The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Take Down Spurs, Should Texans Resign Stefon Diggs? Revenue Sharing Changing College Athletics

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Rockets defeating the Spurs 118-106 Wednesday. Amen Thompson recorded 25 points and eight rebounds. Matt and Ross also:react to the latest comments from Texans general manager Nick Caserioreview The House vs. NCAA Settlement that will require schools to give a portion of revenue to student-athletesdetail an aggressive interaction between Jordan Schultz of FOX and Ian Rapport of NFL Media at the NFL Combinediscuss Ravens kicker Justin Tucker disputing allegations of sexual misconductgive a live review of McDonald's Filet-O-Fishsay "I Just Don't Get It" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 and H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. And a Jabari-Smith rebound on the rockets come right back. Right to left in this first quarter of play.

Here's a man Thompson left baseline on the trail to Jabari for a two-hand flush. Two shots, two makes for Javari-Smith. Four-nothing Rockets. Rockets win the tip. They'll have 17 to shoot. Back save. It's going to be picked up by Green, and he'll run down the floor, grab it and then jam it down for two.

That was almost like they ran the play to perfection. Adams on the tip to Jalen, 13 in the first half. Got Jalen. With a care of small screen from Brooks and Ngo, the right-side angle, left-hand dribble gets by CP3, underhand toss comes up short. The put-back is there. How about two offensive rebounds and put-backs for a men Thompson here

in the first 145 of court number three? Jalen turns right, then says. spins left goes baseline right to jayshont out to a dylan brooks three-pooner and again he knocks that one down he is unconscious tonight dillard brooks is five of eight from three he's got 19 ninety five seventy-seven one houston wesley free throw line dotted circle bounce past among mackle's feeling won't get the shot up and ladies and gentlemen for the second consecutive night the rocket secure a win inside his toadocenter the final score making one 18 106 And a D. A Rockets win. Rockets do his win.

Except Brooklyn. Not Utah game this past Saturday. Hey, but they've won three of four. If you're 15 games under 500, we got issues. Otherwise, Rockets going to beat you. That's right. Good teams. Kick to the curb.

Second half of back to backs haven't been great. Although last night, first of all, I think the fraud was asleep at halftime. Mm-hmm. 8.50 does not give you a, like when you go out and have dinner and you run to the clubs, as you and I frequently do, the club starts hopping about 9, 9, 30, 10 o'clock, right? Probably like midnight sometimes back in the day. Back in the day. Which is the stupidest thing ever. People would be like, oh man, it's too early. We can't go out yet. The last calls at two. What's the deal?

So you get to the club like at 11, then the class calls at 2, so you've been out for three hours. So you're tired after that. Yet when you day drink, you start at noon and then you go to like 9 p.m. You go nine hours. It's crazy. But anyways. Anywho. So the game started at 8.50.

People are like, oh, man. I mean, I had to be working 8.30 this morning. I had to go feed the kids. I had to go home, check on the dog, then come back downtown. I wasn't there. Building didn't look very full at all. No. The rockets have to wrestle with this.

all the time. You can put the game at 7, 738, 839. I personally prefer 3 o'clock first the tip-off times. I was thinking of 130. It's true. That would not be bad. But yeah, it was a laugh for it last night. San Antonio was really bad. And I hate to hear that because we have so many great friends that are Spurs fans. And here's the thing about the Spurs, not that we're going to get into a large San Antonio conversation. That team right now is built a first round. round picks.

That team is built of guys that were top 40 selections in the NBA draft. It's not very good. I mean, Darren Fox looked like he was ready to check out for the season. I mean, I like the Aaron, but he didn't look like he gave two blanks. You're saying there was a one, two, three Cancun in the pregame huddle.

It felt like that way. No Victor Wemnoniuma out there yesterday. He's still got the deep vein thrombosis. Which again, that to me sounds like something that would be really graphic. Hmm. Okay.

I'm wishing him the best. As am I. I wasn't sad that he wasn't on the floor last night. Some call him a bum. He does affect the game on both ends of the floor. I mean, he's only 20 and 10. 25 and 10. Second league in blocks.

Now, granted, there's some deficiencies in his game. Turns ball over too much. But, you know, he's going to have to obviously face the same situation that a lot of players of his build are going through, and that is being a lean, seven plus foot basketball player. There have been some that have thrived, but there's also been quite a few over the years

that have had a difficult time staying healthy. Now, I don't think his bill necessarily hurt the deep vein thrombosis. Yeah, I'm not a doctor. We have to get a doctor on that. No, we're not going to get a doctor on that. Oh, we're not? But I think we can guess. A vascular surgeon?

We could do that too. But yeah, they're terrible. Rockets won last night, and Rockets now in the fourth spot in the Western Conference. Are we headed for Luca LeBron versus the rocket in the first round 4B5. I don't really want that.

But I'm going to tell you I'm not that scared. I'm not saying the rockets are going to roll in the four. Shaq is not scared. Not that I really should trust any of Shaq's NBA opinions. No, he's like, that old Laker team going against that young rocket team, they're going to be in big trouble. Dude, you heard of Jalen Green two weeks ago. He's like, yeah, Jalen Green going around by the Lakers. All right, Shaq.

He called him Jeremy Green for the first two months of the year. The first three years of his career probably. All right, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We hope all of you have had at least some rest. And we're here today until 2 o'clock. We've got a full show today. Wow. You showed up. We appreciate you for that. I'm going to be here tomorrow too.

Wow. It's got to be some kind of record. Shut up. All next week, I will be on the road with the Rockets, Oklahoma City. Fantastic. You'll be home all March, though. Oh, my God. You see the schedule? Six straight games at home.

I mean, holy, I don't even know what that's like. I was going through that live on air on the Rockets wrap. last night and I was like I didn't realize it was six in a row. Well, but hopefully because the rocket, I didn't spend any time in the month of Houston the month of January. No, or February, really. Yeah. So, yeah, the, um, what are I going to this?

Okay. Rockets? Rockets. One, off until Saturday. We have Astros. Oh, Astros are playing today at noon. And that's a tape delay game on seven nights. We'll tell you what's going on.

I don't anticipate anybody going on. anybody going, I can't wait seven hours to hear it with Robert and Steve. We'll play it later tonight. Yeah. Make sure you check it out. But if there's something that happens that's eventful in the game, we will be happy. I don't know, Matt. You don't think it's spoilers.

I don't know. Social media's kind of getting running as sports. It's spring training baseball. It's fine. Yeah. Now, Cam Smith is playing today at third base, I think. Oh. I think Yordon is batting today for the first time.

Jeremy Payne is playing for the first time. So if there's any highlights. Or we could put Connor to work for some live listen-ins. Well, I can tell you, we're going to do that tomorrow. tomorrow for sure. Really? Do you know why? I think I do but I don't understand exactly how you listen into somebody in the field. You just play it when the other team is batting. Okay. So we're going to let you hear what Jose Al-Tube does tomorrow. If he gets a ball. Will he get a ball? It'll be a weird listen live listening but we're going to try it. Great. So that's coming up.

So if anything eventful happens with the bats today, we'll play him on a highlight. We should really, you know we have to do is if Cam Smith gets a base head or any Jeremy Payne or you're on Alvarez just we should just oversell the hell out of it and then play the just the preseason bits although most of those are getting deleted off so do you think we have you know it's early in spring training do we think we should ask people to send us audio of it's just spring training hmm we could we could record a few ourselves all right would you like to start

here we go uh Connor you're rolling on this here we go three, two, one. Mac Brown here, Texas, former Texas coach and former North Carolina coach saying it's just spring training. Hi, I'm Ross. It's just spring training. Hey, it's Matt. It's just spring training. Hey, it's a Joy La Perfino.

It's just a spring training. A Bill Cosma here. I don't think we should be doing this one, Matt. That's Bill Cosby. It's just spring training. Oh, bud and boon boops. What do you think? I think we've

passed the expiration date on that one. No, he's still alive. He hasn't expired. He's not in prison or anything at this point, I don't think. Okay. All right, so if you would like to send us, it's just spring training.

Oh, you can do it on your voice notes? Yeah, your voice memos are still like that. Send us, MP3 is preferred. MP4, I can't figure out. Sorry, Connor. No, I'll do the heavy lifting of this. I'll actually do it. I'll know.

What? Shut up. I'll do it. Send me an email on a voice memo, MP3. It's just spring training. And celebrity impersonations are more than welcome. Who else do we do? Oh, Old West?

Sure. We can play the music. Yeah. We'll get this done. Well, Spencer, I'll get it from Athens, Georgia, saying it's just spring training. Hmm. I thought I something that Bill Cosby hasn't used enough. All right. I think it's used more than enough.

Probably so. On the radio program today, at 10.50 coming up in 38 minutes, I've got a pair of tickets I want to give away to the Cougars versus Cincinnati Bearcats. Really? We'll do that again at 1050 and 1150 today. Let's go. You ready for that? No. The news at noon.

I just don't get it earlier than that at 1130 today. Okay. And then we have E. Mae Doca's going to join us at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Looking forward to that. Wow. And then, believe it or not today, finally, we get to use the Gene Hackman questions. Have we had those? No, we just, I'm just saying we've been,

I've used Gene Hackman on Alive or Dead before and he's been a lot. Wait, she Hammond died? He died yesterday, yeah. Oh my gosh. And here's the creepy part of it. They found him in his home in New Mexico. He's not, I think he's 95.

I think he was. His wife was dead and the dog was dead too. They're not saying anything criminal yet, but they're still. That can't be coincidental. Well, my first blood. Unless they all huff the same fumes of like gas or something. My guess is there's something about, some sort of illegal, not illegal, but dangerous.

Drugs? Gas or something. I mean, I can't imagine all three of them going, you know, it's time. I can't imagine all three of them getting croaking at the same time, coincidentally. It is a little bizarre. There's no way. Yeah, they're not saying it's a criminal investigation, but they are investigating. He's 95. I think the wife is 30 years younger.

So, you know, again, we're going to find out more about it, but clearly one of the best actors in the history of American cinema and television. Real fast, before I get to break. I think people that worked with him thought he was an A-hole as well. Yeah, I don't know.

My favorite, Gene Hackman? Okay. Honestly, I'm going to go to the early 80s. I thought he was a halaciously awesome Lex Luthor. I really did in the Superman movies. Ah. Okay. He's not one of those guys, Ross, that I followed his,

like, anytime this person was in a movie, I wanted to watch it. You're not going coach Norman Dale? I mean, we could do that, too. Hmm. I'm going to go with Royal as Royal Tenenbaum in the Royal Tenenbaum's. Okay. Did you love that movie? I never saw it.

I know. Don't watch it. It's fine. You won't want to like it. Because why? It's probably a little too artsy for you. You know what? Normally I would consider that an offense, but I kind of know who I am and how you react towards anything I believe in. I don't mean that in a negative way at all. I just don't think I wouldn't recommend it. I don't think you'd enjoy it. Yeah. I mean, I know what you would like and not like. Okay. And so, yeah, I wouldn't. Yeah, that's fine. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't think, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't know, I'm not offended by it in this particular hour, but maybe later on in the day. So that's Gene Hackman, all things about him, believe it or not, today at 150 this afternoon.

When we return, the most exciting thing happened yesterday at the NFL combine. We'll tell you what that is in a moment. 1014 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. It is at 1020 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713, 212-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conner D. McGovern.

We're going to hear from Nick Casario a little bit later this hour. If you were at the Rockets game last night, did you enjoy it? Did you fall asleep in the second half? I sat in the back of my chair, like with my arms crossed like this right now. I was just like calling a nice little, I was just calling a story. You're not off? I didn't not off, but it was... It was like you were calling a stroll in the park.

It was like a couple of lovers walking down a lake on a beautiful day and just everything was working well. Rockets were making their shots. They were playing good defense. The turnovers weren't bad into the fourth quarter when it didn't matter. San Antonio sucks. I mean, it was kind of a perfect night. It was great. The only problem is I'd like the game started an hour or an half earlier than it did.

I'm sure the national audience just loved that game with no wimby and a blowout. So you had Philly, New York, Philadelphia sucks. That was the first half of the double header. and the second half was the Rockets and Spurs. Yeah, I'm going to assume that the ESPN folks did not get great ratings in either one of the games, honestly. Probably not. All right. So the NFL Combine to me, this is not my cup of tea.

I'm not a big NFL draft guy. I mean, the day comes, it's kind of cool, but getting in the weeds of, you know, who the Texans or who the Eagles are taking the fourth round doesn't appeal to me. But they're at the Combine right now, and this is where agents and, coaches and general managers all collaborate with the athletes, and there's a lot of talking and innuendo and rumor mongering and whatnot. So, Ross, at the Ray Rubby U. Rariot. Oh, Jesus. There's a barbox. Oh, my God.

Okay. And Ian Rappaport of the NFL network was having a conversation with an agent. Okay. And the conversation got interrupted in the middle of it. By? By whom, Matt? Jordan Shultz. That would be the reporter who used to break basketball news.

First of all, his dad's a billionaire. Correct. He works for Fox right now. He's hopped around everywhere. He was like Huffington Post. He was doing his own thing. He was somewhere else. Right.

He's the one that told that our first introduction to him on air was him telling us that Dwight Howard was going to the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah, he's moved sports too. He's on his sources on that. He's gotten a number of stories wrong. over the years. It continues to rise up the ring because he's gotten some things right. Yeah, I mean, he's not betting

zero, but he's not betting a thousand. But once you goof on a bunch of stories, you lose my respect. And then he blocked me for no reason. And, you know what? He'll be crashing burns. So, he comes up on Ian Rappaport at the Rarocks at the hotel.

And they have a verbal altercation. Now, what exactly was said, there's a little bit of he said he said, but NFL security is looking into this how two NFL reporters well one legit maybe one not so much although again Schultz works for Fox so he's employed by a

website that is a legit media outlet yeah and it all comes down to a story that Schultz is going on saying that Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford had a conversation

about maybe Stafford going to the Las Vegas Raiders in, and they had this meeting in Montana, apparently, if I'm reading the story, correct? Yes. Rapaport didn't think there was anything to the story and said it was a chance meeting that there was no conversation, no formal get-together, because there could have been some tampering issues, although the Rams have already publicly said that Matthew Stafford is free to go look somewhere else.

So they're not going to file tampering charges, if anything. They're like, if you can find somewhere else to go, we understand. Rap report, poo-poo-pooed the report. Jordan Schultz said, bra, I got this. And apparently they had an argument. Verbal altercation. Rossi, you don't understand life too short

for two media people to be fighting over something stupid about a report involving Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford. I mean, if you're really going to fight about something in life, don't you want to fight about you calling somebody a name or insulting a member of your family or how your wife looks or what your kids do? I mean, do you really want to get into a pierce sixer over whether or not Tom Brady had a chance meeting or a non-chance meeting with Matthew Stafford in Montana? This is interesting because on one side you have Jordan Schultz, who I do not respect as a reporter at all.

At all. And then on the other side, you have Ian Rappaport who has a history of beefing with people. Remember he got it into it with Jason Luckinfor back in the day? Yeah. Remember he and Adam Schaefter had some beef on a report recently? And then you add in this, and I want to say there was something else. You know what my deduction of this is, is that media types just think way too much of themselves. Yeah, you have to be a certain type of individual to raise the ranks that Ian Rappaport has.

You got to step on some people's backs. You've got to be duplicitous. If you want to be a reporter that breaks this type of news, it's kind of baked into the job. Because you have to separate yourself from the rest of the people that, like, there's certain types of reporters that all they do is confirm things, which is stupid. Either you break stories or you don't. But when you confirm stories, it doesn't mean Jack Squaw.

You're also not going to be an NFL insider or MLB insider or an NBA insider unless you break stories. If you want to be in that 1% club, which is what I consider, and Rapidport's in the 1% club. Now, he does, doesn't he not work for the NFL? So he's got have a little bit of an advantage, although

they tell us over and over again that the NFL network doesn't get in it. Maybe not because he can't. There's some things he can't report on, right, or no? Well, there's You have to protect the shield. That's the number one thing you do when you work for the NFL network. You know what sounds like protecting the shield? Hmm. Would be a tampering meeting getting set up and then going out and trying to publicly say that it was coincidental.

Now, pro football talk, speaking of douchebags. Hey, Mike Florio, speaking of guys who raised to these heights that are debacks. Yeah. Mike Florio has said exactly what you just said. Not about the tampering. He's like whether, there very well could have been a meeting. It's not beyond the shadow of a doubt that Tom Brady, who has not hidden the fact that he wants to be involved in the operations of Las Vegas Raiders, would have figured out a way somehow, some way to meet face-to-face with Matthew Stafford. That's not completely crazy.

So I don't know. Do I, is there parts of both sides of the story, I believe? Yeah, I kind of do that. I'm not saying that Jordan Schultz is lying. I'm not going to completely believe him because he's missed on in stories before. But for these two Gibronis to go to Indianapolis, to cover an event where guys are in their underwear and t-shirts and running around running 40 times and get into a squabble at a r-rocks?

I mean, come on. It's bigger than that, man. It's about reputation. Is it really? What if you came out and put out this big report and then somebody said it wasn't true? You got some beef with them. But you're going to do it in front of a bunch of people? I don't know.

Maybe you wouldn't mean them privately. I think this is great. I think we should get them in the boxing ring together. My point is this. This to me is way more interesting than anything that happened to the combine. I want reporter beef. I want those guys to get in. What is that event that Pat Mahomes,

Sr. were supposed to get in with John Rock? Yeah, let's go rough and running with those guys. Yeah. But yeah, look, I don't like, like I said, I don't respect Jordan Schultz, but his story makes more sense to me than they accidentally happened to meet in Montana at a ski resort at the exact same time.

Yeah. Come on now. I would tend to believe there is some semblance of more than just a, informal. Oh, is that you, Matt? That is, I can't believe you. It's crazy. Free Asian quarterback?

Owner of a team? Weird. In Montana? I mean, at a ski resort? I mean, come on. How could this have happened? Let's meet up for a second. Whatever.

That NFL security getting involved. Hmm. Yeah, even Rappaport's got probably got better security. Oh, I think for sure. But, now, the easiest way for Shultz to make up with Rappaport, gift card Who doesn't love a raw rucks gift card He can probably give him an unlimited one

I have one in I have three of them in my phone Oh okay That's what I get from my wife all the time That's cool So I'm just saying thank you And again the coffee's mid But I'll take it It's very convenient

Extraorneally convenient All right 1028 sports talk 7a Speaking of the Combine Nikki C spoke yesterday Forgetting about guessing about when Nikki C said Ross I want you to grade how entertaining the soundbite was.

No, we know what the grades are going to be. I know, no, no, no, no, no. I want you to have an open mind on this. One to ten, how entertaining was the Nick Casario Soundbites? We'll run through some of those next. 713-212-5-79 if you want to get in on the conversation. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

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I just don't get it coming up today at 1130. And my Just Don't Get It is going to come from a town hall meeting that Chris El-Cante had with the University of Texas fan base. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Wonderful. So, and it's not about something that UT did. It's just something that was brought up yesterday.

I just thought it was really odd. That you just don't get. I just don't get. Okay. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Nikki C spoke yesterday. He was on the Pat McAfee show.

Wow. He was on Pro Football Talk. Wow. He spoke to the media. Uh-huh. He did not make an appearance on any 7-90 show. And never has. It never will.

There is a 0% chance that he'll ever be on. And that's okay. It's not good content. It's not. But you know what? It's good to have the name to say you're getting them on, but then you end up going, Jesus, that was 12 minutes of my life I'll never get back. But nevertheless, we'll give you a minute of it.

Yeah. So in 12 minutes of your life, you'll never get back. Where does it have you chunks of one and two minutes? Hey, no, this is great stuff, Matt. How about Nick Casario talking about? Well, moving on from Bobby Sloick, he says that's what Dimeco Ryan's felt like was the right thing to do. Bobby did a lot of really great things for the organization. helped a number of players.

I think as we went through it, D'Amico felt in the end that that was the right thing for our team. So it wasn't easy. I mean, D'Amico and Bobby essentially grew up in the NFL together. So to be able to make a decision, like, it was hard. It was taxing. But, you know, that was the decision we felt made the most sense for us. So we've got to turn the page.

So, I mean, it's a good opportunity for Nick. Has experience kind of a multitude of systems. So we'll kind of see how it goes. But, you know, Nick's highly respected coach in this league. So, again, it's going to be a collective effort. effort. It's not going to be specifically about Nick Cayley. It's going to be about the offensive staff, the offensive players,

how we play, how do we handle things in games. So all of it kind of fits together in the end. All right, entertainment factor 1 to 10, it's about a 4? Good for you. I was going to go with the 2. Okay. We'll go with 3 in Splitsies. So basically, so basically the new offensive

corner is going to have some control, but there's going to be a lot of people overseeing his situation. He's no, he's going to do a good job. Comes from multiple systems, highly regarded. But he said it's an interest about Nick Haley. He's got to play. He's got a player. It's about the team.

He's a play caller. I mean, unless Domingo's getting in that game. Actually, is Nick Casario calling the plays? Remember the whole headset thing with him back in the day? That was a sensitive topic for one on Nicky C. Yeah, it was. Nick Caley better be good. Because you're not,

don't you think as an offensive. As a head coach, you're allowed one coordinator change before people start putting it on you? I think for sure. To me, I think of it as a get out of jail free card. It happens in colleges. Like it's happening in Philadelphia this past year. It happens in Philadelphia. You get like the one get out of jail free card where you can fire each of your coordinators.

But then, yeah, if things are still bad and you keep changing coordinators, they're going to start looking at the top. So that to me, absolutely. You get that card, you use that card, but then that starts ticking your clock. Now, I don't think DeMico's under any pressure, but that's why I would have, if I was him, I would have probably not made the move because you don't need to speed up that card. Because, again, if this team falls flat again, it's, if the Texans offense does not perform better next year, to me, it would be a very simple reason. You don't have enough skill position players and your offensive line didn't get improved. I don't think CJ is going to regress. If he had a slight regression this year, I don't think it's going to be, I mean, I can't guarantee anything.

but I think I know who CJ is after two years in the NFL. He's going to make the plays. He can make the throws. Have there been some times where he held the ball a little bit too long? Or was he staring down receivers? Oh, again, that's every quarterback. But I have a good feeling that

I don't think we're going to put the word bust or major disappointment behind the CJ Stroud resume. No, we're not. But if the offensive line struggles and the running game doesn't get going again and mix and misses any length of time next year and there's no backup or there's no number two legit receiver alongside

Nico Collins. I think there's going to be people going, what are we doing here? And I don't know if it's going to be on Kaylee, it's going to be on D'Amico or maybe on the general manager. Who's to say? But continue on. Yeah, more from Nick Casario. Something we've talked about, Matt. Possibly bringing

Stefan Diggs back. Nick Casario says the dialogue is open. I mean, Steph's rehabbing. He was a good asset to our team. Helped us win some games. So we'll go through the process here. He's a free agent's contract's going to expire. here in a week or two if we can't get something worked out. But can't keep the dialogue moving, keep it open.

But as far as any bombs going off, I try to stay below the radar here a little bit. Just try to make good decisions for our team. That's the most important thing. Entertainment factor on that would be about a point five. Somebody chuckled at the end. Who was that? I don't know.

Was it part of the... He was on whatever the insiders is. I don't know. I don't know what that is. Um... I mean... Hmm. I compare this to Dana Brown and Brugman for a small little bit.

Ooh, okay. I think Dana's like, I've got a comfortable number that will bring Bruegman back back. I think Nick's got a comfortable number that he'd like to bring Stefan back. I think there are different situations. Because you're under, number one, you're under a hard cap. They could have given him Brickman whatever he wanted. No, but I'm not even worried about the cat. I'm worried about, I mean, if the general manager has in his mind what a player is valued at,

it doesn't change. They each have values in their mind of what the player is worth, yes. But I, he's, Stefan Diggs isn't going to be some highly touted free agents. You're not going to be in a bunch of negotiations. But Dana Brown clearly said life will go on if Alex Bregman, it's on an astro. I believe Steve, I think, I believe the Texans will also believe that Stefan Diggs will go on if he doesn't resign here. The problem is, I don't know where, I mean, at least in Alex's case, there were probably four or five teams. Yeah, that's the thing.

I feel like to me that Stefan's going to have a variety of options. When you went through the list, Defon Diggs, I mean, Alex Bregman was everybody's top five free agents. The only two teams I've heard Stefan Diggs of interest would be either Houston or Dallas. That's all I've heard. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that somebody could come out of the woodworks and want to sign him. But again, wrong side of 30 and coming off a major ACL. I mean, not necessarily what you want to, you put on the marquee. Yeah, that's what you would take, you know, a one year deal.

Yeah. If somebody needs a one year deal receiver. Mm-hmm. And the Texans, when you have a lot of money invested in Nico Collins, it does make a little bit of sense. Plus, you're already without Tankdale. The question's going to be in Nikki's mind, can I go replenish this in the draft as compared to bringing back somebody that I don't know what he's going to bring us when he's, if he indeed comes back all the way from the injury? All right. Anything else?

Sure. How about the topic de jure in the offseason in the NFL? Don't do it. Don't do push. You don't want to hear? Okay. I go ahead. I'm going to go ahead. I mean, I heard it.

Good point. I'm worried about it. We can play, let's see. Tish push. You want to hear his thoughts on Cole Popovich? No. Okay. Well, let's get some touch push-push talk, maybe.

Let's go. Let's do some touching and pushing. What I would say, Damiko, and I talked about this, you don't necessarily want to penalize a team that's done something very well. I'm like credit to Coach Stoutland and Coach Sariani for that's a play that's been effective for them. They got a good quarterback. He's got good lower body strength. I mean, not every quarterback can squat, 600, 700 pounds.

So the techniques that they utilize. So again, just because you can't stop the play, I mean, is that something that you have to take out of the game? You know, I think we've got to be careful about just totally reading the game of it. I would say I'm sure the league will talk about player health and safety, is it put the players at risk. It's a well-executed play by the Eagles, all right, and they've had success doing it. No one's been able to stop it. So honestly, at some point the onus is on, like, figure out a way. And if you can, and the way they implemented, they're one of the few teams, or they own about the only team, that handles it the way that they do.

So the sneak play in and of itself, there's a lot of dynamics that are involved. Some quarterbacks want to be in a fray. Some quarterbacks don't. Jesus. You look at Buffalo. Josh is 6, 5, 250 pounds. So, I mean, he reaches his hand out there. He's got a first down.

You know, so every team's got to handle a little bit differently. So I would just say, like, to penalize a team because they do something well, it's probably something we just, you know, need to think about as a league. Brevity is not one of the things in Nick Kisterio's repertoire. Thank you, Nick. I think he's right. You keep it. I don't care.

But it, when you got. past some of that word salary. He's like, you know what? Why are we penalizing something that one team can do well and 31 teams have tried and not done so well? Or maybe aren't even trying at this point. It seems to be the prevailing thought for most people. It's been one of the hot topics at the combine. I'm getting all these NFL people

together and talking about it. I think the hot topic's going to be who's going to win in the thornown between Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport. Ian Rappaport's short, right? I've never seen him in person, so I can't tell you. I don't I don't know how big Jordan Schultz is. Now, I know he now. I know he,

he's soft. Because he blocked me and I never even tweeted at him or anything. I blocked it. I went at him and said you're a fraud and he blocked me. So for sure he would soft and wilt in any sort of confrontation. So I apologize for you getting blocked through my association with you. No, I don't think it was. All right.

1044 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79. When we come back, I got that trivia question for a pair of tickets to see Houston versus Cincinnati. What? This Saturday, inside. the Fortita Center, the hottest building to watch college basketball in America. 1045, Sports Talk 790.

Matt and Ross, return. Return on Sports Talk 790. All right, I've got a pair of tickets I want to give away to the Houston Cougars versus the Cincinnati Bearcats is Saturday at Fortita Center. I believe the start time is 3.30 on that. Let me double check. I should probably tell you in case you got plans or something. You can't go.

But if you can go, I want to give away a pair of tickets. of course you're busy. By way, shout out to that Facebook listener that says he were mean about to Kelvin Sam's a couple days ago. I really appreciate that. You know what, that guy can shut his bum ass up. Well, come on, man. Don't you know what trolling is?

And he said, I said, I was nasty and mean. You are nasty and mean. You are nasty and mean. You are nasty and mean. Do you want to read that? What was it? I'm trying to find that. I'll read it in a minute. Since the out of Houston, by the way, 3.30.

The game's on CBS. So you need to pack the building. make sure we show America. Oh, so it's early, huh? 11 a.m? 3.30. Oh, 3.30. 3.30.

All right. My question is, and the first correct answer to 713212-5-7-90 is going to win these tickets. The Cougars earlier this year retired a former Cougar Legends number. What player got his jersey retired by the University of Houston this year? If you know the answer, first person, 7-13. Chicken Knowles. That was on Chicken Knowles. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

713-212-5-790. All right. So let me tell you this. So our Facebook page said the following. I'm going to go find this now. This is from Dave Pittman. Dave, friend of the show.

Dave Pittman. We love you, Dave. Dave Pittman. I think Ross V's, I never call you that. That's okay. I called you Ross, Ian Ross, but a sports interview, but never Ross V. I think Ross V's vicious attack on Kelvin Samson this morning was disgusting. Vicious attack.

It was vicious. was here for it. It was vicious. It was in poor taste to bring up crap that happened almost 20 years ago for no good reason. Is he jealous because the Longhorn basketball team sucks? I think he owes Samson an apology. That's great.

Oh, this hat, no, it's got zero likes. Great stuff, Dave. I'm giving it a like right now. You need to. You need to. By the way, I'm responding to Dave on Facebook right now. What are you going to say? Are you going to apologize? Dave, I'm sorry. If my

my comments have hurt you in some way. That's right. I'm wishing you the best during this difficult time. Dave, let me tell you something. If you're listening, thank you very much. I appreciate you calling out my partner here. He deserves it. That's funny.

Rossi, we have a little, what they call in the business, signature segments. I thought about thinking one for Fridays. Would you, and I've not even brought this up to you off air, but I'm going to do it on air. Hold on, I'm giving this guy three prayer emojis. Are you really? You're going to now double-troll him. By the way, Jack in Louisiana is our winner? He can't be calling from Louisiana.

Is he going to drive all the way in for the game? So Jack, congratulations. Don Cheney got his jersey number retired by the University of Houston. The Temple coach? No, no, no. The Temple coach had tried to dissect John Caliperi? No, no, no. Did he get beef with Caliperi back in the day?

That's John Chaney, not Don Chaney. John's dead. Don is very much alive. Okay. Don Cheney got his jersey retired. Three prayer emojis and send. Dave, get him. Want you to respond to him? Oh wait. I said wishing you the best twice.

That's what happens when you do this. Yeah, you can edit it. You can edit your own posts, can't you? All right. So here's my thing. Last week, Ross, Steve Smith got into a situation where he was having relations

with a man's wife. What? Who works for the Ravens? band or whatever she does, okay? And the graphic text were put out there, and the guy calls Steve Smith on his cell phone and says, hey, you've been blanking my wife? What do you have to say for yourself?

Uh-huh. And all he said was, I'm sorry. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Should we do a Friday segment every week? Called I'm sorry. Hmm. Where we apologize for things we've said over the course of the week.

I can apologize you daily. I think we're going to try it tomorrow. Okay. I can't think of anything specific. Wait a minute. You need to apologize to, I've thought about something the other day. Kelvin Samson? First of all, you always need to apologize anything in University of Houston

because you just slander us at every possible opportunity. But you also have to apologize to Rick Ronnells. Why? They've been serving the fillet of fish. No, seat. Hold on. Go ahead. Since 1962.

63 year old sandwich. See, I didn't slander the fillet of fish. That's more, and you know what, maybe I'll just use it in 30 minutes. That's more of an I just don't get it. It's not, and I'm not saying it's horrible. I'm not saying it's bad. I hadn't had one in 30 years. And actually, so I put the poll on my Twitter account yesterday, have you eaten,

oh, 41 minutes left on the poll, get in now way you can. Have you eaten a fast food fish sandwich in the last 12 months? and it was 25% yes which quite frankly is more than I would have thought do you like fish sandwiches in general? No I like catfish fillets I like po-boys

So you were necessarily slandering Reglottles you were slandering the whole fish sandwich No I'm not see All I did was How is this slander? I put out a poll that says have you eaten a fast food sandwich in the last 12 months? You made fun of the fact that I wouldn't got a filet of fish minutes. Where is the slander?

Maybe it was four touch. I just don't. I just don't get it. If I'm going to a fast food place, I'm not trusting them to make fish. Where did this fish come from? It's the same thing. When you go get a chicken sandwich at a restaurant? It's a wildcott from the Gulf of America now. Yeah, there you go.

First of all, I don't eat it a lot, but sometimes you crave it. Now, here's one for you. This isn't going to be a chance for you to make a chance of big time money here. I'm going to give you 10,000. M.T. Bucks. Okay. What is the difference between the bun on a filet of fish than a bun on, say, a quarter pounder with cheese or a just a regular old cheeseburger? That's your final answer? Yes. That is correct. Yes. Give me my money. They do not toast the bun on a filet of fish. They steam it. Yeah. Is that right? That is 100% correct. I will eat a valet of fish, but it's like, let me put it this way. I don't. I would probably eat. Oh, no, I wouldn't need a micrib first.

Oh, it just doesn't seem appetizing. That's all. What if I called Dan Matthews and have him bringing some filet fish in here? I mean, I guess I'll eat it. It's not torture. Connor, if I get you a filet of fish here in a few minutes, would you eat it? As you said, it has to be somewhat good because it isn't. It's not like the McRib where it's off the menu, and they just get a bunch of pork

gunk caught up in the machines. I got to get it out so they may they press the gifts. I did do a little testing, checking. They brought the filet of fish in for Catholics. because they couldn't eat meat on Fridays. Yeah. And that was in 1962. Something must be going right.

Didn't the Vatican just make that up, the whole Friday fishing? I don't know. I felt like I should know as a converted Catholic, but I don't know. Don't shake your head at me, Connor. I just don't get it coming up at a half an hour from now. Okay. Astro's spring training baseball, not today live, but on tape. We'll give you some updates on that.

Matt will actually call the game live for two hours. I think I would do a good job. done some baseball before. Yeah. Cougar baseball. I've done some U.H. Cougars. With some pings and some dings. By way, baseball, radio, play, by play, by play, and TV, play by playing? Kind of the same thing.

Groundball to short? Well, of course, I'm watching the game. I know where the ball went. It's the, it's the wordsman. It's the way you phrase things in television. Wordsmith. Same difference, yeah. You are one of the greatest wordsmen's in all time, man. And then give them strange little nicknames. I mean, Mato kind of started that, though. Baggy.

Bish, Birky, Goody. Yeah, it seems like he had a pattern. He's just going to short... And now we got Duby. He had a nickname for me. What was it? Alphabet.

He called you the alphabet? I was producing spring training, and, you know, they'd thank the producer after every broadcast. He's like, all right, Ross. I need to thank you. Spell your name for me. I'm like, uh, V, I, L, L, A, R, R,

E-A-L. I'm just going to call you Alphabet. Oh, thank you, Milo. Hmm. I never knew that until right this moment. I told that story before. I must have been off the air. 11-1059, second hour.

By the way, Don Cheney, a winner. We'll have another pair of tickets. John Cheney won his own tickets? John Cheney's dead. Okay. Don Cheney in line. Don Chene did that win his own tickets. Another set of tickets coming up at about 50 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. Launch timers.

This is the match. Thomas show. 1103 on Sports Talk 790. It is the second hour of four. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Nice to have you with us on this Thursday. So we're going to I think we're going to debut, I'm sorry tomorrow.

Now, we need to get major production value on it. And Brenda Lee? Brenda Lee, probably get Mike Beaupillon to create an open for us, but that's going to take a week. It's two weeks away. He's got to worry about Michael Barry stuff. So, very busy. Yeah. So if Mike, if he can get a smidge of time

between Michael Berry promos, then we'll get an opportunity to get an I'm sorry introduction. We'll try it tomorrow. This is we apologize for something that happened this past week. Okay. Sounds great. We'll try to love it.

We'll see how we. If it's a good segment, we'll keep it going. If it doesn't work, we'll move on. Appreciate it, Matt. You're a fountain of ideas. That's why we love you. I just think you have to keep different ideas going on the show. We've got some of our trademark segments.

I think Shut Your Bumass up is one of our favorites. Yes. I just don't get it. It's gaining steam. I think it's in neutral But I love it I get it Because there's something I just don't get

That is becoming a quite a national phenomenon Okay In the athletic world actually Hmm That's my tease for 25 minutes from now Rockets last night Beat the San Antonio Spurs And have now won

Three of Four They gained a half game They're going to right now On the four spot in the Western Conference Rockets, Lakers Round 1 Now, the Rockets are only two back of Memphis and Denver for the two and three spots. Let's focus on Memphis because you've got the tiebreaker there.

So let's go. Beat Memphis. And honestly, you want to get out of the four or five spot because the second round opponent would be the number one seat, Oklahoma City Thunder, who just don't like to lose much. Thunder and five. Yeah, let's get, let's not do that. Because the thing about my life for a second, and this is where you're... Oh, here we go.

What do you think I'm going to say? I've been suffering through all these losses. It's all about me. And I call the games. It's not about the GM and the owner and the players. It's about me. Matt Thomas. Not even close.

I've been suffering through these games. I want some playoff success. No, my thought was this. If the Rockets for the Lakers in the first round, I'll be in L.A. for several days. Okay. That is fantastic. If you beat the Lakers,

your reward should be going to another awesome place. And certainly no disrespect to Oklahoma City. But there is, there ain't much to do there, if you know what I'm saying, saying. I can't go from traveling. Okay, so it's a different angle about you. That's, well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. You guessed the wrong angle. Yeah, but I was in the right ballpark.

Oklahoma City. Now, my routine would go a lot further in Oklahoma City than it would be. Yeah, what are you wanting about? They got casinos. They do in Norman, which is kind of weird. The nearest one to OKC is in Norman? Norman, yeah. So it's about half hour.

It's not too bad. But it's still a little bit of, but I, because let me tell, and here's another thing we, side note, Oklahoma ain't kidding around. They want your money. I know. They have looted their rules about casino gambling in Oklahoma. Now you can do blackjack, crap, you can do all the good stuff. Yeah, but do you still have to Annie on blackjack? Now, I don't know.

I think you still do. Yeah. Now, the last time I went to an Oklahoma casino, they did give you, you had to bet six to win five. So yeah, there was an anti to it. ridiculous. But at least they've opened it up. There's now three or four casinos in the south of Oklahoma City. So you know, you're somewhat right.

But, you know, Ross, being with beautiful people in Los Angeles, flat bellies. You barely leave your hotel room. No, I stay in Beverly Hills the whole time. I move around. Where? You don't go on hikes. You don't go see sites. I've been to L.A. 25 times.

What's sites I need to see? I don't even go to Universal Studios for the 19th time. They got hills. You can go for you. There's wonderful. I see the hills. I'm not talking about those plastic hills or silicone hills. You don't go to the beach?

I do go to the beach. No, when's the last time you went to the L.A. and you went to the beach? Santa Monica two years ago on the pier, which I don't know like as much of a pier anymore. What was that for? Was that on a rocket strip? Yeah. Who made you go out there? You were meeting somebody.

Yes. Okay. It wasn't of your own volition. Oh, they said, let's go Sanamaka bear? I said, sure, why not? Okay. Did you get stabbed? No, I didn't know.

Santa Monica. Santa Monica is fine. After 9 o'clock, it's not so great. But Ross, if there's anybody that typifies Beverly Hills, it's me. No, it's not. You eat filet of fish and McRibb. Nobody in Beverly...

You're fraud Beverly Hills. No. You're just there as a barnacle on the Houston Rockets boat. I was there for the filming of Beverly Hills Cop 4. You know what? I'm going to say, I'm sorry. That was rude. I didn't mean to... Save that for tomorrow.

You know, I'm going to write that down. I didn't mean to call you a barnacle on the Houston Rockets boat. That's pretty mean. It's probably you didn't call me Squidward or something like that. Jesus. You know what? I hope you get your cough on them. Look at that.

That cough's not getting any better. You know why? Because God's looking over you. It's getting better. It's not. It was like hell. It's just slow going. All right.

So Rockets and Spurs last night, Rockets and Kings on Saturday. Then after that, three more road trips and that's it. Two to the West Coast and one to Florida. So the dog, the hard travel days are over pretty much after next week. Yeah, and you told Dylan Brooks, is that correct? Only three more back-to-back. That's good news. By the way, did you ever anticipate Dylan Brooks being your best three-point shooter

and it ain't even close? Here's a guy that got ran out of Memphis because he shot too many threes. Yeah, he's been great. He's taking wide open ones. And he's been knocking him down. Yeah. Like when he takes him and he jumps up and down because it's about to go in. Because for a guy who likes to fight, he wants a hop, skip, and jump you all the way down the court.

Yeah. Yeah, this is best year of his career. Almost at 40% now, I think, right? 39.6, career 35. Wow. In that world, that's a significant difference because he's taking better shots. He's also playing more minutes than he ever has before. Why?

Because he doesn't get into foul trouble anymore. I mean, sometimes it gets into it, but it hasn't been much so far this year. And there is a little bit of a luck factor. I mean, these numbers go up and down, unless your name is definitely. Curry basically. That's right. All right. 713-212-5-7-9.

If you want to jump in our conversation, we've got to just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. We heard a little bit from Nikki C earlier today. Worthy of replaying again? Maybe the news at noon, maybe? I don't know. What do you think?

We're doing the news at noon? Yes, we haven't done it all week because of we had short games on Tuesday and Wednesday. All right. We'll put that together. All right. Gene Hackman passed away. That's in the news. definitely that is that the number one news topic in america today probably not probably something

happened in washington dc another deficit i haven't even checked i have no idea i'm just bearing my head in the sand trying to stay happy like if i asked you right now what is the current deficit could you get it within oh no i know it's trillions it's trillion yeah could you get within 10 trillion no i'm gonna i have no idea 10 trillion 5 i'm gonna go 14 you're asking the wrong person What? Isn't there a website that constantly keeps track like a rolling clock of deficit? Oh, okay, good. It's only $2 trillion, not $14. Like I said, I had zero clue. We'll see, President Trump's doing right things. It was $14 trillion a month ago. Now it's on the $2 trillion. Let's go, Donnie. Let's go, baby. That's good. Astro's playing the Metropolitan's today, and that'll be a tape-delay game at 7 o'clock on 7.90. But if anything happens during the game, we will completely over-the-top embellish it. It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.

Astro Spring Training history. Right? Got that. NFL Combine continues in Indianapolis where reporters are getting fights at a coffee shop and anything else sports-related wise going on.

College basketball last time, how did your beloved Longhorns do? They forced overtime against Arkansas Raisingbacks on the road. So they went to, they had to play an extra five, so Arkansas had to take an extra five minutes to beat your beloved Longhorns.

I don't think they're making the tournament now. after that loss and the loss to South Carolina. And I feel bad because Trey Johnson, Trey Johnson is the five-star, wonderful player, leading the SEC. He's leading the SEC in scoring. And he might not... And he might not make the tournament.

I feel bad for him. You could tell he's like, God, I'm tired of putting this team on my back, man. This is terrible. He scored like 35 points in a college game. It's a freshman record. The long has had some good freshmen. Freshmen?

Freshmen? Some good freshmen. Yeah, yeah. And they lost. You know what I want? Because NIL is such a big part of the sports now? I'd like to know what these guys are making. Do you think it's up for conversation?

I don't know. I'm sure whatever trade Johnson's making, he kind of looked like on the floor that it wasn't worth it. He was like... Like, I saw a tweet yesterday. 39 points. Excuse me. He had 39 points. And they still lost.

Bro. That's rough. Well, he's going to transfer out, right? No, he's going to. He's going to be a lot of repick. Okay. We're in rocket gear? Actually, one of the mocks I saw from ESPN had the rockets taken him.

By the way, did you see who was the rocket game a couple nights back? Working out with the guys? Just for blanking giggles? J.J. What? La Marcus Aldridge. Really? And I teased an email. I said, man, what did he just shoot a bunch of top of the key jumpers?

Yeah, that's what he did. A nice career. Very nice career. Great career. Yeah. Hall of Very good. Yeah. But you know what?

The basketball Hall of Fame is such. No. Are you sure? That place is a great college and pro player. Are you sure he can't get in? If he gets in, the hall's even more of a joke than I thought. And I say this as a long-hand basketball fan. I know, that's really tough for you to say that.

I mean, come on. 16 years? How many times all? Seven-time all-sart? Oh, he's getting in. You better start writing that speech to enter him, man. He doesn't deserve it. He's getting it.

Great college career and pro career. He's absolutely getting it. Seven-time All-Star? I didn't realize that. Portland. San Antonio, where else did he play? Hall of very good. And then briefly with Brooklyn at the end of his career.

That's right. And basically would be shunned in today's NBA because he takes long tuesday compared to stepping back a few more feet and trying three-point checks. If you could make them, they let you take them. That's true. But remember, last time I checked, three is always greater than two. All-N-B-A second team, twice, all-N-B-3-3-3-3-3. Three times?

He is going to the Hall of Fame. Never first team. He is going to the Hall of Fame. No, he shouldn't. He's going to. I mean, they made an elite eight at Texas? He was hurt his first year. He hurt his hip.

And then they made the Elite 8, and that's when they lost to LSU, I think. And Big Baby Davis. I'll fly up there. Springfield is at Massachusetts. I'm good. You can go. All right. 713, 212, 570, if you want to get in and join our conversation.

I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. And that's, again, something in your life you just don't understand. Ross, Connor, myself. We will try to help you get through those tough waters of something you just don't get. 1113. Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. 1119 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I just don't get it coming up in about 10 minutes from now. Not a super hot heavy day in headlines, Rossi. I'm trying to find something that would be. be uber entertaining

for our audience? It's great headlines. That's why the news at noon is kind of wrong. Wonderful headlines. Amazing, incredible headlines coming up at noon. All right. Okay. Justin Tucker, speaking of Texas Longhorn Greats. Oh, man. Once again disputing the allegations

of sexual misconduct at a high-end spa or several of them. But also apologizing? Yeah, again, he continues to apologize for something he didn't do wrong. Quote, it devastates me to know that anyone I have worked with would not take, would not have felt respected and valued as a professional, but more importantly as a person and to anyone who has felt otherwise, I am sorry.

I want you to know that I am committed to ensuring that everyone I interact with continues to feel that I feel respect them and care about them as a human being. I mean, come on. That's laying out a little thick, don't you think? Hmm. He said that in a statement to outkick the coverage? Tucker has been accused of inappropriate behavior by now 16 different massage therapists from eight different Baltimore spas. Again, if you're going Baltimore, major city, right?

But it ain't in New York. It ain't Chicago and Atlanta. If you have to go to eight different places to go get your massages, are you really sample sizing this? Is that what we're doing today now with a massages therapist? I don't know. Yeah, 10 therapists it was. It's 16 therapists from eight different Baltimore. boss.

Oh, okay. All the incidents reportedly occurred during sessions between 2012 and 2016, which were his first five years in the NFL. Is Tony Buzzby on this case? Oh, you got to mean, he's got to have a jet go ahead of that direction. Because I thought he got his, uh, Jay-Z got his case dismissed or they dropped that one. Because Moni Musby was coming after Jay-Z. Really?

Mm-hmm. Hmm. Why are we calling him Moni Musby? He's a real person. Look. He's also, it's a, no free plugs. We are, we are the court of public opinion. Okay.

The court of public opinion says, well, there's smoke. There's got to be a little bit of flame, right? My opinion is that there were some improprieties committed by Justin Tucker. My opinion is that 16 women aren't making this up. My opinion is 16 massage therapists. One didn't do what and say, you know what, maybe I ought to jump on this train. All make something up because you're asking for high-end attorneys to vet the situation. And high-end attorneys can vet situations and go, this doesn't sound right.

I think you're making this up. There can be lawsuits filed by people who are just looking for a settlement and not looking to follow through. That happens. It does. But the number is astronomical. Ross, we're repeating ourselves when we're talking about Sean Watson. Well, he's so like, what was it? How many did they count?

Like 56 or whatever? It got crazy after a while. New York Times. So, I mean, honestly, Ross, the therapist did help him because this past year he wasn't as good as previous years. Yeah, they didn't help him. Yeah. Maybe he took a year away from the massage therapist and things haven't been as good. It was weighing on his mind.

Maybe he knew these accusations were coming to come out. He was distracted. No, I don't know. Maybe he's also just like 35, 36 years old and he doesn't kick like he's. 25. Or he's just a horn dog. Oh, his legs were tired? Yeah, true. He's got to stay in tip-top shape, I imagine.

By going to 16 different massage therapist? I mean, we're, again, this is like, we're inserting new name and new number. Mm-hmm. 16, come on. How is his wife doing with all this? Can you imagine? Oh, I'm sure she's fully supporting her husband and also calling her attorney right now. I'm talking about him private, yeah.

You want me to support you? Guess what? Beatt just going to cost you this. What is that discussion like? When this news breaks, you're like supposed to meet your wife for dinner or you're coming home. What if my wife found out I went to 16 massage therapist? And then they were accusing you of improper things. Forgetting about the back half of what you just said. What if it was to six, if you had receipts on a credit card for 16 different places.

Yeah. Wouldn't the alarms that go off a little bit? I would say so, yes. So we're saying if you're going to use 16 massage therapists, use cash. Still has the highest field goal percentage in NFL history. Let me ask you this, and this is a little bit football related. Is this going to impact his Hall of Fame status? I don't think so.

Now, Grant, you have to have a little character to be in the Hall of Fame because there's been a lot of guys that have been the Hall of Fame that have had done much worse. He's five-time AP. all-pro first team kicker. That's pretty crazy. I mean, help me out. If he's not the greatest kicker of all time, who is the greatest kicker of all time?

Well, Adam Van and Terry didn't even get in. But there was a time, Ross, when Justin Tucker wouldn't miss for like a year. Distance, wind, rain, snow, needed a kick, 49 yards, one second left to go on the clock, boom. Morton Anderson?

Morton's on that list. But greatest field goal kickers, Venetary. Venetary didn't get in though, right? I don't think so. It's very hard to get punters and kickers in. He was three-time first-team all-pro.

He had all those clutch kicks. I guess he's going to eventually get in. Right. No, he will get in because, I mean, Ray Guy was considered the greatest punter of all time, and it took him for a while to get in. Kickers in the Hall of Fame would be Morton Andrews.

But George Blanda was... Quarterback, too. Yeah, that's a little different. I assume the same thing for Jan Stenneroo? Yon Stenarut. Yeah, long time NFL cooker. Packers and Vikings, yeah. Chiefs? So, Jan Stennerud is not in the Hall of Football Football Hall of Fame, or is he?

He is. Okay. So, wait a minute, let's think about this for a second. It is an important position. Now, granted, it's not a true football, you know, knockdown, tackle. physical spot, but it clearly holds an important responsibility in the game. Anderson, Blanda, Stinerud, Groza. That's the list.

Lou the toe groza. There's four, and one of them is a quarterback. So you're talking about three kickers, three true legit kickers in the history of the NFL, which is what about 90 years, give or take? Is that disrespect or is that the NFL going, we know who you guys are? You just have to be the greatest of the greatest of the great to get in. then why are, why are closers getting in more often these days in baseball and not getting in and kickers are not? Still not that many.

It took Billy Wagner, it took Billy Wagner, Goose Gossage is in. I think Raleigh Fingers is in. Trevor Hoffman is in. Bruce Suter, I think, is in the Hall of Fame. Trevor Hoffman. So there's more for sure. Nine. Lee Smith, we missed.

right. Dennis Eckersley is kind of both. Both. Did both John Smoltz? Maybe you take him off the list. John Smoltz is both. Yeah. I don't know. I'm going to be honest.

Yeah, but nine relievers out of a thousand. I'm going to come to the defense of the kickers. I think there should be more kickers in the end. Okay. I would say Venetary Inn, but after that, who's slighted? Could you say maybe a guy like a Jason Eelam, maybe? Jason Eelam is, I just put up the, pulled up the all-time career points scored. Of course, it's all kickers.

Yeah, Jason Elam's eighth. Robbie Gold's 10th. Mason Grosby's 11th. Sebastian Janikowski. Ooh, Janikovsky. Was he the last kicker picked in the first round of an NFL draft? Longhorn legend Phil Dawson. Nah, not Hall of Fame.

Justin Tucker's 16th all time in NFL points already. But if Justin Tucker can't shake this situation, like there is not a massive misunderstanding about this, that's going to be a hard first ballot guy to get in. Jason Elam's second team, all pro twice, zero time first team. You're out. You're out, Jason Eelam. Now, part of the reason why he was so good is because he played in Denver and those kicks were going five, ten yards further than other places.

And shut, yeah, shut your bum ass up, Eam. I'm sorry, I'm just kidding. Wow, look at you, very, very volatile. All right, I just don't get it as coming up next. What don't you get, Ross? Think about it. A lot. 713, 212-5-790.

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7-13-212-5-7-9-0. 7-1-3-21-25-7-90. This edition of I Just Don't Get it. It starts with me. Yesterday, Chris El-Canti had a town hall meeting with, I guess, some University of Texas fans. There is concern about parking and lots and 35 construction and getting the games. There's also been concerned about the raising of the ticket prices for Longhorn Football, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The one thing I didn't expect to be asked during this town hall meeting was whether or not the University of Texas would sponsor a pickleball team. I've watched pickleball being played in person. I've watched pickleball being played on television. Yes. There is a professional pickle bowling. I didn't know this until about two months ago. If you seen a pickleball play match being played? It's not good TV.

And I understand being active, it's cool and everything. But I think this is the second time appearance for me. Pickleball is just like a glorifying game of ping pong, is it not? There's not a tremendous amount of athleticism. Yeah, it's in between table tennis and actual tennis. It's to me, it's a good active thing for, people who are older. Yeah. Not like 18, 19, 20-year-olds for a college, which would happen at Texas.

I understand pickleball being the thing because, again, you'd have to move around like tennis. But I don't know if anybody's really breaking a sweat playing pickleball. And if you are, then maybe you've got some sweat glands that are a little out of control. I would say to the whole pickleball fascination, and it clearly is a fascination, I just don't get it. And I certainly don't get why anybody would ask Chris El Conti, the athletic director of the University of Texas, whether or not pickleball should be a college sport.

Because how many 21-year-old bros are playing pickleball right these days? Probably not as many. I don't know. This is a question for our, we have to go to the young bureau of the show. Connor, you and your guys playing little pickleball now and then? Yeah, we do actually. See? The broskis are playing pickleball. How do you like it?

Do you ever play tennis? I guess it's easier to learn. Yes, I think that's what makes it more appealing. It's more accessible. It's easier to play. Like, more people can play it. You know who's upset for pickleball is Rafael Stone and Ime Adoka? Yes.

You should ask him if he gets it. Oh, he gets it. Let me tell you. He's going to be like, get your ass on the court. I'll beat your ass for two hours. Actually, we're here from Emeadok. He says, shut your bum ass out. Yeah, that's exactly what he says.

So I would just say, asking. the athletic director of one of the five most powerful college institutions, but whether a pickleball should be a college sport, I say, I just don't get it. That's all I got. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. You can go, Connor. I mean, I got one, I guess.

713-21-2-5-7-9. If you got something you just don't get, you want us to help you with, we're here for you. Mine's kind of simple. I just don't understand why there's like a deadline to spend a flight credit. I had to cancel flight last year and the deadline's coming up in order for me to spend

it and I can't like delay it or extend it at all. So why is there a deadline to spend a flight credit? Why can't I just have it in my account? You know what? When I want to fly again. I have asked Schmided one time to extend the flight credit and they said no. It's a very easy answer, Connor. Tell me.

They want your money because that's why they give you store. That's why everybody gives you store credits. Especially ones that expire. They want to steal your money. At retail stores, I don't encounter store credit being like an expiring thing. Well, the two things I can think of is, one, they want you on the airplane. And second of all, they also think that you're probably going to forget it. They think you're going to forget. People get busy. People don't fly that often.

And what happens when that expired? They just get to keep the credit. That was pure profit. It's more money for them. It's profit. These airlines, they squeeze you everywhere they can. They put as many flights as they possibly can on their schedule. They're all delayed. They nickel and dime you at every point. Bags keep going up. keep going up. You get nothing when you get on the plane. They're just ringing you for every dollar they can. So I get it. I don't like it. We can't do anything about it. Now planes are flipping upside down and everybody's getting hurt and crashing in to everybody

else. People are dying out there. Also, we can just get some more money. Makes you want to jump on an airplane tomorrow, doesn't it? I was going to say, maybe I should just not use it. All right. So how much card do you have left? I don't have a choice. I don't want to say. Should I say the dollar? You sure why not? You don't say what it's for. Why you canceling it. $8,000.

How much is it? It's like $500. And when's the deadline? You better fly somewhere, bro. Hey. You better fly somewhere, bro. Hold on. You have to spend it by today?

By May. May. I'll each it today. Then, you know what? Stop your bitch and go somewhere. Where? Go to Cancun. Take a girl somewhere.

What happened to that? I don't know if I can leave in like two days off. Yeah. You know, we know people. We'll give you some days off. Matt will give you some cash. He makes a lot of money. And Cancun's expensive, too.

It's not just the flight. Cancun is expensive. Especially those places you were trying to stay at. Well, if we're going to go there, might as well have a good time. Well, you don't want to stay at a two-star. I get it. Let me share.

Someone who doesn't believe in two stars, I totally get it. You don't want to be at the PI? I'm not going to rough it in Mexico. Is there a PI? Cancun? Seems kind of weird. Look for a good Airbnb. We'll go to resort.

All right. So, yeah, spend your money and stop complaining. So I get while the airlines, but you got to put a deadline on it. Because they think ultimately, they're going to going to probably Southwest doesn't. Southwest is not. I'm sorry, Mark Mest.

You don't know. Southwest, you get your name mentioned because you don't burn a deadline in your credits. Ross, what don't you get? Did you see that the new president of basketball operations at the University of New Orleans has been named?

Yes, first of all, I didn't even realize they needed to have a president of basketball operations. Percy Miller, also known as the rapper Master Pete, whose son plays at University of Houston. He does right now? Mercy. Oh, really?

He transferred then, right? Where was he at first? I think he's a freshman. Oh, okay. Is it a different? He's got a son. I thought he had other sons playing. That's good.

Does Mercy play a lot? No. Oh. That's unfortunate. Yeah, I guess all these places have presidents of basketball ops. You had the guy Jim Nagy, who is the head of the senior bowl, just named the general manager of Oklahoma Sooner's football.

Do you know who the general manager of Stanford football is? That would be Andrew Luck. Yeah. Do you know who the president? I just made that. No, that's right. Yes. You know what the general manager of a St. Bonaventure basketball is? Yes, I do.

Agent Rudigigig. So, I mean, some of those I kind of get, but Master P at the University of New Orleans basketball? I don't get that. No disrespect to University of New Orleans, but here it comes. It's probably one of the five worst athletic institutions in Division I sports. Well, didn't they recently have a scandal as well? There was a point shaving scandal. Point shaving.

But, I mean, UN and I. barely exist as an athletic program. I mean, their budget is got to be zilch. Isn't that where Gordy started before going to LSU? He didn't start at LSU? I think he started U&O and transfer. Maybe. Well, thank God, because I don't even think U&O is really much of a degree.

I'm sure to be making that up. It might have been some other. Maybe it was Loyola or some other school. What is their team nickname? You know what they are for 10,000 M.T. Bucks. They are the Hurricanes. No. They're the jazz.

No, not the jazz. They are the Bourbon Street vomits. No, they're the privateers. Okay, I was close. You were not close. But the vomiteers is not actually terrible, actually. So you just don't get Master P running a basketball team, much less UNO. And I guess everybody's got to get these general managers now with all this NIL stuff?

Yes. It's adding a layer of administration in solid with all they doing. And it's taking the power of the program away from the coach and just making him coach. Juan Marischal is alive? he just threw out the first pitch in Port St. Louis. Juan Marischel's got to be in his 80s. Yeah, they take him out there to pitch? If that's the case, I respect the hell out of that.

They wheel him out there or what? Was he the one that would charge of somebody that hit him with a baseball bat? They all... Or was that Louis Tion. They all did that back in. Those 60s pitchers were vicious. Hmm.

All right. So, that's all you got? Yeah, that's all you. I think I got more. I just forgot what it was going to do. We got phone calls coming in right now. If you would like to, we'll start with Steve. If there's something in life you just don't get, let us know at 713-212-5-7-90.

Well, yeah, it was Marischaw. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I just don't get it. Segment number two of that coming up. Plus trivia for Cougar basketball tickets in the next segment and the news at noon, all in 20 here on 790. More Matt. Thomas show with Ross.

Now on Sports Talk 790. All right, I've got another pair of tickets to see the Cougars take on Cincinnati 3.30 inside for Tita Center on Saturday. If you like a pair of tickets, you must give me the answer to this hour's trivia question. Well, we'll give away some U of H Kansas tickets on tomorrow's show. How about that, Ross? All we do is give away tickets to the top five teams in the country. You don't get the, you don't get the mid-level Texas tickets. You don't get the mid-level rice tickets.

You get U of H prime good-looking seats. Again, too. Cincinnati today will give away the Kansas tickets tomorrow. Wow. That's how we roll here on the program. Here's the question for U of H versus Cincinnati this Saturday, 3.30 at Fertita Center. The Houston Cougars in the last 10 years have had quite a few players drafted in the NBA draft. In fact, two years ago, they had two players drafted in the first round.

name either one of the two players that were drafted in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft. And if you know one of the two, chicken knolls. And you're the first person to call 713-212-570, you will win a pair of tickets to see Houston play Cincinnati Saturday Saturday at 3.30. You think you're so damn funny, don't you? I can't. No, it's so stupid. It really is stupid. I mean, it's some of your dumber stuff I've ever heard. How's that cough?

it's better. You don't notice when you say something really stupid that cough comes into play, it's almost like God's watching over you. That's what Bet Midler said. God is watching us. But he's doing it from a distance, of course. I rather inside baseball commentary on that, but it's still really, really good. I think most people got that.

I would go over 50%. Of our audience? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about that one. How many Bet Midler songs on? my phone. That one. Zero. Okay. I would put the

rose on there. I think it was a great song back in the day. Sure, why not? All right. Let's talk to Steve in East Houston. Steve, I have one simple question for you. What don't you get? The women's basketball talk on national sports radio. Who does that? I don't get it. Who does that? Late night. The Smith's on Fox Sports Radio.

You mean how about a fresca? Yeah, that's the guy. That's him, yeah. And they'll spend, I don't know what a segment is in radio. Is it 10 or 15 minutes, whatever? Sure. And just go on and on and on and talk about it. And I just don't get it.

You guys are broadcasters. Yeah, it's a great question. Thank you, Steve, for the phone call. I don't listen to How About a Fresca. and I sure is hell to listen to Ben Mowner. No. God, no. I mean, there's something called music, and I play it.

Yeah, I don't, I don't know, I don't listen to the show. I don't know what they're getting into over there. The last time we talked about women's basketball was frankly the Caitlin Clark stuff. Interest is up, on the uptick. But never for sports radio. It'll never be a mainstream sports radio topic. Now, we can talk Longhorn Basketball, Women Lady Basket. You know what?

I'll lay out for this. Can you name three players on the team? Three? No, I can name one. Who is it? Madison Booker. And she's good? She's great. And I'll deal, I'm sure. Maybe I could get a couple of the others of multiple choice.

I've watched, you know, half watched a couple of their games. They're good. When the tournament starts, I'll get more tuned in. Do me this really quick favor. Can you check the attendance at Texas women's basketball games? I could probably do that. Now, their volleyball team has won two of them. the three national championships

and they fill up the old gym where the basketball team played way back in the day before the Irwin Center. Yes. Talk about the Gregory Gym? Gregory Gym. Yeah. Shout out to the Greg. You ever been to the Greg? Oh yeah. I used to go play a little... Yeah, I learned very early that I was not of the quality

that I needed to be to play pickup hoops at the Greg. They're good over there. Did you go shirts and skins over there too? No, you don't do shirts and skins. Yeah, I wouldn't want my belly being exposed. I was like, yeah, these guys are I'm going to go to the children's school. Rod in Cyprus is our winner of the Cougar basketball tickets. Thank you, Rod.

You could have gone with Jaris Walker, who was selected by the Wizards, who eventually went to Indiana. Or you can go with Marcus Sasser, who was originally selected by the Memphis Grizzlies, who then went to Boston, the Boston pick went to Detroit, and that's where Sasser is now with the Pistons. There you go. Thank you, Matt. So Marcus Sasser would have worked or Jaris Walker would have been applicable on that? Sasa or Jarvis? Yeah.

Okay. So do you look at the... What's the attendance of these games? Do you have to look right away? No, I was looking and I got distracted. I know you're shocked. Let's see. LSU Texas. You want the average attendance?

No, whatever. Give me some numbers. What are they drawn? 10,542, which I think is a sellout. That's a box game? That's what the mood sells. I think of the... Moody's bigger than that.

No, it's about 10. That's it? For concerts, they open up the top level and it goes up to 16. Wait a minute. When the Spurs play, you know, they played two games there. Yeah, they might open up the top and then it goes to 16. Wow. By the way, you know that anybody cares,

but Deeran Fox has yet to play a game in San Antonio since the trade. Yeah, he's played nine games with them, right? Two of them were home games that were technically in Austin. Yeah, basketball capacity is 10,763. total capacity is 16,000. I want to see their scoreboard. Is there a scoreboard surrounds the arena, correct? On the very top, is it like, that's how I've done it?

I was there once, but also there was a happy hour special, so I don't really remember. You blacked out? Okay, it seems fair. No, I don't think it's a wraparound scoreboard. I don't think. Reed Gedd is my partner in U of H broadcast thinks it's one of the best facilities ever seen in his life for college basketball. I've been meaning to go back.

Not a high ceiling. It's the lower hanging ceiling. Yeah. Saw the crowd. It's right on campus. Which before the Irwin Center was a little bit south. Yeah. I still liked the Super Drum.

Still enjoyed it. Yeah, it was nice. We just got old and they moved on. Yeah. Built the Moody Center. But you know, you're seeing now these arenas being built small. Like in Baylor, they built the new arena there. That's smaller.

Yeah, you just make it smaller. For T's 7500. You make it smaller and nicer and you jack up the ticket prices so you don't lose money. And you make it the place to be. Yeah. Okay. So shout out to Texas basketball for drawing 10,000 a game. And Craigway trying to figure out playing at one

game in Manhattan, Kansas, and next game playing in Austin within two hours of each other. A man calls him Syria. He loves him to Texas. He probably does 25 softball games if he could. Let's see. Texas, Kentucky? It says 11,060 for that. That's over capacity. They had to overflow the bad boy. Dang.

Yeah, Matt. you want to go to the mood yeah let's go I don't know if I want to I mean it's too like to see basketball you just ask me no there's three games left I think they got a couple of concerts coming there

all the time I'm surprised at Austin the city doesn't have a bigger venue than that for us for a concert they play Georgia this Saturday I could go I got a Rockets game what am I doing next Saturday the 8th Georgia sucks right or they okay

they could play OU the next Saturday after that yeah George is bad and oh you never good either, are they? No. Some winnable games. Hey, call it hashtag resume builders. How they need to win out, basically.

I wish the Rockets and Spurs will play a game in San Antonio in Austin. It'd be fun. It'd be nice. You can go out to 6th Street after. Is that still the place to be? I guess. I don't know. Rainy Street's cool. I haven't been to the dirty 6th, as they call it,

in the last couple of years. What makes the clean, six different than the dirty sixth. West six does a little bit more of 27 to 32 people, a little older, a little classier. Okay. Dirty six is like the 20 year old with a fake ID throwing up all over the place.

And trying to hook up. So what part of time are we going to again? You want to go to the dirty six? It doesn't matter. Okay. I just want to spend time with you, Ross. No, you don't. All right, that was, I just don't get it for this week. The news at noon is coming up. E. Maidoc is going to join us at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. 713.

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Yes, Matt. Thanks for having me here at the News at News. dude here on Sports Talk 790 here in the Houston Sports Sphere. Well, how about them Houston Rockets? Men straight away. Rockets are almost at 40% for the night from distance. Baseline left to right for green in the baseline. Left-hand dribble drive down the line he goes, flips it up with the right shoulder. Threw it off the backboard and kissed it in for two.

That was our latest highlight and that was probably like in the third quarter, Matt. No, I guess it was in the fourth. Rockets get the victory 1.18 to 106. Jaylen, excuse me, I'm in Thompson leading the way with 25 points. Also had nine rebounds, five assists. Jalen Green was good. Dylan Brooks, five of eight from three. Every game down the stretch, man, is a must-win game for the Houston Rockets.

As they now must stave off the Lakers who are a half game behind them in fifth place. And they are a game and a half behind the Memphis Grizzlies and the Denver. Nuggets. Can't wait. By the way, my phone's all screwed up. I'm supposed to be I'm messaging somebody and showing us with a text message. How's that happening? This iPhone update sucks. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I didn't mean interrupt your news coverage. Glad that you're locked into the news at noon, Matt. Hey, that was a great call, whatever you played. Oh, yeah, I'm sure it's fine. Well, Matt, after the game against the San Antonio Spurs, of course, the Rocket's relative strength of schedule has gone up. Good news is Denver has the 3rd. most difficult, Lakers 4th

and the Memphis Grizzly 9th, but now creeping up to 15th, about 500, the remaining opponents for the Houston Rockets. Tuffest Tess, two with Oklahoma City, two with Denver, and two with the Los Angeles Lakers. And one with the clippers, too, we're trying to get out of that six spot in the West.

Yes, that's true as well. So two more with Utah, but I thought it was supposed to be a piece of cake the first one, while it didn't work out. Are we saying don't sleep on them, Golden State Warriors, Matt? They've won four in a row now. Let's play Golden State, too. Both Golden's say and the Lakers are playing really well. Mm-hmm.

All right, Matt. Well, let's keep it moving on the news at noon. As we talked about this earlier, Justin Tucker has denied the allegations against him, but also has apologized, quote, it devastates me to know that anyone I have worked with would not have felt respected and valued as a professional, but more importantly as a person

and to anyone who has felt otherwise, I am sorry. To all 16. of you that have been pissed off. You know, Ross, I don't want to be a man who makes 16 women mad. It's probably more. For different reasons. For various reasons.

For sure. All right, Matt. Well, let's keep it moving on the news at noon. Gene Hackman, who will be today's, believe it or not, has died at 95. People say, Hoosiers, some say, the greatest sports movie of all time. so at least in the sports world

he's best known for that. Of course he was also in the French connection, Royal Tannenbaum's. Wasn't he in the replacements too? Yes, he was the coach in the replacements. Or was he was he was? He was. He was. Also, you know what? I'll give you, how about a quick preview of the, believe it or not, signed up for the Marine Corps at the age of

a 16, lied about his age, told them that he was 18, signed up for the Marine Corps, and then was sent over 6. into China and also in Hawaii and Japan he served. That's a long, believe it or not question. I'm not going to say all of that. Oh, okay.

You think I'm going to put every single word of those? I'm just saying, it's true that that happened. So, Gene Hackman, thank you for your service. Also, you are dead. Found dead with his wife and dog all past. Got to be, I don't know if it's foul play. Maybe like a Jim Jones drink the Kool-Aid situation? I don't know.

A little fishy, Matthew, you asked me. It's honestly, Ross, disturbing. Something, I mean, this takes no, Inspector Closso to figure this out. There's something that's really off about that. Mm-hmm. I think so. So whether it's A killed, not A helped B get killed.

I don't want to go to this. It's just terrible. It's just not, his wife's 30 years younger, and why does a dog have, what happened there? I don't know. Continue on. I'm sorry. Okay.

Well, let's move on. let's go to the NFL draft. Top prospect Abdul Carter, edge rusher from Penn State, apparently discovered at the combine that he has a stress reaction in his right foot. Carter now will have to decide whether or not to have surgery before the draft

in April. He is expected to make that decision later this week, according to Adam Schepter. Agent Drew Rosenhouse saying there are mixed opinions on whether he needs surgery. We will figure that out in the next. near future. Why do I want to... I need a full medical breakdown.

I need assurances from multiple doctors, Ross, before I take that guy 1-1-1. Stress reaction? Doesn't sound like it's too bad. Supposed to be maybe a couple of months recovery for Abdul Carter, man. I know you'd been breaking down his tape if you wanted to give us

your full... Let me give you. Your full scouting report. Yes. Has got great Twitch. Uh-huh. and is Freakishly athletic High motor and has a great awareness of where he needs to be on the field.

Instincts. Yeah. I like that. I think he's a complete player except for the stress fracture. Okay. Or as a kid's a stress reaction. Thank you, Matt.

And well, speaking of Adam Schefter, let's keep it with the NFL reporters. Apparently, we talked about this earlier as well. There was a big confrontation between Jordan Shultz and Ian Rappaport. Now we broke this down a little bit earlier. Ian Rappaport's had confrontations with Jason Lackenforah. He and Schaefter had a dust up now.

Jordan Schultz, Jordan Sultz putting out a report that Tom Brady and Matt Stafford met face-to-face at a Montana ski resort. Ian I Protect the Shield. Rappaport says it was a chance meeting wink, wink, at a ski resort. Oh my gosh. Can't believe you're here, Tom Brady.

And apparently there was a confrontation over it, a verbal confrontation at a hotel room between Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport. Now, the altercation took place at the Starbucks, though. Oh, I'm sorry, at the Starbucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was in the Starbucks in the hotel? In the hotel.

Okay, I'm sorry. By the way, do they, do a Rar rucks cost more inside of a hotel than it would be on a standalone shop, right of Brook and Mortar, correct? Probably. Yeah. Certainly inside, though. May Wobu Darriott.

Yeah, May Wobu Yovirayat? And certainly at Robbie Airport. Yes. Yeah. Jordan Schultz said we need to talk. Ian Rapporte says, no, we don't. And then that's when things got... I think it's just too highly egotistical to think they're really bigger than they are.

Their blank doesn't stink. And they're just trying to beat their chest about being first on a story and one guy got beat, maybe the other one. Again, I don't like Jordan. Shultz. I think he is gravy training off of his dad, just like Ben

Gravy Tanes off of Justin, and but he's able to carve out a career out of it. He's working for Fox. And I just don't think that Matthew Stappar just randomly happen to be at the same hotel as Tom Brady and Montana. Oh man, I can't believe it.

Funny seeing you here. So, I would lean towards Schultz maybe being right about it, but you certainly cannot make a scene at a hotel in front of other agents and other general managers and most importantly other NFL media sitting there watching you going you guys are a bunch of jackasses. I really don't want to back Jordan Schultz, but with everybody having beef with Ian Rappaport, he's in the wrong ones.

And don't you think Rappaport has to defend the NFL a little bit because his paychecks are signed by the NFL? Yeah. And you know who's trying to buy the NFL network is ESPN? How is that going to work? I don't know. Is the ESPN going to all of a sudden at the Shield? to have to have to protect the shield and be a little more

it's a little safer when they're reporting of stuff. I'm telling you, our journalism in today, you've got guilty by association almost every single thing. If you're a corporate partner, if you're a television partner, there is nobody out there. Really, the only exception maybe is the athletic, who doesn't have a dog in the fight. They can report whatever they want to,

not to answer to anybody. Although, does the New York Times have some relationship with leagues and teams? I don't know. I mean, it doesn't take you long to figure out that somebody's got to cover somebody's back all the damn time. Welcome to journalism. That's why I shouldn't get in it, honestly. Good thing I'm not a journalist.

Me either. We're commentators. We're not journalists. All right, Matt, one quick offbeat story as we end the news at noon. Denville, New Jersey. Have you ever been? I don't believe so. Well, in Morris County, in Denville, New Jersey, there was a raid at a

spa called the Oasis spa. Where reportedly there was a prostitution ring being run out of a massage parlor. The woman in charge of said massage parlor, her name, Soon Bang.

So I must ask, have you ever seen Soon Bang at the Oasis Spa? So what was Mrs. Bang thinking when she had the baby? Soon? I think it's probably an Asian name soon? I don't know. That's got

to be her like stage name, right? Her nickname also known as Cindy. Her given name, Soon Bang. How about the woman that had sex with a thousand people in one day and she's now pregnant? She has to figure out which one did the deed. That's a lot of Mori episodes.

Oh, you are not the father. Next in line. You are not the father. Next in line. You are not the father. Next in line. You are not the father. Next in line. You are the father. What is Guy A Thousand feeling? All right, let's move on. Hi, no pain. That's the news at noon. Connor just covered his head in disgust, I believe.

1214, Sports Talk 790. Eme Adoka, 45 minutes from now, thank God. Back to Legitimic Sports Conversation next year on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. On Sports Talk 790. All right, part of me and why I don't want the Rockets by the Lakers is because there are going to be some media folks, and I won't mention names, Madam Schlatton, who believes that the Lakers are going to get favorable calls Ross in the playoffs against the Rockets because the Lakers are a sexier draw, and the Lakers need to be a part of the NBA television package,

because NBA television ratings have suffered, and that Luca and LeBron being on national television every single game is going to carry more cachet than, say, Dylan Brooks, and M. Thompson and Jalen Green. Why haven't the Lakers won since 2020 then? But they're the sexy thing right now. Luca, in his doughy little body. If they're getting all the calls, they should win all the games. I'm just saying that's going to happen. I'm going to have some critical thinking here, people.

I'm just a little nervous about that, about rocket fans, and some media are going to want to lose their mind over the fact that the Rockets, if they play the Lakers and don't win the series, is because the Lakers had Scott Foster and Tony Brothers in their back of the hip pocket. Whatever. Just go out there and beat him. But I will say Jalen Green doesn't get a great whistle. He got beat up again yesterday.

He's been, I mean, I don't know if he's just got to start flailing. I think, you know what it is? He's got to let the braids out unless you let that hair go out. That way it flops in the wind when he gets hit, and it looks more dramatic. Let me ask you this. What if he was just asked, are you getting hit more than an average NBA player does? and he just said eloquently, I'm tired of getting hit.

The league's got to watch this. Now, I think getting a technical fouls, you know, being mad about a call and not, it doesn't really do you any good because that's just immediate that's in the heat of the moment, that's not thoughtful. But if he wanted to get into a microphone and say, I'm sick and tired of jailing ground,

I'll ask him about this. He joins us. His texts are not going through. I wonder if he's taking a nap or something. You probably blocked you now. I hope not. maybe switch to Android there's no nobody says Android anymore thousands of millions of people have

weirdos do Android oh boy if you ain't in the cloud you ain't doing it right hi that's Matt Thomas saying that if you have an Android you are a weirdo my name is Ross and I'm just letting you know that wasn't me that I know two people that are Android users that are I consider really good friends okay and they're both a little different I will not name their names but I happen to think

Generally speaking, Apple iClouders are iMessengers are way nicer people, not nicer, but way more even keel than, say, the Androiders. Well, some people say, especially computer nerds, that you get more features and everything for the price with Android than iPhone. And I believe they're correct. Okay. Back to my... Why do I do this to myself? This is totally my fault. What were you talking about? Jalen Green. And by me trying to text email.

He is not getting calls. I would agree with that. And I don't know if somebody's got to say. say something, but again, being in the heat of the moment and calling a referee, what are you effing, you know, blind or whatever? How about, were you going in the post-game presser and saying they need glasses? That's right. That's right. That's going to cost you 100 Gs or whatever it was. Yeah.

Yeah, can you just go fold Daryl Morey and send a tape of bad calls to the league office? I think you absolutely could because if you went and showed them and you were saying, A.Silver at MBA.com, want to send you these videos. I got seven calls in the last 10 games where Jalen Green is getting mugged and he's not getting any calls. Can you please explain love I Adoka? Okay. Let's do it.

Let's get to the league office in this. Because I do think he gets an unfavorable whistle. I think he gets calls. He doesn't get calls that other guys get. I'll put it. Yeah, maybe unfavorable, maybe he's too strong. He doesn't get the same whistle that other players get. Staff Curry gets the whistle.

And Edwards. Yonis was getting. a bunch of foul calls. I'm like, nobody even touched him. Right. Now, it's hard for me to say whether or not LeBron gets the calls because LeBron argues about every single thing, so it's hard to figure out when he really should get calls. He gets calls. And when he doesn't get calls.

He gets calls, but he acts like he doesn't. Right. That's why it's confusing to me. Well, a lot of players do that. A lot of players get calls and then act like they don't. I don't know, Tom Brady or... Part of it, part of Luca Donch's criticism. Chris Paul's not flopping around, getting a bunch of calls and then still complaining every trip down to the

referees, Luca Donchich. I would get, if I was a teammate of those type of players, I would get exhausted of hearing that. Well, the Mavericks clearly were exhausted with Luca Donchich. They literally went to him and was like, hey, stop complaining so much. We brought this up a little bit yesterday.

Is this the smart thing for Dallas to do is to try to shame Luca around the NBA streets? They're doing damage control. It's not smart. Because I was talking about this with some people the Rockets yesterday, not front office, but just people that were on the team. If you really didn't want to pay him, the supermax, which you had been eligible for, that's justifiable.

If you think a guy is going to have issues with injuries and staying in shape and you believe his alcohol and or tobacco consumption is a concern, and you've brought up to him on multiple occasions, I mean, I get it. You're not going to invest a lot of money in the guy, especially because if you supermax a guy and he doesn't wind up being very good, it could potentially damage your salary cap for a long time. And Pustin also makes a guy an untradable. That's when you basically call everybody. And you have to be not, as you brought up yesterday, don't be scared. If you really say, I just can't commit to Luca, but one of you teams out there can, give us a call.

Let's talk it out. Yeah. Don't fail to give yourself the best market just because you're scared to say out loud, you want to trade Luca. It came out anyway. Because you got to have stones enough as it is to go trade Luca. I don't want anybody to know we want to trade Luca. People are going to get mad. They're going to get mad anyway.

Either way. You can deny the rumors or say, you know what? We're looking for the best market. You drum up a market. And they didn't. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that was. But it's needless to say,

when you have thank you, Nico, chance going out in the L.A. arena a couple nights back. I will say, though, Lucas' defense is terrible. And he was tired at the end of that game. He was just, he was just had his hands on his knees like sucking wind and not defending at all yeah he's got to get in shape but you know what to dallas's defense and it's not much but they've been we've been saying that

about look good since he left syria yeah we understand it's like we said somebody breaks up with a nine there's something going on there matt that's true um checking on the a astros real quick how many homeruns since camp smith have uh no spruce score bottom of the first Matt's have a runner at first. Oh, is the game just starting? Yeah, and we'll give you updates. It's been off at 30.

Oh, I guess they started at 12. 0.05. Yeah, they started a little bit later. 0.10. Okay. Yeah. Let me tell you what has happened in so far. I mean, we can't. Tell me what's happening so far, Matt. Well, let me see the box score here.

Astros with one hit in the first. Jeremy Payne let off today play shortstop. Wonderful. Out. Albor is out. Christian Walker's had a pretty nice spring so far in limited sample size. Jeremy Payne has struck out on three straight sliders. You did not.

I'm just kidding. You're terrible. What is wrong with you? Kids just trying to get past that reputation not being ahead of slider and you're not helping the cause. I know. I'm sorry. Yeah. Keratini also went out as well.

So line up today had Pena Short, Alvarez-D-Hing Walker at first. Carrotini in the cleanup spot? Hmm. That's interesting. Zach DeSenzo in left field Cam Smith at third Maricio Dubon at second Chas McCormick in right

Jake Myers in center It's not a bad line up for a road game today Let's go baby Astros by 20 No they're not playing by 20 Why yeah they can't score 20? Not in the spring training game no no no one would allow that Is there a run rule? No but you just don't want that

You don't you don't want a 20-run baseball game. Then your general manager is losing his mind. I'll tell you Adam, man. I wouldn't mind. It wouldn't be out of 5.30. Yeah, yesterday the game ended quick. I think they were at 2.15. They had to put almost a full-out, full-hour day in.

Poor guys. They went overtime, apparently, or some sort. We were off really. But I did pre-imposed. And I worked the game, so we're good. We're doing great. We put our hours in. You know what, Matt, you know, I know we don't want to say it, but we have to.

We're just carrying this station at the end of the day. Yeah, and we're most modest about it as well. Never bring it up to anybody. Meanwhile, Sean and Brian are like those airs. We work four hours every day. We have to get here at 5 o'clock in the morning. We got a prep. 545.

We get here at 5.58 and we have to, you know, sing during our first segment and all that kind of stuff. They're doing great. We love them. We've seen more of them in the last four months that we saw in the previous four years. Absolutely. Isn't that crazy? 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee-Mughern. A major university, Ross, has announced how they're going to divvy up their revenues legally to players. A pot of money has been given by the school to its athletes for the future. I'll tell you how they break that up next. And to show you again how the football is how what drives the university and everything else pales in comparison. 1229 on Sports Talk 790.

Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right. There's a revenue share going on at the University of Georgia. What a two-time national champion in the last, what, three or four years? Then they went back to back, right? I believe so. Okay.

This comes from Ross Dellinger on Twitter. Okay. $20.5 million they're going to give back to the players on the campus of the University of Georgia. That's a lot of money. Woo! Stay with me on this, though. Okay. Of that $20.5 million,

$75% of that's going to football. That's 13.5. a half million dollars okay that's a lot of money going to about what do you say i don't walk-ons could get that time i'm assuming yeah i mean there's no reason why they can't so so that's a 90 man roster basically uh-huh so 90 million 90 players are going to split 13 and a half million dollars now granted probably your starting quarterback's going to get you between a million and a half and two per year for that so a lot of it's going to be taken care of probably by skill position players i'm guessing the backup tight end of the third string left guard is not going to get his nearly the same.

15% of that $20.5 million is going to men's basketball. So 75 to football. Yes. 15 to men's basketball. 5% to women's basketball. So add all that up. 75, 15, and 5. That's 95% goes to three teams.

5% goes to every other sport. That's the cross country. That's the golf. That's the volleyball. That's the tennis. That's the swimming team and all that kind of stuff. It does mirror probably what the money is brought in by the schools. But Georgia ain't messing around.

Let me tell you, you take Ross Dellinger's tweet, and you show it to any recruit that's thinking about going to play college football. And you're telling me that 75% of $20.5 million is going to one part of the athletic program, that is going to help them remain relevant in the world of college athletics. Yeah, I would imagine. So here's the big question then. Let's say your football team, because football drives everything. But let's say you're Kentucky, for example.

Kentucky's had a mid-football program, right, give or take? They're known for being a top 20 program. Yes. But if Kentucky's football program is still bringing all the money in because of the SEC television deal, but it's the basketball team that it's known for how do you wiggle the numbers of saying well I'm going to give most of my money to the sport that makes the most money

but in reality Kentucky is known for its basketball program Kentucky wants has a shot at high-end basketball players where maybe the Kentucky football program does not well I don't know I mean if you have every other program doing the same thing I don't know how's the Kansas basketball doing it and how's UCLA it's not competing with the other programs I don't know how that would work out

because everybody yeah the football football makes the most money at every program. Because if you're Bill self and you're at Kansas, do you think the distribution of funds would be, would make sense at Kansas like it would make sense at Georgia? How does this work anyways legally? It's the NCAA. How do they say they are an amateur athletics entity if these players are being paid this money?

The revenue, the University of Georgia Athletic Association, preparing its share revenue with athletes starting July 1st. Georgia plans to pay the maximum allowed approximately $20.5 million with football receiving about 75%. The athletic department, by the way, will also be adding approximately 100 scholarships across its 21 sports, bringing the total to 370. It was the last meeting before a final approval of the House settlement on April the 7th, which will change the way athletic departments, including Georgia and others at NCAA schools operate.

Georgia is preparing for revenue sharing with athletics that would go into effect on July 1st. The House versus NCAA antitrust settlement. Georgia's planning to directly pay the players, the maximum of about 20.5 with about 2.5 of that going to new scholarships working off a model off of the House versus NCAA antitrust, as you mentioned, settlement. Hmm. I mean, $2.8 billion in damages? Yeah. So this is a one-time payment? I don't know. It doesn't sound like it would be.

I don't even know. Why would one class? I don't even know. This is very, this is a, we need a legal expert on this bad boy. Let's get somebody. What's Charles Adams doing these days? Point being it says, we're now going to see a model where the school is directly going to pay the athletes. And another new at NIL at this point, that's just separate compensation for doing their job. Okay.

So is the NCAA going to have to pay taxes now? I don't know. That I don't know. But it's amazing to me that, well, I mean, Georgia knows where to butter its bread here. I mean, they know that the more money they put towards football, the better chance they are going to have the better athletes, and they're going to be able to keep their stake as a top five college football program. Oh, so there's a second case Johnson versus NCAA that is the threat to student athlete amateurism. Student athletes alleging their employees, which they are.

Which, you know, we need to do it. We need to just forget the amateur athletic portion. of it, just give them 1099s at the end of the year and say if you want to represent the University of Georgia Athletic Administration, you're a paid employee. Just like you if you were teaching a class of calculus or something. And now all these revenues, the NCAA and these

teams, they're going to have to pay taxes on it. Yeah, everybody. The government will get their share of this. Oh, Uncle Sam always gets his cut, Maddie. But I'm just curious how, again, how do you, if you're part of an if you're part of a college, uh-oh, we got an expert.

Somebody's here coming in to save the program. Oh, you're here to save the show. Gordon comes in to save it. Here we go. He can explain this to us. The Matt Tom show. All right, I'm here to save the show. The expert,

college football expert. Yes, you are locked in SEC. What did you got? So what was your questions on all this? So this $20.5 million. Where does this money come from? That is specifically is just SEC schools.

That's the revenue share from the new TV contract. The billion-dollar TV contract they sign with Disney ESPN. Okay. They're going to get that every single year. So they're going to do this. So they're going to do this. going to do this? Well, just this year,

it's 20, yeah, it's not just Georgia. Seth Emerson, who writes for the athletic, covers Georgia. He wrote this article around Georgia, because Georgia's 80, Josh Brooks, talked about this publicly the other day about how they're addressing this. But every SEC school, like the chunk of their

change they're getting from the TV contract, they expected it was around 20 million per school, and they're breaking it down. But the interesting part of this, too, is it's not just revenue share. What they're doing is they're taking, I think Georgia said, taking about $5 million of that, and they're just going to add extra scholarships. So basically, walk-ons go away.

If you've been a walk-on, you now will become a scholarship athlete. What they're going to be able to do is add baseball, the baseball team, gymnastics, women's basketball, you're going to be able to put more girls on scholarship to add depth to your team. So you think of it as just like a guy's getting a duffel bag of cash, they're expanding this out a little bit more to go, hey, let's put kids on scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be on scholarship. So this is just SEC schools doing this, right?

That's as far as I do. Now, everybody else is they can start revenue sharing, but the SEC specifically is getting $20 million per school. The ACC, Big Ten, they're doing it, but it's much less because they didn't sign this massive TV deal with ESPN. My question to Ross a minute ago, if George is getting 75% of that $20 million split towards football, I get it. Yeah, that's just how they're deciding to divvy this.

Okay, my question is this. if you are a basketball school, i.e. Kentucky. Yes, you will spend more on basketball. Allocate more funds. You allocate as much as you want? Can you just do 195% of basketball? Here's the other thing, distinction is. This is just the revenue sharing component that was proposed through the,

or that was approved through the House settlement. Collectives are still the thing. Like, collectives can still, so Kentucky can still pay for all their basketball players via collectives. Why am I? I don't do both. Well, this is my team. are hiring GMs. If you missed the news yesterday, Jim Nagy, who's been with the Senior Bowl for the last decade, just left to go be the GM at Oklahoma.

Yes. They, every school is hiring GMs at U&O now. Yeah, they're hiring GMs to handle all the dollars and cents and allocate where all this money's going to go. You basically need a Nicky C to come in and hey, figure out where all this money's going because I'm a head coach. I'm doing X's and O's. I can't deal with all this. I mean, it's actually smart. We mentioned Andrew Luck about a month ago took the 80s, the general managers, spotted Stanford football. Yeah.

By the way, the Stanford Athletic Director resigned just the other day. Whoa. I wonder if Andrew would want that, or he would just want to get his feet wet in the GM world first. Let's let Mr. Nunes at U of H know

if they have an opening for GM. I'll volunteer my services. You want to be the general manager of U of H football? Sure. They might need some help, figuring everything out. I mean, if you want, I think radio is still vibrant. I mean, you couldn't do your life.

You couldn't do your Locked on SEC podcast anymore. Lombardi, who left former GM, he's the GM for North Carolina with Bill Belichick. Oh, that's right. He made yesterday, he's making $1.5 million. Wow. To go be a GM of a college program. A lot of headaches. So it's not even, it's not even town valuation.

It's just basically separating your NIL from your revenue that you're coming in and how you're spending it. And allocating where all that money is going to go. Again, like I said, the biggest thing about this is they are doing away with roster limitations. So you're no longer like your walk-ons, quote-unquote, they've expanded the roster. So it used to be football you had to get down to 85 or whatever it was. You can go 110, 120, whatever it is, and you can put all those kids on scholarship now through the revenue share. So the smaller schools, the non-power 5, they're not going to see this kind of money. They have revenue shares.

I mean, they all have TV contracts. The Conference USA has a TV contract. They all have contracts. It's just not what the SEC is. When's the last time of conference? U.S.C. team won the championship anyways. Well, we had a Mac champ. Boise made the playoff last year. That's true. Northern Illinois.

It was Northern Illinois. It was in a B.S. game a few years back. Were they not? Wasn't that the school? Was some Illinois? They beat in, uh, oh, they beat Notre Dame. So, Shama? No, there was a, Northern BCS game. Somebody was in a BCS five or six years ago. Wasn't it Northern Illinois? We've had a few sneak-thor, yeah. I mean, U.S. made a New Year's six bowl many moons ago. Not that many moons ago.

Wasn't that time, back before Tom Herman even went to Austin. Yeah, well. Back when Jim Bill Fisher was still-catcher. You better make room this year. We're going to be in the college football playoff. He could make top 12, actually. If Indiana can go, why can't we get there?

Don't ask Indiana's coach about being a basketball school. He doesn't like that. I don't ask Kelvin's something about Indiana either. Hey, let's buy-gone to be bygones. You guys need to win the championship this year. Don't you stick it in his face and say, you've aged national champs. I'm going to take a week-long suspension

if the fooders don't make the final four. Wishing them the best. Because I'll swore on the ear multiple times and call you people names. I think we should start asking U of H about getting that spot on the parade route to broadcast live. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Yeah, you might want to wear your Kevlar. Might want to have a SWAT team. Maybe not by the parking garage. Yeah, maybe not do it on campus. Maybe somewhere safer. Like the Woodlands? Yeah. Have the parade in the woods?

Although somebody got shot in a Woodland's bar about two weeks ago. Did you see that? Like two days ago. Isn't there any smart place? Is there any safe places left in Houston? It was like the Irish bar or something. Gooseacre? Gooseacre.

That's it. Somebody got shot there? Two people got shot there. It was like 2 a.m. I've been drunk there. Don't stay out that late. I've been drunk there a number of times. The one at 2 a.m. can't be safe either.

I get it. It's not normally that bad. Well, it was two weeks ago. to be where you go rope a cougar. My guess is you still can do that. By the way, I'm getting a lot of slander from a friend of mine. John, who lives in Oklahoma City, is mad at me for two

reasons. One, he mad at me because I said Oklahoma City is on a thriving metropolis. He said there's a strip bar that highlights pregnant strippers, if you're into that sort of thing. Yeah, like you said, not a sprawling metropolis. And then, I complain about people that use Android,

then he was like, I'm an Android user too. So you're looking for Androids and stripper bars that feature pregnant women, Oklahoma City's your spot. Yeah, that sounds about right. And about 14 loves truck stops. And the home of a Sonic too. Ronic. That'll spend any money with us. Ronic Myvin?

Yeah. Burgers, overrated, everything else? Pretty much on rate. 20-147. And this is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Eme Adok in 15 minutes here on 790. Quick Animal Fact number 233. Most whales don't watch sports.

They're Dallas fans. When I think of whining, I think of Dallas. Oh, and speaking of whales, back to former whale, Matt Thomas. I'll be back to my girlish weight of 286. On Sports Talk 790. Chris Gordy's a national treasure. He just is. It's got a lot of issues, but we still love him. We all have a lot of issues.

All right, E. Ma Doka's going to join us in 10 minutes. I hope he is. I tried to getting a hold of him, but... Yeah, what's going on? I heard he blocked you. He did not block. I wonder if he's got his phone. I'm going to try this one more time.

Copy. I'm going to do this. See, it says text message SMS. That doesn't make any sense. Do you think he doesn't have updated his phone or something? I think you're blocked. That's the easiest solution. Occam's razor, Matt.

All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-2-7-9. on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern. I was going to bring him something here in a minute. I just totally forgot because Cordy took over a conversation. Gordy couldn't stop talking about SEC Media Days. Yeah, he's going to Atlanta this year.

So he and Dan will be room-dog in it for a week. That'd be great. Dan's are sweating when he's sick. You said Atlanta? SEC Media Days? Oh, we got to go, dude. City Houston can't get enough of SEC. And we can't get enough of Vanderbilt offensive tackling.

The question is, does on the trip, does Dan bring more LSU year or more Georgia here? Well, he's the one that puts a half. He gets a special shirt made. A half a half. LSD. Yeah. Yeah, you can't. It is a fraud. You cannot be both in the same conference. You just can't.

Now, I'm an equal opportunity. I love Texas Tech. Hold on. You wear tech gear. Agi gear. Yeah. And you have H gear. Yeah. So you're a fraud. You're going to be wearing Rhode Island gear. But, but. But when Texas Tech played Houston, I told the audience,

I'm UMH. You take all model. As you plays Georgia, Dan has a preference. He's not one of those schools. Well, you know, I don't know. He's a Texas Lutheran guy. You got to go out. There's a super fraud.

Can't just go all in on their fraud. It'd be like a dufus that went to tech and all of a sudden roots for Texas. I mean, that's stupid. Well, some people grow up rooting for certain things and they don't let it go. You know what? Then get your ass in that school then, unless you're just stupid enough, can't get in. Now, we have some friends of ours, one in particular who has a fan who's a fan. of 20 different schools, so it's, you know, we're kind of used to that.

Yeah, it happens. But mine have ties, family ties to it. Yeah, but you didn't go to Texas Tech. But my son did. But you didn't. I paid for it. So really, I should be. Your son went to Prairie View. I'll give me to Root for them, Matt.

I do root for Prairie View. Payton had a great time there. I'm Team Prairie View. They were very nice to him, great education, good schooling. You want to go to A&M finish his career? Did Tillman for Tia to go to U of H? I believe he did. I don't get his degree in restaurant.

I don't know if he finished. I don't know that for sure. He toured the campus. But he's on the damn border regions. He says it's too dangerous. I'm out of here. He also wrote a check for a certain arena that's galvanized America. His money is good.

I wish I could spend that kind of money. I would make it the Thomas Center. Rockets money is good, too. Rocket money valuation of that building. It went from $2.2 billion to $5.7 billion? That's the smartest guy I know. It's not bad. Did you ever get your finder's fee on that?

No. Two greatest mistakes in my life. Finders fee on the sale of the rockets. And, of course, Crush City. That's a bigger one to me. That one really hurts. You wouldn't have made them much money. I'd admit something.

You probably wouldn't even be done a trademark. Could you imagine if the Astros back in the day, said we're going to make a bunch of Crush City shirt. and they're like, wait a minute, the trademark's already been, who would be so dashedly enough to make Crush City?

It says Matthew Lewis Thomas on there. Hmm. Hmm. You're a good negotiator, Ross. What could I have made in the deal? Could I have taken a lump sum check and just called it a day? It said I can be bought off?

Let's see. Crush City was trademarked already. I'm doing a trademark search. Ooh, actually, what year was this? 15. Application. I don't already know this. I already know this.

Application filing date 2019. Mm-hmm. I know. And this other one was filed in 2012. Yep. Yeah. And not paid off. And Baltimore Oils and not do any of them, either one of them.

Think about it, you should feel bad for me because if I would have, if I would have trademarked Crush City, like, I should have, you'd have probably had the show to yourself. I can't even live enough high off the Academy Hog. I don't believe that. I don't think I could have been to retire. I don't think so either. But I could have stopped a lot

of this mess. With all the debts you racked up? To A&M into Texas, tech. Hell, and I'm Team Rhode Island. Go Roady. Go Rams. Let's go. Roady? Is that what they call? That's they call it. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Every school's got a little nickname.

I love a good Roady. We've had some great roadies in our day. Like Charles Rorties are fantastic. So as soon as the rockets are going out, done, we're going to Lake Charles Rody. Let's go then next week. We usually try to go during spring training. I'm all gone next week. Oh, my God.

You're the worst. Hey, and maybe hopefully if the rockets go away in the NBA finals, I'm going to go without you. You can do that, but you want as much fun? I might have more fun depending. No, I've, you know what? It'll be less Christopher Cross on the road trip. If I would have not gone, I'm not would have seen you with those two elderly black women that were in their 60s you were hanging out with.

Excuse me? Yeah. What'd you say? The two elderly black women that you were hanging out with that were loving on you. What are you talking about? When you were drinking and had too much drink, they were all like, who is this sweet-talking man there? That did not happen.

I was at a bar getting a drink. See, this story is way overblown. And there were nice ladies. I appreciate them. They loved, they were like, I got to go, they went, what's the opposite of Cougar chasing? They were looking for the young, and they found you.

Okay. They want to make a sandwich with you. Excuse me? You heard me. You should have seen it kind of you've been impressed. These two women in dresses and they were very sweet ladies. They were like, yeah, they were nice ladies. Yeah, look, I can't help it.

I was trying to get a drink at the bar and then I was accosted. You were accosted. That's exactly right. You should we talk him to buying you a drink? Buying a drink. They wanted to take them up to her room. This is completely overbeating. blown story. They were whispering sweet of things

and one of the women wore in his left ear or was in the right ear. It was really crazy. They slipped their room key in your pocket. None of this is accurate. It said, Meet us for dinner, baby, at 3.30. I'm like, okay. Ross, go do it. They said, give me a blue plate special. All right. E. Mae Doak is going to join us as long as his phone

works. That's to start the final hour. He might have blocked you. That doesn't surprise me. The Matt Thomas show of Ross continues next on 790. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. All right.

I don't think EMA's phone's working. Because I just texted him three times. He's usually, he's a much better text than you are. He's a coach of an NBA basketball team, so it doesn't really make time for anybody. I got to respond to Adam Clinton from this morning. Oh, what do you say?

Sorry, Adam. I'll be co-hosting with him on Friday. The whole four hours? For two hours. Really? Okay. So we are trying to get a hold of Eme Adoka. It is green. See, that's what I'm saying.

The only thing, the great thing about the iPhone is if it's blue and you normally get text to somebody, you know, it's okay. But if you're, if you usually, I deliver, I message to somebody. And then it shows up green, something's wrong with his phone. So maybe he lost his phone. Lose it? Maybe it's dead. Maybe he left it at a restaurant or something and it died. Okay.

Well, we are going to pivot until we get a hold of EMA Adoka. Channel 26 was at the shell. Not the shell. I always called the Shell Houston, but it's the, is it the Astros Open? Is that what they called? No, there's some sponsor to it. I don't know what it is.

But Jim Crane spoke today about Jose Altuve playing out in left field and a couple of general statements. And I just sent the comment to Connor. So Connor, if you want to play that, here it is. Here's Jim Crane, literally Hamfin, full of minutes ago talking with the media about Jose Al Tuve's move from second base to left field.

He's a team guy. He's our anchor guy. He's going to be here for a long time and hopefully he'll be in the Hall of Fame, but he's a team player. As soon as he heard the word, nobody had to tell him he was out there taking fly balls and he's a great athlete that, you know, he'll cover the ground

and he looks good out there. I mean he's been catching a lot of fly balls. And you know, that just shows he's a team guy and you know you look back at players like vizio that made the adjustments great athletes can make the adjustments i don't i don't think i have a problem there and he'll still probably play some second base we're still we're still working on a few things with the team but it's jelling nicely and our objective is the win of the division we think we can do that and get some of our pitchers back we should be deep in pitching by the middle of the year with three or four guys coming back

so i like the way the team set up that there's three things in baseball i tell joe spotta all the time and Dana pitching, pitching, pitching. You're getting good pitching, you're going to be in the games. And we should have a deep pitching staff this year. We're picking up another guy from Chicago. We're ready to go. I think the team's looking good. Ready to go.

Glass half full, baby. Teams looking good. I love it. Pitching, pitching, pitching. Talking about Hayden West Neskey, the Houston kit. Now part of the Chicago trade. I wouldn't call him a depth ad if he's your fifth starter. Depth would be sixth or seven.

But, well, I mean, he is kind of penciled in first week of the season at least opening five-man rotation. I got to look at the Astro's schedule, see how long they can go. I wonder what their off days are like. If they can go five for a while, they have to worry about getting to a sixth-man rotation. Because the Astros haven't been afraid to do it. I don't think they shouldn't be. I think that in 2025 that you can go 26 turns through five men is just ridiculous.

Injuries, and also, let's face it, somebody's going to regress that last year was amazing and somebody hopefully will improve that wasn't so hot last year. Renele Blanco to me is the wild card. I'd love to be able to pencil him in as what he did for this team last year, but that... He didn't even have to be that good. He had a 280 ERA. That's insane.

Through a no-hitter and had an ERA of 280, he went 13 and 6. Pretty darn 167 innings. I mean, he had a spectacular season. you don't need that from him. No. If you get that, that'd be amazing. I'm not necessarily expecting that.

Slight regression. ERA around 3.50 or under. Are you kidding me? In 2025, if your ERA is under 4, you're a freaking cult hero. And I think everybody in this starting rotation can do that. And should. I expect them to. Well, I thought the second half,

of Araggetti, obviously, was the Aragutti that... The second half he had an ERA of low threes. It was like 306 or 309 or something. Strikeout numbers were significantly better. The walk totals were much better than they were in the first half of the season. He talked about learning how to be a pitcher. Yeah. And the great interview that we had

with him, you missed it. He felt so warm and comfort. He was like, man, you guys are my guys. He's a natural. He's very good in front of a microphone. Yeah. And he'll have a nice, successful career, whenever that's but let's not put that too much ahead of the Yeah, let's get them out on the mound first. Let's go. Yeah.

Strikeouts. So we are awaiting EMA. Apparently the phone is not working, so we have definitely a confirmation on that. Okay. I wasn't crazy. When it goes green, it means something's wrong. So what do you do now? Well, you and I try to entertain Houston right now for the tens of...

No, I mean, like, I hope... How would one contact E. Me Adoka right now? We're out to the PR people. I've already put the... I just got an Apple Watch? I don't know. That's a great question. You get them on that. Have you ever felt paralyzed by the fact...

Your phone hasn't worked? No, I prefer it. Why do you think I'd like to go out in the woods? I don't know. I have everything on my phone from... I know, you're attached to the hip. Credit cards to charges, to phones, to email... No, I...

To old... To 80s wrestling videos. I've seen you in action, Maddie. That is... That is accurate. That is accurate. I'm paralyzed. My phone's not working.

Now I've got a better phone. I don't want you to be like that, man. It's too late. I need you to turn it off. I want you to get home. What are you doing tonight? I'm taking my wife and daughter to the airport, and then I'm going to dinner.

What time are they going to airport? About 4 o'clock. Okay. After you drop them off at the airport, and you know they've taken off, I want you to turn your phone off for three hours. But what if people want to get a hold of me? You'll be fine.

You don't need anything. You don't know that. I don't have a home phone. So literally you're telling me to take myself away from the world for three hours. Okay, put it down. Put it on silent and put it down for three hours. You don't have to turn it off. But I want up checking it. I know. That's what I'm saying. Put it away. It's like I've got a nervous Twitch or something. I know you do. I'm trying to, you know, you kids today. You know what, here's what we'll do. Why don't we do this? Why don't we come to one to the center?

You need to return your text once every 30 hours and I will now back away from my phone a little bit more. Is that seem fair? You come to my, come to the mean here. No, I don't have to know. This is not about me. It's about you, man. It's about you not returning text. We're making it about you. No. No, we weren't talking about me and text. We're talking about you being tethered to your phone.

Well, it is the information world that we live in. How about you, uh, why don't you go to the movies? No, I don't want to see. Keep your phone down. Any good biopics out? I don't know. Problem is all the good stuff is on Netflix now. Like, I want to watch that, uh, uh, O.J. Simpson, Doc, I so want to get to that.

Okay. Netflix's out of control, by the way. Why? You keep raising their rates. You know why? Because it's worth it. No, it's not. Oh, really? I'm quitting.

You're going to lose NFL games. There are more coming. I'll resubscribe when the NFL comes back. Oh, so you're going to circumvent the system. Oh, I'm going to miss crappy Jake Paul fights in wrestling that I don't watch. I had enough of you Netflix. I got to get off them for a few months. I'm going to tell you what Ross is going to do.

He's going to say how much he hates Netflix and then he's going to ask his brother and his sister for their accounts. That's not true. I'll cancel it right now. But don't ask anybody else for it. I won't. Okay. That's good. I can't think of the last thing. I mean, I watch Netflix. But the last thing that I get on there and I browse and I click on stuff.

Of the five of us in the Thomas household, I am the least watcher of it. If we turn Netflix off of my family, I think they would all cry. Okay. All right, just throwing it out there. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Let's real quick check on how the Astros are doing. They're playing a spring training game. Oh, you're not missing much. It's zero, zero, bottom of the fourth.

Spoilers, Matt. Oh, stop. Come on, man. I mean, we'd love for you to listen to the game at 7 o'clock, but we get it. You're life so busy. Pitchers' battle. That's good. Well, yeah. Who's pitching well for the stroes?

But let's give you the offensive numbers. Pena O for 2, Bryce Matthews. Colton Gordon. Who the hell's at? He's a future astro. Legend. Yeah, Alvarez O for 2. Christian Walker 2 for 2. Christian Walker's OPS in spring is 2,600.

Is that good? It's amazing. It's epic. Karatini O for two, Descenza O for two. Cam Smith won for two today. His OPS this spring training is 3,000. Here's the question. Can Christian Walker and Cam Smith combine for an OPS of 6,000?

And if that's the case, the Astros won 115 games this season. but more importantly Jose Altuve in left field the owner does not mind 713-212-5-7-7-9 I'm going to try to chase down the one and only Emaidoka for some point

during this hour believe it or not today all things about Gene Hagman is there any more details of what's going on with that freakish death situation no one of the same thing like carbon monoxide poisoning maybe

I'm trying to come up with theories how they all three pass to me that sounds plausible yes yeah that something got in the air maybe they were in their car who knows 113. Join us at 713.

212-5-790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right, we are effing the one and only email though because going to join us in a few minutes. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79. While we wait for coach to join us, let's talk to Tony.

I get my phone situation straightened out here. 713-212-5-790. And again, believe it or not, today is all things about Gene Hackman. May he rest? Let's go now, as promised. It's work. Hi, Tony. You're on 7-90.

Thank you for holding. Yeah, I was curious to find out. The starting rotation for the Astros, they're not counting on Mr. McCullors at all. He seems to be pretty injury-prone past several years, starting. Toy, you think Lance McCullors is injury-prone? Really? No way. Come on.

Don't be kidding with me like that. How many years have you been in the league and how many years have been active? Well, I mean, think about how great he was last season. And then the season before that. I can't think of that. Yeah, me either. I would say no, he doesn't factor in. They're not banking, I would imagine, on big production from him.

But they don't need him in the starting five at this moment. No, no. Thank you, Tony, for the phone call. it sounds like to me he's going to pitch he's pitching again today to some live hitters I think or either

the next day or so Open Saturday Okay sorry Live bullpen Saturday Live bullpen Which is different than a tape delayed bullpen It's the next step

Yeah Throwing bullpins Then you throw With face live hitters Then he might try to get into some games In West Palm Or in the Grapefruit League

And then it would be To AAA That's what he talked about He talked about Trying to get in a couple of games In spring training then getting a couple of games in AAA and then seeing where he's at.

All right. By the way, we just got word. EMA cannot do today, so we'll move him to 1 o'clock tomorrow. Okay. Is that okay, 1 o'clock okay with you? I'm not doing anything. I mean, co-hosting the show. What do we have tomorrow? We have nothing at 1 o'clock tomorrow, do we?

I think we're good. Yeah. Yeah, let's do 1 o'clock tomorrow. We can have him do non-Florida stories for us? Some to bring one to the table. He wouldn't even know. By way, can I tell you something that I gave him a phrase that he's never used before? Did I mention us on the show yet?

I don't, you told me off air. I don't know if we mentioned this on air. I think it's okay to say. Yeah. I brought up, I dog cussed somebody the other day. And he's like, what does that mean? He had never heard what dog cussed meant. And I thought it was strange because EMA has dog cusses his players many, many times.

Is that a more southern phrase? I don't know where I heard that, but it was like, I don't think I'm making that up. I know he's more. I doubt I go to Urban Dictionary, and there was definitely a definition of dog cuss. How many thumbs up did it add, though? I didn't even know. I didn't even look at the thumbs up category. 69 thumbs up.

Here, I'm a thumbs it up. So how many thumbs up do you need for it? There are things that have hundreds. You've heard the phrase dog cuss out, okay. I'm familiar with it. So yeah, he was like, I never heard that before. So then I did send, hey, did you dog cuss anybody after the Utah game? And he said, yes, I did.

So it works out that. All right. So again, sorry about E-May not joining us today. He'll join us tomorrow at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. And hopefully get the phone. I mean, he's making good money. He had to pay the bill, right? I think it's probably taken care of by the Rockets.

So the Rockets are the... So that's who the guilty party is. Maybe. All right. That seems fair. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We're open line now.

until we believe it or not at 150 today. That's kind of this point. I wanted to talk to email about the win last thing. And I do want to ask him about the Jalen Green situation. Meaning, which is, oh, the lack of calls. He's getting beat up. He is.

Do you feel like the officials would be like, man, we're sorry. When you have to call a time out, when the official has to, the official stop the game because he had blood on his face. You don't just all of a sudden trickle blood out of your body for no reason. Somebody had to have hit you in order for that to happen. And when they hear you, hit you, it's a foul.

Mm-hmm. That is correct. I mean, now, granted, there can't be some incidental contact. He's bleeding a lot. Getting beat up a lot, actually, yeah. So, I don't know. It felt like to me that he needs to get a little bit of help. He needs somebody to be an advocate for him and maybe send some tape to the NBA.

Because what he can't do is you can't yell at the officials as soon as you miss a call because you're going to get the reputation of any time a call is missed, you're going to get a T, and you don't want that. You want evidence to say here's what's going on. All right. So that's what I just, I feel bad for Jellin because he should, like anybody, if he's going to penetrate the lane as much as he is, he's going to get more contact than others.

Yeah. I wonder, they have, they have statistics on how many drives a game and how many fouls called per drives. Right. You don't necessarily want him to become, you know, they call them foul free throw merchants like Jalen Brunson or Shea Gillis Alexander, but that is a way to get to the line. We saw it for years here with James Harden.

You know, Anthony Edwards is a free throw merchant too. Yeah. He doesn't, he's not as tricky, I would say, as maybe those others, but he gets to the free throw line a fair amount. I'd be curious. Who does in the most? Because he Gionnis is too? Because Jailin only gets there.

I think anybody that shoots four or five times a game. I don't think anybody that shoots 10 free throws a game couldn't be called anything but a free throw merchant. And Yonis gets there 10 times a game. But to me, merchant means like that's a huge part of your game is tricking the officials and kind of just flopping or about you. James Hardin says that's who I am. James Hardin was a free throw merchant.

I mean, he just was. So, yeah, I'm trying to find most free throw attempts a game. Yonis is first with 10. Shegild is Alexander second with nine. Where's Jalen Brunson? He gets seven a game. He's six. But way down the list is Jalen Greeny's 44th.

He gets to the line four times a game. These are the players around him. Keante George, Jalen Williams, Colin Sexton, Amin Thompson. None of those guys playing as much as Jaylen does. No, not driving as much either. So I would like his numbers to go up there. And some of it has to be calls,

and some of it has to be just being more aggressive. Can you sell a call harder? Is that something that you would want to teach your player? That guy. But then you all of a sudden open yourself up to... He's fouled. You open yourself up to being an actor and maybe worrying about being flopping and whatnot. Yeah, look, James Hardin was selling those calls, but he was getting hit on the arm and he would throw his head back.

Throwing his head back is selling the call, but if there was contact there, it's a foul. Another guy that did a great job, including last night, was Chris Paul. He threw his shoulder into the player after a loose ball to attract the foul. And I'm like, he got fouled. He technically got fouled, but he made sure that he used... his body as a weapon to get the contact. Because most players in the NBA don't want to get foul. They want to go to the basket. They want to score.

In Chris's case, whether it was a loose ball or just in the course of action, he'd rather beat you at the free throw line than he'd beech anywhere else. Just one more trip a game get you close to the top 10. Anthony Edwards is 10 with 6.1. Jalen Green's at 4.0.

So if we can just get him one more trip a game, he's going to get in the top 10. So let's get aggressive. Let's get to the basket. You know what? I'm going to ask the video department for the Rockets to send something to A, silver at NBA.com. You're honest, by the way, shooting 58% from the free throw line. And that's a huge detriment because as much as he goes 10 times per game, that's a lot of lost possessions right there. All right, 127, sports talk 790, 713, 212, 570, if you want to jump in on the conversation. They have gone to the top of the fifth in Port St. Lucy.

No score between the Mets and the Astros. The Astros have three hits. the Mets have won. So if you were looking for the game today, you're not missing much, which means you do want to catch every riveting out tonight on the tape-delay version of Astros baseball at 7 o'clock.

Can't wait. 713-212-5-790, and we have brought you a little treat. Oh, excuse this really happening. It doesn't even really have to look at it. Oh, my God. Watch you some filet fish. Now my car smells like filet fish.

Do I have to eat it live on air? No, I'll tape it. Put on Twitter. you are. Don't don't, don't, don't touch you yet. All right. 7.13. How's my hair look? 2.1.2.5. By the way, somebody said they're not getting a flay fish because he's worried about his summer bod. Who?

This one. Which one? Damn Matthews. Dan Matthews. Is he slimming down? Okay. Is he hosting space, what's the name of the show, 6 o'clock tonight? The night tap? The night cap. Is that nightcap with Dan or is a DM at night? Oh, I like that. Oh, that's a good one. DMS at night. Oh, I like that. That's the name of the new show. Six o'clock. That's right.

713-212-5-790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right. FiloVision is coming up. I'm on Twitter account. Should I wait for you post it so I don't spoil it? No, yeah. Conner, since you're not on this video,

did he get a sandwich? Yeah, I got him on too. Did you get one? Have you tried it yet? I haven't tried it yet. Let's do a live test. Yeah, let's do it live. Then I got an update on Gene Hackman situation, which is not good.

No, he's still dead. And then we got Kristen Houston. We've got to talk to it too. Okay. Let's knock these out. Take a bite. Uh-huh. Matt just took a video of me.

Honestly, honestly, the first fast food fish sandwich I've had in probably at least a decade, if not more. I think it's my first time ever. Really? You're losing your fish virginity? fried fast food fish Yeah Go ahead, let's go He's taking a bite

Connor Governe He's unsheathing his His filet-o fish Which I think about $4.00 and 20 cents a pot By the way, for those are you concerned Which is made of Pollock, I was correct Both tried to correct me

That was headache No, it's Pollock 100% wild caught Pollock Is what All right, Connor is chewing He's taking my seat. He hasn't made him a disgusting face yet, so that's good. He likes it. Like I do.

It's okay. See, that's kind of... You said it was $4 a pop? Yeah. I'd rather get a couple McDubbles. I'm going to say. I don't know about all that. Yeah.

I really tried to go into this with an open mind, Matt. No, you didn't. I really did. I promise. Bottom of the fifth, no score Astros met still. It tastes like fish dicks. Yeah, because it's a big fish. Plank.

Not in a good way. There's more fish than I thought. Thank you. It's, I will not be ordering it. I will be another. Are you to finish it though? I'm honestly struggling. If you weren't sick, I'd finish your sandwich, but you're sick, so.

I'll finish it. I'm probably with Rossus. I probably wouldn't order it again. I'm going to try to get to halfway. I didn't even want a second bite. I didn't even want a second bite. No, I'm being serious. I tried to have, I was really trying to be open-minded.

I was like, okay, it can't be that bad. It's a popular sandwich. It's worse than I thought it was going to be. When you're on the struggle bus financially, like me, I'm going to finish it. Yeah, that's fine. You want my half? No. Like Matt said, you're sick.

The tartar sauce is fine. If you were healthy, I'd finish your sandwich. The bun is fine. Look, I don't think I'm contagious, Matt. Do you think I can finish your sandwich then? I'm going to try to eat half of it. Please eat some more. Let's take a phone call.

I'm going to do that while you talk to Chris in Houston. Chris and we'll talk about the Astros and the Rockets. This could be a perfect phone call. Chris, thank you for waiting and good after. to you. Hey, good afternoon. Let's start with the Rockets. So you guys are mentioning Jalen's getting beat up in the paint.

We've got to go old school here and get an enforcer. And I'm, you know, Dylan Brooks, I'm looking at you. What are you guys thinking about that? I'm looking at Dylan Brooks. He's making three-point shots from me. I ain't worried about it. Enforcer stuff doesn't work because their NBA is going to curtail that, going to tee up people, get flagging fouls, and kick people out of games,

especially with the guy like Dylan Brooks, who has a reputation by getting in these, fracas is on a semi-regular basis. So I don't think you have to do any sort of enforcing. Just get some more calls. That's it. I miss the old NBA. I know.

I don't know. What else you got? Regarding Astros, get some fire in their belly for this upcoming season, what do you guys think they can do? I think it's going to be competitive. I would be stunned and thanks Chris for the phone call. I think 90 wins might be a little bit of reach.

But it may take 88. to win the division. Matter of fact, I don't know if I'll got feeling that, but I would be, I think if everybody is as close as they're going to be in this division with Seattle, I think the angels are going to be a little bit better. The Rangers are going to be better. Rangers could get healthier.

I don't see why you can't beat each other up during the course of the year and maybe win the division with an 88 and 74 record. Right? Yeah, I'm trying to pull up wind totals and it's getting blocked by our, my computer is blocking it. Yeah. We're having some issues there. We have the phone call's not working for email.

I mean, it's, 86 and a half is the win total. That is the highest in the American League West. Obviously, I'm not by myself. I'm thinking that... Rangers are 85 and a half. Mariners are 84 and a half. You know, part of me is going to be frustrated by that, Ross.

But part of me says we're going to have a real fun September watching every one of these games being played out because it could be very much a close, competitive freeway fight for the division. What are they at the Angels at? They're off the board. No, I'm just kidding. I literally cannot even find them. Where are they?

Mike Trout, by the way, went deep yesterday for the Angels in their game. 71 and a half. Ooh. You know what? I'm going to take something right now. If Trout stays healthy, which is a huge if. And their opening day starter, you say Kikuchi. I would take the over on 71.5.

That feels about right. I don't really have too big of a feel on. Just throwing out there. Angels baseball. I'm going to bet some Astro numbers next week. Anthony Rendon's still out for like six months. Yeah, he's the Lance McCullors of the Angels. He's retired, I think.

What's the A's number? The problem is the A's don't have a place. They're playing in Sacramento. That's not even a home field. 70 and a half, one game fewer. The A's made some signings. Yeah, they actually spent a little bit of money. They're three and one with a tie in spring training.

We've never done that before. I wonder how if we could ever have a correlation between what a team does in spring training and what the race, which is the record is. Never. All right, real quick, our buddy Jay to the show sent me an email. This is coming from See, Jay, you have to help me out.

He obviously cut and pasted something here. After Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found deceased in their Santa Fe residents. Authorities are now calling their deaths, quote-unquote, suspicious. Originally, the family-blooded. believe the likely cause of death was a gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning. However, a Santa Fe detective who sought a search warrant wrote in his affidavit, he believes, quote, the death of the two deceased individuals to be suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.

Here are the sum of the suspicious findings. The front door of the residence was found open and unsecured. A deceased dog was laying 10 to 15 feet from Betsy in the closet of the bathroom while a healthy dog was found roaming freely on the property. Hmm. There was a heater that was moved. Hmm. There was also a prescription pill pill bottle that was open with pills scattered next to the female. Gene Hackman's body was located on a separate room of the residence.

There was no signs of a gas leak. So, Jay, send me an email. Tell me where you got this from. He's obviously cut and pacing this from somebody. The point being is... Yeah, we don't know if we're spouting fake news now. Jay wouldn't send that to me. But people get tricked all the time.

They do. They do. We had the guys calling us about the, who was it? Luca Donchich going to the rocket. Oh, I mean, come on, man. Speaking of that, speaking of that, people are getting hoodwinked on the Newsweek article saying the Texans are looking for relocation.

Yes. Did you see that from earlier this week? Yes. You're stupid if you tweet that. If you're stupid, you're buying into it. I told you all this, and I ain't lying. The Texans are not leaving southeast Texas. Could they leave Harris County?

Yep. Could they go to Fort Bend County? Sure. Could they go to Montgomery County? Not likely. Could they go to Brazoria County? Possibility? They're not leaving the greater Houston metropolitan area.

But Newsweek or some fabrication of some fake AI model of Newsweek and then a bunch of dorks retweeted. man we can't even have another team leave us that isn't happening Hannah can't go to lemma marcus with her black card and be able to get the same sort of cachet if she kicks a team out of town it didn't happen the NFL's not letting it happen it's yeah this is happening all over the place unfortunately I think there was a sporting sporting news shame on you

sports news week shaming on you anybody that's tweeting that shame on them don't be stupid something has to be done about this ocean of misinformation Chicago Bears are going to the Burbs, it sounds like. For real, for real? For real, for real. Okay. Rossi. Real estate in big metropolitan cities and using the taxpayer money from these bigger,

from these big cities, a thing of the past. The Burbs want it. The Burbs want it. Okay. That's what I'm telling you. You know what? When the Texans get their stadium out in Fort Bend County, we're going to stay at Adam Clanton's house.

Okay, I love it. Big tailgate at his house. I love it. We can actually park in his house. And save money. It'd be great. I'm looking forward to it. Because isn't there a lot of land next to Ratt, Rite Anchel?

The pavilion. Yes, there is a lot of land. Is there enough for a stadium and parking lots? I don't know. Oh, they'll figure out a way. They'll figure out of way for sure. All right, 142. We have believing around today, all things about Gene Hackman.

Now, the things that just brought up will not be a part of Gene Hackman. It's believing. I don't think so. Unconfirmed reports. Unconfirmed reports of how he died. It's still creepy. There's something that's really... I'm offended.

You didn't finish the fish. I'm trying to... I'm so hard. You don't have a... I'm not being disingenuous. I'm really not trying to troll you. How do you feel about the sauce? You like the sauce?

The tartar sauce is good. See? It needs pickles and lettuce or something to distract you from the fish taste. You can add pickles and lettuce to it. You can have a slice tomato if you like as well. It tastes like... What is it? Those Gordons...

It tastes like Gordon's fish sticks. You weren't expecting pop is on a bun, were you? When's the last time you had fish sticks? Oh, fish sticks. Jesus, I don't know. Years. It's fish sticks on a bun with, the tartar sauce is decent. I like fish sticks.

It needs like pickles and lettuce and tomatoes. You mean to tell me if you want to come to the house tonight, I can make fish sticks and mac and cheese, you wouldn't eat it? No, I'm going to be. Yeah. Three-year-olds will be flocking over there, Matt, but I'm not going to be there. All right. Let's talk about love volleyball. Okay.

If you want to play, believe it or not, it's 713, 2,1, 2, 1, 5, 790. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 780. All thanks, Jean-Ackman. Ross staring at the fish to eat is quite interesting. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Love volleyball's playing tonight, as a matter of fact. 7 o'clock at the Fort Penn County Epistenter. If you want to go check out the brand-new professional league that is League 1 volleyball, it's

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LovB.com for all the ticket details for Houston's League One Volleyball 7 o'clock, Fort Penn County epicenter. Be there! Lunchtimer's, back to Houston's longest-running lunchtime sports show with a guy that yells Nothing but nylon!

Nothing but nylon! Nothing but! For a living. Yes. Matt Thomas. The legend continues now. That report about Gene Hapman, reported by Fox News. So they're always fair and balance. We're good to go on that.

Yeah, Ross, there's something really fishy. Is it filetio fishy? That's good. A little bit of sauce left over. I eat out of sauce. That's good. You finished it. I'm proud of you. Yeah, it's just in my DNA.

I don't want to waste food. That's nice. It's not that bad. but it's also not that good. All right. So the final number... The fact that you crave that, it makes me...

I'm deeply disturbed. Not daily. Not daily, but I've had two this week. It's crazy. That is crazy, actually. I've had two since this century. Final tally on the number. Connor won the 10 on the fillet? Six.

I will never get another one. Ever. We should try a different fish sandwiches. I tried it. But what a catch starts back up with Lent. As long as I don't have to do another filial fish. I heard the, people are saying that the one from Darby's is the best. Yeah, you know why?

I think it's Panko breaded. Oh, it's got the roast beef on it as well, correct? No, you're not putting roast beef on top of a fish. That's gross. Don't they have one that's like the Mountain of Meat and it's everything they have? You have to walk in there and tell them. Oh, okay. I'm not going to walk into a restaurant and say, I like your Mountain of Meat, please.

You love the Mountain of Meat. I haven't had it lately. One nothing, the Mets. It's been too long, huh? What'd you say? We'll see that one tomorrow. Oh, is it Friday tomorrow? We're going to have a good week, I think.

I think our good friend Connor McGovern is fully stocked, aren't you? Well, again, like I... You get a dose of matching. And still ready to get played. So I have a lot left over. So, like, sometimes you have to wait a week to hear them again. You know what? You should bank all of them for the...

Because there are going to be weeks that we're going to behave ourselves. I think this week was not a good week for that. We have a groundout RBI, Jose Siri scoring for the Metropolitan's. They lead 1-0, top of the 6th in Port St. Lucie. You've been to Port St. Lucy? I have not. It's fine. I hear it's lovely.

You know what it is? You know, Port St. Lucy is where people that want to live in the expensive part of Florida tell people they live in West Palm Beach, but they really don't. And Juan Marischal was out there, and he did not hit anyone over the head with a bat. You think 80-year-olds conduct violence when they're pitching, when they're out there after playing? Well, he was involved in the most violent brawl in baseball history. Go ahead and do tell quickly. We got a minute here. Actually, we don't have a minute.

We have five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? Not tell the story. We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it Believe it or not. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Today's edition of Believe it or not is brought to you, by Rick Ronald's. I'm loving their fish fillets. Category today is all things about the recently departed Gene Hackman, and hopefully nothing too sinister has happened with this situation, but his career...

Doesn't sound good. Doesn't sound good at all. I'll read your statement about Gene. The statement's completely notarily accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. Let the statement see erroneous full of uncum made up. You'll say this. Two believe it or not in a row in your prize. What are you playing for today? Connor. A pair of tickets to see Simple Minds live on their alive and kicking tour.

2025, a special guest soft sell and modern English on May 31st at the Williams Pavilion and some 790 T-shirts. Favorite modern English song, Ross? That would be, don't you forget about me. Mine is, those flowers don't bloom anymore. Wow, that's a deep cut, Matt. You're a true fan. It is. 713-212-5-790.

Matt on 790. Matt, you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Gene Hackman lied about his age and joined the Marine Corps at a, age 16. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Statement number two for the win. Gene Hackman's first acting

experience was at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where he was voted, quote, least likely to succeed. Believe it or not? Believe it. You said, congratulations. Nicely done. That was kind of nonchalant. I'll say, believe it,

why not? He wins. He's going to win counter tickets. Greg on 7.90. Greg, what was favorite part of today's radio show? Really, just turned on when I heard it was, believe it or not. Sorry, guys. What have you been doing between 10? I got in the car.

What did you do the rest of the day? I'm just curious. Well, it's my day off from works. I slept in, did a little laundry eight to once, and just jumped in the car with my wife, pick up the car, and she didn't want to listen to the Port Radio. Well, we didn't have a serious talk with your wife eventually, but thank you very much for your honesty. Gene Hackman was inspired to become an actor after watching Marlonham, Brando's performance in a streetcar named Desire. Believe it or not?

Not. Oh, we've only talked about it for the entire show. We actually didn't, but I wanted to make you feel bad. Michael and Clear Lake on 7.90, Michael, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Gene Hackman won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Tom Wingfield in the Glass Menagerie. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, he was nowhere near that. Did he was even in that movie? In the play? No. Oh, yikes. 713-212-5-790 Stephen on 790 Stephen. You're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it.

Gene Hackman was set to direct and star in the silence of the lambs before dropping out of the project. Believe it or not. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Gene Hackman was an Aben motorcyclist and even participated in the Biscayne 500 endurance race. in Spain and Portugal. Believe it or not? Not. No, he didn't. You're right. Congratulations. Two winners. Paul on 790, Paul, your favorite part of today's radio show.

All of it. Gene Hackman was verbally abusive to the director, Wes Anderson, on the set of the Royal Tenton bombs, to the point where Bill Murray had to intervene. Believe it or not? Believe it? Believe it. Statement number two for the way. Gene Hackman was a huge fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and attended many of their games. Believe it or not? Not.

Believe it. How do you not know that Gene Hackman loved his Jaguars? Not a big fan of Trevor Lawrence, however. All right. That's it for the show today. Ross? Let's go get a second one. I'm never having another one ever in my life.

In your entire life, you'll never eat it again? I'm sorry. That's troubling to me. I'm really sorry. That's fine. All right. E. Meade Doca was supposed to be on today. He joins us tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

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