The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Golden State, Will Astros Get It Figured Out Here Soon? Tim Roye & Ryan Hollins Joins The Show!

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Rockets vs Golden State, Will Astros Get It Figured Out Here Soon? Tim Roye & Ryan Hollins Joins The Show!

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. I told, I told, Jonathan, I was going to go from the baritone on that one. I may try to go a little higher octave today. I'm not at 100% when it comes to that. Like, I don't think I'm in, like, full midthroat. But I'll be better today than I was last week. That's for sure.

Well, hopefully you can get full throat because that's why we call you full throat Thomas. Nobody calls me that at all. Yeah, I do. I've been on the streets of here. Houston. As a matter of fact, I went to a restaurant yesterday. Uh-huh. I think it was on your placard at Maid Creek High School. Full throat, Thomas.

Can I tell you a quick story? Yes, you can. Go ahead. So I went to Malt Mass yesterday. Uh-huh. Catholic Mass? Malmast Steakhouse. Okay. Me and the big one, all of the sudden went.

And I have an employee discount card, which gets me a discount. Uh-huh. And the guy at the restaurant, didn't know who I was and I gave my identification card with my ID that usually that's all that is and he goes, excuse me, sir,

we're going to need like a pay stub now. I'm like, in the back in my, I'm like, who brings a pay stub to dinner? That's pretty good. Well, you got a PDF one? I need a paste up or I don't know identification card.

Well, the guy next to me, the guy about the table behind us is a listen to the show and he's like, excuse me, sir, that's Matt Thomas. He's the voice of the Rockets. I mean, I listen. to a show every day. Trust me, this is who he is. And the guy's like,

I'm going, it's a policy. I'm going to need his identification card or a pay stub or something. You've never been, have you ever been asked for that? Never, never before my life. Okay. So what happened? So I was able to go back in my direct deposits and my

deposit is a rocket ball is the name of a company and that proved it and he goes, okay, sir, we'll be happy to apply that discount. So shout out to why does he talk like that? I don't know, but Shout out to Maltmas in Umbal for doing their due diligence and making sure that I was an employee and not believing a fellow customer. Do people come in with those cards all the time and they have issues? It was hilarious.

It was really weird. It was really weird. You do get hassled at varying levels, it feels like. Sometimes people know the drill and sometimes they don't. And that's the only any discount card. Sometimes you have identification. Sometimes you have to have special hours. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Whatever. Good morning, everyone. It is a Friday edition of the show. it is an anything goes Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, how the hell are you? I'm doing okay. I'm feeling a little sick, but I'm all right. Yeah, we're all still trying to be working all weekend.

We're getting over the focus. No rest for the weary. Got Astros baseball tonight against the San Diego Padres. I will have your Astros on deck in 10th inning. And then the Astros against the Padres on Saturday. I will have your Astros on deck in 10th inning. And then Sunday, we have rockets against the Golden State Warriors. I will have your launch pad.

your Rockets Wrap on News Radio 740 KTRH. You don't, do you want to take Monday off you can if you need to? I think I'm Wednesday. I'm going to. I found a hookup for some Kendrick Lamar tickets. Oh, is the concert Tuesday? It's Wednesday. So you're going to take Thursday off? No, so I'm just not working.

I'm going to work the show. I'm not taking any time off. I'm not working Rockets game, too. We have a shorter day. We have a shorter day on Wednesday. And do we now? I don't know. Oh, is that true? I don't know. I'm just making it. I like that.

No, I think we're wrong. Okay. Well, I'm just saying I'm not working Rockets game two. I'm a little disappointed, but, you know. It's fine. You should go see Kevin. You get tickets. The only Pulitzer Prize winner for music that wasn't a jazz or orchestral artist. I mean, what a landmark achievement.

If you have to have a chance to go hear the Picasso of music, why wouldn't you not? Absolutely. How about me and Jonathan knocking back a hash brand in there and didn't even bring us anything? That's okay. Look at him. They almost made me late. I had to come out of here. Oh, you're going to eat on the air too.

Why don't you just take a big old bite and let us all hear it? Yeah, just a rule one of radio. Don't talk with your mouthful. Come on, Jonathan. Just take the L. You can't respond. You can't respond. Leave him alone.

Let that man eat, right? I just started eating it guys, too. Yeah, that's the reason why I brought it up. It's early. He's hungry. We have a good show for you today. We have Ryan Howlinson. We're going to join us in one hour from now.

Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. You guys are going to do it. It's just a bocchi talk for a segment. He loves this sabachi. Okay. Double salad, double soup,

and ice cream, and extra. protein and double fried rice. Okay. The caloric intake of him. He also, by the way, on a game day, we are able to eat with the team on game days, the lunch. And I don't usually, because I'm working with you entertaining Houston. He will get two waffles, lather them with whipped cream and strawberries.

And I mean not just a dollop. A lathering. Okay. That's probably in itself about 10,000 calories. Why are you putting his business out here like this, Matt? Because the man is in physically amazing condition. He works out like a fiend. He's seven feet tall.

He doesn't carry an ounce of fat on him. We're in three-piece custom suits like a mutter. That's just part of his meal. The other meal is two large smoothies. Okay. Fottled by a big bowl of pasta with both Alfredo and marinera sauce mixed together. Alfredo and marinerer. Yeah, they call that like vodka sauce is what they call it.

Hmm. When you mix the two together. I call it vomit sauce. Well, I would not necessarily disagree with you on that. So the man can eat. Okay. So we'll talk about his... We'll have a full breakdown of his diet.

We'll talk about it at 11 o'clock? We'll talk about his palate at 11 o'clock today. We're going to owe some people some apologies at 1130 today. Okay. And we got the news at noon. Our friend Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warrior, is going to join us at 1 o'clock today. Oh, wow. They are coming in actually from...

San Francisco today, because the game is on Sunday, but they figure they're going to travel. It's a long trip, four hours plus a time change or whatever. So he'll be joining us on the way to the airport this morning as the Warriors and Rockets get after for game number one of the Western Conference. Are they calling it first round series or quarterfinals? I guess they call it first round, right? Just the first round series. Yeah. And that'll be an 8.30 start time inside Toyota Center, which hopefully all of you will be there. Waring Rocket gear. It has already been announced as a sellout.

Okay. Ready to go. Meaning in your seats on time? I'm going to be wearing my jersey with my name on it in the press box. Are you really? That's good. I haven't seen yours yet. Where is it?

Did you take it home already? I put it on my Instagram at Sports RV. That's nice that a team would give us a gift to get ready to collaborate a part of a postseason. Yeah, we appreciate them. I mean, I don't think we're trying to. We're not trying to humble brag to. I am. Well, you are for sure.

You live your life as a humble brag. Uh-huh. But I mean, it's nice. I mean, it's just a nice. nice token of a, you know, for, hey, please cover us, talk about us, do whatever. We would do that anyway. You don't have to give me anything. But yeah, it was nice that they took care of you. Yes. And the most important things I told you yesterday was they actually spelled your name correctly.

Yes. I appreciate them for that. The old double R. Mm, double L as well. Double L as well. That's a lot of, how many letters on the scribe award would that be worth? I used to. Sometimes on Scantrons, I would run out of room, depending. Mm-mm. All right. We are with you today. It's an anything goes Friday. It's 713, 212-5-7-90. There was absolutely nothing really in sports

that happened yesterday, right? Rockets were off, Astros were off. Rangers and Angels played? I mean, Rangers hockey close out their regular season yesterday. Oh, wow. There were no playoff games

whatsoever in the NBA, not for us to chew on. The Nico kid still can't figure out where he wants to play college football yet. No, he's going to UCLA, I thought. I thought so too, but I don't think is that a definitive thing?

I still keep point. Jamaliyava. Excuse me? What? That's like a lotion. Would you like? Some a lot of la la la yava? Yamala yava.

Oh, good God. You know, did he sign with UCLA for sure, Gordy? Do we have a... See, that's what he said. I thought he was packing up his stuff and leaving, everybody said. Everybody, yeah, until you were saying... I don't care.

You know what? I don't care. I'm sorry. Okay, go play to UCLA and go seven and six. Have I have wishing you the best. I like UCLA, though. Beautiful campus, beautiful women. I'm sure it's great.

Rose Bowl. Yeah, it is a very. very nice campus. Ooh, baby. Nice. Are you okay? No, I'm just saying UCLA is fantastic.

No, but you went in the clouds for a second. I saw your eyes glaze over. I was thinking about some times in UCLA. You said beautiful campus and your eyes glazed over. Yeah, that's true.

All right, Gordy's going to stop by. You still stop by, are you already too tired because you did a four hours? Did he do the full four hours today? I think so. Gordy got there at six? Hmm.

He must like the Sean Salisbury show the rest of better than us. Hardest working man at the station. I don't I don't know some of that side work but that's you too yeah this is he's got he's got four calls to make on locked on SEC how do we pronounce it night guy the kid's name again uh yama leiyava imialliava

umma say it again i he sent to me in von text iama iama liava ima leava yeah exactly yeah yep shut up Iamaliaava. Boom! Was that right? Okay, thank God.

Lama? Don't. For your mama. Lama for your mama? Got a llama you want for your mama. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

It is in anything goes Friday. Ross explained the essence of anything goes Friday here on the show. If you want to talk about llamas for your mama's, 7-1-3-2-7-1-2. 2125-790 is the phone number. You know what? We need to lock in. Rocket Series predictions. Were you working gut feelings on Tuesday?

You weren't. I was not. Did you make one? Yeah, I did. I think you have Rockets winning? Or do I? Oh, I got a series price, brother. Don't worry about the damn serious price.

I don't worry about serious price. All the got to worry about serious price is if you want to go bet the price. If you don't want to bet the price, don't worry about the price. Well, that might be a stay-away. We'll see. We'll talk about that. 713-212-5-790. Are the Astros going to sit up in their chairs against a good team like they have done the last couple of years?

It's a guaranteed win Friday. Because they lost on Wednesday. Oh, did you see who's pitching for the Astros? I did not. Ryan Gusto. That's fine. All right. Go four innings.

I hope so. And then we're sending Gordia to Midland to see Lance McCuller's throw. That's true, actually. Big deal for us. Mm-hmm. because I mean So yeah So Gus was like

Man am I pitching for my life here? Not my life but you know what I mean I don't think he's pitching for his life Because at this point McCullers could just slip in there and take his spot Easily correct I would like to know in this game Because tomorrow is

Michael King All right He's pretty good Dylan C says I've been good so far this season So we'll see But I'd like the asteros to wait for it's a two on a three weekend we can talk about it all.

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Good morning to you, Molly. You precious child. 1021, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212, 5.7. It is that anything goes Friday. And a lot of you, I'm going to presume that probably, what, 80% of you that normally working on Friday are off today? Would that be right?

Those kids are out, I know. Traffic today was a breeze. No one was playing a daredevil on the 59-headed into the city. It usually takes me about an hour and 10 in the morning to come here. It took me about 45 today, so I was very happy about that. So which means I think there's probably less people out and about. If you are out and about or at home, listen to the show or listening to us in the IHeart radio app. Thank you for that.

Secondly, give us a shout. If you don't get a normal chance to call the show, we don't bite. We have the longest leash and radio, period. Sometimes too long of a leash, but especially today, isn't anything goes Friday leash. Rossi, I'm going to pull an shmattam shmanton

on you here. Uh-oh. Are you going to complain about the officials? No, no, no. Okay. No, no. Well, I mean, that could be coming in time because that'll probably happen with me when I'm in San Francisco. I'm just going to go and give you a little carpet for the horse on that one. That's going to probably happen. I don't dislike a lot of teams in sports. Now, why am I going to root for the Houston teams over other teams? Of course I am. But I don't like flat-out goal. I don't like

blank. Like, I have no opinion whatsoever about the Dallas Cowboys. They haven't won since I've been grown. Yeah. You can hate Dallas Cowboys fans. I can hate Dallas Cowboys. But I'm talking about the team itself. Everybody's fan group can be obnoxious. Ranger fan group can be obnoxious. Some more than others. Yeah, I mean, yeah, everybody's going to have a group of section of fans that are going to be obnoxious.

I think the people that do the wave at Astro fans are morons. Okay. But I'm going to separate the teams from the fans typically. Like, I'm not a huge fan of the Yankees. I respect the hell out of them. Now, granted, they also spent a lot of money. I don't like the Dodgers, but I respect them. I root against the Yankees.

I don't like Aaron Boone. I don't like Aaron Judge, even though he's the best hitter on the planet. Yeah, I mean, I want them to fail. I want them especially to fail because they're a direct opponent to the Houston Astros and a chance to win an American League pennant. I do not like the Golden State Warriors. Do you hate them? A week ago, Saturday, when we played them and beat them.

Was it a Saturday, Saturday or Sunday? I forgot what I think it may, it was a Saturday, I think. When Draymond Green was poking at Alperin-Changoon, no less than about 15, 20 seconds, just trying to get a technical foul. And then he does that obnoxious, really fast clap after he got the technical foul. I don't like the Golden State Warriors. I just don't. So if there's any team.

that I really want. Look, to take down LeBron and Luca will be great in the semifinals of the Rockets get that far, to upset the Oklahoma City Thunder and be the charmed kids of the NBA would be great. But I'm not looking that down the future. I need the Rockets to beat the Warriors. They have played each other four times in the playoffs

in the last 10 years. They have played each other obviously between three and five times in a regular season. and the Rockets do have two wins against Golden State this year. And that has been nice because the previous five or six years have been zero. I don't like what the Warriors represent. I don't like going to San Francisco. I sure as hell don't like the way Draymond Green conducts himself on the court, off the court.

I think he's one of the most incredible personalities the NBA will have, and I think he will be a major television star when it's all said and done. He's very thoughtful. He actually is fairly braggadocious about the Rockets, when you're talking to him to a locker room or talking him in a television show

or a podcast or whatever. But he becomes a 100% major a hole on the court and I hate him for that. I hate Steph Curry's mouthguard. I hate Steve Kerr

complaining about every call. I hate everything about them. I need... You hear this in my voice, Rossi? I need the Rockets to beat the Warriors. They're not favored to do so.

It would be, frankly, in the world of betting, not that the world revolves around betting, but in the world of betting, it's going to be a sizable upset if the rockets beat the Warriors in the series. When Las Vegas says there's a two-to-one shot that you lose to them, that's a pretty significant little bump. I, Houston, Texas, listen to me very carefully. I need the rockets to beat the Warriors. I wouldn't come to you if the rockets are opening up series with the wolves.

I mean, I want the rockets to win the wolves. I want the rockets to beat the Kings or the Mavericks or the Spur. But I don't have that piss and vinegar, excuse my French, Rossi, on those teams like I do, the Golden State Warriors. Yeah. I'm pretty happy in my life. I've lived being a sports band, I'm 53. How long am I 52? Yeah, 52.

I've lived 45, 46 years of my life. a sports fan. I don't really hate anybody. I hate the Warriors. I hate the Warriors, too. And I hate Draymond Green, and I don't want him to hurt anybody. And yeah, if we're picking one team, I don't want the Rockets to lose to and the entire of the NBA, it's the Golden State Warriors. They get away with calls. Let's get the wins. They have the biggest home court advantage when it comes to eight versus five on officials in the NBA. And I've already told you that earlier this week. Yes. Steve Kerr is a whiner, like you said, and Draymond Green hurts people. He should be kicked out of the league with his compilation of hurting people. And instead of giving

the rocket's props for making Steph Curry's life miserable last week. All Steve Kerr said was, well, the rockets kept fouling my guy. And that's how Golden St. lived. So I'm going to ask a simple question. This is great people of Houston, Texas.

Do you hate the Warriors? I just heard a loud roar of a yes. I think I heard four million people bumping around to town. Yeah, man, they all rolled their windows down and they started honking their horn. We hate the Warriors. Yeah, see you hear that? By the way, by this opening series price numbers,

65% Warriors basically is what it means 35% rockets. There's a chance. I still ask of you, has there ever been a seven seed, a two seed that's only under 35% chance to winning? Not usual. There's been injuries or something. That's okay. But part of the reason is because Golden State is significantly better today

than they were two months ago. The Jimmy Butler trade made a major difference to them. 1028, sports talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Do you hate anybody? I mean, I hate a lot of people in life, and I'll take off there.

Oh, yeah, that list is long. You've got a list. I do. It's like Santa Claus's list. It's like a book club list. It's move on to the next book, next chapter. but I hate the Warriors. Do you hate the Warriors, Houston?

713-212-5-790. Brandon says, hate the Warriors and also just finished my 42nd year of hating North Carolina State Basketball. Looking forward to 42 more years. Obviously must be a North Carolina or Duke fan. It's interesting. Thank you very much.

Rock Textro 21. You can hate, yeah, I want, you know, we don't have enough, we don't have enough hate. We just got to just, we respect, a hell out of people sometimes. I'm not in for it this week. Now, I do have a lot of friends with the Warriors organization. They're very, very nice to us. And Tim Roy's a friend and we'll be joining

us coming up in about two and a half hours from now. But man, Rossi, I, everything about San Francisco, I mean, just the, first of all, the Curry jersey wears that will be in the building on Sunday night. There will be a lot. That's irritation number one. Number two is you go to San Francisco. And, I mean, every call is FU refs. And then third is that Warriors, I mean, it's, it, Rossi, it grates on you.

You have to grit your teeth. It's not good. Well, there's a very easy way to shut them all up, Matt. Win the basketball games. Play them on the floor. Win the games. Win your own fans. Don't let the officials make it a close game.

No. I'm just, I guess I'm the weird one. I just don't think the NBA is rigging this series for the Warriors. I'm not saying, I don't think they're going to get a bunch of calls on the Rockets floor either. Not any more than Superstar calls. Look, Superstar calls happen. The Rockets don't have a superstar. Steph Curry's going to get calls.

LeBron James gets calls. Jason Tatum, who have John Moran. They get calls. James Hardin when he was here got calls. But why does Dray... And you don't know the answer to this, but you agree with me. Why does Draymond's Green's leash when it comes to inciting anger from officials longer than anybody else in the history of the NBA? He is the all-time biggest hothead in hothead, not pothead, hothead in NBA history.

And yet he has, I mean, who has more objections? Dylan Brooks or Dremont Green? I mean, my guess is, my guess is Dremont. He's been the league. They're both top five in technical files. But Rashid Wallace, when he was playing, got technical fouls if he burped in front of an official. He earned a lot of those. I'm saying.

He earned a lot of those. But he didn't get the saving grace that Dremont for some reason gets. Why does he get this? Is it because he's some – I mean, he's a great player. He's a great five-by-five player. He's a routinely defensive player of the year that comes with a swag to it. And honestly, I mean, if you and I, and Mek Eme Addoke, Eme Addoch, wouldn't have a pop lot tonight, get ready for the game.

I don't like EMA is like I despise every fiber of Dramon Green because Dramon Green is an EMA, a doca type of player. Dylan Brooks and Dremont Green were cut from the same cloth. They just were. Dremont Green is a little different to me. He's got to screw loose. Dillon Brooks will mess with people and we'll kind of lock people up for a while. Dramon Green goes out there and he tries to injure people.

Yeah. Dillon Brooks doesn't flying elbow people. the face. Yeah. Oh, you had a call, a guy, by the way, Colin and said,

the guy that said he hated, going on 42 years for North Carolina State is because that's 42 years since they hit that, the win on the U of H. Oh, I see. Okay, I got you.

They got a fact check. You know, everybody knows that, Jonathan. It's kind of implied. Yeah, so like it was, oh.

Yeah, you didn't need to interrupt the show with that because it's like very widely known. Yeah, just tell us off here next time. Thank you. All right. That's okay. That's what we were saying.

You're young. He's 20 years before you were born. But yeah, it's a very widely known fact that we knew that. But thanks to the guy for calling us to let us know the very widely known fact. Yeah. The huge Duke fan. No, we hate Orthodox State. We just, we're never going to get over that.

I have a pretty good feeling when I can get over what happened in San Antonio here there. Did you know the Cougars lost in 83, Matt? The NC State Wolfpack. You'll mean an apology. I do. Save it for 1130. You know what? I do want to apologize.

Save it for whatever it is for a little. Let me write it down. Write it down so you don't forget. No, actually, I'm not really sorry, though, so never mind. Oh. Okay. Let me try to think of something. Boy, I was, now we're throwing off.

I was going to bring up an argument. We're talking about Dylan Brooks and the... I mean, Dylan, we'll try to poke the bear. 18 technical fouls this year for Dylan Brooks, number two in the NBA. Behind Anthony Edwards. Dramon Green was seventh with 13. How many games did Draymond Green play?

this year, though. I don't know. Luca Donchich had 14. It's funny. These guys, they still get lippy after all these years. Luca didn't get, Luca did not take a seat back, did not take a breath of,

hey, you know, I'll let the referees do the game while I'm wearing Laker gear. He's just as mouth as ever. Despite all the begging and pleading from the Mavericks brass. I want if the Lakers let him drink beer. I don't know.

They're like, we don't care. Smoke all the hookah, drink all the beer you want as long as you show up on the court. That Mongolian barbecue you can have. No, I think they're going to try to motivate him. I think maybe this was probably a good thing for Luca Donchich. And then maybe it maybe is a wake-up call. And you say a wake-up call, you charity me the Lakers.

I want to get Max money, big deal, but could wake him up a little bit. Yeah, by way, Adam Silver was on, I think McAfee yesterday, trying to explain how the NBA was not trying to push this agenda along, that they were looking to get the Lakers back involved than being on top of the marquee in the NBA and that Silver can't come in here and stop a trade and that that's not the commissioner's job, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And actually what Silver said, which is really weird,

he's like, you, man, the trade got a lot of people talking. I don't think always good talk is the best thing for a league. I think it basically just shows you the incompetence of one of your members. Yeah, but I think it was overall a good PR move for the NBA. He was huge in a huge way. You think Adam Silver is upset that this happened? Clearly he's not. He's already said his money. No. He's got to be thrilled.

And he also said he's guaranteeing the Dallas Mavericks are not leaving Dallas because there is a conspiracy out there that the owner of the Mavericks who owns the Sands Corporation is doing this to basically destroy the Mavericks franchise so he can take the team to Las Vegas. Okay. Well, I guess we'll see. Let me tell you something. If we get casino gambling in Texas, the Dallas Mavericks will have the nicest arena in sports

because they're going to build a brand new arena next to this brand new casino in the suburban Dallas area. Man. And we'll be going. I'll be ready to go with you, man. Yeah, but Ross, we've been talking about this for, I would tell about this for when you were a child. Okay.

When are we going to get it? when enough politicians get bought to make it happen. Yeah, but we could have been buying these guys for years. We've had money in the state before. Yeah, but the Oklahoma casino interests have been buying their politicians. It's all about who's buying the most politicians. Okay, so Oklahoma is buying the politicians. Welcome to America.

Louisiana's buying the politicians. It's time for us. It's Texans to start paying off our politicians. Correct. Get enough? You know what? Screw the NIL. I'll give you an NIL for, for politicians.

Get the money and get the votes. Let's go. I'm ready. That's how we roll in here. So you losers are U of H. I'm not giving you a damn dollar. I'm giving the state every bit of my money I can humanly possibly give you. So I can get my casino gambling in Texas.

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And all you got to do to win these tickets, so I think we're pulling them today, as a matter of fact. It's where the party at tour. It shouldn't be where the party is at tour? No, it's where the party at. You're missing where it is. No, where the party at? Where's the party at?

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And we're going to give you a chance to win those tickets. to see where the party is. 713-212-5-790. Our friend Ryan Holland joins us in about 20 minutes here on 7-90. Our friend Ryan Holland's going to join us at 11 o'clock. Other front of the show, Chris Gordy, you heard on the Sean Salisbury show already today for four hours. Couldn't get enough.

No, honestly, people have not... Man, what's going to gorety? Let's do a Gordy drive by a 10-50. We'll see what's going on. Actually, we are. What do you got there in front of you there? That's a board op schedule Or producer schedule

I thought it was some like some anecdotal stuff Yeah we got you on the board this weekend Matt That's fine Hope you're ready We're kind of lean We'll get you on the reel to reel Have that before Rockets actually requested

Could you do both PAA and play by play We need you do both I could do the starting five If you wanted me to By we will we will replay The starting five from 2018 The next half hour Just a nice

Yeah I still get a fair amount of tremendous hate from that. Did you see I did some research for Sean's show this morning? The last time the Rockets were the, uh, won a playoff game at Toyota Center was May 6th, 2019. I did some research on that day, like, on stuff that happened.

Lil Nasex Old Town Road was the number one song in the country. I think it still is. Avengers End Game was the number one movie at the box office. A great film. How much was a gallon of gas? significantly cheaper. Oh, really? Eggs were cheaper as well.

Oh, I know. How's my 401k back then? Oh, you were. Probably about the same as it is now, actually. It was Trump then. It's Trump now. But Tiger Woods had just won the Masters. Oh, that's right.

Who did we beat that night? The Golden State Warriors. Lost in the second round. They only won one game that series, right? Or was it two? I think it was two. And then that was one. when Kevin Durant ripped his Achilles in that series

and they still lost. Yeah. Yeah, Durant dropped like 34 in the losses that night. Great job. But no, he's crazy to think. So, Dantone was the coach. Do you remember the starting five for the Rockets on night? Can I try? Yeah. This is, what year is this? 2019.

This is the year after the seven gamer, right? Yes. Riza was not a part of it, because I think he was the fall guy for the 2018. Am I correct on that? It was definitely, of course, James Hardin and Chris Paul. Hardin, Paul, Capella.

I'll go PJ Tucker, maybe. Yes. And then who would have been the small? Did Gordon start? Eric Gordon. There you go. Okay. And a reason not a part of that team.

And then can you name any of the bench players who played that game? Ryan Anderson. Austin Rivers. Austin Rivers was one. Luke Baumute? No Luke Bo. No, who's the next year, I think. Who else was that?

Austin Rivers. Four guys saw minutes that night off the bench. Austin Rivers played 33 minutes. Don't say, don't say, don't say. Brian Anderson wasn't? No, he was not. No, he was going. Oh, yeah, you're right.

You had Eric starting. Who would have been the backup five on that team? That would have been... Oh, come on. Everybody loved him. Isaiah Hardstein? No. No.

He was on the team. He didn't play. Everybody loved the backup five of the Rockets that year. He played for everybody. Oh, um... His one name. Oh, Nene. And Ney.

My buddy, didn't he. I've forgotten a name. You and I are Instagram buddies. Your other two players to play off the bench that series, Gerald Green, now Space City Home Network analyst. Yes.

And this is a name we'd put, you probably, I would have given you 20 guesses. You probably never would have remembered this guy. Iman Shumpert. 21 minutes off the bench. I forgot he was a rocket. The legend. When was Lou Williams on the team?

Is that before that? There's the next year, I think. I think it was a year before. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, maybe it was a year before. Yeah, yeah. So, anyway, a lot's changed. You would have held me against my wall and said,

you can leave this prison. Once you name who that ninth player was, I never would have gotten a Monschumper. The other thing, the crazy part to think about, so you go back to that year, the last time the Rockets won a home playoff game at Toyota Center, Joe Burrow was just a guy.

He had not been Joe Burrow yet. He's still just a guy. Had not won a Heisman and not. you know, whatever. The Astros cheating scandal we had no idea about. We were still completely in the dark. Well, it was going on. Mike Fires was still beloved at that point.

We loved to Mike Fires. Can't get enough of Mike Fires. Just crazy to think in hindsight, how long it's been since we've enjoyed a big win at Toyota Center. The last ever home playoff win was against the Golden State Warriors. It's four series in 10 years. What? one sort of heartbreak, one we had no chance, because they were an eight versus a one, correct?

Right. That was the year of Bickerstadt took over for Kevin McHale. So that was kind of a throwaway. There were two series that you thought you had a puncher's chance. Early 18, you should have one. They would have. They would have beaten the greatest team of all time. If Trevor Arisa hits one of those threes?

Well, Chris Paul's hamstring doesn't. Was it fair that Eriza took the major fall for that? Yes. Yes. No. His one job on this team was the defendant hit threes, and he didn't hit one three that night. I can't remember sitting at the court side going,

don't do it, oh, another one. Don't do it, no, another one. And it was the same, guys, they weren't even contested. They were open threes from the wing. No, it was even worse, because sitting one seat to my left was Mim Muntemps, and she was like, oh my God, this is the biggest joke I've ever seen.

I wanted to choke him out. Mim Mom Tamps. The worst. He's not the one. Who's the one who wrote the Luca book? That's Tim McMahon. That's Tim McMahon. Tim McMahon's very nice.

I like him. I like Tim. They do a podcast as a loser. But anyway. Tim Bond Temps and. We had Bon Tense on one time. And I was also sitting with May He Rest Sick. Who Smith?

Great guy. Mm-hmm. Seven-time guest on Sports Talk 790. By the way, did you hear what we're promoting? Yeah, the Dub Nation. I told our audience. I love our company. We should do not listen to that.

I mean, why would you want to, I'd rather have needles just stuck in my eye religiously for like two hours. The timing isn't great. I mean, if we were a non-NBA market, sure, whatever. Well, I mean, look, it's not our fault. It's just what our company told us to send. But when did the company sit back and go, you know what? I think America wants to hear about the background of the Golden State Warriors. It was from the mind of Israel Gutierrez.

Who? From ESPN. I don't know who that is. He's the host of the podcast. I don't listen This is redemption though I promise you this I heart And I love you because I've been with you for a long time

When you get a podcast that I think I'm like I'm into this I will hoard out like a You know what What was the Gromkin Edelman one Two dudes We've had dudes On dudes We've had

It was dudes on dudes right Women's basketball pod We had the Polynesian something Filipino pod We've had the John Wall Pod We've had dudes on dudes on dudes and now we're promoting the

Duane Wade one I think. The Dwayne Wade one. Now we're in the Dubnation. I mean, when did I heard... I was the one about learning all the quirks of NFL rules and stuff. It was like... I'm Peter Schrager and I'll...

And we're going to hear it into a draft picks and dudes or whatever. Like, Jesus Christ. I was like, did you know the first field goal kicked was 37 yards? We'll talk about all those fun facts. Dudes on dudes is still going. Hell yeah, it is. With Gronk and Jules. Yeah, very busy.

Doesn't this feel like redemption time, though? This feels like, we just talked about the history of the Rockets playing the Warriors over the years. This feels like the redemption arc is here. It is time. It is all new faces, a whole new cast of characters for the Rockets. Why doesn't America believe that either? Because they just look at Steph and they see rings. And Steve Kerr and Draymond.

Mm-hmm. And Jimmy Butler's pretty good. And that's a better basketball team than their record indicates. It's just the reality. They're 21 and 7 since Jimmy Butler has been inserted in the lineup together. When he and Curry play together, they're 21 and 7. That's an incredible winning percentage. Should the Rockets have, when Jimmy Butler was available in the market,

should they have considered that a little bit more? It would have cost you some of your young pieces to give up for him. But in hindsight. Who would you have given up? I don't know. I mean, they gave up. Who was it? Wiggins for Butler?

I mean. But you also knew that you were if you were signing Jimmy, or you were going to get Wiggins. Jimmy Butler, you're going to have to give him a contract extension. And I want to no part of any sort of contract extension with Jimmy Butler. Because what Jimmy Butler does is he goes to where he behaves himself for a while. And he causes issues and he leaves. Are the Warriors going to give him a contract? There he did.

Wow. I think he's getting $120 million over two years. It's a ridiculously fat contract. This would be great then. When we beat them, they're going to be in hell for the next few years because they're only going to get older and worse. That's why there's a lot of pressure on them to win. All right, so if you are going to the game on Sunday, 1101 on Sports Talk 790, let's say how to our good friend Ryan Hollins.

You catch him on Space City Home Network, and he will be on the call for Game 1 Sunday night. Remember, any game that's not on the ABC, that means all the TNTs, at least in his first round, Ryan's happy, smiley face will be on there. Rhino, what's a good word? What's going on, brother? Man, I missed you. The Rock has didn't win. while I was gone. It's time for me to get

back. It's time for the Rockets to be Dubnation for the third time this year. You know what? I think it means so much more to the city, to this team, and to all of us. You can hear the excitement, the frustration. Matt, this is the first time

I will say since I've been in Houston that I'm struggling right now, dude. And the reason I'm struggling is I've been a player in these situations. Like, my juices are going. I'm ready to get on the port and go making an impact, but you will be there cheering our guys on. But again, man, you can cut the tension with a knife. And it's felt nationwide right now with the Rockets and Warriors about the square

off. And Matt, I don't know, it's just crazy right now that the lawyers are favored. But you know what? I think that's the way you'd like it. You're the Houston Rocket. You know what? I don't know why it is. I think a lot of it is because Golden State has the playoff pedigree. Also, they're 21 and 7 since Jimmy has joined that team and him and Curry been together. I also think there's a lot of unknown about the Houston Rockets team. So with that being put in perspective, what did you take away from the win that the Rockets had in Golden State a week ago when Curry went one for 10?

What did you take away from watching that play-in game where Memphis was able to come back from down 20 to make it a ballgame? Are there any chinks in the armor right now for Golden State? It feels like to me it's a lot about Jimmy. It's a lot about Steph. Brandon Pajimski has had its moments, but there's not a whole lot beyond what those two, maybe two plus a half bring to the table right now for Golden State. When it gets down to it,

would all due respect to the greatness of Jimmy Butler and when he's brought to the table from what we've seen, and obviously Jimmy can pull a rabbit out of a hat some playoff time. We've seen it with his time with the Miami Heat. they're still very step-peri-centric and they have to have steps to have a major game essentially to win. So for E-May in the rocket standpoint,

and you've seen this from E-May, even more so fine-tuning down the stretch, you're going to say somebody else has to beat you. And one big takeaway that I saw, and I know from playing against the Warriors, is when they have non-shooters on the floor, you can zone up. But those non-shooters become dangerous because they play a throw-and-go games.

So even though Draymond's open, I'm sagging 10 feet off Dremont, right? But as soon as Draymond gets it, he pitches to Curry and he runs off a D.HO or he kind of runs off his hip. So now you go from guarding the non-shooter to I got to be at the level if not extended. So that's the challenge. And Steph Curry, the problems he present, they're so unorthodox. because you break the rules of basketball. I got to pick the guy up at half port. When the ball's on the weak side, what do we do?

Matt, we jump to the ball. Oh, no, no, no, no. You don't jump to the ball against Curry. So you're pretty much playing one on four. I'm also looking to see if he may throw some wrinkles in his zone. If there's some extended coverage or a different type of maybe a box in one, but as extreme as the Warriors now, as Seth Perry-centric as they are, I think you're going to see some unique defenses thrown at him.

And again, Houston did an unbelievable job, not just starting with the men Thompson, but from a team perspective, jumping out on those screens, hedging, being high, and you've got to overly communicate against Curry and the Warriors. Ryan Hall on Space City Home Network with us here on the radio program. How much do you want to see the double bigs out there for the Rockets of all the teams, that you wouldn't put a lot into it, it would be Golden State. Can you force the agenda or do you have to kind of pick your spots on

that? No, I think you roll with it and the challenge when you go double big, I think you go zone and you match up and you draw the attention to Curry. So I very much think it will work and what happens when it's effective, Matt,

is it forces the opposing team to do what. They got to go big. They got to throw sides out there. They have to play, a way that they're not used to playing. So if you end up with Draymond and Looney on the floor, that's a lot of defense, a lot of size that can help rebounding, but at the end of the day, it hurts you.

And if you watch Memphis, Memphis went double big. They played Eadie a whole lot in that game. Eadie ends up with 14 and 17. And I think that Houston's bigs are, you know, arguably the most effective double big that you can find in the league. You see what Dallas has over there. Obviously, you know, it's more about Jaron Jackson Jr. playing the four when Eadis out there. But with Stephen Adams on the boards and Shingoon lighting up offensively, I think you can do it in spurts.

And that's what we've seen from EMA. Ross, with you here as well, Ryan. And, yeah, that's what I wanted to kind of go to is the Rockets. We talk about them defending the Warriors. What about them offensively? What are the things that you're going to be keeping an eye on that you really want to see for them to be most effective against the Golden State Warriors defense? Well, you've got to be strong with the basketball. You know, whenever you drive against the warriors,

they're great individual one-on-one defenders because they don't have a lot of help on the weak side. Also, defensively, they're the best team in the NBA at being at the level and the pick and roll. What I mean at the level, they don't sit back in a drop. They don't give you space. Draymond Green and Looney, if they're not switching, they have the athleticism to get up

and then retreat with a shingoon or retreat with an atom. So for our guards, they got to be super technical. they got a tack downhills and again go out that fluff test the foot speed at draymond green get him in foul trouble test the foot speed aloney make those guys have to defend but they've been there before in these big moments and again you're going to have to force switches they're going to have to force double teams and you got to play through their physicality because it's not just an outright foul it's just we're bumping you we're shouldering you on everything you're doing and they're very very technically sound One of the things we've talked about a lot, Ryan, is the amount of playoffs experience, and obviously the Warriors have the edge there. How much does that actually matter? Like, where does it matter most, I should say?

Is it preparation? Is it on the floor? Or is it something that we kind of just talk in the media and it gets overblown? No, I ain't overblown at all. When the game gets extremely tight, guess what happens? Like, they know what they're going to. They know who their guy is. They know the six they're going to run.

It's a very cerebral group. If her throws out an adjustment, they're ready to adjust on the floor. And in those playoff games, every feel is different. Sometimes the energy is really high. Sometimes the referees are calling it tighter. And for a young player, that can throw you off. You can emotionally get caught in the shuffle of what's going on. Draymond's used to pushing the line, okay?

He's going to be pushing the line. And the challenge is, hey, do I push that line back with him? Or do I tune them out? you know, what puts me in a situation where I can at the end of the day play best. So you're going to be looking for those things. It is a factor. And for Houston, the beauty is that Ema Edoca has depth. He has guys.

He has Jeff Brains. He has Dillens. He has Van Bleas. He has Van Bleas. He has Landels if you need it. He has Stephen Adams who have experience in those moments. And you may have to be patient, you know. So let's say, let's just throw it out, right?

The spitball. Let's say Jaylon Green's not having a night. you might need, it might be Aaron Holliday stepping in and saving the day with all due respect. But you're going to need Jalen Green to bounce right back and show up and be prepared to the next game. And for EMA, he hasn't been afraid to pull that switch. It's nothing personal, but he's going to go with whatever he feels best out there. All right, before I let you run. Look, if you stop Curry, you got a great shot.

If the Rockets don't get much from Jalen Green, the Warriors are a great job of stopping him and Shingun. rockets don't have a shot. Can you give me one intangible factor that helps and or hurts the rockets not name the things I just said? Like in the back of your mind, give me a sneaky headline that I think you think will be a huge part of this series if the rockets are able to pull off. What will be considered an upset? I'm going to give you two guys on each side. Let's just spot like that. Okay. I hope that just answers your question. Sure. What the heck is going on with this Jonathan Camina deal? He is coring the rockets up in the past. he actually didn't play when they played because he was injured,

and they had a one-and-done game. And I don't know if this was because of the lineup, trust, whatever it is. Kaminga gets zero minutes, bro. So, Kaminga's a guy when the rockets are going big, that could really help out Golden State. Or hurt them. Or is Kurn not going to roll with him? And for Houston, I'm going big.

Now, another guy that I want to point to for the Houston Rockets is the unsung hero right now who kind of makes things work. He's that he's the oil to the will, right? Right now? Jabari Smith Jr. In the flow of the game, this guy has rebounded the ball out of his mind. He makes Houston very big. He's a small ball center.

He's the three guard. Okay, when you go in the double big lineup, and Jabari is really a guy that is just quietly, help the rockets roll along with their success. So for him, I think less has been more. He's done a lot of the little things. I know Amin Thompson is Mr. Little Things, okay? We're running out of things the same for him. But Jabari having a good series in the role that he's in, he's the sneaky guy that I don't think you really prepare for. And as we've seen through his young career, he loves these big moments, man. He's mentally in a great,

great space where some people would have lost their starting spot and get in their feelings and I think this guys excelled. All right. Lastly, tell Ross the ultimate Habachi pregame meal for a Sunday night tilt with the Warriors. Go ahead. Let's go. Listen, we, we've been doing, we've been doing Benihana. Bini Hana's the go-to, bro. Now, we didn't match up with Denver, but listen. I know. That's right. Me and Matt Thomas, Ross, me and Matt Thomas at the time of our lives. I hear that.

And it was just like me and Matt. And what I'm finding out is like, Matt's really possessive over me. So like he doesn't like to share it. When it comes to Habachi, like he's really possessive. Like, you know. Yeah, he's like that.

I did put Habachi with Gerald, our great social photographer. And I mean like, you know, Matt, Matt can't even look me in the eyes the next day. He was just a, it was a thing. Okay. Yeah. He's got, Ryan, he's got only child syndrome is what it is.

That's not fair at all. Oh, absolutely. He is. Mattie Thomas doesn't play. He's not a share, okay? He's not a share, you know? You're not a share. All right. Hey, I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Get your game face on you. What suit you're going to wear on Sunday night? Oh, my God. I don't know, dude. I'm so, man, I'm so excited. I don't know what to do it myself. My hands, my hands just keep floating in the air, and I'm just, I don't know if I'm playing.

playing in the game or Paul in the game. I'm just excited right now. All right. Well, hey, get you some rest. Thank you, friend. We'll see you on Sunday night. Thanks for the time today. We really appreciate it. All right, guys.

All right, that's our buddy Ryan Hollins. You know he was in a mad sprint doing that interview right there. His cardio is so good. He can do a radio interview while doing like a mad dash around town. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Me, I got to be like in a chair sitting down with a cold beverage in my head.

Yes. He generally is excited. It's great to have Ryan with us, and we appreciate him stopping by it for the show. We're going to get a perspective on Golden State coming up at 1 o'clock today. Look forward to that. Ross, speaking of food, you ready for our master's menu Fantasy 5? No. Okay, well, I'm going to give you two hours and 15 minutes and be ready for it.

Okay. Actually, two hours and five minutes. We'll do it at 120. Now, for those that don't know, we mostly do non-Florist stories on Fridays. But today, we're going to do a Fantasy 5, and the Fantasy 5 is, we're going to create our master's winning menu. When you win the masters, you get to choose the menu the following year. Okay.

And what are we doing again? We're doing two appetizers. Are we going in order? You know what you want. Huh. Okay. But once you choose an app, it's off the board. Okay.

And Jonathan, since you are the newbie of the crew, we're going to let you have the very first vote. Okay. That's good. So we're going to choose two apps. Let me write this down. Two appetizers, go ahead. You can choose a salad if you want to.

I don't think I would go to the salad card for an app, but that's each his own. I know we're in Texas. I'm not going to... All right. I'm doing salads. One main course. Okay. A main side.

Okay. And a dessert. Two appetizers. Okay. You can choose them any way you want to choose in there. All right. I'm sorry. As are coming up at the bottom of the hour.

713212-5-7-90. If you didn't remember me doing the starting lineup for the Rockets in 2018 for Game 7, the Western Finals, it's worthy of playing. Just to get everybody in the mood for Game 1 of Golden State, Houston. We'll have that next. Bottom of the hour here, that's where you apologize for what we've said over the course of the week. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Just Ross to get some people in the mood.

Those that don't know the show, I was the former PA announcer two different times, once in the 90s when the Rockets won the championships than most recently in the mid-2000s, 2015-17-17 in that range and had the great call of being honor of being the PA announcer for Game 7 of Golden State versus Houston. Now where were you? You were in the media section,

I'm assuming sitting? Yes. I was in the press box. I was doing pre and post game. I think we did pre-game in the concourse and then I was in the press box for the game and then post game. How depressing was that post-game show? missing the first 27 shots.

Extremely? I mean, you just couldn't believe what you were seeing. I mean, I know this has happened to you, Matt, but as far as me and in my career of being in the building of where things are happening to where you're in complete disbelief into what you're seeing, whether good or bad, that's the most incredible. I'd never seen anything like that.

I never have since. Watching the Spurs come in here and beat the rockets, was it 18? I was there for that. 17. 17. When James Hardin went one for 11. And Genobley blocked his shot, I was like, Jesus Christ.

I did the post game for that one, too. Is this all my fault? Yeah, that was pretty bad too. But also, they were down by 40 in the, you know. They never had it. They got destroyed in that game. And that was definitely a gut punch and the wind came out of the building. This was different.

This was just, this was a slow death in quicksand. where they were clawing their way out, and every time they did, they just sunk deeper and deeper and deeper and suffocated and lost. It was unbelievable. There wasn't a run of two or three threes in a row. There wasn't a run of seven or eight consecutive made shots.

There wasn't a streak where Golden State went on a five or six minutes lump. This was the Rockets literally could not find the three-pointer to save their life. 27 missed threes in a row. I was in disbelief. All right. So here's how I announced it to the national audiences. And this part of the video, which is just the Golden State side of it, me announcing, even to this day to my 17-year-old daughter, who doesn't think I'm very cool under any circumstance,

still gets lots of run on the TikTok streets. Are you playing it? Oh, I don't hear it. All right, we're going to try this again. So the audio, I sent this to Jonathan. He's going to play this right off of the Twitter fee. This is from TikTok. My daughter sent this to me this morning.

So let's try that. My email's messing up on the computer. Just give me like two seconds. Oh, okay. He says give a couple seconds. Okay. All right. So if I need a belly laugh in my life, I'll go back and listen to that,

and then I'll go look at the comments. Okay. Where they hate the Warriors fans hate you. Warriors fans, absolutely. And I'm going on a San Francisco radio station today, as a matter of fact. Now, I don't know if they'll put two and two together because it's been, it was been a while. Okay. And they've housed in one championship since then.

We're sitting here still. They said, shut your bum ass up. And they're like, man, we got rigs, bay. Shut up. Shut up. We got rigs. Um, so, yeah, it's, the comments are, that's the best he ever heard in my life, or this guy should be ashamed that Adam Silver should never let this happen.

Somebody on Twitter this morning even said, did the NBA in Monash you? No. No. Help. Here we go. At forward 6-9 from Texas, number 35, 7 to Rand. The other forward is 6-9 from UCLA, number 5. Caban Liberty.

The center, 6-7 from Michigan State number 23, Draymond Green. And one guard, 6-7 from Washington State number 11, Clay Thompson. The other guard is 6-3 from Davidson, number 30, Stefan Curry. Head code to the Warriors, Steve Gart. We even got our TikTok noise. I don't know. I couldn't hide. Yeah.

Dave Kerr. I mean, that was the best part of the night for me. Everything else went downhill right after that. Whoops. Yeah, we don't have to talk about what happened after that. You know what the absolute worst part was? What was the absolute worst part, Matt? Is that Craig and I had been talking about how fun it is for Steve Sparks

to go in the locker room after each playoff series. He's like, should we do something like that? I said, oh, hell yeah. I said, if we win, I'll take it. We'll get a microphone and I'll go in the locker room. because he was doing a radio at the time. And he could stay up there to where he was and I could go into the locker room and do all those interviews.

And we were setting it up. We had the wireless mic. We were testing things out. We were ready for this. It would be a lot of dump buttons. A lot of dump buttons. Yeah, I don't even know. Does an NBA locker room celebrate like a playoff locker room does in baseball?

I think so. It feels like they do more of it out. They roll the champagne out. It feels like to do more of it on the court that they do than baseball does on the field. Maybe, I don't know. You know, we do unfortunately too much of, and it's our fault. We do too much of the, let's plan things out.

Like, I was planning a big old party to celebrate the Cougars won a national championship. You were? Like your house or what? No, like we were going to go out after the game. Oh. And then we turned around and waited for ever to leave the Almodo dome. And then walked nine miles to our hotel. It's not great.

Sorry, Matt. We were the bridesmaid. No, we were the bride left of the altar. We weren't in the bridesmaid. We were the damn bride. Ross, we had a space open on our hand to put the ring on the finger. And the guy came by and the preacher said, here, mad, the rings, please. The guy says, all right, here it is.

Let's give it to Florida instead. And the cougars choked again. again you can't you can't you can't blame you can't blame five sum of jam on this group you just can't sorry Matt I hope that you that Texas has not

become a bridesmaid again yet for college football this year they should win the whole yeah we'll see win the whole damn thing at least they have football championships and call themselves a football school imagine call yourself a basketball school and you got no championships

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The Astros. Home of your Astros. All right, look, I didn't realize the city of Houston was, wasn't so nice to people this week. You want to join us here and say you're sorry. Let's go because this is your last opportunity. You have to hold on over for an entire week. I don't want, I want to say sorry in advance to Draymond Green

because I will probably be not very pleasant about his performance on the court over the next week and a half as I call the Rockets Warrior series. It's just a huge part of me. I know exactly. I know, I know. I was so disgusted by the way he was just trying to bully Alperin-Gingun and the referee just sat there

get his ass out of the game and he stops doing it he just does quick trigger goodbye so long farewell we'll see what happens just hope he didn't kick Stephen Adams in the nuts again or I'm honestly worried about him raking someone in the face he's done it to Yokic Hardin and LeBron James twice what if Stephen Adams walked over there I don't do a new...

Do you do a New Zealand? No, not really. What's all, mate? What's all mate? No, that's not a lot. I can't do New Zealand. That's what we call you the chameleon, Matt. Cheers, mate. This is Stephen Adams.

No, I can't. Okay. Stephen Adams walks over and says, if you touch one of my players, I'll grab your testicles and squeeze them like the kiwis. It's one of my players. Let me rip your nut sack off. How's that?

That's something more like Ringo Starr. Oh, okay. I just want to live in the octopus's garden and write horrible songs and play bad drums. One of the greatest guitar players of old time. He didn't play guitar. I mean, well, he would be a great. Well, he's a crappy at it. He's a great, he'd be a great, he's one of the greatest drummers of all time.

I still wear a ponytail even though I'm bald. Okay. Seriously, can Stephen Adams go over there and say, touch one of my guys? and I'll grab you and make sure you cannot move again. I don't know. Because who... I wish they wouldn't play them. If you had a fight club, Golden State versus Rocket players, who Stephen Adams going against?

Kavanaugh-Lunny's a sweet kid. They're no way he's going to want to mona-a-mona with him. Yeah, you said rockets are winning a fight club against any team in the NBA. Yeah. You got Stephen Adams, Dylan Brooks, a men Thompson. Men Thompson, a little rangy? Yeah. Like a Tommy Hearns, if you will.

Yeah, it's like, bring me Moses Moody. I'll knock you out. Meanwhile, Fred Van Lee, it's like, I'll take Gary Payton. Not one swoop I'll be hitby done with his life. Yeah, Fred Van Vlittle's scrap. We scrapped you a bunch. They are. Number of technical fouls total in the series over under.

Now, promise you don't, we know it's going to go at least four. First of all, EMA is getting two or three. Steve Kerr's probably getting some. Now, I can't get any because I'll be too far away from the action. Okay. Nobody was thinking about you, Matt. Well, I mean, they can. Players have been

Officials of Broadcasters have getting in trouble before. Okay. I won't be doing the choke sign from 200 feet away. Okay. Thought would be crossing my mind now. Oh.

Yeah. Number of technicals in the first four games in the series. We are guaranteed at least a four game series. Let's go with eight. I'll go under. Between the two.

Eight in four games. Ooh, between the two. It's going to be tough. That's a tough number. Yeah. we'll go under because the rockets are going to sweep the Golden State Warrior. I like it. How's that serious price come along?

You put that serious price out right away. I think last I saw it went up for the Warriors. Oh, geez. 2.10. That's fine. So again, for those that know, when you get a series price like that, you have to bet $210 to win $100. Yeah, so basically you're giving over $2.1. And conversely, most times, if you give $100, you're going to win $2.10.

happen to take. Well, not every time. Not every time. For the juice or the vigorous, as they say. How they spell vigorous? V-I-G-O-R-I-S-H? I hear no, I hear no ding. You must have got it right.

Good for you. The Vig, as the kids call it. All right. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. 7-1-2-1-2-5-7-9. If you wanted to apologize for anything, last chance. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90.

We have the news at noon coming up. We have Tim Roy, the voice of the Warriors, join us at 1 o'clock. 120 is our fantasy 5 master's meal. Two appetizers. A main course.

Yes. A side dish. One side. Okay. And a dessert. Okay. You really can't go wrong with this unless something on one of our list, you go, man, that is terrible.

It's going to come down to people's preferences. That's right. Yeah. But you have to choose a menu. I mean, I think when you take the McRib for the main course, it's going to be a mistake. but I mean I could do a McRib wouldn't that be funny a McRib meal for did you see the the photo that was sent out of from people saying if the Waterburger did a McRib

it would call it the water rib he was an AI photo yeah it was a long pork delicious patty seared beautifully oh my God they're not searing anything with beautiful barbecue sauce and three onion rings across the top oh you caught me what a rib it's disgusting yeah I did look at a new video of the latest in the highway McRibb is produced and it's what you say it is. By the way, it also

Gristle Pork Shoeh It also just harassed chicken nuggets too. So if you're a big chicken nuggets fan too, if you've seen that pink slurry They make chicken nuggets out of, it's disgusting. It's basically the veins. Oh, come on, man. Yeah, it's entrails.

That's what we're eating. I mean, that's what ground beef is too. We'd still enjoy it. A little 20 pieces at 11 o'clock at night. Maybe I'll go vegan. Probably the safest thing. It probably is, but how about going to just go vegan but just eat steak? Is that okay?

Wait a minute. You'd be a what? A vegan. Steak eating vegan? You get yourself like one exception? I see how that it goes. All right. Real quick before the top of the hour.

We've got WrestleMania coming up this week. Oh my God. I was hoping we would get to this. So all these in ESPN as a promotional partner. Where is it? Clint's going, isn't he? It's in Las Vegas. Okay.

and ESPN is a promotional partner and they're interviewing these wrestlers like you get a big match coming up, how do you see things? It's all been decided. Yeah. So I was thinking to myself, why in the world would

ESPN waste their time interviewing these sports entertainers when the result is already decided? Are they in character in these interviews? No, they're just regular. They call themselves who they are, but they speak very plain spokenly. They don't grow up there's yelling and screaming on there. They're not cutting promos.

They're not cutting, yeah. It's, so I thought about it the other day. It's just like having an actor on a movie come on on the Today Show. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. All right, 1206 on Sports Talk, 7.90. We've got the voice of the Golden State Warriors joining us in about 55 minutes from now. Right now, we present to you the news at noon.

And with that, the Dave Ward of Houston Sports Journalism, the one and only sports Ross Villarreal. Thank you, Matt. What a high honor to call me the Dave Ward of a Sports Talk 790. Let's go ahead and start with your Houston Rock. It's getting started up this weekend against the Golden State Warriors. Ryan Hollins, doing a great job getting us ready for it over earlier on the show. You do have other NBA action tonight.

the heat taking on the hawks. You have the Mavericks taking on the Grizzlies. Then there will be four games of playoff action tomorrow. Four more on Sunday, including our Houston Rockets, still holding as one and a half point favorites in game number one against the Golden State Warriors. So if their Golden State is favored in the series two to one,

then they must be not favored in the rest of the games the series, right? No, it'll be one and a half. It'll be smaller. and so when they go to Golden State, they'll have a bigger advantage. It'll, in theory, normally, basketball gives you about five, six points for home court advantage. Yeah. So they're saying the Warriors are the better team, so they're just giving the Rockets only one and a half points. Okay, I got you.

So there you go. I understand it. It's been kind of funny throughout the years. So what they're saying is the Warriors have a better chance on the road than the Rockets do. So overall, they think they're going to steal home killer advantage and win the series is what Vegas is saying. but Vegas isn't always right, man. Hopefully they're not. Well, hopefully they're right on Sunday

because they have the Rockets as a favorite, but hopefully the Rockets can crush the Golden State Warriors. You also have the Houston Astros in action this weekend as it will be Ryan Augusto against Kyle Hart with the San Diego Padres. Today, then it'll be Michael King versus Hayden Wesniew on Saturday. And Dylan Sees taking on Frauber Valdez. It'll also be an ESPN Sunday night baseball tilt.

So if you're wondering, 6 o'clock, Astros 830 rockets on Sunday, get your pot of coffee on. You should probably, in theory, be able to catch both rather easy. And if you're going to either one of them, just be prepared for traffic of some sort around that 735. Well, no, you. How about a double dipper? You could do it. You could in theory go to one around the other. Our game's not going to start to buy $8.45.

This is what it is. Yeah. I don't know why. The NBA lies about their start times worse than any other league. Well, they push back more than anybody else, too. NFL says the game's at noon. Games at noon. Yeah.

Let's go. Yeah, really, zero, zero. The game starts at 7.10. If the game starts at 30, it's 6, 7. It's 42. Oh, okay. I'm talking about, like, if the Astros say 710, generally first pitches by like 711 or 712.

Very latest. Yeah, they keep that down to, and I think the NBA should adhere to that. I don't know why they don't. We'll start the games when we feel like it. All right. Well, elsewhere in the news, Matt, are you a big fan of Jazz Chisholm Jr.? The Speedy Second Baseman for the New York Yankees? Apparently, it's quite volatile these days.

Well, he was ejected in the New York Yankees' 6 to 3 victory over the Tampa Bay race on Thursday night, and then he appeared to violate Major League Baseball's social media policy. He posted in-game criticism online. He posted on his ex-account. quote, not even close.

He later deleted the post. M&B regulations do ban the use of electronic devices during games, even though he was ejected. It prohibits, quote, the displaying or transmitting content that questions the impartiality of or otherwise denigrates a major league umpire. Probably a fine, probably not a suspension coming for Jazz Chisholm Jr.

And my guess is the money that Jazz has made in the last couple of years. He'll be just fine. Yeah, he'll probably be fine. All right, let's keep it moving on the news at noon, man. Of course, as you remember, earlier this week, we discussed Dionne San, or excuse me, the Colorado Buffaloes and the retirement, Jersey retirement of both Travis Hunter and Ashredor Sanders. Yes. Dion Sanders was speaking to the media.

And, well, of course, he had something to say about all the criticism. Can we start off with me just shaking everyone's hand that played here before? Just give them a hug. He said after practice. they've got to come back for that, right? Let's start with that. That's what I want to do. I think he's talking about criticism for some past players.

He said, Travis Hunter and Chudor Sanders are both great buffs and exceptional talents who have been tremendous representatives are a programmer, Acuteleases Athletic Director, Rick George, at our university, and led our team back to national prominence. Anyways, Dion Sanders defending his son's inclusion. If his last name wasn't Sanders, we wouldn't have this discussion. He's thinking that people are criticizing, door because he's his son.

I don't think it's necessarily the act of, no, you know what? I think there's a variety different ways to criticize it. One, is he that good to be getting his jersey retired? Two, should any college kid just freshly out of college be getting his jersey retired? And three, are you doing this to keep Dion happy? I think those are all

factors. I think absolutely. Now, does it mean any of them are valid? No, does it mean that any of them can't be discussed? I think absolutely. It can be. You tell me the three things I just brought up does not cross your mind when it comes to this at all? Yeah, I think. I mean, Shadur had good numbers.

But they were, I believe it was 13 and 11 or 13 and 12 in games he started, something like that. Get in New Jersey retired. Good for him. Wishing him the best. Okay. Over the Texas Longhorns and Kevin Durant think it was a great decision. Oh, Wade Taylor the 4th at A&M has zero problem with that.

Oh, my God. was like on the floor getting his jersey retired. They had to stop the game with three minutes left to go on the game to retire his jersey. When he's tearing it up for Pantheacos and Greece, I'm sure he's really going to love having it. Guys, correct me from wrong. Did Johnny Manzel

get his, just retired? I don't know if they do that. I mean, it's different for different programs because especially in college, they don't really retire numbers. Because you got like 90 guys on scholarship. You don't only have so many numbers. But if you were to Jonathan's point, if you were going to really retire

jersey of a current athlete who basically put you back on the map after years of dormancy. It's Johnny Mansell. Yeah, Google says it is not retired. Okay. And that's your news at noon, Matt. Oh, by the way, Emmanuel Sharp is going to come back to the University of Houston. Oh,

thank goodness. And again... Is he going to shoot this time? This year? That was a low blow. Well, that was tough. I'm just asking. This is a question on everyone's mind. Well, again, U of H. because it's stupid.

I mean, I love my school, but we do stupid things. Another release. The manual's back. I mean, it was back. That's great. Guess what? That means he re-uped on a one-year deal. I mean, he got it paid.

I mean, let's not hide this. Mm-hmm. I don't trust our NIL people at all. Really? Oh, that guy's slimy. The recruiting classes are looking pretty good. Yeah, but I mean, it's because it's because of Calvin. It's Calvin's fine of the cash, not these gibronies.

Hmm. By the way, a little loan secret, these NIL dealers that are in the best interest, of schools, they're taking commissions off these bad boys. Do not hide yourself. Do not hide. So this, oh, doing this for the greatest of our school. Yeah, I've seen. We're finding how much you're making on the side. You'll be ashamed of yourself.

We're hoping for a sizable donation from the Thomas household. You'll get double what I gave you last year. Oh, in Baltimore's uniforms. Do you see these orange things they're wearing? Jesus. What's wrong? Burn the irises of my eyes.

Okay. They weren't the white, so you can't see it now. I'll take your word for it. All right, that was the news at noon. Thank you. No, thank you. You did it. I didn't do anything except just comment.

713-212-5-7-9. And by way, quick predictions, I do believe that Cody Rhodes will keep the belt against John Steina. Okay. I do believe that Tiffy Stratton is going to beat Charlotte Flair and maintain the WWE women's champion. Which WrestleMania is this? like 30-something? 41, I think. Oh, 41.

Okay. And what are the things you want to know about? Oh, I believe that John Heyman's going to turn on CM Punk. The MLB.com writer? He's in WrestleMania? CM Punk. Oh, he said John Heyman. Yeah, John Heyman.

The writer? No, the wrestling manager. Oh, cool. He's going to have to. He doesn't want to make the tribal chief mad. You okay? there. Seriously. What's wrong with you?

713-212-5-7-90. Pardon my partner's rudeness. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anything goes Friday. And if you'd like to get in it, we're going to need judges, by the way, for the Fantasy 5. And it's very simple. Two appetizers, a main course, a side dish, and a dessert. And you can draft in any order you want. Any order you want to. Okay.

But once an item is taken, you can't take that item. You can't add it to your list. There's so many food items. I can't imagine us doing that. Plus, our palettes are so different. And I fully anticipate losing. I just know. We'll see what happens.

I don't think you're going to have a bad item on the menu. I don't think it matters. It's going to come down to random preferences for the call. So, Jonathan, you will not decide your vote until you hear our entire list. You'll sit back and listen like the audience does. So, go, go. I'm just saying if you want to get some brownie points of me, you know, order to vote. I'm going to be writing it down.

Every time I'm going to be... You should. You should need to write it down. Pros and cons. Remember, yeah, that's right. Because, I mean, there may be some things on my... Yeah, I vote for Matt because he's look. He's like, we talked about this, only child syndrome. And he gets very mad when you, when you, like, vote against him. He tells people that votes against him to go to hell. I've never done that once in my life. Oh, my God. He's done it. Never won't Jonathan once.

He's just saying that. I've always said thank you very much for your contributions. Yeah, that's exactly right. He tells them to go to hell when they vote against him. No, it's not true. I've very upset. Never had done it. Just vote for Matt. Never done that before. As long as it's not like chicken tenders and fries and ketchup, then I can... No, no, no, no. It's all that eats.

Stop. I'm looking at this menu right now and I'm like, damn, this is going to be a delicious menu at the Masters. I have a... The only thing I've got to figure out is my side dish. Okay. Not my side piece, my side dish. All right.

Thanks, Matt. 713-212-5-790. The I-Heart Radio and Network has amazing podcast. Don't listen to that one. Just don't. I speak on behalf of... of every Houston eye heart and radio employee

do not go click that do not listen to that it would be a waste of your time by the way I was wrong as normally the case may be I was obviously it was not John Heyman

that's the wrestling manager it's Paul Heyman I had a caller literally I was gonna tell you that right that's fine I mean people make mistakes sorry sorry out there

and Twitter verse y'all are perfect with everything I'm gonna hunt you down like rabbit dogs and check your life see how your life's going with your names. You are a different stratosphere today. I'm ready.

I know. You know what it is? It's golden state. You've been incubating with all these days off. Not days off. Working. Fighting this 102. You know what it is?

You know what my life is like, Ross? What's your life like, man? I'm fever-free. That's great. Maybe the five days of 102 in a row got to my head. It seemed to have boiled your brain. That's what we're seeing here. So don't make any mistakes out there, Twitter.

I'm going to find you. Right. Give me back. Get back at you. Well, you know how this job is. As soon as we can say 100 things right, we get one thing wrong. And it's time for everybody to jump on you. It's how good.

It's not nice. Y'all be nice. I'm a nice person. To who? To most people. Not to everybody, though. Not to John Heyman. Or Paul.

Paulie. So Paul Heyman is the manager? Yeah. He has a nickname that Roman Reins game I just can't think of what it is I'm not watching a lot of current wrestling Me either But yeah

Roman Reins and So is the Rock gonna be there? We don't know That's a good question Stone Cold Steve Austin gonna be there? We don't know I'm looking at the eradicator I have no idea who describes

Who is that? The eradicator? Yes Is that a wrestler? Yeah she's like just as tall as Pat McAfrey Like she's huge Pat McCaffrey Who's Pat McAfee?

Oh Pat McAfee oh yeah Yeah No sponsor Yeah, no sponsors. What was I going to say? I don't know. You're talking about Paul Haven. Oh, yeah.

Paul's, yeah. He's been an advocate for a long time, he's manager, and he's been with the tribal chief for a while, and now it's him, there's a triple threat match. No matter who, three people in there, and whoever pins who. One person leaves? No, they win the match.

Oh, you just pin one person. What is the other guy doing? Just standing there? Well, if A, B, and C, if A, B and C, C also loses it. So you're going to wait for somebody to get crushed in the head with a chair, and then the other guy's going to pin one guy's going to pin the other. You've got Seth Rollins, you've got Roman Raines, and then you've got C.M. Punk. Oh, wow, this is incredible.

You're welcome to come over Saturday night. No, I'm busy. I'm working on the Astros. Okay. Well, you want me to text you updates? No. All right. I thought it was barred from your house for life. Well, Kim's out of town. Okay.

So you do get a free pass. Normally you're not invited. That's exactly right. You told me to mention how far out it was. You set me up. I don't believe that to be accurate. Matt's wife got all mad at me because I kept joking about how they're in South Nacconnocious up there and the deep depths of Kingwood. I mean, down the streets.

My goodness. Matt was like, hey, just make fun of how far out we are. I was like, okay. I guess everybody's going to have a good time And then he's got his wife mad at me Next thing you do is going to make me blame me for saying Hey don't you go tell Teresa how much your cheese sticks suck No, I'm not going to blame you for that

With South Nakadocious I would be that too Oh, you live in Kingwood too? No I've been in Nakadocious Yeah, I know It's a joke It's a joke for how far it is

He lives way back there in Kingwood He lives in the far reaches of Kingwood Oh, where all the mansions at I've been over there Yeah. I wish I lived. He's got a palatial estate. Let me tell you, if it was a mansion, I would not feel sorry for myself, but it's not a mansion.

It's comfortable. Uh-huh. It's just a new sod put in the front of the house. A new what now? Sod? Grass. Pallets. Cool.

So, there you go. It's anything that goes Friday. Clearly. Speaking of that, did you see the athletic? Who I do believe is, it's my favorite sports journalism. I mean, S.I. is long gone. Oh, S.I. is terrible. It's not. Yeah.

Has a new ranking of every NFL roster. Would you like to know where the Texans fit in that 32 man? 12th. You'll find out next. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I ruined your tease or I kind of did. So the athletic is getting ready for the NFL draft, and they're doing projection models ranking all 32 rosters ahead of the draft, obviously. and they have what they call

this is very metric of them and Ross you'll love this expected margin of victory indicating how many points a team is expected to win or lose by against an average NFL roster for every NFL team as of April 15th of this month wonderful so the higher the positive number you are

the better you are and the lower you are the chances of you being the lowest So just putting in perspective, and whether the numbers are what they are is irrelevant. But the number one team in the NFL is a plus 6.7 under this expected margin of victory. Okay? The 32nd ranked team is minus 5.2. So there's your range of best to worse in terms of roster construction.

Okay. I would like for you to guess where you think a variety of teams are, why don't we see how you can do on the top five of roster construction going in and see if you can name the five teams in that group. I will go with the Philadelphia Eagles. They're the point six point seven. They're number one, yes. Then I will go with the Buffalo Bills. Number five at plus three point eight.

Number five, interesting. Ravens are number two at plus six point oh. Lions. Number three at plus five point five. I guess we'll throw the chiefs, but I feel like, okay. So you got all nicely done. I don't have it. No, no, but those are all, those more good.

This is the best team in the NFL. So let's get to, you know, do the five worst? Let's see how the five worst go for you. Titans? A dead last, minus 5.2. So if Rosser construction, when it comes to this,

what they call expected margin of victory, if the Eagles are a plus 6.7, the Titans, according to this article, by the athletic is a minus 5.2. Titans suck. Giants? Giants are not in the top bottom five. Really? Yeah. Patriots? Bottom five, they're at number five

at minus 2.7. Jets? Minus 4.3, they're considered the second worst. Two rounds. Nope. Really? Mm-hmm. Let's go with the bears are actually, I'll go to the Panthers.

Nope. Okay. A couple more. I don't know. Saints? Saints minus 3.3. Okay. And the third to worse would be the... Just saying.

Radis. Oh, yeah, you should have been to the Raiders. All right. So, you have three teams in the super blue category, which is awesome. Yes. You have the two in the darker blue. Okay. You got two in the little lighter blue.

And you have three in the lighter blue. Those would be all the teams that are plus 0.0 or more. That's 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. 12 of the 32 teams are in this plus category, which is kind of surprising as only 12 of this metric. 20 than or not. Where would you like to put the Houston, Texas? What do you think of the Houston Texans great on in this?

12th. No, they're actually considered 19th. 19th. At a minus point eight. That's not good. Yeah. So if we're putting it there, is we calling this a power ranking?

Correct. Very non-draft-related. The Texans are 18th. Why are the Texas 19th, according to the athletic? It goes by this. The lowest playoff team on this year's list, there is some work to do in Houston. After fielding maybe the worst offensive line in the league in 2024,

the Texan ship star left tackle Laramie Tuncel to Washington. So you can probably guess where they need the most help. Outside of the offensive line, they could stand to boost the interior defensive line and linebacking group, which each rank in the bottom third of the league. Who does the athletic think have a better roster than the Texans right now? The Atlanta Falcons at 18. Oh, wow.

The Miami Dolphins at 17. Oh, dear. The Pittsburgh Steelers at 16. Oh. The Dallas Cowboys at 15. And the team the Texans beat in the playoffs last year, the Chargers at 14. The Bengals didn't make the playoffs last year. Number 12.

Denver Broncos who whimpered out of the playoffs. Number 11. Now again, it's just one metric. It's just one website trying to draw up a little bit of news headlines for what there are. But in the constant thirst for NFL coverage, people are saying, let's take a look at the 32 rosters, as currently put together, not counting next week's draft where the Texans even in Casero, so there's no needs anywhere. The team's already stuck.

there's no needs. They're all stacked. Oh, my gosh. He says he may even give up even drafting this year because they don't need anybody. No, Matt. Yeah, because they just say it's cab space. Yeah. There's needs everywhere. Now, I wouldn't expect them to go with secondary as far as the first round. And you always get a little, there's a little bit of a lie. They say, oh, we don't draft for need to draft the best player. That's true to a point. Right. As he said, they're taking quarterback off the board. So they're not drafting best player available no matter what. If they have a quarterback rated as the best. player available. They're not going to draft that person. I would say for the most part, probably the same thing if it's a cornerback as well. So after that, basically, though, there's needs everywhere. Offensive line, defensive line. You can never have too many pass rushers, tight end everywhere. Linebacker, as you mentioned, the linebacking core.

Some people are not so sure how good it is. So there are needs. There are a lot of needs. But to put it at 19, again, that's just one person's, sizing things up. Middle of the pack. I could see that. I mean, I had him at 12th. Now, of course, 19th is seven places different,

but I had them slightly above average, and they have them slightly below average at the end of the day. And it's still put together as this, I mean, as long as CJ Estrada stays upright, he's the best quarterback in the division by far. He regressed a bit last year, but I think he's going to be better. But the team defense is locked up financially,

for sure, at least in the secondary, for a couple of years. And you would assume that Casario will start to draft heavy in the offensive line to at least, if not create starters, create competition, create some sort of depth in that area as compared to just having to rebuild the bad boy every other year. And the AFC South's winnable. And there's no power play there.

I would say probably going into 2025, expectations can't be any higher than really frankly what they were last year when a lot of folks thought they could go to the AMC championship game. That's where you are right now. I haven't seen win totals yet. I don't know if they've even come out. But that's where you are right now. I still think they're the best team in the AFC South.

You win your division. You're in the playoffs. You're good. Yep. I think the teams that I'm most intrigued about going into the season next year, can Buffalo finally get over the hump? Does Kansas City finally Been staying there for 30 years now?

Is Kansas City finally starting sewing signs of aggression? I mean, they got to the Super Bowl, but they got ran out of building. Cincinnati has got a power-packed offense, but they have spent no money on defense and have no issues in doing that. And did you spend too much on one side of the ball

and not enough on the other? Yeah, can the Ravens, speaking of teams that need to get over the hump, the Lamar Jackson-led Ravens have not? Yeah. Are the Chargers going to be better in season two at Jim Harball? and now that you've got Justin Herbert with the consistency in terms of his coaching staff,

do they all of a sudden become a better football team? Is there somebody we're forgetting about this year? There could be this upstart surprise team? I don't know. But like last year to me, there was just, I thought there was over a level of excitement about what this team could do. Because I thought, again, Kansas City and Baltimore were so much ahead of everybody else in Buffalo, for that matter. I'm ready to knock down Kansas City down a peg.

the question is, does somebody jump in with them? Or does Buffalo and or Baltimore go, you know what? We've finally gotten Kansas City. They look human. They look aged. Do you think Kansas City and the Golden State Warriors share any sort of common storyline threat? Meaning that this is this finally the start of the decline of the Golden State franchise? No.

What's Pat Mahomes? Like 29, 30? Yeah. But, man, they just look so out of sorts in the Super Bowl. They made the Super Bowl, though. Yeah, they did. but it was it was painful to be a

for Chief's Nation. I mean even Taylor didn't want to stay for the whole time. Did she leave? No, but she wanted to leave. Travis Kelsey probably wanted to leave too. Yeah, Travis Kelsey's like, man, can we go? Unless you weren't good enough. I mean, the Eagles were just too good,

especially defensively and offensively. Yeah. So I just want to give you a little perspective of what the Athletic said about the Texans having the 19th best roster. Now, just because you have the 19th best roster. Now, just because you have the 19th, best roster doesn't necessarily mean it equates

one win. I mean, if they were 19th and didn't make any massive changes, nobody, who else made massive changes in the NFL? They went, wow, that's, that's roster went way up high. If 19 gets in the playoffs, still gets in the playoffs, right? Uh-huh. And all you do is play better for four quarters on a particular Sunday.

It's like, we talk about the Astros. We always make the parallels. Like, just be better than your division. Get in the playoffs, especially in the NFL. Anything can happen. Yeah, yeah. All right, 1243 on Sports Talk, 790, 713, 212, 579. If you want to jump in and say hello, I know today is a off day for a lot of you.

And if you've never called the show before and you're like, hey, I'd like to know how Matt and Ross tick, come in and join us. We don't bite, do we? No, no. Well, we do, unless we've got a couple of vodka sodas, but that's a different issue for a different time. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-790. I was afraid of something. Yesterday, the Rockies fire their hitting coach, Hensley Mullins.

Hensley Mullins. That's an enterprise of name. Surprise we didn't get 45 calls on the show asking when the Astros are going to fire their batting coaches next. Well, if you can't get the boys to hit in Coorsfield, I don't know if it's going to happen. But their OPS at Coorsfield's like probably 725 in other places, 4.30. that was the knock on Brendan Rogers. Is it okay? Early returns, solid.

Kind of a nice pleasant surprise for their local nine. Yeah, we had him on, and he loves the batting coaches and batting coaching that he's getting here in Houston. Yeah, again, I am, you're never going to hear me ever, ask for a firing of a hitting coach. Why not? Because, again, that's in the weed stuff that we don't know about. And now if I was broadcasting the games and travel with the team, I probably could have a better indication of that.

But I don't. I can't do it. Now, if a team is underperforming as a managerial staff, that's one thing. And if a team is 15, 20 games under 500 and the guys are checking out, it's going to tell coaches do get fired. They do have to take the L sometimes. Sometimes you've got to shake things up. But right now, it's all fine.

Padres in town, we'll see. It's a two out of three weekend, Ross. I hope so. Yeah, two out of three, they lost Wednesday. in St. Louis. Well, the streak's going to end at some point. I don't know. Does this team feel like a team that could go 8181? Right now, yes. Yeah. Is 81 and 81 getting you

the can punch the American League West? I mean, kind of, actually. Well, I mean, seriously, we talked about this before. How many is it going to take? 86? I don't know. My preseason prediction was 88. I'm not feeling so great. Well, the reality is this. What is the reality? You have five teams Oakland's got no shot. No. Excuse me, Oakland.

Whatever they're calling. By the way, the Oakland, I'm sorry, the athletics are ahead of the Astros and the students. They are not. Yeah, the Astros are a dead last place in the AOS right now. What? No way! I'll just let you know.

I'm sorry to be the bear of bad news. You know what I haven't done? I don't observe the standings like I do with everything else. No, you shouldn't. I mean, I'm just checking. I'm not getting all obsessive about like you. Well, I'm about to find out. Hold on. At least your standings watches stop for the wrong. Rockets.

Oh, no, they are in last place. We had the 8 and 10 last place Astros. That is correct. The positive is only 3.5 out. You think I was lying to you? No, but I didn't want to see it for myself. The old A's. Well, the Rangers just swept the crappy angels.

Texas is 12 and 7. They're 9 and 1 in home. Oh, Kumar Rocker had a good start. That's not good. If the Rangers get Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker, pitching well I'm going to be honest they're going to be favorites for the West

don't speak like that I'm sorry we have to deal in realities here I know some people like to sugarcoat things and we're all homers and blah blah I'm just going to be real with you if Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker pitch well it's going to be real bad for the Astros

the AOL West Angels don't scare me Rangers don't scare me no excuse me the Rangers shouldn't scare me they just do Jack lighter hurt? Oh yeah, he had a finger issue. He's on the 15-day-out. We've had all finger-inches before.

Huh? We've all had finger issues before. Okay. So the playoffs are we start today, ladies and gentlemen? They don't stop. Don't go with playoffs start today. It's April 18th. Or even a half game behind the A's.

You know, they're not drawn flies in Sacramento? Why would they? You would think Sacramento, Big City. Come check it out. thousand people, that's all it takes to fill the building. They can't fill that up. Yeah, but they know that they're just a side piece. They know what this is.

That's a great little sideways you went on this. If the sidepiece knows what the side piece is, the side piece I know take advantage of being a side piece. Yeah, but are you taking side piece out to Maastros? No. You're going to rack of the rocks. But you'll took the free. So it's going to get, it's low effort.

The athletics are given the very low effort. And Sacramento isn't going to like that. Now, Sacramento, yeah, you're right. You're not going to Mastro's, but you're also, you're not going to the drive-through either. Sacramento is the sidepiece, and the athletics are shacking up there, and all they're doing the whole time they're there is saying, I can't wait to get back my wife, or my new wife in Mount Las Vegas. So you think Sacramento is like...

So how's Sacramento feeling about that, Matt? Better do you have been a sidepiece than not to have any sidepiece love at all? No, Sacramento loves. They love themselves. They pride themselves on being great. They probably think they're great and there they are. But they still have to have some self-esteem on the matter. Like in Tampa, where the Reyes are playing at George Starminder Field with the Yankees,

they've actually made the stadium as Ray-friendly. It looks clean. There's nice concourses. There's plenty of Ray stuff around. I mean, it looks like it's presentable. they're literally just taking the old signs from Oakland's Paul Park and just plasher him against the wall in Sacramento. Like this is a dump.

It's pathetic. We're just putting a little. I mean, really, it just shows you how poor the leadership is a Major League Baseball. That Major League Baseball allowed this to even happen. That it allowed to have a Segway. Yeah, they don't care. You could have gone anywhere else. The only reason why they chose to stay in Sacramento is because

the A signed a huge TV deal with NBC Sports California and because Sacramento was in that region you still get the money from being the NBA NBC Sports California But they'd have been much better served going to say I don't know Salt Lake City Or Nashville or Portland or anywhere That at least had a good looking stadium

The people actually gave two crap But you're right maybe they Maybe they are just the you know what Come in here have sex with me and leave no cuddles, no fine dining, just get in, get out. Do what you got to do. Say what you got to say. Grown, you got to groan.

Be on your way. I'm not making fresh, I'm not having fresh bed sheets for you. I'm not going to cook you breakfast in the morning. You just come in here, lay what you got to do, and get out. 12.55 p.m. Go ahead and get that one, Jonathan. Thank you. You know he used to live in Sacramento

was Tim Roy. Oh, well, let's hear what he's got to say. I'm sure he's got a little few opinions on that as well. Sure, why not? You talk. You have a great time with Tim Roy. I'm busy. You know what? You're working on Believe it or not. Yeah, sure. And we got a busy laugh tower.

Tim Roy's coming up. Then we have the Fantasy 5. And then we have, believe it or not. What is the category of today? How are you or not today? All things about Ross, what have we thinking about while he's eating lunch? 1256 on Sports Talk 790. 102 on Sports Talk 790 is the fourth and final hour of an anything goes Friday here on the program. Sunday night inside TOTA Center. We'll have it for you right here.

Ashth is going to be on our sister station. We're going to the blowtorch. We're going 50,000 watts for game one of the Western Conference first round series between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets. It's joining us now, the longtime voice and a good friend of the show, Tim Roy, with 957 and the Warriors Radio Network. On your way to the airport right now, how is the country? current Bay Area Freeway situation? So far, so good. I live way out by Napa, so I've got a little bit of a hike to get to SFO, but so far it's

pretty good. Usually middle of the day is probably your best bet to drive around the Bay Area, because that's when the traffic is minimal, and you can get here to there. We've got coastal clouds coming at me, and it's just kind of a nice day. Last stupid question about weather. Have you ever driven during a earthquake? And what is that like if you do? I have driven during a small earthquake

and the car just kind of bounces a little bit. I've not driven in a big one. But actually, this is the anniversary of the 1906 which San Francisco in a big way and then a huge fire afterwards decimated the city and they always paused to remember that. A lot of people lost their lives on this day in 1906. Wow, wow.

Great reference. of history there. Tim Roy, the voice of the Warriors with us here. All right, Tim, so you are not a typical 7 seed. Vegas doesn't believe that. I don't think Golden State Warriors believe that. I certainly don't think Memphis believes it. It was a 21

and 7 since Jimmy and staff have been in there. Beyond the record itself, and look, I've seen you guys play, obviously a handful of times, including once in person. What has been the change in your mind since Jimmy joined Golden State? Jimmy brings a

he kind of put all the puzzle pieces together. And he brings a belief, he brings a confidence, and he also brings playmaking abilities. So when Jimmy has the ball, he's a little bit like Andre Godala, where he really wants to set up other people. He doesn't really want to score as much. But when he has to score, he can score.

And so he's done like three things. Our defense became a lot better with Jimmy on the floor. free throw shooting, which was abysmal before he got there, is now pretty good. And they get to the line a lot more because Jimmy draws fouls. And so he's kind of blended everything together and has allowed, you know, the role players for the warriors to flourish. And there's a little bit of chaos when Steph and Draymond play, and Jimmy brings a little more order to the party.

Do you think there has been too much reliance on if it's not Jimmy and Steph, the team is in trouble? I know Brandon Projemsky has really broken out this year, especially from three point range. So I don't want to exclude him. But it felt like in that game against Memphis, and certainly in the Rockets game, we saw you guys a couple weeks back, it was those two guys and you were kind of searching for that third score. Has there been a lot of third searching during this last two-month stretch of Warrior basketball? Not that much, but there has been more lately. Moses Moody went on a really incredible, incredibly consistent run for himself.

He was getting 10 to 15 points every night. He was solid as a rock. He's lost a little confidence of late, but I think he'll be fine. He started to get his shot to fall a little bit in that Memphis game. But Jemski has incredible confidence. But you're right. I think at times they do look too much for Jimmy and Stee. And I think that's what, you know, you need to have those other scores to really balance the floor out and to keep the attention off step.

And the way teams are guarding step, a lot of top locking, a lot of, you know, guys not even looking to help off of other people so that you've got to have guys that make the other team pay. I think that's going to be a big key for Golden State in this series if they can get consistent scoring of some of the other guys. We had our friend Ryan Holland's on the show earlier today, and is one of the things that I was going to bring up to you almost immediately that he brought up without me even asking. John the Cominga has had some really great games against the Rockets, especially earlier in the season. But there have been a lot of DMPCs.

I don't know if you're perplexed by it because you see it every night, and you obviously know what the coaches are thinking. But we as outsiders, John the Cominga, I'm stunned that there are as many DMPDs. What's going on with his rock? rotation time? I think Steve wanted to shorten the rotation for those last two games, and I think he really wanted to make sure that the ball was going to move all the time. I think that's why he didn't play Jonathan.

I think it'll be different in this series because I think the matchups are a lot different for the Warriors as opposed to the Clippers. So I would expect him to pull. And, yeah, he brings it athleticism that the Warriors don't have. And so I just think for Jonathan, it's a matter of him kind of seeing the floor and being patient and doing other things. You know, he hasn't rebounded the ball as well as maybe he could. He's such a great athlete. You would assume he could rebound better.

I think that's one area they like him to do well, especially in this series, where, you know, defensive rebounding for Golden State's going to be huge. Well, your thoughts about what you liked and didn't like about what Golden State did when, Adams and Shangoon were on the floor at the same time together? I like the fact that they didn't go crazy with adjustments per se. I like the fact they stayed the course. I don't like the fact that they, I don't think they did a good enough job rebounding, playing against the Twin Towers there. And so I think that's, again, I think it's going to be a huge key for Golden State.

They gave up way too many rebounds in the second half against the Clippers, so I can have an overtime. And they had to play really against a similar front court when Edie and Jared Jackson Jr. are out there. Those are two large humans. So I expect them to be ready for it. I think you may see more of Kvon Looney when that group is out there. And you also may see more of Quentin Post.

This Post is a guy that, especially with Jimmy's out there, he kind of opens the floor for Jimmy because he can shoot a three. And so, you know, you've got to honor that. And if you don't, he's going to knock a couple down. So I think that's going to be maybe one of the keys for the Warriors is, can they get them out of post and can Kavanae give them the kind of rebounding minutes that he's so good at? Visiting with Tim Roy, the voice of the Warriors with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. And a lot of the conversation nationally, Tim, is the experience of Golden State versus the inexperience of the rockets per se.

Now look, obviously, Dylan, Fred, and Stephen and Landel to a smaller extent have been around the playoffs before. Is there a part of what you think, Steve, will tell the guys is, hey, it's time for us to throw that first punch early in the game to get this team that doesn't have a lot of playoff experience off-kilter, or at least early on? I would hope so, but, you know, the Warriors tend to not get off to great starts usually. You know, they've, especially in the last couple of months, they've gotten off to these slow starts, and they're down like, you know, 10 to 2 right at the beginning of the game, and then they kind of get back into the flow. You know, I don't think he'll say anything special about that except to be ready, but, you know, I'd like to see them get off the good starts.

And by the way, you know, if you look at the West, this, I mean, if they say Memphis wins tonight, that's another 48-win team. Right. And you'll have, you know, everybody's 48 wins are better. better and from eight to three, it's all buttoned up within a couple of games of each other. I mean, there's going to be four good teams going home at the end of the first round of the West. It's crazy. Absolutely crazy. Well, I mean, selfishly, when you are, Tim, and you've been in this spot before,

when you're the number two seed in the Western Conference, you're saying to yourself, all right, we need to get rid of this first round series, not let it go, say, six or seven games, and then really start to worry about the semifinals. not only are you facing a Golden State team that's had your number four times in 10 years in the playoffs. Realistically, this is not a 7-seat golden state team. The team transferred to what they are now based off of the trade and their improved play, the back two months of the season. Oh, absolutely, yeah.

I mean, the Warriors don't look at themselves as a seventh seat. I don't think anybody should look at them as a 7-seat because, you know, let's face it, a couple of shots go against the clippers, and they're in the entire other bracket. So, yeah, I think, again, I think three to eight, those teams are all in one big, you know, mosh pile. Though I will say this, I think the other team that really took off in the last month and a half of the season are the Clippers. Kauai Leonard is back, and he's hunting, and that's a problem for everybody in the West. Well, Tammy, thank you so much for coming on. catching up with you and your crew coming in this weekend.

Give me one intangible that no one's talking about that you're going to keep a keen eye on during this seven-game stretch, or hopefully seven games at least. Oh, wow. Yeah, I expect a great series to be, to be honest with you. I don't think, you know, one team has a huge advantage over the other. I would say that, you know, for the Warriors, I think it's got to be said, you know, keep, you know, what can Cominga do in this series? How can he help the Warriors and will he be an X-factor if he gets the time in this series that I expect him to get? You know, I think that to me would be one thing to kind of keep your eye out. What does he bring to the table for the Warriors?

And, you know, on the rocket side, you know, just how they, you know, get used to playoff basketball, how quickly they get used to that is going to be a big deal for them. And I'm just thrilled that I got through this entire interview. without one stripper reference. So there you go. Well, that was an hour and a half ago. Thanks for listening. Before we let you go,

hey, we were just talking about Sacramento has largely rejected the A's so far, and you used to live in Sacramento. You're from that era, obviously, and you covered the A's and did games with them for many years as well. Why hasn't Sacramento said, you know what?

I know they're a short-term fix, but we like to have them here. What's up with the lack of love affair right now for them? I think it's just, it just goes back to, everybody. And I think Sacramento is saying, hey, wait a minute, we think we should have a major league baseball team here. They've wanted one forever. It's really more of a baseball town than a basketball town. It's produced a lot of great basketball players in that area. And so I think, you know,

the ownership has just struggled to find any common ground with the fan base right now. And, and, you know, they, until they do, you know, they're always talking about Vegas. They're not talking about Sacramento. So I think people are saying, hey, why should I? go watch them and they're only going to be here a couple of years. I think they've got some fence mending to do in the next few months. Well, my key, obviously, you've got to stop Steph. And one for 10 a week ago Saturday was fun for us to watch and call, obviously. How much physicality will the rockets be allowed on Steph? Will it get into his system a little bit? Will the whistles come quickly? And if those types of games happen like that again, I think the rockets have a very

a good chance. If there's quick whistles, Steph goes the free throw line, takes advantage of it, or Golden State makes enough moves to separate Rocket defenders, amend Thompson, Dylan Brooks, i.e., anybody else in that group, to give Steve's steps in free avenues, that's where I think the Rockets could be some serious trouble.

I think it's going to be a fun series. All right, well, safe travels, go the speed limit, don't get a ticket, and we'll see you on Sunday night. Oh, I'll bear it back off then. Okay. Yes, that sounds good. Thanks, Tim. You appreciate it, friend. Tim Roy, the very talented longtime voice of the Golden State Warriors

with us here on Sports Talk, 790. Let's start taking some phone calls. All right, ladies and gentlemen, do you see Denver right now? The Rockies Nationals game has been postponed. It is snowing like a muddha. Oh, my gosh.

Easter, Sunday, and Denver, and I mean, you can't even see the field. Wow. That wasn't really why I was saying, ladies and gentlemen, but I was just going to throw it off. and gentlemen. Thanks, Matt. All right, we need

five, six judges actually. Yes. Because Jonathan will be judge number one. Would judge number one on our fantasy five? If you have a

palette of any sort, you're eligible for this. Then why are you choosing then? 713-212-5-790. If you want to be a judge, need to listen to our menu, Yes.

And pick the better master's menu. Master's menu. Yeah. And again, those who don't know, when you win the Masters, the next year, you get to choose what everybody eats. Yes. The night before the big event. Okay. Since you and I were not together, Friday, we're doing it today.

We're picking two apps, a main item, protein, if you will. I guess you'd be a pasta if you wanted to. A side dish. Okay. And a dessert. Uh-huh. And we need judges. Uh-huh.

Who has the better Masters' men? menu. 713-212-5-790. That's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Now, Ross, since you typically win about 75 to 8. I won the last one. Yeah, 75. But you had won the one before that. Okay. So we need people to call in and Jonathan's a judge number one. The rest of you are just the rest of people and it's the best of seven. Okay. So, right? No. Hey, can we switch to just I put the master's themes in there, John? I think we should go to the master's theme? Oh, I think it's a fantastic. Yeah, absolutely.

Great idea. Is it long enough? Clip that 122. That's fine. No, it's not met. No. People always say yes to me. This is putting me in a better mood for a nice, delicious meal at the Masters.

Now, who gets to go to the Masters dinner? Is everybody that gets involved in the Masters? That's a lot of food. Everyone who's eaten, does Jim Nance barge in to the meal? At the Masters. Does he want? CBS executives probably get. get in there? Oh, I bet it's high-flop.

Yeah, oh, yeah. Because not every golfer wants to go eat dinner tonight before. We want to have a light meal. You know those sponsors want handouts when they put him, I'm putting up the cash. That's true. I get it. All right. That's that I do get it. Ross, uh, since you won the last one, do you want to go first or give me the choice of the

first, uh, or you could take the selections two and three? I'm going to go first, Matt. All right, please. Because, uh, for the main course, I think it's a direction you would possibly go in and I don't want it to slip through my fingers. At the Masters. I'm going to go with a tomahawk rib eye.

Cook to order. Of course, I would do it on the medium rare side. With some, are we doing like garnishes? Can I just say with some roasted garlic cloves? Yeah, sure, sure. With the, yes. No, I need a ruling. Does that, do I lose all steak on that?

You can do rib eye. I guess you can do str. I don't know. You tell me. No, I would say, I would say there's too many cuts of meat out there. No, I would say that. I mean, prime rib is rib. Yeah.

So I don't know, Matt. No, that mine isn't. My cut of meat is not the rib in the ribby family. I'm going with a tomahawk rabbi at the Masters. With garlic, what? Roasted garlic. Yeah, it's a good choice. I'm going to go appetizer first and foremost, Rossi.

Okay. I wasn't a fan of this type of appetizer until about 10 years ago, but now when I get one, when I go to a high-end steakhouse, it is delicious. I'm going to go with a good old-fashioned Maryland cream. crab cake. Oh, crab cake was on my list. With the rumelot sauce.

With the panco crumbs, breadcrumbs? Absolutely. How, yeah, crispy or the better. Delicious. I love the crab cake. You love crabs. I mean, yeah.

I don't look for them, but if I find what, I'll eat one. Let's go ahead you the crab man in North Texas. They did? All right. Next. I know you hate soup,

but I'm going with one. Okay. Is your main course? No, this isn't my second. I'm going to my second appetizer. Okay, second appetizer. I'm going to go with a big crock of the French onion soup with a crouton and the Swiss cheese on the very top. It is crushed it over on the sides of the cup.

Okay. It is my go-to soup of the day, soup of the year, soup of everything. French onion soup. French onion soup. soup. Okay. And a crab cake. I mean, you're giving me a power. I'm giving you a powerhouse one, two appetizer. Sounds great, Matt. All right. You have the next two. All right, Matt. You're smart. You didn't take a main dish since I've already taken one. You know I don't need to. I'm actually surprised. You normally draft so horribly, but I'm proud of you. Thank you. Man, I'm going to go with

two appetizers as well now. Okay. Um, actually, no, you've taken two appetizers. So I don't need to take appetizers. Now, you do whatever you want. No, yeah. I just, I just, I just, you're taking two appetizers. I just called you smart for drafting smart and then I was going to draft stupid. I'm going to draft smarter. I'm going to take the main side and I'm going to go with delicious, cheesy. And with a bit of a nice crust as well, potatoes all grottin. Now, does this knock off all potatoes? I don't know.

See, the problem is the one I was going to go with is very close to that. It's up to you. It's your deal. So I need a ruling. Potatoes all grotting. It's like cheesy potatoes. baked potatoes. They're good. They're delicious. Okay, no, I know it is. Okay.

Okay. I'll go to, you have, oh, you have another, you have another choice. I'm going to go with dessert, Matt. Yeah, please. And we're going to go with a nice, wonderful brown sugar-crusted peach cobbler, All-Oamode. Now, do you want vanilla bean? You want homemade vanilla? It's up to you, Matt. No, it's your dinner, not mine.

It's All-Mode with vanilla ice cream and some peach cobbler for dessert. Is it vanilla bean or is it homemade vanilla bean? vanilla. It's up to you. You don't know. You don't know. It's your dinner. You have to set everything up. It's Moomel homemade vanilla. What's up? All right. I need a ruling on the side. Can I go twice

baked potato? It's pretty similar. If you say no, I can I don't let Jonathan choose. You're asking for it. Is it twice baked and potatoes all grown too close? No, I mean, no, it's fine. No, do a baked potato. You're doing like mass potatoes. Any of that variation

to know. Okay, so you're saying, okay, I'm going to go Twice baked potato. Sure, why not. Who cares? All right. And I'm going to have that with a skirt steak with chimery churry sauce on the side. Okay.

It's delicious. Yeah. These are good meals. Shirt steak. Skirt. Skirt steak. Skirt steak. Skirt steak.

Skirt steak. Say it three times fast. With twice baked potato. I've got French onion soup, crab cake. Now, Ross, you've got the tomahawk rib. by with garlic. Potatoes on grotten. Peach cobblower.

Alamo. Alamo with homemade vanilla. And you can now have the last two selections. Yes, Matt. I'm going to go, wait, did you choose? What was your dessert? I have none of dessert. Okay, that's right.

You're going to hold off for dessert. That's right. So I got to get it with two appetizers, Matt. Yeah. I'm going to go with delicious, fried crispy buffalo wings to start things off. Buffalo wings?

This elegant meal we're all about to have you. You're going to knock back Buffalo wings? Yeah, you're not. This is going to cost you. I think people love buffalo wings. Who doesn't love wings back? But I can go to the barber.

I can go to the bowling alley to get my buffalo wings. Oh, I'm sorry. They don't have buffalo wings at the nice steakhouses? Of course they do. When did you go into Rick and Rantheney's and had buffalo wings? I have. Yes, I have.

You cannot go to master's and say, give me a 12 piece of wings. Spring Special, 20, 23. Look up the menu. Stop. It's terrible. This is going to cost you. Next, we are going to keep it classy. Yeah, please.

With a meat and cheese board or a charcutory, if you'd like to call it. Chacoutary, yeah, yeah. Charcoutary. Maybe some olives, almonds, some nice different cheeses and meats and salt and cures meat. So I'm going to go with the buffalo wings, the meat and cheese charcuttery board. All right. And I'm wrapping those are your, that takes care your entire menu. My last selection.

I'm going with a good old slice. And I mean, it is, I love pie. I really love banana cream pie. You're going with a cream pie. Banana cream pie. So let's recap the menu. I mean, look, these are good meals. Look, either one of them, I'm very excited by either one of them.

You went buffalo wings, jacudery board, tomahawk ribeye with garlic, potatoes or grotton, peach copper with homemade vanilla. I went crab cake, French onion soup, skirt steak with chimmy chri sauce, twice baked potato, and banana cream pie. Delicious. Two really good food dinners. Yes. Which one if you had a chance to enjoy would you prefer? Let's get your votes in.

When we come back? When we come back? Now we need like three people here. Yeah. Let's go. We'll find. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90.

7-13-212-5-7-9. All right, once again, for all of you that are judging, Ross's dinner is Buffalo Wings, chakutory board, tomahawk chop, tomahawk rib-eye with garlic, potatoes ogrotten, and peach cobbler with homemade vanilla. I have crab cake, French onion, soup, skirt steak, with chimer churry sauce, twice-baked potato, and banana.

cream pie. Ribby over skirt, let's move on. I like a ribide, but the skirt with the, the chimer and cherry sauce is just electric. By the way, electric.

It's electric. It's called a champion center. The only people that are allowed to go to the Masters. Oh, is that right. Is former champions? That are alive. So my guess is that

if Jack Nichols probably would choose my menu, be easier for him to eat, banana cream pie, soup, skirt steak. What do you mean? Get a little older. Okay.

That's how I has to cut his, food up probably. I believe you, I thought it was odd you chose insure for the drink. That's right. All right, Jonathan, this is your first ever foray into the... You can't see him in here, but he is staring you down, Jonathan. That's not true at all. And I'm staying right at my notes right here, guys. All right, so you had a chance to listen to the menus, your thoughts, and ultimately your vote, whose dinner would you rather spend time with? Okay, so my thoughts on both sides, very good choices. I was actually really impressed looking it up, like, make sure, like,

you know, I didn't know you guys as pals with that, you know, far. appreciate that. It's a lot of different taste, little different avenues, different cultures in there. And so going forward, going with Matt, I love everything. And then my one condo taken away from you is that French onion soup, man. I don't know what's going on there. Okay. And I appreciate, I appreciate. Oh, wait, real question, Matt, is a banana cream pie taste like banana pudding? That's my second question to you before I go. You never had banana cream pie before? No, but I had a bunch of it looks like it's the same way as banana pudding.

It's a little bit of pudding. It's mostly whipped cream. There's coconut on top and it's got a really nice crust. Okay. So I'm taking everything except for your appetizer. Okay. French onion. All right.

On to Ross. I love the tomahawk with a French onion. Okay, boom. I love that. I love the dessert with the peach cobbler. Like, oh, okay. Like you're you know it's all right And then

And then you go and say Buffalo wings I had to take you all in there I didn't see why if I was going to the Masters If I'm eating some buffalo wings I had to agree with that on there I'm sorry for that And then the last

To the tie to finish the tiebreaker I don't like short Curty boards man So I'm gonna take this to my Matt And I think Matt has the best Overall Victory delicious I'm what's not to like about a charcutory board

It's meat and cheese That's all it is. That's not a meal. It's an appetizer. You've got olives and almond? That's fine. You're smart. That's a good pick.

I'm happy for you, Jonathan. Let's find out what everybody has said. I get you. No, that's fine. He's fine. He will eventually. Benjamin on 7. He will eventually.

Who's master's dinner list do you think is better? Who won the Fantasy 5? Me or Ross? Yeah, due to the appetizer selections, which Mets were 10 times better, I get to say, I've got to go with Matt. although I love the Tomahawk riboic. Matt wins.

Thank you very much. A great weekend. Who doesn't love a tomahawk rib? I can get you. That's fine. Buffalo wings. Advertises Matt or Ross? The whole thing is me.

It's one voter or another. You took French onion soup. Mmm, delicious. Cruton, Swiss cheese. Mmm, delicious. John on 790, John, who wins a Fantasy 5? Me or Ross. You know, Matt?

You're the French onion soup, right, Matt? Yes, I am. I love the French onion soup, but I got to take me a tomahawk over skirt safe like nine days out of seven. Thank you, John. That's correct. John, I hope you don't choke on that Tomahawk. Look at this.

You're such a poor loser. Les on 790, Les, who wins a Fantasy 5, me or Ross? Well, man, I wish I could say I go with you because I live in humble. I know you're from Kingwood, but a Tomahawk, man. You can't beat the Tomahawk. You've been traveling too much, man. you've been up north too much. Been north, I've been only in California.

What are you talking about? Thank you, Les. Appreciate you. Les, I hope you don't get hit by a car in 1960. All right. Jeez, I mean, come on. It's two to two. Jeez, Matt.

What, I said I hope you don't get by hit by a car. What you're talking about? Being polite. Vince on 7-9. Vince, who wins a Fantasy 5? Me or Ross. Well, Ross is very strong on it. Hello, Vince. Is it.

Can you hear me okay? Go ahead. Yes. Go ahead. I said, I said, Ross is very strong with dessert, but overall,

Matt, his joint of appetizers. All right, thank you very much. That's a vote for me. Yeah, he's hit a bad connection. So we're going.

3-3. 3-2. Maybe you listen to a different show. 3-2. Here we go. Let's go to Seth on 790 Seth. Who wins a Fantasy 5? Me or Ross?

Well, Matt, whenever you said crab cake, you got my vote right there because I'll take a crab cake over steak any day. Not so crazy about French onion soup. If I could change it, I would maybe change it to either crab or lobster bisque. And then for dessert, when you said banana cream pie, that put it over the top. So, Matt, you win.

Thank you very much. Congratulations, Matt. It's a fourth win. Four to two, the final score. One more here just for S and giggles. Javier, who won the Fantasy 5, me or Ross? Well, I got to go to Ross on this one. Too bad.

It doesn't count. It doesn't count. because the champ is here. Thank you, how to hear. What a crappy meal you had. I am the champion again. Charcottery and chicken wings. Now, Tom Hawk, I give it to.

French onion soup. I'm sorry. Nuts and meat and cheese is on. Tom Hock, you got slaughtered, but that's okay. No, the champ is here. The champ is here. You got absolutely destroyed. No, I did not.

That's not. true at all. You're welcome. You're not even close, but that's okay. People feel sorry for you because you sound sick, sickly. No, they said, man, I don't want to have chicken wings and walnuts with my appetizers. You sound like in your deathbed. I don't know. I sound fantastic.

Well, okay. So I want all you with onions in it. We call it a soup. It's an appetizer. And the chimer and cherries are also on the skirt's sake, you'll thank me later. And the banana cream pie? Houston, you should be embarrassed to yourselves voting skirt over

rib eye. They didn't vote over just one thing. It wasn't it wasn't battle the meats. There were a lot of factors in there. Exactly. Thank you very much,

Jonathan. I know. Jonathan's scared to you because you yell at them all day, so I understand that vote. You didn't say Charcutti board, Ross, I promise you would have to go over.

Yeah, I think your Shakitry board. You just need to make up for the fact that your picks suck in the appetizer category. That's fine. Buffalo wings blows. Tomahawks, excellent.

Potato's all grotton. Outstanding. Peach, Cobber, even with homemade vanilla. Top shelf. I know. It's a better menu than yours. You sucked on the appetizer board.

It's not a big deal, though. Not a big deal at all. I don't believe it to be in a case at all. All right, real quick, before we get to believe it or hell yeah or not, Martin Nangleton, what do you got, Martin? Hey, I was, I wanted to talk about Draymond Green. I wish the referees would call more testicle fouls on him. They need to come down on him more.

How many testicle fouls do they call on him? All right, thank you very much. How many testicle fouls, Ross, will Draymond Green get in this playoff series? Inquiry minds want to know. What is hellier? Yeah. What is Hellier not today? Working on it.

Okay. Colton says on Twitter. Matt's hosting his own show back here. I think whoever loses a Fantasy 5 must pay back the winner with his food choices. So, Ross, I'll take your Chimmy Churry steak. Okay. I'll take... You pick up the bill?

I'll bring it. You know what? such a good master chef. Why don't you cook it? I've not made crab cakes. That seems like it's a tough bit. You just get some breadcrimms and get some crab meat and roll it all up in there. You're fine.

Probably frying it perfectly is the hard part. The perfect sear. When I was sick last week, I watched one episode of a show. This guy had this probably 10 feet by 10 feet chicken fryer with all these legs and he rolled it into the

friar and he brought it back at it was just this platter of yards and yards of beautiful fried chicken. It sounds delicious. Fried chicken is something I think I've tried to cook at home one time and it was so messy we're like, we're never doing this again.

What was the one that you would just bake? Shaken bake. Shaken bake. Shaken bake. Shaken bake. Just do that back of the day. Hey, I've shaken and bacon before. Oh, yeah. I used to shake and bake quite a bit when I was younger. And now I just I don't chicken bake anymore.

I don't know what I can do. I don't even marinate properly. I want to get that checked out. I have pills for that. You'll be hearing more about that next week, as a matter of fact. I'm glad you brought that out. Okay, that's good to know. Oh, five minutes left to go on the show.

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