.

He retires where he wants to retire, whether he says, I'm staying as an astro or the Astros let the contract run out. I mean, you're not going to give him more years. He signed his last contract with the Astros as far as I'm concerned. He'll be under contract until 2029 and he'll be 39 years old. Yeah. That's the last contract he should sign with the Astros. Well, if he's trying to get 3,000 hits, he's going to have to play more.

That's four seasons. Well, maybe that I need to back off of that take then. That's four seasons. He's at 2388. Even if he hadn't hit 200 hits in a season since 2017. And frankly, he probably isn't going to play enough to get that much either. I mean, I would assume his number of it bats would be start to be reduced every year. I mean, they're going to make a decision.

I just, I mean, thank God Joe doesn't call me and ask for his advice, my advice, because I don't know what to tell him. Well, if he gets 150, he got 156 hits this last year, but that was in 155 games. He's probably never going to play 155 games again, probably. All right, stop them all over here. Think about it. What would you tell Dana and Jose, and Jose, for that matter, what are you going to do with your second base or your left field or your DH?

713, 212, 5, 790, 719. 1312-5-790. We're also looking at people to call in and give us their favorite DeAngelo's song, passing away at the age of 51 today. Vince Midtown at 1238 on 790. Vince, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, guys.

Hey, I just want to touch on DeAngelo. Maybe someone can turn Matt on to some DeAngelo. So I'm sure he would like a lot of his music if he only listened to it. And just a little tidbit, he's got two albums in the top 200 on the Rolling Stone list of top 500 albums. One is 183, and the voodoo album is number 28, which is a fantastic album. So check them out, Matt. I think you'll enjoy some of this stuff.

I know some of this stuff, you probably won't, but he's got some very, very good music. Let me tell you, Vince, you sound like a man that knows his music. I respect that. Thank you very much for the phone call. Rolling Stone list runs a little hot and cold me, doesn't it? With you, Rossing, when you look at some of those things? They did a few versions of it as well. Yeah, so we don't know what to do.

But I'll, you know what? You just played it right there, so it sounds good to me. I mean, it sounds like a good voice to me. Is he very, is he like a Luther Vandros, if you will? Not just more 90s. I don't know if you would call it Neo-Soul perhaps. You can. You can call a Neo-Soul.

It's a little bit. Jonathan knows. Funky, soulful. This is what I grew up on. That's why I'm... Multiple Grammy Award winner. He didn't... Jonathan didn't know who it was until I played the songs for.

I was like, what? Who's this? I'm like, oh my God. Now he's had to contact his grandmother. She'd get back to you? Is she all right? It's already through the family group chats. They're all talking about it.

I don't even know. Hmm. You know who Philip Bailey is, uh, Jonathan? No. Give me a song. Yes, you... Yeah. Well, that's almost.

unfair a little bit, Matthew. How unfair is it? I don't know. I don't know. You'd say what bandies in, he'll know. Yeah, I would. We also had some solo hits, too. Well, in one major duet hit. What's the duet hit? I don't even know. Easy lover with Phil Collins. Oh, is that right? Yeah. That's a banger.

Okay. I don't recall that one. You don't want to call that one? I said I don't recall that one. Oh, okay. You have to hear it. All right. Oh, Earth went to fire. Oh, oh, oh. I wouldn't know this.

But I, you know. Philip Bailey, alive or dead? Jonathan. Oh, you're looking it up. I see. I got you on video. No, no. Not looking.

Without looking. Without looking. You know what? I don't, I'm out on video. I didn't look. I'm going to say he's alive. He is. Yes.

How old is he? 71. Oh, he's got some years left. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm misread.

74. He's still got some years left. Not as many as 71-year-old guy does. He's born and 51, and I saw, yeah, I put it together. 74, though. All right. You still get out there on the road. Earthwinter fire is still touring.

Yeah, but it's not even close to the same band. As long as Philip Bailey's in there. Is he touring with them, though? I don't know. By the way, I was looking at Maris White is dead, correct? Yeah. I was looking at Facebook Reels today. there are 10 bands out there right now touring that have no active members part of the original group out there.

We're still touring. We're good to go for this presser, by the way. We are good to go. Okay. Okay, so when we do this one, can quick timeout. Yes. Come back and we will get you to what Damiko had to say. Ross, you're going to talk about Centrogenic?

Matt is Ross with you on Sports Talk 790. 713-213-2-5-790 if you want to jump in. And again, I do want to ask you. We'll talk more about this after D'Amico speaks. is that if you are Dana and Jose and Joe Espada in a conversation, where are you putting Jose defensively next year? Because I think it's no question you need pitching help. I think there's no question you've got to rid yourself of somebody within the infield.

But it ain't going to be Jose Al-Tube unless you put him in left field, but then we're going to put Yordon Alvarez. And would you rather have Yorda Nalbarez? or Jose Altova patrolling left field more in 2006. I think one part of it is going to be more days off. And I don't think they wanted to play them 155 games this year. Everybody was hurt. And credit to Jose for going out there. I mean, 35 years old playing 155 games. That's crazy.

God, I don't, oh, man. What is the right answer? A lighter workload and then basically around splitting DH with York on. But what if Bryce Matthews has his great spring training, Ross, and inherits a second base spot? It could happen. I mean, he's continuing to get better and he can continue to grow

Ken Bryce Matthews. He looked overmatch when he first came up. Yeah. I mean, he was hitting some home runs, but he was striking out a ton. Right. But he's still pretty young. I don't know. This is a very odd situation for the Rockets.

I'll get the team support, right? The Astros to get involved. It's that time of year. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It's so tough because you have so much respect for him. And he needs, and the bat is still good enough. Now, it's not a two or three or four hitter in your lineup.

Which is where he's been. But he's more six, seven, five, six, seven, maybe six, seven eight? Yeah, five, six. 26 home runs, nothing to sneeze at. Oh my God, if he was batting six for your team, you'd be like, oh my God, we are so freaking loaded. Honestly, it's incredible. He's just going to go down as one of the modern marvels of sports. And I selfishly, because I'm such a big fan of his, I want him to get to 3,000 hits.

So he needs to average 153 over the next four years. He got 156 this year. That's with playing a lot of games. and he was at 185 last the year before in 2024. Well, again, the pace is only going to slow down because the bat's going to slow down. His ability, now, not necessarily where, because he can finish his career with nothing but singles.

I mean, you can do that, but if you're still putting him in your upper half of the lineup, getting him more ABs, you want to have some slug to it. Yeah, he's changed his approach from being the hit-everything spray hitter to more of a power guy the last five, six years. and it's it's been great it's paid big dividends he's still been a great he's been a great uh a great hitter sorry do we have coach yeah we do let's go here demigino you go right now close jsn has done an outstanding job this year for seattle darnell has found a nice target to throw through and he's throw to and he's he's made that entire offense go whether you're covering them or not he's making explosive plays

game after game. He continues to show up, show up. And, you know, JSN, he's definitely having a Pro Bowl caliber a year. He's doing an outstanding job. What makes that out of Seattle defensive front seven? They're starting up front with their defensive line, like the interior piece with their tackles, Murphy, Reed, Williams. They're really big guys inside, strong. It's hard to move those guys inside. So it starts there. And then on the edge is really smart players on the edge with In Wosu, with Mafei, with all the guys that they have, DeMarcus Lawrence, like all those guys doing a really nice job on the edges, their entire defense line

feel like that's the strength of their defense. And it's going to be a challenge for us to handle their front. It's all going to start there. Any team that's been able to move the ball versus these guys, you have to do a good job versus their front. They're good in the run game, also in the past game with the stun. that they run. They don't have to pressure much because they get a lot of pressure with their front four guys. So it's a huge challenge for us, challenge for our offensive line this week.

You remember most, Amico, you've been in that stadium a lot about going in that stadium and playing there? Yeah, it's a fun place to play because of the environment. I think when you think about football environments and different stadiums, Seattle is one of those stadiums that ranks pretty high to me when it comes to just. You talk about a rowdy bunch. It's going to be loud. The crowd noise is going to be there. Fans are going to be into it. Their players do a good job of, you know, making plays and feeding into the crowd,

getting the crowd hyped up. So it's always a fun place to play. Always a tough place to play. It's challenging because of the, you know, the noise, the environment, right? But you have to be able to block that out. And the most time, as many times I've been in there when you can block that out and just focus on executing doing the things you need to do to play good football. That's what's going to help you, right, to quiet.

the crowd. With the exception of the... Oh, did somebody else on it? Go ahead. With the exception of the bills, like a lot of the top teams in the AFC have already lost quite a few games. I'm just curious, what do you make of that?

And is that possibly something Yolakalino kind of moving forward? That it is right there as wide over. That doesn't creep into my mind at all about where the other AFC teams are, what their record is. It's still early in the season. A lot of teams.

had a lot of really good starts to the season, but we all know, and that's our focus. It's all about how you finish the season. It's all about how your team grows throughout the season. Just because you have a great start, it doesn't mean it's going to be a great finish. It's just continuing to work, control what you can control, and you truly focus on one game at a time. That's all that matters. Can't focus on what the other teams are doing, the outcome of their games. It really doesn't matter, right?

It has nothing to do with how you go and play, how you go and prepare. do anything different because other teams are where they are record-wise. It's truly focusing on us and getting better. The thing is the biggest reason why your defense has played solo to the form where they're ring number one and scoring defense. Our defense has done a really nice job because of the players and the work that they put in. We have we have outstanding players, outstanding men, not just players who go out. They work the right way. Every single week, every single day in practice, they work together. And when they play together, and when they play together is a tough unit to beat.

Right, guys, we're on it mentally. We're not making mistakes. We make people have to, you know, make plays to beat us. And we know that'll be the challenge this week, right? Just because we're covering them and we're in position, seeing JSM many times, right? He's guys are in coverage. They're on him. And he still goes up.

The ball is up. You got to be able to make a play and compete on the football. That'll be the challenge this week. But I'm really proud of where our guys are. It's been a great start. but you have to keep working. You have to keep plowing because we know teams are going to give us their best shot. What do you think about the season Jalen Petri is having for you guys so far

and what he's doing for the team? Jalen is playing lights out for us. He is all over the field. He's asked to do many different things throughout a game, and he's the one guy who's very cerebral enough, smart enough, to go out and handle whatever we ask him defensively, whether that's, you know, blitzing, whether it's playing in coverage, it's playing back deep, like what all three levels of the defense, Jalen provides us that flexibility

to be able to move him around wherever we need to put him each week. And so to have a player who is as smart as he is and as reliable as he is, it really gives you a comfort as a play caller. It gives you comfort to be able to know that if we want something to happen, you turn Jalen on. And when he's on, he's going to find a way to make plays in the backfield. He finds a way to get the football, right? The way he's attacking the football, I love to see that continue. He's doing a great job of being a true spark plug for our entire team. He's a different position, but does he remind you at all of you when you were players?

Not at all. He's way better to me. I had one little position right in the middle. Stop the run. That's about it. But, no, Jalen is a tremendous guy off the field, too. He was a Walter Padey man of the year last year. He was that recipient because of the great things he's done in the community just all around.

Talk about a great guy on the field, off the field. That's what it looks like in Zaylon Petrie. I'm proud to say that I'm able to coach Jalen Petra. He studied your offensive improvement, and you and Nick, another staff, looked at what's working the last few weeks with the offense and particular C.J. Stride. Where some things that jumped out to you? The things that worked the past couple weeks offensively is us being able to stay committed to the run game and run the football.

You can run the ball, you can sustain drives. That's the key. And that'll be the key for us moving forward. We can do that. We can control the line of scrimmets, get positive plays in the running game that allows Kaley to be able to open up the playbook and call whatever he wants, whatever he's installed that particular week. Everything is at its disposal when you're, it's supposed to when you can stay on schedule. what has been the past two weeks. Seattle's been the, they're by far the number one team in the league, play action pass.

What do you think makes them so good at that? And what goes into defending that? And for Seattle, they're good at the play action pass game because, you know, Kubiak's done a good job. Wherever he's been, as a play call, he's done a really good job of establishing the outside zone scheme, right? And with the outside zone scheme comes the keepers off of the outside zone action. So he's done a really good job of marrying both run game and passing game.

meaning they both look very similar. So the play action pass game works because of the offensive line and how they come off the football, right, how they make the run look exactly like the pass. It puts the second level defenders in a bind where are you stepping up to defend the run or can you key it and diagnose it quick enough to understand that it's past and now I need to drop in coverage. So they've done a really good job starting with Kenneth Walker in the run game.

He's a really, really good running back in this league. He's done a really nice job. When you have him running the ball the way he runs it, all right, guys are going to commit. And once you get guys to step up, two or three steps off, and now Donald's done a good job of getting on the edges, making good decisions down the field. And he's had a lot of guys open in those play action passing concepts. That's why they've been successful as well. A lot of guys are wide open. Statistically, just to pick back off the DJ's question earlier, statistically y'all are playing some of y'all's best defense in your three years.

here. Why is it, do you feel like you all have made those steps and what did it take to get to that point? For me, the defense, what we've done and we haven't changed what we've done. And again, the defense is credit to the players. It's nothing to do with coaches and what we do as coaches. It's all about the players and what they're doing on the field. That's why the defense is good. It's not a magical answer that's out there. Our guys have played well, starting with our front. Our D-Lines played well. versus the run game after the Tampa Bay game felt like we've done a really nice job of playing the run and we've improved our tackling as the season has gone on but if we continue

to improve the things we need to improve that's tackling stopping the run that's attacking the football we do those things and that's what the players have done that's why we play a good ball on defense for an activation or a do you talk about DJ speed and just what you seem as he continues to develop in this defense hey EJ's done a really nice job for us when it comes to the wheel linebacker position, having a guy is athletic and fast, sideline, the sideline is E.J.

That's what he's provided for us. He can cover up space really well. He's done a good job of tackling as well, and that's why he's been out there for us. He's been making plays for us, and he's earned their right to get more opportunities. So please of where he is, he still has room to grow. He's still

learning it and growing as we go throughout the season, but encourage to where he is right now. All right, we're going to probably be done for that, Ross. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Matt and Ross with you for the final hour, the Matt Thomas show, here today from Birmingham. The Rockets are going to take on the New Orleans Pelicans. One week from tonight, the official start of Kevin Durant's career as a Houston Rocket begins,

as it will take on the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. We have Monday night football last night. The Falcons knocked off the bills. The Bears beat the commanders. We have what else in terms of big headlines today. People are trying to figure out who's going to replace James Franklin at Penn State. We had baseball playoffs last night with the rare 862 double play in which the two did the unassisted part of it. We have the Seattle Mariners up 2-0 in the Best of Seven American League Championship Series.

And that kind of runs to the headlines. We've got the NFL Rewan coming up in about to 12 minutes from now. Rossi, I hope I'm not stealing the story from your NFL rewind. Go ahead, Matt. But I'm going to go with it anyway. I'm chock full of stories. Okay, so even if I take one. Yeah, go ahead.

This comes from El Paso, Texas. Hmm. Okay. There was a study done at the University of Texas at El Paso. Go miners. Go miners. The National Football League and this El Paso. El Paso study analyzed more than 13,000 penalty calls between 2015 and 2023.

First of all, who the hell would want to do that? My gosh. It's called the university study, Matt. Come on now. Spentger Barnes, the assistant professor of finance at the U-TEP Woody Hunt College of Business, says he's uncovered how financial incentives may suddenly, subtle, S-U-B-T-L-A, sub-ly? No, subtly.

Suttly. Soutly. Sightly. Shape officiating decisions in the NFL. Explain. He analyzed more than 13,000 penalty calls from 2015 to 2023. Research found that postseason officiating has disproportionately favored the Patrick Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, oh, oh.

Quote, our findings suggest that when the league's financial health is at stake, rule enforcement may suddenly shift to protect market appeal. The fact that postseason penalties consistently favored one franchise, while similar dynasties showed no such pattern, points of the powerful role of financial incentives in shaping supposedly neutral decisions. The study shows that during the NFL playoffs Penalties against opposing defenses of the Kansas City offense were significantly more likely to result in first downs

Cover more yardage and fall into subjective categories Such as roughing the passer or pass interference Importantly those effects were absent For the Tom Brady era New England Patriots and other Super Bowl contenders Really Suggesting the phenomenon is unique to Kansas City's emergence Because they are a television ratings powerhouse.

So the survey is saying Rossi, it's not because Kansas City is awesome, it's because Kansas City people like to watch Kansas City games on TV. Hmm. Now, when did Patrick Mahomes enter the National Football League? 2016? 17?

Spencer, this guy Spencer, says there may be a result of financial pressures in the league stemming from the sharp decline in TV viewership and ratings during the politically charged 2015. 15 to 17 seasons. That was the Colin Kaepernick time.

Oh. Just before Patrick Mahomes became the chief starting quarterback. Yeah, drafted in 2017 became the starter in 2018, where he threw like 50 touchdowns and won the MVP. Well, well, well. All right. You and I did not do any research on this. No.

Is this peer-reviewed? I need to parse through the numbers. I'm going to let you do that in your off time. Okay. at 2 o'clock. I got a rocket scan tonight, so I don't have time to do it. Yeah, I'm going to be hanging out. My flight's only 30 minutes to Atlanta tonight, so I don't have time to do that either.

My first blush on this is, this is a cockamamie study. Yeah, I would be curious to how much of an outlier the chiefs are. I'm curious what exactly they talked about with just the Patriots. What about other teams? What about the Cowboys? What about, I don't even know over the last several years? Basically he's saying it's not because the chiefs are good, it's because the chiefs are good television is what he's saying, right?

And that's my deduction on it. But shouldn't the Cowboys be winning a lot more? Shouldn't the Cowboys be getting benefits then? Well, again, I'm only reading off of the two different three- I've got questions for this guy. Yeah, I do too. And also, I think as well, what about these calls, generally teams get, what is the ratio of home games to away games?

Because you get more calls. Studies have also shown, you get more calls at home. And that's because of generally implied pressure on the referees from the crowd. And how many games have the Chiefs had in the playoffs since Matt Mahomes taken the playoffs? Exactly. Road games? Well, yeah. They've mostly been at home, right?

I mean. I would say better than 80%, would you not? Yeah, I can actually, I'll go pick up, I can go find his postseason game logs. So I'll give you the deduction that I'll take from it, and it doesn't mean it's right. I think home teams just get the benefit of the down over the road teams because human nature, with 75,000 people yelling at you who says, take care of the home team. Right. Let's see.

Is this true? He's played 21. This can't be right. What? 21 playoff games for Pat Mahomes. on the wrong page or something? Well, I mean, look, they probably have played in Buffalo once. They probably played in Baltimore once, right?

I can think of. 19 of his 21 games have been at home. How many? Oh, sorry. No, no, you're neutral. Three neutrals. Sorry. Five neutrals.

Because he's, is this true? Has he been to five Super Bowls? Oh, my God. Okay, so take those. Sorry. Those are considered playoff game. Yeah, so we're down to 16. Yeah.

So 14 of the 16 games have been at home. And that would be what? At Baltimore and at Buffalo, right? That is correct. At Baltimore and Buffalo in 2024. Yeah. Okay. Home teams get calls.

Wait me up on something's new. Interesting. See, yeah. I'm glad we're poking holes in this study already. You know what we are? We're going to have to do. We're sleuths. We're Sherlock Holmes' is.

And I'm Inspector Cluzzo. Yeah, you are more of an Inspector Cluzo. I'm in Encyclopedia Brown. No, you're one of the Hardy Boys. Which one? The good-looking one? Or they want? Well, they were both guys, kind of handsome guys. Were they? Were the Hardy Boys? Handsome boys? I didn't read those. I did read, I loved Encyclopedia Brown. I thought I wanted to be a detective. I loved Encyclopedia Brown. And I used to watch Columbo. I was like, I'm going to be a detective or a lawyer.

You know there was a real-life version of the Hardy Boys back when I was a kid? Yeah, the wrestlers. Cassidy and Parker Stevenson were the Hardy Boys. Okay. And there you have it. All right. What was the female equivalent?

Of what? What was the like the books, the book series of like the females, she was cracking cases and whatnot? Sabrina the Teenage Witch? No, I don't think that's accurate. Who was the female sleuth? I don't know.

Wondergirl? I don't know. Wonder Woman? I'm trying to. Oh, gosh. Let you think about her in the break. How about that? Somebody's screaming at their radio right now.

You want to know who the kid, female? Yeah, wasn't there like a girl? Nancy Drew, I found it. Did Nancy Drew ever hook up with a Hardy Boy? In which one? 116 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. We have NFL Rewind.

We got Larry and Galveston. I mean, that's a powerful one-two punch right there. We are chock full of it, folks. And believe it or not today, all things about Diane Keaton, may she rest. And DiAngelo. May he rest? Are you really splitting them up? Why not?

But don't hate on Grammy Award winner DeAngelo? You don't think they each deserve their own day, Rossi? Oh, you want to do DeAngelo tomorrow? Yeah, why not? Oh, okay. What happens in threes, Matt? So who else is going to die? Mr. it happens in threes.

I'll give you the third up next. Oh, my prediction to die next? Don't do that. Ladies and gentlemen, time now to give you a rundown on what you miss from the NFL if you miss anything. A man comes to your rescue every week. His name is Rossville-R-O-Row. It provides you the NFL Tuesday Rewind. Yes, Matthew, a lot to recap from this busy weekend in the NFL, even though it did not involve your Houston Texans. Well, let's start. Actually, did you see this, Matt?

One C.J. Gardner Johnson. has been released from the Baltimore Ravens just a week after being signed to their practice squad. Gardner Johnson's agent Kevin Connor saying the Ravens and the veteran defensive backs came to an amicable, amicable, mutual decision. It's not added to the active roster for Sunday's loss of the Los Angeles Rams. They also acquired a safety and a trade with the Los Angeles Chargers last week. that dude named Alohi Gilman debuted and made seven tackles

so CJ Gardner Johnson released from the Houston Texans now already released from the Baltimore Ravens and looking for work yeah the mutual decision was we don't need you and they said we agree

like yeah you don't need me do you we got that figured out yes an interesting twist in the criminal prosecution for Mark Sanchez Do you see this, Matt? I did not. The Indiana judge, whom the Mark Sanchez criminal prosecution was assigned,

has stepped away from the case. Judge Jennifer Prenz signs an order on Tuesday recusing herself no reason given for the recusal. It can happen if the judge personally knows one of the parties or one of their close family members. So I'm not sure how Jennifer Prenz knows Mark Sanchez. You think maybe she's a big Jets fan? Or ask for an autograph?

Yeah. Is she asked for an autograph at the middle of the court? For his phone number? Well, apparently, he's quite a ladies man, is what the word on the streets say. That is true. Case has been reassigned to Judge James on Osborne pre-trial conference for October 22nd. I'm talking really well in this. I talk good in this segment. Sanchez facing a felony battery count and three. misdemeanors. Interesting, I don't know what's going on with that judge.

I mean, I've got to be honest with you. I don't know what he's going to serve in terms of criminally, but if he loses the Fox job, that's a big hit for him. I don't know if his television career is over, but it's going to take a hiatus for sure. Now, Fox doesn't need six game announcers. They've got five games coming up for the next few weeks so they can kind of, you know, mask it.

But, you know, he was their number three guys. guy. Yeah, I'm going to guess he's done. I mean, I guess you're going to want to. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Chiefs and Giants. And I want to say before the game starts, I apologize for what I did. Now, let's break down Jackson Dart. All right, Matt, moving along. Have you seen now with the Buffalo Bill is losing, there's been somewhat of a shakeup in the AFC championship odds. Uh-oh. There are two teams who are co-favorites in the AFC. I think you should. should be able to guess them.

Co-favorites in the AFC would be probably Indianapolis and Pittsburgh maybe now. It's still the bills and the chiefs. The bills were the runaways, but how about the three-and-three chiefs being co-AFC championship favorites by the betting odds? Do you know why? Because I think part of it is because Ben there had done that, and also part of it is their schedule has been horrifically difficult. I mean, I, has they had a...

Now, maybe the Jacksonville game would be their easiest one. Jackson's 4 and 2. But that was on the road on a Monday night, those are never easy to matter what. Chargers, Eagles, Giants, Ravens, Jaguars, Lions. And like 70% of those have been on national television. They still have, yeah,

they got the Raiders and the commanders next couple of weeks. Bills and Broncos are not easy. Yeah, it's kind of a tough schedule for the old Kansas City Chiefs. All right, we're quick. Does Kansas City make the playoffs? Yes. I do too. They're co-betting favorites for the AFC.

Now, this one will be a little more harder. A little more off the board. NFC betting favorite. It is one team. It's not felt all for you. It's a little off the board. Yes, yes. Keep kind of searching a little.

You have to search for this one a little bit, I think. When I say it, you'll say that makes sense. Okay, so it's got to be somebody that I would not expect. And I don't want to look at my... Don't do it. Let me... I'm not going to look at the standings. I mean, I look at the odds.

I'm going to go with... Did it try? Troy Lions. Troy Lions are second favorite. Green Bay Packers. Detroit can score more than Green Bay can. How about that for your AFC?

NFC, yeah. I'm sorry, NFC betting favorites. I wonder if Tampa Bay is getting any run. They're off to a five and one start. Yes, they are the fifth favorite. Favorites in the NFC. Packers, Lions, Eagles, Rams,

Buccaneers. Rams and Buccaneers tied at plus 750. I got news for you, Ross, and you were bringing up those championships odds. Chargers in Denver are tied for first. Canton City is 3 and 3 in the AFC West. That's three teams.

In the south, you've got Indianapolis at 5 and 1, Jacksonville, 4 and 2, the Texans, 2 and 3. The Texans still think they're a championship. They're a playoff team. In the north, it's going to be just Pittsburgh. We can knock that out. In the east, it's New England and Buffalo. There's going to be a really good football team.

Maybe not really good, but a good football team, or maybe even two, that might be at 10 and 7. it may not make the playoffs. AFC's tough. AFC is super tough. He tees what he tees. Anything else?

That's it for your NFL everyone. We've got to go. We've got time to go. Yeah, we're going to talk to everybody. Larry next. Love Larry's voice. He calls you RV. Love that.

713-212-5-7-90. We're 20 minutes away from the not-forecasted DeAngelo slash Diane Keaton, believe it or not today. Are we saying DeAngel for tomorrow? I'd rather you say to the Angel tomorrow. I like that tidbit that he's got two albums in the top 500. Oh, by the way.

He only came out with three albums and two of them are in the top 500. That's pretty good. The favorite on the board for being the third to die here, and it's not a great thing to say, but it is what it is. I mean, Dick Van Dyke's 100, so, I mean. Is he 100 yet? I know he's close. Because there was some story about him getting close to 100.

Yeah, I mean, he's right. If you round up, he's 100. When I'm not rounding up, Matt. Well, when you were a kid, didn't you always round up when you were seven and a half? I'm different because I'm in December of the year, so I'm always a year ahead of where I think I am. Does that make sense? Because when you do the math, okay, I was born in 84, right? Yeah.

What year is it? 26. It's 2025. You do the math, that's 41. But I'm not 41 until December, but still when you do the math, I'm 41. so I always think of myself as like a year ahead. Okay. That makes sense or no?

Not really. That just sounds right, though. Okay. Okay. You were going to say it makes a little sense. It doesn't really. A little sense. All right.

Up next, we want your phone calls in and then we got both. It's a Tuesday. Remember, the show started three and a half hour ago. Four hours ago, we were off the air. Hey, we're on the air now, folks. We're here. Yeah, man. Thank you.

Thank you, Jonathan. Rain him in. We're here. We're here. We're here. We may have lost some people with the Dmeco Press conference, but that's a different issue for a different time. Maybe we should only carry that when we lose

because he ain't nearly as nearly as spicy when they win. December 13th, Dick Van Dyck will be 100. Okay, so it's closer to 100 than he is 99. He's still kicking. Oh, he's kicking. He's probably with a slow, brisk walk at best. He probably kick you. That's true.

713-212-5-790. Matt Ross with you until 2 o'clock. The A team will be up in about to 25 minutes from now. Rockets basketball. football tonight here from Birmingham. Anything else you want to see in the next two games of the Rockets preseason sports RV? Everyone stay healthy.

Yeah. More Reed Shepard action. Read so far, seven points in game 1, 11 in game 2. He's 6 of 13 from the floor and 3 of 8 from 3. 7 rebounds, 4 assist and 5 turnovers. Four assists and five

turnovers? Yeah. I'd like that to be a little bit better, but that's all right. It's a work in progress. Yes, very small sample size. I'm going to see Zion Williamson tonight. Hopefully he'll be slim and trim so he can play his normal 56 game schedule or 50. He's in that. We're 70 sometimes.

You have to get a bonus game in to make that. The one I'm going to lose on is the retirement age. You had him out of basketball by 30. He's still young. You got time. He's 25. I don't know. I mean, there's too much money to make the TV trying to quit early.

Usually if you're 30 and you're quitting, it's because you've got something. Well, he can retire out the year into this contract. He's making $50 million, sorry, like $40, $45 million in the next couple years. To tell you how good he is, and we'll go to the phones at a second, last year in his 30 games, he was second in the league and points in the paint. He scores 19 of his 24.7 in the paint. He ain't the tallest kid in the world either. I mean, he's 6'5 and he's a bulldozer is what he is.

Yeah. I mean, I'm talking about freak athletes. I didn't write his height down. No, I thought he was taller now. I thought it was like 6-7, but let me... Hold on. Hold on. 6-6. We'll split the difference. Okay, I was off by an inch.

All right. Don't even clip that. You got anything to do on that one. I'm not responding. I was off by one inch. You keep throwing these softballs. I'll let him go. Larry and Galveston on 7 out of at 138.

Larry, good afternoon to you. Matt, good afternoon to you and R.B. also. I was going to say something about Patrick Mahomes, and I forget that. I want to get on to the really important stuff. Go ahead. You guys were talking about Jose Al-Tube. Mm-hmm. Leave Al-Tube at second base, cut his games down,

at second base and put him at DH because he has no business being in left field because he doesn't have the arm to be able to reach and throw anybody out at home plate from left field. The next thing is, is we got Bryce Matthews and we have Cam Smith, And we have Zach Cole, three young guys. Now, if you guys will remember when Kyle Tucker came to the Astros, he was a tall, skinny kid. And over a year or two, he put on some pounds and some muscle, and he turned into a pretty dead, dumb, good baseball player.

And I firmly believe that all three of those guys can follow the same path that Kyle Tucker did and can bail the Astros out of our situation where, oh my God, What are we going to do with all these guys? And Zach DeZenzo needs to be Christian Walker's backup first baseman and forget about him playing in the outfield because we got Jake Myers in centerfield that Dusty Baker backed up, and I trust Dusty until the sun will set in the east. and it's just a great deal. It's a great setup for the Astros,

and we're just looking for some really good stuff this next year with some young guys, as long as hopefully they bring them up slowly and have them physically build up so that they can get out and play 150, 160 games a year for the Astros. Well, I'll say this, and thank you for the phone call. If you want Jordan Alvarez to play 150 games, and thanks for the phone call,

he's not playing 150 games in the left field. Your conundrum is you've got to be better as a defense, and Jose Al-Tube doesn't make you better defensively as a second baseman. He just doesn't. He knows it. The Astros know it. Major League Baseball knows it. you are

you are in a full conundrum at this point because you can't now Yoron I can't believe I'm saying this he patrols left field okay but you're asking for a lot of problems Ross if you put him out there more than say three times a week

you're just asking for it he's injury prone he just is now he could hurt himself crossing home plate like he did or sliding in a second base or swinging too hard but you're adding an extra layer to a potential possibility for injury for a guy who's injury prone if he plays as much left field as you would do if you're going to keep Jose off of second base because you want to be better defensively

and you're using him primarily as a designated hitter. You got a conundrum here. You just do. I mean, I don't, I mean, they'll figure it out. He's going to have to be out in left field. That's the only solution. That's what's going to happen. Because that's what happened when he came back. Al-Tuvae was D-Hing some, and you're just going to have to put him on the left field. I don't know.

I don't think it's that. Or maybe you give, you know what you do? Maybe you give Jose Al-Tube more days off next year? Yeah, he's going to get some days off. Well, look, he had to play 155 games because everybody in their grandmother was hurt in this game. You're trotting out Cooper Hummel and Zach Short and Taylor Trammell and the boys. You're banking. That's not going to happen again.

Would Jose Altube be satisfied playing 120? games per season. Yeah, play with $125, $130, get him, get him off his feet a lot and play some other people. But also, that doesn't help his pursuit of 3,000 hits. No, that's what I'm saying. Does that be, how big of an issue does that become? He's a team player. First and foremost, before anything, Jose Altuva is a team player. He'll be fine. That he is. All right, let's play, believe it or not, all things Diane Keaton today, believe it or not, if you would like to join the conversation and play the game for a chance to win. I think we're playing for Monster Jam tickets and for Cougars versus Arizona tickets.

Oh, wow. That's just a good playing right there. Your choice is you to see the Cougars against Arizona. By the way, that Arizona- Houston game is going to be at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. So if you would like to come play to go see that game. Come play, believe it or not with us, all things, Diane Keaton. Rossi, it's getting spicy on these college football streets. You ready to hear the ladies?

Yes. Oh, is it the Lane Kiffin thing? Nope, Brent Venables. On playing in the SEC in it being a one possession league, quote, this isn't the old Big 12 days where Oklahoma destroys everybody every single week except one game of the year. A.

Big 12 conference replied, quote tweeted it. Coach Venables lost eight conference games in his two seasons in the big 12 he did but Oklahoma did run that league basically for the balance of it that's true but just be careful with conference

slander I thought you were going with the did you see the Lane Kiffin thing tell me he was asked about hold on let me try to find the exact quote I asked if Kirby smart he or Kirby Smart burns more calories in a game

said quote saw his press conference today don't look like he's burned too many calories Would we like Lane Kiffin? No, I think he's probably a douche I think if he's our guy We like him or tolerate him Oh like if he's your coach

Yeah you think that's hilarious I thought you meant like if we went and had some beers Maybe he'd be fun but he'd probably be douchey Correct I could see him being fun I guess for a little while And then you're like, man, we don't need to hang out with this guy anymore. He's pretty arrogant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Conference, I tell you, college smack talk is getting better and better. It's getting more vicious. The game's getting more fierce. What it is is you're firing these salvos hoping no one catches you saying it, and then they look up information that would be to the detriment of your comment. All right, before we're going to believe it or not, I want to put the, I want to out of this end of the universe. Let's go Brewers.

Let's go brew crew. Let's go brew crew. Let's get Bernie sliding around. And let's hope Seattle's planning to make five stops for fuel to make him 12 hours to get to Seattle from Toronto. That doesn't matter, Matt. Remember the must-win game thing with the Rangers? Oh, it was Lance McCullors. I was just saying.

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Paul on 790. Paul, what was your favorite Diane Keaton movie? Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Diane Keaton was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, and attended the prestigious school of art. or Tisch School of Arts at New York University. Believe it or not? Not.

That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Diane Keaton's first acting job was in an ad for Belleville-Sassonne Clothiers. Believe it or not? I'll go with Believe it. No, it was a knot. Ross, you went rando on that one. Let's go to Mike and Katie.

Mike, what was your fair part of today? send the two radio show. Holy. Are you in outer space? That work, man. Diane Keaton's acting inspiration was Dora's day, and the two acted together in the 1980 film, do not disturb.

Believe it or not? No. That is correct. That's also an excellent question, Ross. Statement number two for the win. Woody Allen wrote Annie Hall with Diane Keaton in mind. Keaton's real last name is Hall and her nickname is Annie. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Congratulations. I'll get back to work.

713-212. 5. Appreciate him calling from the job site. Yeah. You have the construction site or whatever. The sawmill. Jerry on 790. Jerry, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Diane Keat was an advocate for animal rights and partnered with PETA in multiple anti-fur ad campaign. Believe it or not. Believe it.

No. That's good. Let me and Ross is some of your best work. Some of your best work. Michael on 790, Michael, your favorite Diane Keaton movie. Oh, Godfather, man, no doubt. In 2010, Diane Keaton was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Not. No. This is stunning, Ross. She was not a game. It's kind of a recluse, and I think you have to pay to get that. done so she probably didn't care you do have to pay got you Kevin on 7 on he ready to play believe it or not

yes sir Diane Keaton stated several times that she secretly wished to be a stand up comedian but she never had the courage to tell jokes alone on stage believe it or not believe it not no chance this is these are like you get five different best ofs and his one

Diane Keaton Mike on 7-90. You ready to play, believe it or not? Diane Keaton dated both Warren Beatty and Al Pacino, saying later that Pacino was better looking and had, quote, the most beautiful face. That's Pacino. Believe it or not.

Believe it. I believe it. Congratulations. You got Pacino over Beatty, Maddie, Maddie? No, Beatty over Pacino in terms of looks. The young Pacino is pretty nice. Yeah, but he aged worse than Warren Beatty did. In my mind.

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