The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets vs Lakers Round 1 Tonight! USA Takes Down DR, Astros Spring Training Talk

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Rockets vs Lakers Round 1 Tonight! USA Takes Down DR, Astros Spring Training Talk 

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Ross. I took your advice. I said, you said Matt, decompressed, don't do much. Yes. I cooked the steak on last night for the family. Wonderful.

And that's all I did the entire weekend. I could have gone to the rib, ribs, strips, sirloins? Strips and rib eyes. Oh, strips and ribbyes? Went to the butcher. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. So I could have gone on a boat ride. I could have gone to a variety of March Madness selection tournament parties. And I'm like, I'm just going to stay home. Because we've got a busy week coming up here. We got two, we got four Rockets games this week. Two huge ones of the Los Angeles Lakers. Massive.

Yep. Must win. Must split games. I'll be cranky Thursday if we don't win at least one. Does that make sense? Yes, it does. Okay, just throwing that out there. What else we got?

We got World Baseball Classic Championship on Tuesday. Yes. I did watch the night. I'm just, I got to be brutally honest with you. I watched the ninth inning. That's it. Okay. I'm trying.

But I watched the highlights. Yeah. I saw it was on and but I had to go back and watch the Rockets game from Friday because I missed it. The amount of rhetoric coming from other teams not named Team USA, although I can tell you, The Tarc Skuble obviously was an emotional basket case after he had to go back to the Detroit Tigers after not being a part of the TVBC. It's like they're saying, I'd rather win this than a win a World Series. I'm like, check yourself. Matt?

No, it's okay. They can have their opinions, Matt. But I'm allowed to disagree with those opinions. And that's what this show is about. And they're disagreeing and agreeing with opinions. They're the ones playing the game. Yeah. And we're going to, just like Team USA with all that hockey and all.

that. We forgot about it two days after. We're going to figure about the WBC two days after. We got a baseball season coming out. Okay. The World Series. We got big. I'll tell you what, your team ABS. Should add ABS yesterday. I know. Ooh, Lordy. Corey. They like to have it. No, no, human element. No, it's okay. Everybody loves a human element. Corey Blazer is like, I got a flight to catch. That's a little bit umpire last night. You know what's great about baseball, the human element. I love me some human element. You know who

not loving the human eleanor. The DR. The Dominican Republic's not really feeling so hot about the human element. And Juan Sotoa also got buzzed at a calling anything apparently. That was way off too. I mean, my gosh. It wasn't even closer. It was. It was bad. That would have been bad calling a little league game. Yeah. Why can't we just, and this is stupid. Just please allow me. Just put the home plate on power next to the pitcher. I mean, you know, next to the pitcher? No, the pitcher's further away. That's why the pitchers aren't making challenges. But you could have saw the glove movement go,

from the lower to the upper. No, they need to be closer. Like the catchers. Okay. And now their view is blocked. Yeah. How about the side? Whatever.

Something. Catch a foul ball of the dome. I guess they do that anyways. And Fox. So the finals, Mason Miller throws the strike three to get in the game. They take like three minutes to show the replay. Yeah.

Like, Communist MLB will not show strike three. You have to show it. Mark DeRosa, was he blocking the video? Like he did the video of him saying? they clenched. It was almost like I wanted to go back and use the DVR and hit rewind because it's taking you forever to show this replay.

Because I thought that looked low and then they showed the replay like, oh, it was, there was no chance, no way, there was never a strike. Congrats team USA. We need some normalcy. Yeah, USA. USA.

Good crowd in Miami. It's so crazy to watch a game in Miami and actually have people in the stadium. It looks like a fun place to go. Yeah, it does. It's aesthetically. The Marlins play there. It's right, very close to Miami Airports.

If you notice there's a big stadium next to Miami Airport, that's what they call it the Lone Depot Park. I'm going to be confused with Home Depot Park. It is confusing. But it looks very, very beautiful, and it got people in there. And there are probably some people sitting in seats that haven't been sat at in probably three or four years. Yeah, they're dust them off. Dust it off there.

That's funny. That is funny. How was your weekend? Okay. Weekend was great. Didn't do much of anything. Not a whole lot. I mean, the Rockets didn't play.

Longhorns weren't involved in the SEC tournament. Yeah. So I've been teasing Ross about Dayton for about a month now. And I didn't think I was being serious when I was teasing it. Well, you lose your last three games of the season and finish with a 500 record in league play and then don't win literally a single game in your conference tournament. You end up on the bubble. And they did. And Dayton's lovely in mid-Fugn March. That's fine. I don't even care. You know what, go Wolfpack. So you want to be done? No, when the game starts, you know who I'll be rooting for when the game starts. Where's the watch party?

There's no watch party for Dayton games, Matt. Are you sure? Yes. We can't find Texas exits somewhere around town? I mean, maybe. I don't think so. I think you're probably... Maybe for the regular tournament.

By the way, shout out to Joe Lannardi. Yes? Did you see what he did? No. You got all 68 right. Oh, good for him. Yeah. People need to put some respect on his name.

They need to. He was getting crushed on the college basketball Twitter streets. You got to be a real nerd to be a college basketball. Twitter, by the way. Let me tell you about college basketball nerd. I don't want to hang out with them. It's too much. Transfer Portal.

Like, every year, Texas has got like seven new players. I've got to figure it out. I can't even pay attention to every other team. It's ridiculous. Yep. I probably pay attention to my own Cougar team. I can't pay attention to other teams. Again, that's a little, let me give you a little 101.

Anybody that tries to discuss the bracket that's not been discussing it since November, doesn't have any business discussing the bracket. That's what we're not going to do it. My Bible is Kin Palm. I just go to Kim Palm and fill up my bracket. Yeah. We got to take the chalk picks, right, basically? It's better off that way.

Over the years, chalk is smarter, but some years it'll burn you. We'll see. Yeah, last year, all fours got in. This year, it'll be three ones and a two. Last year, I got second and third in a big pool. It was nice. It was real nice. What did you do with that, buddy?

I saved it. I put it in my Roth IRA. Nice. That's very responsible. Of course. All right. And then I've donated the rest of the church. So I call you St. Villarreal.

That's thank you. St. Paul. All right. All right. Let's go over what we're doing today. We've got a little bit of Astros chatter to get to. We can actually start looking some box scores now. Yes.

Because the pitching numbers are amazing. The batty numbers are still a little mid. I would say get used to that. Good pitching, mid-hitting. All year long or just until like May 1st? All year long. Last year, 15th in team OPS. This year?

12th? 12th? If they go 15th in OPS with the way this pitching staff is performing. Yordon's going to at least during spring training. They're going to the playoffs. Yordon should play more. Should. Was it 48 games last year?

I would expect that elevated number of that? I would, yes, unless something disastrous happens. Again, of all the things I have made you do on gut feelings, I really hope I'm wrong about the 1-30. No, you put your name on it, and we made a bet. I got to pay you off on that coffee, by the way. Yes. How's that going with the shot foot?

What's the latest on that? Because you told me your inside sources are making, give you a little confidence. No. You didn't say that. I'm going to follow my sword on that. Okay. I'm going to say something's externally sketchy with it. Okay.

That's still scary. I knew that was coming and it still scares me. That's what I'm talking about, Jail and Allen right there. All right. That's what I'm talking about. All right. We got that to get to. We have I mentioned Rockets Lakers for two consecutive games.

What an interesting weekend for NBA basketball. There was a hell of a game on Saturday that I know none of you watched between Denver and Los Angeles. We will not discuss, but I enjoyed it. Watch a lot of the madness. Honestly, and again, painting broad brush on this, I could see five teams comfortably winning the national championship. I don't think there's a significant favorite. Cougars are one of them.

I think the cougars are probably five out of that five, but you know what? I'm always going to have them, they have their back. So they'll be opening up against the Idaho vandals in Oklahoma City on Thursday. The 9-10 tip time on Thursday night. Fifth in the final Ken Palm regular season rankings. Duke, Arizona, Michigan, Florida, then Houston fifth.

That's all I mean. Those are the five to me that would come across is, if you gave me five of the field, is that stupid to just take the five? No. It's probably going to be one of those. Yeah, it's how I feel about that. So we don't have a bracket contest. Next year.

Don't you start one? The SportsMT bracket contest. You know what? If you fell out a perfect bracket, I'll give you one gazillion dollars. Okay. What's a deal? Yeah. One gazillion empty bucks.

We can make a bracket pool. We can't. Winner gets like a signed 8 by 10 of Matt Thomas. I don't have any 8 by 10s available. Oh, you're all out? That's true. I didn't think of that. five by sevens. I can give you two t-shirts.

A Rams volleyball T-shirts? Rams volleyball, uh, Rhode Island and a good morning stripper's shirt. Okay. Picture my face on it. Huh. All right. No, I'll pay for that. See?

I don't want you paying for you. You're not paying for anything as long when you're working on. How many more of those good morning striper shirts you got left? Probably five or six. You want one? Um, you don't have my size left. Would you want to have a picture of my face on your chest? I think I have one. I think I use it as a, as a rag to like to wash my car. Where's your book? Write that down.

What? I use a nice shirt. I mean, I use a shirt to wash my car. What's wrong with that? Is that rude? Is that me? Is that so wrong? All right, fine. T-shirt remark.

Let me write this down. What's today? Monday. We should get the tip to out too. How many segments are we in? Yeah. Let's see what else is going on. We mentioned NBA.

We got baseball. By the way, Astros played today, but it's a tape delay game. We're going to go full four hours for you guys today because you've missed us so much. We have to tell the truth at 1130. I've already done believe it or not today, which I cannot tell you to get it. It's very Googledable.

Okay. But it's concerning the 68 teams in the NCAA tournament. Okay. So that'll be coming up today at 150. Love it. Let's see. What else was I going to tell you? Oh, we have NBA expansion news.

Our friends. Juicy. And friends in Seattle and Las Vegas are very excited that they are going to be the teams that are probably going to get the franchises. Yes. and every NBA team is scheduled to make if it sounds outright about $400 million in expansion fees. Excuse me? Yeah, $400 million per team.

What? Yep. $7 to $10 billion range to buy it to buy into an NBA team. What? Mm-hmm. It's doing well. People that are very easy to poo-poo on the NBA and their lack of success don't know the economics of sports. Wow.

Wow. Okay. That's why, honestly, Ross, when you think about this, you know we were talking about ways for the NFL to expand and make more money? Once they get done with this playing everybody internationally, they're going to expand. They're going to have two more teams the NFL. This might not be the hottest tease ever,

but I think one of those cities is a mistake. I think you know which one I'm talking about. I do know you know which one it is. You've already discussed it before. I know. Not even a tease. No? Different audience every day.

Okay, so you want to tell us later which one of those two? We can discuss. But you have to come up with an alternative because you have to expand by you. two so you got through you have another city in mind sure why not you get like seven minutes figure out yeah i'll go look at a map of canada you're gonna put an NBA team in manitoba okay that feels about right sure why not seven one three two one two five seven out if you'd like to be a part of our radio program that we'd love to have you seven one three two five seven ninety seven one three two five seven i need to tell the truth today at 1130 we've got to believe it or not

today we have the news at noon and uh really kind of a relaxed weekend for local teams because again Astro Spring Training. Rockets didn't play. We have the brackets. Tell me about, let me ask you this. I always know who bracket guy is at the office. If you can describe who your bracket guy is that you work with, let us know what that bracket guy is all about. Okay.

Because bracket guy to me, I don't know if he's in the top three or four, annoying most fan you work with or have a relationship with, but he's up there, right? Because he's going to burn around and tell you about, I got St. Mary's winning. Can you name a player? No, but I just know. Would you know where they're from? No, but you know what conference they're in?

No. Can you name any players that ever played for St. Mary's? No, but that guy annoys me. I'm going to be a bracket guy. I usually do four. I lose on this every year with you. I know. I win.

I did quite well last year. I can stand on my philosophy. Go ahead. A good man only should fill out one bracket. Yeah. Why not? Why pick one combination of the power ball and when you can get a couple? I pick out multiples.

I never seem to win. I never win anyway. You give yourself a better chance, though, don't you? It feels like I do, but I don't. All right, so the conundrum with games that end controversial. And this is something that could happen in any sport. This episode is brought to you by Spreker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. There's always a thought of you don't want to let the game be decided by an umpire or referee. Of course. So, so let's balance that for a little bit. It's Matt and Ross, by the way, sports talk 790, 1021. the strike three called in the game was atrocious. It was a bad call. It was horrible. But the easy, low-hanging fruit is you scored one run the entire night. Don't put yourself in a situation where you're allowing a game to be in a one-run game.

So how do you navigate those murky waters of, yeah, we had other opportunities, but yeah, we want calls right. And this could be a foul that's called late in the game of a basketball game. It could be a pass interference call in a 17-30. 13 game and a football game where you weren't able to score two touchdowns in the first half. How do you do it? I think it's hard for us to compartmentalize doing what we should have done earlier in games with the immediacy of we got screwed by an official call. I mean, it's a bad call. They should still be playing.

And that's, I don't know how you reconcile that. You just say, I mean, it's the rules of the game and it's how it was played. I mean, was any sort of ABS ever discussed with the WBC? I don't know. I don't know who runs this thing. have no clue. We'll be an issue in three years. It'll be there.

So it should be back. I mean, probably with a challenge system then. But even then, what if both teams are out of challenges in the ninth inning? You're still going to get this. So what I'm going to ask you again is, can you as a sports fan get past the quote-unquote, we got screwed on the final play of games knowing there were so many other opportunities in life in a game. that said, well, if we'd have converted that third down, or would have made that field goal,

or we'd have hit that free throw, or we would have had that base, we would have got runners at second and third, nobody out in one runner that could have scored. Can you compartmentalize that maybe ninth inning of games or fourth quarter of games, you're going to get hosed by officials? I think that's what you have to go with,

and that's what normally players will say, and it's true. You had, I'm trying to look, yeah, eight left on base by the Dominican Republic throughout the game, two for nine with an origin scoring position. They had some other opportunities. You scored on one solo home run the whole game.

Of course, it had to go against Paul Skeens and some other great pitchers and Lisa Miller. If we're doing DR sports today. DR sports today, they got screwed. This is United States conspiracy. United States umpire behind a home plate. Yes. Deportes Dominica. I don't know.

I think you and I, if we're on the other side of this, forgetting about what if it was game seven of the world series way more points you and I we'd be losing our minds over this Ross and that's what I'm saying it's hard it's hard for us to say well

okay the Astros lose game seven of the world series to the Dodgers on a strike three call to end the game oh but man we had our chance in the fourth inning runners at first base loaded nobody out and didn't score any runs oh that should have been the chance for us technically, you know, we don't work that way. We as sports fans don't work that way.

I think we, I mean, we have to, and we have. And when it comes to football games or, you know, the missed field goal at the end of the Baltimore Ravens game, you can say, oh, well, you know, we had the other opportunities to win the game. When a certain NFL team doesn't win on the last drive or doesn't get it done or there's a bad passer interference call, stuff like that, it happens a lot in other sports.

So I think that's just where you have to go with it. And it is the truth as well. Is it coping? I don't know. but it's also the truth. They had other opportunities to win the game, but it's true to say that, but it's also true to say

they got their best opportunity, not best opportunity, but an opportunity robbed from them. Because you had to run it at third. With two outs, the guy would have walked, they'd go into first base. You did first and third two out.

I don't know who the next hitter was for the DR. I'm going to go over the stance of, I don't think you have, you're going to have to live both ways. You're going to have to be pissed of the moment and be upset and be grouchy. and then also realize there were other opportunities earlier in the contest

in order to take the leads in sports. It's many, like many things in life, Matt. You can change your perspective on however you want to feel. If you want to feel like you got screwed and it was the worst thing ever, you can do that. Or you can say, hey, we had some other opportunities. That's on us.

But bitter fans don't want to do that. And guess what? If we were bitter fans, if we were Team DR, we would be bitter today. I think you should be. I mean, yeah, it was going to, it was Perdomo. it struck out, it looks like.

It was going to flip to the top of the order. Fernando Tatis Jr. The leadoff was up next. Eish. You know the second thing I was thinking during this? What's that? You know, Mason Miller is now a Padre. He was an A for the longest time, and it got traded out.

It's no surprise. Frigin' hoss. Dude, he's throwing 102. Yes. Let me ask you this. Is he throwing 102 in March 16th in a game in Yuma, Arizona? Probably. I would say so.

He threw over 20 pitches in the ninth inning. Now, I don't know if he's doing that. I'm just saying they got one more game to go to play for the whole thing. Yeah. How many games is he pitched in? Do we know?

I'll go look it up. You look it up. I don't... It's just so leverage. And I know this once every three years. I keep trying to put that through my brain. It's only once every three years. Matt, get over it.

Okay, okay. But damn, you are asking your dude. How does Padre fan feel about it? Padre feels got to be feeling like, what is he doing out there throwing 20 pitches in a March spring train? or you know, March game. He's trying to win for his country, Matt.

That's what he's doing. You know, it's also really weird last night. It's, I don't want to say this for Thursday. I just don't get it. You know, the four-you tab is dangerous, as we've talked about. A lot of Ken Rosenthal hate out there. Really? Yes.

He doesn't bother me. He's not a reason why I watch a game. Now, he didn't do himself any favors last year when he ran that guy fell down the camera guy and he stood out of the way and stared him down at him which made him look like a douche you know the the bow tie thing is kind of a bit i know he tries to raise some money for that which is a good thing but there is a lot of hate for that bro four games four innings pitch for mason miller how many how many how many pitches per in those three those first three does it say i don't have a 20 yesterday i don't have a pitch count on this the wbc stats are actually

kind of hard to come by. I don't have a pitch count. It's okay. But yeah. I don't know the presentation was fine. You know, to get the Derek Jeter's out there and to do the pregame. I mean, obviously Fox treated it as a big deal. Yes, they should. And their ratings are fantastic. And we in Houston, we did a great. A bunch of people out there. It's a full stadium there in Miami.

Which is so abnormal. Yes. They weren't used to it. Were they understaffed? Was everybody able to get their dogs and their nachos? Yeah, because they usually like, like, they staffed. for like 8,000 people. They're like 35,000 there. Yeah. How about our boy Bregman

not even playing, dude? That's tough. That's okay. He's representing the USA well. All right. Let's go take a quick time out. Come back. Jonathan wants to talk

about the WBC. What else we got to get to? We got some astro. Let's go through those astro numbers. I think we're going to be okay. I think the pitch numbers are going to really enjoy. Okay, good. Hitting numbers, we can pass up on.

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713213-2-790. 7-1-3-2-2-790. Our time is 10-29. It's Matt and Ross. We're with you today until 2. To tell the truth at 1130 here on 790. We're going to go to Jonathan and Fulcher here. We all got to pay off on another tease you had about one of one of the two expansions that he's not being a good one.

Oh, man, I've got to pull back up on my list of biggest media markets in the United States. Could you put me on the spot and made me come up with an alternative. If you had to, because if you're going to dump one, you've got to add one. He's going to add two, by the way. All right, Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk, 790 at 713, 212-5-790. Jonathan and Fulcher with us on 7-90. Jonathan, good morning to you. What's up, guys?

Hi. Get your mother-loving ears on. That sounds very eerily familiar. I know. I kind of miss it. Listen, Matt, I know you didn't tune in until the ninth. Rossi watched the highlights. The one thing I'll say is that umpire throughout the entire game,

he expanded that strike zone like nobody's business. I mean, I remember just early on in the game looking at my wife and was like, look how far off these pitches are. I mean, and it was on both sides. So while I will say, yeah, it was rough to see that call. It actually wasn't too far off from how wide he had. expanded that strike zone. So I would just say

yeah, and to Matt's point, I mean, and that's exactly what I told the wife last night. I'm like, don't put yourself in a position to where you're letting the umpire dictate whether you win or lose the game. But at the same time, it was fairly consistent

to what he was calling yesterday. Let me ask you just Jonathan. That's all I got. John, don't hang up yet. You just said widening the strike zone. And you're not the only person's ever said that. It's a often used sports term. The strike zone is the strike zone.

It's not supposed to shrink or grow. It's supposed to be consistent. And that's what I think is the biggest complaint is. I totally agree. That's what the strike zone's for. And I feel like it makes it worse the fact that us as viewers, I mean, if you're at the ballpark, I mean, yes, it was super low. It probably a lot of people noticed it from the stand.

But when you're watching it on TV and you see the, You see the strike zone clearly and how low that that pitch was. Yeah, it makes it, it makes it worse for sure. But yeah, no, I mean, I have been all for the, you know, using technology because it's like, just get the freaking call right. Just get the calls right. That's the group I'm in. I don't care about it.

It seems like baseball is the worst sport to want to accept using technology because it just goes against how the game has been played for a hundred years or whatever but it's just BS, just get the calls right. That's all, I mean, that's how I feel about it. Anyways, I'm going to hop back into work, but I'll talk to

you guys. Thank you, Jonathan. Just get the calls right. Jonathan's with Ross, get the calls right. I'm standing firm on this way and seeing every pitch. I truly believe this will be the gateway drug. Like I said, I don't know if it's going to be three years, five years, ten years. But eventually, the light bulb will go on.

People will say, this technology is already in place. Let's use it for every pitch. Here's the thing to your argument that you're going to have to fight. It's not going to be the get-off my long guy. It's going to be the 27-year-old baseball player, too, because we've interviewed plenty of players over the years that aren't all in on this. So let me ask you this. How do you convince, besides,

saying getting every call right. Why are you having to you being the let's get ABS for every single call? Why are you fighting 27 year old? I'm not 25. I'm not fighting most of the 27 year olds because a lot of them were younger and they were in AAA and double A and they had to deal with it. A lot of the older players that we interviewed certainly are like, oh, I love the human element. I love the human element. That's because that's how they came up. That's how they, that's her tradition. That's what they're comfortable with. That's what they're used to. But the more players we've talked to as the years have gone on, Matt, and we have been interviewing these players at FanFest and here on this show. and out at spring training,

it has been more of a tide turning with the guys who are like, oh yeah, I've already dealt with it. Oh, yeah, I already like it. Or I don't like it. They have opinions where, you know, we heard from multiple guys who want either all or nothing or they're in favor of all of it.

So I think that that's where the tide is turning to you have these players who have dealt with it. And I think eventually, as I said, people will see, you're going to get big miss calls where teams are out of challenges and say, hey, the technology is already in place. Let's just go ahead and use it. That's where you're going to win.

your battle. Yeah. When you're out of challenges. Mm-hmm. That's where... If what happened last night, the WPC happens on a World Series game and everybody's out of challenges, I mean,

and it has happened. It does happen. Bad calls have been happening in playoff games for, I mean, for years. Yeah, I wonder how much of it... How much of it is Team USA had USA umpire behind it? I don't know.

You want to go to a San Antonio's sports leader? You can take a tap in? Are the Japanese umpires poor? I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm going to guess Major League Baseball has the best umpires in the world. I mean, maybe I'm just being a foolish, uh, boorish American. I don't know.

You wouldn't have to send you to Japan. I would love to go. I find out how those umpires are. Japan's on my list. I want to go see the world before I die. So let's go. If I can get a paid trip. You can pay for it, of course.

No, I mean, you said you were going to send me. Oh, no. I'm sending you to San Antonio for the second round of the playoffs. I'll go there. there. I'll take the Mayhound. What's that, what's that one dollar double decker bus thing? That's not bad. Megabus?

Yeah. They, I believe they folded. Oh. Those dollars two to be true. Yeah. I was going to put you on that, Rossi. Sorry about that. That's okay.

713-212-5-7-90. Look, you know me? I love technology. I love replay. I should be on your side. I know. Why aren't you? I mean, you're traditionally some many things, too, though, sometimes.

Yeah, but I, I guess what I'm worried about is the practicality of it. And look, if we're not talking about this being in five years from now, if it's a streamlined process, then I could probably certainly flip my opinion on this. I just think that there's going to be way more logistical issues than appear at first blush. And again, hopefully I'm wrong about this. I also got to deal with some egos, too. You're basically telling the world of baseball,

that you've been doing this one thing for over a hundred years and you're getting it wrong too much and we're going to let these umpires just stand back there. That's why I'm calling this the gateway drug is you're going from one to the other. And I don't know, like I said, when the CBA lapses with the umpires union and how you get them on board and stuff like that, there's obviously a lot of hurdles

and ones I don't even know about, I'm sure, to try to get this in place for every pitch. Because you know what? And this is an analogy and please stay on me on this. Uh-oh. we love you love this but yet you don't love call centers

that are automated you don't love AI you know what I'm saying I'm just I'm just talking out there honestly let's just go ahead and shelve that one are you sure it's bad yes because are you sure it's bad yes because this is about the rules of the game

the 26,000 missed calls last year 1,300 strikeouts that should have not been strikeouts but there's it's a streamlined process just like a streamlined call center would be. Is it going to get an AI? No, no, no, no.

This is a bad analogy. I'm sorry. You're correct. You're getting right what has been done wrong. That's all you're doing. You're correcting mistakes. If I said, hey, there was 26,000 mistakes last year in a sport that we can fix with a snap of a finger. Would you do it?

If things were, if, yeah, of course I would do it. Well, that's silly. Yeah. Okay. That's all I'm saying. And you're also taking the power away from a human being. They can still brush off the plate, call home safe. They can throw the ball.

Not making as much. Why wouldn't they? They have to bargain that. And guess what? Union's been busted in these days. 26 unions don't work really as well. I mean, Matt, we can get you out there. You can call out safe at home.

And you have the safety net of replay as well with that. You can toss a ball. How's your arm? You can toss a ball to the pitcher when he's, needs one. Guy takes one off the shin, so you've got to walk to the pitcher and take some time off. Let me take the umpires out of this. Okay. Why do you need this at all then? All those things I just said. You got to brush off the plate. You got to get the ball to the guy. You got to watch the pitch clock. Second base. Third base. Yeah, we need you to call out and safe.

Why can't we use the computer to do that? Maybe you can. And then we'll get rid of you too. And guess what? Then you don't have to pay you. What do you? You to go to Iraqi call center. Same thing as umpired home plate first base, second base. Job elimination is a thing in this country, Matthew. That's what I'm saying you and you should be against this. You and your way most. You are trying to get rid of umpires. I'm trying to get the calls right. I'm trying to get the calls right.

Most of these umpires have, do they have second jobs or no? No, no, they're all full time. Yeah, you're taking jobs away. That's what Ross does. No, I'm not taking their jobs away from America. They can still be back there. They still need to call fair and foul, out and save. You know what?

Get you to do it. Why do we need umpiring training for that? Yeah, you get trained. But the most difficult job, you're helping them out. What do they get crushed most for? If I looked at the mentions of umpires Association Union, major league baseball umpires union.

Way sizes. No. Used to be though. It's balls and strikes. I'm making your job easier. I'm taking the heat off of you. And you're going to cost me money because you're not going to pay me as much. Why wouldn't they?

Because they're going to say the computer's doing the head of lifting for you. They're not going to come to the table and say we're going to pay you less. I hope you're right about that. I hope you're right. Ross is the job eliminator. I'm the jobkeeper. Okay. 1043.

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I mentioned this a little while ago. The NBA is going to expand according to Shams. No surprise. The two teams, the cities that are being talked about most, Seattle, which deserves an NBA franchise. And Las Vegas has become the new sports playground for the world. The hockey teams are very good. The Raiders have done well. The A's are moving there in a couple of years.

And they're about to get a fourth NBA. They're going to have more professional sports teams than the city of Houston will be. I don't count the dynamo. I'm sorry, I don't. Hey! Please. Yeah, they're going to get a team and you are against. I'm not against. I shouldn't say against, but you don't think it's a very successful. I have questions about the long-term viability of the Las Vegas economy to support three teams.

Now, they do have a lot of locals there, but I just feel like the way the casinos have been going and getting squeezed and losing a lot of money, apparently they're taking a bad. the people who invested in this sphere are taking a bath as well. That was in the jump, by the way. Yeah. That was in the very beginning. It was like they put all these billions of dollars into the sphere and they are losing a bunch of money. And I mean, I guess they're putting a packet.

Did you even hear this, Matt? Pachial Mayweather 2 is going to be in the sphere like in September or something like that. I just have questions how long term viable this economy is because the young, young kids are not going there as as far as the Jonathan. in 20-somethings. Age, 20-somethings. It's not as chic of a destination. You have sports betting that's legal in like 30 states now.

So you don't, you know, Matt, when you and I were younger, one of the big appeals of going to Las Vegas was to be able to bet on sports. You didn't have to find some shady offshore guy or some random bookie or anything like that. You can go there and bet on sports. And now you can do it on apps.

And everybody notices. Everyone you talk to that is at least of our age or maybe even a little younger, that they're like, oh yeah, Vegas used to be this. Vegas used to be that. And I don't even want to go anymore. And it's not as appealing. So I don't know how good that economy is going to be long term.

I'm not saying it's going to completely bust, but it wouldn't shock me. Vegas, to me, you've lost that 20-something crowd. It's too expensive. The resort fees, the airfares, the hotel. When you and I were 20. Yeah. Now, that was quite a big ago. Better comps.

Better comps. Waiters come by more? Vegas can. clearly still give you a $9 steak and eggs. Because they're not there. That's a food. That's a sunk cost in order to get you to gamble. They're making the decision to charge you $29 or $49 as compared to $9.

They're making the conscious decision to charge you $89 for a room that was $29 $3 years ago and any resorts fees to it. They're just being greedy. It's still a destination for shows. It is still a destination. But it is, you're looking to fill up. 42 games a year,

41 games a year, it's 17,000 people. I think you can do it. I think baseball is going to be way trickier than it's going to be basketball. Baseball is going to be trickier, and then you add basketball. I mean, yeah, they had the NFL.

The NFL is king. I'm glad we didn't follow through on our bright idea of buying Las Vegas PSLs. Oh, that would have killed us. Because apparently the ticket sales have been underwhelming there. Yep. Vegas had a 10th consecutive month

of tourism decline in early of this year. I just googled Vegas economy. Yeah, you know what Vegas says about that? We don't care. And it pisses me off because I love Vegas. If visitors declining 10 straight months, they should care. They don't care. 2025, a 7.5% drop in visitors.

3.1 million fewer visitors year over year from 25. And then 26 is already off to a slow start. I think it's, I think alarm bells should be one off. I don't disagree with you at all. I just, I don't disagree. But it's the NBA. It's a sexy city. you can get fans of other teams to make a trip,

even in the middle of the week, for Charlotte to play at Las Vegas, and people will come. It's 42 days, Ross. I think it's, baseball should be way more concerned. Yeah. Now, since you've said that Vegas may struggle,

which I disagree with, yes. You must come up with a plan B. Okay. And I, there is a plan B city. Well, let's work on this together. What is your idea? St. Louis, Kansas City.

Kansas City would be the place. Yeah. So Vegas is the, number 40 market. Cincinnati's 37. Austin is 34. Kansas City's 33. Kansas City has a 19,000 seat arena that was just packed for Big 12

basketball this weekend. They even had people go to the game against Arizona, Houston, dinner day. That's a great, great basketball metropolis. Nashville's 26. I'm just looking at Media Market. Pittsburgh's 27, St. Louis, 24. St. Louis struggles with sports teams.

Nashville's really wants baseball really, really bad. They're going to put all their blood, sweat and tears behind that. And then, of course, the biggest one remaining is CTAC at 13. Seattle's a no-brainer. I really, you're going to lose this one. I'm not trying to win it. No, I'm not trying to win. I'm just saying I have long-term concerns about, I mean,

December visitors in 2025 year-over-year down 9.2%. That's a lot. If that continues, I don't know. Somebody in the market disagrees with me. They should. They live there. Good. So I'm going to educate me.

I don't know everything. I'm just talking out loud. My initial thought is, first of all right, first of all, not counting preseason and playoffs. Second of all, it's only 17,000 seats. Yeah, it's 41 days. But I'm saying, add it with the hockey, add it with the baseball, add it with the, I mean, you're adding three new teams in what, 10 years?

Can they support all those? But you're with the long term? But how about the population explosion? Of course, the thing is they have to win. That's the most important thing. Yeah, the Las Vegas, whatever. 21s. They're not going to be the 21s.

It's the Las Vegas Aces get there. By the way, you have LeBron James going to own this team, supposedly? Yeah. You don't mean that there's going to be some star power behind that? There will be. LeBron James gets into one of his massive limousines and runs around town. Goes to Henderson. Goes to other parts.

Oh, here we go. Yeah, okay. Come buy season tickets. Okay. Ross, again, you're looking at 17,000 seats. If I'm the A's, I'm way more worried. We'll see. I think the A's should be worried.

I'm just talking about the city and the economy of the city as all. It's built on tourism that is in a massive decline. And we get to fix that. I'm going to do my part. We're doing our part. We're going to July. We're doing our part. David in Las Vegas.

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You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more my... microphones. Start your show today at spreeker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. David. I have to chime in, and I just have to just, I think you guys are missing, like a lot of people are missing the point about why all these sports teams are succeeding here and are going to

continue to succeed here. And I'll address the questions of the visitation decline in long-term problems too. But the meantime, it's a lot-term problem, too. But the meantime, it's city we're still growing. There are two to two and a half million of us here in this Vegas Valley and whatever the figure is for the media market. It keeps growing. But anyway, the thing about Vegas is so totally unique is not the gambling of the legal gaming. It's that we've got this almost 200,000 hotel rooms right here on this strip and nearby. And they are filled anytime with, you know, after accidental visitors, conventioneers, business meetings,

as well as people that just come out here for the gaming and the entertainment and so on. Tends to hundreds of thousands of people are in these hotel rooms. They're there on weekdays. They're there on weekends. They're there on daytime hours. They're there on nighttime hours.

And they are looking for entertainment constantly. They're going to search to Soleil shows. They're seeing magicians. They're going to fancy nightclubs. They're seeing live music concerts. They're racing go-carts. they're doing whatever. And if you offer live professional sports as an entertainment option,

people flock to that. And it doesn't matter if it's your favorite team. It doesn't even matter if it's their favorite store. I can tell you from the lift driving that I do around here, I take people all the time to Golden Knights games saying, hey, you know, we don't know much about hockey, but we hear the team was in town, so we thought we'd check it out. And the results are there.

are the Raiders have the highest retail price, a resale ticket price in the entire NFL. The Golden Knights, where everybody said hockey will never work in the desert, they have the highest percentage of capacity attendance in the entire National Hockey League. If you put live sports as an entertainment option in a city where a visitor starved for entertainment, the tickets are going to get sold. So that's what I just had to say about anybody predicting problems for the A's or the new basketball team or whatever. It's all going to work. I would tend to agree.

I think even with the decline, Las Vegas has the – just has this – I don't know what I'm saying. It draws you there. Yeah, it draws you there. It does. For us. And as matter – and Ross – I've talked about this all the time. And David, thank you for the phone call. I was like, hey, let's go to Phoenix to go gamble because we can get three, two,

or we can go to Balexie, or they just don't carry the same cachet as Vegas says, because the food, the experience, the down, you and I are downtownaholics now. Yeah, I love downtown. We can't get that in Balexia, Mississippi. But it's, yeah, I'm talking about long term. I know. Yeah, I don't know. To me, if all the teams are going to worry, it's going to be the A's, but even, even David

make it's a point. People are just bumping around town looking for doing something. We need to get these kids gambling. How do we get these kids back gambling? You know what they're doing? You know the reason why they're charging these higher rooms? You know, I think about this. Part of the reason why the rooms are paying higher is because the kids aren't gambling. They're going to, they're going to Los Vegas to go to the pool and to go to the nightclubs. They're not spending the money in the casinos. If the casinos were the handle was higher, maybe they would be starting to reduce the rooms. But they don't want to do it. They're like, all right, so we're going to get some 23-year-olds that aren't going to come to gamble.

Guess what? We're going to get them in the pocketbook by the hotel room. Well, they should offer the comps, and then if they don't get used, they don't get used. It doesn't cost them anything. They should just take care of us that do go to gamble. Yeah. Hey, are you coming to Vegas? Yes. What is your limit? What are you willing to spend? Can you promise you're going to spend this? Yes. The room is taken care of.

I will never ever buy, if you pay for my hotel on the strip, I'm down, I guess. But I'm going to always push for downtown. I shouldn't say I'll never, ever go stay on the strip again. But I will be huge push for downtown. And once, if

if and when that gets squeezed, I'm going to be done with the whole town. But I know I'm not, I'm not everybody. I think downtown still got a shot for a while. Yeah. I'm old. I'm going downtown. Give me that three to two, ten bucks. Let's go. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Final four sports talk 790. 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. On the agenda today. Astro Spring training numbers to tell the truth. Come on, man. No, we've got to get people... We're down to two weeks from the start of the season.

All right. Let's not do macro and well. Oh, I almost threw myself a tower in the chip jar. Oh, go ahead. Mm-mm. You were going to say, I know you're going to say something rhymes with mus and must-mus. Maybe.

I caught myself. I'm so proud. I don't know what to do. Give you a high-five. Yay. Hey, hey. Hey, Roman Anthony is on MLB Network. He's a guest on 66.

Roman Anthony, not playing with Italians. That's like the most Italian name you could. Roman Anthony, come on. By the way, somebody told me, and I don't know if I should believe this, but people tell me things, like 90% of the Italian team is full of American players. I believe it's, I believe like 50% of them hadn't even visited Italy. Oh, my God. Hey, that's okay.

You want to represent your grandma? Grandma from Sicily. And it's also, you're not good enough to be on Team USA. It's all good. I mean, people do that in the Olympics. They do it in the World Cup. They do it. I mean...

Yeah, it's not... It's not exclusive to the WBC. Right. It's not. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Spring training numbers. We have to tell the truth coming up a little bit.

Love it. We have rockets... I'm glad I'm off the hook. It's hard coming up with those to tell the truth. It's going to be honest. It's difficult. I've got three. I've got to do one more here.

Whether it's a truth or I don't know yet. You can me do like one a month? Take the burden? off you? Yeah, one month. But I'm doing believe it or not for you today, as a matter of fact. It's already locked on later. That's what I'm saying? I didn't. I'm just kidding. I got to tell you something. I'm just going. I have nothing. This was my last

free weekend until the rockets are done. Okay. Because we play every weekend, the rest of the season. Oh, really? I invited you out on Saturday and you said you're busy. No, I didn't. I said I didn't want to go. There's a difference. To the Sam Houston Race Park. I had a great time. By the way, you did have a good time. Shout out to

Sam Houston Race Park. I saw your photo. Oh my gosh. Did you see that? Apparently, The pro tip is to take the cocktail shrimp, bring it to the pasta station at the buffet, and then have them cook it there. The buffet was incredible. I hit a trifecta, made some money, had a good time. Weather was beautiful. They got thoroughbreds for a few more weeks. SHRP was awesome.

Yeah, go check it out because you've been doing some reports for them a little bit. It's been fun. Yeah. I love it. I wish I had more time because I do like Horace. I honestly hadn't been in years and I'm going to be back. It was nice. I make this promise to you.

Next time you go, I'll go with you. such a fraud. I don't believe you. And that's okay though. Part of your term. Can I go on your spirit? You've been saying you're going to owe you Texas for like 10 years. I'll see what else you can give me false promises. I'll find myself in the same Houston race park before I go to the road to do that. Okay. Let's go. I'm ready.

Okay. 713-212-5-7. I don't know. Let's go on the phones and see what you guys are thinking about. And we've got Astros. We've got Rockets Lakers. Can we get some Rocket Laker buzz today? I'd like to have it the building full. Now a bunch of LeBron lovers, blah, blah, blah. What's the injury report looking like? He was fine Saturday night.

Okay. Austin Reeves was too. That was such a good game. I wish people cared. James on 790. Hello, James. Yeah, y'all were talking about the umpires. I was a high school empire for 16 years.

Wow. And when you go to the, yeah, I did it. How are your knees? They're bad now. James, James, let me hear your strike call. This episode is brought to you by Spreker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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So as long as you're you're consistent, I mean, there's a strike zone. Of course, there's a strike zone. But the main thing, the coaches complain about a consistency. If you're consistent, there's five. I got a lot of confidence on my strikes. I mean, I'm not trying to brag on myself, but I do. You should. That's okay. It seems like you are trying. James, you're a lot of brag about yourself.

That's okay. That's good stuff, though, James. I mean, I, college park and talbot wanted me all the time. They're requesting me at times because I was so good at my strikes. Do you have a, what's your craziest story about, like, throwing somebody out or some kind of incident. The craziest story I had, let me see. Well, there was, we had one game where I thought the

out, I mean, the base on fire called the third out at third base, but he didn't. But it looked like he raised his right hand and did it out. So the guy came home and scored. And of course, everybody goes ballistic because the guy's coming home and scoring it. I had to call Tom. And I had to go all through that nonsense and talk to the base on fire.

He was kind of a new guy. And I said, when you raise your right arm, that looks like it out to me. So I, but he was obviously not out. That's it? You didn't Colcock anybody or like,

uh, getting in a brawl with any parents or nothing? Let me ask you this, James. If you would have had a, a little league mom behind you, scream strike four, how would you handle that?

I, I'm really trying to tone out the people behind me. Oh, that's good. It's you to throw my, that's, I'm glad to hear that. You don't want to be kind of a calm guy

when you're behind that play. don't let anybody irritate you. But I had a basketball guy, oh my God, he was horrible, a basketball coach. I didn't give him a sitting tea. He was so bad. His team was getting crushed, and I finally told him, I said, you know what? I call every file you wanted me to call, it wouldn't matter you stuck. I told him that at half time, but I didn't talk about during the game.

But I said, you need to calm down. He was on rent, I mean, yelling at me all the time. He did. Second half he came out, he's fine. But I approach people in a, and, you need to calm. in a way that they doesn't upset them. I mean, I don't sit there and try to be Mr. I know everything and you know nothing. That's good.

Only when you call us. Yeah, I was going to say, only when you call us. Exactly. Thanks, James. Exactly. All right, thanks. See you later. You want to hear my strike call?

Yeah, I got a couple of them. Okay, go ahead. Steve. Right. Ah! I like that one. What about like a dramatic strike three? Dah!

Okay, a little extra juice, like a good morning strippers. I don't extend it Steer That would be showing up Rico Palazzo on us Right You cannot show the kids up You're doing a 14-second strike three

Call Sit down Go sit down Your mom's hot Can I get a number please Yay Little note If you're a single good-looking guy

You want to get a milf Little League Baseball's where it's at. I thought volleyball was that at it's at. I heard from reliable sources. Can you play a Joe mixing gunshot one to send something else? I don't take anything at this point. That's much better.

Oh, man. Yeah, that is interesting. What do I want to characterize? Because I've been a part of Little League Baseball and volleyball as an adult with my children. Which one has the... I would say pound for pound the Little League mom

hotter. Okay. Because again, if it's sun, here's what, here's the good looking divorcee. She's wearing a sun visor. Okay.

Sunglasses, short shorts. Okay. And now the only thing is she's probably going for a younger person. She's trying to hook up with a coach because she wants her, she wants her son to get free lessons. Hmm. I'll help him fix his swing.

But I can't pay for those lessons. But baby. All right. This is getting creepy. Sorry. You know, on red tube. too much.

I've been home all weekend. Exactly. All right. I'm sorry. You know, I like you having rest, Matt. I like you having rest. You came here with new energy today. I did.

I feel good. I got a long-ass week, though, this week. I can tell you that for sure. Can I get two rocket wins over the Lakers, please? Both? Yes. That's great. John, that I'm asking for, can I get that from you?

Your, your glass is always half full. That was my gut feeling. I'm already half missed on it. Would you say? I said they went off four, but, you know, we're going to go for the 3-1. They beat the Pelicans on Friday. Friday. We just lost to...

Oh, you were counting... Were you counting Denver? I thought you were talking to the homestown. No, you were talking about the homestown. I thought. We'll check the record tomorrow. Yeah, we'll check it tomorrow. We'll check it tomorrow.

All right, good. Okay. We need some wins. I want the three spot in the West. I just do. Okay. I'm being finicky. By the way, real quick, on the Vegas thing,

somebody sent me a video. Apparently, Vegas doesn't care that they, the numbers are down because the big spenders are still coming. Yeah, it's the handle. So it's, yeah. Frankly, they're like, we don't need 25-year-old betting $10 a hand or a dollar slots. You need one whale to account for those. That makes a lot of sense.

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you might as well publish it. Morning, fellas, I forgot what time it is, but I think it's the morning. So you had that caller talking about when he was an umpire. Honestly, all respect to him, being an umpire is hard work. My grandfather, who was a wonderful person, God rest his soul, was not a very good umpire.

And so he was an umpire in Sharps Town. And you were asking what kind of bad incidents they had. A couple came to mind. The most funny one, not funny, but outrageous, was my grandfather in the middle of a red robin, got into it with a dad. And then whenever he left afterwards, they had slashed one of his tires and thrown a brick through the back window of his car. And that guy was then not allowed to come back and be at any of the baseball games ever again.

That was pretty, that story always stuck out to me. And then also I have one baseball question. What should we expect from Dana Brown before the trade deadline? Because he traded Hazer Sanchez and said, you want everybody to know, we're not done yet. They haven't done anything since. So I'm wondering where do you think the Astros go from there? And I'll talk to you guys later. First of all, he said that because that's what general managers say.

I think he had planned to have made a move by now. I don't know. You and I have gone out. That was the plan. That was the plan, but sometimes plans don't come through. Hey, we're going to do, we're going to do bigger or better things here. You've heard that before with your boss. You know, we're going to steer this ship in the right direction.

Yes. Yeah, we've heard that. Or it's already sinking. He'll make a trade. Okay. Look, put it this way. Dana Brown's fighting for his job. And the only way he doesn't.

make a deal is if he knows he's on lane dunk status and the team is 20 games under 500 not making the playoffs selling things off because if you're selling things off that's not what you want to do if you're trying to keep your job now he may be told put it this way if the astros are 20 under 500 maybe danne brown isn't even here at the trade deadline i don't i don't anticipate that being the case but if they're close they're going to make a move and if everybody stays healthy in the infield which is not, first of all, the chance of the Astros being healthy, 100% of the season in the infield is 0%. Somebody's going to get hurt. Whether it's a ab, whether it's a somebody steps on somebody's finger, slides on home plate.

Nobody plays 150 of the same team of the same lineup out there. So even if Peretti is traded, don't come across as, well, he made the mistake you should have all this depth. Nobody has depth like that. Nobody has a top five hitter on a baseball team. Ready in the wings. Ready in the wings. On the precipice, on the cusp of hitting. He's going to move parades because I think at the end of the day,

the outfield's going to be a mess offensively. I'm sorry, Ross. I'm trying to sell myself. We had such a wonderful visit with Zach Cole. Yeah. We're huge Cam Smith guys. We love sneaky snake Jake. But the thought these, all these three guys are going to slug

and I have OPS as above 700 is just, I think it's too, too much to ask. Is that Cole? Spring OPS? Please. 880. That's not right. That's from last year. Sorry.

What is it in 2020? What is it? What is it? I'm sorry. I forgot. What do I tell you about March numbers, by the way? Oh, it's much worse. It's like $5.82.

But he's had a lot of hard hit balls, Matt. The XB. The X slug is much higher. I'm going to tell you all something right now. And I don't like to give Adam Clinton credit for anything because Lord knows that's a trouble spot. Okay. He was.

talking about XBA and how ridiculous it is. And I, again, there are many metrics you have brought to this radio show. XBA super sucks as a as one. It's like, again, I whined the dime the girl. I gave her good amounts of booze. I gave her flowers. My expected sex average is probably about

a 975. If she doesn't want to have sex, it doesn't happen. Either you get a hit or you don't. The XBA leaders every year are among the best hitters in baseball. And I will say this, Matt, do you want to be on the same side as Adam Clanton. Oh, God.

No, I feel terrible. I saw, he looked like I just punched you right in the gut. So, why don't you go ahead and get some pause there? No, go ahead. No, no, no, no. Go ahead.

I'm a new in spite of that because I was the one that brought up XBA last year being completely ridiculous. Because what was the XBA of Christian Walker? I'm sure it was delightful. Although you don't get any points

for striking out, right? No, you don't. No. The metrics you brought to this show, I respect. I cannot respect XBA. And that was the same thing when Todd Cowell says that, well, that was a four-star catch. No, they downgraded into a three-star catch.

Did the catch get made? Yes, it did. That is weird. That's dumb. Nobody can be great in catches. Either you make the catch or you don't. And if it saves two runs, it's a great catch. I don't need some metrics to tell me if a catch is a good one or not.

It was done to me to save an inning. You save it. Everything else you bring? Not everything. No, no, no. Your OPS Plus, I respect. Yes, it's great. What else have you given me that I've respected so far?

I don't know. Defensive run saved? It's fine. It's fine. I can live with that one. It's on the bottom of it. We don't like it. If he's not, we love it.

I told you. That's the thing with two metrics too. Like, oh, we love this metric when it's good for us. But we hate it when it's bad for us. Well, I am metric consistent. Okay. Joseo two ways still my guy. I like net rating and basketball.

That's every hundred processions. That makes a lot of sense. Because you have a slow team here in Houston that will not get to 100 possessions any faster than any other team. They're going to take their wall to get to their 100 possessions. I'll give you that. All right. Tell the truth is coming up next. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-1-2-5-7-9. Ross and Jonathan are going to play this. And again, I'm telling you, John. Jonathan, three wrong things. That means how many truths do I have for you? Uno. Thank you. Jonathan.

Got it right. Ross, I have one truth. How many misses am I going to tell you about? One truth, three lies. That's what I'm talking about. 713-212-5-7-9. The great thing about me, Ross, do you know, even though I lie a lot, I can tell the truth when necessary. Teddy truth.

And I have to tell the truth in this segment. Okay. I love to lie. I actually don't love the lie. It's terrible that I lie, but I don't feel overly guilty about lying about things. That's terrible, isn't it? Yes. At least I'm being honest about that.

It's part of your charm. All right, gentlemen, I have four takes. I believe only one of them. Three-year lies. Number one, new rule for the future WBC. If your country is playing in that game, you can't be an umpire from that country. How are the umpires in Nicaragua? That I don't know.

But Corey Blazer, Team USA playing yesterday, giving the nice low strike three to end the game. Okay. Giving the Dominican Republic a little bit of angst. Thus, I think we're going to find enough good umpires around the world to have an Italian umpire behind the dish of a USA versus Mexico game in three years. All right. All right.

Number two. If it ain't my Houston Cougars, the national championship, I believe, is going to go to the Arizona Wildcats. Okay. I don't know a lot about a lot of those teams, but I've watched a lot of Arizona this year. I've watched a lot of Duke this year. I've watched a handful of Michigan games. This can be a hard one.

Arizona, to me, is the best of the not-named Houston teams. Number three. Ryan Weiss, front of the show, right? Friend of AstroFest, correct? Yes. Giant human being. We'll make a start for the Astros before Lance McCullors, Juniors does. Huh.

Great spring for Ryan. He was brought here as a starter. Can play bullpen. Can pitch of the bullpen, but he preferred as he told us to be a starter. Wouldn't they go to a sixth? They probably have to in the first week if they want to do that. They don't have to, but it feels like there's going to be at least a sixth. I think Ryan Weiss makes a start for the Astros before Lance McCullors.

And number four. When my Cougars boys beat Florida to win the South region, the NCAA is going to create new legislation that will not allow teams to compete in a regional final in the exact same city. Now, if Duke was to play in Charlotte, that would not be the exact same city. If St. Johns was to play in Buffalo, that would not be the exact same city. But if UCLA could not play in Los Angeles, Houston could not play in Houston, Miami could not play in Miami, etc. etc.

Okay, so you only believe one of these. I only believe one, three. Okay. I keep having to reframe it. I know. She always flound on us. All right. Three lives.

Right, real quick. Let me run through them again. Number one, new rule. If your country is playing the WBC, you can't be an umpire in their game. Number two, if it ain't Houston, Arizona wins a national championship. Number three, Ryan Weiss makes a start for the Astros before. for Lance McCuller Jr. And number four,

when Houston beats Florida to win the South Regional, the NCAA will create new legislation that will not allow teams to compete in a regional final in that exact same city. Which one of those four? Just one, am I telling you the truth? These are just takes, by the way. Look at Jonathan.

He's a deep thought. He's in doing final jeopardy. Are you okay over there, man? I told you. You knew me. I'm telling me more seriously. You've been really good at this this year, generally speaking.

Did I win last week and you lost? Did you mark that down? I'm just making sure that's on your ledger. It's 40 you. All right. Because I know you tried to short me a couple weeks ago, too. I know. I got my eye on you.

I'm written down somewhere. Yeah, Alan Math. I don't know if this is Alan Math is mathing. All right, let's talk this now, Jonathan. All right, let's go. I just don't think it's feasible to have. I mean, they're not going to import a bunch of umpires from outside the United States. And are they really qualified?

Do we know? you want to use the best. I don't know that there's some large movement from other countries. The Cougars and the Arizona thing, I mean, that kind of makes sense. I don't think Ryan Weiss is going to start because Lance McCuller's Jr. Did he get hurt or anything? Is there something that I don't know? I would not try to sneak something like that.

Okay. That's just a take. And they're paying him so much money still. So, I mean, I don't know. I think they're paying him so much money. And the NCAA likes selling tickets. I'm going with two. We're going to have to tie, man.

I'm going with two as well. I think Matt Matt just We all locked in I'm locked in it too The best umpires in the world are from Air Major League Baseball

They can't send umpires Some other countries So that was an easy one Yeah Uh Financially Lance McCuller's Has to get a start He's just for the optics

He does I mean even if Ryan Weiss He's been killing in spring The optics say You gotta give Lance McCuller's One final chance We gave him the bump though The Matt Thomas show

With Ross bump To Ryan Weiss We did He likes us a lot But down to the last two. It's only going to happen once every seven or eight years. Yeah. The NCAA is not going to create new legislation.

They like selling tickets. Yeah. They need tickets sold. They've been trying to get the teams close to their home stadiums as possible. More money. Well, yeah. I mean, are you going to have a better chance of filling up a building with Arizona versus Arkansas? Or, no, that's a bad choice.

Arizona versus Ohio State or Houston versus Florida. You're going to pick the closer region. So they're not going to put it in the legislation that. You both win today. Ross, I don't spend a lot of time looking at other teams, but Arizona is really freaking good. Co-A Pete, have you seen this kid? How's Willie going to feel like this about this?

With all the international players, she's very upset. Well, she can call and tell us. Brayden Burries, by the way. Oh, God, they're so good. And by the way, can I say this, too? Can I say playing the Big 12 gets you ready for this?

Yeah, I think this year. This year, last year, SEC was the best. But my point is that if you play these juggernauts one after the other, it should get you ready for this run. Battle tested. Iron, sharpens iron. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly

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Nicely done. Both of you get winning this week. You're welcome. Any of those four preposterous? Like, oh, my cat, I can't. But I didn't believe three of them, so it makes it sounds better. This might be your weakest one. What?

You mean the easiest to figure out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You did great, man. I think it's actually harder to come up with three fakeies. It is. Definitely, yeah. I mean, because you want the real things over the first. fakeies, isn't that right, Jonathan?

Absolutely. He's on the phone. 10 times out of 10. But the fakeies can work, too. Sometimes you get one faking and three real ones and... What are you talking about, Matt? The sports takes on to tell the truth.

Oh, that's why... Okay. That the conversation changed. Mm-hmm. By the way, that was his girl, by the way, I called it on farting, but unbelieved or not. I know. She lost the first question.

I felt a little bad, but the Parlesel party was like, yes. You know what I should have done. Next time she plays, What's your favorite part of the show? And if she doesn't say you? You know what? You're in serious trouble.

Of course it is. We give them a lot of air time. Yeah. I'm going to be devastated because Florida will play Houston in the regional final. If it works out with the one first two, and I'll be in New Orleans. We had a Rockets game that night. I think Florida's going to travel.

I think they're going to get in their cars and come to Houston. I think it's going to be bonkers crazy. Like a Toyota Center? I can't lose them two years in a row, can I? Well, you don't play. You're not on the floor. Have you watched them? They look real. They look. Well, I'll tell you, Ken Palm has them at four. Houston at five.

Toss up game. Coin flip. Yes, sir. Can you want a coin flip? Got to get there first. How about this one? How many questions do you think the Florida coach will get over? What is it like being in Houston for this South region?

He'll get a bunch. By the way, you got a tough three-seat draw. Illinois is seventh in Ken Palm. We play A-name in round two. By the way, can I tell my son my middle son? Oh, is he talking trash already? No, he's the anti. Oh, he's the defeatist fan.

He's got battered Aggie syndrome already? Do you realize they were the last at-large, second to last at-large team to get put in the tournament? Not put in, but announced. You know, they went by region, region. Were you watching with him? No, he's in college station. Oh, okay. And I'm like, hey, are you going to be okay?

And we're like, the whole family's around the television except Payton's in college station. He's like, I'm like, if he doesn't get in, he's going to lose his mind. because Texas got in. Yes. And A&M was a better team than Texas was this year, right? No. No? Okay.

I thought they were. I'm just going by my guy, Kim Pound. So one data point, please. 37th, Texas, 39th A&M. Yeah, sixes. They got it. So I'm like, you're ready to smack talk, he was dad. You're going to win round two.

That's good. He's already pissed off about the A&M baseball team already. I'm like, son, come on. He's got the battered Aggie syndrome. But he love, you know what I do appreciate him? His love for his, school is well it's

it's actually loving to stay in at the same time that's I think that's how Aggies role that's right that's right all right we have the news and noon coming up in 18 minutes from now

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790 790 well Is Alabama in the tournament, Rossi? I don't even know. When in doubt, SEC teams are in the tournament, correct? Yeah, Alabama's good. Alabama Basketball Guard, Aidan Holloway.

Been arrested after 30, say more than a pound of marijuana, was discovered during a narcotic search at a Tuscaloosa residence. Got an LB on him? That's a lot, isn't it? Yes, it is. Way too much. What is he doing? You trying to sell it?

That's got to be. He's got to get slap with intent to distribute on that. I see his boy, did he get it at Costco? Is he buying in bulk? He's arrested this morning, as a matter of fact. Yikes. Is he a key play? I don't know.

Our Alabama expert isn't here. Our producer, Josh, C., who does the Astros and Rockets games. Bond was set at $5,000, which is, you know, pay tempers. That's $500. Yeah, they're a number four in the NCAA tournament. I'm saying, how much does he play? What is his name? Alabama basketball.

He's a transfer from Auburn, so he's staying in state. Aden Holloway, A-D-N Holloway. What are you kids doing, Jonathan? A pound of marijuana? He's playing college basketball. I'm not trying to kids. Hey. That pound is crazy.

That's all the same way. He's averages 17 points a game. What is he doing? 17 points a game. He's probably got some NIL cash. He's buying in bulk with his NIL cash. Before the tournament, this is the next thing. Before the tournament, Rossi, come on now.

Come on, Aiden. I mean, I look, I'm, I'm, you want to use pot. I really don't care. You just cannot have that much. a home. 28. They obviously were tipped off by a lot of different folks, by the way. 28 games, 17 points per game.

He's shooting 44% from 3. This is a big loss. Well, we don't know. I mean, can you still play? Oh, can't? He's out on bail. He's out on bail. 500 bucks, that's all it took.

I don't know. He probably can't leave the state, but maybe he can get a special exception? Oh, can you not leave the state? Probably not. I don't know the whole full rules of being out on bail. They got to ban that. I don't know. Wait, after the season?

I don't know. I would imagine you can get some kind of, I don't know, we need a lawyer. How would you? Some kind of something from the judge. I know I committed a crime and I had to get arrested, but can I get a little visa to get out of the state? Right. Just not going to play in the tournament? Maybe.

I don't know. This is a question for a lawyer. Where's locked on Gordy? You should have the answer to this. That's true. Although he hates Alabama. No, when you talk SEC, you've got a lot of legal issues going too. If you host a SEC podcast, don't you have to have like a legal expert on standby?

Absolutely. Absolutely. This is par for the course. I mean, if you have it in the car, you know, a couple of joints rolled up. Okay, go on. A pound? That's just crazy. I'm so surprised. I mean, he's trying to sell it.

Fair? I don't know. Either that or he's just once again. As his lawyer, I will say no. Yeah. He likes to buy in bulk. This is a case of mistaken identity. Yes.

Let's talk to Stunna. Hi, Stunna. What's going on? Matt and Ross. How are y'all doing today? We're great. Hey, hey, Matt, that world baseball league, that, um, man, I did not know the Netherlands had a damn baseball team. I did not, I mean, I'm looking at these guys.

I'm like, what? They have a team. been in Europe forever and I've never seen a damn baseball field. I mean, I didn't see basketball, soccer fields, that damn

thing when you hit the ball between the little rings. Cricket? That whole bunch of those. Yeah. That, um, even the horse jumping in crap. But baseball, I even seen football.

Well, I mean, I don't know. I couldn't even name a Netherlands player, so I apologize. advance for that. Well, Lars New Pars is Dutch, but he represents Japan because of mom's Japanese. I can't remember either. There was a Jerks and Pro Far, wasn't he? Dutch? And then he got kicked off the team? Oh, well, maybe so. We got our legal expert. Yeah, we got to let you go, Stunner. We don't care about Netherlands baseball anymore. Here's Locked on Gordy.

We're good. When we say Alabama, Mississippi State, LSU, Al-Cin-Sull, South Carolina, there's going to be some arrests. We're going to see some arrests. We have our Lockdown-Gordie legal analyst with us Chris Gordy here. Why are we arresting people for marijuana in 2006? A pound, dude. That's a pound. It should be legal. It's grown in the earth. The SEC slant.

That's so funny. I think Bam will be fine. Who are they playing the first round? Somebody crappy. Is he going to miss the whole tournament or what's the deal? They'll probably do. They'll suspend him for a game. Suspend him for that's smart. Well, can he leave the state? Is the bigger question. Yeah. I'd just spend him for half.

I wouldn't even do a full game. Can you leave? the state out on bail. Marijuana that's legal in half the states across the country. Is it legal in Alabama? You need explicit written permission from the court, which he probably could be able to get. Well, if he gets the same judge that, what, let Charles Bettyaco go back to school after playing in the G-League, I'm sure they'll allow him to. You're going way inside baseball. They're taking on Hofstra in the first

round, second round, potential matchup, Akron or Texas Tech. Yeah, he'll be back for second round against Texas Tech. So you as an impartial broadcaster of all things SEC have zero problem with the guy getting arrested for a pound on a bust. I would say this about any school. Let him play. I'd say this about any school. I think that's I think it's stupid in 2026 to be arresting

college kids for marijuana. What are we doing? You're in here for some marijuana? Come on. Now if it was like if he had a whole truckload and he was intent to sell, okay I get it. So you're saying that a pound is not a sellable amount? I believe. It's a stash probably. I think it's a really, really big stash.

I'm not an expert. Maybe we can't. We need to hear from a pothead and or illegal expert, preferably both. If you're a pothead, how much do you have in your home right now? More or less than a pound? 713212-5-7-9. I did get a little nervous for you, though, fell in up my bracket earlier, that we could get a U of H Florida rematch in what would it be elite eight?

Coin-flipper. Coin-flipper. It would be a regional final. Yeah. One v-2. Ooh, man. Scary. What mean scary?

Lord, it's really good. They're better than last year. How about it? You don't think Houston's pretty good either? Do you have a similar play? Not as good defensively this year. Destroyed Kansas in the semifinal? Better offensively.

Not as good defensively. Chris Seneck, let's go. Kings and Fleming's, let's go. Jojo Tuggler was amazing on the championship game. They're going to have to not have an off-night shooting. If they have an off-night shooting. Oh, there's analysis. You'll get nowhere else.

You can't have an off-night shooting. Well, no, because last year, the last year, the last, the last, the last, the last. five years, Kelvin Sampson teams could have off-site night shooting. It didn't matter because they were so good defensively. This team is probably his worst defensive team he's had. There you go, Matt. I'll let you guys hash it out. Hash. You said hash.

Oh, I like that. Yeah, my name's Paul. It's between y'all. That was going to be fun. They got LeBaron Phylon, one of the SEC leading scores. Now, will you discuss this pot charge on your show today? Oh, yeah. Tomorrow's show will lead with terrible charge. Drop the charges.

Yes, let him play. What's his name? Aden What? Halloway. Nate Oates is by far, though, one of the, like, slimy is, you just, like, so unlikable guy. Who's that? Nate Outs, the Alabama head coach.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the North American Treaty Organization. We got a pot answer for you, by the way. All right, let's go. Joe on 790. Joe, how much pot do you got in your house right now? Well, about, let's see, about a half an ounce. So that's not close to a pound. No, sir.

And so typically, you know, the most I'll get is three ounces at once, and that's quite a bit for one person. And that'll last me many months. So a pound? I mean, maybe that if he serves it with friends, that might last to be here, I don't know. That's a lot. All right, Gordon, time to change your tune on this. Thank you for the phone call and for the information, Joe. We went right to the source, Gordy.

I think your boy's in trouble. I think Alabama could be ripe for an upset. No. Blaming the Barneys. I'm putting the Red Raiders through on my bracket. Why don't you have Texas Tech winning? Because the other guy is the 17-point guys are high as a kite right now. How about this, though?

The dumb-ass committee, to protect Yukon, they put no SEC teams in the East region. The SEC led the country with 10 teams in. They said, oh, don't put any in Yukon. We need Yukon the final four. Don't put any good teams over there. Kyle has weighed in on Twitter. He says, I have three ounces probably. He's also lives in Colorado and works at a dispensary.

And he's got three-0 ounces. So we're never going to see this kid ever play again. So how big is a pet? Like a bread? It's like a brick. That's probably one guy's supposed. A bigger than this? I don't know what I'm doing.

Put that thing down. You can fit in a backpack, right? I guess. I guess. Not like a duffel bag. I'm not Googling. You're trying to get me to Google it on my work computer. I'm not doing it on my work computer.

How much is a pound of weed? No, I'm not doing that on my work computer. I already got in trouble when I was trying to look up Snoop Docs 1993 album Doggy style. That was a bad idea. Thanks, Gordy, for your completely unbiased views on these things. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

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All right, Pete, Alabama's National Championship hopes over a pound of weed. The news at noon is next. 1158. We will discuss. We'll discuss on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. We'll get to the news at noon

in a minute, but hell we got pot calls. Why not? Pot Talk 790. We almost did it again. I almost did it again. We're going to talk Texans offensive line or we can talk pot. It's up to you. 713, 212, 5, 7.00. Somebody of you are sending

photos. Kiles, trimming his work right now. Jose L. Tuve. Dude, there are 16 ounces in a pound. Gordy is on crack if he doesn't think this dude is in trouble. Graham is an ounce. Sixteen ounces in a pound. That's a lot, a lot. I have three ounces probably, but I also work a dispensary. You already made... Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry, you're a Division I player. You cannot have a pound of pot at your house.

You just cannot, right? 713-212-5-790. Glenn is with us on the Matt Tobber show with Ross. Glenn, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt. How you doing? Good, friend. Well, Matt, I am 34 years old. I've been smoking pot since I was 14 years old.

Wow. So that's 20 years. Every day since I was 14. So I would consider myself a potter. Yeah, I would consider myself a potter. So the typical pot smoker smokes about seven grams a week. Okay. So do the math on that.

Nobody needs a pound of weed. I mean, say you smoke a lot. Say you're smoking all day, every day, which some people do. There's some people that smoke more than others, but you don't need a pound of weed. You can get a quarter pound is reasonable. It's enough. I mean, a pound of weed, if you have a pound of weed, that means you're selling it. Let's just get it.

Let's just get it out there. Nobody buys a pound of wheat or keeps a pound of weed on them at all time. That feels fair. Thank you, Cameron. Pretty information. That's why we love you guys as listeners, because you come through for us. Take care.

Thanks, Cameron. I'll turn this up. Let's go. Smoke two joints by Sublime. I thought you're going to play when we get high. Because I got high, we had a lot of options. Mary Jane, I almost did. I got five on it. That's a good one. One took over the line. That's a 70s hit.

What? Ah, yeah. Mary Jane. How about got to get you into my life by the Beatles? What? Is it about pot? What? Matt, you didn't know this? I did.

Okay, okay. Let me tell you something about the greatest rock band of all time. They were high all the time. Greatest pop band of all time. They were high constantly, and it was much more than marijuana. What do you think Paul and Ringo didn't smoke? It's a jam. All right.

One more pot call, one more. Brian on 790. Hello, Brian. Hey, guys. You know, back in the day, heck yeah, I used to ice the token. down, man. It was great. But you guys remember Leon Litt? Of course.

Cowboys, like a hundred pounds or something crazy like that. You're making $60 million here. What do you need that for, dude? Just get you a bag and chill out. He's trying to make a little, he had a side hustle going. Clearly this kid from Alabama does too.

He's got a, yeah. Why are we crushing a young college kid who's trying to get a side hustle? He's trying to make a little extra cash for he and his family. Let the man live. I'm kidding. Kind of. Imagine the smell in his car.

That was in his car. Yeah. I mean, couldn't you go to every college campus in America and bust somebody? I mean, the college game is strong on that, is it not? Very. Yeah. Even the SFA. They use the synthetic stuff.

It was Nate Newton, by the way, not Leon Lett. Leon Lett was one of the fumble the ball in the end zone. It went in doubt. It's a cowboy. All right. 1206, Sports Talk, 7.90. 113 pounds for Leon Lett. That's a, that's putting a truck, right?

That's like a small huehole. He had a white van. Little known fact. I've never smoked a marijuana in my life. Five weeks later, he had 175 pounds. What? 30 months in federal prison for trafficking. Leon Lett. He was stopped in St. Martin Perez, Louisiana.

Now, if he was in another state that had legalized, it'd be moved. I don't think they let you have 175 pounds. I think the legal states it's legal up to a point. Colonial in Alabama, I don't know. All right, 1208. Let's get to the news at noon. And with that, we go to... Who would be your...

Who are you that? I don't know who am I. My name's Ross. You can just use that. No, I'm going to go with you are the Linda Cohn of Houston Sports Journalisms. Okay, thank you, Matt. Well, a quick preview of the Lakers and... the Rockets tonight. Rockets at

2.5 point favorites. It will be a late 8.30 p.m. starts on Peacock for the Rockets and the Lakers. It'll be two games. It's a twin billing, although they're playing today and Wednesday. Right now in the Western Conference standings,

the Lakers sit as the three seed, the Rockets as the four seed. They're one game ahead of the Nuggets and the Timberwolves. But if they win tonight, they will be the number three seed in the Western conference and again I say two and a half point favorites, your Houston Rockets. Go Rockets go. Rockets at the four spot could very easily be in the three when the night's set and done or could drop to six in about 24 hours.

Controversal ending in the world baseball classic last night. The United States defeating the Dominican Republic 2 to 1 in the ninth inning with Mason Miller pitching against Haraldo Perdomo. There was a bad strike three count on a two-two pitch that was well below the zone. Game should have continued. However, Pardomo struck out instead of getting to the full count and hoping to turn over the lineup with Fernando Tatis Jr. waiting on deck. But the United States gets the victory two to one over the Dominican Republic. They await the winner of the game tonight. Venezuela versus Italy 7 o'clock tonight on FS1. And we'll have a complete breakdown from you tomorrow because I'm busy with rocket's coverage.

As you're you, right? Are you going to the game tonight? I'm going to go Wednesday. Yeah, Monday. I'm still feeling like, I don't know. I'm sorry. Do you going to get 200 doctors? Vincent?

I actually did go back to the doctor last week. I've been better. I've been better. Okay, good. Don't get old, folks. It's not fun. And allergies kick. Well, wait, you know, today was 54 degrees for high today, apparently.

It's going to be 90 this weekend. As my doctor told reminded me, flu can take for full recovery four to six weeks. So I think I'm still just feeling some ill effects of that. plus the allergies kept coming. And the CDC announced over the weekend the flu vaccine was not effective this year. Oh, okay. Great. It's great. Well, they put six to seven strains in there hoping whichever ones pop or the ones are in the shot.

So you're telling me not to get it? I'm saying I don't think I got mine. I don't know. What else you got today? Elsewhere in the news, Matthew, we have... We were just talking about it, yes. Well, Aidan Holloway, we were mentioning the last segment, if you guys had not heard. Aiden Holloway, averaging 16.8 points per game for the Alabama Crimson Tide, pulled over and had a pound of marijuana.

First degree possession of marijuana, failure to affix a tax stamp. Bond set at $5,000, unclear from jail records whether he is still being hailed. Per Alabama law, the possession charge can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $15,000. But yes, we can talk about the bracket at large, man. Tomorrow night in Dayton. Go ahead. No, no, no, no. Sell it harder than that.

The NC State Wolfpack. The winner will advance to the West Region to take on BYU and get their ass kicked. So looking forward to that. The Houston Cougars, a number two seed in the South region. their number one is the Florida Gators they will be taking on Idaho, I should say, on Thursday, 9 10 p.m. Cougars 23 and a half point favorites awaiting the winner of the St. Mary's

versus Texas A&M matchup. Go Aags. After that, Illinois would be on the three line, or perhaps they'll take on North Carolina. And then, of course, it would be the regional final, potentially, possibly, most likely, but maybe not, against the first. Florida Gators. Go Gators until the South Regional Final. Then you'll lose.

And revenge will be sweet. Well, they are the one seed. They're taking on TBD. Vanderbilt's tough on the five line. Nebraska, they're four. They could lose. And maybe the Cougars could go back to the final four. My ticket is, I don't have a hotel yet. So if you if any of you are going to Indianapolis

and would like to have a roommate, I'll be happy to join you. I'll pay for some of the room. I'm good. You're not going. No. But, I mean, you could go. You can meet me there. Yeah, I could.

I mean, Longhorns won't be there, so I'm not too worried about it. All right. So, yeah, anybody has a room for me in Indianapolis? Hook me up at SportsMT. Okay. On Instagram and Twitter. Instagram, nice people, Twitter, mean. I agree.

You can see photos of me at the Sam Houston Race Park. You didn't wear a college shirt, though. I don't wear a college shirt. Why? Because you're out in public. It was casual. Patrick today. St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow.

I didn't have to dress up. No, they were to head dollar green beers. Did you drink any? No. I was driving. I was driving. That's good for you. Probably good for me.

Why were you driving? A normal citizen? Because I don't live near the park. I drove there. I could, yeah. But it was a great time. All right. And you went and you want to live.

Instagram Sports RV. Yeah. And I did. Yeah, follow him into Instagram Sports RV. Thank you. Twitter doesn't give them much. It's a lot about Texas basketball takes. That's not true.

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So impressive. I know. Very happy. 7%. 7%. I was reading something else about percentages of the rockets and I was reading a number. I see you are Ron Burgundy of this show. No.

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28-1-758-9-9-7-8. Rockas and Likers tonight. We'll have it for you beginning at 730 with the launch pad. Crossfield or Al will be the host for that show. Yes, I will. 830, which means 842 tip. Plus, it's ESPN, right? No, it's on Peacock.

Okay, they don't slide the second games of those. They don't typically do it, no. Yeah, they just started and I'm like, gonna switch the stream over if you want. So, okay. It's been excellent. Rocket's... Magic Hawks is the early Peacock game.

Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. Nobody's going to watch that. I'll have it on. Just waiting for the Rockets. That's right. Let me get my notes out of it because I want to give you a couple things. Okay, great.

You know, if you're going to go to a Rockets game anytime soon, this week would be a good week to do it. Because Michael Jeffrey Jordan is going to lose his spot in the top five all-time in NBA scoring. unless Katie gets a dud. He's going to do it probably towards the end of this home saying. Could be Friday against Atlanta or Saturday against Miami. Oh, that's right. He is...

Oh. Okay. That's great. Because I know some people. I'm going Friday. Are you really? Good for you. Yeah.

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Now, what do you think will happen? When this happens, do you think there will be a video locked and loaded just like when he passed up Dirk for sixth? Ooh, from Michael? I don't know. I don't know how Michael feels about people passing him up. I would assume the answer to that would be no. When LeBron passed Kobe, Kobe tweeted out like, yeah, keep pushing the game forward. Dirk, of course, with the video, as you're mentioning. I honestly, I could see it where Michael throws in a jab like he's not happy about it or something. He's like, you're still not better. You still don't have six rings. Like, he throws in something like that.

Kevin, to his credit, very much respects the people that preceded him. Yes. He's a hooper. He doesn't say our game is better than theirs. He loves everybody that was when he watched when he was a kid. Michael was a kid when Michael Jordan was playing. So maybe there's a relationship that would be there that maybe we don't know about.

But if I was a betting man on this, Michael Jeffrey can't be easy. We'll be a little busy. Now, here's the real juggernaut. Let's say that he has a couple of off games during this next four. He's got 87 to get to four. So that's 20-something points a game. Yeah.

Let's say it's got a 15.9. Could happen. The first game of our four-game road trip next week is in Chicago. That'd be fun. He should save it. Did you imagine Kevin Durant passing Michael Jordan on the United Center floor? I wonder what the reaction from the fans would be. My guess would be total indifference

Indifference? You got to have some kind of feeling. You wouldn't stop the game. You're not going to stop the game here in Houston either for that matter. I don't think you would. I don't know. Top five.

I don't know. Let's talk to your game op sources. You know what? I would assume in Houston the next timeout. They didn't stop the game. Yeah. Next time out.

Yeah. You stopped it when Mike, when LeBron got there, but that was number one. Yes. I don't think you do it for five. Who's four? Is Kobe four?

No, Kobe's already been passed. Oh, no, who's four? It's LeBron. Is it Carl Malone? Or is he three?

One is Michael. I mean, one is LeBron. Two is Kareem. Three, I think, is Co. I mean, Carl Malone. Is Chamberlain four?

No, he's already passed. Oh, man. We should know these. I should know. We should know. We should know this. We should know this. Our bad.

You're looking it up? Yeah, I'm looking it up. I put all time. Oh, I put all team. Oh, yeah. Kobe's four. Oh, Kobe's four? Kobe's four, yeah.

I don't know why I thought Kobe was further back. Durant's going to pass Kobe, and Durant's going to end it four. Yeah. Because I think Durant wants to play in the 2028 Olympics, which means he'd want to be active playing in the NBA. Plus money's good. Yeah, he's, and got a contract extension. Yes. He's not, that would put Kobe's.

at 33, 643. So he's about 50 hundred points away from Kobe is Durant. Carl Malone is another 3,000 points in front of Malone on top of Kobe. So yeah, I think Durant's going to finish it four. He's got 600 points last year.

He's already over 1,600 points this year. Will Michael Jordan give him his flowers? I would say it's not going to be a video. Maybe some kind of tweet or video on his own. He's not going to send a video to the Rockets. I don't think. It would be cool, though.

It would blow the building away. We're not anticipating Michael Jordan doing that. But if you're Michael, if somebody, I mean, I know the Rockets have had to ask. What is Michael going to say, no? I'm too busy. He's not too busy. He's not that busy. He's got his NASCAR thing going on.

He's busy on NASCAR. He's crushing it in NASCAR. What is he changing the oil or what? Yeah, he's like, he's not busy. on the pit crew? Yeah. He's got the headphones on. Yeah. Brinker one-ninner. Keith on 790. Hi, Keith. Hey, good afternoon. How are y'all? Amazing. Great. So my brother lives in Indianapolis. He's a big-time Lakers fan, so we got a double bet. I'm feeling pretty good about it because we normally do pretty good against the Lakers. So how do you think about that? What's your bet?

25 hours per game. Oh, okay. I think you're a break-even. Matt, what do you think? I think you're going to win a lot of money. Yeah. I got, hey, I got a prediction for you, Ross. Okay. Let me write this down because, let's see.

You had Jabari and Tari traded by the deadline. I'm just looking at it. I'm looking at your old predictions. Look at that, Keith. He's bringing right up to your face. You always call him to brag, so that's why I was like, all right, we're going to keep tabs on this. I'm doing pretty good. I mean, I may not be bad in a thousand, but I'm about 70.

You had KD on the IR and the rocket's not making the playoffs. How are you feeling about that? No, I said if they keep playing 40 minutes the game, he would go on the IR and we wouldn't make the playoffs. Well, he's been playing a ton of minutes. Well, the season's not over. Kevin Durant's averaging 36.5 minutes per game, 36.5. That's a lot for a 37-year-old.

Well, you need the Rockets to miss the playoffs for that to be right. You're going to be wrong on that. Go ahead. No, I don't want the, I don't want the Rockets to miss the playoffs. I want them to go as far as they can go. I got the document ready. I'm ready with the document with your predictions. Go ahead.

Here's my prediction. You got your partner there always is hating on this individual. And I got something, I'm predicting. This individual is going to be in the top 20. QBR if he don't get hurt. His name is Malik Willis. He sucks. Top 20.

Come on now. Top 20. When the season's over, he's going to be the top 20. That's not that. Out of 32? Out of 32. Yeah, it's not that great of the prediction. But okay, I'll write it down.

I want you to be right because you know I love when Matt's wrong. Yeah, he's always wrong about Malik Willis. He's been hate on Malik Willis since he was a tight. Yeah, he was terrible there. Terrible. It's a packer. You're going to be terrible. Where are you going to go now?

Steelers? Where is the hell is he now? Miami. Miami. Oh, that's going to be great. That's going to be just with a brand new coach, new, new, yeah, that'd be a lot of fun. Tyreek Hills gone. He's, it's terrible.

Get out. He's terrible. Anything else? That's my prediction. Yeah, that's it. That's my prediction. Yeah, I know, I know. Malik Willis, not good.

Not good at all. I'm rooting for Malik. You can root from all you want. want to. You can better throw him with his left hand than we was right. You're rude for. 1229 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212.5.790. 713-1-2-790. The Matt Thomas show with you with Ross until 2 p.m. 7-13-212-790. If you want to join us via Twitter, you may do that as well. Although if you're mean, don't do it. If you're nice, go to Instagram and Twitter at SportsRV and at SportsMT. 123790.

We'll resume on the phone In a matter of moments Did you watch election something itself? That is a big deal in our house I mean a matter of fact I had the whole family over for dinner last night We love seeing where the team's going

and whatnot And maybe it's just Something for our family We've been out of others But it was interesting to see where people were going And a lot of criticism About Bruce Pearl being on the broadcast

I normally check it out But I just I didn't Is it because you're You know why I was in Bivlin You know the first squad. You don't care.

I care, but I don't want to stress over it. Okay. How about that? So Bruce Pearl is the analyst on TNT and CBS, and apparently, you know, he has been very critical of Miami of Ohio getting in. Well, his son's team, the team that he coached last year, did not make the tournament. And there was a lot of Bruce Pearl sucks. Bruce Pearl's bias. Bruce Pearl doesn't have any skin's in the game.

game. He's just a loud mouth that want to say these things. He's going out for the committee chair for not putting in Auburn when he put in Miami. And then it came out that he is still being employed by Auburn through some sort of secondary services contract. Oh, really?

Well, what did Auburn fan do to back that up? Apparently, Nick Saban is still being paid by Alabama in a secondary services deal. Oh, really? Yes. Like as an ambassador or something? Kind of, whatever. When, I know those for a fact, when Calvin Samson

retires, he's going to be the same sort of thing. He is going to be given a contract to be a ambassador consultant to the athletic department. Personal services contract or whatever. So it's not uncommon, but it's so funny. We find ourselves

in sports in particular. I'm sure this happens in politics too, but we don't talk about politics. And I gotcha moment until somebody else gets you with a gotcha. Does that make sense? So what about this? Yeah. how did this happen?

Well, wait a way, you weren't so mad about this when this happened to your team. Hypocrisy! Time proves everyone a hypocrite in politics. Now, I'll just say this. Bruce Pearl doesn't bother me. I don't watch a lot of college basketball studio shows, but the reality is I wanted to watch this one because I wanted to see where the Cougars were going to be playing.

But it was such a big deal for how dare Bruce Pearl be on there. And Bruce Pearl did obnoxiously say that Miami should not have. be in. Now, he was wrong, but he wasn't that wrong. They have to go to a playing game to play. So they're barely in. They were one of the last four at-large teams in the tournament. Yes. With the schedule strength of 296. I believe that is the low, and you may have checked this on in Ken Palm. Are they the lowest Ken Palm ever to reach an at-large spot? I would, I wouldn't know, but probably.

I would say from a scheduling standpoint, they're probably the lowest ever. They're 93rd on those rank. The Ken Pomeroy's net rankings, which I always use every year. Yeah, 93rd. How many 93rd teams in Ken Palm get at large spots of the instability tournament? Probably, probably. I'm going to guess it's zero. Never ever happened.

So even though people are ripping on Bruce Pearl, because there is a conflict of interest. I mean, the son is there. He. He wasn't that far off. There's six and a half point dogs. Well, according to Kim Pomeroy, the highest ranked team to not be in is Auburn at 38th. I mean, again, I don't know how many Auburn fans are just beside themselves over this. They're 17 and 16.

It's not a great tragedy. Yeah. It just, I would say, for anybody that wants to root for the underdog, have the underdog play somebody because you got in by the skin of your teeth. Be better than the, yeah. if you can't make the top 68, I'm not, I'm not crying over you. I'm really not. I'm sorry. Play better.

Win one or two more other games. Schedule somebody. Seriously. So there you go. But it was funny because everybody's like, oh, Bruce Pearl is still on the payroll over. Well, Nick's Sabe, apparently, still on the payroll. And my guess is that, I mean, there'll be a lot of coaches that will be on the payrolls of other schools as consultants.

I mean, OJ. Wright was the guy that was still getting paid by a Villanova when he quit. And we're working for CBS. Happens. Didn't Bruce Pearl, like, didn't he interview the Miami of Ohio coach or something? And he was trying to play nice? Oh, I don't know that. I think I saw that. I know he was interviewing the NCAA tournament chair

and dropped a little Auburn on him. And then Seth Davis, his TV partner came to his rescue and said, Bruce Pearl, for you being on the TV set for the first time during this, you did a really good job. Everybody was like, Seth Davis, shut your bum ass up. We defend our colleagues. Yeah, he had him on an interview. was like, oh, it's just business, nothing personal.

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a cheater in the NCAA. He's had some NCAA issues. Yeah, that happens. He's probably not the most ethical guy in the world. I don't know. Which makes me crazy that he's not still in it. Well, if his violations were legal now, then he's all good, just like Calvin Stamps.

Exactly. I don't remember what his violations were. Oh, Calvin's? No, no, I'm talking about Pearl. Oh, I don't know. But Calvin's was texting too much, which, again, maybe that I'm too close to it, and that's fine. Call me a hypocrite.

Hypocrat. But why can't you text a kid a bunch of times? Unless the kid says, leave me alone. I don't know. See? If you get a five-year banishment because you text too many, you can't contact that much. Yeah, NCAA investigation.

Members of his family to a cookout, unofficial visit. This is a pearl, right? Yeah. I guess they were doing, he wasn't supposed to be with the coach. and he was at a cookout and Bruce Pearl told everybody not to tell anyone about it and then the incident

and the U.S.S. NCAA came and investigated and Pearl lied about the cookout. So he was a double liar. And also told Aaron Kraft the prospect to tell his father to lie about it. Triple liar. There you go. Remember average person lies what I'd say

four times a day, Rossi? Bruce Pearl might be over. Yep. Scott on 790. Hello Scott. Matt Ross. What's going on guys? All right. I have four small little things. I'll try and keep them as concise as possible.

Number one, this past weekend, I was at a gender reveal slash baby shower, which don't even get me started on why men are now invited to those things. And that's now normalized. That's another thing I didn't need to have on my calendar this weekend, although it was a good time. While I was there, I got to know the wife's or the mother-to-bees father. His name is Mr. Matthew Speck. I don't know if he's listening at this moment or not,

but he's a long-time listener of the show. We had a really great conversation about how much we love listening to you guys and I would prefer this network over the propaganda network. That's, you know, also local to the area. So I wanted to give him a shout out. Shout out to both of you. Major shout-outs to both of you. Yes, thank you so much.

Tell 10 of your friends. Appreciate it. So number two really quickly, I was letting the car about 30 minutes ago listening, and I tried to call on then, but I know it wouldn't have enough time I had to get out. I've never called into you guys all the time. I've never had a chance to actually speak with Chris Gordy,

but I heard him explain his dislike for Nate Oates, the Alabama basketball head coach, and his reasoning for that was that Nate Oates is a slime ball, and there's nothing about him that anyone should be able to root for. He shouldn't be allowed to say that. He's an LSU fan, correct? I remember when just a mere few months ago when I was upset about my Ole Miss football team losing Lane Kiffin

and Matt you would try to say look, you would say, hey, look, I understand Lane's there, he's a good coach, whatever, but he's a slime ball. And he wouldn't even admit that Lane Kiffin is a slime ball. So his credibility on the slime ball meter is at an absolute zero and no one should take anything he says with that seriously at all. Number three, the U of H in Florida potential matchup in Houston, as crazy as that could be. And if I was Florida, I'd be upset.

Just don't forget, this has happened before. We had to go play Auburn in Birmingham as a one-seed a few years back. So, I mean, that was absolutely ridiculous as well, too. I would be upset if I was Florida. And then finally, I don't know if you guys remember I called in last week, talked about the ABS challenge system. You wait until the playoffs this year in a game ends like it did in the World Baseball Classic with a call like that.

They're going to go to an automated ball and strike system. very, very quickly. That's my full time, I should say. There you go. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Scott for the phone call. I appreciate it. I'm a good time of the gender reveal.

Yeah, unfortunately, maybe I'm going to go so old. Never been no gender reveal. Really? Well, my people, my friends, my age, are not having children. They've already had children. Unless, you know, some accidents happen. Are you friends with Al Pacino? No, we've never met now.

He's still, he's still getting after it. Is he really? Yeah. God. Do you think you said that in gender reveal? Probably not. You're thinking about doing an Al Pacino. I can see the...

Nope. I can see the gears turning. You're thinking about doing an Al Pacino impression. Keep the tip jar out there. Oh, I can't know. Go ahead. No, no, I'll do in the bathroom. 12-44.

It's a boy. There you go. That's mine. I'm not kidding. I'm trying to provoke him. Thank God I'm not a good. trying to provoke him, folks. I wish I was better

their voices. Let's talk about synergenics first. Well, you know what Al Pacino might need? Might get his testosterone check. Wow. Oh, San Bernard did it. Oh, no.

Okay. All right. Well, Al Pacino is still getting after it, and he's like in his 80s, but you know what? It is a serious conversation. If 25790, Ross We were talking about whether or not we believe it. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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Yes, I 100% can. Like, I think it's okay that Auburn in Oklahoma, for example, aren't in a field. I think it's okay. They should have won one more game. And so there's nobody complaining about it, but I pride myself on, on telling what I really think. Was I rooting for my son? Of course I was rooting for my son.

People say, well, you got your son the job. No, I didn't get my son the job. My son played for me. My son was an assistant for me for 11 years. He was the associate head coach. He was the defensive coordinator. Did I help him? Absolutely, I did.

As a dad, of course I did. But you look at, are you paid by Auburn? You know what? I'm in an ambassador's position. And not many jobs. Jewish guys would walk away from $30 million, but this one did. And who does that? My wife is like, honey, why couldn't you just stink for a couple of years?

Let them fire you and pay you $10 million to do what you're doing now. But no, you go ahead and quit. Leave all that on the table. Yeah, no, Dan, objectivity for me, not an issue. Okay. But I don't know if you have to disclose that, that, hey, I'm still paid as an ambassador for Auburn if it felt like you were kind of dinging Miami, Ohio, because Auburn was going to be on the bubble.

So that's the appearance, okay? That's how a lot of people look. So the appearance of that, the optics didn't look good. Well, that's fair. And it's certainly has a former Auburn basketball coach. What former coach or former athlete, Charles Barclay roots for Auburn. He does. But Charles Barkley's always going to keep it real.

But he was paid at Auburn, not after Auburn. That's fair enough. Hey, listen, if I wasn't able to be objective, I wouldn't continue to be at Auburn. It's sort of the best of both worlds. I would give that up at a heartbeat if optics became such an issue that I couldn't be an analyst. Jay Wright worked at Villanova for all those years.

He still worked there. Nobody questioned whether or not Jay Wright would have been objective. All right. Bruce Lies. He quit like three weeks before the start of the season. There was no one else he could get the job to. His son was there for the longest time.

That's number one. What else did he say? Oh, he could object. He's not upset that Auburn and Oklahoma are not in the tournament. That's a lie as well. Again, the average person lies to hells four times, four lies a day. Well, he's got like four and two minutes. Yeah.

I mean, he's well above the national average. Wow. I mean, it's an unsavory business. It's a business that you have to lie, cheap, be corrupt, Ethical ethics are out the window. I mean, I don't know what else to tell you. But I like him. I'm not saying I'm anti-Bruce Pro. Bruce Proe want to come on the show. We'd talk basketball with him.

I don't really listen to his analysis, so I don't really have much of an opinion. But just call a spade to spade on this one. I mean, you've got to just be honest here on this. You got to say, you know, look, I have invested interest. My son's hit by his son, not making the tournament. It costs him money. Not Bruce, Bruce's son's money. Does he, is he pissed off of the Miami with a schedule?

drink the 296 got in? Absolutely he is. Say it. Do we have history of a son taking over for their father in college sports and it working out? First thing I think of is Bobby Knight's son. That didn't work. A hat. Nope.

Old, old school. Ray Meyer had a son. He was a longtime successful coach of DePaul and he gave it to his son Joey and Joey did not do well there. Auburn's a no. The son taking over immediately and it worked. Not that comes to mind. Yeah.

The next one will be, you know, Kellan is scheduled to be the coach when Kelvin leaves. Yes. Whenever that may be. Well, you're hoping to turn around and set a precedent, Matt. That's right. That's a great question. Is there any son that has been gifted the job that has been as successful as Pops? I can't think of it.

Probably not. Generally, you go to any coach who's even not a son and they follow an all-time grade. It doesn't go well. Terry on 790. Hello to Terry. Hey, what's going on, Matt? What's going on, Mr. America? Hello, Terry. Oh, is this taking on? Am I Mr. America now?

You are Mr. America. I love it. Terry, you know you sound like Joe Biden. Keith, thank you. You sound like Donald Trump. I don't actually don't think so, but go ahead. Go ahead, Terry. Yeah, I got a question for you. Remember when Mexico played Italy at Dyken? last week Yeah my cousin went to the game He lives in Houston

Okay You know there are 12 ice ages outside Dukin Park 12 what Ice agents I did not know that Ice ages Ice agents

Ice agents No I did not know that Yep Oh that's all I got All right thank you Terry Thank you Terry friend I love you man You're a one horse pony

tell you. Terry didn't sound like Joe Biden? A little bit. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created by the, go, you know the thing. This one's for Jonathan. You, off the board. I'll come up and drag you off.

All right, I'm done. Are you sure you're done? All right, you want to play my favorite ones? Go ahead and just knock it out. Oh, Joe. Oh, Joey B. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talent as white kids. Oh, Joe.

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What? I'm beginning to see why your wife left you. Friend of the show, Adam Winkler says Randy and Tony Bennett, father-son. Is that a father-son guy? Is that like Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Jr.? Randy, the longtime coach at St. Mary's. Tony was the former coach at Virginia that won the national championship before retiring in 2024. Will you take over a job for his son?

That's what I'm meaning. Where the son was gifted job. Oh, like literally handed the job, yeah. No, I don't think so. Okay. Because you got the Drew family. It's done quite well, but nobody got handed the Drew. Yeah.

Maybe, I don't know, did Homer Drew hand the job to Bryce? That didn't work out well because I don't think Bryce is a Valpo anymore. Oh, things that rattles through my head. Yeah, let's move on. Sorry, I brought this up. Final hour. I did. Sorry.

It's my fault. It is your fault. I'll take the blonde. Emmanuel and easy. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 104 on Sports Talk 790. Was that strike? Still strike Ross in the WBC?

Dominican Republic not happy still. Goes down in the history books as a strike. Straight three call, game over. USA on the WBC Championship for a title that's more important than a World Series crown. The Astros are 2017 world champions. Bam out of bio, scored 83,

and that was strike three. That's just how it is. That's 2026 in a nutshell. All right, Matt and rocks with you for the final hour. the show, believe it or not, coming up in about 50, 45 minutes here on Sports Talks. Excited. Yeah. And new.

Rockets tonight against the Lakers, 830 tip time. So, everybody gets your little nap in. And if you're going to the game today. You say 7.30 tip. Just say 7.30. Tip time is 8.6. There you go. The lower bowl issues.

842. Oh, Ross, that's late for pops. You'll be all right. Get your extra coffee. Get your halftime coffee. Oh, my God. I'll be drinking lots of coffee. I'll be wired tomorrow morning.

And I'll crash with you to about 1230 tomorrow. Get the halftime. Oh, you don't have time. Do you come? Do you come down and get the halftime tendies? I do not. But our engineer sometimes brings back snacks. Oh, that's nice.

I'm not going to do it. It's the other side of the bowl. I know. So I know you were thinking about asking. Wednesday. You can do Wednesday. See, here we go. All right, Rockets, we get the tournament out.

The Cougars are on the number 2C in the South. Yes. Gary Parrish, front of the show. Gary Parrish, making Dallas. What does he say? Gary Parrish says this is a travesty that the Cougars could have a home game on the two line. Oh, you got something for them on Wednesday?

You don't write that down. I mean, honestly, if I'm a Florida fan, I'm not happy about it. No, but I think the logistics are just too much. They're just, I mean, human element comes into play. Phil Buildings up. It's easier to get Houston fans that go to a Houston game than it will be Houston fans that go to a game in Washington, D.C. The Jayhawks get every big,

12 tournament every year in Kansas City. You know what? And they still lose sometimes. They couldn't be in their askic by the Cougars on. Absolutely. They can still lose. Yeah. Home buildings make a difference, not the Supreme difference. And by the way, the Cougars have not been, it's not like they go to TOTA Center and win by 25 points. The real home building is the Fratita Center. Toyota Center is a 17,000 state arena. It's going to have a lot of Florida fans there.

How was the Florida State Houston game there? Not great. 8,000. Really? Yeah. Tournament will be better. Forrestats. Oh, you're blaming Florida State. They need to travel.

Hold on. Your fan base should fill that place up. But we only like our home building. Oh, okay. We feel more comfortable at home. Cullen Boulevard's our friend. This is how many lies a day, did you say? Not one from me.

Easy. At 107 on 7. Honey. Hello, Easy. I'm bringing back the conversation earlier about the gender reveal in Al Pacino. You guys were talking about dementia. You think he goes back and says, Mani, it's going to be a girl.

Alvira. Alvira. You know what? Let me say, as long as you chuckled easy that makes the phone call, you know that, right? Yeah, of course. And second of all, how are we going to do

with the outfield, with the Astros? Who's out there? Who's available, gentlemen, and I'll hang up with us. Thank you, E. Z. Now, did you tell me something of Chandlerone put out last day or so? Yes, Chandlerone put out his roster projection. And he does not at the moment have, I don't believe he has Zach Cole in the outfield. And he does it by basically by position group. He doesn't say this is the starters, this is the bench.

When he listed outfielders, he listed Jake Myers, Cam Smith, Taylor Tramelel, and Joey Lopifeto. It must be because Tramel is having a fantastic spring. He is. And Zach Cole has options. Loperfeito also has options. I want to say Taylor Trammell is out of them, but I don't know that for a 100% fact. Not that it would matter, but yes, I would have to look that up. I mean, Zach Cole has been given the opportunity and the numbers have not been great.

He didn't. Yeah, he's out of options. Tramel. So it makes sense for him to make it. Zach Cole, who's been the, as Chandler mentions, the numbers haven't been great, but the exit Velos have been, but he's also struck out at 14 out of 29 plate appearances. This is, again, if he doesn't make the team,

and that's Chandler's just one voice, but he's down there every single day, so he has a better pulse than we would at this point. That's going to probably push Yard on it in the left field more when everybody's healthy. Yeah, because, I mean, are you pushing with Meyer? Smith has been hitting some in spring and has retooled his

swing and you're going to start Taylor Tremel every day that could be a lot of Yordon I'm okay with that I'm okay with that I like Taylor Tremel nice young man Yes but there's no sock Very limited

And defensively he can play He can play Mm-hmm 28 years old We're not talking about some young prospect Super nice guy, too. You interviewed him? No, no, no, no.

That isn't a problem. The problem is you need power in your corner outfield spots. Oh. I thought you needed nice guys out there. No, I'd rather have jerks and they can hit. So, can I... Here's the button. You're hitting the panic button?

I'm scared the death about the outfield. I really am. And maybe I am just trying to be... I'm not trying to grab headlines here or do create something. There has been nothing that. that has made me think that the issues before spring turning have been resolved of the last month? I mean, the natural thing is for ESOC Paredes to be traded

and to get some outfield help. That would be the natural progression or the natural idea. That's what it feels like the idea has been, but now you have the Jeremy Pena injury. Zach Cole is struggling. But even if you wanted to move Paredes, knowing what other teams know the Astros need outfield help, is your best value going to be picked up via trade in the month of April?

I don't think so. You're kind of waiting for an injury. I mean, waiting for injuries when it comes to pitching is one thing. If you're waiting for somebody literally to have a third basement hurt, that's kind of like it's too much of a long shot, it feels like. I think Jordan Alvarez is going to be able to go into Joe Espada's office and say, you need some sock,

you got paredes, you're not going to need to sit in once Jeremy's healthy. play me in left field half the time. It makes natural sense. That is the most simple solution. The keep it simple, stupid, kiss solution is to put Yord on more and left. And just wrap up Yarnon Alvarez in plastic, whatever you got to do. Bubble wrap. When he's not on the field or not at the plate, so you make sure he's eating his vitamins, saying his prayers.

He's always going to work out. But the reality is, the reality is he gets. hurt more on the base paths than he ever did in the field. That's true, but you're still trying to limit his exposure. No question. They don't want him out there, especially running up against that. You're taking one element out of his game that could potentially get him hurt. He hasn't gotten injured against the fence,

but he's hurt himself against the fence. All of us could for sure. Yeah, well, he jumps up there. He's got a big arm. Covers decent ground. I just don't. Jake Myers helping you out there. As much as I think Taylor Tremel is a major league player, he's a fourth outfielder. And when you already are worried about your right side of your

outfield with Cam Smith, and whether or not that Jake Myers can provide the same sort of, not necessarily slog, but just overall OPS, you need a bona fide home run threat out there and you don't want to have huge spots of uncertainty, 67, 8, 9, even if they can defend the position well. Loperfito told us in spring there were some things that he did in Toronto that he really feels like he can carry over to Houston.

What amount of stock do we put in that? Because I think it was like 860 OPS or something like that in very small sample size and he also wasn't included in every playoff roster for the Blue Jays. Can we maybe try to hold out some hope there? Oh, I think there's going to be plenty of opportunities for a little Profito to take some spots.

First of all, the Astros traded for him. I mean, when you make a trade for a player, even though you're trying to save money, you want that player to succeed. You want to give him an opportunity. You want to stash him on the bench. It's going to be a very fluid situation that I think people are going to lose their minds over pretty quickly.

Can't wait. Fire Joe Espada takes are going to start at the moment the moment opening day lineups get posted. And nobody got time for that. The moment opening day lineups get posted. Can't wait. 113 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. Will Emmanuel Vince will get to all three of you in mere moments.

713-212-5-7-90. I ask Ross questions during the breaks and never answers them. I guess you owe me. I often throw grenades at you right before the work. coming back. That's accurate. Very off-color commentary right when we're coming back. Well, on 790, Will, good afternoon

to you. Hey, good afternoon, guys. I want to talk about the rockets, and I'll preface this by saying I'm sure I'm going to get burned for this take or this question. Hold on. Here it comes, Will from Pass to get down, hold on. Should I get some

sizzle? Sizzles. There we go. Let's get some abachi. Let's get some abachi going here. Here we go. All right, go ahead. Now, let me preface this by saying that I think if the Rockets had Banfleet and Stephen Adams, they would be going toe to toe to toe with the thunder. So if they have the opportunity to run it back, by all means to do that. But my question is about Sangoon. I look at his true shooting percentage, you know, and it's never been great, but it's gone down year by year.

So my question is, is there another level that he can get to? And if not, and if the Rockets have another first round, exit. Am I crazy for thinking the Rockets may be a better team moving on from Sengun? Be nice, please. No, first of all, you're not the only person thinks that, okay? That's not the craziest thing ever. That's not the craziest thing ever. We're going to send this tape to the people of Turkey. So good luck with that. Now, if Turkish Twitter finds out about you will, good luck. Your life's over.

You'll be buried in concrete in the next 36 hours. I'll just say this. I don't think he's played his wall post-sal-Sar break. as he did pre-all-star break. His points are down. His turnovers are up. His shooting percentage should be higher than it should be. Yep. There are great things about him.

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The outside shot is not improved. The defense continues to be underwhelming. There are still a lot of good things about him. But if I've given you the awesomeness about him and the warts as well, guess who also knows about all the things I just described? 29 other NBA teams. So it's hard for me to move on from somebody if you don't love him to expect another team to love him more than what you do

at this point. So that's the reason why it's hard for me to get into conversations about well, you know, any player, whether the football player, basketball player, baseball player, if you know them intimately, so do the other people on the side of the trade of the phone conversations. Yeah, and I agree. And I mean, I'm not under any false pretenses that they're going to trade him and get

Giannis Santa Dacompo or something like that. But I just feel like, you know, and I'm not an expert enough to tell you who, but, you know, if they could get somebody a facilitator, you know, somebody like that, this team could possibly look better. I just, for me, you know, I feel like true shooting percentage is the OPS of basketball statistics. And it's very concerning to me that, you know, I'm looking at it the other day. And not that it was ever great for a center for a five, but it's gone down pretty consistently every single year. And, you know, people want to call him Baby Yokic, and obviously that's an

exaggeration. But, I mean, if we're getting into the deep dive analytics of it, he's nowhere close. I mean, and if the Rockets, if Raphael Stone came out, or if you guys want to come out and say that they think he's going to get to that level, I mean, I'll buy that. I'm willing to wait on it. I just, I kind of feel like he may have hit his ceiling, and I'm just not sure he's ever going to be a really efficient player and maybe even fit what the Rockets want to do. So that's just my thing. Yeah, if that was your take, and that's what it sounds like he is, will, then what would you expect in return? I mean, you can't give what you just described and two other players and say,

I'm going to go get the, for instance, you would have to, if you wanted to go get Yannis and you wanted to get him in the sweepstakes, I'm sure the Bucks would want opera in Shangoon. He is a two-time all-star, but that's not going to satisfy the deal. There's going to be several first-round picks or maybe another life. Player is part of it as well. He would have to be a part of a large package. A mono-mono deal would not necessarily bring back a player that you said, oh, this guy is free of warts.

I think what he could do in a trade. If we're talking, Yonis, you're absolutely right. You've got to package a lot more. But I think his biggest trade value at this point would be the name. You know, if the bucks are trading Yonis onto Ticompo, you know, they're going to have to sell that to their fan base and getting a big name like Alperin Sangun while the real meat of the trade for them is, you know, the, what is it, the Brooklyn pick in a few years. I mean, I feel like that's his value at this point.

Other than that, I mean, you're probably looking at trading him for role players. I'm guessing, but again, I'm not an expert on this. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to trade a life human being, especially when that's human being is right now the second most important player in your basketball team. And a back-to-back All-Star. And, yeah, it's an interesting conversation. He's 23 years old.

Like, that's the thing we have to remember as well. There's still room for him to grow and improve. And the shooting numbers have gone down, well, and it's not exactly like OPS because as your usage goes up, your numbers are going to go down. So his usage has gone up and so the efficiency has gone down a little bit. Turnovers are up, which of course a lot of that is a function of Fred Van Vleet not being out. And also I will throw in that he had that ankle injury in December, didn't look the same, came back really quickly, and he was horrible for a big stretch. He's definitely sank.

He's playing through pain. He's got back spasm. He's still questionable for tonight's game. So that sank his numbers. I think the biggest thing that where I see improvement for Alper and Shungoon long term is if he gets 20, 26, 27 years old, keeps with the weight training programs and get stronger and stronger. If he becomes like a even, he can push guys around, but when he goes up against like a Jonas Valenchunis or some of the other, like the other centers who are pretty big, he struggles.

If he can get to that strength to where he can bully guys around both offensively and on the boards, then I think he can unlock another level. I just don't know that he can do that. Can I time in on this too? Sure. With Shingun, I'll call her a couple days ago made a very good point. he hasn't had a break. Like he played all through the summer with the Eurobasket, yeah. And then it came into this.

And I mean, that could be a thing where he needs to lay off that coming back next season if Van Bleeth's ready to go. I mean, that could just be, he's exhausted. Like, he has no time. I think for a guy that plays beyond the free throw line as much as he does, I want to see, he had some of summons of a three-point shot first month of the year, but that's gone away. And now you can, to put him and a man, Tom's on the floor for significant minutes on the floor at the same. time with both guys not being able to shoot outside of 15 feet, that's troublesome. That makes scouting them a little bit easier.

Now, put his head down, bowl and china shop, go to the basket, go get it, Alpi. Go to those 360 twist moves. His footwork for being a guy his size is incredible. Ross, I'm kind of, I know who I knew he is defensively. I just know. Can he diversify his offensive game? Can he be at a 60% clip inside 10 feet as compared to being about a 45% clip? That's where I see.

I think the improvement needs to care. Bulking up and filling out your body. He is 23 years old. That would be the plan if I'm the Rockets. Yeah. Emmanuel and Vince, we'll get to you, one, two. We come back. 713, 212, 5, 790.

If you want to chime in behind those guys, 713, 212 579. With a reminder, it's a very Googlable edition of today's, believe it or not, and that it's coming up at 150. It does revolve around the 68 teams in the NCAA tournament. Apparently, Alabama Guard, Aiden Holloway, will be available for their first round game against Hofstra. Nate Oates, quoting Aidan is a good kid. The whole thing is a big misunderstanding. Yeah, it's going to happen. A big misunderstanding.

Pounda weed's a big old misunderstanding. We found a fall guy. That's what you're saying. By the three of us, how does this work out? Am I y'all's fall guy? Absolutely. Jonathan? In this situation?

Any situation? Yeah, yeah. No, you're going to, yeah. Yeah, we got you down. I will be your fall guys. Okay, good. You'll get off easy. Thank you.

Vince on 790. Hello, Vince. Hey, hi, hey, guys. Hey, I was thinking about this earlier, before you guys started talking about coach's sons. In terms of Calvin Samson and his son, Kellyn, Kelvin's 70. I mean, I'm guessing he's got at least three good years, maybe four to five.

And if Kellyn is like the heir apparent, do you think he's going to have the same type of respect from his players that Kelvin does? You know, especially, you know, in light of how Kellan kind of berates his kids, you know, during games in front of everybody, which is okay with me. I'm totally fine with that because I know there's another side to that. But how do you think that if that is the progression, how the players and recruits will react toward his son? I can't answer that question because every individual is different. Every coach is different. Thank you for the phone call, Vince.

The reality is Kelvin, Kellyn, we should make sure, Kellyn, the son. It's been an assistant coach for a long time. And you've learned a lot of things from your father. But Calvin's also half his age and is going to be dealing with 18, 19-year-olds for the foreseeable future. Where Calvin has been doing this for a long time and is in the not downside, but a few remaining years he's going to be a coach. Right. Does that make sense? He's in the back-in.

Back-in. I give credit to 70-year-olds that can relate to 19-year-olds because most 70-year-olds cannot relate to 19-year-olds. Especially a high-and-compensated college basketball players. Well, it's usually when you have a level of... a success that's going to command respect, which he does. Yes. Now, the big thing that Kellyn won't have that Calvin has is that Kelvin can go into a parent's home and say, I'm going to get your kid ready for the NBA, he's going to get an education, he's going to work

hard, I'm going to give him some tough love. Kellan can't do that because Kellan's never done it directly. He's been a byproduct, but not directly said, hey, I've got this kid of the NBA. I got this kid to graduate. But that's, you know, that's what Kellan could have easily got. a head coaching job at a lot of small division ones. He decided he wanted to stick around with dad and either soak it up or

enjoy the experience of being a number one assistant. And the plan is in place for him to be the head coach. The leash will be short, however. I would imagine. Again, when you are gifted a job, your leash will be shorter than if you are not gifted a job. Year one for

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Year two, they don't make tournament, we'll see. By way, Penny Harley, going to stay at Memphis. Really? Makes a lot of money. They said you can stay. if we hire a general manager, which you're going to do. Okay.

And you get rid of all your coaches. Brand new staff. Clean house. Clean house. And he said, okay. Well, he must love the job. Plus, he's easier,

it's easier to compensate those that are leaving that it is the mega millions that he's being paid at Memphis right now. It's a Memphis kid. Went to play college basketball at Memphis. Hard to get rid of one of your own. But it's been done. Yes, it has.

Signed Clyde Drexler. signed Cliff Kingsbury yes but that guy could have lived in Lubbock if he'd just gotten to seven wins every year let's go he was doing great

no I thought he got hired up no no he got fired up oh then he got hired up everybody was like what yeah he's still got it he gets work every year good for him but yeah I mean

it's hard getting like go by your album honor I've got people that have gotten like friends of mine that have gotten like go by their honor it's very difficult Emmanuel

139 and 7-90 Emmanuel, what do you got today? Hey, I just want to congratulate you realizing that you obey the new big 12 baddies and they're going to be running this conference for a long time. Oh, it's that Zona fan.

Yes, sir. I mean, you guys would be doing real good. Yes, and then what happened was Burns woke up finally on his kitty slump and then that was it. Are you calling us from the moon?

Yeah, what kind of, what kind of phone are you on my ask? What is this? Is this one small step for man, one giant leave for mankind? What has happened right now? No, you know, you're better than I'm at work. Yeah, you sound like hell. And your squad's going to lose to my cougars. I don't know that.

I think it's great. Yeah. Hey, you got to play a second place. You got to bet you? It's hard to beat out. It's hard to beat out. Arizona when it's eight on five. Oh, eight on five.

I love 8 on 5, by the way. I can't hear that enough. Manuel, we love you. Thank you for calling you. We can't tell the hell you're saying, yeah. I think you said Cougars by six. That's nice. I appreciate that very much.

Yeah. He's calling us from inside of coal mine. By the way, speaking of Houston Cougar Greats, our friend Reed Gettis is going to be on the show tomorrow. Oh, love it. Love talking to Reed. I don't want to talk to him about that. He will give you an update on Texas.

I don't want that. So you tell me I should not ask him about Texas. There's always next year. You can't. Why are you so negative, Ross? Matt, we just get on his son for doing the same thing. Texas basketball has been hurting me longer than you have been alive, Jonathan. Think of every memory.

Think of your, I don't know what your earliest memory is. Think of that. Think of what you were drawing in first grade. Think of anything that happened. Think of, I don't know, your first loving in high school. Whatever. At that time, Texas basketball was hurting me. Okay?

It's been too long. I'm sick of it. Man, you guys are so much older than me. Ah! Hey, hey, shut your bum ass up! And hook him horns. And there will be a watch party for the text again tomorrow. There won't.

We'll find one. Folks on the show tomorrow, you are going to give Ross a pep talk. Really? You're all playing tomorrow or Wednesday? Tomorrow. It's a pep talk Tuesday on the show. I lost her last three games. Arkansas, it makes sense, but it got destroyed.

It wasn't even close to the 20-point deficit. Arkansas, your SEC champions, by the way. Yeah, Arkansas's great. Go ahead, keep going. Oklahoma at home. Did it make the tournament. It's fine. NIT, it's fine.

And then Ole Miss. Oh, Ole Miss, under 500, too. Oh, by the former Texas coach, too. That's great. It's fantastic. You miss him? No. He's not doing much at Ole Miss.

They're 13 and 19. Yeah, they went to the semifinals of the SEC championship game. Yeah, they beat Texas, Georgia, and Bama. Ooh, Lordy. All right, believe it or not, is highly Googledable. It's about teams in the NCAA tournament. That's all I can tell you. If you want to play, believe it or not, 713, 212-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. LeBron and Kevin Durant on the floor. same time. You will not find any two higher scores player in a one active game than those two guys on the floor at the same time. Wait, should I come to the game tonight? I'm going to go Wednesday. I'm just not feeling 100% still.

No, you got to go Wednesday. Okay, Wednesday. 8.30 both days. I need 35 from Durant tonight. If I were, Ross, because I know Matt can't answer, if I was if I was going to bet on this game. Correct. That's a stay away for me. Two and a half rockets?

That's a coin flipper. Are you looking for props? Yeah. Look at a little time about it. I cannot speak to these props. I don't have no idea what you're talking about. Forever and ever. Now you can't, it's going to be difficult to double anybody.

Hmm. Who am I thinking? No, I got nothing. It's a stay away. Reeves, LeBron, Luca. Luca put up 15 at the night before two games before

game winning shot, a little bit of a push-off it is what it is. Do you want to say Luca and LeBron wing defense lacking? So who do you go with there? Okay, I'm sorry, I can't talk to me. You guys talk to this out between the two of you? Give him one prop.

Give him something. Katie's probably going to get... Katie's been getting blitzed and doubled a lot. So that'll be something to keep an eye on if JJ Reddick's going to keep with that. Over under our nothing but nylons? One and a half. I'm hoping, I am betting the over.

Slam at it. Right-hand hammer. Right-hand hammas? One and a half as well. Oh, with the men, Thompson, the floor? Okay. I think the over on that. He's been throwing her down with two hands sometimes.

Two hands is true. All right. Tomorrow on the radio show, we have gut feelings. Reid Geddett. It's going to be on the show to talk some college basketball with us. We will break down the Rockets-Lakers game like mother. Hey, if the Rockets win,

do I love L.A. behind it or no? Ooh. Let's see. Going back to Cali, notorious B.I.G. The problem is, we're not in Cali, L.O. Cool, Jay. You're right.

Yeah, I love L.A. works. There's a million songs about L.A. L.A. woman? L.A. LeBron. Yeah, we'll have Cordy make a parody. Gordy has to make parodies in years. What the hell is he doing? He's been locked on.

He's been locked on. He's been locked on. He's been locked on. He's been locked on doing our parodies. Oh, I think if we've played this before. I love the Bobby Womack version of California Dreaming. It's great. Jonathan, Ross, you guys get to decide the song tomorrow.

Okay. I will decide the song for Thursday. Well, what if they lose? We'll do the L.A. song, something on. Ooh. We'll play your favorite Hotel California. I like Hotel California. Oh, really?

I thought you hated it. No, no, no, no. Okay, you just think it's overrated. Yeah, it's not even close to being the Eagles best song. It is their best song. It is not their best song. song. Sometimes you keep it. Oh, don't make me go Matt Thomas. Oh, look at the sales

numbers on you. No, no, no, no. Because the sales numbers, when it's your opinion, the sales numbers matter. When it's against your opinion, the sales numbers don't matter. The two best songs of the Eagles, Lion Eyes and New Kid in Town. Oh, that's, okay, Lion Eyes, okay. New kid in town.

Boo! I hate the bleeping Eagles, man. In my opinion. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not. And here's how it works.

You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition, believe or not, I will name you a school and its mascot in the city in which that college is in. If it's really the city they're in, you'll say this. Believe it. If it's not the city they're in, you'll say this. Not. Two believe or nots in a row,

you a prize and we are playing today for tickets to see triumph on their rock and roll machine reloaded tour May 22nd at smart financial credit center. Tickets are on sale at smartfinancial center.com or is this right, Jonathan, a pair of tickets for the Rockets and the Bucks on April 1st at Toyota Center? Yes, sir. Woo! These are nice prizes. No April Fool's.

April Fool's at Tota Center Rockets, Bucks, Tota Center.com or triumph on the rock and roll machine tour, smartfinancial center.com. I'm going to you, folks. You have three seconds, Ross. You are the buzzer keeper here on this. All right, let's play. Nijl on 799. Nijl, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, sir. Hofster Pride are in Hempstead, New York. Believe it or not? Believe it. Yes. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. The Wright State Raiders are in Fairborn, Ohio.

Believe it or not? Not. They are. Believe it. Thanks for playing it, though. John on 790, John, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. The whole show, man. I love it.

Thank you. Tennessee State Tigers are in Nashville, Tennessee. Believe it or not? Believe it. Yes. Statement number two for the win. The Furman Palinans are in Asheville, North Carolina. Believe it or not?

Not. That's right. Greenville, South Carolina. Nicely done. Michael on 790. Michael, you ready to play, believe it or not? Sure am. The North Dakota State Bison are in Fargo, North Dakota.

Believe it or not? Believe it. Yes. Statement number two for the win. The Cal Baptist Lancers are in Stockton, California. Believe it or not? Not. No, they're in Riverside, of course.

D. Victor on 790, Victor, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Well, okay, Mike, Mark. Mike or Mark, I'll take you to one. That's an Alzheimer's friend He's been a long day The northern Iowa Panthers

Are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Believe it or not Believe it No they're in Cedar Falls Idol That's a little minutia That's not Minoia That's two big cities baby That's two big cities

That's minutia JW on 790 JW ready to play believe it or not Yes sure The Siena Saints are in Bergen North, New Jersey. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Lawtonville, New York. Off state, sorry.

Mike and Katie on 790, Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. The Utah State Aggies are in Logan, Utah. Believe it or not? Believe it. Yes. Statement number two for the win. The Howard Bison are in Bronx, New York. Believe it or not?

Believe it. No, they're in Washington, D.C. Thank you for playing, though. Andy on 790, Andy, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. The Lehigh Mountain Hawks are in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct.

Statement number two for the win. High Point University is in Greensboro, North Carolina. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, it's actually in a high point of Carolina itself. Thank you, though. I got to tell you. How many of these did you do?

Twelve? I think I got like two rights. So I'm glad you didn't ask me to help. Yeah, you're not good. It was terrible. We all have the audience of debtor a lot pretty soon. Yes. No, I'm done.

Wait, was the last time I did good or the time? You did the last thing. I think the time before it was disaster. Correct, yeah. My apologies to all the deceased. See, we can't do it this week because we just said the Grammys. People died, so there's a fresh batch of people. That's true.

But congratulations to one battle after another for winning best picture. Did I see that movie yesterday? Hell no. There's no chance. You're right about that. All right. Reed Gettys, gut feelings, news. Ross and Jonathan came up with a great song to open up with a bunch of rocket winning highlights against the Lakers.

Manifested, yes, sir. Up next. It's Clanton. It's Wexler. I don't know. I've seen Clanton forever. It's the team right here on Sports Talk 790.