The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Clippers Tonight! Michigan Football DRAMA... Will Astros Make A Major Move?

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

Rockets vs Clippers Tonight! Michigan Football DRAMA... Will Astros Make A Major Move?

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-2 at H-Town. Good morning. We got Rockets game. I don't even know what they're doing anymore. What have I been able to do with myself the last three days? It's the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Hi, Ross?

Relax? Yes. I'm actually spending time with my family because I leave Sunday and we'll be back until after Christmas. So you guys, did you do it early Christmas? No, we're going to do a late Christmas and we're going to be on a Zoom, not Zoom, but like a video call on Christmas Day. You're going to FaceTime Christmas? Yeah. From the arena?

No, I mean, I'd be in my hotel room. From the crypto? Is it still the crypto? It is the crypto. Okay, good. They don't spend money, so it's the ripto. Okay. It's what the arena is.

called. I mean, it's where they're playing. They're not paying me to say it. No, they're not paying you to say it, man. I just say from Los Angeles. Okay. Actually, that's not true because every NBA arena has got a sponsorship tag to it. Exactly. We were kids. You say the Toyota Center. I do. But the Toyota Center is part of the Rockets.

No, it's like, I get paid by the Rockets. Oh, here we go. So there it is. All right. You say TDCU Stadium. So, Ross, how are you? I'm great. It's an RG Stadium. That's true. You know what? Dyken Park, you say?

I do say Dyken Park. You know what? You're right. If it's the stadium name, I can do it. Okay. If it's beyond that, I'm going to stay with. You can rhyme it. Whatever. It's part of the fun. When we were kids, it was awesome.

It was Veterans Stadium. Yes. Memorial Stadium. Memorial Stadium. The Spectrum. The Summit. The Summit. I mean, you talk about a hellaciously awesome name. Tonight, at the Summit.

It sounds good. We're in the Omni. Reunion Arena is even actually having. Hemisphere, I mean, I wonder who is ultimately, like, I remember the first game, I think I know what it is. Okay. And it actually comes off of a TV show. I believe it was the fabulous form in Englewood got named the Great Western form, which is a bank out in California. I don't know if they're still around, but the great, it used to be, it was called the Great Western form.

Okay. I'm trying to think, what other stadiums had names that would be something. Yeah, I don't know, I haven't thought about it. You know what I'm on a plane on a long flight from one to the country or the other I'll be thinking about. What was the first one? But I think it might have been Great Western was the one I can think of. Okay. Apparently it's been happening since the 1880s with baseball teams.

Really? Yes. I'm unfamiliar with the 1880s corporate sponsorship tags. Bush Stadium was the first big one. That's right. But wasn't the Cardinals owned by the Bush family, though? It says the Oilers and Compact struck a deal in 84? What was that?

The Compaq Astrodome? No, it was Arco Arena in Sacramento in 85. 85. Yeah, but the Freight Western Forum was before that, I think. I don't know. It's AI. It can get stuff right. Oh, yeah.

By what you see, congratulations to the time man of the year this year. Do you see that was announced earlier today? Time Man of the Year, Donald Trump. Not a human being. the creators of AI oh no they're the anti-man of the year AI is ruining us

yeah that's what they called hey this AI slop yep you got people like Matt Thomas watching these fake Bob Barker videos oh my God they're so good no they're not it's no no you gotta stop

the fake Bob Barker videos are rude insensitive racist it's just low hanging low hanging through The lowest of hanging fruit.

You should be embarrassed. And yet people send them to me and I send them back to other people. All right. Keep me out of that loop. I have... People send them to me all over Instagram. Yeah.

It's a character flaw of mine. And that's fine. Speaking of character flaws. Mm-hmm. See, Michigan football has got an opening. Yes, they do. Sharon Moore. Okay, so let's...

There is a lot of conjecture out there. Yes. The rumors are abound about why, who, how many, then the subsequent arrest about whether it was involving the girlfriend, well, you know, the girlfriend, the acquaintance or the wife. I mean, there's still a lot. So, and look, you can take you three seconds to go to the worldwide web and get the information. So we don't need to disseminate what's accurate, what's not. All I'm going to say is it is a hot, hot mess. Sharon Moore, 31, 38 years old, I want to say, married three kids, coaching a spectacular

college football program, one of the top 10 in the country year and year out. Going to play Texas in the Citrus Bowl, which will carry right here on 790. He goes from that to out of work and in jail in about a 24-hour time span. If even that long. Oh, you're going to, well, you made the citrus bowl and you lost Ohio State. Oh, this affair. Look at this, guys. We found the affair.

Well, actually, it's funny, part of the conjecture out there is that Michigan knew about this for a long period of time and not devastated that the news got out. Is that fair to it? Michigan not devastated. Michigan not devastated, yeah. Because they can fire him with cause. A buyout. Yeah. Almost $6 million a year in salary.

I've never heard of this guy, John Bacon. He's got 70,000 followers. Okay. And he looks like a writer. But yeah, he's saying like he was detained and being protected by mental health professionals. Yes, there was numerous reports that he would contemplated suicide. Yes. And he was going to harm others and also harm himself, which is, Jesus, horrible.

The reality is this. It's a football gig. Relax. Well, it's something. And nothing to do with football, it's about getting caught in an inappropriate relationship and losing his job over it. And then I'm sure the wife and three kids, you know, like, you'll never see down this again. Oh, no, the consequences of my actions. I know.

This is horrible. Yeah. Yeah. So an ugly, sad scene for frankly a lot of people. And no one's going to feel sorry for Sharon. No. I mean Not right now

No You don't want anybody Threatening to kill themselves I mean that's very serious As bad as what is being alleged It's not worth taking First of all nothing worth taking your own life Okay that's first and foremost

So Yeah he He made some serious judgment issue Problems And But you know Yeah I'm just reading more from this John Bacon guy Apparently there was

They interviewed he and the employee in the summer And they both said No, nothing going on. So like I said, again, these little stories are popping up in basically saying that Michigan knew more about this or at least wasn't, this was nothing that just popped up all the sudden yesterday. They knew about it, they said there wasn't anything,

and then they moved on. Yeah. But apparently this girl had gotten a raise. A significant raise. There's also reports of rumors of that. This is, oh, I want to read the book on this one. You probably do want to read the book because it is salacious Because that's what we do is society we like salacious stuff

But I think we need to wait till everything comes out Fine I know, I know We'll wait till the facts are out These are all rumors folks It's all difficult to do that But sometimes we have to let the facts get out there But again, sorry to his wife and his children

And obviously the young lady Whatever Okay, on a much more positive things All right, see now I already got people sending me Bob Barker once. Stop! Stop sending me AI Bob Barker. Send them to Matt Thomas. Do not send at Sports RV on Instagram or Twitter, Bob Barker stuff.

Thank you. Send it to At SportsMT. He loves it. Don't send it to SportsRV. He will look at it and disgust, but he'll look at it. No, I'm not actually, I'm not looking at this one. I already decided. It's not really Bob Barker. May he rest in peace. Bob wouldn't act and talk that way. Now, he's had his own issues in the past. Yeah, how many lawsuits was it? Three? Probably at least, I think each one of the Barker beauties.

Okay. You know, it's funny. I told this to my wife yesterday, and she laughed when I said this. We had on in, we've got two televisions in our room that, well, sometimes work. More times than now, there's some technical glitches to them. But, you know, one is. Get some new TVs. What's going on?

They're not working. They don't work? No, I'm talking about it in here. Oh, in here. Our place. Yeah. Oh, no, these work. They're not always programmed properly.

The TV always works. Okay. She doesn't always play. Can I get to the story here? Yeah, well. Bottom line is this. It was the prices. Huh?

Yeah, I think God. The Price is Right, Barker era show was on, and you saw Bob Barker, and you'd said, I had never seen him in black hair before. I never, well, it was brownish, yeah. Well, yeah. I'd never seen him with anything but gray hair in my life. He did, he used shoe polish for a lot of his years. Oh, did he sponsor it on the show?

So, because I'm a dork, I know this. So one day, he's doing the show, and like in the middle of the week, you know, they tape multiple shows. Yeah, you start sweating. so apparently it was running down his suit and in the middle of a taping not middle of the little show but a middle of like you know you tape five episodes a day so after the second episode he went and got rid of it and said all right here I go and so he came out for a third recording yeah and people like what happened to your hair completely gray yeah good for him embrace it I'm never coloring my hair no you shouldn't again people find your hair yeah I'm in my silver fox era era. Yeah, it's been a little few years. Yeah. It's getting a little more sobery. Yeah. It's distinguished for you, though. Every day, you're hanging out with you. It's turning me gray.

No, it's actually, I'm trying to keep you, I mean, you're keeping your hair. No, it's accelerating. We're going downhill faster. Oh, that's not nice. And I noticed I had a couple gray hairs, other places. Oh, my chest. I think a Jonathan's right now. Oh, God. What? I'm feeling well.

How about that Cougar basketball team? I was a little nervous yesterday. Are you okay? Wow. They covered the 40 and a half. Oh, they did. 80 to 38 was a final score. I didn't check the game.

I didn't watch the game. Do you think when Vegas puts lines out of like, like, are you sure you want to do this? Oh, no. Now I got somebody else to find me videos. AI videos of Mr. Rogers. If you have an AI video, you want to get shown to your friends. Send it to SportsMT, please. He wants to see it as much as a can.

Please, SportsMT. But you know what? Thank you, 10 o'clockers. We love the, hey, let me tee. Sports RV and Instagram. We got a little special feeling for those 10 o'clockers. Yeah. Our latest videos low on likes.

Can you drop one for me. Okay. The show today will. I think I'm in vacation mode. I'm sorry, Matt. Yeah, I know. I've kind of noticed it in this entire week, frankly. I'm going to drink my coffee.

I'm going to shut up. All right. Hey, 713-212-5-790. If you want to join our conversation today, that's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to visit with us through Instagram or Twitter, it's at SportsM-T, on the show, we have, I just don't get it at 1130 today. And I'm going to irritate, actually, a handful of my friends. And it involves Disney World and Disneyland.

So we'll tell you about that. We have the Rockets getting an action sign against the Los Angeles Clippers. Rossi, are you surprised, disappointed, elated, or a combination of both about the Astros? Largely being very silent at the winter meetings. It doesn't mean things can't pop up in the next 24 to 48 hours, for sure. But it was a very silent at winter meetings. Now, you can gather intel in Orlando, come back to Houston and pull up the deal because phones do work and text and whatnot and zooms. But it was a very, very, very quiet overall meeting.

We'll get to that. And I got a gut feeling. I know it's Thursday. You can do it. I got a good feeling. Save it. When we come back. All right.

Oh, I'm so happy the rockets are playing tonight. I miss them. They miss me, too. Got to get really crazy there with the schedule coming up with a long road trip after this, a couple of home game. We actually just one home game. The Los Angeles Clippers are in town. I wonder.

I mean, anybody seen James around town? I mean, he's probably been here four or five days now. And he's making the rounds? Yeah. Okay. Kauai Leonard, probably resting comfortably. He should be ready to go. Evita Zubats.

Is he getting wheeled around? Eating his tapioca pudding? Oh, my God. His legs are about 80. Yeah. I wonder if Kauai would have stayed in San Antonio. He's only 34? Yeah.

His legs are about 80. Yeah. He's got out the rightus, as Fred G. Sanford once used to say. Okay, we've got rockets going on the night. We got the comments to the cougars destroying people yesterday. And we have Rossi, a post-gut-feeling gut-feeling from you. Yes.

Two Astros trades. May I guess who they are? At least two. Go ahead. I believe. And I don't know if I was listening to Brian McTaggart coming in. Oh, Brian McTaggart. Who was he on?

He was on the. a morning show. Oh, okay, I didn't catch it. Oh, for sure, our boys leaving. Jake Myers. Here's the thing. If he's traded while you're off next week, I'll be fine. Can you call in at least for one second?

Why would I call in? Because that's your, that's your bit. I'm going to be on vacation. I'm not going to be thinking about you. You cannot literally call him for one second to say your goodbyes. I will see if I'm busy. Depends. I'm going to take. you're a terrible texture so you probably take you two days to get back i've got plans yeah but 10 to 2 am i asking for a whole hour it depends i might be at the movies or at uh i don't know on a hike

who goes to 1130 they don't hike in dallas i'm going on i'm going to two o'clock movie oh you'll be off yeah i got to get there early though get your popcorn soda popcorn okay jake mire's traded you know what if you don't want to do it i'll do our own farewell to jake myers you got it okay you want to record one just in case did we have we done this yet jennison yeah we we didn't we do a fromber one we did a fromber one in case I'm gone let me see we're gonna have to do a

we gotta do a Jake Myers one we'll do it I have a fromber one somewhere okay we'll do one at the bottom of the hour we did one for Bregman this because I go on vacation in the end of every year yeah which is really a dumb thing on your park because the good stuff is when you're here I'm good you should take some time off in July it kind of quiet

I mean normally I have some left over and I like to be off for my birthday even though you think that's wrong I think it's wrong I just have never done that that way Okay, so number one, and I got another one for you. I'm guessing, you tell me if I'm wrong. Okay. I think Isak Prattis is getting traded.

Oh, that's spicy. That could be right. Christian, now, it's no coincidence that the players that are most wanted by others are also most wanted by you. So you would love to trade Christian Walker. That would be your top candidate, but also he's least attractive to other teams. guy at a down season. Second most attractive would be ESAC parades. That would be kind of the happy medium.

Because Jeremy Payne is probably not going anywhere. Carl's Cray not going anywhere. Well, nobody's going to want Jose Otuve. I'm sorry, at that money. Unless you send a bunch of cash. And he's not going to go anywhere. He's not going to where. He's the most beloved astro of all time. He's the greatest astro of all time. He's not the greatest astro of all time. So,

I mean, you're not crazy to say that. Man, my guy feeling is multiple trades. They've been involved in, I mean, they're Their names have popped up for Freddie Peralta, for other pitchers as well. Their names have popped up with Jake Myers. Esoc Paredes to the Red Sox has popped up from Ken Rosenthal. Multiple Astros trades are coming.

That's my gut feeling. So you don't want to say who you don't think it is? Jake Myers, for sure. Okay. I think Esoc Paredes is in the mix. Christian Walker's in the mix if you send a lot of money. I mean, he does have some value. He had a good second half of the season.

If somebody's desperate for a first baseman, I'm going to look at the numbers up. but he ended up with 27 home runs. We do have a Framber one, actually. Okay, good. Yeah, let's play the Frommer real quick. If that happens, you know what that happens. Here it is. Here's Frommer goodbye.

Oh, Framber. Shh. You sweet, sweet, left-headed pitcher. La Grasse, they called you. And we'll never forget you as a Houston Astro great. as you came up and we called it Framber alerts

because you would walk everyone and blow up when you came out on the mound but you're right to the ship and the blow-up stopped to an extent he sounds sick and we'll always remember

how you finished top five in the Syung a couple of times how you would just randomly show up with hair extensions whenever you wanted sometimes you'd give up three home runs in an inning

and you would get this weird sinister smile on your face like your Heath Ledger playing the Joker. Go ahead, Adele. Yeah, you were definitely sick that day. It's fine. It still worked. We got a whole other minute, you know? Keep going to keep going? We got more of this?

Jeez. All right, so we cannot use Adele at 1030 here coming up. We've got to do something different. Okay. Sometimes it hurts instead. What song do you want to go with? I don't know. It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

This is good, too. I mean, it does hit. It's making me tear up. If I gave you tickets to see a Dell and constantly. Hold on. Counting to 10 and taking deep breaths. Oh, my God. There's still more of this.

Defensive butcher jobs. But a wicked curveball. And grab all outs. We wish you the best. We love you. We appreciate you. We're sorry that the Astros offer wasn't competitive. we're sorry that Dana Brown

strung along the media and we're wishing you all the best with team in the future who we left a blank Thank you, Framber gone but not forgotten wishing you the best

in your future endeavors okay so we have to do down two things we have to you're going to have to run through all the potential teams that Framberg could play for I'm gonna say every single team well I mean there's

you can just fill in the blank no You go one, three, two, one, Orioles. Three, two, one, Mets. Three, two, one, Yankees. Three, two, one, giant. I mean, we'll knock out four or five of those. I'm good.

Now, Jack Myers may be a little different. They may be maybe 29 teams that may be going after. Although you would make a trade with the Rangers, would you? Probably not. Well, the A's, you could probably knock out all the American League West teams. Jake Myers kind of does have A's written all over them, but. Oh, geez. Don't put that stain on him like that.

What are you doing? Well, they've been spending a little bit money. They're getting ready to spend when they come to Vegas. How does an Oakland fan feel about that, by the way? My gut feeling is when we start talking about the future of the Las Vegas A's, we're so long going to be talking about a team that spends a lot of money. You just don't all of a sudden become a team that's miserly to, oh, we're so cash flush now. Because, again, they're going to a different media market, new television deal.

Their stadium only is going to seat 30,000. So you're going to be missing out on, again, stadiums that sell 40 to 45,000, right? I don't know, I mean, they're going to be, they'll be more competitive, more sponsorship dollars, in theory. But Vegas ain't what it once was. No. Vegas is dying. It's dying. Well, the kids aren't gambling.

And it's their fault. The kids Jonathan Allen's age, I mean, I don't know how he feels, but when we were 21, it was like the bit, you go to Vegas. Is that still a thing, Jonathan? You see a couple people do it, but like. It's not as big. It was like everybody wanted to go to Vegas when I go to 21. I don't think I'm going to gamble. When you go to what now?

EDM, the Daisy Festival. You're not saying that correctly. I know, but it sounds like I am. No, it doesn't. That's fine. They're playing EDM. Okay, what is it? Me and Craig are going to go to the Daisy Festival.

Isn't it like the Daisy Carnival or something? Yes, we're going. Electric Daisy Carnival? And we probably aren't going to gamble. You're going to gamble. Shut your mouth. You're right. All right. Up next, Ross says goodbye to Jake Myers,

just in case it happens is the EDC. Electric Daisy Carnival. So I was close. I said EDM, EDC. Same thing. You got 33% of it wrong. Still passing.

No, it's not. 67's a passing grade. Hey, I graduated in college with a D-minus in that one class. Jerk, professor. He didn't appreciate my Stevie Wonder rundown of the music of the early 70s for him. I did like a music interpretation of his songs.

Oh, really? And he gave me an F. And he said, come back. back and do a better job, so I thought I readed the paper and he gave me a D-minus a guy. Wow! Yeah. He used to wear these short shorts, this professor, they were above his knees. And then you put

X-lax in his coffee. Oh, damn straight I did. I said, man, I'm going to make seven times what you make in my career. I'm going to live my broadcasting life to make more money and be more popular than you are. You've been driven by Spite this whole time. I live for Spite. Weekdays 10 to 2. I'm Spite Radio. 1031. Ross says goodbye

to Jake Myers next here on 790. All right, we've got a busy show today. I just don't get it at 1130, which is going to anger some friends of mine. I'm going to personally not mention them by name because I love the people that I'm going to a slightly attack. They're all dear friends, but I see their Facebook posts and I go, okay, what are you doing? So that's, I just don't get at 1130 for me today. Okay.

You spent a lot of time on Facebook. I can't sleep at night. Oh, okay. So it's usually Facebook Reels. and a few Facebook messages. And then when people start putting politics in there and religion, I just mute. Okay.

I'm a mutter on Facebook big time. Let me see pictures of your kids. Let me see your vacation. Let me see if you've met any celebrities. Take pictures. I love all that stuff. Okay. But I don't want politics.

I don't want recipes and keep your food to a minimum. Now, I did put hot pot on ours because it was so interesting. No, I don't want recipes. I was going to put my spaghetti sauce out there for you. Don't do it. Don't do it. That's all right. It's a secret recipe anyways.

Okay, let me guess. tomato sauce and oregano. There it is. There's Ross's the secret ingredients. Those aren't the secret ingredients, Matt. Those are the colors. You know what he puts in his spaghetti? You usually get a jar ragu. He puts spund in his. That's the key there. Ladies and gentlemen,

Ross is not going to be with us next week. Well, I'm not dying, Matt. Well, geez. I'm going on vacation. He may not be back. He's going to be attacked by a mountain lion. When he goes camping and goes hiking.

But he is I am scared of Bears Bears would be fine He is A black bear You get lepros With the armadillos

You touch them I'm not touching armadillos I'm not going Dillow touching Clip that It just sounds good Ladies Jetway You're the Dillot toucher among us

I don't I've never touched a Dillow in my life That's all you ever talk about No it's not I stay away from those Dillows Let's get to Ross saying goodbye to, and this is going to hit hard because

he is the president of the Jake Myers fan club. Here it comes. I'm staying out of the way. I present to you, Ross's pre-recorded farewell to one. Jake Crazyly's Myers. I heard

that you'll settle down. Jake! Jake! Jake! How could they do this to you, my sweet, sweet Jacob? We'll never forget you. Never forget you.

When you first came up, you were showing that quick bat, five-star catches, great reads on fly balls. You made the hard catches look easy. And then you ripped your shoulder. out of its socket running into the wall like a madman and then James Click rushed you back and

they said you weren't good enough Jake because you started soft hitting and you couldn't even hit your weight and you were whiffing on everything and rolling over ground balls to short and third which you still kind of did even throughout your career and that's okay and they

doubted you. They said Chas McCormick was better than you but they were wrong Jake because I believed in you and you believed in you. And the five star catches kept coming. And you kept calling off every outfielder so you could get your metrics

up and Kyle Tucker would get annoyed with you. But that was okay. Because you're great out there and you proved the doubters wrong. And you got your OPS plus over 100, which is league average, but hey, that's pretty good for you. And sure, your helmet flew off. Every time you swung a bat, every time you walked on

bases and really like in the on-deck circle your bat with your helmet to fly off it was quite bizarre but we still loved you and your beautiful flowing hair and your flat nebraska accent we love you jake you're so sweet and you're so great and you're so amazing and you're a gold club finalist but a winner in my heart i'm gonna miss you jake And I love you. Good luck it. They're going to love you there. Take it a doubt.

I would like to add. Career OPS. Shut up! 678. Career slug. my heart. Carrear Slug, 371. Hey!

Career OPS of 90 and 100 is considered average. The views expressed by me are stat-driven. And not editorialized. Jay, and granted his arm was a noodle. And when he would throw a ball from... A ball's like average. 60th percentile.

When he would throw a ball from center field to second base, it would take three bounces. 292 average 727 OPS 3 home runs But a lot of hits And a lot of 5 star catches Perhaps the greatest slap hitter in Astros history Not named Casey Candell

Look at his UZR Look at his DRS Nobody knows what UZR is You're embarrassing yourself He's a beast! You don't apologize You wouldn't use the R on the show 2.4 WAR

We are not We are anti-WA I don't care if you're anti. Every general manager in baseball. Every general manager in baseball is using those. But I'm not a general manager. So you can bury your head in the sand. Jake has value.

And by the way, Andy Reed, you never should have gone for it on fourth down. I was right in America believes me. I don't care. Momentum shifted. You can be wrong. I can be right on this. I'm wrong about something. Keep marrying your head in the sand.

That's okay. I got proof that momentum of the game changed. The game changed. Don't go for fourth and one at the 31-yard line. Don't hit on 16. Don't hit on 16. I'm my bust. I'm scared.

I'm not going to go for this foot down. I hit 16. I hit 16 against a 7. You're damn right I'm so scared. Let me tell you're right now. I am the greatest black check player ever. No, you're not. I am.

I got blue hairs that like Charles screw me over hitting on 14s against 4. Shut your bov ass up. Good God. Go to break. 1043, the Matt Thomas show at Raw. So the word for big city wings. Let me tell you, any other radio show in the marketplace, I can give you that right there. We went from Jake Myers' Farewell to OPS Plus to Waba to Andy Reid screwing his team to my Blackjack playing, which is the greatest ever.

You want to, you know what? Not only am I Mr. Texas, but I'm Mr. Blackjack. You stepped out. I did gloss myself a new nickname, Mr. Blackjack. Yeah. Mr. Texas, check. Texans insider, check. Good God.

Great father and husband, check, check. You know, when you give yourself a nickname, that's when you know you haven't earned it. I've never seen anybody at the table go, the handsome ball man made a bad move on the table. Matter of fact, if I even... You've played some things wrong before. Twos and threes get confusing.

They do, but I do ask. I'm not afraid to ask. Those people are like, oh, they don't sound a hundred than now. That seems to make a mistake. Yeah, but that was years ago. I am a flawless. That was the last time we were in Lake Charles. No, this was not.

No, you did. You played. You did. You admitted it. It was like a two or three. But I mean, look, twos and threes are a sketch. Very confusing. I feel like a twos and threes we're losing anyway.

We're just slow playing to death. We're all losing anyways. That's true. All right. Let's see. What else we got? Oh, 10 o'clockers. Good morning to you.

Hi. If you'd like to join us, we got to get it coming up at 1130 today. The news at noon, rotten five. We're reading some tweets. Oh, Joan says Jake is easy on the ice. I don't, I think he is. He's handsome enough. Yeah.

I mean, I was the one If we want to be We want to be truthful here on the show Which we do believe in the truth Is I was the one to interview Jake In Spring Training And I brought you over because you were a little nervous Because you know, I was not nervous

You were fan club, you were fan-boying on I mean, you didn't want to talk to him I've interviewed Jake like five times Number one, before that Number two, you made me your equipment bitch So I had to get there and set up all the equipment That's why I was late to the interview I mean, there's some truth to that

Okay, so shut your bum ass up I would not call you my equipment, bitch. Yeah. You would be the technical supervisor of the show. Uh-huh. I got a hotel reserve, by the way. We're going to actually stay in a hotel with two beds this time around. I'll pack everything up.

Get on your phone, Matt. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-780. That's the best show of the city. Not even close. By the way, I mean, come on. I hate listening to a lot of shows in this market. They're boring.

uninteresting. They repeat the same things over and over again. You're going to get literally something different every day on this show. Now, it may not be your complete cup of tea, and I get that. We're also very humble. Yes, and modest. We realize our restrictions and our weaknesses. And if we find a weakness, we'll let you know. Okay, real quick. Jacob Berkshire

Myers, also known as Jake the Rake. That's his official baseball reference nickname, Jake the Rake. Was that on the back of his jersey when it was players weekend? I don't know. They got rid of that, didn't they? No, they brought it back. They got rid of it, and then they brought, I think it was back this year, right? But I don't think they had, like, the funny nicknames to them. I thought they did bring them back, right?

I kept looking for me. Okay, maybe not. All right, so other things going on. There is a published report out there, and again, I don't, you know, I hate saying published report, because I'm going off for what I saw on the 4U tab. Oh, boy. That says that Warren around the college athletic streets is a Notre Dame acted like such a baby. That a lot of schools are like, yeah, we're not going to.

Oh, the freeze-out thing. I saw that. What do you think? Do you think there's some validity to that? Well, Texas has a home-and-home with them coming up, I believe. Now, look, we have crushed Notre Dame, as most people are on the country, unless you're a Notre Dame grad. And by the way, I think we've got our second D of the year candidate. Pete Bavacqua? I think anybody involved in the United. Rain Riffin?

Oh, wow. Gordy's not going to like that. No, he's not. You better not have him in it. of the year. I think I'm going solo those days. Yeah, Texas

at Notre Dame 28, home against Notre Dame 29. As petulant of children as they've acted, I'd still schedule them because here's what you're going to do.

You're going to get eyeballs. Yeah. More than times and not, you're going to get a top 22 pair of top 25 matchups. I mean, Notre Dame does, how if there's Notre Dame go three and eight?

And they're generally good, but not that good. You know what I mean? They're winnable. Yeah, Aggies think it's winnable. Miami thinks it's winnable. And Notre Dame does travel. So if you're looking to fill up 10,000 seats or whatever, you can do that.

No, my school's a big time football school. Not worried about filling up with a bunch of... I'm talking about 60% visiting fans so that they could sell tickets. That would be. I mean, how embarrassing would that be? We didn't have that this year. We had Texas Tech. It was full of Houston fans.

So shut up. You're wrong. I'm talking about other schools. Yeah, okay. You don't think SMU would take Notre Dame in a heartbeat? Absolutely would. Why would Notre Dame want to play S&M? Oh, they want an easy dub.

By the way, somebody was asking me that on Twitter. SMU, Southern Millionaires University. Why haven't they gotten their money up in NIL? They did a couple of years ago. Ah. But you can't live off of what you did two years ago. No, you got to keep going. Oh, so you're saying they got some donor fatigue.

That I can't tell you. I'm not intimate to the situation. But I can tell you this. If Cody Campbell, the big money behind Texas Tech, got fatigue they're toast now there are other people helping but he's

he not only carries it with his wallet but he carries it with his mouth he is absolutely pushing and getting in front of high priced big time donors at Texas day I mean he knows people he's been around that program as a player as a student so if Cody

Campbell got out they'd be screwed so it really comes down to how long these schools have these powerful influential people that are willing to carry the weight for not only contributing but pushing to get their buddies involved. I mean, University of Houston, Tillman Fretta wrote a check to the University of Houston for $50 million

and said, go build the Fertita Center. And he says, look, that's what I can do for you. And he's like, I need others to step up. And that's what they've tried to do. They try to get other people involved. Now, how successful they are on that? I don't know. I mean, clearly we're, we got a five-star recruit coming in.

It's a number one dual-threat quarterback in the country. He ain't coming because, you know, it's a sweet place to hang out. I mean, he's coming there because of checks coming his way. And he's coach. And his coach, too. Offensive assistant. Quality control assistant? What is it is?

He's here. If there's a package deal, I'll take package deals. A lot of package deals out there before. But, yeah, I think you have to keep those people vested. So SMU had some money, but you're right. SMU shouldn't not have an issue. If SME people care about SME, like, for instance, Rice, Rice is not going to be in this game because Rice,

the people that are the big money, people are on Rice, don't care about athletics. Let's go, Dee Calhoun. Now, he probably sends his money in Texas. Oh, that is true. By the way, did you see the video? Did you see what the Texas video they did yesterday? Yes, and? That was incredible.

I thought it was hilarious. It was, it took a embarrassing situation and made, made it quite interesting. So good. No, it was good. It was funny. Matt. Okay. It was funny. I was funny. I was going to say. No, I mean, I know humor. I mean, I do.

I do. It was funny. Unless it's AI Barb Barker videos. I laugh at Bob Bark. I also laugh at the babies that swear on those videos too. Exactly. Let me tell you some. I'm team AI comedy. I fully admit it. I know. That's fine. Call me flawed. I will. so Bob did so so Cal did he took an embarrassing potentially embarrassing situation which obviously that was a real video that happened

and he turned it into a way to make some fun well the social media team I'm sure that wasn't his idea you want me to do this again you want me to put my hand out I will I have the coat still it is in my suitcase no they turned and I made me fold it nice no smart smart on the social media very smart smart smart on Hannah

somebody that said hey there's this video out there of you having your hand out yeah we should explain we should we yeah go ahead he got left hanging by cj stroud at the end of the game in kansas city and then so they made a video of him still having his hand up and getting left hanging and then at the end of the video c j stroud finally gives him a high five it's hilarious matter of fact i'm gonna go retweet it they leaned into you got that's what happened when something embarrassing happens you just got lean into it sure or more depending on so much maybe don't lean to do they're leaning into putting in allegedly putting a nice I mean he leaned into something already and that's

well that's the problem that's what guy sometimes leaning in gets you into trouble undefeated it seriously is undefeated it is isn't it by the way real quick I'm looking in a video of

Philip Rivers we were talking about the 17 jersey yes he got the blessing from Daniel Jones well see I was right yeah I didn't say you were wrong I just was like I hope he got something you said I was wrong and then you you spit at me He was weird.

By the way, he's also fat. Look at that. He's got a full double chin going there. He's not fat. He's just a little chunky. No, that's fat. He's not fat. Look at his face.

Santa Claus is fat. He's just got to, you're so weird. Okay, what is he then? He's plump? He's put on a few, he's 44. He put on a few pounds. He literally got caught off the couch in a week. You want him to be chiseled?

He's going to die on the field. I don't want this. He's coaching high school football. As far as high school football coaches go, he's on the lean side. That's true. A barbecue sponsor is this week, folks. You got a guy, coach, you get two racks of ribs, coach. Relax.

Mm-mm-mm-mm. All right. Okay, so you got a plump quarterback. Yeah. A little chunky. CJ Strauss not plump. A little extra lining. Who's the fattest quarterback in the interview?

Jared Lorenzen? No, he's dead. Oh. Too soon. That was really too soon. Why? I'm going to say the name that popped in my head. Oh, no, Matthew Stafford. James Winston? Yeah. He's backup.

He started some. Matthew Stafford's a plumpest quarterback in the NFL. Okay, yeah, he's almost 42. Give him a minute. It's all right. He's maybe going to be an MVP. I'm trying to think, most everybody's pretty leaner in shape. I guess is it? Bo Nix? I don't think so.

I mean, he's a big boy. I mean, he gets some good fried food down in Auburn. He's a big young lad. Yeah. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hour number two. The Matt Thomas show with Ross 11.03 in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Michigan head coach Sharon Moore fired with cause, no buyout, but after the coaching carousel has turned.

By the way, the interim coach is named Biff Pogie. That sounds like O line. O line or D-Line? O-line coach. He's got to be. Is he for real? He's got a huge gut. He's what you think. Biff Pogi looks like. Biff Pogi is the O-line coach, for real? Yeah, yeah. Okay, I was going to say. No, no, no, no.

O-L-L-L-L-L-E-L-L-E-L-L-E-L-L-E-Lat. He's fat. I mean, I thought we should judge, but I used to be fat. Hey, I'm Biff Pogi. Let me see what Biff did. I'll look it up. Oh, why is he named Biff? Because his name is Francis Xavier.

He's 66 years old. Yes. He's currently the interim head coach. Uh-huh. And, oh, it's an athletic ad. I got to pull it up here. What does he do here? Um, he was an associate head coach this year.

He was the one that coached Michigan for two games when he was suspended. Associate Head Coach. He was an analyst. I wonder if he was in a... Oh, he just came back. He was, he went to... He left Michigan in 2022 as associate head coach to become a high school football coach for four seasons. That's a little odd.

The whole situation is odd. By the way, is Michigan ever going to behave themselves? I mean, you got a... Conner Stallions, Harbaugh leaving with the infractions on the way. Cheating on the field, cheating off the field. Yep. That was 38 years. Is, what, it was, is 38 years old.

He had a job that was paying him six million a year to coach one of the top ten college programs in college football. Undefeated. Not him, but you know. Michigan's not undefeated. No. So I guess everybody wants to know if Mr. DeBoard, Alabama, would like to go take that job. What's a better job in your mind? Alabama or Michigan?

Now, remember, used to be based off of just results, but now it's about results and where's the money? Yeah, I mean, I can't answer that question without knowing full NAL financials and all that stuff because... Separating NIL, Alabama's a better job. There are two college football flagship programs. I mean, they're two short-list blue-blood all-time programs. So we're splitting hairs at this point. I would say Alabama, just because of, I mean, I just feel like the SEC, you just end up with better recruits on a year-in, year-in-out basis than in Michigan. But let me say you on Michigan, you're realistically only competing with, well, now it's a bigger conference.

Ohio State in Oregon. Penn State, you're not really competing for a big 10. Penn State disagrees. Wisconsin, you're not competing like used to. Not used to, but they could be a sleeping giant. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention Indiana, who just ran the table now. Indiana's looking pretty good. I think year after year, you can probably win more in Bama.

Just got, I do the SEC. It's a more fertile recruiting base. When in doubt, when there are similar things, you go. Closer to Florida and Texas, which are big entrants are, or close to Florida, Requirements at Alabama are significantly easier than Michigan. Michigan's like a hoity-to-y. Michigan's excellent school. Yeah.

I don't know. How much does interest? I don't know. I mean, has it hampered Notre Dame maybe a little bit probably over the years? But recently I'm talking about since NIL. Michigan, maybe. Texas, of course. Michigan's top five, Big Ten.

If you took Michigan through them in the SEC, they'd be top five in that conference. So it's really, you know, you're splitting hairs. year, I think, for the large part. I think so. I'll go with Bama. But Kailen DeBoer, the rumors is like he's from Michigan or he... Well, there was ties to his some sort of ties. Yeah, East Coast guy, I don't want to say. Not that Michigan's East Coast, but he's from Millbank, South Dakota. Yeah, I don't know. He worked at Eastern Michigan. No, I'm not seeing... So let me ask you this. Forgetting about where you want to live and where you're in

nails. Where's the pressure? Sharon Moore, was he nine and three this year and doing it because that's the best they could do? Or if he goes nine and three one more year, Sharon Moore looking for work at Michigan? Was he just a nice standby until they really want to go off to the coach they wanted to? I mean, was, again, was Michigan looking for an indirect way to get rid of Sharon and that all of a sudden this off the, the inside the office extracurricular activity was this an easy gateway from to get out? I don't know

the Twitter streets are saying this has been around since spring and then I read like I said that Michigan reporter he's got 69,000 followers Do you lose a thousand followers already? You had him in 70 last hour. I think I rounded it up probably. Oh yeah that's good that's good. So

I don't know if that guy's being accurate then there was interviews in the summer about the improper relationship You know, it's funny because a lot of people, if you've been listening to national stuff, have said, oh, yeah, this has been a long-feared rumor of Sharon Moore. And I guess apparently he follows quite a few women on Instagram and have been DMing them, and that those women will eventually come out and say, yeah, this is, yeah, hard for the course for him. Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, we, Matt Thomas knows some rumors. I've heard some rumors. Like, that can happen. So back to the core of it, we hear things all the time. Absolutely. can never in a million years present them on the radio right so do you go i guess it's more of a philosophical thing i think people like to talk absolutely and i would be afraid some more than others and i would be afraid that there were rumors about anybody that i would know how do i put this

i guess is that does anybody bear responsibility for just saying well i knew this is going to happen Anyway, I mean, it comes across a little, I knew this was coming. Well, if you did, then you should have said something. Or do you not say anything? When it's an affair, my name is Paul, and this is between y'all. That's exactly right. I, and I, and I, and I, we're talking about, we're talking about grown adults here, of course. Yes.

If there's criminal activity, that's a little different. I tend to, I mean, not a little, a lot different. When I hear things. Two consenting adults, do your thing. In my life. That's purely my life here. I had a coworker of my head an affair many years ago

and I was completely blown away by the hearing about this I couldn't believe it I didn't want to believe it yeah but we're talking about in office stuff though because this would be in that would be this was in office the parallel okay

this was in office and I went to that person and I said man I'm sorry to tell you this but you and I are friends and I got to tell you that there's a rumor that and he said it's true you said yes we're porking

I don't think you use that term no no no but my jaw you know the jaw literally dropping uh huh it did because I I tend not to believe rumors right I find them interesting but I don't tend to believe them okay but this sounds like

and then you immediately ran to HR I didn't order name it anywhere point being is is that this is going to this is coming out now oh sure more is this has been well documented it sounds like it's going to get worse and that how much of this was a cover-up, how much of this was guys just saying things

because they wanted to sound like they were in the know and how much of this was we're looking to find, we've got this smoking gun, we're going to use this when we want to use it. And again, we're not close to the situations so we can't speak to it, but man. And then the story went from, You dumbass to, what's the hell's going on when he was breaking into the girl's house?

Allegedly. All this is allegedly. And then he's like threatening to kill himself and hurt others? I mean, this thing turned super, super dark in a very short period of time. This is not just exclusive to college athletics. This is Fortune 500 companies. It just is. Yeah, remember the whole Coldplay thing.

Oh, yeah. The CEO of whatever that place was called? I can't remember. By the way, there's AI photos of that being shown out there that I've already received. What do you mean? Simulating the Sharon Moore holding the girl. Like, oh my God, what is wrong with you? We need to get AI out of your algorithm.

It's getting sent to me. I have not seen those. Well, guess I'm going to send it to you then. No, I don't want. I'm going to block you. No, you can't. You cannot do that. I'm going to send it to you right now.

All right, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that as well at SportsCepti. What are you doing? I'm sending this to- Take a break. No, I want to show it this to you. I don't want to see Sharon Moore AI videos with him and his... It's not a video. It's an AI photo.

His slam piece. Okay. Well, you know what? Just delete the tweet. I'm about the text I'm about to send you. There it is. 1119 on sports talk 790 uh rockets against the clippers tonight looking forward to that uh the launch pad will be hosted at 6 o'clock by me it's winning out at you especially during

the day's not working a whole lot on no he's working mornings and it's difficult to work pre- and post-game shows when you work mornings. I know. He should do the weekends, though. He does. I don't do a whole lot of weekends these days because I'm picking up all the weekdays, so I appreciate. That's good.

I appreciate it. It's a team effort. Good team effort. You're not helping at all. No, but I'll help during baseball season. You're going to hear me a lot more next year. Good. Yeah.

That sounds great. Yeah. That's what I'm going to do. So last night, I put Amazon Prime on to watch me some NBA Cup. Yes. It's the NBA Cup. on Amazon Prime. And I think generally speaking, no one cares.

And that's fine. I would care a lot more of my team is playing in it. I forgot to watch. Yeah, well, here's the thing. I put it on in the fourth quarter last night. Okay. Did she see the final score of the game last night? Which one?

Thunder is the Suns? Would you like to guess? I have it in front of me. Okay. Thunder beat the Suns 138 to 89. Now, granted, there's no Devin Booker. Oh, wow. What's their record?

I'll click it The Oklahoma City Thunder have played 25 games That is just shy of a third of a season Okay So I don't know if you are on-paced guy or not Yeah, I kind of Okay

Depending on how far we are I think on pace is a third way to through the seasons It's on pace Go ahead So if they were to play 75 games they would be 72 and 3 they are 24 and 1 they're on pace to go

77 and 5 maybe 70 basically 79 and the 78.7 wins they're on pace for yeah so they're on pace for 79 and the 6th 78 4 now they're going to take some time off 73 and 9 is the record they're going to play an 83rd game because they're going to win this game against san antonio and they're going to play for the championship so they're going to win they're going to beat the 16 warriors well actually that game does not count the standings oh okay they do play an 83rd game however so i never should have been brought down if you ever makes the NBA cup final you're the year that got the 70 was a playing game so i'll say yes uh so they're going to they're going to obliterate the all-time record? Well, again, if my small... Now, they've got two matchups left with the rockets.

My small prayers for injuries have not coming to play just yet. Small prayers, you're flat out begging. That feels fair. Dylan Brooks last night went four for 16 and two of five from three. So he went two of 11 inside the arc.

You know why? Because he takes a lot of contested fallaway shots. I know. When they're hitting, they're good, but I mean, it's like, brother, you're not Kobe Bryant. What are we doing here? Shaggildas Alexander? 11 of 15 from the floor. I don't want to know. Did Jalen Williams play? He played at least, right? He sure did. He had 23 points.

They're winning at all. They are winning at all, barring him and injury. You know what? You might be 100% accurate. I'm not going to listen to it, though. I can't. I have to have some positive juju for the rest of the way. It's a good basketball team that's running into maybe the greatest single season team in the history and that's saying something because we watch the golden state wars and the chicago bulls if their rotation is healthy they're winning at all i mean that's just how it is

i want to look at semi free throws they're 24 and one shade gillers has this ever happened is this precedent line three for only three times yesterday is there any precedent for this what i haven't even read like some kind of record 24 the 20 first 25 we'll go look at what golden state did and what chicago did you can see what their pace was but i'm going to assume not i mean looking at it, that they had lost more than one game in the first 25. I'm going to assume that too, but I remember they got off to a really hot start. The Warriors did

that year, and then they started dropping games as the season went along. So let me ask you this question and more of a macro view of things. If you are a team like the Houston Rockets, or the San Antonio Spurs, or the Los Angeles Lakers, or if you're a team

in the Eastern Conference like the New York Knicks, or you are the Milwaukee Bucks, or you are the, who else is in And Orlando, you know, teams like that. Do you think they started 24 and O? Who did? The Bulls? The Warriors. Okay.

So they're really right there on top of it. Okay. And then they lost their 25th game. So 24 and 1 would be the same pace. So let's go back to my question then. Sorry. If you are seeing what Oklahoma City does, does it make you more apt to go get a dynamic trade by the deadline? or do you go in the back of your mind you would never say publicly ever but indirectly in your back of your mind you would say

I go trade for walt and cream in their prime and I'm not beating gold I'm not beating oklahoma city uh I think if you are a select few you still try to improve if there is room for improvement if you are the nuggets the rockets the rockets lakers spurs yes anybody in the east I mean, I forgot that we mentioned Denver, too. Yeah. I think if you're top five in the West, you try to improve. So I will make this blanket statement then, based off of what you said, and I agree with you. I want the Houston Rockets to try to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder.

And again, you can go under the notion of they can't play this way for set 82. Everybody is human. There could be a stretch where they rest guys or they play five games in six. and eight days, and they're going to go two and three during that mark, or even three and two. But ladies and gentlemen, they're on pace to

easily win 70, if not 75 games. Now, again, one little losing streak can change all this in a heartbeat. But I don't want to watch an NBA season where I'm currently my champion

in mid-December. Now, it's out of my control, clearly. But if you are going to go do this and you're not going to just lay down and give Oklahoma City the Western Conference Championship and the NBA title, then if I'm Denver, San Antonio, Houston, Minnesota, Lakers, I want to improve. I want to make it as difficult as possible. I don't want Oklahoma City to win in a second straight year. And, oh, by the way, they're going to have the Phoenix Sun's pick in the next year. They've got a bunch of first-round picks coming up in future years. They're just starting a potential dynasty.

And it's our responsibility as fans of other teams to make sure this dynasty gets quashed. Well, there's not a whole lot we can do. I know. 96 Bulls won 23 of their first 25, and then they lost their 26th game. and then they ripped off an 18-game winning streak. Yes, we're talking about the 96 Bulls and the 16 Warriors. And the 20, all end with a 6, huh? 96, 16, and the 26 Thunder.

Who do you want then? Who don't want for what? Who's the Gumbull. Is that what you want? Yep. Who's going to get them to be close? And that's get you neck and neck, depending on what you give up. You're going to have to give up a lot.

The Milwaukee Bucks don't want the 2032 Rockets draft pick. Or the San Antonio Spurs' 2028 pick. They want live bodies. Because if you're giving up the greatest, the second greatest player you've ever had in your team, I'm assuming Louis Center would be your greatest. although I don't know did Janice top Oscar Robertson

Oscar Robertson there for that long But yeah And could he did he top blue Alcindor I who knows That's a debate for Milwaukee fans You gotta give up stuff And are you just shuffle Are you just shuffling the pieces around

It feels like you've got You know who we should ask about this Darry It feels like the warriors Were the that era warriors You know what the easy thing would be It would be just to go find the best player in a team that's going to win 30 games this year and bring him here and give

them the draft packages you want. You need to find a rebuilding team that's not going to make the playoffs that needs draft commodities. Yeah, but they'd have to be on a second contract because they're not going to give up a great player on a rookie deal. No. So that's going to cost you a lot of money. I mean, you've got to send money out. That's the NBA way. What is it, 25% of the money you have to match? I mean, up to 75%, I should say. I'm just saying I don't want to hand it to him No, well, you're going to play the games

Yes You think Emaidoka's laying down? Oh my God Hell no Ema's ready to throw hands I think Kevin Durant's laying down I'm in Thompson We almost beat him in opening night

There and all you know We because of course on the backup Backup Yeah well Darren Wayne wasn't there During Phine Smith wasn't there Oh that's true Kevin Durant tried to call a timeout

But yes, they belong on the floor with them. They are the next closest thing by point differential right now. And I'm telling you, I brought this up last week. I think they're best equipped to go seven games with them. Okay. Maybe I'm too big of a homer on that. No, you're not. They can go seven games.

They went to seven games twice. They're not going to change who they are. But they're better this year. The rockets are not going to change who they are today than they are when the postseason starts. other teams do change games get called differently pace slows down read shepherds getting better yeah okay i'm just telling you as the voice of the rockets i'm not giving up but i'm sick to my stomach that oklahoma city is as good as they are sick it sucks

they pounded the living hell out of phoenix last night beat them to a pulp it's like you're christiano rinaldo you're this great generational talent but leo messy's there and he's better it just it sucks it's just how to it is for someone doesn't follow soccer i get the reference thank you man 1130 what don't you get in life that's a simple question i have for you 713 212 5779 we're here to help you what don't you get 713 212 5790 No need to fret. We will discuss the topics to see if we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends.

It's time to say, I just don't get it. All right, coming up in about an hour and 15 minutes, Ross will have his rotten five, the five worst. I'm really saying it on the air, but more of a pro idea for you to get in your head and start thinking about it. Rotten 5, 1250 today. I'll handle believe or not today at 150. So it's a team partnership here on the show. So I've got, believe it or not, you've got Rotten 5 at 1250.

And just came over my 4-U timeline. Congratulations to Auburn, who is looking to add to their non-conference schedule for the future. Listen to this, Rossi. This is a sign of the times. Auburn has added home games with Austin P. in 2027, Georgia Southern in 2028, Troy in 2013, and North Alabama in 232. Wow, they're stacking up. like, you know what, we ain't going to get caught with that old Texas Ohio State in week one.

That's not going to be on our watch. It worked for Indiana. Sure did. Sure did. What was there, non-con? It was something embarrassing. Yeah, there was a bunch of it. It was in Indiana State was one of them.

It was bad. All right. Now, this is our favorite, one of our favorite times of the week. It's our 1130 Thursday get together where we figure out things in life we just don't get and we try to help each other out. Jonathan will have something. Ross will have something. It's mine.

I'll go first today. And if you have something you just don't get, we are here for you at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right. I have comfortably five sets of friends that are either engaged or married. Okay. That love going to Disney World and or Disneyland as adults.

Now, I'm not shaming what you do for your vacation. I just don't get it. So, okay, I'm, I understand. So while you were saying that, I was going to put like, I was going to put why are Disney adults, I put that into Google. Do you want to read you the same? suggestions? Please. This is from

Disney adults. This is high. This is from Google.com. This is not from Matt Thomas or Ross for you and me out. Why are Disney adults fat? Why are Disney adults so weird? Why are Disney adults hated? Why are Disney adults so cringe? These are the Google suggestions, Matt.

Look, it's not me. Well, that's good. Why are Disney adults so annoying? Why are Disney adults obsessed with Disney? That's what I was, I was going to put into AI and see what they said. And those were the Google suggestions. I mean, and again, all it takes is one of you that would like to call the show. Now, Grant, our audience is probably 80%, 95% male.

So I don't know if a male would want to call a sports radio show and explain why they are a Disney adult. if you are a Disney adult and would like to explain why you are such and I'm Ross I'm talking about I've got young friends I have two sets of friends

that are my age that go every they go on Disney trips to Disneyland Disney World they go on Disney cruises I literally just don't get it

I mean I guess there's enthusiasts for everything I love Lion King, Little Mermaid, Toy Story When I was a kid Is Toy Story? I don't think Toy Story is Disney. Oh, absolutely it is. Disney, Pixar is owned by Disney Charlie. Oh, you do it?

You know what? It's Disney Pixar, yeah. That's okay. We actually all knew that. He's young. He is young. He is young. I thought they were separate.

All right, so let's say that you and your lady, Jonathan, are discussing if you're going to get married down the road who never know and she says what do you want because you know you as the male

are responsible for paying for the honeymoon if she said let's go to Orlando for a week and get on to all the parks what would your reaction be you know

only because I've only been to Disneyland I'll say yes for the one time but she's been to Disney World and Disneyland so I don't know and I got to pay for it well I mean in theory you don't I mean it's your responsibility but I mean your parents could help you

You could have people's friends can help you You said for a honeymoon? Yeah, that's what I'm saying? No, no. No. Okay. So do you get adults, Jonathan, do you get it or don't get it

going to Disney without their kids? No, I'm at the good church. I don't understand. And I guess it's like trauma for them, I don't know. Like a Peter Pan syndrome thing? Yeah, yeah. Which I've got Peter Pan syndrome. I'm not fully saying.

I'm 40 years old and not married, no kids. but I don't know yeah I don't know okay so I've come to the two of you you've given me no ideas why why what what's behind it

I mean you know what you can also be just as simplistic as we like it hey we got a Disney door right now oh oh it also depends on how obsessed you are like some people are any obsession of anything

is not good yeah but if you just want to go to Disney World that's cool but if you're like this is my sense 17th trip to Disney World. Like, you got a problem. I count my Vegas trips.

That's a problem. Well, we know you've got problems. Yeah, but I'm fully ready to admit that. Yeah. All right. Sam, are you a Disney adult? Yes or no? Yes, I am.

Please explain. Multiple reasons. Now, what Ross just said about the obsession, I agree with. There are some over-the-top, overly obsessed Disney adults. I'm not one of those. I'm not going to get good. dressed up in character, go act like I'm a Disney prince while I'm there talking to characters and princesses. Funny enough, I just got back from Disney World yesterday. Family trip, went on a cruise

first. There were those Disney adults. There was a grown woman there dressed up like Cinderella, meeting the princesses, acting like a princess and character. That was talked about within my family as well. I'm not one of those. I enjoy the just the overall experience of not just the parks but the hotels the logistics of how Disney operates the cleanliness of the parks the buses the boats just getting around on property just fascinates me I'm a hotel guy you've h grad go coogues there you go oh man and sam you got you have good taste then you know what a good hotel is all about that I have major respect for you yeah and so I I go and I enjoy

visiting the different hotels and staying at a different hotel while I'm there and just kind of appreciate what they do hospitality while. Yes. Okay, you have a different angle. So how old are your kids my ask? One is just turned three and about to turn five. Okay, well then you're really not a Disney adult because have you gone to Disney without your kids? In October, from my 40th, my wife and I flew up on Friday, went to Epcot for the day for Food and Wine Fest, wrote a couple rides, and we'll ride the rides. We're talking about the roller coaster rides, not the kitty rides.

You didn't get the teacups? Walked around the, uh, not this time, no. Walked around Epcot, grabbed a few drinks around the international showcase, woke up Sunday morning and flew home. That was without the kids. Okay, that bet that's as an adult, but that, but you know what, you're, you have a different perspective, which I can greatly appreciate because, you know, I'm a hotel snob as well. so I'm going to give you a sports empty pass.

Now that you were looking for one, but you have two young children who want to go there. It makes sense. You didn't spend six days there. You went to Epcot for one day. You also are in the hotel restaurant industry. It makes total sense. Sam, I get you.

How about that? I get what you did. I love it. Thank you, Sam. Appreciate the phone call. There it is. All right, gentlemen. But two of my closest married friend couples

every year they go every single year. I just don't get it. You know what? If they're in together, you find somebody that matches your freak, good for them. I got you.

Ross, what don't you get? I mentioned earlier this week that I was at a sports bistro that shall not be named this weekend to watch the Sunday night football game with my brother and father. And you know what?

I was like, you know, I don't want something a little light. I don't want to eat a bunch of disgusting fried food. I'm going to get a chicken salad. So I look at the menu, and there is a chicken salad that has blue cheese. Yum. Blue cheese dressing and crumbles. Correct. Bacon bits.

All for it. And it's fried chicken. That's fine. It's 1180 calories. Oh. Do you know how much the triple bacon cheeseburger was? Two patties and three, triple bacon was? 1,200, 20 more calories for a triple bacon cheeseburger.

I don't get it. Now I got the chicken grilled. I didn't realize there were bacon bits on it until afterwards. I would have said no bacon bits. Like, I don't get why this is on the menu, and who is ordering this trying to delude themselves into thinking that they are healthy? Because it has the calories printed right there.

I don't get it. Why do we have to chuck all this stuff onto the salad where people are trying to eat healthy? When you want a salad, you're trying to eat healthier. It's only 20 calories fewer than a lot. a triple-bacon cheeseburger? I don't get it. I think the average person, if fried chicken is on a salad, knows it's not a healthy option.

Then why are you ordering it? Because you love fried chicken, you love lettuce. You don't want the breadies. You don't want the bun that goes with it, and you don't want fries. You can order a chicken sandwich without the bun. Yeah, who does that? They're going keto. And I'm very few.

I get it because I think at the end of the day that people, I think restaurants try to fool you into thinking something's healthy when it's not. Okay, so the restaurant, then, but they have the calories printed on there. Not fooling anybody. They didn't fool you. You win. They lose. I guess.

Grill chicken helped you out tremendously, by the way. Hopefully. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I'll get your calories down big time. I would hope so. All right, John, then we'll get to yours when we come back. We got Kenny as well.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-7-90. I just don't get it continues here on Sports Talk 7-9. all right jonathan we got a lot of folks that things are confusing in their life so let's help them out but you first my friend you are a part of this show you are a part of our family what don't you get uh you know since this recent news about the michigan coach like i just i don't understand because and i'll pull the curtain back a little bit but when you're an athlete and it could be any division you go to different cities and you see your teammates you know i'm not going to say any names but they'll go mess around what's girls even though they got somebody with under their shoulder like what ross say you said you're paul and it's between y'all you just leave it between you see what's going on but i just never understood like there was one cat i knew on one of these campuses his his girl was going to be a nurse and all that stuff was good grades and everything and was every trip we're going on

macking on somebody else and it doesn't make any sense to me i just don't get cheating in general i don't understand it and i guess it's dawn of time no one understands but like i don't get the dude had kids, too. A whole life's sad. I don't understand it. Totally get it. Oh, my God. It's undefeated. That's all I can tell you.

Not that I've done it, but I'm saying it's undefeated. Ross, argue with me about it. You can't. I'm not arguing with you. Yeah, I mean. Jonathan, it's undefuted. Maybe he's unhappy with his girl. Maybe he's unhappy with himself. Maybe he likes the attention and the validation. Who knows? Could be any number of reasons.

But, like, we, when I get to y'all's age and I have kids and all this stuff, man, what, what more do you want? Is that just, um, you're answering your own question. I get the obvious question, but like, you know what I'm saying? I'm asking a different question there. You know what I mean? Like, man, see, I just, you know, we didn't have a little heart to heart after the show. Yeah, we're talking all fair. Yeah, this is, this is much more all fair than it is on air.

At the end of the day, we're animals. I'm just going to leave it that. Kenny, what don't you get, Kenny? Well, hey, Matt, how are you, sir? Good, what's going on? Hey, well, first, about the Disneyland people, I think, I mean, I'm going to eliminate two categories of people. One, people who never got to go when they were a child. Okay.

And number two, the men that do whatever their wife tells them they're going to do. That's true. But, so I got two things that I don't get. And what's funny is they're going to merge together and then I'm going to get it. Next year, this is, I'm sure Ross's ears are going to perk up when I mentioned FIFA soccer and the World Cup coming next year. I don't understand Pride Night at sporting events. And I certainly don't understand soccer.

But in Seattle next year, they're going to. have Egypt versus Iran in the Pride Night World Cup Cup championship. Oh, uh-oh. They're already trying to protest. I hope Rupal does the coin toss. I hope Elton John Singh, God bless America. I hope they make them wear rainbows on their uniform.

Oh, man. Oh, it's going to be so good, Maddie. And you know, I'm always listening. Thank you, Fred. 10 o'clockers forever. 10 o'clockers forever! We love you, 10 o'clockers. Appreciate you.

Those who don't know, I believe homosexuality in those two countries is forbidden. I believe it's like it's a criminal. Punishable by death. Yes.

I believe. I mean, I have to go and look up the laws. I'm not sure about that. What you do in your own bedroom? I have to do some research. Again, my name is Paul. This is between y'all.

Yeah. Two consenting adults want to do what they want to do. I'm still in that phrase. It's from pulp fiction. You know what just watched it, by the way, when he's at the bar John and I have never seen a full episode of that movie

A full episode The full version You know what I only watched it again Because Ross was saying how good it was And we were just sitting there bored And I actually You didn't like it

No no no I was sitting there board We were sitting there bored They didn't know what to watch And I turned it on Oh okay Do you like it? Actually it was pretty I'll give it a 745

I will peel the curtain back And it's a little Racy What Kim came over Yeah, I know. We've heard. Go ahead.

Tell the story. No. Go ahead. No, go ahead. She came over and I said, let's watch Pulp Fiction and we didn't get too far into the movie. That's my story. That's it. Okay.

That's it. I'll tell you more about that. Nobody needs your gory details. Gory was done. Well, would you do five minutes later? Cuddled. The movie is still on. We were busy.

You probably only missed one scene. John. What don't you get? No. Hey, yeah, I don't get these short pants that all of these guys are wearing. Short pants, like Capri pants? Yeah, the football players at the high school level, college level, the short pants.

Yeah, they're trying to stay light. They're trying to not be cumbersome. I think people like it's fashionable. It's one word and only. Swag. Swag. Drip, drip. Drip. That's all.

Dang. You sound like an old person. and saying that too. What? You're kidding me? I got to get to the ling. I wear a little lemons. I'm drip.

All right. There you go. I'm a drip. There you go, Ross. He said, he just said, I'm a drip. That's incorrect use of the phrase. No, you can say like that. Thank you.

No, yes, you can. I just made it up. You got to be cool with it. You see what? Oh, okay. Matt has a young daughter. He knows. Yeah.

By the way, speaking of that, Carly, if you're listening, which you're not. And if you are, you're in trouble because you should be in school. She cannot. Stop walking the house. She says, 6-7! All damn day. Yeah, I don't get it.

Even at In-N-Out, they got rid of the order 6-7 because kids were going into in-and-outs and waiting for the guy to say, order 6-7, and people were losing their minds over it. They eliminated 6-7. I don't know why they would do that. Keep the business up. It's probably all the 67s have been stolen from the Waterburgers.

Kyle, what don't you get? I don't have a, I don't get anything. I have a gut feeling. I need to get it in today because it starts tonight when the Rockets play. Uh-oh. My gut feeling from now until Christmas Day, I know they play at home, but the whole tonight, but the whole road trip, they're going undefeated. Oh, hell yeah.

And it ends when they play the Lakers on Christmas Day. We get to watch LeBron and Luca cry Be the best Christmas gift ever Yeah, the gift of tears, yes Gut feeling is I don't think Tar Easton's coming back until next year January 1st But that could be about right

That's just a gut feeling Okay, thank you, Kyle We mix our segments in We had to get it in today Yeah, yeah Last one, Aaron and Kingwood Aaron, what don't you get? Yes, I have two things.

first, I don't get how there's a local sports radio host hating on the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks and them beating Montana State this weekend. Yeah, because he's a hater. I don't get that either. I don't get where Stephen at Boston is. Go ahead. Well, a lot of people don't.

And then my second thing with Disney, with the adults, now I'm in a similar age, and our girls are older in the 20s. And so we're using that as a trip every now and then and say, for example, go to Epcot and go drink around the world. Yeah. You know what? I will say this. I know Epcot is the least kitty of the parks that are down there. And people do go there to have cocktails from different parts of the world. But I'm talking about my friends, two amazing couples. Every year they were in their Mickey Mouse ears. monkey mouse ears they're having breakfast with snow white it's just weird it's probably a deep-rooted psychological issues but hey long as they're doing it together but don't we all have them though yeah of course and we'll figure out mine oh oh i got a book no we're really going to do we're going to take care of some kids this is the matt thomas show with ross

126 Sports Talk 790. That was a fun edition if I just don't get it. And I think most people understand that there are some people in your life that do love them some Disney. And that, you know, look, everybody has got their own things. I love to gamble. Some people are like, I don't want to gamble. I want to go drink. Or I want to go to a beach.

Some people want to hang out with the seven dwarfs. Yeah, Grace says, shut your bum ass up. Oh, it has a picture of her with a. Picture of her with mouse ears on. Love you, Grace. She says, I find your casino trips weird. You know what? Again, but that's more of an adult playground.

Yeah, well, that's Disney. Maybe Disney is the adult playground. By the way, you get to be an adult to pay for it. I mean, I get it when people, yeah, ask me or that I meet or talk to and they're like, Okay, so you go into this casino and you give them your money and you probably don't bring it back. Yes. We all got issues. I mean, I would.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's the deduction we made out of this. We all have issues. That's right. Time now for the news at noon. What? And with that, we present to you the sage deal of Houston Sports News.

Thank you. Ross. Hi, Matt. Well, the top of sports news. item of the day. We've been talking about this extensively today. Michigan head coach Sharon Moore has been fired for cause by the Michigan Wolverines Athletic Department. Well, I guess that by the school. Also, though, Sharon Moore is in custody as a suspect in alleged assault and he is expected to appear in court

for arraignment tomorrow, according to the Pittsfield Charter Township Department of Public Safety. A prosecutor's office told ESPN that it is not expected decision today on whether or not to file criminal charges against more. Authorities have yet to release details about his arrest other than to say he remains under investigation. He was held in jail on Wednesday, just hours

after he was fired as the Wolverines head coach for what the school said was an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. So this is what is officially being reported. There are a number of rumors swirling around about who this woman was, whether or not they denied a relationship, and now it came to light. Also, stories and rumors about him possibly threatening her life and his own life. And the life's life. There's a lot of up-in-the-air information, yeah. yes so he has been terminated with cause effective immediately what does this mean for the cheeszed bowl as they take on the texas longhorns but the longhorns heavy well i wonder if the line

has even moved it was you know what i should go look at that you talk you're a six point favorite right plug your instagram it was four and a half to five and a half okay by the instagram account is at SportsMT. If you follow me, the Rockets will win tonight. False promises. The Cougars will cover this Saturday game.

You said the Cougars were going to beat West Virginia if I followed you. That's up to six and a half. That's at least the point movement. Really? You're telling me. Open it four and a half.

Salacious affairs caused point shifts. Well, it feels like a lot of players might opt out or something now that the coach is out, maybe even try to transfer. If that was their guy, and he's gone. Is it too late to transfer? No.

Let's bring Chris Gordy in for this. You still hit the portal? Locked on Gordy did an emergency special, I'm sure. Actually, it was a Big Ten people. It was locked on SEC. You know, locked on Big Ten maybe did it. Yep. Huh.

All right. So expected into court on Friday. All right. Elsewhere, Matt, there have been a lot of reports about the Houston Astros and various trades that may be made. Jake Myers continues to be named in trade rumors. There's also a report from Ken Rosenthal that the Red Sox are interested in Issaq Paredes. So which dominoes could be falling for the Houston Astros

as the winter meetings are now over. Of course, there was the big signings of Pete Alonzo to the Orioles, Kyle Schwerber to the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers at Edwin Diaz. What will be the fallout from all that? And what does it mean for your Houston Astros? It means that I'm waiting for Justin Verlainer to sign. I'm waiting for his white belt to arrive.

I'm waiting for Jake Myers is going to new home and I'm waiting for Framber Valde's a sign because we've got two canned goodbyes locked and loaded from when those two gentlemen eventually leave the Astros. We have a gentleman's bet

on Frumber five and a half years. How are you feeling? No opinion. Now, I had a dream last night. No one of my dreams are convoluted. This was a simple one. Okay. I dream. Now, I think this is clearly a dream

because it's probably not going to be a reality that Kyle Tucker signed a five-year contract. Listen to me, listen to me. This is hilarious. We were on the air. Oh, my God. I jump out of my chair. Yes.

We have a white door that's right in front of us that allows us to enter and exit the studio. And I ran throughout the entire offices of the IHeart Media building here on the seventh floor, screaming, I won the bet, I won the bet. So is that what I'm going to do when I went? So here's the sad part of it. So I go to the sales pit and I'm screaming, I won the bet, I won the bet. won the bet and there were two female sales reps in there and they said what was the bet and I explained what the bet was and they said what show are you on and who is Kyle Tucker and I woke up

in a cold slut because I'm like this sucks is this real yeah it's a god God's honest truth bet I was going to say this for the Kyle Tucker conversation but I'm saying I'm doing it now what the hell is wrong with you these are two women that I I consider friends of mine in this office that were like, who's Kyle Tucker and what show are you on? When they say, what show are you on? I think I dropped my head down on my bottom of my chin and just walk in disgrace. What is this thicket of mess that is inside your brain?

This is different. This is a lot to sort through. A lot of layers. I'm donating my brain to science. You should. It's like a croissant with unlimited layers. I'm like an onion. You peel it back.

Oh, yeah. And the more you peel, the more it stinks. You can saute it. beautifully. Put on your sandwiches. saute your brain? Yeah. Well, you're sauteing on you. All right, moving along. The Oklahoma City Thunder Oh, here we go. Last night

absolutely trounced the Phoenix Suns 138 to 89. I couldn't even do the math on that. 138 to 89. Let's see. That's 49? Yes.

It was 50, a couple different times in the game. They're 24. It's calling the game. He's like, I'm so bored. I can't even use all my favorite cliche terms. 24 and 1 tied with the best, well, I'm going to assume tied with the best start ever because I looked up only the 16 Warriors. 86 Celtics won 69 games, I think.

And then there was like one of the Lakers teams in the early 70s won like 70 or something. It doesn't matter. They're going 77 and 5. They are on pace for 78. seven wins, Matt. I want to say this with just the utmost respect. When you go to bed tonight, pray for your children, pray for world peace, pray for good health. Except for Thunder players.

Torn ACL, shoulder separation. I don't know. Achilles. This is terrible. Do not pray for any of those people to rip their attendants. I'm not asking for them to be hurt. been pain. Not hurt. They get killed, ripping your Achilles hurts.

Last night I checked. But they can still walk and do their thing. Have surgery. Have a full recovery? All right. Let's see. 86 Celtics only won 67 games actually. 72 wins for the 96 Bulls. 73 wins for the 16 Warriors. 72 Lakers won 69. As did the 97 Bulls. Damn, they won 72 and 69 games at back-to-back years. And now they're, and they're going to, they're going to Vegas.

People in Oklahoma City don't want to go to Vegas. Oh, by the way, the Thunder's 68 wins last year are in the top 10 of all wins all time. And they're even better. Stop it. Rockets tonight, gets the clips. Let's go. How are we feeling? 11 point favorites.

I told you they can win by at least 10. I'm sorry, 9.5. Yeah. Give up those points. Okay. James will James Hardin will go The free throw line

73 times How many tribute videos Has it gotten Oh no Zero tributes Okay Because last time There was a Jalen green

And a Dylan Brooks That was very nice Dillon's was done During the opening lineups I know He got a little emotional I got a little Forcome myself

You did He's here for two years Doesn't mean we didn't bro Okay We bonded I mean he was nice He didn't know my name But I mean

Come on He's a role player He was here for two years Hey Best three-point shooter In the team last year What did I say that was wrong. He was a role player that was here

for two years. Gritty, gutty. Love him. Okay. Now he's in Phoenix. I mean, I'm wishing him the best. Shooting contested 18 footers. They're missing. Yeah, he was very nice to us. Good dude, I think got a bad rap because he is an enforcer on the floor, but seems like a pretty good guy off of it. I'm wishing him the best. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-1. I'm handling today's edition of Believe it or not. It is all things about the number 17.

Are that, Rossi? Why not 6-7? Because I hate 6-7. People stop sending me text and photos of old men doing 6-7s. Not good. So we're doing it because Daniel Jones, War No. 17 for the Colts and Philip Rivers

got back with the Colts yesterday in War 17. He said, I asked, he said, that's cool. Take the number. Yeah, it's great. So we will be doing all things about 17 coming up today at 150. You've got the Rotten 5 in 25 minutes. That is the second...

That is the second direct verbal cue for you to do. Actually, I got a locked and loaded. That's a lie. You hear me, folks. You think I'll lie a lot. Let's get to these calls. Let's talk to

Brent in Beaumont on the Matt Thomas show. Ross Brent, thank you for waiting a good afternoon. Hey, man. How's going on? Oh, man, I'm excited for the game or night. I just got on the room, so I didn't hear.

Are Alpi and Mr. Smith back on the floor tonight, or are they still out? No, Jabari has always been playing. Stephen Adams is healthy, and Alper and Changooner is healthy, so they're all, it should be a full go tonight. You're right, I'll apologize. I met Stephen Adam. And, man, we needed those two big bodies there for the Maver's game. It hurt when Thompson got his fourth out on the third.

quarter when they were just gunning and he just heard so much when they took his defense off the floor we couldn't make any baskets uh and i'm just excited to have the big boys back on the floor um i went to a game with the sons of the sun's game and i think i was sitting at the sports table perhaps next to your boss is do you have a is the PR manager your boss no a nice lady i forget her name Tracy tell me i asked her yeah i didn't didn't ask her direct, well, I asked you, she wouldn't, she wouldn't tell me. She wouldn't talk to you? No, no, no, she wouldn't tell me if she was your boss.

Oh, no, no, I have another supervisor there. Trace and I were very close with each other. I mean, I couldn't do my job, if not for her help, for sure. Well, she was a very nice lady, and Mr. Jeff Green was very friendly. Very friendly with her, and I took my mom to the game, and once Tracy shot him down, He kind of turned on my mom I had to get up there and show some elbows Get Jeff to get off my mom

I don't know what the deal is with that But I'm excited You watch the boys tonight I love it when everybody's healthy I hate it when we're missing people Because it just feels like I got the it's going to feel like Somebody's going to go off sick again And we're going to lose some games

So I'm excited for everybody tonight Let's go All right thank you Brent I didn't realize Let's go Rockets I didn't really, Jeff's mom and, Jeff and Brent's mom, we're so tight. Wow. That's cool.

You never know when love can pop up in an arena. Love. Our admiration. Okay. I mean, Pat Beverly, he went right after Mrs. Thomas. It happens. It's uncomfortable.

I put it off well. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Let's talk to Roger. Yes. Hello, Roger. Hello, Matt. Hello, Ross.

Hi. Jonathan. Oh, look at Jonathan getting the shout. What's up? Anywho, so I was getting some news flashes on my phone, talking about the match are close to getting Christian Walker. Is that a fake news flash or what? And I can't believe that.

Where did you read? What was the source? I don't know. NDA Daily or some crap like that. I don't know. I mean, NLB Daily, something like that. I have not heard that personally. Yeah, I've heard a couple of them.

But I think, you know, my phone's cluttered with a bunch of crap. So I'm not going to believe that. Anyway, how close are we moving with Mr. Myers? I hear him all kinds of trade rumors of him and him and Parades now. Why is Parade is going to get moved? That's kind of crazy. I mean, Roger, we're just, Roger, this is just for us talking in a crowded infield.

That's a problem. There's too many people in the infield. And Christian Walker can't get moved. Then Isak Perid is going to be the odd man out. And I know that what Dana Brown has said of moving guys around and Joel Spoutis are the same thing. but that seems like that's just not going to be a feasible idea there. Okay, I think I got to the root of this. Bob Nightingale made a prediction the Mets would go for Cody Bellinger,

but then wind up trading for Christian Walker. It's basically like a prediction article. And what happens when something like that happens is all the aggregators run with that and say Astros predicted to trade Christian Walker to Mets. Sources close to it. It's not really a source. So it's not necessarily a news item. Bob Nightingale isn't saying that this is going to happen.

Obviously, he's pretty well in the know. And it could happen, but there you go. It was from a prediction article of Bob Nightingale. And I would encourage everybody to dig a little bit deeper when you hear something from some unreliable source that you're not sure. What did he say? Sports Daily or what? I never heard of that. No, there's 9 million sports websites.

I unfortunately is running with these things. This website heavy, I found it there. I don't even know what that is, really. Yahoo's been doing that Sports Illustrate has been doing that You understand I got news for y'all This is no breaking news

There's like 20 people That are legitimate sports journalists out there The rest are either aggregators Or people that convince sports teams They should cover teams Because they've got a YouTube page They're not legit media We have a problem in Houston

We have too many people that think they're media They're not media And that's happening on the national side too Pay your dues If you don't have a boss, you're not media. Think about that. That's a simple way to do it. If you have no one to answer to

for your citing of facts, stories, reputation, articles, you don't, you're not media. And I'm not even claiming credit for that. Okay. I didn't think you could come up with that. That's right. I didn't. But when that person told me,

that's how you define working for a legitimate media source. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I'm sorry, but, you know, Bulldog.com is a Georgia Bulldog website. They're not legitimate media. They're a fanboy website that just brings out. That's the problem of the sports teams because they know they're going to get favorable media, generally speaking. And this is part of the problem is that you have sports teams that will credential these people because I know they're going to, they're going to carry their water for them. And look, yeah, this is all three teams in our town are guilty.

of it and it's tough I don't like it but everybody's trying to find their own little media windows to get positive coverage because generally speaking media is negative yeah and I will just say yes people are sending us links like yeah

Bob Nightingale's doing a prediction article look USA Day Today comes and say hey Bob we need some clicks let's go ahead and make some predictions do this whatever like bold you know people do my bold predictions for this and then the aggregate was a run for it and be like oh this is predicted to happen boom give me clicks now and then you're just feeding off the clicks off of bob nightingale and then it just the bleep rolls downhill yep all right so that's not news yeah we got to the rotten five coming at 20 minutes we have something really good to talk about

right now ross 1237 p.m. here on sports talk 790 back here on the matt thomas show with ross We've got the Rodin 5 coming up. In a few minutes. I've promoted it twice. Three times, actually. Well, I've been getting distracted.

We've got our St. Jude Radiothon, and we have some great folks that bring us food. Shout out to, I want to get the name correct. Willys. Willys. Ice house. Grill. They put a seasoning on these fries that are unbelievable. Willie's grill and ice house.

Yeah. And the grill. So I wanted to make sure I got it right. Shout out to Willie's Grill and Ice House for helping us out. We've got a lot of volunteers up here. We've got the St. Jude Radio Thawn going on. If you haven't heard, text kids to 6-2-6-2-6-2 to become a partner in hope. I've been distracted, Matt.

Okay? There's all this delicious food up here. I'm sorry. By the way. You're still going to bring you a great rodent five. Not that you should be surprised. But TMZ is actively working this story about the Sharon Moore on the Michigan side of this. Oh, TMZ is all over it.

Oh, that's exactly who you need to roll their sleeves. is up on this one. TMZ Sports. What do we got? We have dispatched to audio stemming from the alleged Sharon Morissault. Oh, dear. Yeah. I've not heard it. We'll not play it.

But you know their mouth waters when a story like this comes down. You don't want to hear people at their lowest moments. If I was being recorded at my lowest moments, and that'd be good. My lowest moment was yesterday at 10 o'clock. started the show. No, we actually had a good show yesterday. We have a good show today so far.

It's been moving quickly. It's been a great week of show. It's been a great week of shows. Yeah, we've actually, I think we've done okay. Entertaining, informative. Tomorrow. We got E. Mae Adoka tomorrow on the show. The head coach.

We couldn't get them today? We don't have one game to talk about. A lot. A lot to break down. Like what? Oh, I know. Ooh. Mm-hmm.

What? Do you know why folks he won an E-May today? Why? Because it's a wonderful, beautiful Thursday? in the neighborhood? Turn your microphone on. Turn your earphones down. You don't want to eat some potato

while you talk to mess about me. Because he wanted to have it to carry 80% of his pregame show today. It's 100% true. It's 100% true. Jonathan, tell him it's 100% true. He wanted a 12 minute. Yeah, you are.

You're as part of this show. You are involved in this. Whether you want to or not. I usually only run about six minutes. I would say, it's more like 75% he uses it for. Yeah. Right. I usually run about six minutes.

Usually your questions, though. Oh, yeah. I always cut your questions right out. Actually, I cut your questions out and re-record them as if they're mine. That's blasphemy. That's smart. I mean, I would do the exact same thing. I'm kidding.

Thanks to all you loyal launch pad listeners out there. It's very successful. We've seen it already. It's very good. It's massive. It is very good. All right, 713-212-5-7-9 if you want to chime in. Yeah, when I saw TMZ,

show up like, oh, this is, they're going to go, they'll be all over this. You know what TMZ does? They pay for it. Yes. They basically have a war chest and say, let's go get the money because we're going to be able to justify it with clicks and their TV show and all the other things they're so sick and so. Yeah. That's why to send all these paparazzi out harassing folks. I've seen paparazzi. I've seen them hang out. Literally it was TMZ at LAX one time. Yeah, they do. I think, I think they, what they do is they basically pay people to just stand by in case a celebrity. pops up because most people most celebrities even though they can probably afford private charter

a lot of celebrities will fly commercial aircraft yeah but it's always it's crazy i mean do they have like an app to recognize these celebrities you know sometimes you go like when you're walking around la or i don't know wherever and you're like is that guy is that famous who's that guy it looked kind of vaguely famous but you're not sure right happens me all the time that happened to the TMZ people i'm sure they get fooled a lot they got somebody in the inside get on flight logs or something? That happens at the local level. I won't mention names.

I'm waiting for the rhyme. Matt, folks, you can't see him right now. This is radio. He is having an internal struggle right now. Do I say? I already know what you're going to say. That I won't say it then. I'll let you all figure it out.

But somebody was tipping off people. They're retired. Yeah. But that was, that person, it's not, no, no, it's not John McLean. He loves me now. You guys are text buddies though. Yeah, he's up to, yeah, he texts in all the time. You guys are hacked buddies.

Yeah. By the way, did you get Google Authenticator? No, it doesn't offer me that option. What do you mean does an offer? No, you have to opt in. It's not going to offer it to you. Will you help me tomorrow before you, it's your last gift. It's your Christmas gift to me.

Fine. I won't see you until after Christmas. I got you a Christmas present. You did not. Yeah, here. thanks whatever that's whatever's inside there okay back to my LA story I'm sorry go ahead so TMZ will pay people to to give them the audio that they you didn't get this for me kind of stuff uh-huh and they'll cut them huge checks yes and I guess it you know I've never

figured out a way how they monetize off of it but they do Viewers for their TV show, website hits, that kind of thing. I mean, it all works out that way. They've become the go-to source. I mean, they are the number one media tabloid. Yeah, I don't, I have not looked at TMZ's website in God knows how long. But if I ever need to get to it, you know, the four-you tab always shows me TMZ. I think I've ended up on, for like, sports stuff.

Yeah. TMZ sports. I've known if I've ever been on TMZ proper. I'll just make this very small gut feeling, and this is really not going on a limb at all. I think this is going to get even seedier than I'm. it already has just the last 24. I think there's more layers to the stinking onion. I believe there are multiple women. Oh, really? This is a gut feeling or what? Yeah. Or did you see some whispers on the interwebs. Well, I did see there were people that

noticed that apparently he had been DMing quite a few people on the Instagram. Oh, Sharon! Mr. Moore! Come on, man! I just don't get it. she the wife is beautiful three children young family maybe he's unhappy but if you're unhappy get a divorce six almost six million dollars a year in salary you're coaching one of the dream jobs in college football see that's all it tells you all money and success can't buy happiness

and jonathan it remains undefeated well that too how did how did mom was like this I feel so young. How did God create our minds like this? Right? He would throw all that away for that. It's the devil. The devil's tempting you. You got devil on your left arm and you're off shoulder and you got the angel on the right. You got a turn to your right. You get your brain on one shoulder and you got something else on the other. I guess that's true. Sometimes the little guy wins

A lot of times Yeah, but poor wife Poor young family I mean, my God Because they're going to be affected by this It's heartbreaking, yeah Because he's fired for cause Which means they don't pay out that contract

There's only been cheating As long as there's been marriage I mean They should put it to school too You should put that on a T-shirt I should make that up I think you did That's pretty good

It is good You're going to write that down I don't think Those t-shirts are going to sell like hotcakes though i don't think they are certainly not with one group no no no all right hey uh it takes absolutely no ability whatsoever to tell you the five best teams are in the NFL uh yeah ross is going to hurry and tell you who the five worst are although it's not that difficult i mean right i haven't think it can't be that difficult 713 212 5 790 if you want to chime in 713 212 5 790 we have the rotten

5 up next believe or not today is all things about the number 17 and uh we're still waiting for the to do something of massive interest during this off season. We'll get... They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's rotten five.

This don't smell quite right. This is going to be a newsy. Y'all want to need to record this. Or go back and listen to it later on the podcast. It's going to be some gold right here. Oops, excuse me. There's a hiccup. You okay?

Thanks, Willys. Time now for the five worst teams. All right, 100%. I know. Let's get to the five worst teams in the NFL. We present to you, Ross's Rotten Five. Yes, sir. Now I know the New Orleans Saints are coming off of a win

against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but they still are just three and ten on the season. I mean, if I told you, Tyler Shuck led the New Orleans Saints in passing, and Devin Neil, led the Norland Saints and rushing, you would be like, what the heck is going on? What year is this? Where am I?

Well, Tyler Shuck had a couple of rushing touchdowns. He also threw for a pick and only threw for 145 yards. But Devin'Neil also rushed for a touchdown. Saints were able to get the win. They're now 3 and 10. Quite frankly, I could have moved them out of the Rod and 5, but they're still the number five worst team in the NFL because of this. Believe it, yeah, God's like the head up the crawfish there.

Yeah, I mean, come on. I got to play that every single week. All right, let's move on down the list to the first. the New York football giants. My goodness, are they awful? Seven games in a row they have lost now. The latest coming, 33 to 15 to the New England Patriots. Giants have been terrible.

Jackson Dart still flying all over the place, taking too many hits. They've got a mess at wide receiver since Malik Neighbors went down. Rushing game is no good. And that defense, which was once heralded, is giving up too many yards and too many touchdowns. They are terrible. They've only got two wins on the season. The New York football Giants are the fourth worst team in the NFL. You lose.

Good day, sir. All right, look at this. We got a surprise at number three. The Tennessee Titans, yes. They won their second game, so we got to bump them up, at least temporarily on the list. Now, sure, they beat the Cleveland Browns, who will appear later on this list,

31 to 29. But Cam Ward, actually. wasn't completely awful. He threw for a couple of touchdowns. Tony Pollard had a huge day. He had 161 on the ground, especially against that Cleveland Brown's defense, which had been pretty good. Certainly the best win of

the season for the Titans because the other one was that one where they got lucky against the Arizona Cardinals. So you know what? Only the third worst team in the NFL? Congratulations, Tennessee Titans. I mean, we're keeping a bulk right now, we ass. Yeah, you're ass, but you're less ass after a win, so congratulations on that. All right, Cleveland Browns, ooh.

Shudor Sanders, they have won, excuse me, lost five of their last six games, even though Shador did throw for over 350 yards and three touchdowns. It was not enough. Also led the team in rushing as Quinshawn Judkins didn't do them much, but the Cleveland Browns just continued to be a bad team. They've only won three games all season long, and if you lose to the Tennessee Titans,

you deserve to be down on this list. You deserve to be the second worst team in the NFL. You are a victory of sadness. And down to the worst team now in the NFL. They are just two and 11. They have now lost seven games in a row. The latest coming against the Denver Broncos. Ashton Genty continues to be awful.

He only had 30 rushing yards. Gino Smith is one of the worst quarterbacks in football. Pete Carroll needs to be wheeled out of the stadium and into the old folks' homes because the Las Vegas Raiders, are bad. They are the absolute worst team in the NFL. This sucks more than anything that I've ever sucked before. And now they've got the Eagles and Texans in the next two weeks. Things are going to get worse for the old Raiders.

So you're telling me two of the five worst teams in the NFL the Texas are playing in the future weeks? Who did I mention? You didn't bring up Arizona, did you? No. Why? Arizona's on the bottom five? They're close. A lot of bad teams, Maddick.

Oh. All right. I like it. They were up for consideration. They were an honorable mention. Rotten 5. Okay. Let's go back on the phones before we get to the top of the hour.

By the way, all things about the number 17 coming up today on, believe it or not, because we are honoring Philip Rivers, deciding that he's going to take Daniel Jones number 17 away from him from the Colts. Which means we should not anticipate Daniel Jones ever playing for the Colts, at least the rest of this season, maybe forever. Let's talk to Astana before the top of the hour. Stana, what do you got to? Hey, what's up, man? How are y'all doing today? Amazing. I think that Michigan coach Moore, man, I think it was a big set up, man.

They wanted him out. And, you know, it's just one of them things. Like, once the snowball, it just rolled down here. But they might have saw a red flag, but, oh, man. How was he set up? Did the school make him a first. fornicate with a woman that wasn't his wife? First of all,

they put in this young hot chick right with him. Well, you're right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You guys are going off the rails here. Whether she's hot or not is not important to the story. I mean, I've seen, I've seen.

I mean, come on. There'd be sometimes you'd be like, you know what, I get it. I've seen Texas 6 being described with her, but that's a different issue for a different time. Hey, man. If you ask you doke, that same question. Hey, I don't want her working with me. I don't want her working with me right now. It's not happening.

So you think the, do you think the, uh, the university sent her after him to seduce and destroy? Yes. Wow. Hey, you know, they all quick as down for them. because they can be wanting to get you before anybody else and that's what I'm saying you stay away from

if she wasn't put in that spot he wouldn't be in that spot all right and now it's like a boy I let you go it's like a version of Arlington Road if you ever seen that movie Arlington Road

he's the greatest teacher yeah he's the greatest teacher but once they started finding little quirks about him everybody in the country started saying hey he was doing this he was doing that I was worried about him now it's just all rolling down

if you ever watch that movie Allerton Road with Bo Bridges you'll see what I'm talking about Is that on Netflix? Yeah I'll put it in my queue Thank you Thank you Sutter Stutt always prevents it

He was set up He was set up I mean now I think he was set up I think if they beat Ohio State there in the playoff. This might not have come to light. I will buy that. You really think so?

Oh, you think things don't get buried with success? Covered up, brushed under the rug, swept aside? Absolutely. What if he'd have beaten Texas in a few weeks? The Cheez-It Bowl? I don't think that's going to save you. I don't know. Semi-final?

Yes. Cheese-a-ball. What a mess. And by the way, dude, we're not going to do. describe what she looks like i can hey this is this jeff bridges this is this bo bridges or this jeff bridges not bo bridges and tin

robins oh joan cusack this is a good cut this is a good cast uh arlington road 1999 hmm not on my to do list 62% certified fresh you squint in your nose of that

that's not good enough for you 74% popcorn meter that's the fan vote that's more important to us the real people No, I'd rather, though. All right. People are unreliable. It is 1 o'clock on Sports Talk 790.

We take some more your phone calls on the final hour of the show about really anything about him not being set up. I think it would be the fair thing to say on that. What else we got going on? We're still waiting for our Astros big mover. And what else we got waiting? Oh, Texans Cardinals.

Were you concerned about the injury list? We'll discuss that all coming up. Last hour of the Matt Thomas Show at Raw. 713-212-5-790. is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. He'll turn back very quickly. We almost had a terrible catastrophe of a spam call.

Ross got a spam call from a roofing company, and I was going to tell what address I lived on? Yes. And they want up getting your mom's address. Yeah. How do they do that? Don't call me for roofing. That sucks.

I was going to be, I had a great address where you live. I know. Well, you, Matt confirmed the address. He likes some mess with spam callers. So I was trying to give you a treat because I know you like to do it. I do. This is what I get from being nice. Ah, our well.

Please don't show up to my mother's house, Mr. Roofer. Mr. Roofer. Like, aha, I called you about the inspection. Yeah. What time can you be there? Why am I getting calls about my mom's house? Because she's ridiculous. You're probably in your name's unprofit of the house somewhere.

Oh, I hope so. I don't think so. All right. Let's get to the headlines of the day. Yeah, sure, why not. Rockets are back in action against the Los Angeles Clippers. Looking forward to having that call for you tonight here on Sports Talk 790. Also, the injury report from yesterday will be updated here in the next couple of hours,

but it's worthy of mentioning that yesterday, it was a rather lengthy list. Would that be fair to say? Yes. Here it is. This is Wednesday. Again, Wednesday doesn't mean everything. Al-Ziz Al-Sharear did not practice. Denico Autry did not practice

Trent Brown and Nick Chubb Comari Lasseter Woody Marks Sheldon Rankins So your two main running backs did not practice yesterday Now things that obviously changed today

We'll obviously We'll get an update from our Texans reporter Adam Wexer here coming up a little while But you know I don't know Thank God it's Arizona And thank God it's Las Vegas week after that That's all I got to say

Just show up Defense shows up Don't score a lot 10 point dogs can win Yeah Maybe it's a stay away if you want to spend If you're going to spend some Stay away from this game

I'd stay away from the line You haven't hit the money I got the Texans on the money line It's my lock at a week It's a recorder learn I got the information You can do the stock market You can make my picks

And make some money I'm Joey Esposito But yeah I mean You know Jacoby Percett is 5 in one Lifetime against the Texans That sounds honestly low He lost

How did that happen? I think Cal probably has nightmares of Jacoby Brissette throwing passes to T.Y. Hilton. Probably he's... How many different franchises has he beaten the Texans with? He beat him with the Patriots. Is that out there at the Colts? Colts 2, right?

Gotta be at least. I mean, think about teams he's played for and, you know... Well, you know, he's been floating around. We could... You know what? Tomorrow will be Jacoby Perse. Believe it or not.

Oh, hell yeah, it will be. Sure, why not? That's good. We've already got the idea. Jonathan write that now because we're also forget it. Jacoby Preset, believe it or not, tomorrow on the Friday show. Is it the dolphins or the Browns that he beat the Texans? Commanders?

No. He's back with the Patriots last year and then with the Cardinals this year. I'll have to look that up. He's carved out a nice NFL career. Yeah, he's going to the backup Hall of Fame. How big is that backup Hall of Fame? We've already gone through this before. I don't say Gary Kubiak?

Josh McCann. Now, Gary Kupiak, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But Gary Kupiak's claim to fame was he never did play. Yeah, but he was a backup for like a decade, right? But I mean, don't you want to be a backup that plays to get in the backup Hall of Fame? John Elway was in front of you, John Elway didn't get hurt very much during his NFL career. So maybe it isn't worthy of a Hall of Fame status that you didn't have to actually compete to earn your salary. Yeah, that's actually put you in the elite ring.

He made all that money. I got one for you. Who was that dude named Sorgy that used to back up... Jim Sorgy? That used to back up Peyton Manning? Yeah, Jim Sorci, he never played? He never played. Let's see, 10 years in the league...

Oh, no, I'm sorry, this is the coaching. Sorry, where's this player, right? Give me this, give me Gary KubiX player. I want to get... Can I guess how many yards he threw for? Yes. You tell me how many years he's played? Okay, from 83 to 91.

That's nine years. 4,000 yards 1920 so he played he threw 5 TVs in 88 in his 9 year NFL career he threw for 1,900 yards did he even put the uniform on any percent of the time

he only started 5 games ever yeah he only started 5 games ever I put Cody Carlson the Hall of Fame now he did back up Warren Moon and did start a couple of games when Warren sucked. Wasn't he supposed to start? Yeah. He did start and then he got hurt and then

Warren came in and took over. Warren had some bad years. He made the Hall of Fame and all that, but they got dicey. There were some ugly times on and off the field for Warren here in Houston. Don't forget about that. So Cody gets his opportunity. He gets hurt. Warren comes back in and never takes and never relinquishes

the job. Hell, even Bucky Richardson played more than it felt like the Cody Carlson did. Bucky played it for a year when the Oilers sucked. You went 10 and 4 with the Oilers in 93 and threw 21 touchdowns and 21 picks. That's very mid.

That defense was ferocious. Ray Childeris and William Fuller and Lamar Lathen, Dwighton, Dwighton, Neil, Sean Jones, Chris Dishman, Bobham, McDowell. Was it like eight pro bowlers they had or something like that? Don't get me started.

I loved, Rossi, as a young, Marcus Allen. was a young sports broadcaster and an older's fan i was living my best life until that buffalo game i thought you can say until that kansas city game no buffalo hurt because the buffalo game they weren't it was a worst loss but the team wasn't supposed to win at all they were at five touchdowns yeah they weren't supposed to there that was not i don't care if you're supposed to win anything when you're up five touchdowns you're supposed to win the game but wasn't the 93 team taught of like, hey, they could win it all.

Yeah. They got a buy. We don't get buys in Houston for anything. No. We didn't play the 3.30 Saturday game back when the owners were going 12 and 4. Sorry, Matt. They lost. Now they're gone. Now they're in Tennessee.

They're like, well, if you don't build the stadium, we're going to move. Warren Moon's handing his number one jersey to Cam Ward. We're going to move the team to Jacksonville. They eventually moved into Nashville, or Memphis first. Amy Kirk Strunk. Let's move on. Something more positive.

Okay. We'll take a break. We can't. You know what? I'm going to do something positive. We told you really quickly yesterday about how Treyman was mad about the NIL deal and how you didn't get you. Well, coming to find out, the player didn't know the money was from him. him. There was no possible way to thank him

that person because there was no record of connecting money to send player directly. So that came out today. Did he cut the check for the specific person, player? How does this work? I don't know how any of this works. The player in question did not know who funded his NIL deal, only that it was coming from the team's collective.

So they went to the collective to get the money. Yeah. It's called the Men of Westwood. The Men of Westwood? Yes. That's hoity tooty for paying athletes. Yes, we all the men of Westwood. We're going to fund this Cropy football program. We are the cougars den and we'll be

holding your cash for you to come play at the University of Houston. So we can go on 9 and 3 and 8 and 4. Usually we would die for 8, 9 and 3, 8 and 4. Well, there you go. Good luck. By the way, they're going up there. I thought 8 and 4 get you fired at U of H. Somebody once said.

Well, that was a stupid thing to say. Because 8 and 4, I'll cherish 8 and 4. Wasn't it the president that said that? That was four coaches ago, too. Major Abboy is still in front of the show. Yes. I love Major. I literally love Major.

Speaking of improper relationship. What? He did. Stop segwaying. I'm not segwang, but he had his own issues too. And he was able to bounce back from that. Yes. Where does he know?

South Alabama, I want to say. What? Oh, yeah. He's the head coach there? Yeah. How'd they do? I don't think they're both eligible. They went 4 and 8 this year.

They won the salute to Veterans Bowl last year, went 7 and 6. So when did he, when did Major Applewhite play at South Alabama? A mascot is? Jaguars. Look at this guy. I've done a basketball game there, so I, it was kind of cheating a little bit. How much did you have H won by? No, it was HBO.

Okay, how much did... Oh, that could have been tight. I think that South Alabama won the game. But that's on the here nor there. Mobile, a lovely place. Oh, okay. Really nice, small town. I'm going to pass.

The original home of the Mardi Gras. That's true. A lot of people don't know that. There was a New Orleanian who got very upset with me for saying that. And then they looked it up and I was right. Was it Schmish morning? No. Oh, Barber B's?

No comment. Okay. So when did major play at Texas? 99 to 03-ish? So I was in my late 20s. Um, but when, those are the don't know. 98 to 01. Okay.

So, sorry. I should have done. Mid to late 20s. When you followed Texas football, whether you were a fan or not, you couldn't love just him. No, excuse me. You couldn't love Chris Sims and Major Applewhite. You were one of the other. Yes.

And it felt like, about 80, 20. It felt many more team Applewhite than they were Tim. There were Chris Sims truthers because he actually wasn't. that bad. Well, here's the thing. He was such a highly recruited guy that you got the number one quarterback in the country who was living in Rutgers, New Jersey, while his dad was playing for the Giants, or at least was finishing up his career, that came to Austin, Texas, play football. Yeah, there was a number of factors in play. First of all, everyone loves the backup. Everyone loves an underdog story. When you got the six foot five cannon for an arm,

son of a quarterback, son of an NFL quarterback, and then the other guy is a three, two or three-star recruit from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, five-foot-11, looks like he walked off the training staff, floppy curly red hair. It was like he was a sitcom guy. Yeah, that's a great, great underdog story. Like, man, look at this guy.

He's played with heart. So fast forward to beyond his playing career, Tom Herman gets the job as the head football coach at the University of Houston, and it's a big pop and circumstance because Tom Herman was the offensive coordinator at Ohio State who won the national championship. and he's like, yeah, I'm here,

and I'm bringing my offensive coordinator, and you may know him as Major Applewhite. I'm like, Major freaking Applewhite? I was, I fanboyed. I was like, I don't know you, Tom Herman very well, but I know Major Applewhite. And he was really good and helped the Cougars go on to the Peach Bowl and all that kind of good stuff and won all those games.

And then Tom left and the administration University of Houston said, you know what, we'll stay here with Major. and we wish you nothing but the very best and if you don't win 10 games you're going to be gone pretty quick and he was gone pretty quick but love getting to know him very very

sly sense of humor he and I appreciated the same team we were big fans of Ozark so we would text back and forth to talk about the various Ozark episodes I've always wished him the very best seemed like a good enough guy

I don't know if he carried himself as to being a head coach in a major program because again it takes us a different kind of demeanor. And obviously, his relationship with Ed Oliver did not end the way that it probably should have ended. It is what it is. But he's been able to recuperate,

recoup his career, and now he's coaching at South Alabama. Well, they're four and eight. Hopefully he can turn things around there. But he was a program, he was an assistant in Alabama for a short period of time. I believe he was the O.C. at Alabama. Yeah. Did he ever go back to Texas in a coaching role at He was a GA there, yeah.

Okay. When he first came back, but I don't think he went, that's where he started his coaching. But I guarantee you, if Major Applewhite walks around at a bar in Austin, I bet he still is very much recognized and beloved. Hey, he's getting a drink from me, whatever he wants. Whatever that be ginger ale or something else. Well, nothing super top shelf, relax major.

The house bringings. Yeah, I'm not getting you 18 year. Like, come on. It's within REITZ. You didn't win a national championship. We're going to cap it at 75 bucks. Now, if Ricky Williams walked in, you'd be buying the heaviest. No, Vince Young.

Vince Young would get you a bottle of whatever you want He wouldn't know where it is He wouldn't be late for whatever it was He'd be late but he'd still drink when he got there That's actually true That's true All right You got that nightclub tussle

You got knocked out at a nightclub? Yeah him and you know I'll tell you what There have been some great players in Texas that lose fights Adrian Peterson loses fights He wasn't he was at Oklahoma Yeah but he was a Texas guy Palestine Palestine

Now you gotta say Palestine Mattie. Yeah, he from Palestine, Texas. It got a strong grip. I had never been scared of an opposing player as a Texas Longhorns fan more than I was scared of Adrian Peterson.

That includes Reggie Bush. I was like, Reggie Bush, whatever. This ain't Fresno State, brother. I wasn't that worried. Adrian Peterson put the fear guided to me. You weren't afraid of Matt Leinert? No. He was good, though. You weren't afraid of Cory Pulloch? Who now? Former A&M quarterback?

Yeah, sure, whatever. Bucky Richardson. I don't know. Dude. Stephen McGee, I didn't like, but I wouldn't scared of him. Ryan Tannihill? Oh, stop. I think I'm done with an M.

Quadrax. Adrian Peterson, I'm stopping. I'm in for that one year. Adrian Peterson was a modern Marvel. He should have won the Heisman the year he was a freshman. He didn't win it because he was a freshman. Do you, Texas were cool to him a little bit or what? Texas, he, Mac Brown brought him to a,

Texas OU game when they lost like 63 to 14. Well, we're going to have a great family atmosphere over here and we're all about love and family. Adrian Peterson is like, I want to win. I don't care about this, this kumbaya, Mac Brown family. Sally's going to make me some cobbler. I want to win. Is that one of those Josh Hypo games for Oklahoma? Yeah, exactly.

So Adrian Peterson saw what happened and he was like, I think I'm going to go to Oklahoma. That's funny. This guy's talking about being my friend and being to my family and getting his ass whooped. I'm going to come here. It's dangerous because let's say that you do want, for instance, I'll give you a small example. University of Houston probably our biggest crowd of the year of the sellout was against Texas Tech. So you want to bring your kids to the game that's got the most.

You lost that game. I don't think it directly relates to it. Maybe 20 years ago, it might have. I'll tell you this. After that Texas, Texas A&M game, Texas landed two big recruits. Like literally that weekend. Coincidence? Probably not.

You want to see results. It's week to week. Do kids really get affected by what they just saw right in front of them? Is an 18-year-old affected by short-term thinking? Are you serious? How about this? I can flip it on the other direction and go, hey, we lost. We need you.

Come here, we're going to win this game next year. You could say that if it's close, but when it's 63 to 14. Well, it's like, for instance, my daughter's volleyball school. Like, I can't help these guys. Rhode Island and not have a good year this year. And I said, Carly, Go up there and win those games for them. Yeah.

That's good. So. Oh, so what's up with the, what are they, in the A-10? They're in the A-10. Okay. What's the Rhode Island volleyball looking like? Yeah, not a great season. I'll put my keyboard now.

You know what? Go Carly. Don't Google. Can you please let me know when a link is posted so I can get like a Carly Thomas hoodie or something? Hey, NIL will be available. That's what I'm saying. Anybody want to NIL with Carly Thomas? We've got to figure out her Jersey number.

I get her about one Frappuccino's worth of NIL money, but it'd be something. Well, get her something. Because if I buy the hoodie, let's say I buy the hood, I just make up a number. $80 hoodie. How much that would go to? Do you have any idea? I would like all 80 to go to young Carly Thomas. So I guess the question would be, do you, would you give the money to the Rhode Island

Collective or would you give it to her directly? I'll Vimmo her. I'll Vimmo you. I don't trust you, actually. You hear that? Doesn't trust me. 128, Sports Talk, 7.9 with a word for up to you can take your agent's fees. finder's fees

I was going to say crazy fee but that'd be really weird let's talk about uptown appliance repair our buddy Pastor Giro Pastor is with the St. Jude's Hospital folks

and Pastor and I made a rodeo to Memphis a couple of years ago and saw it firsthand First of all good afternoon Thanks for having you being a part of this and us getting together for this once a year, which is a great worthwhile event. It's such a pleasure to be here

and to represent St. Judean to get a chance to talk to you guys. And he's a big fan of ours. He'll text us during the course of the show. Well, not me, but that's okay. No, no, he likes you too. He likes me more, but he likes you somewhat as well. That's fine. First of all, phone number is 1-800-88-1433,

and you're looking for Partners in Hope, $19 a month, which is basically, as you guys have been talking about, just a cup of coffee for, you know, a week or so. Let's donate. Let's help some kids out. And the great part of it is when your kids join the St. Jude's program, we're talking about their medical care, their homes, their families, their food. It is so much stress in their life. You're trying to add as little stress as possible here.

That's right. When a child phases cancer, you know, they didn't ask for it. They didn't sign up for it. And from one moment to another, a family's life gets turned upside down. And because of a place like St. Jude, they don't have to worry about treatment, travel, housing, or food. but we can only do that because of listeners like yours, right? Because of folks that say, hey, you know what, I've got $63 a day. I've got $19 a month to be able to share with a family that if it was my family,

I'd love for somebody to be able to come alongside of me and not just give me hope, but help me in a moment of really deep need, right? And so that's what our doctors are doing. Our researchers are putting together the treatment protocols that help these kids in their darkest moment have a chance at life. How many kids do you typically see, and maybe you don't know this for, in a calendar year? How many of you looking at? Yeah, so we have 8,500 active patients, and we do about 250 patients a day.

The hospital's got about 90 beds, and then we've got four housing facilities within about a five-mile radius. And so the patient will come in, take the bus, go into the hospital, get their work done, then go home. Our friends at Domino's built a new village. You saw it, the Domino's Village right across the street. So our patients literally walk through a bridge and get the treatment. that they need and then get to go get to go back to a one two or three bedroom apartment so mom and dad can can have a place to work so you know it disrupts family life right i mean it just it we can't get past that but we're trying to make that low just a little lighter and the

and the best part about this is and and those people that are listening to us right now understand this that if you have a child uh with cancer and you want to be there for them sometimes work doesn't allow that to happen and you guys i got on a temporary basis can help make sure They've got accommodations, food, shelter, so they can be with their children as much as possible. That's right. I mean, we have, it's the small details that makes St. Jude so unique, right? We've got, we got a day in which we celebrate siblings, right? Because, because what, siblings see their other, their brother or sister getting so much attention.

We do a day to celebrate them. In the spring, we do a quick, what's it called, when you have a, at the end of high school. Graduation. We do a prom. We do a prom day. We've got stretch limos. Our child services folks set up a great event. Just ways to lighten the load so that, you know, of course you're getting your treatment throughout the day, but life continues to go on.

Pastor Giro with us here on Sports Talk 790 for our St. Jude Radiothon. Right now, you can text kids to 6262. That's kids to 6262 to become a partner in hope. And I'm very interested in the research angle of it, too, because obviously, you know, it happens and these kids need to be taken care of. But the preventative measures that we, you know, you guys give us these points and talking about St. Jude helping invent treatments that have raised a survival rate for children with cancer where four out of five children can now survive. I mean, that to me is huge as well. Not only are you guys taking care of these kids, but can you just talk more about the research part of this as well? I mean, just imagine back in 1962 when the hospital opened its doors, acute lymphoblastic leukemia was the most common form of child cancer, and it only had a 4% survival rate.

Today is up to 94%. So how do you bridge that gap? You breach it through research. You breach it through treatment. You breach it through figuring out ways that it doesn't just apply to one kid, but how do we make it to where more kids can have this treatment, right? And so we create it, we create the protocol, and we know that every kid can't come to St. Jude. Jude, so what do we do? We share that protocol locally so that a child that walks into whatever hospital it is at the local level can have a chance to have a St. Jude protocol, San Jude treatment. Yeah, so those of these donations are helping the children and they're helping try to eliminate this. That's right.

I mean, so when we talk about research, we're trying to figure out whether it's a tumor, whether it's through your blood, whether it's a cancer within your bones, whatever it may be, we're trying to move that percentage up, whether it starts at 20%, 60%. You want to move it up so that you can have that aspect of it shared. Rossi, I was in the research building. It's not very sexy, but you go into these rooms. You want a sexy research building? Well, no, but what you do want is you go in these rooms and there's walls of modules and calculations. Right. I mean, it's really what you would think it would be. It's a true multi-level laboratory.

That actually was the low-key, to me, most impressive thing is that you had people working 40, 50 hours a week that are just trying to figure out a cure. And some of our doctors are on both sides of the hall, right? you're going to do the research and then you can walk across and do that research, do that treatment, do what you're finding out with that patient, right? Because not every, we're seeing the most difficult cases. We've got clinical trials happening, right? And so we want to be sure that our doctors and our researchers have the funds, the ability to do the work that takes months and years to get done and be able to apply

it to the next patient. Have, I know Marlowe Thomas is still involved. I see the commercials all the time. Have you ever met her before? I met her once briefly She was sweet You got no stories That was my first

Five-year-old crush Honestly Because I used to watch old shows That girl on TBS when I was a kid And she had this Wavy 1968 hair And she was I mean she was a crush

But her and her dad Obviously if not for them There is no St. Jude Children's Hospital That's right That's right Jennifer Aniston She was Rachel in France This Marla was her mom in France And so

Yeah absolutely I mean, you know, Danny Thomas, I'll give you the story. Danny Thomas was a struggling entertainer. He wanted to have a career in acting. It wasn't going very well, right? He made a promise to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, said, if you'll show me my way in life, I'll build you a shrine. He got a call to be a singing toothbrush on the radio, a commercial, okay?

That's how I got my start too, ironically enough. I thought you were the singing toilet brush. You guys have got places. He went places, and he came. kept this promise. He built his shrine. He built this hospital. And now since 1962, families haven't had to worry about a bill when their kid is sick. It's just so awesome. Again, I would invite any of you that are in Memphis to go visit and take a tour. I don't you allow the public to do that, right? Absolutely. Unbelievable, mind-blowing, changing, and it just gives you a deep appreciation.

Look, we're a world of tech. So let's give that number out one more time. It is kids to the number 62622. Right now, by the way, in this hour only, you only have about 18 more minutes. If you do become a partner in hope, you'll also be entered in a drawing to win a four pack of tickets to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. So you're going to help out. You're going to get the shirt. You're going to get the hoodie. And you're going to be entered to win the four pack of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets when you text kids to 6-2-6-262. Could have said it better myself. Pastor, it's so good hanging out with you again.

We wish you to have the very best. You were hanging out with us tomorrow, too, correct? Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Thank you guys. So please, please. Become a partner in hope.

Did you say, what, 60 something? 603 cents a day. 63 cents a day, Rossi. That's it. That's it. Let's help some kids out. Text 626262 kids, K-I-D-S to 6-2-6-2-6-2. Thank you, Pastor for coming by.

All right. Up next, let's play believe it or not. Pastor Giro. That's my right. That's my wrestling name. I'll be wearing a French mask. I thought there was your hotel alias. Ooh, that's not a bad idea.

I'm not going to Memphis, though. But if I can drop your name in Memphis? I thought it was Rogilio Armenteros. Uh-uh. All right, believe it or not, the number 17, Philip Rivers is wearing it again after Daniel Jones gave his blessing.

How well do you know the number 17? It's up next, believe it or not, 713, 212-5-790. All right, if you want to play, believe it or not, let's get those phones going at 7-1-3-2-5-790, 713-212-5-790 if you want to call we're playing for the 90s tribute concert I mean I mean that's good that's wide ranger we talk in 90s R&B we're talking 90s 90s uh let me tell what it is it's 90s 90s dance with Ezra rayhart 90s

and Christmas riffs oh hmm so a little more I carry members of sugar ray are going to be there tonic and better than Ezra performing their biggest hits along with their what yeah Oh, so it's a conglomerate of other bands. Yes. They're doing a tribute to their own songs plus Christmas songs. Like I saw the other day with the Motown family Christmas. They're going to sing some of their old hits and add some Christmas tunes in there. Okay.

And they're all like the grandsons of the actual hitmakers. You don't know that. Yeah. By the way, do you see who's coming to Cynthia Woods this summer? Martha and the Vandales. No. Toto. Okay.

The Romantics And Chris Cross Okay Toto had Africa Rosanna Hold the line That's three That's all I need

Georgie Porgy Porgy pudding pie Okay Chris Cross will be there Half hour Oh Chris Cross sucks Arthur's theme Yeah

Think of Laura I want to claw my eyes out No that's not one of his That was his first album I believe No it's not in at all No All right Shoot me in the ear with a glue gun

I believe No Was his follow up no so i will be busy i will not be doing astros that night because i will be drinking long expensive margaritas at uh cynthia woods and romantics talking your sleep what what day is it it's like in july it'll be i'll be i'll be in july and you're not going oh i've been before as long as i'm uncovered yeah you can be sweating your your head off no if i'm in the covered seats i'm fine okay all right so we're worried about you you don't like the elements here's what i'm

worried about. We announced the prize today and people drop like flies. You don't want to go see better Ezra Ray Hart's 90s. We've got to read those bands. Who else? Sugar Ray. Better Nasra. Sugar Ray and Tonic will be there playing their biggest hits along with festive holiday favorites. Smart Financial. Every morning there's a whatever something. Sugar Ray. Yeah, they got some hits. I don't think you're helping.

I'm trying. Hello! there hello five minutes let the go on the show what should we do we should we we're going to try to play that phone number out again mattie seven one three uh-huh one two five seven ninety look we don't have the best gifts we're trying to give away it's the end of the year they don't like the 90s was going to live nation is going live nation is winding to see the quarter down. They're like, well, get back with us

in January 26. 713-212-5-790. I'll read you a category question about the number 17. The statement is completely that early accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If the statement is erroneous, full of bunk and mid-up, you will say this. If you get two in a row, you will receive never-ending 90s with

Ezra Ray Hart. You're hurting Ezra Ray Hart's feelings, frankly. Ezra Ray Hart. Yeah. Oh, it's Sugar Ray better than Ezra. And then, yeah, you're hurting all three bands. There are people calling you, now I feel better. See?

I was a little nervous for a second. It was my wonderful singing. I think people are like, it's either you or Ezra Ray Hart. I think I'll be listening to that instead. Let's go to Juan on 791. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Juan, good luck to you.

Here is your first question. The number 17 is a prime number. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. What is it prime? Oh, come on. That is a layer.

You booted out from third grade. For those who don't know, a prime number must be divided. You know what? This is actually going to make me sad. I'm leaving. No, you stay. That's depressing. You can, the only number, you can divide to get an equal number would be the number itself. 17 divided by 17. Good, look at this guy.

It would be a prime number. I'm proud of you, Matt. Thank you. Jonathan, what's your favorite prime number? 17. Of course, duh. 17 is a number of syllables in a traditional Japanese haiku. Believe it or not?

What the heck? Believe it? Yes, duh. Totally knew that one. I thought it was 535. 575. Oh, is a 575? Statement number two for the win.

TV Market 17 is Seattle, Tacoma. Believe it or not? Not. It's Cleveland. Congratulations. Nice job. I had Matt Thomas written all over it. Duh.

Nick, on 790, Nick, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Actually, when you got to the number 17, it's like, what? The last asteroid aware of jersey number 17 was Jake Otorizzi, believe it or not? No. That's right, Victor Caritini. I was trying to catch you all on the slide. Statement number two for the win. Mario Ellie wore number 17 for the Rockets.

Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Nicely done. Let's go to John on 790. John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. John, the original Dallas TV series ran for 17 seasons.

Believe it or not? No, just 14. That was long, but it wasn't that long. Don't clip that for Friday. Robert on 790, Robert, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Jody Foster won her first Academy Award at the age of 17 for her role in the 1976 movie taxi driver. Believe it or not?

That is correct. I made that up. Statement number two for the win. Philip Rivers wore number seven. She was like 13 in that. Yeah, she was younger than that. Philip Rivers wore number 17 while he was the quarterback at North Carolina State. Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct. Congratulations. Robert on 790

Robert. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Robert? I just did Robert. Oh, I just did Robert. oh sorry i lose his track uh let's see winner winner brad on seven hundred he ready to play believe it or not believe it philip river i mentioned that one the current texan wearing number 17 is christian kirk believe it or not not that's right it's brachson burrios who broke it with his girl over the weekend he did oh she's smoke show oh my god she's unglorious statement number two for the win billboards top 10 top, excuse me, top 100, number 17 song in 1978

was Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are. Believe it or not. That's another winner. We got rid of all those tickets. Text that word again, kids, to 6-2, 6-2, 6-6-2. Let's help out St. Jude's. Let's do it right now. 63 cents a day. Get rid of that cup of coffee. Help these kids out. Thank you, St. Jude's. Up next. It's Wex. it's clinton it's the a team talk to tomorrow emad doca dr rhodo now in florida stories we'll wake the strippers up at noon and hell yeah or not i already gave you the topic oh jacobby percette here on seven-nighting now