The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Kings Tonight, Astros News, Avoiding "Moronic" Texan Takes

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

Rockets vs Kings Tonight, Astros News, Avoiding "Moronic" Texan Takes 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 o'clock at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show, minus Ross again. Ross is down the home stretch. Sources close to Sports Talk 790. But today's being a little bit of a shorter show,

we said, you know what, Ross, get 100% healthy. Matter of fact, I think Ross is going to do the post-game show tonight. So we are going to put him to work a little bit today, but I figured since it was an opportunity for us to have a little intimate visit between you and me as this show only goes to 1155 tonight, or this morning, I should say. We, I thought, you know what, get some extra rest

and get ready to talk up the Rockets against the Sacramento Kings. And that is indeed what's happening inside TOTA Center tonight. It's a busy Houston Sports Day. As the Astros will be taking on their opponent today in Fort, I think it's in Jupiter's where they are. Astro spring training. And yes, we're going to carry today's game right here live on Sports Talk 790. And we will be carrying many of the games live for you here on 790, including today's game and then tomorrow's game.

It is a 12-10 first pitch between the Astros and the Marlins. And Hunter Brown will make his start today for the local 9. So if you are a Hunter Brown fan and you're an Astro fan, you want to keep it right here and dialed in to Sports Talk 790. All right. Since we have a shorter show, we only have one thing scheduled today, and that, of course, is a Wednesday staple of this program, and that is shit you, bum-ass of me. And I just don't, and also anybody got time for that.

So we'll do that at 1130. It's a little bit of a shorter edition of that, because, again, the show ends at 1155. Since it's just me and a little bit of Jonathan and you, you can freely call in at 713-212-5-790, 7-7-13, 212-5-790. If you want to follow us via Twitter, you may do that as well, or Instagram at SportsMT. Again, I mentioned rockets are taking on the Kings tonight.

The Kings absolutely suck. The Rockets need to get another victory. It is helping out that the L.A. Lakers lost last night. So the rockets are trying to separate themselves even further from the likes of Denver and the Lakers in the Western Conference. The team to beat the Lakers, the Orlando Magic. and that'll be the team the Rockets will be seeing tomorrow in Orlando as I'll take this show to Central Florida tomorrow for the program.

So a back-to-back again for the Rockets, still six back-to-backs left to go in the rest of the season, which is just crazy because we're down to like less than, I don't know, we have 30 games left to go, something like that. Still a lot of back-to-backs before the end of the year. So if you want to chime in and talk some Astros baseball, you can do that as well. I want to give you a couple of astronauts, and they come from our friend Brian McTagger because I'm assuming that many of you are settling for this radio show and then ultimately we'll be listening to Hunter Brown make his debut.

Let me give you a few things. Remember yesterday, Jonathan, how upset we were when the Astros were down 5-0 to the Mets and Jason Alexander sucked. He was the curse of Gordy. Did not Chris Gordy yesterday at about 1040, 1045 said, I got a sneaky guy who may make the rotation. Yeah, Jonathan, I should say Jason Alexander. I always want to get Jonathan Alexander.

That's the Chronicle writer. Jason Alexander did himself absolutely no favors by not surviving the first inning. But the Astros came back. I called it. He didn't call any. Did you really call it? I was telling you, we could still come back. We could still come back.

Maybe it was just more of reassurance. But, you know, it still happened. When you left the office yesterday, you didn't pay attention to one bit of the Astros game. I thought we lost. I'm not going to lie. See. I love the weed part of you. You grow up Astro fan.

You can say we. Yeah, see, Texans, I got to stop saying that because I'm not a Texan fan, but Astros and Rockets, I'm all day. Yeah, you unfortunately, that's this L.A. Charger fan thing, which is really odd. I can't help you. I can't help it. I can't help it. I get it.

So, yeah, if you didn't know, the Astros tied the Mets at 6'6 and I'm like, we're done. Here is something that I saw from McTagger that I thought was awesome, which is very helpful. think for Astro fans and especially those that would like to see changes in sports when it comes to instant replay. The ABS, the automatic ball strike system, where you know the challenges you can have. You have two per game, and as long as you keep pointing the challenges, you get to keep the challenges, which I think is awesome.

The Astros yesterday were six for six on ABS. That makes me very happy. but at the same time should we be alarmed that one team got six calls wrong and had it corrected six times now I know it's just the spring training not to be confused with it's just the preseason

but it's just the spring training but you got umpires blowing six calls on one side I don't even know how the Mets did with theirs man ABS you could not have come fast enough but congratulations to Joe Espada and the hitters and the catcher and whoever else not named pitchers. It said, you know what? We are not going to have the pitchers do it. We'll let the other guys do it.

The guys, I don't know, the catchers that are right behind home plate make that call. Six for six. I love that. So that was interesting note number one as the Astros again were the comeback kids of spring training. And we're able to get the six-six-time. Other things from McTaggart. three grapefruit league games it's just the spring training it's just the grapefruit league the astros have drawn 29 walks well if you're not going to slug i.e the outfield you

you might also draw walks i think when we were left the air yesterday cam smith had drawn two of them so that's good 29 walks in three games they all count the same they're 90 feet now they're not big home runs. They're not slugging doubles to the corners or into the alleys, but walks can turn into runs too. Matter of fact, I want to say the Astros did score a run before we left yesterday by loan the basis thanks to walk. And then Zach Cole, our favorite left field, we got hit by a pitch of driving a run just the start of things as the Astros overcame a 5-0 deficit to tie the spring training Port St. Lucy Showdown 6-6. A couple of the things from McTaggart, worthy of pushing along.

Emi is going to start tomorrow for the Mets, or versus the Mets, I should say. Correa and Walker will also make their spring training debuts. Lance McCullors will start against the Nationals, where Jose Al-Tuvae will make his start for a start of the spring as well. Remember, Jeremy Pena playing a lot early on because the WBC is going to start up in a couple of weeks, and they want to get his many at-bats in four as an astro

before he goes and plays for the WPC. All right. Other things going on in the world of sports, it's not a super heavy day, honestly. The NFL Combine is underway in Indianapolis, where I don't know if y'all know this or not. And again, I'm not a Combine watcher, but I like the press conferences.

I like to see people say funny things or try something different or something controversial comes out of it. But the thing that gives, I think, people false, hope about the combine is it anybody that's there that gets on a podium some dufous member of the houston media or any other media of other towns says what would it be like if you played for the panthers what would it be like if you played for the texans how would you like to be a 49er how great would it be to be an l a charger what do you expect these guys these kids to say

oh hell no i'm not playing for the lions no chance no way miami member Would you like to come to Florida and play for the Dolphins? Nope. I don't like him at all. I don't like the new coach. I don't think Tootagva Lo is very good. I have no interest. Of course they're going to say all the right things.

It's almost like, you know what you should do? If you really want to find out who a savvy football player is at these combine interviews, you should pepper them with trivia questions. Like you go in to get talking to a running back that may be up for a Texans draft spot. Hey, John Jones, can you name the Texans wide receiving corps? Hey, John Jones, what running back to the Texans had that allegedly, well, not allegedly, he didn't play this year, but allegedly may have gotten shot in the foot. Not an insider. It just sounds much better to talk about a shot foot than it does anything else.

That's what you do. That's how you really know a guy wants to play for your team if he's done some due diligence. but to go up and say to have, you know, Seattle Reporter, how cool would it be to play for the Seahawks? Oh, man, it would be awesome play for the Seahawks. Get a chance to play for a Super Bowl contending team. That'd be the best thing ever. Well, of course it would.

Actually, I'd actually applaud it one time if a player went up on the podium and said, you know, I'm with the New York media here, and how would I like to play for the Giants of Jets? No, thank you. I want them to pick anybody but me. I'm not interested. I don't like the New York weather.

I don't like the higher tax bracket. I don't like the coaching staff. And by the way, the Giants and Jets have sucked for a better part of 10 years. No, thanks. That to me would be more respectful than going, yeah, I can't wait to play for, and then insert team. These are little quirky things that I find in NFL Combine talk. As far as what they do in running and how many passes are thrown

or how many reps somebody does on a bench or what they look like in T-shirt and underwear, I'll let those NFL general managers handle that. and oh by the way speaking of general managers the comment from nicky casario yesterday talking about how moronic it was for the c j stroud rumors to go and go crazy out there well of course they did one person that's got a national name brought up the fact that he would be surprised if teams were kicking tires on veteran quarterbacks and he happened to just have mentioned c j stroud so instead of it being uh it is what it is just a blanket statement by a blanket football guy became, oh, oh, the Texans are moving along.

They may be trying some things. Think about it for a second. We kept saying this over and over again. If you're a doofist radio host, spent an hour talking about where C.J. Straub might go to and would you get in return? You'd be ashamed of yourself. Take it for what it was.

And it was one rando dude saying it. But do you really think, folks, if C.J. Stroud was up for trade conjecture, that it would be just one person saying it? You'd have everybody in their mother saying things. You'd have agents of other players saying it. You may even have a David Mullet got to go, why are the Texans throwing my client's name out there?

None of that. I want, and maybe we're just, maybe the media, you know what we are? We're not very bright. We're just going to take one little thing and just roll it because we have nothing else to do. And hopefully we don't do that on this show, but you know what, we're all guilty of things occasionally on that.

But I just thought it was very funny. that Nick Casario could have said there's none of that going on he wanted to make sure he got the dig in to say moronic are there people around this world of ours that are in media that have the opportunity

of a microphone in their hand or at least go on their YouTube channels and say man I was a moron for even thinking this look I ain't perfect on sports tanks I think I bat about 720, 740 whatever I like to bat 9.000 50, but can't go perfect. But I didn't buy it from the start.

I ain't buying it now. I ain't buying it a long-term future, C.J. Strad, it'd be irresponsible to do that. Even the Texans aren't even doing that. But to think there was even a serious conversation about it is preposterous. And hopefully you thought the exact same thing. 10-13

on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Did you say something, sir? Oh, I know it's Big City. We're in a big city here. It is 1018 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross has the day off. He'll be back tomorrow. I'll be with you from Orlando.

Ross not, I guess he's getting over the last little symptoms of the flu. Flu kicks your ass. It just does. I always tell anybody that has a flu, take your time. And don't spread it. It's flu is spreadable, right? You can spell the flu to people.

Yeah, very, very, very contagious. Okay. I'll stay far away from him. That's why I'm going to Orlando, Florida. than be far away from him. I'm worried about you, John. I don't know you getting sick because you already got the sniffles earlier this week. I'm feeling better, though.

I'm in my little studio, you know, taking some medicine. I'm all right. But Chelsea said that we should tell folks that that studio that you're in is usually about 48 degrees. Maybe 32. Is that right? Right. It's bad. All right.

We got shut your ball ass up at 1130 today and then we'll be out at 1155 before we get you to Astros. We're going to play some audio at 10. 30 that came from an NBA podcast. And it involves a former Houston athlete. And frankly, you're going to hear this. And then you're going to say, I work with someone just like that. That's all I'm going to say.

But I'm going to tell you it's going to be something that is going to be, I mean, on the disgusting scale, it's probably about a six or seven, but it's relatable to almost every one of you. So we'll have that coming up for you in about 10 minutes from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9-0. As I mentioned, the rockets are going to take on the Sacramento Kings tonight.

Houston will try to continue to hold on to the third spot in the Western Conference. I don't know if you caught this. We talked very briefly about it yesterday, but Kevin Durant says he wants to. play for the Olympic team in two years, which I think is a positive sign for the Rockets because even though he did sign a two-year extension, and even though the money is going to be spectacular for a guy that'll be 38 and 39 years old, first of all, he'd be not guaranteed a spot.

I don't know. Could you imagine being the USA basketball telling Kevin Durant, we don't need you? He's going to find out being a top five score in the history of the NBA. and he's slowing down a little bit, but it ain't much. Still scoring down 26 points a game. He's at a boatload of 30-point games with the team. I mean, he wakes up with at least 14 or 15 points before tip time. But I would say that if he wants to keep doing that,

if he wants to play and go for another gold medal, which he's got a plethora of them already, that's encouraging that he wants to maintain his level of excellence for his primary job as the power forward for the Houston Rockets. So not only when I like to see him do that, again, he'll be 39 or 40 years old when that comes into play, but that will also mean he's going to want to keep his body and his wit in his mind and his attention to what is in front of him,

and that is hopefully leading the rockets to a championship in the next couple of years. So even though he was down playing and saying, I don't even know if I got a guaranteed spot. If you're Kevin Doreen, you got a guaranteed spot. I had the great fortune, for those of you that don't know, I had a chance to be the PA announcer. They hired four of us to work in Atlanta in 19, was it 96? It was the second dream team.

And honestly, I don't remember every member of that team. I can barely remember any of them, honestly. It was also 30 years ago. God, has it been 30 years? Oh my God. It's been 30 years. Oh, so getting up there. I know, I know. Don't, I don't need you adding sound effects.

So let me peel the curtain back a little bit. So in 1995, when the Rockets won the second championship, they went to play in the world championships. They represented the NBA against a bunch of international teams in London. And the folks in London said, hey, can you bring your PA announcer with you to London to work these 1996? MBH these world championship. They said, you want to go? I said, oh, hell yeah, I want to go. So I was going to go just to do the PA for just the USA games. They wind up, they wound up hiring me to do all the PA for every game that was there.

So I would do USA versus, say, China, or I would do Turkey versus Canada, and then I would do an Australian game versus, I mean, I worked my ass off. I went for like seven or eight days, and I think I had one day of sightseeing while I was London, which is one day too many because those people are rude. Guy on a double ducker bus called me an a-hole. I guess I was not polite enough to him. You know, they call me Mr. Polite, Jonathan. You know these things, right?

So I worked my ass off for this USA World, this World Championships in London. And the same people that ran that tournament called me and said, hey, do you want to go and be one of the PA announcers for the U.S. for the basketball at the Georgia Dome at the time, which is where the Falcons played and now it's gone because they built a new stadium. And I'm like, oh, hell yeah, I am. So I spent a month in Atlanta in 1996 doing a bunch of all the Olympic PA games. Now, I think I only did two USA games. Because I think I was the youngest of the four PA announcers and I had the less skins on the wall

than anybody else did. So I did, I want to say I did men and women, but I'm not, again, it's been 30 years. But that was a great experience for me doing that too, as I was able to be there. And it just, and I'm trying to circle back to this on the Olympics stuff here. Even though I did not watch

much of the Winter Olympics, because it's just not my thing. I mean, ratings have been really good. The ratings for the USA gold medal game with Canada was awesome, even though it was in an early morning for most of the country. I would tell you this. And again,

it's been 30 years since I've gone, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, just to be able to go to anything. So I know there's a big raffle that they're going to be giving out, and you can go to the USA website to say, hey, I want to secure tickets for Los Angeles, and I've done it, my wife has done it, my kids have done it, my friends have done it, my friends, friends of kids of friends have done it. If you can get to L.A. somehow, some way,

if you're a big sportsman, especially if you're a big Olympics fan, it is absolutely worth it because there's something special about rooting for people you've never met before or had no idea what they did two or three months ago but they got those letters across the chest that just makes you go crazy and those letters are USA and look there's a lot of security it does not you just don't walk in like you knew with most supporting events because obviously they want to make sure there's nothing in terms of security or terroristic threats

because that's unfortunately these world events sometimes have that and obviously I was involved in that in a small way when the bomb went off in Centennial Olympic Plaza in 1996 in Atlanta. I wasn't there but you know my point on this. But if you can get the time off

and you can save up some money in your kitty to go to something like that, especially if you love the Olympics on television, to be to see it in Los Angeles, I think, would well be worth it. But it's just, I was just thinking about when Kevin Durant was talking about, you know, he wants to do this one more time. It is awesome because you have the greatest basketball players on earth that are all assembled on one team. And you're like, how in the world can anybody beat them?

And for the most part, nobody has. So if you're a basketball aficionado to be able to see Kevin Durant on the same, you're like, floor is Anthony Edwards is amazing to have LeBron James addition to the ball off to you know anybody else that's a great NBA player it's a you know a USA player it's something else they have Jalen Brunson running point throwing the ball deep down low to I don't know I mean maybe a man Thompson you never know man men could very easily become Olympian so I'm glad Kevin wants to do it I'm glad that Kevin thinks he can do it and by Kevin thinking that he can do it,

that means he's going to hopefully give it his all for at least the next couple of years wearing a Houston rocket uniform. 1028 on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to come in and say hello, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If Astros are on the brain, we'll let you get to that.

If NFL draft needs for your beloved Houston, Texas are on your mind, 7-13-212-5-7-90. If the rockets are on your agenda as well, 713-212-5-7-90. Up next, an uncomfortable admission about a former Houston Rocket. 1028 on Sports Talk 790. Again, if you want to join us, you may do so at 7-13-212-5-7-90. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Harvey back with us tomorrow. We got shut your bum ass up today Come up at 1130 So we don't like to do that 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-2-5-7-90 All right I'm going to tell you about

Dwight Howard I never called Dwight Howard's games As a rocket So that was actually a little bit before my time But I was, and I covered him We talked about a lot on this show And do you remember Those of me that are OG fans of the show

the first ever update of the show was the Dwight Howard update because people kept trying to figure out where he was going to go. And that was the first significant, at least in the last 15 or 20 years, free agent that said, you know what, I'm going to leave my team and come join you in Houston. There was trades, obviously. There were, you know, releasing of players and guys, you know, that may be on towards the back half of their career. But this was a prime opportunity for a guy who was still had ever,

everything left in the tank to come be a dominant player for the Houston Rockets. So when Dwight Howard came here, it was a super big deal because so many teams were courting him in Dallas and the Lakers and other teams were involved, but he chose Houston. And it kind of got things started for Houston becoming a better destination, not only for the Rockets, but for other baseball teams and football teams. Now, granted, at the end of the day, it was about the money. It always is. But, you know, there were so many times that Houston was on the outside look and then when it came

to free agents that it was really awesome when Dwight Howard signed here. And things with him and James didn't necessarily mesh as well as you would have liked. And then he moved on. Well, one of his former coaches was on a podcast. I guess it was the day before it was hosted by Chandler Parsons, another former Houston Rocket, who decided he wanted to go to Greener Pastures in Dallas and it didn't work out well for him. He went to Memphis and got hurt and didn't play well either. And Chandler Parsons' career after he left the Houston Rockets was never

the same. Made a lot of money, but it was never the same. Well, Dwight Howard is probably not going to enjoy hearing what was asked by Chandler Parsons and his podcast team to his former coach, Stan Van Gundy. Now, coach, my last question during that time in that team, I got an inside source, and I need you to confirm this if it's true or not. That said, you used to get pissed at Dwight Howard during your pre-game speeches because he would just constantly fart while you were trying to get the guys going. Confirm or denying, coach.

You know, I would confirm, actually. I knew it. I knew it was true. That's disgusting and awesome. Dwight could goof around and have fun. And I remember having a talk with him once, and I said,

Dwight, I need you to be more serious, you know, when we're preparing and he said Stan I've got it all I know what you're saying I said and he did Dwight's by far the smartest big guy I've ever comeched I mean and it was part of his

greatness and I said no no I know you've got it but then you're distracting these other guys that don't necessarily have it. He could focus in more on what's going on and Dwight understood that and things started to change but you know he was just a fun loving

guy but he never got enough credit to me because he was out there all the time, played through injuries. I mean, until he had the major back injury my last year in Orlando, the guy was playing 82 games

every year, and you guys know that's back in the days when teams practice. Yeah. So, you know, practice, practice. Every day. Taves. Angles, tape practice. And Dwight never, I mean, we would try to get him on the side some

in practice, and he wouldn't do it. Like, I would put Gortad on the same team as him so Dwight could get some rest, and Dwight was always pulling Gortad out, love to play, love to compete, love to practice. I mean, just a great player and a great competitor, and that's what I don't think he got enough credit for. But he broke win quite a bit. I'm going to ask the uncomfortable question. How do you folks handle that at work if you work with coworkers?

that have that issue as well. Now, Jonathan, you as the producer of the show don't have to handle such issues because you're in your own room. Right. Now, I'm going to be open and honest with you. Okay. I've come in your studio before

and I've never had to worry about that with you, so I applaud you for that. I know. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. But I believe crop dusting in the workspace is, I don't know. I've never had a desk job before,

so I can't speak to it. But could you imagine just for a second, folks, Stan Van Gundy is on the white marker board or on the chalkboard or he's showing a video of the opponent or showing a play that he wants drawn up. And Dwight Howard at seven feet tall, breaking wind. I mean, honestly, Jonathan, there's a lot of protein,

a lot of food, a lot of carbs. You know, those guys got to eat 7,000, 8,000 calories a day. because they're running up and down the court a lot. Do you think Stan stopped the conversation midway through and said, all right, who did it? Is that what you do? Or do you just go, that's Dwight being Dwight? No, because the question was, did you get pissed off?

And it definitely, he confirmed it. So he definitely had to say something while it happened, right? Okay, just pretend all of you for a second that aren't driving. Close your eyes for a second. If you're driving, don't close your eyes. Keep the eyes open. And you are driving around town. And you're listening and you're pretending you're in a locker room with Coach Van Gundy.

And you're getting ready for this game. And all of a sudden you just have to stop what you're doing because of the noise. It's childish. But I can see it being an issue. Because if you're trying to, he was trying to, I mean, he obviously didn't feel well. And or he was trying to be hilarious. and there are times to be kidding around. There's times to be joking around,

but I'm going to assume if Stan Van Nuddy's trying to teach something to his guys about a play they wants to drawn up or a defense he wants to strategize with, that's not exactly the best time to do it. So for as great of a rebounder as Dwight Howard was, as a shot blocker, as a guy that hit everything within five feet, no, he was not much of an outside shooter at all, was not a very good free throw shooter.

He'll also be known for other things in his life. and that is in the most important times of a practice or a pregame meaning before you're ready to really break down the game and get into the action he's cropped Dustin you have somebody at your work that does it too

and if you want to tell them to shut their I guess it would be not I guess literally it would be John they would be literally shutting their bum ass up yeah that actually definitely yeah you're right So I don't want to get into a deep dive of how you guys handle it at work, but if you want to send me a tweet, you can tell me at SportsMT. Or if you go on it, send me an email, mT at Sports790.com.

I thankfully don't have that issue. Ross's gas is contained largely. Mine is as well. We have restrooms down the hall if we have to so do things. But, man, I mean, I'm glad Stan is so jovial about it, but I'd be mad. like, come on. Can you, can you give it a rest? Thank you, Stan, for admitting

one of the flaws of Dwight Howard's game while as a professional player. By the way, Dwight Howard going to the Hall of Fame, right? I think is what he's going to. I think I saw that. When he came here, oh, we were going crazy. Y'all remember that?

That was early in the history of this show. I mean, it's got to be 15 years ago. A free agent really came to Houston. And it's Dwight freaking Howard? Oh, my God. And you're going to pair him up with James Hardin, we're going to win championships until him and James can get along. Then we got Chris Paul.

Then we got Russell Westbrook. And then we went and got John Wall for a while until that broke apart. And thankfully, James is doing his fine things with four other teams since then. And Kevin Durant's scorn doing the things he was supposed to do when he got here via the trade last year from Phoenix. 713-212-5-790. I don't expect you to comment on what you just heard, but sometimes you've got to just point out stories that don't hit the front page of your websites. 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. See what it's like on a slow little sports day? 1049 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross will be back with us tomorrow. I'll be in Orlando to see the Rockets against the Magic. First things first. so Rockets will take on the Sacramento Kings. Can I tell you something that has bothered me?

And I don't know why it does because I'm a fan of this form of entertainment. And I know the answer to this because there's a promotional relationship between the two groups. But if you put on ESPN for any length of time and maybe people aren't doing this as much, but I mean, if you're going to go to a TV chance,

and you're going to really watch something because the reason I'm bringing this up now is because this is happening right now as we speak on ESPN in my office. Cody Rhodes is a WWE wrestler. There's an event, a pay-per-view event called the Elimination Chamber this weekend, and he's obviously there to promote it.

Now, the show he's on now is more about entertainment, not necessarily breaking down sports. It's Stephen A. Smith's show, so you're not going to get any real breakdown of anything there. But ESPN, is treating the WWE like it's a sport. And as much as I love wrestling, especially when I was a kid.

I don't like the current stuff now because it's not relatable to me. I like to listen to podcasts of some of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up. But I was also 12 and 13 years old when I thought it was real. It's not real. But ESPN will treat it. like they're breaking it down like it's an NCAA tournament basketball game.

I know we don't want to, I just don't get it's on Thursday. But when did ESPN all of a sudden decide to give the same integrity watch towards talking about WWE stuff and they do when they're talking about the NBA or the major league baseball? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

Now, they don't care because ESPN is in the business of making money and having viewers. And obviously they feel like that putting on WWE wrestlers maybe gets them a different audience that maybe wouldn't be normally watching SportsCenter. But they, again, if you want to say, hey, we've got these wrestlers coming on, you've got to check out this very, I mean, they've had celebrities on, they've had actors on before. That's not out of the ordinary for ESPN.

But like on this past weekend, I was, I don't know what city I was in or maybe I was got home. Oh, I don't know what it was. It was Sunday night. Sunday night, they had the closing ceremonies on of the Winter Olympics. And what did ESPN have on to combat that? A rebroadcast the Royal Rumble. That's not a sporting event. That is, that was predetermined.

It's acting. Now, if you want to say ESPN presents this presentation of this form of entertainment, I guess that makes sense to me. But every time I turn on ESPN, and I do because, look, it's got a lot of things. Look, ESPN is the easy low-hanging fruit to beat up on because of some of their editorial decisions. But when they broadcast games and they put on, you know, basketball or football or baseball, they do a good job, generally speaking. And there's really no competition. FS1 tries to, but they're not going to be close.

I mean, ESPN just has way too much firepower over anything else. FS1 does. But they legitimately have these serious conversations with these guys on, and they're trying to break down how this guy's going to do against this guy or who's going to win this match. Brough, it's already predetermined. It's like one of my favorite college basketball football announcers. Joe Tessator.

He works for ESPN does their college football games. He does boxing. And he's also one of the announcers for the WWE, and he's up on this stage. and he's sitting there like he's breaking down a debate between Trump and the next candidate for the presidency. It's just odd. And again, maybe it's because ESPN has to transform itself into something different.

But I can't imagine 20 years ago with all the other things going on in the world of sports, even today that unless there was some sort of promotional attachment to it, which obviously there is between ESPN and WWE, that they would have to give it the time of day. Because 30 and 40 years ago, when I was growing up, up love and wrestling nobody gave wrestling the time of day because they knew what it was you had superheroes and trunks using illegal objects and throwing dust on people but that wasn't sport it was entertainment except to me 12 years old i scared the death of scandore acbar

kamala the eugenan giant i hated jim cornet because he were he was uh his midnight express were beating up my rock and roll express but that's a different issue for a different time i think it's odd but you know what what you have to do and I'm doing this as a sports broadcaster and you guys are probably doing this as sports consumers you're going to just change the times a little bit and you got to realize that

just getting into the nuts and bolts of a particular sports topic it just isn't going to cut it like it used to just like the second we just played a minute ago the podcast when would you have ever asked about to Stan Van Gundy about Kevin about to

Dwight Howard in his interesting ways to interrupt conversation. You wouldn't. Because what we've done in 2026, and it's been going this way for a long time, is we just don't really particularly care too much about the X's and O's anymore. Now, if there's something happened to just happen yesterday

or is going to happen tonight, that's different. Like, if we're talking about a game 7 of a Rockets playoff series, you guys are hopefully calling the show saying, hey, how are we going to do this? How are we going to do that? Or if the Astros are about to play an important three-game series against Seattle to determine first place in American League West, or the Texans just finished playing a game against Chiefs, you'll be ready to call and discuss it. But other than that, we, as sports fans tend to let these things slip pretty easily, and we find other things to get to.

I think that's what the ESPN is trying to do. So maybe I'm answering my own question. That you just can't spend a whole lot of time talking about what happened yesterday when people tend to forget about it pretty quickly. All right, we are one hour in the books. We've got to shut your bum ass up coming up at 1130 today. 713-212-5-790 if you want to chime in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Some astronauts will get to the top of the hour.

The Rockets play the Kings tonight. And more from the combine at Indianapolis where teams are looking at players and asking questions and trying to figure out who to draft. If you had a chance to whisper in Nick Casario's ear, it's offensive line in the first round. right? Or am I missing something? 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas Show with you for another hour before Astro Spring Training Baseball here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1101 on 790. We have one hour in the books. We've got less than an hour left to go. So if you want to come say hello, you're more than welcome to do so. m t at sports 790.com is my email address but the easiest way to get a hold of us is through either

Twitter at sports mt Instagram at sports mt or call the show at 713 212 5 790 719 719 710 710 we have hunter brown making his astros spring training debut you'll hear it right here on the sports talk 790 and we've got that coming up in about 55 minutes from now first pitch will be at 12-10. We'll have the games for you tonight and today and Thursday and then Friday they play an evening in my think. So we'll have a daytime baseball for you today and tomorrow

and I will be in Orlando tomorrow after the Rockets hopefully beat up on the Sacramento Kings tonight. Houston in the third spot in the Western Conference. Again 7-13-212-5-7-90. Astros got a 6-6 tie yesterday with the New York Mats after being down 5-0. So all the

negativity we had earlier on, long gone because things are going right there. Astros did in terms of positivity. We're six for six on ABS calls yesterday. I think you guys are going to love it. I'm looking forward to it big time. That's automatic ball strike, six challenges, six correct answers. Also, according to Brian McTagger, 29 walks have been drawn so far for the Astros and spring training, which means there's a good eye, which is very encouraging on that.

and then a couple other game notes for you. EMI is going to start tomorrow against the Mets. Carlos Correa and Christian Walker will make their spring training debuts. And then Friday against the Nationals, Lance McCullors will make his first spring start with Jose Al-Tube in the lineup for the very first time. As far as the Astros lineup today that you would care about, Jake Myers is going to play back in center field today. It was Cam Smith yesterday.

Taylor Tremel is going to be in left field today. The H is going to be Yarnere Diaz. So obviously the running program is okay and good enough for him to be able to do that. So we'll look forward to seeing him. Wickham, Sullivan, Winkler, Sacco, Yannick, that's the first round pick of a couple of years ago, the catcher from Sam Houston State. And then Dodd Day, I don't know if that is, plays first base. And then Hunter Brown will pitch.

So that's some of the things you'll want to pay attention to as the Astros play that spring training game coming up in 55 minutes from now. I mentioned the Rockets are going to take on the Sacramento Kings tonight. Sacramento ending a 16 game losing streak with a victory over Memphis a couple of days ago. So the Rockets, well, hopefully we'll be able to get a second straight win and get on the road. They've got some winnable games coming up. Orlando is okay. They did beat the Lakers last night in Los Angeles. You've got Orlando, Miami, and Washington on a three-game road trip after tonight's home game.

Rockets tonight are a 13 and a half-point favorite at home. The Kings are 13 and 46. The Rockets are 35 and 21. As far as news headlines of the day, not a whole lot. As I mentioned a couple of times, and I'm sure many of you know by now, the NFL Scouting Combine is going on in Indianapolis. I'll be there for a few days,

or all the draft picks go up there and talk about how they want to play for each one of the 32 NFL teams over there. They're probably lying to you, and they'll only want to play for five or six. one of the things that was quickly dispelled yesterday was the thought that C.J. Strave was a trade chip. Again, that was completely erroneous. And as Nick Cicereo said yesterday, that was moronic. Ann Rappaport, who I think for the time being works for the NFL network.

You know, ESPN owns that now. So I don't know what's going to happen with his job. He was kind of talking about whether or not he was going to be re-signed. He didn't bother me. Will my life be okay without Ian Rappaport's reports? My guess is yes. My guess is Ian Rappap report's been around long enough that he knows that he's going to to get a job, whether it's staying with NFL network or going to ESPN or doing something else.

But he was on one of their NFL shows yesterday, and it kind of gave us an update on what C.J. Stratt is doing right now in the Texans off season. Yeah, and the quarterback who's the team leader who has done it right, who has Nick Kassarro said, has bounced back and responded to every situation in as positive a way as possible. He's out in California now, working on his game, honing his game, and trying to get back to the level of play that he had as a rookie, and certainly at times last year as well. You're right.

The question really isn't, is C.J. Stroud going to be the Houston, Texas quarterback? He is. Is he going to be the elite, elite franchise guy that you have literally no choice but to pay? And the fact that they don't have a firm 100% answer, the fact that the contract extension may, Mike, wait until next year. That is okay because what we've learned, including from Sam Darno who just won the Super Bowl, sometimes it takes a little bit of time for a quarterback to figure out what they are

and what we are going to see. And I think for C.J. Stroud, that is what is on him this offseason to see how good he can be. Hmm. All right. Again, I don't want to go sentence by sentence here on this, but I'll say that I appreciate the fact that he's working out, that he's in California, working on his game. I mean, it'd be better than saying, well, he's on a beach in Mexico and has not been seen for months.

I mean, that makes kind of sense that he's doing that. But the reality is, and unless I'm missing something about this, is that he's only going to get better when the lights are on, right? I mean, if he's throwing on a high school field with a couple of his bros that are receivers, with nobody with no pads on, no shells, no pass rush. I mean, is that going to all of a sudden change who he is? I guess the answer is it can't get worse, right? He's probably not in California developing more bad habits.

He is a guy that is saying, look, I know what I did wrong in those games against Pittsburgh and New England, and maybe whatever I can do to stay sharp in the off-season will help me get back into good graces and have a better training camp again. But we're sitting here in late February. They don't have put the pads on and really get after it until middle of the late July. So I would say this. I'm happy that he's doing that. Again, he could be running around doing 40 different podcasts

and going on 15 or 17 different vacations to Japan and Malaysia. and he could be going to the Tahiti and all that and people are like, do you really care about your craft? I mean, he's doing for sure the absolute right thing. But the one thing I don't think we can say is I don't think guaranteed success right now

and this time of year is going to all of a sudden be different is going to give us a different result. Unless he's learning something. Unless he is spending an hour in front of a television a couple days a week or two hours a week in front of a monitor saying, hey, oh, what did I do there? What did I see?

What can I do differently? I think, and this will be a topic that will continue to be discussed for months and months and months until they start playing real games again in September will be. Is he happy with the people protecting him in front of him? Is he building trust with a receiving cord, not named Nico Collins? And obviously he had that with Tank Dell, but Tank's been gone now for the entire season. and whether tank comes back, that's a mystery. If he does come back, it'll be great. But, again, I've said it kind of a handful of times.

I'm not for sure that this is the guy that's not going to be battling injuries for his entire career because of his frame. And does he trust his own instincts? And does he trust the field in which he's playing on? And does he trust the fact that he is in a situation where he's had multiple concussions during his NFL career? And is that something that's going to bother him in the back of his mind? it would do that it would do all that for me if i was him i'm not blaming him if his hesitation in his in his mind but if you have hesitation

then maybe this is the time did you get you try to get rid of that but if he you know he should be given a clean slate he should be doing the little things to try to erase the memories of the last year and it's not and it's and maybe like maybe we're not fair because he didn't have an awful regular season but it wasn't again it was a slight down to turn from what he did and obviously his first NFL season. And that's what we're still waiting for.

The biggest thing going against him is, one, the two losses were so bad. And number two, you've got to start thinking about how much money you're putting into his account. And when you put that crazy amount of money in a quarterback's bank account, that's when the pressure is turned up even more. Look at all the money that Carter Murray got to stay with Arizona. It has not panned out. Look at all the money to a tag of Aloha has received in Miami.

It hasn't panned out. Pat Mahomes, yes. Josh Allen, yes. Joe Burrow, yes. But there's as many guys bumping around the NFL that are making crazy, crazy money that have handicapped their team because, so much of that money goes to that one particular player. And that's what the Texans have to think about.

Ian Rappaport basically alluded to the fact that he knows an extension is coming. But CJ can't be foolish enough to think that he would be offended if they waited one more year. They've got until May 1st to pick up the fifth year option. That's going to happen. And when it does, you are going to lose your mind. Some of you will be. But some of you also realize the economics of the NFL, especially with rookie contracts. it will be the right thing for the Texans to do.

It just would be. But yeah, there is a lot of indecision. There is not a lot of guarantees coming out of it. I mean, I know that the McNair's opening are going to talk about Torotown today. I would hope somebody that goes to that event that's covering the media would ask about the CJ situation. Will you get a clear answer? Probably not. But that's why there's so much angst about this year is because now you're really going to have to have those hard decisions.

with the door closed about what to do about that because you've got other guys in your team namely Will Anderson who has done everything and then some to deserve the long-term extension that he's supposed to get after his third NFL season that CJ Stroud at this point is not deserving of 713212-570s What up, Ridgeland? Let me hear from you, Cyprus. So today, the Texans, Hannah, Cal, their prez, somebody from Howard Hughes Corporation,

come to Toro Town. We're going to build restaurants, bars, flag football fields, a great facility. and then we're going to dodge questions about whether or not the stadium will be out here too a toro town let me tell you something i'm going to toro town i got to check it out are you i would die for you know what means the restaurants are good

why wouldn't we go to toro town that's good point now if you're opening up a rice cake rackery there that i don't care i can get that anywhere But if I gave me some C.J. Stroud sliders? I'm in for that. What would Will Anderson's dish be of choice? See, that's what you got to do? You got to open up a Texan-themed restaurant

and just name after your favorite players. I mean, honestly, wouldn't it be a Chimmy Fairbairn footlong? That's just a rubway at that point. I don't know, but if Chimmy Fairbairn's making like you spend, you know, you get the meats and cheeses that's where you want it. Toasted bun. Heavy oil? heavy oil, heavy vinegar?

Yeah, today, I'm not kidding you, folks. They're doing a welcome to Toro Town. Torotown sounds so much better. I'm not going on. Doesn't it sound better than the Toro District? I don't know. Let me tell you something. If Hannah and Cow are listening right now, which they're not,

I don't know if they even know where he exists, which is fine. I can live with that. It'd be kind of nice for them to come over and say hi to us and tell us what's going on. I mean, I'd be, let me tell you, I love owners. I love talking to Jim Crane. I love talking to Tillman Fratita.

I would love to sit with with Cal and Hannah and talk about it. In fact, if anybody from the Texas is listening, I think this is a genius idea. I really do. And if I were them,

and I've told you this before, I told this to Ross many of time, I would figure out, I would put up as much money of my own personal money as I possibly could without really being mad about it. And I would,

I'd get out of energy. I'd go build the Toro Dome. There's all that land out there. in the Bridgland. That's where everybody's going. That's where your money is anyway. And who cares if people in Galveston are Clear Lake or friends would have to drive an hour and 15 to a game. You're doing it nine times, ten times a year. Because I'm going to tell you this again. Torotown isn't being built for the city of Houston to come run to see the Texans practice

facility. How many have you been in the Texan practice facility in your life? Less than a half percent of people in Houston? Maybe one-tenth of a percent? I mean, they may open it up for tours, but that's a lot. That's necessarily, you're not driving 50 miles for that. You're doing this because Cyprus and Bridgland needs more stuff to do and eat and drink and sit and movie theaters. And maybe you build a small stadium that you can house football games, you know, like, you know, scrimmages and high school playoff games and stuff like that. That's what you do this for.

You're not building Toro Town because you want people from Katie to run over there. I look, Katie wouldn't be too far, honestly, when you think about it. Baytown, you're a, let me tell you, Baytown ain't leaving the Buckees off of I-10. They're not going up to Toro Town. So Cal and Hannah, if you're listening, driving out to Cyprus today, I fully endorse this. Now, you better, I'm just telling you not because I need, I'm trying to get in your piggy bank, but it's going to be very hard for Harris County voters to help you with this. You might get a sweetheart land deal.

You might get some tax breaks on a variety of other things, but if you're staying in Harris County, you're going to have to write a really big check because I think the city of Houston is done at least they have been the last 25 or 30 years of running a lot of checks for sports facilities. They did it back in the 90s when you needed Dikin Park and when you needed the Toyota Center. You're not necessarily needing it here in 2026.

So, yeah. Torotown gets its official debut. Everybody's going to, I guarantee you, Cal is going to say the word excited at least 10 times. we're very excited to be here very excited about this very i mean he's going to use the word excited ten times now i know john i know from our morning show cole and dan are going to go out there to torreotown if those boys are listening right now every time you hear cal say excited you have to take a drink well they're they're going to sue ferdin drink out there

i mean i don't know where they're going to necessarily do i mean just me i guess a plot of I guess you could set up like a lemonade stand or something. I don't know. But yes, Toro Town, the first introduction to it, aka the Toro District. Again, Toro Town to me sounds a lot better. And if the Texas want to steal that idea from me in Toro Town, then I've not copyrighted it,

like I should have copyrighted Crush City and trademarked it. That was my mistake, my error. Just give me season tickets for a year. with parking, like good parking at NRG because it's hard to get it out of Energy Stadium. So let's get started today. Toro District sounds fine. Toro Town much better. 713-212-5-790.

James is with us here on 790. James, what do you want? Yeah, you were talking about Rocket Dueloos. You thought we're going to bring a championship. I always thought that Yalming and Tracy McGrady were going to do it. And that kind of disappointed me that they never got to die. I know. Yeah, but the reason I called is, you know, every day I drive 40, well, I don't do it every day, but occasionally I drive 45.

And I'm looking at Greens Point Mall. Why don't they level that thing and build a stadium there? It's close to the airport. I don't know if there's enough laying to build a stadium there, but it's an eyesore. They need to do something with it. What do you think? What part of time you're talking about? Green's Point Mall, level Green's Point Mall, tear that whole mall down, use that space there and build a stadium and be close to the airport.

Why would it worry about being close to the airport? What would that make a difference? Well, I mean, in case you have visitors come in and, you know, from other cities wanting to watch the game. I mean, it really doesn't make a difference, but it would be a good location at a stadium. You're not having to buy a new land. You're actually improving the land that's there.

I don't know if you tore down the mall, that'd be enough for parking and everything, but... No, there's too much stuff over there. That stuff's already built. There's not enough room. The area, the spot of area, in the city of Houston, and that part of Harris kind of got the most spaces out there by out there and near the Bridgland Cyprus, sir.

That's where the space is. Yeah, I've been out to Bridgland. Yeah, there's land out there, but they're also expanding communities out there as well. That makes it perfect sense for Toro Town then. Well, it does. It kind of does. But I was just thinking, get rid of one eyesore and put something nice there instead of having them drive by Greenspoint Mall and see those carnivals or whatever you put out there. Yeah, I don't go by Greens Point Mall.

It's not my for destination. Well, it's an eyesore. Yeah, it's fine. I don't think I've ever gone to a carnival at a mall parking lot. Really? I'm just, I don't trust amusement park rides, period. I certainly don't ones that are like temporary that get set up in the middle of a parking lot at a mall.

But you've been on one, though, right? Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. Like, I would have to tell you my favorite ride, not at an amusement park. You know what a tilt the world is? When you get in there and it's like you're in a little mushroom, and it's like to see it's two or three people

and you have this one bar that crosses over you to secure you and you're going up and down and on a circle like a donut and it moves around at that tiltor world that's a jam right there you know what I'm talking about do you I think I can imagine go Google tilt a whirl and you're like damn man I know what you're talking about that was a ride I used to see tilt the worlds at all like the little mall parking lot ride things

because at least if that if that thing breaks down you're not you know like 5 15 250 feet above the ground you know what I mean this is just like some teacups yeah it's executive teacups you know what I'm not gonna add on you because I actually don't I don't like going on roller coasters I'm not a lot

I don't know anymore I'm done with roller coasters I was done with roller coasters five years ago I am done Gonzo with those bad boys you had me thinking that this was like some big ride somebody back me up until the world was the jam It's not it. Now, teacups were going slowly.

Tiltor whirl will throw you around like a rag doll. Don't you, don't you hate on Tilta Whirl. T-cups, I get it. Oh, my God. No, man, don't get. I will not accept Tiltor Whirl slander on my radio show. I'm just surprised. I'm just shook.

Stop. That's terrible. All right. Now, I'm going to tell Jonathan to shut his bum ass up about Tilt the Whirl. If you don't Tilt the Whirl, you don't, you're not a friend of mine. All right. If you want to get in, 713, 212-5-7-90, you want to tell some people to shut their bum-asses up.

Let's go right now. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Ain't nobody got time for that as well. We want those phone calls to come in as well if you've got anything. This is the most cathartic, favorite part of the week for you. You can really tell people how you feel. Like I just told Jonathan about the tilt-the-world. 7-13-212-5-79.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 for shut your bum-ass up. And ain't nobody got time for the little. that. Here we go. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-790. To Jonathan Allen, my producer, Tilt the Whirl, Slander. Shut your bum-ass up, man.

Shut your bum-ass up, man. You know, if that's what you like, that's what you like. That's not my favorite, but it was. It's again. You like it. I love it. Here's the thing. If the machine breaks down, I get out just fine.

If the machine breaks down on the Ferris wheel, I'm up there for two weeks. Are you scared of the Ferris wheel? Don't tell me that. Oh, hell yeah, I am. What? Anybody got time for Ferris wheel. No chance. No way.

No how. Mm-mm. You scared of heights? A little bit. Okay, that's fair. I'm not going to. Not. It's not major, but the fear of getting stuck is what drives me crazy.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-70. What else am I mad about? Let me see what else. Oh, to our buddy emailed a minute ago. We were talking about Dwight Howard's crop dusting. If you crop dust on an airplane, anybody got time for that?

Ain't nobody got time for that? Now you're telling me in your private jet, you never, you had never, you never, you never done it before, really? It's eggs. Ain't nobody got time for that. It's a shit to top it. He's trying to out me. That's no way. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. All right, we're going to go to Brandon in a second, but first, John, then what's the matter with you? I saw this statistic talking about how many people are going to go to different cities at spring break. it's estimated that Houston is the new spot for spring break this March over says 500,000 people were going to come here. To do what? The rodeo, I don't know. Because, you know, Miami shut it down,

so they didn't want to go Atlanta, so everybody's going to Houston because it's cheaper. I don't know. No, going to be. Who would you get this from? I don't believe this. This is, like, even my age, like, everybody, like. No chance, no chance, no way, no how.

You're going to see this. 610 filled up. No, you're not. You went to some fake-ass website. You know what? You shut your bum-ass up. Don't get that information like this. I'm telling Houston right now, there's going to be a lot of people coming in.

I don't know what. Does a bar, the rodeo cook-offs? I don't know. I don't know. I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you what. Okay. Time out.

Where on the street is, that's what the word on the street. We're going on the phones. If you live in Kansas City or Saginaw, Michigan, or I don't know Lexington, Kentucky I just throw three randos cities out there, right? In your 19, 20, 21,

22, you may be here in a young professional and you're about to go on a vacation. I mean, I love our city, but we're not a vacation city. Nobody says, hey, let's go to Houston for four or five days. Like, I get, we've got clubs and, you know, no, no, no, no. You know, you went to the weekly world

news for your information. This is the word on the street. There ain't no word on the street. The one of the street is downtown sucks. Baytown's full of rednecks and energy is a dangerous part of Houston. That's the word on the streets. Come on. I warned everybody.

Just be warned. Now the rodeo cookoff is going to bring some people, but that's usually drunk or some Houston. And I think like all the people that are headlighting in the radio, I think like Lizzo and all them are doing it. So it's just going to be a lot of. Lizzo's company. Doesn't Lizzo from Houston?

Houston? Let me look at, yeah, I think she is. Hold on. Well, then she would be coming home. That would not be a new visitor. But I'm saying, if Lizzo's coming to Houston, I'm going somewhere far away from her. That voice is knowing as hell. I want to apologize, ladies gentlemen. Jonathan giving you all some bad information. Hey, Kelly Clarkson is going to come over here to Chris Abley. Who is? Kelly Clark, Carson.

Chris Ableton. It's headliners. They're performing. Yeah, but that's because they're going. They're not coming to Houston to vacation. But that's what's going to bring the influx of people. Matt, I'm trying to tell you. No, no, no, no, no. Don't listen to him. You just, you don't know what you're talking about. Let me go to the phones.

We're not getting half a million people coming to Houston the next week. I'm not wearing those streets. Your streets in a cul-de-sac. Let's go to Brandon on 790. Brandon, what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt, I just wanted to tell that guy that compared Brian to hear of T.J. Stroud yesterday to shut his bum ass up. Shit your bum-ass up, man.

What the hell was he thinking? That's exactly right. That's one of the all-time work. analogous. Brandon, I'm a terrible analogist, so I know when I see one and hear one. Yeah, that was really bad, man. I heard it yesterday whenever I was listening to your show, and I was like, man, does a guy even watch the games?

Like, what are you talking about? Yeah, I mean, I understand. And thank you, Brandon, for the phone call. I understand there's going to be some CJ Straud's slander. And for the right reasons. I mean, he was absolutely horrific. But he wasn't Brian Hoyer, bad. I mean, I don't even know what a comp would be.

He just sucked. How about a quarterback that sucks? He had a really, really bad day, and really bad two weeks. But he ain't Brian Hoyer bad. And that the Brian Hoyer family is listening, hello, I'm sure you're all wonderful people. But your husband, your son, your nephew, your best friend,

he went to go to NFL quarterback. 713-212-5-7-9. Andrew on 790. Andrew, what's the matter with you? Yes, sir. I think C.J. Stroud only deserves a two-year, two and a half million dollar deal on his next contract, because that's what Brian Hoyer got in 2015. And anyone's going to defend C.J. Sprout needs to look at the stat. Look at the paperwork. He's the same. C.J. Brian Hoyer-Strault, ladies and gentlemen, love the show.

Ain't nobody got time for that. I was going to tell him to show. But he said he loves the show. I can't do that. If you love the show, I can't crush you, right? Even dumbass James and Klein's that he loves the show. I can't rip him too bad. Even Brad loves a show, and I can't rip him too bad either. See, everything you can do, ladies and gentlemen,

to get away with murder on my show, like with horrible sports tanks, just say how much you love the show. Seven. Did you already said two-year, two and a half million dollar a day? He makes more than that now. I'm surprised. He's 10-toe's dad.

I can't be mad at them. I got 10 toes that says there can be 50 people in Houston over the next week and a half. All right. You're going to see. I'll just tell you. There's nowhere to go to spring break. It's only Houston. Oh, my gosh.

That's too funny. By the way, I get some nice emails saying you're doing a good job giving me grief like Ross gives me grief. Oh, thank you. You're feeling in nicely, my friend. Where's next year's? You know what? I just got word from Jonathan Allen's news feed. Oh, thanks for sending this to me.

Next year's big vacation spot is Wichita, Kansas. Oh, that's really cool. Thanks, Jonathan, for sending that to me. Okay. No, all I'm saying is this. All seriousness. People do come from out of town to go to the rodeo. I get that, but we're not getting a half million people here for that.

You're a chance. Do you not remember Miami shutting down? Didn't want anybody come to spring break? What other big? Oh, so we're not going to, we're going to go to Miami. We can't go to Miami, so we're going to go to Houston instead. It's warm down here. Yeah.

No. I'm going to Miami this weekend. Guess where I'm going to be this weekend? On South Beach, baby. My white-ass legs are going to be on South Beach. You ready for that? Anybody got time for that, I bet. Ain't nobody got time for that?

All right. Final second. Shit your bum-ass up, man. I'm going to come back with dark legs, John. He'll be so proud of me. I don't want to see that. Problem is I get them all dark down in Miami. And then I'm going to Washington, DC, on Monday.

We're supposed to be like 35 in snowing. So I'm going to lose the darkness. something is wrong with you I would agree with you on that 713-212-2-5-7-90 final segment if you have something you want to tell somebody to shut their bum on a separate

nobody got time for that 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90 with Jonathan sent me the list where he got that the city Houston's going to have a half million people visiting during spring break I got the list of the other cities who are getting a lot more people

Omaha, Nebraska is doing really well Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Riverside, California, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Also, huge big spring break spots. You're going to see. Oh, I'm going to see all right. My second to 22nd. I just can't wait.

I can't wait to find out the tens of people that come to Houston for spring for spring break. Oh, should I go to Vegas? No. Should we go to L.A.? No. Should we go to New York City? No. Houston, yes. She's cheaper. Yes, exactly. Do you what? Get good Mexican food? I get that. I'm telling you. The club life is good. The strip clubs are nice. We're in friendly people here. You're making the case better. Exactly.

Everybody's getting hip to that. Can you imagine your best friend who's going to school, West Kentucky? Hey, I want to take a girl on a vacation. Where's the friendliest city we can go to? Houston, let's go. You know how I was in Kentucky, and there was people who are. to go to Houston. Mm-hmm. I'm just trying to let you know.

We've got to hurry and get these done. Yeah, get to go. Go-go. Let me go. Line one. Let's go to, I got to put on the screen here. Gio. Gio, what's the matter with you? Hey, guys.

First and foremost, great show. Thank you. Second, I want to thank you for the, for those tickets that I want to. How about that, huh? Hey, hey, man. Hey, Mr. Texas took care of you, didn't he? Didn't he? Mr. Kingwood did his thing.

man, Mr. Kingwood's real thing for shit. Tushay, too-sha. When we got there, right, we got there pretty early, you know. There was these two drunk guys, man, sitting in the seats. And I'm like, hey, man,

these are our seats, you know what I mean? Like, I got these for Mr. Kingwood itself, you know? And they're like, well, you know, we've been here this and that. And I'm like, I had to call the usher to come help us out and everything like that. So for people trying to steal seats, man, especially giving to you by me,

Mr. King with himself, you know, nobody got time for that, man. Come on. It's Mr. Texas, and thank you. I'm glad you at a good time. G.O. won our trivia later day about that. See you later. You know what? Because you can't, you can't know.

You cannot go to the lower bowl and sit in somebody's seats. Upper deck, that's fine. Do your thing. You have a little bowl. You have a little lower bowl, what do you call it? Not sportsmanship, but you got to act like you've been there before. can't just kind of scur your way down there. No, nobody got time for that.

And he had his son with him. So, like, and then they were not trying to get, that's kind of messed up. Oh, the poor son may be scar because of the whole situation. Nah, nah, I'm just saying, like, you have that much pride. You don't want to give up the seats that not even yours. And he has his son with him. Like, that's a bad look, man. The key to go in the lower bowl is the second half.

If you're going to try to scoot downstairs, I'm talking about anything, like a football game, baseball, game basketball. You got to do it in the second half. You got to take the L in the first half. first half. You just do. All right, Jonathan. I'm going to figure out what destination I'm going to take my family this, sweetie next week on spring break. I think we're going to go to Little Rock, Arkansas, I don't know.

I don't know. Oh, I'm going to go to Little Rock, Arkansas for a week. That should be a lot of fun for the family. From your family, it actually sounds accurate. Little Rock is not bad. I've been there before. I've only been to Little Rock one time to see a concert. You should go to the, you probably go to that museum. The Bill Clinton, Presented Museum. I have not going to that museum. I go to the Bill Clinton Airport.

Of course you have. that's because you fly everybody has flies in the little rock has to go to bill clinton airport some people drive it's not that far from here what 11 hours i hate driving to my office much less driving a little rock oh hell no that's exactly why in a week and half you're gonna see why you hate it even more oh because the track i won't be back until monday night so maybe y'all can do y'all can get all the traffic and you want traffic next tuesday when i come to the station will not be any worse than it normally is on a tuesday hit the music Hey, Ross is back with me tomorrow.

I'll be in Orlando. I'll talk with you for Rockets basketball tonight at 7 o'clock here on 7.90. But right now, you all better listen. It's required. State law. Astros. Marlins. Next on 790.