The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Take the Win Over Nets, Dodgers Take Game 3 in 18th Innings

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

Rockets Take the Win Over Nets, Dodgers Take Game 3 in 18th Innings

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 o'clock straight up here on Sports Talk 790. Hello. And welcome in to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas. He is traveling with your Houston Rockets, who got to win last night, their first of the season against the Brooklyn Nets. He will be out today and Thursday, as it is the start of NBA season, folks,

which means Matt will be out on the road, also missing some days here and there. But the Rockets getting the win last night. So that is good news. In his stead, we will have Adam Clanton hanging out in the 1 o'clock hour, and I convinced him to hang out for a little bit longer. Four hours in the morning is not enough. Chris Gordy is hanging out for a little bit. I appreciate you, Mr. Gordy.

Sure thing. Let's do it. Yeah. See, he sounds super enthused, folks. So you want to get in, you can. 713, 212, 5-790. is the phone number 713-212-5-790. All right, can we change this? We have an awful situation unfolding.

I've been actually some, you know you click on like one thing and then it ends up in your 4U tab for like the next six months? I clicked on one video about the Hurricane Melissa, which unfortunately is battering Jamaica with like 185 miles an hour of wind. The third most intense hurricane in the Atlantic ever. dropped under 900 millibars, right? Yeah, whatever that means. I know it's bad, but I don't know what the thresholds are.

I have no context for how bad it is, but apparently like the third worst in history. It basically becomes one of the five most strongest landfalling hurricanes in Atlantic history. Okay, well, prayers out to our good friends in Jamaica, because it does not look like a good situation. And this is just depressing me. I mean, the eye of that hurricane, this looks so, how can it look so menacing when it's just a good thing?

cloud formation. I don't know. This does not look good. Okay, I've got to change this off the TV, so I don't want to be thinking about depressing things that are happening, but unfortunately, I mean, that is the way of the world, whether you want to bury your head in the sand or not. Let's put on sports and watch the Dodgers win World Series games. Well, actually, I do want to talk about that, of course. I know you didn't catch much of it. How much did you catch, Gordy, before you nodded off? I fell asleep in extra inning, so it was like the 10th or 11th, and I woke up around 1240, and could not believe that that game was still going on.

Still going on. It went on until like 2 a.m. I was, okay, normally I'm like a night out anyways. I'll be honest with you, folks. I usually fall asleep between like midnight and one depending, but sometimes I'll stay up a little bit later if I can't sleep. But I just, I was too invested. I watched that entire game.

I watched the entire game. It got over like 2 a.m. See, my tent is, I get to the point. Nobody's scoring just end. I don't even get like. Oh, don't. Don't get me wrong. I hate the Dodgers and I wanted them to lose.

But every time the Blue Jays got three outs, I was like, all right, whatever, just end this. And then finally, Freddie Freeman walked it off in the 18th inning. 18 innings. 18 innings. I mean. And you enjoyed that. I'm not going to say I enjoyed it. I just, like I said, I was like, pot committed.

I'm like, I can't miss some crazy walk-off moment. I can't go to bed. I don't know why. And then there was a couple of almost walk-off. home runs. It did make me laugh. The Dodgers fans were like, Ah, Will Smith, deep to last center! Oh, yeah. Every time, anything was hit hard. Yeah. Don Varsho, camping under it. He's pitched a tent. He's got a fire building. He's hanging out. It's a can of corn. Shut

old bum ass up, Dodgers fans. But Otani homered in the seventh, and we had to then go 11 innings before anything happened again. He went double Homer, double Homer, and got intentionally walked four times. Well, he walked five times. in the game. And then he walked again when they finally pitched to him. It was really an unintentional, intentional walk. They pitched around him. He did not see a strike in that at bat.

I don't believe. I think it was four straight balls. So, yeah, it was insane. And folks, we're going to have to have a serious conversation at some point this day. Like, I understand we hate the Dodgers, but Shohei Otani is an absolute force of nature.

I mean, people are arguing, I mean, and I'm listening to the argument already arguing like the greatest athlete in the history of American sports. Except for this dude, Victor Wimbunyama, who's with the San Antonio Spurs. Oh, the undefeited Spurs? And we hate the San Antonio Spurs. The Four-No Spurs? So I actually do.

Same record as the Thunder? At some point in the show, I do want to have a discussion with folks like, how much can we, like, appreciate this greatness that we're seeing? But how much do we have to hate them and not accept how good they are because they play with the Dodgers and the Spurs? Two different sports, two different forces of Names. nature and two different, basically, I mean, at least Victor Wimonyama's got a ways to go, but as far as talent, one of the all-time greats, and Showy O'Tonnie already one of the all-time greats.

Can I give you this? Showy Otani wasted one, two, three, four, five, six years with the Los Angeles Angels. Yeah. No playoffs. In two seasons with the Dodgers, two postseason runs, he has 26 career walks already. Oh, my God. A few more, and that'll vault him into the top 25 all time. Because I had to look it up.

Chipper Jones and Manny Ramirez, tied for the most postseason walks ever with 72. Well, Shohay's at 26 in two postseason so far. How many is Jose Al-Tuvae have? He's got to be way up there. Let's see. Post-season one. Alex Breggman is nice.

You know what? That was the next name I was going to say. Breggman's got to be close. How many does Breggman have? O'Sail Tuvee. How many does Breggman have? Brugman's got 56, top 10. Yeah, that makes sense.

Okay. The other ones after Chipper Jones and Manny Ramirez. Just name a Yankee. Bernie Williams, Horace, Prasota, Derek Jeter. Yeah. Derek Jeter, the greatest of all time, or most overrated of all time. So you had that, an 18-inning World Series game last night, and you have, I mean, the Monday night football was going on.

Yep. Where Travis Kelsey tied one Longhorn Priest Holmes for most touchdowns. Which is by a chief? Most touchdowns in Chiefs history, yeah. Okay. I mean, Priest Holmes really only had a few good years. But he was awesome. Oh, dude, he was like the, didn't he have like a 20 plus touchdown year or something like that?

Well, that's why he's the, he was the all-time leader. That's why he's up there. Yeah, so, okay, you got that going on. It was a crazy sports night. You had Monday night football. You had World Series. You had the Rockets playing. Rockets got off the snide and got to win.

You had a game against, it was the Cavaliers and Pistons were on Peacock. Like it was for the end of October. Yeah. It was a nice little sports heaven night last night. Well, that's what people are saying. Like, this is the best time of year if you're just a sports fan because you got hockey. You got college football. You got NFL.

You got stuff going on every day. I've been telling Matt for years that he needs to get an extra TV. I think he watches in his office or something like that because he's always like, hey, would you have? What were you doing? Were you flipping around? Like, Matt, I have more than one TV. You got like three, right?

So yeah. So on Saturday, I had three TVs. Yes. Then I have my tablet. This is grown-ass man behavior, Gordy. I like this. I had my tablet up with the fourth game. And then I had to put a game on my, on my computer, my main computer. So I had five going. Yeah, you can find cheap throwaway TVs or your old TVs.

Like, you don't have to have a bunch of 4K OLEDs. And put an antenna on it. Yeah. Or you can put an antenna on it. Or you can just get a Chromecast, which you can get usually for just if it's not that much. And also, yeah, I have three TVs in my living room, and then I bring the one from my bedroom if things are really getting hairy. and I got to put four TVs on.

But I had to do five because the freaking Aggies going to overtime of Mississippi State. Oh, yeah. That one wouldn't win in. Oh, I know. When you're trying to jockey the TVs and one goes into overtime, I'm with you. I like that. It's a great shot of, what's this girl's name, Jessica Mendoza on ESPN? Great shot of the air vents inside her L.A. hotel.

Yeah, it doesn't look like they're shacking her up in a nice place. I think she's in a, it looks like she's in the red roof in. Holiday Inn? Yeah, I don't know. That's not a holiday. That's too dingy. But I'm just like they can't. them with like a little roll-up backdrop to put behind them.

They can't dust off that great. They can't dust off that great. She needs to tell the housekeeper to dust off that air vent. This does not look safe. Jessica Mendoza is going to get mesothelioma in Los Angeles. You know what we got to start doing? We got cameras in here. Yes.

I think we need to start streaming the show when Matt's on the road and see his hotels. That, okay. With him? You're like streaming with Matt? He's got to bring a camera. No, because he's going to have to put on clothes. He's not going to be happy. about that.

Unless you want to see back hair. I didn't know. I didn't either picture that at all. Well, guess what? It just happened, and I'm sorry. Well, they stay at some nice hotels. Yeah, actually, no. They're in some, they're in five. It's literally in the collective bargaining agreement with the NBA. They cannot be anything worse than five star, I think, like, something like that. So the Rockets. Some cities only have one or two. Rockets will not be in the Toronto extended stay.

No, they will not. It's not in the 1970s. They fought for that back in the day. It was like, Wilk Chamberlain and the boys were like, no, we're not staying in these chump hotels anymore. So now they're in nicer hotels in the NBA. That's collectively bargained. Wasn't until recently WNBA still flying commercial? Are they not still? Did Caitlin Clark kind of help everybody out? I think she helped them out.

Are they going to name that league after Caitlin Clark, by the way? They need to. I mean, they have to call it the Caitlin Clark Basketball Association. It's called Caitlin Clark and everyone else who hates her. Nobody else likes her. Yeah, there are a lot of girls who are jealous, but there are a lot of girls who are what she's done for them as well in the league, I think. All right. Anyways,

so, yes, the Rockets get the victory last night to the Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Nets, 137 and 109. A couple of things that I liked from the game. Am I doing this right? Tar Eason. Pay the man! Pay the man! Right. We do this with every Astro, every time they have a big game. Pay the man.

No, we're not doing pay. No, people were already doing Tar Easton got to go. Tar Easton needs to ride the bench. I mean, you know this gorty too because you've been in this business a long time. We were we have been in the microwave generation, and you're seeing this right now with coaches, right? Like fire Brian Kelly, fire James Franklin. They were just literally in the semifinals of the playoff.

It's the now, now, now, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, instant gratification generation. But it's like even worse. Two games into the rocket season, people like, you can't extend Tari Isson. This is horrible. You got to get this guy off. Man, Tari Isan bet on himself turning down this rocket's money. was a huge mistake. I'm like, dude, it's two games into the season. How do we not, how do we not recognize that as people who have been sport? Even if you're the youngest sports fan on the

planet and you're 18 years old, you still have some perspective. You've probably been watching sports for five, six years. You've got to understand one game does not a season make, even a handful of games. And then if we get into baseball, oftentimes like we're talking about how 50 games isn't sometimes a significant sample. Yet it still happens. It's a trap that we fall into how everybody's the worst and everybody's the best week to week. It's ridiculous. But yes, Tari Isson with a very good game. He was 5 to 7 from 3. He had 22 points to lead the Rockets in scoring off the bench. I was encouraged about that. And then I was also really encouraged by the performance from one other Houston Rocket. We'll talk about that on the other side. We have a lot of stuff to get to. I do want to talk

to you guys about Shoahe Otani and Victor Wimidiyama. How much do you hate them because they're with rivals of your respective teams in here in Houston? How much do you appreciate what they bring to the table? Rockets, any observations you want to make there? Of course, the Texans get the victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Anything you all want to get to. We also have gut feelings coming up at 1130. Adam Clinton joining at 1 o'clock and you at 713-212-790. The phone number is 713-215.790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. without Matt Thomas with you until 2 o'clock. 1018 in the a.m.

here on Sports Talk 790. Hello and welcome back in to the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He is out traveling with the Houston Rockets. They're in Toronto, eh? I heard he got held up in customs like Dave Roberts. So hopefully everything's okay over there. I don't know what he was trying to smuggle in or

okay, maybe I made that up. Did you see that? Dave Roberts talking about how we got held up and he's like, I don't know if there was any there. Well, somebody said it's the government shutdown. Like TSA's all taken a little extra time. So can you please have a little patience? And

Dave Roberts, like, I ain't got time for this. Well, that was always wondering though, but they were in Canada. They're not shut down in Canada. He means when they landed, they were running into some issues with customs, I guess? I think you got to go through. Yeah, both sides. Because those people, so they're still shut down. They're working without pay, correct?

Is that what's happening right now? I have a homeboy as a TSA agent. He isn't going to pay in a month. Oh, he is. T.S. Pissed. Oh, man. That's, oof. See, speaking of things we don't really need. All right. No more about the Jamaican hurricane and no more about the government shutdown, folks. Barrier heads in the sand. That's what we do here. We talk sports

on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Yes, mentioned Tari Easton leading the way for the Houston Rockets with 22 points. Also off the bench a very impressive performance from Reed Shepard, 24 minutes, 15.6 of 11 from the field. He's been knocking down three so far early in the season, Gordy, but how about eight assists and only two turnovers? That was nice to see as well.

He's been playing with confidence. You can tell that that has been certainly something that is being coached into him and talked about from last year where he definitely just, looked a little pensive, looked like he was maybe scared to make a mistake, not necessarily having full confidence in his abilities. He's getting to the basket. He's putting up shots. They haven't been going down consistently yet,

but that was an encouraging performance from him last night. Led the team an assist. Yeah, I mean, he's looking like getting a little bit confident, shooting three. So that's the big one, hit three of them. So, yeah, I like his game. So he had a steal, like he was slapping ball. Yeah, he ripped the ball away from Cam Thomas.

First of all, he was like a snatch and grab. It was like he was ripping some old lady's purse, and then he ran the other way and dunked it in. I'm like, who is this guy? What is Reed Shepherd doing over here? This is nice. He's an underrated defender. I mean, I lost him at Kentucky, and he defended pretty well.

It is funny, though. I mean, we seeing him in person the other night at Toyota Center was at the game. Like, he just looked, he looks like a kid that won a contest. Yes. To go play an NBA game. And he wears this. short shorts and he's got the little boy haircut. Like he just looks like...

I think he grew the mustache for a little while to try to look older, but I think it wasn't working and he shaved it off. I don't know. We have to ask him about that. You get like a fade or just something to look a little bit cooler. It just looks, you know. Right. Looks like a college kid that won a contest. Yeah, he's just, he looks like he's like a pledge. But don't let it, like, he can ball.

So when he gets athletic, people are like, oh, like, I'm like, this is what he does. Don't act like surprise. Yeah, so the three points. shooting so far, of course. We're dealing with very small sample sizes right now this season. We're three games in. 35% from, excuse me, 44% from three so far early on in the season, but only 27% from the field. But how about Amin Thompson and Reed Shepard combining for 16 assists and only two turnovers? So that was good to see as well for a men and you did what you needed to do against a Brooklyn Nets. You've got to blow out. You were able to not have to

play your starters very much. I'm in Thompson only played 25 minutes. Barstead Jr. only played 24. Devin, Durant only played 25 minutes. And you got some work for some guys who needed it. Like Tari Eason, like Reed Shepard. You got Jayshon Tate into the game. Like Aaron Holiday got some minutes.

Overall, very good performance and exactly what you wanted to see from the Rockets against a less and stellar competition. I mean, look, let's be honest, it was like a preseason game last night and everybody got their work in. So, it's still, at the end of the day, I was pretty happy to what we saw from Reed Shepard, especially with the assist to turnover ratio combining that with the men Thompson.

I'm feeling encouraged. Early on, one and two, both games could have gone either way to start the season, and then you got the easy victory against the Nets. Durant 25, I mean, I know most people played, I mean, Shingoon played 30, Okie played 31. Durant at 25, is that just situation of where the score was, or are they going to maybe kind of, like, you see those minutes in some of these kind of games? be 22, 23. I mean, Thompson only played 25. I think if they didn't need him, they would have played more. They're going to be very, I think they're going to be very conscious of it.

I'm going to tell you, I don't think it's an accident. Yeah. But it's just kind of, I don't know, I thought initially when they signed him, I thought it was going to be a little bit of, okay, some rest, some, I mean, probably back to backs. Yeah, we'll see. So far, he's playing all three games. We asked him when we had him at Rockets Media Day,

and he said my plan is to play all 82 and play all 48 minutes. obviously that's not going to happen, but we'll see. That's how he's preparing for this season. But I'm going to guess he's not going to play back to backs, but I'm not sure. I think it'll be situation dependent maybe as well. Depending on where they are in the standings and how things go later on in the season.

So, yeah, it's going to be an interesting situation to be sure, to kind of see how it plays out. But they haven't had a back-to-back yet. And they don't have one, I don't think, for a couple of weeks. I was looking to the schedule last night. They've been actually having a pretty easy go-up. You've had two, they played on Tuesday, a couple days off, then they had Saturday, Sunday off. It's the weekend before Christmas. They're Thursday in New Orleans, off Friday, Saturday in Denver, Sunday in Sacramento.

Okay, so that's a three out of four. And then they stay out west. They play Tuesday, Thursday, in L.A. And they might have some NBA Cup games mixed in somewhere in that stretch. I'm not exactly sure. That's between December 6th on the 18th. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So we'll see what happens. but yeah, the NBA has been conscious of not having as many back-to-backs, so that's good, especially when you have an older star like Kevin Durant. 7-13-212-790 is the phone number 7-13-21-5-7-90 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Cup you all in hold early on. I appreciate you all, so let's go ahead and get after it. Rubin holding longest is next up. What's up, Rubin?

Hey, man, just wanted to discuss the whole Otani thing, and, you know, the greatness as opposed to, you know, the got-hate-the-doders. He's wearing the Dodger blue, man. It doesn't feel right, Rubin. It doesn't. When you're looking at a player like that, I'm not sure if y'all have watched Guardians of the Galaxy I've seen before, but you see that part where they're saying,

what do you do with this with the little group, little baby group? It's too adorable to kill, you know, take it to the tailor. Yeah. That's so tiny for me. He's a great player. He has, he's all the skills, like you don't really see this type of player any time, a generational player, but he's on the Dodgers. and you're just kind of irking yourself.

Every time he does something, you're saying F and Otani, but then you've got to admire the guy. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he's a freaking unicorn, man. And he's, I mean, how are you in the World Series? Is it eight postseason home runs he has this year, I think? Something like that. Yeah, it's ridiculous.

He goes double, 130 miles an hour off the bat, a double. Then he hits a home run, double home run. And he gets intentionally walked four times and then walks a fifth. I mean, this, this, this, it's ridiculous. This is unbelievable. Yeah, which we were telling, we were telling, as well,

it's like, start walking the guy. He's like, he's going to, he's going to smash it. And then you start walking, it's like, okay, four times in a row. So, like, this is, now we're in the 12th, 13th inning. It's like, this is embarrassing. Just picture the guy. Well, you know, what's crazy, too, though, is that they're intentionally walking him four times,

and there are two guys who likely when it's all said and done will be Hall of Famers right behind him. And Moogie Betts and Freddie Freeman. there's freaking Hall of Famers right behind him and they did it four times. It's more of the lesser of evils perhaps. Yeah, that's crazy. Oh, Johnny, all the stories you hear from him,

the great stories about him, giving all these gloves away to people in Japan and all the little charity things he does or big charity things he does, just like, I hate this guy that I can't. Yeah, I mean, he was giving his interpreter like 10 million bucks. That's pretty charitable. Yeah, the gambling thing.

I love how we can buy I want to be Otani's friend. Yeah. Just saying. You do that and you're golden. Get a couple of parlays in. All right. Thank you, Rubin.

Appreciate you. Yeah. I mean, from all accounts, every story you read, like he's super nice. He's very welcoming. There's like,

what was it? Like Lars Nupar who was playing with Team Japan talked about how nice he was, how he comes up and talks to everybody. And he's basically like a kid. And then he goes out there on the mouth. How does,

how do those two things jive? Like you think of people like Justin Verlander who, or Max Scherzer or whatever, like these Uber competitive pitchers who go out there and need to be nasty on the mound. And then he's like the sweetest guy ever. And then he goes and throws six shutout hits three bombs. Yeah, that's ridiculous. I just think he's going to, he's going to climb up that list on just everything. All posts.

It's nuts, considering you missed the playoffs for like the first six years of your career. And now you get a little taste two-year run. This might be the best two-year run of postseason history. in anybody's career. It's just, it's insane. It's crazy to watch, right? Matt, we see you on hold. We'll get to you as we go along. You guys want to get on.

You can 713, 212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We've got the sports potpourri coming. It's that time of year. You have the World Series going on. You have the Rockets starting their season. You have the Texans in the thick of things as well. Anything you guys want to get to, 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Gut feelings coming up at 1130 here on the Matt Thomas. show with Ross. 1033. In the AM here on Sports Talk 790. Ross, Vioria with you. First player in MLB history to reach face nine times in a postseason

game. I mean, duh. He was the first one to do 8th, right? And maybe even the first one to do 7? It's stupid. If I'm Toronto, even if two men are on base, I'm walking him. Nah, depending on the situation, you've got to pitch to him.

pitched to him? Yeah, absolutely. Good luck. I know. I'm not saying, yeah, I'm happy. This guy sucks. We're going to strike them out. That's not what I'm saying. One for eight mooky bets last night. I'm pitching to you, sir. Please step into the box. Don't you think you're a feel a little embarrassed? You're like, I'm mooky freaking bets. Like I'm multi-time all-star, Silver Slugger, all this other stuff, like World Series champion. I'm mooky F. Betts. And they walk this guy four times to get to me. And I don't make them pay at all. It's kind of not fair.

The top three of... Maybe Mokey needs his Apple Watch. Show Hey, Mooky, Freddie Freeman. Maybe Mokey needs J.T. Watkins in the video room, Mookie. Oh, did you hear me talk... I talked about that this morning. Jay Stu, the former producer on the Jim Rome show.

Okay. Put out a whole tweet on Sunday how George Springer needed to issue an apology to Dodger fans. They are still so obsessed. Oh, yeah. He said, you need to issue a formal apology to Dodger fans coming to Dodger Stadium for cheating in the 17 World Series.

Oh, my God. And we may consider a little remorse for you, but get ready, if not, get ready for some chin music. Uh-huh. And all this, I'm like, you're going to hit him? You're going to hit him. Okay, am I stupid? The whole Carlos Correa, if you don't know, the facts shut the bleep up thing, was that they did not do it during the postseason. So that's, that was the narrative, and that's what I thought.

Upon digging, there was an L.A. Times article written a few years ago that says, Manfred did say they did cheat. They put that. Now, they said that the bang on the trash can apparently was you couldn't do that because it was so loud. But there was a whole theorized piece written about that they think they were whistling.

That there were whistles. There were distinct whistles throughout the post. And I'm like, good God. They said that they, I mean, okay, obviously we're taking Carlos Coray at his word, but he came out pretty strongly like, yeah, we cheat. He's like, yeah, we cheated, but we did not do it during the postseason. It was too loud. Exactly. And go back and watch those games. Because that's back when Astros' crowds weren't spoiled.

But this whole theorized piece was like, yeah, I think they resorted to whistling because there's this distinct whistle when an off-speed pitch or something, but then you don't hear it. And then somebody else retorted like, yeah, but turns out when the Dodgers were hitting, I heard that same distinct whistle. So what is it? Were they cheating for the Dodgers too? Like, come on, man. Yeah, I don't think they were doing it. Like, we keep on getting this, oh, they cheated us in 2017. the Astros didn't know. You could argue that maybe they wouldn't have gotten to the postseason or they wouldn't have gotten that far, whatever. And they also won the game seven.

Where was Game 7 played Christopher Gordy? Yeah, at Dodger Stadium. Dodger freaking stadium. Well, they think they still had it. Did you see like there's audio of apparently the Dodgers broadcast when the, what was that game where the, was it game one or game two, where the Blue Jays were teeing off? They're like, I don't know.

It almost is it's if they know what's coming. And Earl Hirschizer did that. Well, that's what somebody said. Astros were literally in their building. Can we just admit they were tipping, the Dodgers were tipping pitches. There was no cheating around it. You were just. There was like Dodgers sent.

So George Springer is wearing some kind of watch. It's not an Apple watch. But he got hit when he got hit on the wrist. There was like a Dodgers fan zooming in on the video like, hey, look at this. George Springer's wearing an Apple watch, guys. This is unbelievable. Yeah, he's wearing like a Fitbit. They called it an ooze or something like that, I think.

Oh, yeah, this guy tweeted at Jay Stu. You left out the part, or I don't remember what it was called. You left out the part that he is still currently cheating. Who's that? George Springer. Oh, how is he currently cheating? Look at the pictures of the Apple Watch on his wrist. Oh, yeah.

Okay, you found it? Yeah, that's what people are saying. There's visual evidence, sir. Yeah, these Dodgers fans and their ten foil hats, I mean, get over yourself. So this is what Jason Stewart tweeted. some advice to George Springer as he arrives in LA. That's what it is. It's a whoop. Here's what he wrote out. He wrote an apology for him.

To the Dodgers organization and Dodger fans, I want to first and foremost apologize to you for my decision to cheat during the 2017 World Series. Oh, my God. When Major League Baseball determined in 2019 that my Astros used illegal means to cheat during that championship season, I verbally took accountability saying I regretted everything I did. But I never took the noble step and apologized to you directly. Who wrote this, Bill Plashky? The 2017 World Series MVP trophy

is a symbol of shame for me. Oh my God. As it is a reminder, I was the best cheater on a team that was caught cheating. I will never be able to make up for that. I hope that one day you will be able to forgive me. I'm truly sorry, sincerely George Springer. That's what Jason Stewart wanted George Springer to tell Dodger fans. And this guy, David, responds,

I would still despise him, but that would certainly raise an eyebrow and he would earn back a shred of respect. You heard back a shred of respect. Nobody cares. Nobody cares what you have to say. But the only way past this is the vacate 2017. How many years are we going to do this? It's 2025, folks.

Y'all won last year. Next comment? Now, 2020 was certainly a Mickey Mouse title. Next comment. Did you write one of these for Mookie or? Yeah, like here. Hello? Hello?

You all cheer when Moogie Betts goes up there. And Evangrelich in his book talked about the Dodgers. Dodgers being involved in cheating as well in using illegal means to steal signs. I am head of Rob Manfred PR. The Astros were the only one to do anything. Oh my God, yeah. Don't believe anything else on any other organization doing anything.

In 17 and 18, according to Evangrelich's book, Winning Fixes Everything. Teams talking about the Dodgers cheating. We know that the Red Sox did for a fact. The Yankees did for a fact. not only going to talk about this, this is making me upset. I just love what I was in Dodger. It was in Fenway Park earlier this year

and this Red Sox fan getting into your cheaters. I said, your freaking manager started that. What are you talking about? Oh, well, yeah, I mean, whatever. The cognitive dissonance is astounding. You have very, very easy examples to point out. Red Sox, Apple Watch, Red Sox, 2018, the mastermind of the 17 scandal,

and the manager of the 18 Red Sox, Alex Cora fired and back in the fold, and somehow still the Astros are the poster boy of this. How are the Red Sox not the poster boy with everything that I just laid out? Because they banged on some trash cans instead of using Apple Watch. Well, this idiot Red Sox fan is yelling,

Hazu Sanchez just got to the team and he's like, Cheater! What about Teosso? What about 2017? Houston Astro Teosca Hernandez. Right. Now he played one game. I think he got hurt. He was on the team. He was on the team. He's got a ring. you didn't ask him to take it back? No, he could, because everybody's like,

when you tell people that El Chuvay didn't do it, they're like, well, yeah, he should have stopped everyone. He should have stepped up. He should have said something in the clubhouse, and he should have told everyone, no, shame on you. Well, Teoscar Hernandez didn't do that. We're going to shame him too.

Gordy, I hate you. You got to be fired up about all this. Matt, you've been holding patiently, so we're going to get you real quick. What's up, Matt? Hello. Yeah, go ahead. Hey, I got a nugget on the,

Terry Rozier thing. Okay, what happened? You know a guy? Well, no, my next door neighbor... Uh-oh, here we go. Yeah, you know the guy. Is the baby mama of his son. Hold on, hold on.

Okay, hold on. Let me write this down. Your next door neighbors is the baby mama of Terry Rozier? Exactly. Okay. And the son is a junior high student, and that's who I feel sorry.

for. Now, when he was popped earlier this summer, she told me everything was clear. He's in junior high? How old is his son? Eighth grade. What's he? 13, 14. Terry Rozier is 31. I know it. They were high school sweethearts. Oh, okay. In Ohio?

Yeah, yeah, up in Cleveland. Yeah. All right, man. Go ahead. And, uh, ever, the kid used to play in the, in my cul-de-sac every night. Never see them anymore. Mm-hmm. She owes, I take care of her yard, never, never, and she owes me money. I can't get a hold of her.

So there's, I don't know, she was involved in it or what, but there's, it's, it, it's really disturbing. I'm looking for, for sale sign going up next door. All right, Matt. Hey, as far as the Dodgers? Go ahead. Yeah. Look at Cody Bellinger's batting average.

Yeah, that's true. You know? Thank you, Matt. Were they not cheating? Were they not cheating? Well, if you look at one guy's batting average, probably that doesn't going to tell you the whole story, because, I mean, we can flip that on its head.

Of course, we know that Jose Al-Tuvays or whose batting average went way up in 2017 and went back down? was like Marwin Gonzalez or somebody like that. I don't know. But Cody Bellinger, I mean, he's still had a lengthy career since he had a nice bounce back year with the Yankees, actually. And he was good with the Cubs last year. So, I mean, the year before.

Anyways, all right, on that note, we're going to take quick break here. Chris Gordy is sitting in for Matt Thomas. I am, well, I'm here. Roger is from Ohio, by the way. He is from Ohio. Yeah, I brought that out. He's from Youngstown, Ohio. That guy said Cleveland.

Also, apparently he, he's. he, that's his baby mama that apparently he had when he was like 17, 18. And he said the kid, the kid was playing basketball in the cul-de-sac and it was sad. Thank you for all those things. Matt, we're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you can think you could top that, go ahead. 7-13-212-5-790. The phone number 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Matt Thomas Show with Ross back in a second. 1048. The AM here on Sports Talk 790. Hour number one flying by. Thanks to Chris Gordy hanging out. A couple of y'all in hold. I promise we will get to you very soon. Got gut feelings coming up at 1130.

On the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross via Real with you. Jonathan Allen, I don't think I've even mentioned. That's very rude. I'm sorry. We appreciate you, Jonathan. Thank you. Doing a great job.

As always, phone lines open at 713, 212-790. If you want to talk to Jonathan and give him some suggestions, he's really wrestling over what he should be for Halloween. So go ahead. You and the lady going out? No, I don't think you're going to be.

If we went out, actually, I don't know. Hmm. Okay. I know she wants to be Wednesday from the, I don't know what I would be. And then you could be, what's the dad's name? Yeah, don't be the dad. I guess it's weird. Gomez?

Gomez, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know what the most, one of the easy, popular costumes I've seen this year? What's that? People buying, it's like a, uh, I forget. It's like a hard hat or reflector vest or whatever. It's basically the jewel thieves from the loose. That's not bad.

You can get a hammer. Although I don't know if they're going to let you into the club with a hammer. That could be dangerous. And be careful out there, folks. Halloween. And be careful out there, Uber drivers. It's going to get pretty pricey. And you're going to have some crazy folks.

Like, if you're like an Uber driver on Halloween, do you even do you, I mean, that's time to make big fares. But also, people are like getting in there with like face paint and God knows what else. That's true. Yeah. And then you got fake blood. You got fake blood all over your back seat. That's not good for anybody. All right.

713, 212-570 is the phone number. You know, since Gordy, you're hanging out. I do want to talk a little college football. So we were talking about this, like the microwave generation, the instant gratification generation, how it's getting even worse and worse and worse. And now, I mean, are we just careening downhill? And this is how it's going to be the new normal in college football,

because you have all of these programs. And I always bring this up with Matt, because he's always like, well, if Texas doesn't win a championship in three years, it's a massive failure. Well, yeah, you can point to like 10 other programs that are saying that, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, there are like 10 to 15 programs who say if we're not winning championships, we're failing. Well, only one team can win the championship every year.

I mean, that's just how it goes. So you're going to have all these programs who are disappointed, and you have a team like Penn State that made the semifinal. and then now literally six games later, they're firing their coach. But let's back it up a little because James Franco was given how many years there at Penn State? But do you think? And a lot of really good seasons. Yes.

A lot of 10 and 11 win seasons. But go look up his record against like top 10 teams. It was something like 4 and 20 something. Like he could never win the big game. It wasn't great for sure. But he had, let's see, one, two, three, five top ten finishes at Penn State. But eventually you've got to get over the hump. And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve seasons there and never getting over the hump.

So if you were to put somebody else, I mean, it's Penn State, though. Okay. Penn State isn't in Texas or Louisiana adjacent to Texas as well, which Louisiana itself, of course, is a fertile recruiting ground. But, I mean, California, Florida, doing that at Penn State. I think he was doing a pretty good job overall. It's a pretty good job. Especially in bigger games? Absolutely.

But how many times when he did lose those big games against Ohio State or Michigan, did he have, did people think that he had the best football team? Did people think that he was making huge mistakes and he was just a horrible coach or they got beat by better football teams? Well, I mean. More talented football teams, I should say, as well. How many times in those matchups against Ohio State and Michigan and Oregon did James Franklin have the most talented team? Wow, I mean, you had some...

Very few. You had some top 10 talent, though. You had a Sequin Barclay. You had an Abdul Carter. Yeah, you've had some good players. You had some dudes. It ain't like you were little old, you know, SMU trying to get by. Like, you've had elite talent.

I think that's a pretty fair standard, though. For a Penn State... Because here's the, everybody's got different standards. Alabama, the expectation is very real. You're supposed to make the playoff every year and you're supposed to win a championship once every couple of years. That's the standards they've been created there. I think in the second tier, you've got schools, and Ohio State, I probably may even push up there.

Once every two to three years, the expectations of Ohio State we should be playing for a championship. Okay, who else is up there? Then Georgia, probably. George is probably elevated up there. You said you need to be winning every three years. So, I mean, that's the only teams that can win championships then. I think the next tier is teams that once every four to five years, we think we should be maybe have a championship caliber team. Okay. And that's where I put LSU.

That's where I put Texas. That's where I put. No, the boosters at Texas will disagree with you. They think they're in tier one. I know they haven't proven that in the last 20 years. But, I mean, two semifinal runs have been nice for Sark. You're talking about expectations, but what are these boosters who are pouring millions into the program? They think they should be in that Alabama tier.

And I'm talking about guys at four. I don't know. Busters at Florida. But, yeah. But no, I'm saying Florida's in that, I'd put Florida in that tier with the LSUs of like once every four to five years. They're not going to run you off after one bag. year or two bad years. Like, because again, people understand. Like, if you just had a team that

went on a championship run and then you lose your gutted, you lose all those people and you go seven and five in next year, most people, I totally get it. We got gutted, but let's rebuild, we're rebuilding for that next year. But for people like Brian Kelly, you had four years to prove it. By year four, this was his

most talented team. This was supposed to be the team that could make a championship run. Now, again, with the 12th team playoff, nobody was saying win a championship. They were saying make a deep playoff run. That's what the expectation is. Yeah, what was Brian Kelly's best season? I mean, well, the first couple years when he was pretty good, they didn't have a 12-team playoff.

The first year they beat Alabama, they won the SEC West. Yeah. And then the next year, he has Jane Daniels wins the Heisman, but you have historically the worst defense you've ever had in history of LSU. Oh, apparently Matt Thomas says, what do you want, Matt? Are you awake? Every bit of that game last night, you believe me or not? Not.

That is accurate. I'm just driving to the airport and during this show. Great conversation. What do you repartee? Where are you? Oh, you're in Houston, Texas. I didn't know where you were. Yeah, I'm going to here.

I don't know what I thought. Oh, okay. I thought the plane left after the game or something. No, I mean, that wouldn't be terrible. Extra time in Canada would be nice. You know, Tim Horton's in a good exchange rate, but that's not the reason why I call it. How's your passport looking? Updated, by the way.

Okay, that's true. 20, 35. Thanks for asking. Okay, great. All right, what do you want? Well, I was going to say, my point about not winning a championship is deemed a failure. Look at all these coaches that are losing their jobs. It's proven my point.

All this money, all this, all this, absolutely, it's proven my point. Nobody has time to build programs. You spend all this money, you win. You don't think if Texas Tech doesn't win a national championship, they're going to fire everybody there? Oh, hell yeah, he's going to. I don't know. Yeah. But don't you think that's a ridiculous standard to hold every single?

You're holding 15, 20. And if you throw Texas Tech in there and some other NIL programs, you're getting up to like 20 programs, we need to be winning the championship. And like Gordy said, there's three teams he named that should be winning the championship. Well, then that's all the championships. Like, it's just unrealistic to me that everybody thinks they should be winning all the time.

There's a group of 20 teams, though, that I say they should have a chance to compete. And four to five years is a good enough sandwich. size. Nobody's firing coaches after one year. James Strangler was there 12 years. They're getting a rope, but you've got at least show you have a chance to get there. And Brian Kelly

was showing he was never going to get there. You think if Brian Kelly stayed there 10 more years, they would have never won a championship? Well, you don't get 10 years. I'm just saying. I'm just talking. You get five. And this was supposed to be his year it takes the next step. So I think it's fair. I

think it's fair to give these coaches. Look Billy Napier. He massively underachieved of Florida. He got four. I'm sorry. That's enough timetable to tell if this guy's going to be a championship coach. I think the expectations, program to program. If you add it all up, it's just ridiculous the expectations.

Go ahead. I agree. I agree with you guys. I agree with you all. I get red writers to the tournament in the next three years he's out of work. Hearing in the story. Clay Campbell, I ain't paying all that cash for nothing. But that's another thing that's another interesting discussion is for me is like, was Joey McGuire a hot candidate anywhere? No. All of a sudden,

Joey McGuire is this smart top 10 coach because he got players. So I think that's fair though. They went out and bought a top 10 roster. If you can't win with that, then that's on coaching. No, I understand that. But nobody thought that Joey McGuire was some kind of genius coach before this year. And all of a sudden, they're in the top 10. It's because it comes down a lot to the players. He was thought of as a pretty good coach. I think there's a certain baseline you hit where it kind of, it comes down to the player, especially in the NIL age, it comes down more to the players that you're able to acquire than the coaching.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. How does UCLA look like absolute dog crap under Deshawn? What's his face? And the minute they fire him, they beat Penn State. What happened last week?

I don't know. They lost like 56 to 3. But what I'm saying is, was that the talent or was that coaching? Because clearly UCLA had the talent to beat Penn State. to beat whoever they beat the next week. Let me go. I'm trying to find that. Didn't they just get stomped?

Yeah, they lost 56 to 6. Okay, but what did they do? The three games prior to that? They won three games. And they just lost 56 to 6. Because that's a damn good team. No, yeah, well, no, you said the coaching matters, so all of a sudden the genius coach lost 56 to 6.

You're saying it's only on the players. I'm saying coaching. I didn't say it's only on the players. If Kirby Smart leaves Georgia tomorrow. Sorry, man, anything else for me? George ain't winning 12 years. We're going to hit the hour, Matt. I'm proud of you guys and I'll talk to you tomorrow for Toronto.

Okay, thank you very much. Matt Thomas from Toronto, he's going to want to hear O Canada 50 times because he thinks it's better than the Star-Spangled Banner. What was the final tally on that Instapole, by the way? I think, yeah, 8 to 1 maybe. We took like 10 people before he got one. All right. Gordy, appreciate you hanging out. Can we go take a nap?

Please. No, I don't know. I'm worried about you. I don't know. The man's doing morning shows. He's the PD in like six markets. And he does locked on SEC. Appreciate you making time for me, Chris Gordy, in this first hour.

All right, those are you on hold, I promise, because I'm flying solo. Please don't go anywhere. I want to talk to you guys. So I'm flying solo for the next couple of hours. We got gut feelings coming up at 1130. We have Adam Clinton joining at 1 o'clock. And it is basically the sports RV show? Is this a bad idea from our higher-ups?

I think so. For the next two hours, you guys want to get in. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas Show with Rob. continues with hour number two in just a second. 10 o'clock straight up here on Sports Talk 790. Hello, and welcome in to the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas.

He is traveling with your Houston Rockets, who got to win last night, their first of the season against the Brooklyn Nets. He will be out today and Thursday as it is the start of NBA season, folks, which means Matt will be out on the road, also missing some days. and there. But the Rockets getting the win last night, so that is good news. In his stead, we will have Adam Clanton hanging out in the 1 o'clock hour, and I convinced him to hang out for a little bit longer.

Four hours of the morning is not enough. Chris Gordy is hanging out for a little bit. I appreciate you, Mr. Gordy. Sure thing. Let's do it. Yeah, you see, he sounds super enthused, folks, so you want to get in, you can. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. 7-1-3-2-5-790.

All right, can we change this? We have an awful situation unfolding. I've been actually some, you know, you click on like one thing and then it ends up in your 4U tab for like the next six months. I clicked on one video about the Hurricane Melissa, which unfortunately is battering Jamaica with like 185 miles an hour of wind. The third most intense hurricane in the Atlantic ever. Dropped under 900 millibars, right?

Yeah, whatever that means. I know it's bad, but I don't know what the thresholds are. I have no context for how bad it is, but apparently like the third worst in history. It basically becomes one of the five most strongest landfalling hurricanes in Atlantic history. Okay. Well, prayers out to our good friends in Jamaica because it does not look like a good situation. And this is just depressing me. I mean, the eye of that hurricane, this looks so, how can it look so menacing when it's just a cloud formation?

I don't know. Oh, this does not look good. okay, I've got to change this off the TV, so I don't want to be thinking about depressing things that are happening, but unfortunately, I mean, that is the way of the world, whether you want to bury your head in the sand or not. Yeah, let's put on sports and watch the Dodgers win World Series games. Well, actually, I do want to talk about that, of course.

I know you didn't catch much of it. How much did you catch, Gordy, before you nodded off? I fell asleep in extra inning, so it was like the 10th or 11th, and I woke up around 1240 and could not believe that that game was still going on. Still going on. It went on until like 2 a.m. I was, okay, normally I'm like a night out anyways. I'll be honest with you, folks. I usually fall asleep between like midnight and one depending, but sometimes I'll stay up a little bit later if I can't sleep. But I just, I was too invested. I watched that entire game. I watched the entire game. It was, it got over like 2 a.m. See, my take time, I get to the point. Nobody's scoring just end. I don't even get like. Oh, don't, don't get me wrong. I hate the Dodgers and I wanted them to lose. but every time the Blue Jays got three outs,

I was like, all right, whatever, just end this. And then finally, Freddie Freeman walked it off in the 18th inning. 18 innings. 18 innings. I mean... And you enjoyed that. I'm not going to say I enjoyed it. I just, like I said, I was like, pot committed.

I'm like, I can't miss some crazy walk-off moment. I can't go to bed. I don't know why. And then there was a couple of almost walk-off home runs. It did make me laugh. The Dodgers fans were like, Will Smith deep to last center

Oh yeah Every time Anything was hit hard Don Barsoe camping under it He's pitched a tent He's got a fire building He's hanging out It's a can of corn

Shut your bum ass up Dodgers fans But Otani homered in the seventh And we had to then go 11 innings Before anything happened again He went double Homer Double Homer

Double Homer And got intentionally walked Four times Well he walked five times In the game And then he walked again When they finally pitched to him It was really an unintentional, intentional walk.

They pitched around him. He did not see a strike in that at bat. I don't believe. I think it was four straight balls. So, yeah, it was insane. And folks, we're going to have to have a serious conversation at some point this day. I understand we hate the Dodgers, but Shohei Otani is an absolute force of nature. I mean, I mean, and I'm listening to the argument,

already arguing like the greatest athlete in the history of American. sports, except for this dude, Victor Wimbignama, who's with the San Antonio Spurs. Oh, the undefeited Spurs? And we hate the San Antonio Spurs. Before no Spurs? So I actually do. Same record as the Thunder? At some point on the show, I do want to have a discussion with folks, like, how much can we, like,

appreciate this greatness that we're seeing? But how much do we have to hate them and not accept how good they are because they play with the Dodgers and the Spurs? Two different sports, two different forces of nature and two different, basically, I mean, at least Victor Womenyama's got a ways to go, but as far as talent, one of the all-time greats, and showy O'Tonnie already one of the all-time greats. Showy-O-Toney, wasted, one, two, three, four, five, six years

with the Los Angeles Angels. Yeah. No playoffs. In two seasons with the Dodgers, two post-season runs, he has 26 career walks already. Oh, my God. A few more, and that'll vault him into the top 25 all-time.

Because I had to look it up. Chipper Jones, Mani Ramirez, tied for the most postseason walks ever at 72. Well, show he's at 26 in two postseason so far. How many is Jose Al Tuve have? He's got to be way up there. Let's see. Although he gets he doesn't walk in time. Alex Breggman is nice. You know what, that was the next name I was going to say.

Breggman's got to be close. Joseo Tuve. How many does Breggman have? O'De-L-Tuvies 14th with 43. Okay. Bregman's got 56, top 10. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay.

The other ones after Chipper Jones and Mandy Ramirez. just name a Yankee. Bernie Williams, Horat Posada, Derek Jeter. Yeah, Derek Jeter, the greatest, the greatest of all time, or most overrated of all time. So you had that, an 18-inning World Series game last night, and you have, I mean, the Monday night football was going on. Yep.

Where Travis Kelsey tied one Longhorn Priest Holmes for most touchdowns. By a chief? Most touchdowns at Chiefs history, yeah. Okay. I mean, Priest Holmes really only had a few good years. But he was awesome. Oh, dude, he was like the, didn't he have like a 20 plus touchdown year or something like that? Well, that's why he's the, he was the all-time leader.

That's why he's up there. Yeah, so, okay, you got that going on. It was a crazy sports night. You had Monday night football. You had World Series. You had the Rockets playing. Rockets got off the snide and got a win. You had a game against, it was the Cavaliers and Pistons were on Peacock.

Like, it was for the end of October. Yeah, it was a nice little sports heaven night last night. Well, that's what people are saying, like, this is the best time of year if you're just a sports fan, because you got hockey, you got college football, you got NFL, you got stuff going on every night. I've been telling Matt for years that he needs to get an extra TV. I think he watches in his office or something like that because he's always like, hey, what did you have? What were you doing?

Were you flipping around? Like, Matt, I have more than one TV. You got like three, right? So yeah. So on Saturday, I had three TVs. Yes. Then I have my tablet. This is grown-ass man behavior, Gordy.

I had my tablet up with a fourth game. And then I had to put a game on my, on my computer, my main computer. So I had five going. Yeah, you can find cheap throwaway TVs or your old TVs. Like, you don't have to have a bunch of 4K OLEDs. And put an antenna on it. Yeah. Oh, you can put an antenna on it.

Or you can just get a Chromecast, which you can get usually for just a, it's not that much. And also, yeah, I have three TVs in my living room. And then I bring the one from my bedroom if things are really getting hairy. And I got to put four TVs on. But I had to do five because the freaking Aggies. going to overtime of Mississippi State. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't win in. Oh, I know. When you're trying to jockey the TVs and one goes into overtime, I'm with you. I like that. It's a great shot of, what's this girl's name, Jessica Mendoza on ESPN.

Great shot of the air vents inside her LA hotel. Yeah, it doesn't look like they're shacking her up in a nice place. I think she's in a, it looks like she's in the red roof inn. Holiday in? Yeah, I don't, no, she's not, that's not a holiday. That's too dingy. But I'm just like they can't send them with like a little roll-up backdrop to put behind them. They can't dust off that great. Got to see the whole background of the hotel. Yeah, she needs to tell the housekeeper to dust off that air vent. This does not look safe. Jessica Mendoza is going to get mesothelioma in Los Angeles.

You know what we got to start doing? We got cameras in here. Yes. I think we need to start streaming the show when Matt's on the road and see his hotels. That, okay, with him? You're like streaming with Matt? He's got to bring a camera. No, because he's going to have to put on clothes.

He's not going to be happy about that. Unless you want to see back hair I didn't need to picture that at all Well guess what It just happened and I'm sorry Well they stay at some nice hotels Yeah actually no They're in some they're in five

It's literally in the collective bargaining agreement With the NBA They cannot be anything worse than five star I think like something like that So the Rockets some cities only have one or two Rockets will not be in the Toronto extended stay No they will not It's not in the 1970s they fought for that back in the day

It was like Wilk Chamberlain the boys were like, no, we're not staying in these chump hotels anymore. So now they're in nicer hotels in the NBA. That's collectively bargaining. It wasn't until recently WNBA still flying commercial. Are they not still? Or did Caitlin Clark kind of help everybody out?

I think she helped them out. Are they going to name that league after Caitlin Clark, by the way? They need to. I mean, they have to call it the the Caitlin Clark Basketball Association. It's called Caitlin Clark and everyone else who hates her. Nobody else likes her. Yeah, there are a lot of girls who are jealous, but there are a lot of girls who respect what she's done for them as well in the league, I think.

All right, anyways. So, yes, the Rockets get the victory last night to the Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Nets, 137 and 101. A couple of things that I liked from the game. Am I doing this right? Tar Easton. Pay the man. Pay the man. We do this with every Astro, every time they have a big game.

Pay the man. No, we're not doing pay. No, people were already doing Tar Easton got to go. Tar Easton needs to ride the bench. I mean, you know this Gordy too because you've been in this business a long time. time. We have been in the microwave generation, and you're seeing this right now with coaches, right? Like fire Brian Kelly, fire James Franklin. They were just literally in the semifinals of the playoff. It's the now, now, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, instant gratification generation.

But it's like even worse. Two games into the rocket season, people like, you can't extend Tari Isson. This is horrible. You got to get this guy off. Man, Tari Isan bet on himself turning down this rocket's money. That was a huge mistake. I'm like, dude, it's two games into the season. How do we not, how do we not recognize that as people who have been sport? Even if

you're the youngest sports fan on the planet and you're 18 years old, you still have some perspective. You've probably been watching sports for five, six years. You've got to understand one game does not a season make, even a handful of games. And then if we get into baseball, oftentimes like, we're talking

about how 50 games isn't sometimes. a significant sample. Yet it still happens. It's a trap that we fall into how everybody's the worst and everybody's the best week to week. It's ridiculous. But yes, Tari Isson with a very good game. He was 5 to 7 from 3. He had 22 points to lead the Rockets in scoring off the bench. I was encouraged about that. And then I was also really encouraged by the performance from one other Houston Rocket. We'll talk about that on the other side. We have a lot of stuff to get to. I do want to talk to you guys about Shoah Otani and Victor Wimidiyama. How much do you hate them because they're with rivals of your respective teams in here in Houston?

How much do you appreciate what they bring to the table? Rockets, any observations you want to make there? Of course, the Texans get the victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Anything you all want to get to. We also have gut feelings coming up at 1130. Adam Clinton joining at 1 o'clock and you at 713-212-5-790. The phone number is 7-13-212-5-790. It is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas with you until 2 o'clock.

1018 in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Hello and welcome back in to the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He is out traveling with the Houston Rockets. They're in Toronto, eh? I heard he got held up in customs like Dave Roberts. So hopefully everything's okay over there. I don't know what he was trying to smuggle in or, okay, maybe I made that up. Did you see that?

Dave Roberts talking about how we got held up and he's, like, I don't know if there was any intent there. Well, somebody said it's the government shutdown. Like TSA's all taken a little extra time. So can you please have a little patience? And Cave Robbins, like, I ain't got time for this.

Well, that was always wondering, though, but they were in Canada. They're not shut down in Canada. He means when they landed, they were running into some issues with customs, I guess? I think you got to go through. Yeah, both sides. Because those people, so they're still shut down. They're working without pay, correct? Is that what's happening right now? I have a homeboy that's a TSA agent.

Oh, he has pissed. Oh, man. That's, oof. See, speaking of things we don't really need. All right. No more about the Jamaican hurricane and no more about the government shutdown, folks. Barrier heads in the sand. That's what we do here.

We talk sports on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-790. Yes, mentioned Tari-Eason leading the way for the Houston Rockets. with 22 points. Also off the bench, a very impressive performance from Reed Shepard.

24 minutes, 15.6 of 11 from the field. He's been knocking down three so far early in the season, Gordy, but how about eight assists and only two turnovers? That was nice to see as well. He's been playing with confidence. You can tell that that has been certainly something that is being coached into him and talked about

from last year where he definitely just looked a little pinched. Look like he was maybe scared to make a mistake, not necessarily having full confidence in his abilities. He's getting to the basket. He's putting up shots. They haven't been going down consistently yet. But that was an encouraging performance from him last night.

Led the team an assist. Yeah, I mean, he's looking like getting a little bit confident, shooting three. So that's the big one, hit three of them. So, yeah, I like his game. So he had a steal, like he was slapping balls. Yeah, he ripped the ball. away from Cam Thomas.

First of all, he was like a snatch and grab. It was like he was ripping some old lady's purse, and then he ran the other way and dunked it in. I'm like, who is this guy? What is Reed Shepherd doing over here? This is nice. He's an underrated defender. I mean, I watched him at Kentucky, and he defended pretty well. It is

funny, though. I mean, we, seeing him in person the other night at Toyota Center was at the game. Like, he just looked, he looks like a kid that won a contest. Yes. To go play an NBA game. Like he... And he wears his short shorts. And he's got the little boy haircut. Like he just looks like... I think he grew the mustache for a little while to try to look older, but I think it wasn't

working and he shaved it off. I don't know. We have to ask him about that. You get like a fade or just something to look a little bit cooler. He just looks, you know... Right. Looks like a college kid that won a contest. Yeah, he's just, he looks like he's like a pledge. But don't let it, like, he can ball. So when he's athletic, people are like, oh, like, I'm like, this is what he does. Don't act like surprise. Yeah, so the three-point shooting so far, of course, we're dealing

with very small sample sizes right now this season. We're three games in. 35% from, excuse me, 44% from three so far early on in the season, but only 27% from the field. But how about Amin Thompson and Reed Shepard combining for 16 assists

and only two turnovers? So that was good to see as well for a men and you did what you needed to do against a Brooklyn Nets. You've got to blow out. You were able to not have to play your starters very much. Amin Thompson only played 25 minutes. Barysmith Jr. only played 24, Devin,

Duran only played 25 minutes. And you got some work for some guys who needed it. Like Tari Eason, like Reed Shepard. You got Jayshon Tate into the game. Like Aaron Holiday got some minutes. Overall, very good performance and exactly what you wanted to see from the Rockets against a less and stellar competition. I mean, look, let's be honest.

It was like a preseason game last night. And everybody got their work in. So it's still, at the end of the day, I was pretty happy to what we saw from Reed Shepard, especially with the assist to turnover ratio combining that with the men Thompson. I'm feeling encouraged. Early on, one and two, both games could have gone either way to start the season, and then you got the easy victory against the Nets.

Durant 25, I mean, I know most people played, I mean, Shingoon played 30, Okokie played 31. Durant at 25, is that just situation of where the score was, or are they going to maybe kind of, like you see those minutes in some of these kind of games, be 22, 23? I mean times only played 25. I think if they didn't need him, they would have played more. They're going to be very, I think they're going to be very conscious of it. I'm going to tell you, I don't think it's an accident. Yeah.

But it's just kind of, I don't know, I thought initially when they signed him, I thought it was going to be a little bit of, okay, some rest, some, I mean, probably back-to-backs. Yeah, we'll see. So far, he's playing all three games. We asked him when we had him at Rockets Media Day, and he said, my plan is to play all 82 and play all 48 minutes. Obviously, that's not going to happen, but we'll see. That's how he's preparing for this season.

But I'm going to guess he's not going to play back-to-backs, but I'm not sure. I think it'll be situation-dependent maybe as well. Yeah. Depending on where they are on the standings and how things go later on in the season. So, yeah, it's going to be an interesting situation to be sure, to kind of see how it plays out.

But they haven't had a back-to-back yet. And they don't have one, I don't think, for a couple of weeks. I was looking to the schedule last night. They've been actually having a pretty easy go of it. You've had two. They played on Tuesday. couple days off, then they had Saturday, Sunday off? It's the weekend before Christmas.

They're Thursday in New Orleans, off Friday, Saturday in Denver, Sunday in Sacramento. Okay, so that's a three out of four. And then they stay out west. They play Tuesday, Thursday, in L.A. And they might have some NBA Cup games mixed in somewhere in that stretch. I'm not exactly sure. That's between December 6th on the 18th. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. So we'll see what happens, but yeah, the NBA has been conscious. of not having as many back-to-backs. So that's good, especially when you have an older star like Kevin Durant. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. 7-13-212-5-7-90 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Coppial on hold early on. I appreciate you all. So let's go ahead and get after it.

Rubin holding longest is next up. What's up, Rubin? Hey, man, just wanted to discuss the whole, a tiny thing. And, you know, the greatness as opposed to, you know, the got to hate the Dodgers. He's wearing the Dodger blue, man. It doesn't feel right, Rubin. It doesn't. It doesn't. And when you're looking at a play like that, I'm not sure if y'all have watched Guardians of the Galaxy I've seen before,

but you see that part where they're saying, what do you do with this with the little group, little baby group? It's like, it's too adorable to kill, you know, take it to the Taylor. Yeah. That's so tiny for me. He's a great player. He has, he's all the skills, like you don't really see this type of player at any time, a generational player, but he's on the Dodgers. And you're just kind of irking yourself. Every time he does something, you're saying F and Otani, but then you've got to admire the guy. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he's a freaking unicorn, man. And he's, I mean, how are you in the world series?

Is it eight postseason home runs he has this year, I think? Something like that. Yeah, it's ridiculous. He goes double, 130 miles an hour off the bat, a double. Then he gets a home run, double home run. And he gets intentionally walked four times and then walks a fifth. I mean, this, this is ridiculous. This is unbelievable.

Yeah, which we were telling. We were telling as well, like, start walking the guy. He's like, he's going to smash it. And then you start walking. It's like, okay, four times in a row. It's like, this is, now we're in the 12th, 13th inning. He's like, this is embarrassing.

Just picture the guy. Get over with. You know what's crazy too, though, is that they're intentionally walking him four times. And there are two guys who likely when it's all said and done will be Hall of Famers right behind him. Freddy and Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. There's freaking Hall of Famers right behind him,

and they did it four times. it's more of the lesser of evils perhaps but uh that's crazy and otani all the stories you hear from him the great stories about him giving all these gloves away to people in your hand and all the all the little charity things he does or big charity things he does just like oh i hate this guy that i can't yeah i mean he was giving his interpreter like 10 million bucks that's pretty charitable

yeah the gambling thing i love how we can bypass the whole gambling thing i want to be otani's friend Yeah. Just saying. You do that and you're golden. Get a couple parlays in. All right. Thank you, Rubin. Appreciate you. Yeah, I mean, from all accounts, every story you read, like he's super nice.

He's very welcoming. There's like, what was it? Like Lars Neupar who was playing with Team Japan talked about how nice he was, how he comes up and talks to everybody. And he's basically like a kid. And then he goes out there on the mouth. How does those two things jive? Like you think of people like Justin Verlander who or Max Scherzer or whatever. these uber competitive pitchers who go out there and need to be nasty on the mound.

And then he's like the sweetest guy ever. And then he goes and throws six shutout, hits three bombs. Yeah, that's ridiculous. I just think he's going to climb up that list on just everything. All posts is nuts, considering you missed the playoffs for like the first six years of your career. And now you get a little taste two-year run. This might be the best two-year run of postseason history in anybody's career. It's just, it's insane. It's crazy to watch.

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You have the rockets starting their season. You have the Texans in the thick of things as well. Anything you guys want to get to, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Gut feelings coming up at 1130 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1033 in the AM here on Sports Talk 790 Ross Villarreal with you First player in MLB history to reach base

9 times in a postseason game I mean duh He was the first one to do 8th right And maybe even the first one to do 7 They're stupid If I'm Toronto Even if two men are on base I'm walking him

Nah depending on the situation You got a pitch to him Yeah absolutely Good luck I know. I'm not saying, yeah, I'm happy. This guy sucks. We're going to strike him out.

That's not what I'm saying. One for eight mooky bets last night? I'm pitching to you, sir. He's stepping to the box. Don't you think you're a feel a little embarrassed? You're like, I'm mooky freaking bets. Like I'm multi-time all-star, silver slugger, all this other stuff, like World Series Champion.

I'm mooky F. Betts. And they walk this guy four times to get to me. And I don't make them pay at all. It's kind of not fair. The top three of Maybe Mokey needs his Apple Watch. Show Hey, Mooky

Freddie Freeman. Maybe Mokey needs J.T. Watkins in the video room, Mookie. Oh, did you hear me talk? I talked about that this morning. Jay Stu, the former producer on the Jim Rome show.

Okay. Put out a whole tweet on Sunday how George Springer needed to issue an apology to Dodger fans. They are still so obsessed. Oh yeah. He said you need to issue a formal apology to Dodger fans coming to Dodger Stadium

for cheating in the 17 World Series. Oh my God. And we may consider a little remorse for you, but get ready, if not, get ready for some chin music. Uh-huh. I'm like, you're going to hit him? You're going to hit him. Okay, am I stupid?

The whole Carlos Correa, if you don't know, the facts shut the bleep up thing, was that they did not do it during the postseason. So that's, that was the narrative, and that's what I thought. Upon digging, there was an LA Times article written a few years ago that says, Manford did say,

They did cheat. They put that. Go ahead. Now, they said that the, the banging on the trash can apparently was, you couldn't do that because it was so loud. But there was a whole theorized piece written about that they think they were whistling, that there were whistles. There were distinct whistles throughout the post. And I'm like, good God. They said that they, I mean, okay, obviously we're taking Carlos Curry at his word.

But he came out pretty strongly like, yeah, we cheat. He's like, yeah, we cheated, but we did not do it during the post season. It was too loud. Exactly. and go back and watch those games. Because that's back when Astros' crowds weren't spoiled. But this whole theorized piece was like, yeah, I think they resorted to whistling

because there's this distinct whistle when an off-speed pitch or something, but then you don't hear it. And then somebody else retorted like, yeah, but turns out when the Dodgers were hitting, I heard that same distinct whistle. So what is it? Were they cheating for the Dodgers too?

Like, come on, man. Yeah, I don't think they were doing it. Like, we keep on getting this, oh, they cheated us in 2017. The Astros didn't. Now you could argue they maybe they're, wouldn't have gotten to the postseason or they wouldn't have gotten that far or whatever. And they also won the game seven.

Where was game seven played Christopher Gordy? Yeah, at Dodger Stadium. Dodger freaking stadium. Well, they think they still had it. Did you see like there's like audio of apparently the Dodgers broadcast when the, what was that game where the, was it game one or game two where the blue jays were teeing off? They're like, I don't know. It almost is it's if they know it's coming. And Earl Herschiser did that.

Well, that's somebody said... Astros were literally in their building. Can we just admit they were tipping... The Dodgers were tipping pitches. There was no cheating around it. You were just... There was like Dodgers... So, uh...

George Springer is wearing some kind of watch. It's not an Apple watch. But he got hit when he got hit on the wrist. There was like a Dodgers fan zooming in on the video. Like, hey, look at this. George Springer's wearing an Apple watch, guys. Like a Fitbit? It's unbelievable.

Yeah, he's wearing like a Fitbitter. They called it in ooze. or something like that, I think. Oh, yeah, this guy tweeted at Jay Stu. You left out the part... I don't remember what it was called. You left out the part that he is still currently cheating. Who's that?

George Springer. Oh, how is he currently cheating? Look at the pictures of the Apple Watch on his wrist. Oh, yeah. Okay, you found it? Yeah, that's what people are saying. There's visual evidence, sir. Yeah, these Dodgers fans and their ten foil hats, I mean, get over yourself.

So this is what Jason Stewart tweeted. Some advice to George Springer as he arrives in L.A. That's what it is. whoop. Here's what he wrote out. He wrote an apology for him. To the Dodgers organization and Dodger fans, I want to first and foremost apologize to you for my decision to cheat during the 2017 World Series.

Oh my God. When Major League Baseball determined in 2019 that my Astros used a legal means to cheat during that championship season, I verbally took accountability saying I regretted everything I did. But I never took the noble step and apologized to you directly. Who wrote this, Bill Plashky? The 2017 World Series MVP trophy

is a symbol of shame for me. Oh my God. As it is a reminder, I was the best cheater on a team that was caught cheating. I will never be able to make up for that. I hope that one day you will be able to forgive me. I'm truly sorry, sincerely George Springer. That's what Jason Stewart wanted George Springer to tell Dodger fans. And this guy, David, responds, I would still despise him, but that would certainly raise an eyebrow and he would earn back a shred of respect.

Oh, my God. You'd earn back a shred of respect. Nobody cares. Nobody cares what you have to say. But the only way passing. This is the vacate 2017. How many years are we going to do this? It's 2025, folks.

Y'all won last year. Next comment. Now, 2020 was certainly a Mickey Mouse title. Next comment. Did you write one of these for Mookie or? Yeah, like here. Hello! Hello!

You all cheer when Mooky Betts goes up there. And Evangirlich in his book talked about the Dodgers being involved in cheating as well in using illegal means to steal. Signs. I am head of Rob Manfred PR. The Astros were the only one to do anything. Oh my God.

Don't believe anything else on any other organization doing anything. In 17 and 18, according to Evangrelich's book, Winning Fixes Everything. Teams talking about the Dodgers cheating. We know that the Red Sox did for a fact. The Yankees did for a fact. Not only going to talk about this. This is making me upset. I just love what I was in Dodger.

It was in Fenway Park earlier this year. and this Red Sox fan getting into your cheaters. I said, if your freaking manager started that, what are you talking about? Oh, well, yeah, I mean, whatever. The cognitive dissonance is astounding. You have very, very easy examples to point out Red Sox, Apple Watch, Red Sox, 2018, the mastermind of the 17 scandal, and the manager of the 18 Red Sox, Alex Cora fired and back in the fold,

and somehow still the Astros are the poster boy of this. How are the Red Sox not the poster boy with everything that I just laid out? Because they banged on some trash cans instead of used an Apple Watch. Well, this idiot Red Sox fan is yelling, Hazu Sanchez just got to the team and he's like, Cheater! What about Teosk? What about 2017? Houston Astro, Teoska Hernandez.

Right. Now he played one game. I think he got hurt. He was on the team. He was on the team. He's got a ring. You didn't ask him to take it back? No, he's a dodger.

No, because everybody's like, When you tell people that El Chuvay didn't do it, they're like, well, yeah, he should have stopped everyone. He should have said something in the clubhouse. And he should have told everyone, no, shame on you. Well, I tell you, Oscar Hernandez didn't do that. We're going to shame him too. Gordy, I hate you.

You've got me fired up about all this. Matt, you've been holding patiently, so we're going to get you real quick. What's up, Matt? Hello. Yeah, go ahead. Hey, I got a nugget on the Terry Rozier thing. Okay, what happened? You know a guy?

Well, no, my next door neighbor Oh, here we go. Yeah, you do know a guy. Is the baby mama of his son. Hold on, hold on. Let me write this now. Your next door neighbors is the baby mama of Terry Rozier? Exactly.

Okay. And the son is a junior high student, and that's who I feel sorry for. Now, when he was popped earlier this summer, she told me everything was clear. He's in junior high? How old is his son? Eighth grade. What's he? 13, 14.

Terry O'Jure is 31. I know it. They were high school sweethearts. Oh, okay. In Ohio? And, yeah, yeah, up in Cleveland. Yeah. All right, man.

And, uh, go ahead. And, uh, ever, the kid used to play in the, in my colistack every night. Never see them anymore. Mm-hmm. She owes, I take care of her yard. Never, never, and she owes me money. I can't get a hold of her. So there's, I don't know, she was involved in it or what, but there's, it's, it's, it, it's really

disturbing. No, I'm looking for, for sale sign going. Up next door. All right, Matt. Hey, as far as the Dodgers? Go ahead. Yeah. Look at Cody Bellinger's batting average.

Yeah, that's true. You know? Thank you, Matt. Were they not cheating? Were they not cheating? Well, if you look at one guy's batting average, probably that doesn't going to tell you the whole story, because, I mean, we can flip that on its head.

Of course, we know that Jose Al-Tuvais or whose batting average went way up in 2017, and went back down was like Marwin Gonzalez or somebody like that. I don't know. But Cody Bellinger, I mean, he's still had a lengthy career since he had a nice bounce back year with the Yankees, actually, and he was good with the Cubs last year.

So, I mean, the year before. Anyways, all right, on that note, we're going to take quick break here, Chris Gordy, is sitting in for Matt Thomas. I am, well, I'm here. Roger is from Ohio, by the way. He is from Ohio. Yeah, I brought that.

He's from Youngstown, Ohio. That guy said Cleveland. Also, apparently he, that's his baby mama that apparently he had when he was like 17, 18. And he said the kid, the kid was playing basketball in the cul-de-sac and it was sad. Thank you for all those things. Matt, we're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you can think you could top that, go ahead. 7-13-212-5-7-9 of the phone number 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-9.

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As always, phone lines open at 713, 212-5-790. If you want to talk to Jonathan and give them some suggestions, He's really wrestling over what he should be for Halloween. So, go ahead. You and the lady going out? No, I don't think you're going to be. If we went out, actually, I don't know. Hmm. Okay.

I know she wants to be Wednesday from the, I don't know what I would be. And then you could be, what's the dad's name? Yeah, don't be the dad. I guess it's weird. Gomez? Gomez, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what the most, one of the easy, popular costumes I've seen this year? What's that?

People buying, it's like a, uh, I forget. It's like a hard hat or a reflector vest or whatever. It's basically the jewel thieves from the loose. That's not bad. You get a hammer. Although I don't know if they're going to let you into the club with a hammer. That could be dangerous.

And be careful out there, folks. Halloween. And be careful out there, Uber drivers. It's going to get pretty pricey. And you're going to have some crazy folks. Like, if you're like an Uber driver on Halloween, do you even do you, I mean, that's time to make big fares. But also, people are like getting in there with like face paint and God knows what else. That's true.

Yeah. And then you got fake blood. You got fake blood all over your backseat. That's not good for anybody. All right. 713, 212-790 is the phone number. You know, since Gordy, you're hanging out.

I do want to talk a little college football. So we were talking about this, like the microwave generation, the instant gratification generation, how it's getting even worse and worse and worse. And now, I mean, are we just careening downhill? And this is how it's going to be the new normal in college football, because you have all of these programs. And I always bring this up with Matt,

because he's always like, well, if Texas doesn't win a championship in three years, it's a massive failure. Well, yeah, you can point to like 10 other programs that are saying that, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU. There are like 10 to 15 programs who say if we're not winning championships, we're failing. Well, only one team can win the championship every year. I mean, that's just how it goes. So you're going to have all these programs who are disappointed, and you have a team like Penn State that made the semifinal. and then now literally six games later, they're firing their coach.

But let's back it up a little, because James Franco was given how many years there at Penn State? But do you think... And a lot of really good seasons. Yes? A lot of 10-11 win seasons. But go look up his record against, like, top 10 teams. It was something like 4 and 20-something.

Like, he could never win the big game. It wasn't great, for sure. But he had, let's see, one, two, three, five top ten finishes at Penn State. But eventually you've got to get over the hump. And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve seasons there and never getting over the hump. So if you'd have put somebody else, I mean, it's Penn State, though. Okay. Penn State isn't in Texas or Louisiana adjacent to Texas as well, which Louisiana itself, of course, is a fertile recruiting ground.

But, I mean, California, Florida, doing that at Penn State. I think he was doing a pretty good job overall. It's a pretty good job. Especially in bigger games? Absolutely. But how many times when he did lose those big games against Ohio State or Michigan, did he have, did people think that he had the best football team? Did people think that he was making huge mistakes and he was just a horrible coach

or they got beat by better football teams? Well, I mean. More talented football teams, I should say, as well. How many times in those matchups against Ohio State and Michigan and Oregon did James Franklin have the most talented team? Wow, I mean, you had some... Very few. You had some top 10 talent, though. You had a Seqon Barkley.

You had an Abdul Carter. Yeah, you've had some good players. You had some dudes. It ain't like you were little old, you know, SMU trying to get by. Like, you've had elite talent. I think that's a pretty fair standard, though. For a Penn State... Because here's the, everybody's got different standards.

Alabama, the expectation is very real. You're supposed to make the playoff every year and you're supposed to win a championship once every couple of years. That's the standard state has been created there. I think in the second tier, you've got schools, and Ohio State, I probably may even push up there. Once every two to three years, the expectations of Ohio State we should be playing for a championship. Okay, who else is up there? Then Georgia, probably. George is probably elevated up there.

Those three teams you need to be winning every three years. So, I mean, that's the only teams that can win championships then. I think the next tier is teams that once every four to five years, we think we should be maybe have a championship caliber team. Okay. And that's where I put LSU. That's where I put Texas. that's where I put... No, the boosters at Texas will disagree with you. They think they're in tier one.

I know they haven't proven that in the last 20 years. But, I mean, two semifinal runs have been nice for Sark. You're talking about expectations, but what are these boosters who are pouring millions into the program? They think they should be in that Alabama tier. And I'm talking about guys at Florida. Boosters at Florida. People, I mean, yeah.

But no, I'm saying Florida's in that... I'd put Florida in that tier with the LSUs of like once every four to five years. They're not going to run you off after one bad or year or two bad years. Like, because again, people understand. Like, if you just had a team that went on a championship run and then you lose, you're gutted. You lose all those people and you go seven and five in the next year.

Most people, I totally get it. We got gutted, but we're rebuilding for that next year. But for people like Brian Kelly, you had four years to prove it. By year four, this was his most talented team. This was supposed to be the team that could make a championship run. Now, again, with the 12th team playoff, nobody was saying win a championship. they were saying make a deep playoff run.

That's what the expectation was. What was Brian Kelly's best season? I mean, well, the first couple years when he was pretty good, they didn't have a 12-team playoffs. The first year they beat Alabama and they won the SEC West. Yeah. And then the next year, he has Jane Daniels wins the Heisman, but you have historically the worst defense you've ever had in the history of LSU.

Apparently Matt Thomas says, what do you want, man? Are you awake? Every bit of that game last night, do you believe me? or not? Not. That is accurate. I'm just driving to the airport and join this show. Great conversation.

What do you repartee? Where are you? Oh, you're in Houston, Texas. I didn't know where you were. I don't know why I thought... Oh, okay. I thought the plane left after the game or something. I mean, that wouldn't be terrible.

Extra time in Canada would be nice. You know, Tim Horton's in a good exchange rate, but that's not the reason why I call it. How's your passport looking? Updated, by the way. Okay, that's... Through 20, 35. Thanks for asking.

Okay, great. All right, what do you want? Well, I was going to say, my point about not winning a championship is deemed a failure. Look at all these coaches that are losing their jobs. It's proven my point. All this money, all this, NIL, all this, absolutely, it's proven my point. Nobody has time to build programs. You spend all this money, you win.

You don't think if Texas Tech doesn't win a national championship, they're going to fire everybody there? Oh, hell yeah, he's going to. I don't know. Yeah, but don't you think that's a question. a ridiculous standard to hold every single you're holding 15, 20, and if you throw Texas Tech in there and some other NIL programs, you're getting up to like 20

programs, we need to be winning the championship. And like Gordy said, there's three teams he named that should be winning the championship. Well, then that's all the championships. Like, it's just unrealistic to me that everybody thinks they should be winning all the time. There's a group of 20 teams though that I say they should have a chance to

compete. And four to five years is a good enough sample size. Nobody's firing. after one year. It's, James Strangler was there 12 years. They're getting a rope, but you got to at least show you're, you have a chance to get there. And Brian Kelly was showing he was never going to get there. You think if Brian Kelly stayed there 10 more years, they would have never won a championship. Well, you don't get 10 years. I'm just saying. I'm just talking. You get five. And this was supposed to be his year it takes the next step. So I think it's fair. I think it's fair to give these coaches. Look at Billy Napier. He

massively underachieved of Florida. He got four. I'm sorry. That's enough timetable to tell if this guy's going to be a championship coach. I think the expectations, program to program. If you add it all up, it's just ridiculous the expectations. Go ahead.

I agree. I agree with you guys. I agree with you, Ross. It's totally unrealistic. Joey McGuire does not get threat writers to the tournament. In the next three years, he's out of work. Hearing in the story. Clay Campbell, I ain't paying all that cash for nothing. But that's another thing that's another interesting discussion is for me is like,

was Joey McGuire a hot candidate anywhere? No. All of a sudden, Joey McGuire is this smart top 10 coach because he got players. I think that's fair, though. They went out and bought a top 10 roster. If you can't win with that, then that's on coaching. No, I understand that. But nobody thought that Joey McGuire was some kind of genius coach before this year.

And all of a sudden, they're in the top 10. It's because it comes down a lot to the players. He was thought of as a pretty good coach. I think there's a certain baseline you hit where it comes down to the player, especially in the NIL age, it comes down more to the players that you're able to acquire than the coaching. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. How does you say it look like absolute dog crap under Deshawn?

What's his face? And the minute they fire him, they beat Penn State. What happened last week? I don't know. They lost like 56 to 3. But what I'm saying is, was that that. talent or was that coaching? Because clearly UCLA had the talent to beat Penn State

to beat whoever they beat the next week. Let me go. I'm trying to find that. Didn't they just get stomped? Yeah, they lost 56 to 6. Okay, but what did they do the three games prior to that? They won three games after starting 0-1-3. And they just lost 56 to 6. Because that's a damn good team. No, yeah, well, no, you said the coaching

matters, so all of a sudden the genius coach lost 56 to 6. You're saying it's only on the players. I'm saying coaching. I didn't say it's only on the players. If Kirby Smart leaves Georgia tomorrow. else from here. George Jane went in 12. We've got a hit top of the hour, Matt. I'm proud of you guys, and I'll talk you tomorrow for Toronto. Okay, thank you very much. Matt Thomas from Toronto, he's going to want to hear O Canada 50 times because he thinks it's better than the Star-Spangled

banner. What was the final tally on that, on that Instapole, by the way? I think, yeah, 8 to 1 maybe. We took like 10 people before he got one. All right. Gordie, appreciate you hanging out. Go get some sleep. Can we go take a nap? Please. No, I don't know. I'm worried about you. I don't know. The man's doing. doing morning shows. He's the PD in like six markets. And he does locked on SEC. Appreciate you making time for me, Chris Gordy, in this first hour. All right, those are you on hold. I promise, because I'm flying solo. Please don't go anywhere. I want to talk to you guys. So I'm flying solo for the next couple of hours. We got gut feelings coming up at 1130. We have Adam Clinton joining at 1 o'clock.

And it is basically the sports RV show? Is this a bad idea from our higher ups? I think so. For the next two hours, you guys want to get in. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues with hour number two in just a second. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is the third hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas.

He'll be back tomorrow. Then off on Thursday, he's in us with that Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, which I always appreciated in college because those were the shorter sessions. Really? I was more of a Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday guy. For the hour and a half? Yeah, I have my Friday. Then you got your Fridays off. Yeah, I was just extremely lazy in those days and unmotivated.

Well, I had a lot of issues. Anyways, let's move on here on Sports Talk 790. It's our number three of the show. We made it all right, Mama. I'm here on Sports Talk 790. Jonathan Allen is here as well. You guys can hang out on the phone lines. James will see you.

We'll get to you in just a section. But now we have to get to the top. Sports News. items of the day. We call it the news at noon. Jonathan, we got a few things to get to in the news at noon, correct? Yeah, there was a lot of things going on yesterday.

But I wanted to start off with our local. I know this, NFL and World Series probably didn't get a lot to catch the Rockets game. They end up they do take the Brooklyn next down 137 to 101 and proving the records of 1 and 2.

Not what we thought we were going to start at, but you know, it was all right. Shingoon going for 7 and 11 from the field, two from two from three, 21 points, six rebounds, six assists. Tari Easton finally showing up and giving us what he was supposed to be doing these last two games. He didn't really show it out those first two games, giving us 8 and 12, 5, 7 from 3 and 5 rebounds, man. Did you see what shoes he was wearing?

No, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't kiss any of the game. He was wearing the Angel Reese me-bound signature shoes. You know, okay, it's a hot take. I think they're really nice. Tari Easton agrees with you. I think they're nice. I think they're nice. And I was wearing the Reebok.

Yeah, I think they're called the me bounce. Reebok Angel Reese won. He was wearing those last night. He was bawling out. He's got to keep wearing them. He led the team with 22 points wearing the me bounce. Yeah, because after the OKC game, he looked like he was, he didn't get that rookie extension. Are you much of a sneaker head, Jonathan, or you just like wear whatever?

No, I wear whatever. I used to be, I mean. It's expensive. Yeah. And when you're in track, you spend so much money on, like, running shoes and spikes and all that stuff. Yeah, I got you. You kind of get out that game, man. It's like, man, I would be a sneakerhead, but I just don't have the funds.

Like, I don't got $3.50 for, you know, and I'm not going to wear them every day. I'm going to wear them, what, once a month? I don't go out enough, you know. Exactly. You had to wait for the market to go up on them. It's a whole thing. Yeah. All right.

Anyways, yeah, so a nice win by the Rockets. You mentioned the 22 points by Tari Eason. It was a breakout game. I mean, literally two games in. I was seeing people who follow the Rockets like, man, I can't believe Tari Isson bet on himself. I mean, he's got to be regretting all the millions he's costing himself. You need not taking that extension from the Rockets. Two games in, guys.

Game number three. But I see what they're talking about because that first game, he looked like he was just out of the dump. It wasn't our normal. He's fine. No, man, he's all good. Tarie Eisen is a dog, man. He's going to be okay. If there's one thing we know, it's going to be his competitive fire.

Yes, he only scored three and four points in the first two games. but exploded for 22 points against the Brooklyn Nets. So hopefully we see that again. Of course, I just want to give, you know, Rees Shepard actually showed up that he can do a little something, he's got that pressure on him. Six for 11, three for seven, the three point, at least taking those shots.

I know he was a little nervous in OKC, but he got the job done, got a little 15 points. If y'all had missed that game. And I wanted to bring up, I know Monday, sorry, yeah, Monday, Matt, yesterday was talking about the NBA in a memo about the gambling. And I wanted to make sure

everybody got that with this little memo that gave this is the... Are you going to read the whole memo? I'm just kidding. I was going to paraphrase. I'm just kidding. Everybody needs to be informed of what going on.

The risks of gambling. Yeah. And the reoccurrence of the integrity issues across sports and the emergence of novel betting formats and markets, this is an opportune time to carefully reassess how sports betting

should be regulated. And this is coming out of the NBA saying they might have to come back. So Adam, so. in the NBA, we're like, hey, guys, it's not us. It's not us taking all this money and all of our players who are getting involved in these betting skills. It's the sports books

and the legislators they need to figure out how to regulate this. It's not us, the NBA. Very funny. We're all looking, or you see that meme where the guys wearing the hot dog suit? We're all looking for the guy who did this because the hot dog mobile crashes into the house. Oh, I know it's, yeah. Yeah. That's from

what is I called something, Tim Robinson? I think you should leave with Tim Robinson. Yeah, no, I know he's talking about. Yeah. We're all looking for the guy who did this. Yeah, it was you, NBA. You've taken all that money. And they're not going to stop taking the money.

I mean, people are like, yeah, maybe, you know, they're going to dial back all this revenue. Yeah, right. You get in these owner meetings. They're seeing record revenues. And one of the reasons they've done that is because they've been taking all this cash from the sports books. That's going to go away. And not go away. I think at some point that'll go down somewhat.

But because I don't think that the legal sports betting, I think there's going to be initial pop. You're going to have people that kind of lose enough money to say, you know what, I can't do this anymore. They get out of the game. I saw this with poker. This is another back in my date for you, Jonathan Allen. In 2003, how old were you? Negative one? I was one. Okay, you were one.

There was this huge poker boom. It was party poker. It was full-tilt poker. It was poker stars. They were making all these millions. Everybody was playing online poker because of Chris Money, this guy named Chris Moneymaker, who was a stone cold amateur, won the World Series of poker.

Everybody's like, I can do that. So there was a big poker boom. And even I was doing it. I was paying my rent with my poker money that I was making. And I was like, I'm going to do this forever. This is amazing. And then it died down eventually because people who are losing and bad at it, they eventually get out of the game.

So people who are gambling, either A, gambling addicts who need to get out of the game and go cold turkey, or B, people who are like, you know what, this isn't worth it. I'm losing too much money. my wife is getting upset. She's looking at our bank statements and she's saying,

I got to quit this. The numbers will go down eventually, I think. But to what extent we will continue to see. Yeah, and the mafia is involved. Don't ask me how to play poker. They're going to get their cards over here. Yeah, no, let's go play some poker. Yeah, yeah, pony up.

And, of course, we've got to talk about the 2 AM World Series. 18 innings. Oh, Tani. Guys, I know, Houston, I know we don't like him. I know,

I know we don't. It's cartoonish. We have to talk about it. We have to bring this up. Four at bets. Yes. Four hits. Yes.

Two home runs. Yes. Two doubles as well. How many base? How many times you got on base? Nine times we got on base, guys. I don't even know how many times has a guy got nine times on base in any game ever?

We are seeing the Jackie Robson Babe Brule. This is, guys, We get a rush in it. We got to watch it. I have a hot take. I mean, we'll see what happens. It's a really hot take, though.

It's the greatest player of all time. It's the greatest, no, and I'm agreeing with you. It's a greatest player of all time. I don't want to be bootlicking, but I'm just saying. He's throwing six-ending shutout with 10 strikeouts, and then he hits three bombs. Do we realize how stupid that is? Single-handedly keeping the Dodgers back in the game, 5-and-5, and going to 18 innings for Freeman to walk it off.

I fell asleep on the 14th. I tried. That's why I'm groggy today, guys. But it was just a game you had to watch. You got to keep watching. Okay, apparently there was a guy who got nine hits in a game. What, back in 1930s? He tied the Major League.

Yeah. It was, it was Shifty Burnett. No, that wasn't his name. Johnny Burnett. And, okay. Johnny Bennett, 1932. Max Carrey. 1922 and Stan Hack.

I mean, is that the most 1940s names you've ever heard? Stan Hack! Stan Hack to the bad, folks. These are all in 18-in-games, by the way. That's funny. Everybody, all four of the guys who shared the record were in 19-8, excuse me, 18-inning games. Max Carey, whoever the hell that is,

did it in an 18- inning game. He had six hits and three walks. Nine hits. Johnny Burnett's the goat. Nine straight hits, no walks. He said, you guys are walking. Y'all are chumps. Nine hits. Nine innings? In an 18 inning game. 18 inning game.

I was going to say. Stan Hack had five hits and four walks in an 18-in game. Otani has the most walks on this list. He had five walks, four of them intentional, four hits in an 18- inning game. Wow. Insane. And I wanted to bring just real quick about just, I just wanted to bring up the Brian Kelly situation one more time. He's gone. He's gone.

And I'm just reading this from CBS. saying that it seems like they didn't even really tell him right off the bat. His fingerprint didn't work when he tried to go to work. The source has told CBS Sports it took a couple minutes. You know what that tells me? That tells me he kind of was a bat. That tells me people are twisting the knife. And for people that don't know about this Division I,

coaches, and I've had my fair share of them, dude, they're really. Shut, he said shut, folks. That's what I said. You can't say that. I know you did. You can't say that word or the word you said. No. Okay. Yes, you have some people who are bad people.

And Brian Kelly, it sounds like from all accounts, from former players and stuff like that. He was one of, I'll give you one more news item. Yeah. Jonathan. Spencer Rattler benched for the New Orleans Saints. Tyler Shuck is now going to start. as he was drafted in the second round by the Saints. Over the Rattler, wow.

So Tyler Shuck starting over Spencer Rattler for the New Orleans Saints. That is your news item from the New Orleans Breuro of the News at noon. All right, a lot of stuff going on in sports. You just heard us talk about. We didn't even really mention the Texans they had the game coming up against the Broncos. Ray had the gut feeling. If they beat the Broncos, they don't know, maybe with somebody else, actually. Was it Brian that had that gut feeling?

if they beat the Broncos, they're making the playoffs. We can talk about the Texans. Rockets got their first win last night. Tari Easton was impressive, but I was also very impressed by Reed Shepard, who had his best game so far this year. Anything you guys want to talk about that? Shoah Otani, 18 innings with the Los Angeles Dodgers, nine times on base. And I was mentioning this earlier, if you guys want to get into this.

Does it stick in your craw when you have this all-time great player? and everybody, if you're listening to me right now, you're a sports fan, right? We love sports, we appreciate sports. I love watching all-time great things and things we've ever seen before. That's why I stayed up and watched that entire game. Showy Otani's something we've never seen before. And he wears Dodger Blue. Ugh.

Victor Wemignam, something we've never seen before. And he's wearing Spurs, Silver, and Black. How do you feel about that and anything you want to get to? Phone lines open with you until 2 o'clock. Adam Clanton will join at 1 p.m. so I'm flying solo till then you guys want to get in a couple of minutes. Talk to me. I do appreciate it. James, we'll see you on hold. We'll get to you as well.

Phone lines open. 713. 212-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 12.18 p.m. Here on Sports Talk 790 in the midst of hour number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. No Matt Thomas, though. flying solo to 1 o'clock you guys want to get in you can at 713212 5790 the phone number 713212 5790 you can also send tweets to at sports RV

and you can follow me on Instagram at sports RV as well appreciate those of you who did that in the previous hour talking a lot about talking about a lot of different stuff that has been going on I mean that world series game was incredible last night I know it still hurts that it's the Dodgers. And I wanted the Dodgers to win. I'm with you. I'm with you.

I was rooting for the Blue Jays. They didn't get it done. And they got Shohei Otani on the hill today going up against Shane Bieber. Let's go Blue Jays. But I mean, this is absolute freak show stuff, getting on base nine different times. Now, four of those were intentional. And I was kind of thinking about that last night. I'm like, eh, does it really count their intentional walks?

I'm like, absolutely they count. There's two freaking Hall of Famers in the lineup right behind him. And they're putting him on because he is that dangerous. Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman are the next two guys in the lineup. And they're putting Shohei Otani on base for free. He is that dangerous. Crazy stuff happening right now in baseball. I mean, it's a fun time right now with what he's doing and what Wemby's doing.

But we're here in Houston, so we can, that stuff comes with a grain of salt. But it is what it is. 713, 21. 25790 is the phone number. James Inclin has been holding patiently, so we'll get you James. How's it going, James? You doing all right? Yeah, I'm doing good. Yeah, Ross. I was watching that Mississippi State game that Texas won.

Is Arch going to be able to play this Saturday? He did not practice yesterday. I don't have word on him practicing today. I'm going to guess it's going to be Matthew Caldwell, the backup transfer from Troy, who is a senior against Vanderbilt on Saturday, if I had to guess. Well, he threw that touchdown and overtime, so. Yes, he did.

That was a nice pitch and catch there. Yeah, it was an unbelievable catch. It was unbelievable, but yeah. But I just kind of wanted up if Arch's going to be able to show up. I don't know what happened to him. He got concussed. So he was running, and then he was getting tackled, and then the initial hit, he was fine,

but a second defender came in and, you know, to finish the tackle. It wasn't dirty player or anything. Just football. And with the second hit, his head slammed into the turf. It was very clear to me that he got concussed. I saw him a knee. I mean, I saw him a hit, but it looked like they hit its knee.

Yeah, yeah. So if you look again, you can see his head slam onto the turf. All right, well, I was just calling, basically, I was calling from gut feelings, but I was calling to find out. All right, you got any gut feelings? What's you got? Well, we got feelings is that you know, VH will move into the top 20. They'll move out of the top 25 and move into the top 20.

Okay. Just time next week. Yeah, well, they're home for West. Virginia, right? They should beat down the West Virginia. West Virginia's never really good. Yeah, they should. Hopefully, yeah, they should. All right, thanks, Ross. Thanks a lot. Appreciate you getting in, James. Yeah, Cougars obviously doing very well with Coach Fritz, 7 and 1 on the season now.

Only loss was against Texas Tech. Somebody tweeted me with some gut feelings. It was Timothy Davis. Appreciate you. Ross, Texans blow out the Broncos. I'm on board with that. I don't know that's going to happen. I don't think that's going to happen. but I'm on board with it and he said U of H will only have one loss

at the end of the season now that will mean they are national champions right they've lost one game they win every other game that means they're big 12 champs and then they're national champs

I can see them being big 12 champs though he probably means at the end of the regular season dude yeah it's not crazy it's not crazy to say the Cougars could get into the playoff if they now if they continue to win these games

thanks to SFA you know We'll see. O, okay, SFA win was the catalyst. Yeah, that got them started. That gave them the confidence they needed. I got you. Jack still be okay. It's okay.

We got them. Yeah, they took the check. You take your ass whoop and you take that check, maybe. It's all good. Got to pay for the equipment for next year. Got to pay for those new, new bleacher improvements. They need some more nuts and bolts for the bleachers out there. They actually do.

Yeah. They're a little rickety out there in Nagadocious. What's that stadium called? Who's it named after? That songwriter guy? I'm going to blank. Oh, I know this too. Oh, that's going to, I'm not even going to look it up.

I'm going to look it up for you right now. Homer Bryce? Homer Bryce. Oh, I see that's the tip of my tongue. Homer Bryce Stadium. Nagadocious Day. I know what did Homer Bryce do? He dug the first well in Nacadocious.

And if y'all ever been to SFA, I know it's in a big hill. It's like a little ditch. Like they just surrounded it and built it into like two big hills. Wait a minute. The stadium's at the side of a ditch. So there's two, it's a dump. So there's two big hills. I'm trying to just not make the jokes about you and your stadium over there.

Just imagine it. There's two big, like it's a big hill. I know people can get sensitive and I know people going to cry about it. He said mean things about my school. So I'm trying to be nice to you, SFA. But Jonathan's not making it easy. He just said your stadium's in a ditch. It's essentially what it is.

And they put concrete on the sides. Eh, well, we want to build up a stadium. Let's just build one on the side of a ditch. See, they already have the foundation. That's practical. That's called engineering, folks. That's what you do. That's what the smarts over there.

All right, 713-212-570 is the phone number you want to get in. Brian and Pearland is next up. What's up, Brian? What's going on, Harvey? Good to have you back here. I'm glad to be back. Yeah. I missed you last week.

I called Matt. I had gone up for the Texan Seahawks game. It was a good atmosphere, but there was nothing like that stadium when Springer went deep. An old Astroon put Mariners fans out of their own misery.

What percentage of the fans, Brian, what percentage of the fans, like, had their phone out and were watching the Mariners? The ones around me, probably 70%. Yeah. Or the person next to them had it.

so they were sharing with their, you know, the person there. But especially the groan that went out when Julio struck out on strike three, that was the, but they got loud when Raleigh put him up three to one. And then when Springer made it four to three, we were walking around. I told Matt there were probably a couple of thousand Texan fans that made the trip, and we all kind of secretly whispered it had to be Springer. It had to be Springer to do that to Mariners fans. But real quick, just went away in on something.

I'll let Jonathan know about it. Just something NBA-wise that people may not know, especially when it comes to Wembe and the Spurs. There's actually a proposition going on in San Antonio right now. Just something to keep your eye on in the next few months and maybe year. Next Tuesday, they have a funding vote going on currently for, they want to do a Project Marvel similar to the battery in Atlanta. They want to move the Spurs back.

downtown and fund it with hotel and rental car taxes like a lot of stadiums of that do but there's getting a lot of pushback on that and actually creating that whole deal going on and so if that proposition fails next week i'm not saying for sure it's done but it could start leading to some treacherous times about the spurs possibly remaining in san antonio but i'd be curious to see if the league stepped in at that point and said no no no we're going to do everything we can to keep them here or if they're going to just let that run its course and hey if peter hall wants to go to seattle like hey we've got an arena and we get a new one we'll go yeah so i think you know they don't have to change the colors if they go to Vegas and stay right on par with the uh with the raiders

yeah that you know and they can i wouldn't think i don't think adam silvers yeah thank you brian for for bringing that up first of all wimby's first big week of of basketball the spurs it's It's a fact. I mean, it's crazy to say out loud, but the individual performance of one player can swing an election on a matter like this. Like, and how much easier is it to get stadium resolutions passed when teams are winning Super Bowls or being successful and asking for money and more and more money publicly?

There's a sort of course certain ways to go about it. But the bottom line is generally your team is winning. It's a lot easier to get stuff passed. It didn't happen. but I think it was in Missouri measure or two for the Chiefs. Didn't pass, but I think they eventually got something done. Don't quote me on that, I think. But I don't think the NBA would be, you know,

pull out all the stops to keep basketball in San Antonio. I mean, I'm sorry, Spurs. We know you love your Spurs, but you think they wouldn't rather have that team in Las Vegas or in Seattle because we know they're hungry. If things didn't come to pass. I'm not saying they would force the spurs out of San Antonio, kind of like how baseball basically forced baseball out of Oakland.

They stripped down that team. They didn't improve the stadium. They wanted to lose. They wanted to be quote-unquote forced out of Oakland and forced the hands of the fans and have all these measures not pass. Their major league baseball long-term is way happier to be in Las Vegas than they are to be long-term in Oakland.

I mean, that's just how it's going. I don't think that's going to happen in San Antonio. We'll see what happens with this measure that they're trying to get past. But it helps when you got a guy like Victor Wimbunyama, who is an absolute alien, and he's averaging, this is what he's averaging right now at the start of the season. 31 points, 13.8 rebounds and 4.8 blocks per game, shooting 36% from 3. Spurs have the best net rating in basketball. If you're not aware with rating, that's per 100 possessions, offense and defense, basically added.

it up best in basketball right now. It's a very reliable metric to tell you who the best teams in basketball are. Now it's only four games. It's the start of the season. Anything can happen going forward. But right now, the spurs are looking pretty good. And that's probably if the owners wanting to keep the spurs in San Antonio the way that they would like it to go. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. Anthony, I see you on hold. 7-13-212-5-790. If you're not to go. 7-1-3-2-2-5-790. If you You guys want to get in after him. 1 o'clock, we have Adam Clanton joining in. We're with you until 2 o'clock, and you can get in on the phone lines.

Till then, at any point, at 713, 21, 2.12, 790. 0.34 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Ross, Viori out with you. Phone lines open at 713, 212, 5790. 713, 212-790. Send tweets to at Sports RV. You can also follow there on Instagram at SportsRV. RV. I would appreciate it.

Just saw this. Congratulations to Kendrick Lamar. His Good Kid Mad City album has been charting for 13 straight years on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. That's the longest charting rap studio album of all time.

Boo. I got to be Matt Thomas here. Oh, okay. Sorry. That's what I tweeted. I said it's been kept on the chart for 13 years thanks to the loyal listening of one Matt Thomas. So congratulations him. came across my tweet line. It always makes you laugh.

All right, anyways, a lot of stuff to get to sports-wise here with you folks. Adam Clinton's going to join us at 1 o'clock. He's been on time the last two times. Can he make it three in a row? Will Adam Clinton be on time three times in a row? What do you think, Jonathan? He's going to be early. I'm going to under. Okay, early.

Okay. I would say he's going to be in the studio four minutes before one of time. Wow. Okay. I think he was up earlier today. Well, he was posting the pictures up with him with Mike Tyson. I don't know if that was this morning or what. So maybe he's He's up early out and about, and he'll be here coming up at 1 o'clock. In the meantime, it's you guys and me and Jonathan.

Y'all can get in at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. And Anthony, in Deer Park, has gotten in. What's up, Anthony? Hey, what's up, Ross? Hey, so I wanted to give you a gut feeling, and then I have a question for you. My gut feeling is that when the Texans play the bills on Thursday night football, they will be six and four.

I think they'll win the next three games. Oh, man. I hope you're right on that. I think if they get past Denver, then it's very doable because then you have Tennessee and Jacksonville. And Jacksonville is at home. Tennessee not really worried about them home or road. But my question for you is the Texans, the line opened up plus one and a half Texans. It's since moved to minus one and a half Texans.

Yes. Do you think a guy like Pat Sertan moves that three points, or do you think it's more so to do with money coming in? You know what? You asked me that on Twitter, right? Anthony, I meant to respond. I saw, but I forgot, so that's my bad. I normally try to respond to all of you on social media,

so I appreciate you. Yeah, I don't think a cornerback is moving the line that much. I mean, normally a quarterback can move the line. That's a three-point swing. That's pretty big for just a cornerback. But I'm going to say my thinking is that it is public money. Normally, this is in general, Anthony, and I'm speaking in generalities. I don't know if this is the case when it comes to the Houston Texans and the Broncos.

Generally, early week line movement comes from the public flooding in a side. So that makes me think that the public is kind of flooding in on the Texans. Will that mean that there will be a bounce back the other way? We don't know. but also Vegas didn't hold their line. For example, last week, it was the 49ers were the favorite. I'm sorry, we're the underdog. And a ton of money was flooding in on the Niners,

but Vegas held their line. They're like, you know what, we got a good line. And you saw that game on Sunday. It looked like they were on the right side of it. The Texans dominated that game, at least by yards, gained first downs and all that stuff. So they held their line. In this instance, Vegas is moving their line. They're like, all right, maybe we did miss something here.

We're going to go to the Texan side. So it's a fluid situation. It doesn't mean a whole lot of, it doesn't mean anything on Sunday. They don't play the games on paper. They play them on grass. But it is interesting to me. And if I just had to guess with the early week movement, that just means there's been a flood of money on the Texans. And some people saying, and the bookmaker saying, okay, maybe we're taking so much action.

Maybe it's sharp and public money and we'll move the line a little bit. So, yeah, three point line move is significant. and maybe half or a point of that, it has to do with Patrick Certainne as well. Okay, and is there, I'm sorry, I haven't kept up this week. Is there any word on Nico Collins playing this weekend? I have not heard that either as far as an update on whether or not he should be played, and whether or not he should play.

Okay, Ross. I appreciate it. All right, appreciate you. Thank you, Anthony, and thank you for getting it. 7-13-21-2-5-6. 790 is the phone number 713212-579. It looks like the latest is that he is trending towards playing on Sunday. According to Aaron Wilson, KPRC2, of course, also a partner here at Sports Talk 790.

D'Amico Ryan saying they're assessing his progress throughout the week before deciding his status against the Broncos. I mean, funny enough, that's one of the things we were kind of saying to ourselves last week. It's like, how are the Texans favored in this game with Nico Collins out, with Christian, Kirk out. But you had a lot of injuries, of course, on the 49er side. They did get banged up even during the game with a couple of guys going down. But it was Xavier Hudson, Jalen Noel, Noel, and Jaden Higgins, Woody Marks. I mean, you're seeing Braxton Barrios out there. You're like, man, Texans are down a couple of receivers. This is crazy. I have a question, though, because, you know, he brought up New Collins and it made me think of

Joe Mixing. So since the Texans look like they still have it together and it still can make a, get into the playoffs either with the wild card, right? what do you do you like what do you do then when mixing comes back like what oh mixing is the number one number one so he was just coming back yeah he's the big dog you got a load of me now of course you might now I would say start of the season it would be like 80% Joe Mixing and 20% everybody else maybe you make it like 67 for two-thirds Joe Mixing and one third everyone else right but especially on first and second downs I think he's got to be your guy he's your best guy and he's going to have fresh legs if he's playing I

I imagine he's going to be ready to go and you see what you got there. Woody Marks has been fine, but it's not like Woody Marks has been some kind of revelation. Nick Chubb has been okay, but it's not like he has just been, he's shown flashes here and there, but hasn't been consistent. Joe Mixon definitely becomes your number one guy, I think, when he comes back. If that's going to happen, I mean, we still have got no timetable on it. We still don't know at what point he's going to be back if at all. Apparently he was at the game against the 49ers on Sunday, but that's that.

There's been the rumors of what it was it a botched surgery, was it this, was it that, who knows. I don't know what's going on. Because he's been now since, what, July? Since, yeah, basically. I mean, we're getting into November here. We talk about Framber and what makes it at the same time. And the weirdest thing is they're just shrouding this whole thing in mystery.

I mean, is it that embarrassing of a story? Like, I don't know. he was at a he was at uh he was at uh in st lucia at a Airbnb and he slipped and fell in the hot tub or something like what happened and then he let some guy in a van do the surgery on his foot and he got botched like I don't know what's going on I don't know what's going on it's weird it's a weird story you don't normally have something like this where there was an off-season you would just say hey hey guy he was doing off-season workouts with whoever and he got hurt and he's probably going to miss the year you got to leave I mean I'm trying to think of foot injuries that keep you out for the year. Ankle surgery? No. Achilles. Achilles? Yes. Lefronk injury? Yes. I mean, something like that. Those are the only two I can think of. Yeah, exactly. Same thing. Like, it had to be one of those. And if it's Achilles,

that's what I'm saying. Running backs don't come back from it. Long term. Long term. Does he come back like that? I don't know. You've had Cam Acres show flashes after an Achilles. You've had guys like Deonté Foreman and others show some flashes. J.K. Dobbins after Achilles injuries. But for the most part. Art, you're not the same. Long term after an Achilles injury for running backs specifically. Like even Camp Scataboo, this injury right now, I bet he, I bet, like, that was, he, that's an injury. Dislocated ankle?

But you can come back from that. You can, but doesn't dislocated ankle mean like every, like all your ligaments are ripped up in the ankle? So, honestly, all right. Yeah, so probably the same. And he was already, I mean, look, he was scoring a lot of touchdowns and he's fun to watch. He's, I mean, he's a frigging ram. What was the, the guy who was calling Matt Thomas? juggernaut. That was rude. But Cam Scadaboo is like juggernaut. Like he's

busting through doors. If you let him get ahead of steam, he's not very quick, not the fastest, but he's tough to take down. So, hey, I'll be interesting to see what Cam Scataboo is. These injuries and these running backs, man, it's crazy, it's tough. All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He is out traveling with the rockets. I will have Adam Clinton joining and hanging out at 1 o'clock. Can we on to talk about

But first topic of business with Adam Clinton, Victor Wimbuniyama's hot start to the NBA season. Okay, maybe not. But, I mean, he hates the Dodgers like I do. Watching Shohei Otani and Victor Wimidiyama for the Spurs and the Dodgers, ugh, it's disgusting. But we have to watch it. But the Rockets have won a game.

The Texans are in action this weekend against the Broncos. How's that going to go? A lot of stuff to get to. 713-212-2-5-790. The phone number 7-1-3-212-5-790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Stock 790. Sometimes I got to remember what show I'm on, Jonathan. Don't shake your head.

I used to do the nightcap, sports RV show, Rockets Wrap, Astros, 10th inning, and this show. So it was, those are my busier times. Now it's just this and, well, Rockets Raps and, of course, Astros on deck slash 10th innings as well. Well, appreciate all you calling last night with the Rockets win over the Brooklyn Nets. 137 to 109 mentioned. Okay, it was almost, okay, it did feel like a preseason game. They got it by a little bit, a little bit, but it's the Brooklyn Nets, but hey, it was nice. It's a soft landing spot for them, especially after two tough games to start the season.

I mean, on the road, going to double overtime against the Oklahoma City Thunder. That was not fun. Losing that game. Then you had the, I mean, it was just, it felt like you say one of those games. They were missing bunnies. They were missing putbacks. They were missing shots they would normally make. It wasn't a whole lot of bad shot selection.

And you had Cade Cunningham playing very well on the other side. He had almost a triple double. And I would say one of those games. But when you pile that up, you pair it together with that first game and you're 0 and 2 and you haven't won a game. didn't feel great. So you get the easy mark in the Brooklyn Nets last night. And even then, I mean, they were 16.5 point favorites. Still in the back of my mind.

I was like, Michael Porter Jr. is pretty good. Terrence Mann, Cam Thomas. Like, they can put some points on the board. The Brooklyn Nets. Their defense is terrible, as evidenced by the Rockets, getting 137 points in that game. But it was nice on a couple of fronts. Tarie Easton bouncing back, 8 of 12 from the field, 22 points.

He also had five rebounds, five assists. Was it the Angel Reese shoes? I don't know. He was wearing the pink me bounds. I'm going to be honest with you. Jonathan, did you know Reebok is still making shoes? Yeah.

I thought they got bought out by somebody. And I didn't know. They're still really big. And they have actually pretty good shoes as well. Okay. All right. You know what? Shout out to Reebok.

They have the Angel Reese ones. Man, I remember, didn't they have a big deal with Shaquille O'Neal or something like that back in the day? and he had those like earthquake looking ones. Yeah, I know, that's before your time. Don't worry about it. Yeah, so Reebok apparently still making shoes. And whatever shoes Tar Heeson was wearing,

which it was the Angel Reese ones, he's got to keep those on. Because he was awesome. And reports of his demise, oh, he should have taken that deal. Oh, he bet on himself. He's losing. Well, he bet on himself and he was winning last night.

And of course, again, we do. It's almost like you have to qualify it every time you say it. It was the nets. It was the nets. But five of seven from three, the three point line is the same no matter who you're playing in the NBA. It just might be a little bit more open here and there. But that was nice to see from Tar Easton. And it's been an interesting three games for Reed Shepard.

First game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, three of 11. But he was aggressive. He was putting up a lot of shots against a very tough defense. They weren't falling. Three of 11 in the second game. Also not what you wanted to see. The three-point shot has been there. so far on the season he is 8 of 18 that's good for 45 and a half percent now of course well i don't

expect him to shoot 45 and a half percent from three but if he wants to that's okay he's going to be among the leaders in the entire NBA i just don't think that's probably going to hold up based on the based on the history of what we have of him but that'd be nice three-point shot looks good looks smooth find some open looks you're not going to ask reed shepherd to set the world on fire If he can go out there, give you 25 to 30 minutes, get to the basket a couple of times, knocked down a couple of threes, and last night he had eight assists and only two turnovers.

That's what you'll take from Reed Shepard. So a step in the right direction for a young player who the Rockets put a lot of stock in, and they need him, quite frankly, with Fred Van Vleet. I mean, on the postgame show on Friday against Detroit, we were taking some calls. I think these were the words used to describe the Rockets' offense. slumpy, disjointed, sloppy.

Those were the words used by callers and myself. Like, it just, it's not a fluid operation with when you don't have your, your floor general and Fred Van Vleet, and he ain't going to come back. At least until maybe, you're probably talking like the NBA, literally NBA finals or something like that. That would be eight months from now. And generally at least it's like an eight to nine month recovery. So you're going to have to figure something out.

You're going to have to dance with the guys who brung you. Amin Thompson also had eight assists and no turnovers. That was great to see last night as well. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. Richard in League City. Want to talk some Rockets Ball. What's up, Richard? Hey, Ross.

Do you know what the definition? Do you know what a slump buster is? Yes, I do know what a slump buster is. Do you want me to explain it to the folks or do you want to explain it? I've been married for 20 years. Okay, that's good. I've been a lot since I've made in this. Yeah, I don't say that.

There you go. So the Brooklyn Nets swampbuster for the Rockets. Yes. Something that I saw last night about the offense that I really like, and especially Tari Isan, is, like you were talking about the offense being clunky. I mean, we know we've got all the players we need. We know we have a championship caliber talent. level on the team, and we saw a lot of it in the preseason, but it hasn't found its flow.

And what I saw last night, and I think Tarry was the expression of it, was it felt like, I mean, Tari was played more within himself than I've ever seen him play. It was almost like the guy, what I love about the guy is he can play at 11, you know, in the spinal tap sense, and he almost always does. It's like he finds his maximum, and then he goes faster. The last night, it felt like he was hovering in the seven to eight, like there was energy, but it wasn't out of control. And I just felt like that was wrong with the whole team.

And I got to give kudos to Madoca for putting Okogi in the starting lineup, because he really seemed to be an important piece to helping the other pieces play together a little more fluidly. Yeah, it was good to see you get a little more ball handling. Thank you, Richard. Appreciate you getting in. And also, coach saying before the game, he wanted to take some of the defensive load as far as perimeter defending off of Amin Thompson. And I mentioned the guys that you have.

I mean, all perimeter scores, Terrence, Mann, Cam Thomas, and Michael Porter Jr. At that Brooklyn Nets, it's going to be a matchup thing. He's not going to play the same starting lineup every night. You're going to have to mix and match. You're going to have to figure some things out. And just kind of as you go along. because they put a lot of stock, a lot of eggs were in the Fred Van Vleet basket

as your floor general and somebody who can defend guards. Not that he's a lockdown perimeter guy or anything like that, but generally pretty solid and unless he's against like the best perimeter scores in the league, which Fred Van Vleek can struggle against due to lack of size, but he's going to get steals, he's going to be smart positionally, he's going to play passing lanes, he's going to help you out defensively,

and you're missing some of that. when he's not on the floor. So that was good to see, yes, a mix-up of the starting lineup going with Josh O'Coggi there. We'll see what happens if and when Dore and Finney Smith gets ready to come back in the lineup for the Rockets,

and it's just going to be the guys kind of figuring each other out. I saw a lot of Kevin Durant initiating of offense with Alpern Shungoon as the screener. I think that is something that they can build chemistry on and bear a lot of fruit

because a lot of times the rockets are being trapped because they don't have elite ball handling. Men Thompson, good ball handler, not elite. Kevin Durant, Alper and Shungoon, good ball handlers, but not elite. Those guys can be prone to turnovers here and there. So they are getting trapped a lot. They are getting blitzed on these pick and rolls,

and it's been kind of effective against him. That's something they're going to have to figure out. And Emeadouca was talking about that, I think in the post game in the last couple of games and maybe even pregame yesterday. Like, yeah, guys are going to get up on Kevin Durant and others, they're going to dare them to blow by them with the dribbling. Because you have these guys who are sometimes, you know, dribbling the ball with their feet, losing the handle.

How often can you recall seeing like Alper and Shingoon going for a dribble and he just dribbles it off his foot or he loses it on a spin move or something like that? A lot of times he can pull it off and he's very skilled for a 6 foot 11 guy, but turned the ball over three times last night. It feels like three to four turnovers. It can be about the norm for he or Kevin Duran or. or I'm in Thompson as well and that's something they are going to have to get better at and improve upon. I have full confidence.

They can do it. They've got a great coaching staff. Most importantly, great players. They're going to figure this thing out. It's just got to get a little bit more consistent. And it's helpful to have the first couple of tough games and then a nice, soft landing spot at home against the Brooklyn Nets who are just playing O-Lay defense all night.

So good to help yourself get in. rhythm with a game like you got last night. Next in action tomorrow against the Toronto Raptors. That'll be a 530 start on Sports Talk 790. You'll have Adam and one of the Adams for the pregame there. I'll be with you for the Rockets Rout call-in show tomorrow. 530 tip-off rockets taking on the Toronto Raptors. All right, quick break here.

Three hours? I don't know where they went. If show's been flying by, I appreciate y'all folks. A lot of that has to do with you guys calling in and interacting. Can't do it without you. So appreciate y'all. Adam Clanton is coming up. in the fourth hour. You can still get in if you want.

A lot of stuff to talk about. 713. 212-5-790. The phone number, 7-13-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Oh, my God, folks. Three times in a row. Who is this man? Adam Clanton here on time.

It's a technicality, you know. Yeah, that's true, I guess. You guys broke late. Look at us starting to show at 103-3. 30. Where's Gordy to reprimand you? I don't know. But it's funny the part is he's the worst offender when he's on her. But anyways, oh!

The shade. Hey, leave him alone. He's gone through it. His LSU Tigers had to fire another head coach that didn't get it done. Hey, you'll never hear me say a bad word, at least publicly about Gordy. I mean, he did the morning show. He hung out with me for an hour. He's doing locked on SEC. He's a PD about six sports stations in Texas now at this point.

He rescued me from the depths of unemployment. He's very busy. He's very busy. So appreciate Chris Gordy hanging out earlier in the show. Adam Cland, appreciate you hanging out now. I was telling you about this before we got in the air. I'm a little tired today. Yeah, you look like hell.

I do. I feel like it. That's a classic Matt Thomas line. Yeah, no, you look fine. It's fine. You're doing all right. Once the bright lights come on in here, it's going to suck. No, I hate those bright lights.

They blind me, dude. I can't do it. It gives me a headache. Try doing it for four hours with them on. No, thank you. Well, so the show's only three hours on TV. Yes. But sometimes Wex will turn them on just to have them on.

Well, you got to get a routine, man. Yeah, but then other days, bright lights. I'll turn them on. He'll be like, why are you doing that? Turn them off. Turn them off. It's like, dude. They're too bright. That's one of my favorites.

I know, I know. All right. So Adam Clinton, hanging out for hour number four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jonathan Allen's still here. I am here at Ross v. Ria. Matt Thomas is traveling with your Houston Rockets. Phone lines are open at 713-212-2-5-790. I mean, you had a sports buffet.

last night. It was Monday night football. Of course, it was an 18-inning World Series game. Rockets. I know you and I, of course, big Rockets fans, Adam, we're going to get into that win that they got last night and what impressed you. But I was talking about this earlier in the show. I don't know how much

you caught of it, if any. And I know we have our fun with the Victor Wimbunyama stuff too. But the dude is a freaking alien. And this applies to Shohei Otani as well. Like, we are witnessing kind of stuff that we have never seen before in sports. And unfortunately for us here in Houston,

it's Wimbun Yama wearing Spurs, Silver, and Black. A human being got on base nine times in a World Series game, tying the all-time Major League record. Double, Homer, double. What was the guy's name again?

Which guy? From 1912. I can't remember. It was Hank Stram or what? How come you guys don't do the thing you used to do all the time? With what? Well, what's his name? The old guy who had this record that is now tied with Shohei. What was his name?

Oh, you mean go into the Civil War thing? Yes. I mean, we did that for years. Sometimes the bits go up and down. Bring it back. I know. Sometimes you feel like you do a bit for like ten years you've running into the ground. Well, the best, and no offense to Jonathan, the best was when Trey was

producing and he would, they always die. But, you know, the people that we're talking about, these imaginary Civil War fixtures. But with him, it was always this is an untimely violent death. No, would it always be shot in the face? That was his bit.

He was very violent. And then he got shot in the face. I can't do my train impression. I'm being fired. Why? I don't know. I just feel like I will. I'm not letting you get me in trouble. You're the troublemaker now. I'm not a troublemaker. He took the baton. It's not true. I don't want that baton. Ever since I self-neutered on social media.

It was Stan Hack. Max, Gary Stan Hack and Johnny Bennett. Yeah. So, like, what is it like for, I know you, because, I mean, we know you, Adam Clinton. Yeah. You hate the Dodgers. I hate everything. I hate the Spurs.

Yeah. You hate everything. You hate mayonnaise. You hate sour cream. And you, you hate Victor Wymanama. Do you, well, how do you feel? What is it like? Because even for me, like, I'm rooting for the Blue Jays.

I want the, go Blue Jays all the way. George Springer. So is North America. Let's go Blue Jays. The Dodgers are the evil empire. Right. But I mean, it's weird though. My God.

But one of the reasons I love sports, one of the reasons that I love sports in general, and this is anything. And people like, I'll watch Olympics, I'll watch whatever. And people like, well, you don't watch cricket. Well, I don't know the rules of cricket. I'll try to watch it. I think as far as like hand-eye coordination, like the craziest stuff that humans are capable of generally happens within sports

athletically. And I always appreciate greatness and stuff we've never seen before. We've never seen anything like Shohei Otani before. But he plays for the freaking L.A. Dodgers. Well, yeah, that sucks. The worst. Him being great makes Dodgers fans happy, and that makes me sad. It's weird because there was a chapter of his career that was not in L.A. Yeah, when he was an angel.

It was great. It was great. It was perfect. Because he could put up all these mad numbers and they would never do anything. It would be a three game series against the Angels. The Astros would at least take two out of three. He'd hit like three bombs and throw six shut out. And you're like, man, that was cool.

and it was not a threat. The craziest thing ever. And anytime you're like, we always talk about who's the worst commissioner in sports, who's the worst this, who's the worst that. Gary Bevin. Yeah, well, I feel like if you're going to go down the list of worst owners in sports,

you would never think, oh gosh, I'm drawing a blank on the Angels owner. Artie Moreno. You would never, he'd never be at the top of the list. You'd never be at the money. You're right, he's not great. But you say, oh, Jerry Jones. You see all these names.

Artie Moreno spends money, but he spends money stupid. had Mike Trout and Shoah in their prime and won crap. They didn't even make the playoffs, I don't think. And then he goes and he spends money, but he gives it to Anthony Rendon and immediately Anthony Rendon dies. And he did the same thing with

Josh Hamilton, Albert Pujols. Mike Trout's been hurt a bunch over there. I mean, it's insane. So I don't even necessarily blame him because a lot of it's dumb luck. And I don't blame him for not. I mean, Shohei was never going to stay there when he could just go up the freeway a couple of hours because that's how long it would take to drive from Anaheim to L.A.

Because I've done it. In the middle of a weekday at 2 o'clock, it took me two and a half hours. Just put on a podcast. It was brutal. But yeah, well, I also stopped in Compton and Englewood along the way. Oh, you did? Well, because you know. Crenshaw Boulevard?

Yeah. Okay. I had to go to these places that I've heard about in some. You hang out with doughboy? Yeah. I, you know. Ricky! There was a blimp flying by.

And there was a blimp flying by and I said ice cubes is a pimp on it. It was awesome. That sounds amazing. I saw the forum. This was way before SoFi was even a thought. This is 2017. But yeah, going back to the original point, I have mixed emotions because I am a huge Shohei fan.

I really am. And even though he's a Dodger, I'm still a huge fan, but it does suck. And last night, I even texted Wex this. It sucks to see the Blue Jays get out of the bases loaded jam. And I was like, what are you doing? because he walked he intentionally walked

and then walked Betts too right to get to Freeman and I go I will pitch to Moogie Betts 10 out of 10 times before I pitched to Freddie Freeman well who hit the walk off last night Freddie Freeman so I just like I think Moogie Betts is fastly overrated I imagine there were some reason from John Schneider

yeah they're all it was like the end of that 18th inning game with the Astros and the Mariners everybody's just going up there hack and trying they turned it in a One run scored in that game. They turned it live home run derby. Everybody was just trying to hit a home run at the end. These two teams had combined for 10 runs.

The Astros, that's what hurts if you're a Mariners fan. Again. Go put a shoe on your head. Exactly. You had one run scored between those two teams and 18 innings. That was so satisfying. It's different with Victor Wimbunyama. It's very different.

The first reason, first and foremost, is that this guy, at the draft, it's revealed that the rockets will pick fourth. They did not get the number one pick. Yes. And this shrimp little weenie starts pumping his fist. As far as I'm concerned, you're dead to me. You are public enemy on board. It's on site with you.

Oh, really? And by the way, I don't know if you can reach him. I would kick his ass in five seconds. There's no chance. He's seven foot four and a hundred pounds. I mean, I'd split him over my leg. It wouldn't even have to pack a lunch. He's more athletic.

Oh, okay. Was he going to spin move? Way from him. Minas about 600. He's going to choke you out with five. He's been hanging out with like Shaolin monks.

Yeah, well, I hung out with Dream way before he did. He's been doing like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Dream likes me better than him. You just lift kettlebells. It's not the same. I haven't lifted those in 10 years. Okay.

That's how I'm confident I am. I'm taking Wimby minus the money. Well, you're right. I mean, it has been absolutely spectacular to watch Wimby run rough shot over the Mavericks and the pelicans and the Nets and the Raptors. Well,

those are four awful back. basketball teams. Here we go. It's true and you know it. I heard you talking about net rating. Yes, number one in net rating. Which one of those teams is good? I'll wait. It's not the Mavericks. The Mavericks might end up being good. Okay. That's not the same they're one and three right now. That's not the same as being good. I've not crowning the Spurs. I have not crowning the Spurs. I have not declared them NBA champions. You said he was the greatest player you've ever seen. They're four and oh. These are the facts. They're undefeated and they're number one in net rating in basketball. Click on full schedule.

8th or something. Wow, look at this. They've got a real barn burner against the Miami Heat before they travel to Phoenix and then take on the Lakers, Sands, LeBron, and Luca. Oh, look, November 7th, they're going to get their asses kicked as the Rockets come to town. All right, we'll see.

You heard it here first. And you better hope you win that night because I will come after you that day. You can come after me. You can come after me if you want, the guy's a freaking alien. I'm not even calling in. It's independent of anything you say. I'm going to show up early. I'm in the studio. If you open your eyes, you can see he's an absolute freak of nature.

You're right. If you want to bury your head of the end of that, then you can. He is a freak of nature when they're taking on the junior high B teams of the NBA. All right. Come on, man. You have to admit, he's putting up huge numbers against a bunch of seventh graders. Anthony Davis is not a seventh grader. I'm sorry.

And I heard that. I'll even give you a defensive player of the year. When he's healthy, he was healthy. He was on the floor. He's all right. And he made him look like his little cousin in the driveway. I'm scared. More than anything, I'm scared. Would you say the same thing if he did this against Rudy Gobert?

I consider those guys. Multiple time defensive player of the year as well. Exactly. I consider those guys the same dude defensively. Okay. They're long. Well, who's the best defensive center in the game then to you? Probably Janus. Yonis? Well, he's not a center. I mean, he's got, he doesn't really have a position. They've had some good battles so far. I mean, Victor Women, Yama, he's looking pretty dangerous.

I'm just saying, he's fine. I know. He's fine. All right, Matt. It's fine. All right. I had my fill of Matt Thomas last night. All the Maddives were a full effect. Take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas, with Ross, with Adam Clinton. I appreciate him hanging out early on. He'll be on the 8 team coming up at 2 o'clock.

You guys can get in 713-212-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90 with you until 2 o'clock here on your home for your rockets and your home for your ass shows. You know the teams that win championships in this town here in Sports Talk 790? That's right, folks. teasing it for three hours. What's this copyrighted music you're playing? It's all we ever talked about. I don't get that anymore.

Suck it. Yeah. Well, I get it in the first hour. TV pretty boys. Yeah, I'm not pretty today. All right. This is the NFL Rewind music. Okay.

Of course, I always remember, Jonathan knows this. When Matt's out, I always remember to do every single segment that we have planned. Always. I never forget. I'm super organized. Is Jonathan like your baby for three years? He has to make sure you do all your stuff? Yes, he is.

is very much. I'm that kind of host, too. Because I'm like twice his age, so I feel bad, but it doesn't matter. When you have ADD, like we do? Matt's the organized one, and I'm the one that just sits here and makes fun of them for four hours. That's what we do. It goes out. Everything's messed up. And for better than a decade,

it's been a great formula. What's the problem? It's been working. If it ain't like, don't fix it. Hey, we're still here. We're still here somehow, folks. That's why I'm always resistant to change, because I know the way I do things is the best way. Okay. So why would I want to do your way.

Interesting. So that's the attitude you should take into every scenario in life. I'm not resistant to change. Especially in marriage. It works really well in marriage. Being resistant to change? Just always being right too. In general.

All right. Good love to that. Especially when you're married to who I'm married to. All right. Really not a strong personality at all. I'm going to step back out of that one. Also not very Italian. It's amazing. I didn't get shived last night in my sleep. Stab wounds.

Yeah. On your neck. All right. We're talking about the NFL. Let's see. Of course we know the Texans. How about this? Let's talk about this quickly. Your thoughts, Mr. Clanton, the line opening up with the Broncos being favored by one and a half, but now it has moved to the other side. Texans now one and a half point favorites

at home this weekend against the Denver Broncos. Well, and I heard you guys talking about this earlier, I was like, thank you for listening. Well, I think you're welcome. Why are they favored other than They're at home, it's basically, it'd be a pick-em if they were on a neutral's field against the 49ers. I'm saying, going into the 49ers game, it was the same way. I was like, why?

And they had defensive injuries, and then they kept suffering them every down during the game. There's been more and more happened. But I don't see that happening with the Broncos. And, oh, by the way, this is gross. You're getting ready for this? We're talking about this yesterday. Because, you know, Wex, he's a numbers guy. I don't know if you've heard.

He likes numbers. He likes spreadsheets and numbers. It's very acidic. What's the line from Wolf of Wall Street? I don't know. It's very acidic, these numbers. And he's asking him how many times a day he does a certain thing. Okay.

So anyway, those are rookie numbers in this racket. I got rookie numbers in this racket. So he's like talking about how the Texans have gone up against the team that is number two overall in sacks. Okay. Number three overall in sacks. And I think number five overall in sacks. What about pressure rate? Well, that came into it.

But just from the standpoint of sacks, they were. oh and three against those teams. The Rams, the Bucks, I can't remember what's the other one. But the point of all that it was, the next one in line, the Rams is second to the Broncos who have 36 sacks, I believe.

Is that accurate? Is that accurate? Was it the Seahawks with a lot of sacks? I think the Seahawks was the other team, yes. So I think they played three of their first handful of games were teams in the top 10 of sacks this year, and the Broncos leapfrog the next closest one by

10 is the point I'm getting at. Oh, no. Oh, no. When C.J. Stroud can have time to do his thing, he shreds. Absolutely. When he doesn't, he doesn't. He doesn't score against the Titans for three quarters. Also, I would say the protection has been a lot better at home.

A lot of it has been communication issues. Right. They just haven't had the chemistry. They've been shuffling guys around. I mean, guys going down and getting hurt and all that type of stuff. It's easier to communicate at home in the first place. And have you been to Mile High before for a game? I have not.

The first ever Texans game. Been a Coorsfield, but not Mile High. Right. Didn't it snow on you? No. Okay. The first ever Texans game at Mile High. Is that a metaphor?

No. Now, they don't do that there. They do a different substance. It's green. I think they probably do that there too. But I wasn't doing that. There was a lot of that going there. So anyway,

no, like the first ever Texans game at Mile High, I was there. Wasn't a pretty afternoon. That's a tough place to play. The altitude, obviously. but then they're loud. Did you get winded going up to steps or anything? I was on the field for that game. Oh, really? And then hung out with Bob Allen, the late Bob Allen.

Oh, that's right. You had two punt returns for six yards. That was me. Okay. Nice. I was carrying my parabolic mic at the time. That's cool. You didn't get run over by anybody, did you? You know what happened there? I didn't dress appropriately.

It was a very L.A. moment where it was, while the sun was out, it was a nice temperature, and then the sun went down and it immediately got freezing. Yes. And I was wearing a long sleeve t-shirt and jeans. So the probably entire second half You're running in place. Yeah, I was cold.

You get the frostbite. It was very, very cold. Your feet are still black to this day. Brooky mistake. All right, it happens. I was broke in college. All right, well, elsewhere in the NFL, how about last night, the Kansas City Chiefs taking care of business

against the Washington commanders and Marcus Marriota, 28 to 7 win. But Travis Kelsey tying Priest Holmes is the all-time touchdowns in the Kansas City Chiefs history. Now, I heard that,

and I was like, didn't Priest Holmes only have like two, three good seasons with the Chiefs? I didn't really. He had 27 rushing touchdowns in 2003. Priest Holmes. He was on my fantasy team that year. Well, I imagine you won the championship. I did. Or you should have.

I destroyed them. 21 touchdowns the year before. That was my first year of fantasy. Only in six years, I mean, the last year, year he was barely even there. He did not play injured. And in parentheses, it says spine. That doesn't sound fun for Priest's Holmes. But really basically six years, three of them were half years or less. He was the all-time touchdown leader in Kansas City Chief. I mean, we're talking about a storied franchise. With a Super Bowl early on. Don't forget, they've had several

like amazing running back. Christian Nicoya. Christian Akoya? The 90-year nightmare? Not a Moby. Yeah, okay. That was the Texan. He didn't do much of anything. Yes. Larry Johnson was good there.

Larry Johnson, and they had... Oh, geez. Jamal Charles, Longhorn Legend. Who's the crazy one, though? Was that Larry Johnson? He's a little crazy. Who's the one that's crazy now? I think it was Larry Johnson.

He's like the aliens are listening to us and a russing around. He's a flat-earther. Yeah. Come on, guys. Fly on one plane. He's basically... He's basically the football version of Carl Everett. Yes, he said dinosaurs weren't real, correct?

Dinosaurus weren't real. I mean, come on, guys. What are these giant fossils we're finding? You think they just kind of made those up? We didn't land on the moon. No. All that stuff. We didn't do any of that.

Now, JFK, I could, that's different. No, he's dead. Well, yeah. That's not the dispute here. Jackio can confirm. Too soon? No, shake your head at me. That meme is incredible.

Which one? You haven't seen a Jack? I haven't, no. I am not taking in thousands of JFK memes and anytime anything happens with JFK it's sent to me. That's you. This one is in your wheelhouse. You sicko?

When I show it to you during the break, you're going to be so happy I showed it to you. Okay, we'll see. I'm not doing it now. Well, we're going to take that. One more quick NFL note we have to get here on the NFL one. The Saints are starting Tyler Shuck over Spencer Rattler. Your thoughts?

That's like death by drowning versus burning a death, right? Okay, maybe we don't need to get deep into that, I guess. Oh, you know what? I don't feel sorry for Saints fans, including Chris Gordy, one bit. You had two decades of Drew Brees after the Chargers just unceremoniously dumped him. I don't feel sorry for you. And one more quick note on Adrian Peterson, who was arrested on charges of while driving, while intoxicated and unlawfully carrying a weapon?

Stop getting arrested in Texas, Adrian. He was at the wheel of his SUV. at a suburban Houston gas station. He was asleep at the wheel in Sugarland, yes. Fort Bing County. At 9 a.m. asleep at the wheel. Detected the odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from his person. He had bloodshot slash glassy eyes and slurred speech.

Where did they find him? Is a parking lot? Asked where he was coming from. It parked at a gas station. Oh, gas station. In all seriousness. And as someone who has not dealt with us personally, but I've had people close to me that he needs to help. Like somebody needs to reach out because that kind of behavior right there, it's one thing to have issues like that.

But when you're out in a car and you can hurt other people and then they're finding you in parking lots, that's not good. Second DWI arrest in seven months. And there was that he said he was coming from a poker game. He's been playing these poker games. Did you see he was catching hands that beat the crap out of the one guy? No, that guy beat him, right? Dude, that dude was giving him the hands. I was like, what?

And then they both had the worst story ever. Oh, we're just buddies. We do this all the time after. I mean, that can't happen. Well, yeah, if you don't want to lose your meal ticket. Like, how we like to box all the time. That's how OJ got, uh, that's how OJ got, uh, it was, uh, community service on a golf course. So we've got, we've got an OJ and Nicole Ocated.

Oh my God. Nicole. And her whole family okay. And JFK in one segment, folks. Welcome to the Adam Clanton experience. I can squeeze in 9-11 before 1.30. I thought you were going to get an. Ed Gein reference in while we were here too. I haven't seen that yet.

Okay. I've been watching the John Wayne Gacy. See, here we go. Why don't you go to give us your thoughts on Jeffrey Dimer where we're here too? You know who is from Seattle? Who was that other guy? Who would have been rooting for the Mariners? Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy? I was going to say Ted Baker. He was from the Great Northwest's though, right? He made it all the way from the Great Northwest to Florida.

All right, we're shutting this segment down. Adam Clanton is done for this segment. Turn his microphone off. We're going to take a quick break. That's the NFL Rewindierier. A couple of segments to go off the rails. until 2 o'clock. The Matt Thomas show with Ross, clearly, without Matt Thomas. 1.35 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas with Ross, with Adam Clinton.

You know what I was just thinking about? See, okay, I just look over here. I look to my left where Adam Clinton, you just have this look on your face. Like, you've got something to say, so I'm like, I'm bringing us back. I'm talking about this is the man Tomas show. Adam Klan is here. And I've got this grin on my face that won't quit to my life.

What is it that has popped into your mind? It's obviously something, I don't know, sinister or... Remember that time we all made that trip to New York for the Super Bowl? Yes, I do. And you and I went to a boxing match at Barclay Center.

Yes, we did. It was Louis Colazo? Was it Danny Garcia and Louis Colazo? Louis Colozo? I can't remember. January of 20th. 2014. Uh-huh. It was, yeah, we got, the floor seats were only like 200 bucks or something. It was pretty good deal.

That's such a great trip. Had floor seats to Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden for the very first show of his residency that went for like a decade. Had floor seats to Barclose Center. Did you say that was? This would have been January of 2014. Yeah, Victor Ortiz. Yeah, Victor Ortiz got knocked out in the second round. So I think you had just been there for about five minutes.

I got there late. That's fine. It's fine. It's fine. But it was very busy. Long train ride, too, to get up there. Brooklyn was nice. Because we were staying in Midtown Manhattan. We were in Manhattan.

And Barclays, of course, is in Brooklyn. So I took the train. I didn't get shanked on the train, though. It was safe back then. Yeah, you're fine. I mean, yeah. So anyways, was that the night that we went to White Castle after? I think so.

And White Castle is horrible. It sucked. It was terrible. Ross and I disagree on so many things. We love each other fiercely, but we also disagree on so much stuff. Yeah, you always want to be wrong. No, you want to be wrong. We already covered this in the first segment.

I'm always right. I have never agreed with Ross on something more. We're eating this food, if you want to call it that. And we're looking at each other. I'll never forget. And I go, hey, man, this kind of sucks, right? Yes. And you're like, yeah.

And I'm already starting to feel bad, like my stomach. The onions were funky. Yeah. You know what it reminded me of? It reminded me of like school lunch. You know where it's like you get a hamburger and it tastes like microwave? 65% of what you think a hamburger should taste like.

Yeah, the flavors are sort of there. It's like hamburger flavored food, but it's not a hamburger. That's what it tasted like to me. I just, I'll never forget that because it was the first and the last time I, I've ever consumed White Castle. I don't think I mean... And people swear by that stuff. Oh man, those are northeaster's love.

They made a whole movie about it. Harold and Kumar. They're so dumb. And that's why I was excited. Stupid Yankees. That whole movie, I mean, it is a classic stoner film. Why don't you come down here and eat Waterburger and be a real man? Yeah, Waterburger is much better.

Oh, man. I couldn't wait to come home and eat Waterberg. And I did. Good. You know, I would say 95% of the time I go anywhere, which when I go on vacation, and I come back, The first things I have to do, I have to get Mexican food or I have to get Waterburger when I come back. It's been too long since I've had Waterburger.

Okay. I'm not saying I'm going to get it tonight, but I'm not saying I'm not. Feels like you're saying you might. What's today? When? Tuesday? It's Tuesday. I don't know what day it is. She's got some good Italian food on the way, so I can't do that. What do you mean on the way? Well, she's going to be, it'll be ready by the time I get there.

Oh, okay. Because of when my shift is and then the traffic, I walk in the door at like a quarter to seven most nights. and they've already finished whatever it is and it's like they don't wait for you to eat I don't want them to he's got to go to bed at basically like 7.30

oh he being your son yeah he's seven years old he needs all asleep I thought maybe you picked up a straggler no we don't need any more people at the house consuming anything we have him we have me we have two dogs

that are treated like humans it's so stupid all right I don't she thinks we're getting a third you get a third dog I said no we're gonna wait for these two to die And enjoy the peace and quiet. They're getting up there.

They're like 10 or 11, I think. So you're going to wait for the dogs to crook to get new ones? I'm not getting new ones. She thinks we are. We're not. The minute she brings another one home, that's when I start buying stuff I want. That's how that works. Oh, you got a new dog?

That's great. I got a Corvette. So when do you think the third dog will be there? Feels like within the next six months. Whenever my vet shows up. What does that mean? To euthanize? No, I'm saying, like, if she wants to go do something stupid, I can do that.

We can play that game. I can spend dumb money, too. This sounds like a very volatile relationship. I can do it better than you. And more. I'll spend much more. This sounds very, like a vulnerable situation. It sounds like a powder kick situation.

She goes, she says this. She goes, you know, a grand piano would look great in our house. Okay, a few things. Okay. Nobody plays piano. or a real grand. You get one of those Steinways and sons. Those bad boys are like 500 G's. They're 40 to 60 grand for the low

end. Yeah. You get them. And I'm like, the only person who's even had lessons in our house is at UT in her second year. We're not getting a grand piano. But if you want to say dumb things like that, I'll go buy Lars's commemorative 40 grand set. I'll get a drum set. Because two of us play

those. Oh, you're, oh, your son plays drums too, right? Hey, dabbles. Okay. I actually play. All right. You can get those you can get those ones that are just pads, they don't make any sound. Or they make very little sound, right? The electronic ones. Okay, is that what you have?

No. Okay, you've got a full-on, loud, banging drum set. Again, get a real set like a man. Is it in a garage? No, it's in my theater. Okay. Well, I'm like, we're not getting a third dog. That's the whole point of this.

So you're going to get a grand piano. No. Yeah, those Steinway's, there's... I looked at a baby grand. There's a Steinway and Sun's store, like in River Oaks. Those things are like hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's insane. Then the baby grans are like six to eight, and that's for the low ends.

I'm like, if we're going to spend that kind of money... Let's just get one on Craigslist. Or... Or... Remodel the bathroom. Do some of these things we actually need to do to our house. Okay, so you're going to get a full grand or a baby grand? We're getting neither, Ross.

I feel like you're getting a piano and a third dollar. Going back to point number one. Maybe we'd check back in 2026. Nobody plays. Why don't you pick it up? It's fun. I don't want to pick up a hobby for 40 grand. That's kind of a... Why don't I just go get the vet?

You got to pay it. You can get a keyboard. There's one of those That's how I learned when I was eight I learned on the keyboard And you plug in the headphones That's what my dad was like Yeah you better plug that headphone in pal

You know who loves to hear about our Back and forth Who's that? He just loves it Yeah I bet he does He goes I love the clients I mean you guys do need a reality show There's always something going on

You want the divorce to happen That's the first thing that happens When you sign up for that stuff I already lost the bet How long you've been married? Do you guys realize Everybody in this station Started betting on us

like the day we got engaged. I lost. That's a congratulations to you. Bro. You've exceeded expectations. Of course I did. Well, you've been almost 10 years now? I win. Yeah, I know.

I had five. I think y'all hit the over five comfortably. Yeah. Our 10 year anniversary is March 1st. Congratulations. It's fine. If you make it. All right.

We're going to take a quick break here on the Mets on the show with Ross. Adam Clamp. Don't get married until you're at least 30, kids. Jonathan Allen's hanging out. Larry, we see you. We'll get you as well. Phone lines open at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I'm going to go shopping for Baby Grand Pianos. I'm going to send some options to Teresa real quick during the break. A little segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Without Matt Thomas, he is out traveling with the Rockets. And he'll be back tomorrow. He'll also be out Thursday. He is on the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. He's like Johnny Carson at the end. Yeah, but also, but that was more like he was off like Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays for sure, right? Johnny Carson. Matt Thomas is on the community college schedule, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You know, like, and he complains that we don't work enough.

Yes. I'm just like, well, wait a second. And then he's like, no, I work more because I go, I'm like, yeah, you're chartered to six diamond hotels. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to hear this. Chartered on, he's eating shrimp cocktail, stretching out his feet, getting a whole row to himself on a private plane. stealing slippers from the hotel. He's got a whole collection.

Kleptomaniac. They call him the slipper man. All right. Well, he'll be back tomorrow. Did you price any of those pianos? Yeah, they're about 100 G's for the Steinway ones. I mean, just like, it's just good one. You got that.

You're fine. It's just something that won't get dusted. I mean, they look nice. I'm like, that's the other thing. Where are you going to put it? I don't know. We're going to move out the dining room table. I haven't been in your house in many moons.

Yeah, I know. Very, very, very. bitter. Don't we drive on the way out there. It's far. You know what? I was supposed to come during my unpaid vacation. I forgot about that. Yeah, thanks for doing that.

It was just, I was, it's a matter with you. I got a lot of stuff done around the house, though. You're a bad friend. You don't text back, you don't come over. That's not true. I text you, hold on, let me see. You don't even love me anymore. I want a divorce.

Oh, again? Let's go to counseling. We can work this out, baby. I'll tell you what, couples counseling. There's another one for you. Go down that rabbit hole. And not with this one. She knows better than ask me.

me to go to that crap what a racket that's like it's up there with weddings in college i think it'd be very helpful for you all right but anyways uh to pay someone to take her side no i'm good i'm good you don't know that yeah i do i've done it once well okay here's we're going to do we're gonna look in the mirror then maybe you're wrong we're gonna go to couples counseling or we're not gonna make it why don't you handpick the counselor we're not gonna make it and we didn't it's fine it's fine all right adam clinton i mean that that that is a what else you want talk about Ross. A thicket of a forest for the I have issues.

For the therapist to work through. Jonathan must think that I am just this maniac. It's going to be about three sessions a week for about six months just to start. This is why I'm just interested. I'm just saying, well this is why I can tell you a lot, man. This is why Matt and I get along. Yes. Because we're both just

absolute awful people. Depraved human beings. But he kind of, he lives vicariously through me, I believe sometimes. Oh, yeah. He's still vicariously through everyone. Because I'm way less filtered than he is. That's true. We think the same things.

So we were talking about. Oh, Rockets got their first win last night, Adam. Yeah, it was a San Antonio special. The Brooklyn Nets came to town. Smash them. Oh, we're the best team of the NBA. Feels good, doesn't it? Well, the Rockets.

Would you beat a sisters of the poor? The Rockets are number eight, I think, in the NBA now, despite being one and two in net rating. I got news for you. Another Spurs wins coming up on Wednesday. They're just going to have to go to Canada again. It might. I mean, they are. They're 4-0. They've been a bad team for the last couple years. We're not talking about the Spurs, though.

What I'm saying is, if you're playing the same schedule the Spurs are, you'd be really good, too. Well, it's not like the Pistons. The Pistons got trashed by the Cavaliers. But the Cavs were good last night. The Cavs were very good. And the Cavs are actually a very good regular season for now three years running. And the Rockets are going to be good. Yeah. But right now, there's, I think, only two 4-0 teams in basketball and it's the Thunder in the Spurs, I think. Y'all really, y'all really should look at the Spurs schedule.

they're not going to lose until. We're not talking about the spurs. We're talking about the Spurs. It's okay. You brought it up. I didn't. I didn't bring the Spurs up at all. You did.

No. In this segment. You were re-talked about them before. In this segment, I even got here. Then you opened up with them. You started this. Good God. All right.

Tar Eason. You saw this too, right? There are people like, oh, Tar Eason shouldn't have bet on himself. Two games in. He's been horrible. Like, give it some time, folks. Like, he had the...

Now, of course, again, we'll say, qualify. It was the Nets, but a nice breakout game from Tarre Easton. He looked awful against the Pistons, if we're going to keep it a buck. He did. He did. And they're, you know why? The Pistons play Rockets basketball, especially defensively.

They're physical. They get after you. What was it? Jaron Duren was trying to decapitate. Well, yeah, before he got injected. Yeah. That's what they do. And the Rockets fell into that trap the other night.

The Brooklyn Nets do not play defense. They don't play. I mean, it was like... I mean, they do a little hero balls, little Terrence Man, and Michael Porter Jr. It's fun to watch. Cam Thomas scores 40 on your Spurs. That's what I'm going to start calling them, by the way. Your Spurs. It comes in last night. He's got like two points and a half time.

He's brutal. They're so bad. They reminded me... They did you get you some help. They reminded me of the Rockets like four or five years ago. They're all 19 and they're going to win 20 games. The Spurs? No, the Brooklyn Nets. Oh, okay, the Brooklyn Nets. That's a bad. You have their 27 pick, I believe? That's going to be a good pick.

You have their unprotected pick this next year. I thought it was 26. You might be right. I was reading that on the Twitterverse, it must be true. Wow. I think they have their unprotected pick this next year. And, I mean, you did the trade with Phoenix. You got, yeah, I know, you got Kevin Durant.

It would be great if they got the number one pick this year. Who is it supposed to be? I don't know. Okay. I'm just saying, like, the Mavs and the spurs and consecutive seasons getting the number one pick. Oh, okay. Okay, NBA. All right.

Are you going conspiracy guy? How's that gambling bust involving the mafia going, Adam Silver? Not great. I mean, they traded Luca in probably the worst trade since. They traded Brunson, by the way. Don't forget they did that. They just hand-delivered him to the Knicks. That's true.

I think it was Nico Harrison that did that deal too. And they just hand Luca to the Lakers. And then they get the number one pick magically a few. months later. They don't deserve that. AJ de Banzah. That's the guy that went to BYU for a bunch of million dollars. Projected number one. Yeah. I just

all I'm saying is the Rockets did things the right way. They methodically built this thing up, never with the actual number one pick. Projected number four pick, Duke Power Ford, Cameron Boozer. Carlos's son? Yes. Yeah, I'm good. I don't need a boozer on the Rockets.

Well, for one, he played for the Jazz. and for two. He duped a blind man. It's all good. He did what now? He duped a blind man. Back in the day, his contract negotiation with the,

I think it was the Cavs at the time. This was before the guy that did the Comic Sans font statement that owned it. I think he still owns him. Yes. Doesn't he still own the cabs? I think this was the guy that preceded him.

He was blind. And Carlos Boozer lied to him about whatever. What? Something involving the contract negotiations. All right. So the Rockets. He's a bad person. I'm impressed for you by Reed Shepard's 15 point performance.

He's fine. He's fine. Number three pick in the draft. Six of 11. Three of seven from three. Eight assists. Only two turnovers for Reed Shepard. That was nice to see as well.

Yeah, when we get top three picks, we get Reed Shepard and Jalen Green. When they get the top three pick, they get the number one pick and a transitional player, transcendent player. We had to take a man at number four. I know. A man's great. He is great. Wouldn't trade him for Wimby. Well, you are the, I'm 30.

out of 30 general managers would disagree with you. But 10 years from now, when Amin'Atham is still playing and Victor Wimbuniamba's on the beach because his body failed him, you'll see. That's the beauty of sports talk radio. Eventually, we find out how it goes. And he could break down very well.

Right now he's the odds on favor to win NBA MVP. How many segments do you think Wex is going to want to talk about Victor Wimaniama? I don't know. I'm going to go take a nap. You guys handle that. My name is Paul. This is between y'all. Appreciate y'all. For listening. Thanks to Chris Gordy. For hanging out in the first hour.

Thanks to Jonathan Allen for producing the entire show. Thanks to Adam Clinton. I do appreciate you for hanging out. For an hour? At any time. I'm glad it's free. The doc is in session. All right.

We're out of here. Appreciate y'all. Coming up next, it's two Adams. They call themselves the 18. Matt Thomas will be back. I'll talk to you folks tomorrow at 10 a.m. Here on Sports Talk 790. Don't go anywhere.