The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Ross Returns, NFL Returns & Family Feud Questions

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

It's larger than life. Yeah. You, sir. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1 in H-Town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you.

And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt. I have a stranger across the way from you. I haven't seen, I don't know, since late June. and Brandon and Ronley haven't seen in a while either Hello Matthew There's some other weird dude in there I'm sure you're not weird but just regular

Is this a song you wanted? I think so Not the version I was thinking Oh No I was not thinking this at all It's not fitting This is actually awesome I don't even know what this is

I had low expectations but this is great Good call Matt When we get together we have a true There we go I think this is... Aren't you supposed to be at a bar really hammered, screaming, hey, hey, the gang's all here? No, this is not how you rally. Oh.

Well, this is from... This song is from 1917. The next suggestion is Camp Town Racist. No, we're not playing that either. Okay. Boy, I don't realize how attracted Molly Karam is. Holy smokes. You didn't?

Well, I just don't watch the show. Are you new here? Well, I just haven't seen the show a while. I think Jalen Rose is going to pick up somebody who's not looking good? She's nice. She had some glasses or something last week. I spent a lot more time watching Molly Karam the last three weeks than I have in my entire life. Yeah, I'm just saying we're fans of the Molly Karam show.

Good to see the show hasn't changed. You're still creeping out on chicks on TV. It's not creeping. It's admiring. Oh, I'm sorry, admiring. All right. Good to be back, though, Matthew. It is good. We're all together for the first time since the end of June.

I went into quarantine. You went into super quarantine. Well, yeah. It was by myself for a couple of weeks. I had, well, I don't know. for those who don't know, I had, I contracted the coronavirus, and then I was out for a couple of weeks, and then I had some planned vacation, so now I'm back. So you've been three and a half weeks since I've been on. Damn, you've got a lot of hot sports takes you've got to get off your chest.

Well, if I'd been paying attention to sports, I would. That's not a great sign. Oh, I'm sorry, the last few days I have, but I mean, when I'm sleeping like 18 hours a day, I'm not going to be paying too much attention to sports, Matt. I'm quarantining. I'm worried about my own personal health, not who's the latest, big name athlete to get coronavirus. Well, we'll catch up. We should play today. Believe it or not, this person has Corona. You can literally quiz me on who has this person gotten Corona. Does Russell Westbrook have Corona? Well, he's, yes, he did, right? He contracted it.

Yes. Is he going to be okay? Is he playing? What's going on with that? Does Jack Nicholas have Corona? Yes. He does. We know he had it. And he had the fist bump. What's the guy who won, right? Yeah. That's part of the customary thing he does after the Sundays. Well, he's supposed to handshake. I guess John Romber, whatever his name is, didn't want a handshake.

just went for the fist bump. You know what I was thinking about the other day? You know who the biggest loss is in this whole Corona thing was the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell? I was going to say the nation's economy, but... No, Roger Goodell supplants that. He loves to hug those players. He didn't do any of that.

Remember that, you know those warm embraces? Yeah. He missed out on all that. Damn you, Corona? Yeah, but he had himself about six glasses of red wine during that draft. Did you see by the end of it, he's dancing with the Vikings fans and all that stuff? By the way, I hate the virtual fan. Yes, the virtual fan is terrible.

Like, I've been watching the Today show occasionally when, because for some stupid reason, ESPN is putting MLS soccer on at 8 o'clock in the morning. No one cares. Not even soccer fan cares. Is it live? Yes. At 8 in the morning? Yes. What are they doing out there?

Today was, I don't even know who it was. But I can't turn the station fast enough. And you guys know, I don't like soccer. Well, MLS soccer is not good. But MLS soccer, it's like, it's bad soccer, right? It's like double A. So, um, so I'm flipping around and what was I talking about? I already lost track.

You're the one saying you were watching MLS and, uh, you were flipping around. I don't know. Oh, forget it. Wasn't that good. You're two minutes back in and I've already had amnesia. I've already got you off track. Yeah. Yeah.

Four minutes of the show. All right. 713, two, one, two, two, five, seven. 90. I saw you reach our show this afternoon. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. We have a lot to catch up on. We got three hours today, and then we only have 50 minutes tomorrow because the Astros and Royals are going to finish off the series.

Now, there was a question mark whether they were going to go to Kansas City. They were going to leave today, which is unheard of. They get a bus? No, they were going to fly. Oh, is that all right? You got private charter? Mask up? Oh, yeah. No middle seats.

I'm sure they're doing just fine. All right. And by the way, this whole talk of, well, you know, these college football teams playing close opponents. Doesn't matter if they're 10 miles away or an hour plane right away. Being on a bus, you're going to be with people way closer than six feet, right? Is Tom Herman still going to kiss every single player on the cheek as they get on the bus? Can he not do that anymore? So they left this morning to go to Kansas City, but they were thinking about maybe not going because the weather in case he's not supposed to be spectacular.

So from what I last heard before I got on the, we got on the year, they were on the, way to Kansas City. So they'll have a 7 o'clock game tonight, which you'll hear right here on Sports Talk 790, and then a 1 o'clock game tomorrow right here also on 790. So we're going to do it. We're going to do an extended pregame. No, it'll be just a snack size edition of the show. Astros on deck. We don't do that. We don't do it during the preseason. No. Because they are, it is just the preseason. That's true. All right. So I went to Minut Made Park yesterday. They let you in? They did. Do you have you had your mask on? Oh, yeah. I, I, uh, sanitized. Duh. sanitizer.

They gave me some. Social distance. Social distancing. I had an assigned seat in the press box. Oh, really? Yeah. Did you get a good seat? Yeah, I was on the front row of the press box.

So it was not bad. I mean, they were happy to see me. That's good. They don't see a lot of radio people. So, you know. It happens. But you were there.

Yeah. I'm the one that goes. All right. So what was I going with this? Oh, so I get up, I go through the, you know, get a temperature check and go up to the elevator where my spot is up in the press box. And I'm walking through the concourse. and it hit me.

Not that Jim Crane needs my feeling bad for sympathy. These owners in Major League Baseball are going to take a blood bath this year. First of all, boys, there were 40,000 empty seats in the stadium. Not a soul to be found. In fact, there are sections of Minutemade Park in just the small distance that I walk from one area or the next that you can't even go to. It's physically impossible. There's gates up, there's signs, there's all sorts of things. So going above the main concourse or the club level is a non-starter.

Then, what was I going on with this? Oh, and then secondly, all these concession stands. Yeah, Sheriff Blilocks nachos. No blaylock. No blaylox nachos. The fried shrimp cart, which I'm a big fan of. No hot dogs. No dollar dogs.

No expensive beer. The funnel cake butt. No, the yogurt. You put your toppings on. Gone. Bathrooms. Are you ready for this? This was the weirdest part.

There were bathrooms that had urinals sectioned off for social distancing. They don't want you peeing within six feet of somebody. Wow, that's going to create a lot. Well, I guess if you're not full capacity, if you're zero capacity, you're not over there. If you're fighting with somebody over a bathroom at Minutemade Park, that means you got the runs or there's only one bathroom available. So if you want to get a Nolan Ryan's All-Natural Angus beef, brisket, sandwich. You couldn't do that. And the chances are they're probably not going to be open this entire season.

Yeah. I mean, there's a chance. There's a potential chance, but for, but not great. My feeling is, is this going to be large? I mean, there's only 30 games. And the Astros are going to start off with what? Six right off the start at home. So that's down to you down to 24.

Yeah, it's not happening. You're right. So here's the thing. There's no parking. Nobody's making money in parking. Nobody's making concessions. Nobody's making money on ticket prices. Now, again, I'm not going to feel sorry for these ridiculously rich people that have done very well for themselves.

I'm sure Jim Crane's investment from start to where he bought the team of where it is now. He's very cash flush. But it doesn't still mean that it absolutely sucks. And then being in this ballpark, watching these guys go through their workouts and having crowd noise piped in. It wasn't obnoxious. And it certainly didn't match what was happening on the first. field, but it was like having, do you ever use white noise when you sleep at night? Sometimes I'll put on a light thunderstorm.

Yes, it'll help me out if you will. Or a cooling rain, if you will. A babbling brook, perhaps? It felt like a babbling brook being in the stadium yesterday. That's what, people have described it a number of different ways I've seen on Twitter. So did it sound like crowd to you or it sounds like something else? But it didn't have the rise and fall of, you know, when a ball is close. Oh.

Well, yeah, because they've been doing that on the, as you know, Matt, because you've been watching the Premier League games. Huh? The Premier League Soccer game, they've been using the FIFA video game sounds. They've been using that. And when I first heard that, I thought it was going to be stupid and distracting. I actually kind of got just got used to it. Yeah, I would say it doesn't add, but it doesn't detray. Now, I've been watching some of the baseball games on the MLB network, and they're doing the same kind of thing.

The weirdest thing was they were doing, dun-da-da-da-da-da. They were they were doing the organ and all that? I'm like, who's going to follow this up? Did you hail charge in the middle of the press box? I almost felt like it was my civic responsibility to do so. Did you stand for the deep in the heart of Texas? Well, here was the one that got me. And by the third or fourth one, everybody's doing.

Right. The third or fourth one, it just stopped. Or you know the one that gets everybody? Everybody clap your hands. There was nobody. You just can't help yourself. As a matter of fact, Brandon, if you ever feel like the show is struggling, Yeah, just start hitting us like that.

Start hitting those things. Can we do a seventh inning stretch? That'd be about, what, 2.15? Yeah. I can do that. I like the 215s stretch. We just get up and play deep in a heart of Texas? Yeah, seriously, this is the key to the show.

We'll see if you can really make your mark on the show. If you ever feel like the show is lagging. Dun-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, why is he playing that? He's trying to start a rally. crowd going. Everybody, clap your head. I like that. Get on your feet. It'll give us

some energy as well. Oh, for sure. Matter of fact, next segment, let's try. Don't do it right now. Let's see just as Ross and I talk about something, let's see if you just fired off in the middle and it makes the segment better. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

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No way. Back to the Matt Thomas show. We have some breaking news from your beloved Houston Rockets. But we don't do breaking news unless we do the breaking news sounder. Sorry, I was very busy. What, Matt? Remember you were going to say... I'm training over here, Matt.

I didn't know we had breaking news. No, it was on me. I said I was going to handle it, and then I just went and read Twitter and got distracted. So some things don't change, Matthew. All right. That's another one for good measure. Russell Westbrook is on his way to Orlando. Is he okay?

Well, I would presume so. Is he virus-free? Did he test negative? What do you think a non-stop flight on a jet-leared jet would cause from L.A. to Orlando? Right. I don't know. What's a Lear jet? You know, a private plane. Okay. I mean, that's what I'm saying.

You know all these technical terms. Maybe it may not even be a lear, but the thought is usually, yeah, a golf stream, whatever. Listen to you. I just know from that song, it's fly like a G6. Anyways, I don't know. You would know better than me. I just, I really don't know. I've never paid for a private plane in my life.

So he has to get on a private plane. Well, if you're Russell Westbrock, the answer is, yeah. Okay. Because here's the thing. There's got to be only probably one or two non-stop flights, L.A. Orlando every day. Yeah, he, no, he's got his, he's got people. No, there's no chance he's flying commercial. No chance.

There's a website called NetJets where you can fly private. And that's what's... I can try to book something there. Nah, I'm all right. We don't need to know that. Hold on. I'm putting your email in there for the one list. Well, you know who NextJet uses?

No, I don't. ESPN Game Day bring their people in on NextJets. Oh, okay. You know what they do the celebrity picks? Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. You know, when Matthew McConae is there when they're in Austin.

Right. Or Toby Keith is in Norman, Oklahoma. It's almost like we could predict. Where are they going to be? Okay, they're at Notre Dame. Regis Philman's in the celebrity picks. Okay. Can't wait.

All right. So he's going to be there. He'll have to jump into the quarantine, which would be two days. Okay. He's going to get tested. And, yeah, then he should be ready to go. Rockets, by the way, over the first. We got a busy day over here on the old I-Hart family.

790 on Friday is going to carry the Rockets, Raptors scrimmage, and then we go right from that to the Astros and the Mariners, which will be heard here on 790 and also on 740. Man, we're just really getting back into the swing of things, aren't we? Yeah, we got three scrimmages, and then the regular season opener is on the 31st, which is 11 days away.

Astros open up with the Mariners this coming Friday. It's going to be a busy couple months, isn't it? I mean, relatively speaking, I would like to be able to say that every day the Astros play, it's going to become three hours of Astros conversation. I don't believe it to be the case. Now, when the Rockets play, they'll have a chance to hopefully move up a couple of spots in the Western Conference, and then they're going to play these eight games, and then they're going to have a weekend off, and then the playoffs start right away.

There's no, you know, three or four days in between. You know, I usually have the NBA season usually ends on a Tuesday, and they start playoffs on a Saturday. Nope. They're ending the season on a Friday and then the following Monday to the playoffs start. Man, we're going to be in a close race, Matt. What are we going to get first? Dusty Baker mismanaging the bullpen or Mike Dantoni needs to work the mid-range more? Oh, from callers? Yes. No, I don't think the mid-range will the mid-range be a huge part of the rocket's new running gun offense.

Are we lagging there? I didn't think we were lagging. We were only two minutes into the second. Damn, we were just getting our teeth into it. He's already saying this segment struggling. So I say we get Mike D. Antonio needs to work the mid-range. You know what? Buy my sports RV show this Saturday.

No, no, no. Here's what's going to happen with Rocket Callers. This lineup needs a big man. Yes, that's been happening too. There's literally no bit. Isaiah Hardinstein is gone. Gone. So there's literally no big man

Well there's Tyson Chandler but he doesn't play But he's not going to start Yeah He should be fresher now Extremely fresh No it will be there will be argument Will be what are the Rockets thinking Getting rid of Clint Capella

And trying to put out this lineup That's got Robert Covington and PJ And or PJ Tucker playing the five It's what they're going to do They've gone all in on this It doesn't necessarily mean That it's going to be the long term forecast Your buddy Brian Gelsotter who was on a show

a couple weeks ago. You put him on the show? I was kind of desperate. He's really, I like him. I know you guys don't get along. He's terrible. Can I fix that relationship? I would like him to die in a fire.

No, I don't think he's that bad. I don't care. I really like him. I know. He reeks of New York basketball, the way, you know, the mannerisms and the phrasing. He reeks of Northeast A-hole. I don't see that. He's got some issues.

Are you sure? He personally attacked me on Twitter where I'm done with him. Yeah, but people attack people on Twitter all the time. Okay. Hey, that's why I'm done with him. So he doesn't exist to me. All right. You brought up his name, not me.

Can I please fix it? No. There's nothing to fix. I have no interest in being his friend or, or, I'm not asking you guys to be best friends. Just like. You just want him for content on your show. I like his content. I think he's got a good perspective.

You know what? Next time you want to, but just interview me and I'll give you his stupid answers that he would give. Oh, this is awful. I got aggressive Ross with me today. Did you guys ever do a sports MT theater with his, the parent Twitter fight that Ross had with this guy? Oh, we could actually. We could find the tweets.

How long ago was the fight? This is like five, this is when we had the NFL.com's Lance's Erlain was here. Damn, that's been a while. Yeah. Okay. I don't know what Lance does now, but. He works for NFL.com. Oh, okay.

That's true. He's still doing this thing. All right, 713-212-5-79. If you'd like to join our show today, 7-13-21-5-70. We're going back between the rockets and the astros. The realistic thing is that when you see word that Russell Westbrook is going to join his team, that's kind of a big story. Yeah, absolutely. It's great to have him back.

He's good. He's going to have quarantine? Let me ask you, he's going to be back in the bubble? No, go ahead. Why are the NBA athletes that have gone through all these workouts, even though the rusty is, you can be basketball rusty, they all appear to be in shape? Why are so many baseball players not in shape? but that includes the beloved Houston Astros. Roberto Osuna has not thrown off a mound.

And apparently he's fat. Is he? Yes. Tubby Osuna now? I can't imagine that. What happened? He ate well. Oh, man.

He's been having a bunch of Houston Tex-Mex or something? No, I'm guessing he doesn't live here in the office. Oh, he doesn't? No. I mean, he might, but, you know. Man. But I mean, here's the thing. You're ready for this Astro fans?

You're ready to wig out a little bit? No, Osuna. no peacock, no Presley, no Joe Smith, probably for the season. And you're forcing me to root for Framber Valdez is the number five starter. You know how I feel about this. I am not happy. We have some more Framber alerts this season? I can't wait.

He pitched on Saturday and he gave up like two runs in an inning. I mean, he just, he never does a one, two, three ever. You see, Matt, like I said, I've been out. kind of out of the loop a little bit. You got to, so, okay, what's happening? Okay, Joe Smith might opt out because. More than a lot of them doing to. Was Ali LaFource high risk or something or somebody in their family?

We don't know. She's heard from him. She's fine. She's been doing stuff on TNT. Okay. What's up with Ryan Presley? Are you sick? No, it's ailments.

Same thing with peacock. Just general. General soreness? I don't know if it's what that's true. Yeah. They're being very big and that's okay. Okay. But Josh James came back.

That's good. He did. He had a baby. Josh Flames James. Well, as I said to the audience last week. Some of those flames go high and outside, but... Is it a good sign that Flames James comes in right away and earns the number four spot? Or is that a bad sign?

It's debatable. Probably a good thing. I choose to be positive. Well, he is being given the best opportunity of his young Major League career to become a full-time starter. I know that's what he's wanted to do. The thing about James, and we saw him during spring training, and he was stalin and profiling. Yeah, he had a purple silk shirt on.

And it was like 90 degrees in West Palm Beach. But that's like, where are you going? To each his own. Like he had a, he had a gig as a, as a smooth jazz saxophoneist that night or something. Well, he had a, he had a gig to do. That's what the kids said. They'd call him gigs. What was I going with this?

Oh, so he's Mr. four strikeouts in an inning in two-thirds, and then he walks three people straight. Yeah. That's the Josh Flames James experience, Matt. And that's, and here's unfortunately, that's what typical number, four starters are, number five starters are. Yeah, you're four and five. I mean, we're not used to it. Ashtro's been spoiled the last few years. 1227 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. We're just catching up on a lost time here. If you'd like to join us, come say hello, you may do so in a variety of ways. One way is on

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790. It's your home for Astros baseball. So the Astros are on their way to Kansas City for a pair of exhibition games. They were mulling over whether they should go or not because the weather forecast in Kansas City was not good. But apparently it has improved. Once again, proving to you that I've got to find a better weather app than Weather Channel because it was supposed to be 100% all day long and now they're going up to play a game tonight. Well, that's just how the weather works, Matt. Yeah.

A meteorologist is not a bad job to have. You can be wrong about 70% of the time and you just keep your job. And really, you know who's doing all the heavy lifting? It's the computer. You're just basically taking with the computer television and says, go put on your flashy TV screen. No offense to the meteorologist listening out there. You know that there is one school in this country.

Let me see if you can guess this. Yeah, I'll give you a hint. DeVry. It's in the SEC that has probably put out more television meteorologist than any other school in the country. Vanderbilt. No. Dang.

And here's the thing. It's this SEC school. You can actually go to campus and do it there, or they have like an online thing. They can get you, you can get your degree. Online meteorology degree? Apparently. I don't know. Just say it.

Mississippi State. Dang, that was going to be my next guess. That's a lot. Oh. Yeah. Cheetah Johnson. Really? Cambril Marshall.

Well, she's Cheetah something else. Oh, Cheetah craft now, yeah. Okay. But Cheetah actually told. She told me that she actually. She actually went to Mississippi State. A lot of people will do it just through online stuff. Yeah, there's not a whole lot to do in Stark Vegas, right?

I've never been. Yeah. I've been to Ole Miss. Yeah, I'm good. I've never been through the state of Mississippi. I've never been in it. Well, yeah, because if you want to go to Pensacola, you've got to go through, you know, through Mississippi.

But Old Miss is a spectacular campus. What do you mean, Matt? Spectacular. It's got great sights or? Yes, I would agree. I would say it's exactly great sites. And I've never been to Stark Vegas, so I don't know what it's like. All I tell you is, I don't think I ever want to go to a football game there because they had those damn cowbells for four hours.

I know. They're annoying enough on television. Let me ask you this. If Stark Vegas plays football this year, are they going to super, are they going to put the cowbells into their audio in the stadium? Yeah, pipe in cowbells. Or you could just have, I don't know, people and the staff go out there and ring some. some bells? No, you cannot. No one's going to be allowed. Well, in theory, probably. I mean, the Longhorns are saying they're going to be 50% capacity. Seems a little ambitious.

By the way, I forgot to check. How did Texas Motor Speedway do with their Rory? So over the weekend, they were touting 50% capacity in Fort Worth. Can you guys look that up? I totally forgot about it. Because the previous week, they were in Bristol and they had 20,000 people. And people looked like they were having a really, really good time. Well, Austin, Dylan, won the race. Okay, and the crowd size was? I don't know. It's got to be in the second paragraph for the first one, right?

It's not. Huh, you're kidding. No, he's now top 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. What's the name again? Austin Dylan? Has Austin replaced, like, buddy and Ricky on NASCAR names? Speaking of Austin Pruitt, the new Astros pitcher, not available at this point. What?

Yeah, the pitching staff to mess. Sounds decimated. Verlander's going to have to go eight. Grinky's going to have to go seven. And McCuller just... Oh, here we go. NASCAR fans, Brave Heat follow safety protocols in return.

This is from the... Oh, geez. I got 20 to $25,000. That's all they had? I'm not subscribing to the Star Telegram. Well, they were selling on... They were trying to sell us that half the crowd was going to be.

It was going to be 60,000 people. Hmm. Yeah. I'd read this article with the Star Telegram's trying to get me to subscribe. No, don't do that. And it's NASCAR. What are you're not going to read? Sorry about that.

Guy turns left. can hold more than 181,000. And yeah, there were 20,000. What was 100 degree heat? Ooh. Short concession and merchandise lines. Plenty of space to social distance. And I think once you got to your seat, you didn't have to wear a mask.

And Tyler, I mean, Austin Dillon beat out Richard Childress. Okay. Rick said Ricky. Ricky. Same difference. Ricky. Ricky Childress in the second place. No, don't use stereotypes.

Don't use stereotypes on this show. Of course we don't. That's right. Okay, so the asteros are playing, which is a good sign. They'll play today and then tomorrow. They'll have, I think Wednesday will either be an off day or a workout. Thursday, the Mariners come to town. Everybody starts a fret.

We have the opening two games of the baseball season, and then Friday, it all begins. By the way, our douchebag friends at ESPN.com. Oh, geez. What'd they do again, Ross? This is on, this was on the front page of Major League Baseball. Oh, it still is on the front page of their Major League Baseball. section. What we lose when we can't boo the Astros on opening day, an article by Sam Miller. He's all upset that with the Astros, there's no fans in the stand, so people can't boo the Astros.

Don't the Astros open up at home anyway, so they weren't going to get booed anyways? For half of their games. Who cares? Why is it so? The Astros are just the new, we need to get clicks. So we're going to mention to him. There's been a lot of great ones in history. Do you know it works, by the way? Oh, absolutely. I'm sure they put all, they got a ton of clicks off of this. And he's that, because we had Buster only, he was blaming all the labor strife and Major League Base. This is Jeff Luno's fault because he's the way he ran the Astros.

Now we can't make an agreement between the players and the owners. Very stupid takes. Glad to see that they're still coming in my time off. Now we're, we're upset that you can't boo the Astros. And it's what we lose when we can't do. boo the Astros on opening day. You don't even tell you what you'll lose? Nothing.

Get over it. Sam Miller. I don't even know who that is. He's got to be an intern, right? I don't know. Well, the problem is Buster tweeted out the story. Nobody knows who Sam Miller is. People know who Buster is.

So Buster's like, I have this agenda. I've got to keep going and going and going and going. So let's get this guy a few clicks. I'm not going to read the story. I'm not going to let them win. What does the game miss when there's nobody? booing quite a lot. There's a long history of opening day booing

for good causes and dumb ones. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's awesome he booed at opening day? Never. No, nobody does that. Self-righteous baseball people do. He's quoting Sparky Anderson. He's going through some stuff that happened to

Aubrey Huff in 2008. Did Richard Justice write this? In Detroit in 1969. They boot Danny McLean. Coming off a 31-win season. Okay? Who cares? It's just a history of people getting booed on opening day.

Johnny Bench, Cecil Fielder. Cessel, Cecil. Cecil. Carl Lindner in 2004. Reds owner. Oh, look. They booed Connie Mack on opening day in 1934. Cool story, bro.

So somebody at ESPN.com said, look. Look, we need weeks. We're done writing about COVID, okay? We can't write about the virus anymore. please just do me a favor let's go back to the tried and true formula of attacking the Astros this is a stupid puff piece

with the Astros name slapped on the front for clicks that's what it is okay well can you reverse your click yeah can I delete my cookies I don't know how does this work I'm not going to do it don't give them don't go don't do it and look ESPN has a lot of really nice things really good in

journalism great TV shows love 30 for 30 sports center ESPN also is the number one go to website there's no question about what it is we're going to of sports. But don't click it. Don't give them the satisfaction. It's a waste of your time. Unless you want to read about conning Matt getting booed in 1934. I got to be honest with you. I've watched baseball

pretty much religiously for the past 40 years of my adult life. I do not remember. Me thinking to myself, I cannot wait for opening day so I can boo somebody. Of all the things that fans and people are missing out in this season, you're missing out on 100 games. You're missing out on the fan experience. You're missing out on getting just watching a full season and getting a true champion, all that stuff.

Missing out on booing the Astros is way down the list. Unless you're ESPN. Who do you, who boos anybody on opening day? Well, we got the long history, Matt. No, and think about it in sports. Napalajouie and the Cleveland spiders in 1903 probably

got booed or something. Well, but have we ever booed anybody on that on opening day of anything? No, I don't think so. Like when the Milwaukee Bucks were here to open up opening day for the Rockets. When there are a lot of anti-Yonata than the Gumpo booze in the crowd? I don't think so.

I mean, maybe just as we're going to boo the other guys when they come trotting out when you're like, and now, just you do it. Milwaukee Bucks, give a warm welcome. What do you say, a warm Toyota Center welcome? And now a nice warm welcome for the Milwaukee Bucks. I'm going to miss doing that the rest of the way. Because my PA days are done this season.

Yeah, that's true. I've got five more. Are they getting PA announcers in the bubble or one? Yeah, they are. Oh. Yeah. But I couldn't do it because of my rocket's responsibilities, which is okay. I got five more play by play games, which I'm excited about.

That's good. Five more? At least. I get the one scrimmage against the Celtics in a week. Wonderful. The four games that are technically rocket road games and then any playoff games. So I should say any first round playoff games. And they kick us to the curve after that.

Yeah, naturally. That's fine. You'd be happy to get that one round. I'm always happy with one round. You don't get it in baseball. No, that's true. That's right. 1241 on Sports Talk 790.

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The final one near you, simply go to bigcitywings.com. Matt has eye trouble. He's having trouble seeing Dallas win anything anytime soon. Sorry about that, friends to the north. Back to the Matt Thomas show. Speaking of eyes, we got some phone calls to get to. I know you don't watch wrestling. I don't.

But yesterday, and I don't buy the WWU network so I didn't see it. Okay. But they've been publicizing this eye for an eye match between Ray Mysterio, who's one of the legendary Mexican wrestlers and Seth Rawlins. And the loser, the match was supposed to, how you won the match was by poking one of the guys' eyes. What? I mean, if anybody, if any of you guys,

that watch wrestling saw it. What the hell was that? They're not going to poke somebody's eye out to end a match. It's just not going to happen that way. So it was just, I mean, obviously a staging of somebody getting their eye poked out. Correct. Did who lost? I think Ray Mysterio lost. Oh. Don't hold me to it. So now he's a Cyclops. I don't know, but the whole thing is... I watched it and I was utterly kind of disappointed of how it turned out. We're going to tell us how it happened. So basically for weeks now, Seth Rawlins put Ray Mysterio's

eye on the corner of the steps. It gets to the ring. So for weeks, he's saying, hey, Seth Rawlins, I'm going to take your eye out now. Basically, you just have one with Seth Rawlins putting Ray Mysterio's eye back to the steps. And people thought it was going to put like some CGI-I-kill-bill-bill stuff. But no, it was kind of a underwhelming. And then Seth Wallens threw up. And Seth Rollins threw up. So did, did Ray really lose an eye or supposedly lose an eye or was it a fake eye or what?

He's probably going to come back on Raw tonight. And he's going to be perfectly fine because that's what happens in wrestling. Don't give away secrets. Don't cave. On. I just thought it was just the dumbest thing ever. One of the things during the pandemic and non-sports have been trying to pick up wrestling again, I'm done with it. Done, done, done, done, super done?

No. Very much done? No, just a regular done. So I can't come over and watch wrestling with you guys anymore? I watch old school wrestling on YouTube. You might be welcome to do that. You don't stay at the house. All right, 713212-5-790 is how you reach the show.

We go to Columbus and say how to Al on 790. Al, what do you have this afternoon? First of all, Ross, good to have you back. Thank you. You're in Columbus, Texas? I'm driving through Columbus, Texas. Probably a better way of putting it. 71, let's go.

I did the clickbait thing. I read the San Miller article, because obviously that's how ESP can make their money now, apparently is ragging on the asteroid. But I will give Miller credit. The article is, A, boring. It's actually much more historical. B, he actually put a lot of what us Astros fans are trying to tell everybody else.

He actually puts the Astros cheating very much in perspective. And I'm paraphrasing here. But he had some line that said something about, you know, we celebrate. There are people in the Hall of Fame who have done worse than what the Astros have done, and they're just getting the hire of it, mostly because, you know, social media. But he kind of walks through different cheating scandals that have happened. And so it's not as bad and click baity as the article headline would have you believe. Well, first of all, Al, thank you for telling us that.

Secondly, how am I supposed to get past that? I do a three-hour show every day. I love sports. I care about the Astros. But I just didn't click it. Al, I couldn't do it. Is that a problem for me? I mean, somebody had to do it.

It was you. You helped us figure it out. But I never would have known that, if not for you, because I didn't look at the column. I actually think it works in the Astros advantage because typically an Astros fan like me, I wouldn't click that article either. But maybe, you know, the 99% of America baseball Astros hating America will read it because, they're like, here's some Astros hate. Let's click on this article.

And he ends up basically saying, like, hey, by the way, guys, what the Astros did is no worse than what's been happening for 120 years. in baseball. Baseball does this to itself. And then he goes on and talks about all sorts of random opening day booing stuff. That's really mostly uninteresting. So maybe it actually works to our advantage. Who knows? All right. Well, thanks for the thought on that. I appreciate the phone call. Ross, I've been watching baseball since I was seven, eight years old, religiously. I've never thought about in my life. Wow, it's opening day today. Who am I going to really yell at?

When I think of opening day, I think of Bunting on the stadium of walls, right? Not bunting as in putting the back down. Right. I think of afternoon baseball games. When I was a kid, the Reds always played the first game of the year. In the last 15 or 20 years, I've changed that. But I've always thought of afternoon baseball.

And frankly, since you and I have been working this show together, we've always been down at Minutemade Park for opening day to kind of be around the festival. That's what I think of opening day. I don't think of, man, I can't wait for the Royals to come in here if they won the American League the previous year and boo the hell on them

because they won the A.L. Pennant and the Astros didn't. Yeah, you think of sweating your face off at Fan Fest and watching Justin Verlanner strike people out. Yeah. That's all you think about. Right.

No, yeah. That's why this article, like I said, it's a puff piece. There's some historical information here if you want that. But they just said to themselves, we need content. how can we weave the Astros into this so that we can get clicks because the entire nation has overblown everything about the Astros

and just gotten together and collectively hates the Astros and are starred for Astros related content. And this is where the thought about headline running makes all the difference. What's the guys name and wrote the column? Sam Miller. Sam Miller. Sam Miller writes story. People like to boo people on opening day.

Here's a historical perspective. Hey, do you miss booing the Astros too? I'll explain more when you click. Exactly. Now, remember, no, we believe in clicking here, too. Ross spends, you know, minutes looking at bucks and women on IG to get on the what's on Match Mind show page. Yeah, we're going to get the afternoon delights going back to me. That's clickbait.

Yes. I'm being honest and true. It's how we roll here. But our clickbait makes you feel better about yourself. But you know what? ESPN's no different than us. You know what happens? We look at the analytics and we look at what we get. We look at the numbers and we say, look at, when we put heavily, as Matt would say, heavily chested Instagram models on our website. With zero belly fat. Don't forget that. Things go really well for us. And you know what? They look too. They see when we put Astros on there and everybody in Dodgers and Yankees fans and all around the country and the stupid Astros tour guy and how many followers he has, they all hate the Astros. So they're going to retweet it and we're going to get a lot of clicks. So that's what you do.

You go to, you basically go to where the water is. And then you drink. That's what they're doing. That's what these, that's what we do here. That's what, any television station, any radio station, any, any website. That's what they do. And that's what they're doing. And right now, everybody's the hot time.

Yeah, everybody's clickbaiting. And like, remember last story I told you about the roof at Minutemate Made Park? And I'm going to made at NRG. Oh, yeah, the NRG, yes. And channel two. You got clickbaited by Channel 2. Channel 2 did their investigate thing, and it was the biggest three minutes of waste of my time I've ever seen on television. You got clickbaited.

I got clickbaited. We've all got clickbaited. So now what I'm doing is I'm trying to be more discerning. Yeah, okay. And I'm letting you click. Okay. And you say, hey, Matt, you should really read the story. I mean, I skimmed it.

You want more about Connie Mack and... Speaking of Mac, Mac and Pearland at 1254. Hi, Mac. I wouldn't have clicked it either. Well, don't do it. And we're giving you a little heads up. Let's see. Connie Mack in 1934.

I don't know. That's pretty far back. But he was owner, manager, general manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. And he was booed because he had financial reverses in the Depression and couldn't afford all of his players. And so he literally sold for cash the contracts of like at least three Hall of Famer. One was Mickey Cochran the catcher. One was Jimmy Fox, first baseman, and notorious slugger. And I forget who else.

But that's why he got there. And, of course, it was Philadelphia. And they make a fine art of that. The rest of us are just gelatin. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. 1256 on Sports Talk 790. I don't think in the history of me being on sports radio, which is 20,000.

plus years. Yes. I don't think I've ever been able to actually get a Connie Mac phone call and then respond to it. Because I don't know how to respond to it. Well, Matt, what do you think about Connie Mac and selling off those players in 1934 Philadelphia Athletics? I get it. Could you imagine not being able to boo him? Those poor people didn't get to boo Connie Mac.

We got to turn ESPN off. I'm staring at Molly Careman. It's just not comfortable. It's just not. 1257. The NFL is a hot mess. Molly Karen is not. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show starts next on 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show. It is 101 on 790. We welcome you to the second hour of three alongside Sports RV, Brendan Riley. I'm Matt Thomas. We are very happy to have you with us. First time we've all been together in quite some time. And we're going to celebrate by having a 50-minute show tomorrow. It's because the Astros and Rolls, weather permitting,

are going to play their second. of two preseason training camp games. Yeah, man, after one full show, I think I need a little time off. Clearly. I need some rest. It's just been a little taxing this workload that I've been out of. Joe George suggests you do the whole show tomorrow for your time. But I said, you know, I'll be going with him.

I could. All right. So here's what's going on headline-wise. Russell Westbrook is going to make his way to the bubble. Should be there by tomorrow. A couple days of quarantine, practicing hopefully a couple days. And maybe we see a little bit of him Friday night. and that scrimmage opener against the Toronto Raptors,

a potential preview of the NBA finals. A long shot preview of the NBA finals. Okay. Maybe he plays a lot in the third exhibition game against the Boston Celtics, a preview of the NBA finals. And as Cantor says, they're all healthy now. And they're a championship contender. Do you buy that?

I think everybody's saying the right things right now. So first and foremost, that's the good news. news on the Rockets. No word yet on Luke Baamute. By the way, Mike Dantonian will join us later on this week to get a little update on what's happening with the Rockets. Astros, we mentioned, on their way to Kansas City. We'll take on the Royals tonight. You'll hear it right here. Weather permitting on Sports Talk 790 beginning at 7 o'clock. The rotation is set for the first week and, is it first weekend series of the year? Verlander, McCuller, McCullors, Granky, and Joan.

Not Jones. Yeah, James. James. I can't remember my own hand. James will be the first four guys that will throw. The presumption is that Framber Valdez will be the fifth guy. If you could see Matthew's face right now. And I have nothing personally against him. I've just watched him for two years. And every time I watch him, the games usually go four and a half hours because he can't make it out of a particular inning.

Sometimes he pitches well. Now, maybe it's once in a blue moon. Go pull his numbers up. Okay. Because maybe I'm being. And I'm not trying to be. personally critical. I'm just saying that this is definitely ain't your last year's rotation.

Put it that way. You know what I'm saying? With Gary Cole. Certainly not for a couple from a couple of years ago. Yeah. And Charlie Morton and all that kind of thing. I mean, we were just so freaking fortunate to be able to have such a deep and successful rotation. There were no trouble spots. The bullpen was solid and locked and loaded.

Well, last year, his ERA was a 5.86. How many innings? 70 innings. How many hits allowed? Oh, geez. 74.

How many walks? 44? How many strikeouts? Oh, geez. Hold on. Let me get you. The whip was a 1.395. Oh, no, we know.

Sorry, hold on. The whip was actually a 1.6.0. Oh, God. For those of you don't know, anything close to a 1.0 on a whip is really good. 1.1.1.2 is solid. 1.67 is not. Is the anti-solid. And how many walks of strikeouts?

68 strikeouts. 44 walks. And you'd like to have two to two and a half to one on that. ERA plus, if you're into that, 79, 100 is average. I'm not into that. Okay. Should I be? It's like ballpark adjusted.

Because you know there are some baseball stats that I despise. I like ERA plus because 100 is average so it's easier to remember. So if they're around 100, they're average. Now, who made up ERA plus? I don't know. Because if it was ESPN that did, I'm not buying it. Okay. It's not like QBR.

That's what I'm saying. They made up QBR. Well, the year before in 37 innings, he had a 2.190 in 2018. So, full sample size. Yeah. Larger sample size, larger course for concern. Well, he's young. He's only 26.

It's only 26. He's fine. That's good. I'm just telling you, Verniner, McCullers, and Granky have about as much pressure on those cats as they've had in a long period of time. Because Josh James just doesn't... What are Josh's numbers? Hold on. I'm trying to pull up the starter and reliever splits for Framber Valdez.

As a starter... So here's the deal. First game against the Dodgers, right? The game on the 28th of July. 8-10 first pitch. L.A. Dodgers come in. rematch of the 2017 World Series and the Astros are sending Frambervaldez the mound.

Josh James's ERA last year was 4.70. ERA plus 99, so about average. So he is an average pitcher. Yes. Who's ready to take his game to the next level? Yeah, and he's very young as well. He's only 27.

Well, some guys grow up late. He's old late bloomer. Okay. I don't want to, no, we're done with this. We just have to say small prayers for the bullpen and the four and five starters. We'll say a little prayer for the back of the rotation. And just hope that Verlander McCullors and Grinkey each go at least seven and two-thirds every single time they pitch. All right. NFL. Have you been paying any attention to this hot mess that

is the NFL? So it's like I said, I've been a little bit out of the loop. But as far as I know, they are closing in on training camp and having to report and there's still no agreement of protocols between the players in the union and the owners. And they've had the most time through all of this. They've had the most time and they've also had the experience of watching other sports leagues do exactly what they're not supposed to do. The blueprint is there. They've had the most time and then

there's no agreement and then now you have yesterday as many as 80 NFL players tweeting out hashtag we want to play and their concerns about their health and safety basically a PR move by the players. Can I fence that on this one? Go ahead. You know me? We don't like

to fence that on this radio show. Ever. Ever. Ever. I do believe the NFL's handled this very, very poorly. I mean, lack of communication, no big manual, no large protocols, nothing. Everything has been, we're going to negotiate. Matter of fact, they're talking right now as we speak between the players association and the ownership group. I mean, here they are supposed to be starting up training camp in a handful of days.

So I understand why the NFL, the player, are so bent. And I don't know if running to Twitter would have been the satisfactory answer. We've been spending a lot of time while you've been gone talking about how everybody and their mother is running the Twitter anytime something is ever wrong. As compared to having a face-to-face conversation or a behind-the-scenes phone call, it's let's run to Twitter and create a hashtag so everybody knows. And what is it?

We want to play. Is that what they're going with? I think so, yeah. And J.J. Watts has been doing a lot of the last couple days. I see Russell is doing it. Deshawn Watson's. Patrick Mahomes. There's been a lot of different players.

But as we say all these things, Ross, if they said we're going to do the best we can, what percentage of the NFL players would go play? What do you mean if they say we're going to do the best we can? Like, there's no agreement? There's, we're going to test you, and we're going to clean, and we're going to do everything that we think was within our power. But in terms of these dreams,

Rastic protocols that you want, we'll do the best we can. It's 90 guys on a football field. I don't know if they have the right to strike the union. I don't think they do because they're still under a collective bargaining agreement. A brand new one, right? Right. So I think you would just see them. That's not going to happen to me.

No, the NFL will not be that callous. Right. But the NFL also hasn't been overly. all right, let's get in this room, shut the door, and let's figure out every single safe protocol for every NFL player, every single staff member. They're basically like the calendar says you're supposed to be there,

and we're going to do what we can. Well, this is... But go back to my original question. Do you, would you expect, if today's meeting doesn't come across with drastic things to satisfy the players, do we really believe there's going to be a large player walk out?

I think I would say, you would see a lot of the younger players and the players on smaller contracts showing up and then a lot of the big money players not. So I would say 25% maybe holding out for now and then once week one starts they would come back. They've got to

get this figured out because with the scenario you just said may come into play and then it's going to create a lot of angst because guess who's going to be the loudest voices on Twitter and Instagram? It's going to be those guys that are in that 10, 15, 20, $25 million. Those are the guys who are generally going to be the biggest stars and the most famous

and have the biggest voices. And they know when they go to their Twitter accounts and they type in, we want to play, that it's going to gain traction. Yes. But how many of them really at the end of the day are going to say, oh, NFL, you don't care about our lives. We're not going to play. I don't know.

But, you mean, you're looking at JJ Watts' tweet, it does seem like the NFL has dropped the ball in here. He says, we still don't have any protocol. We don't know if there will be daily testing or every other day, et cetera. They still don't know if there's going to be preseason games. They don't know how a positive COVID test would be handled in regards to others in close contact. They don't have anything as far as an opt-out clause, which every other league has had so far. So it does seem like to me the NFL has dropped the ball on this.

They had the most time and they had the blueprint. So let's look at something done. So why did they drop the ball? Is it because they're like, no matter what we try to put together, won't be good enough? I think it's because this is what they, this is what they. said to me the way the NFL dropped the ball is they took their time and they said we have the luxury of time right they were saying we can continue to to see how this plays out that's what the NFL wanted to do how is this going to play out is there going to be a big wave is there going to be

is this going to go away or whatever's going to happen and now they've just continued to do that every single day okay let's see how this plays out let's see how this plays out let's see how this plays out at some point you run out out out you got to make a decision and that's what they haven't done and that's why I believe in my heart the NFL season will be delayed a handful of weeks. Now, I also said that they're going to get rid of the preseason. And it sounds like the players still are fighting for no preseason games. It's already been chopped at two from what I've been reading the last 24 hours.

They're saying maybe we play one to just get everybody kind of a dry run, which I'm not opposed to. Dry runs. That's the reason why these Astros and Royals are playing, besides playing somebody else, is they're going through a dry run of jumping on a plane, going to a hotel, getting into an opposing stadium. The NBA scrimmages, while it's good to play against somebody, they're also dry runs.

And you need those things because you do not want an important game like a regular season game to be affected because you didn't have your ducks in a row. So sometimes the dry run is uncomfortable, but you've got to do what you've got to do is what you're saying. So I'm thinking that maybe they play one, although the players would probably be better suited playing zero. And the reason why they're saying that is because

most of those guys that are really bitching about zero games are really not ones playing anyway. it would really hurt your draft picks. It would really hurt your fringe guys on the football squad. And that's what the players are won. I mean, that's what the teams want is they want to have at least one game to be able to make those tough, difficult decisions on, say, the last five or six guys in a roster.

113 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. We take you to 3 o'clock. Ross is back with us today. The NFL, the NFLPA are meeting as we speak. And if they don't come across today with some serious we feel better about our scenarios. I really do believe we will get a postponement of the NFL season

probably for at least a month. And I just want to know why the NFL wanted to wait so long. They've had all the time in the world. They've had the MLS, and they've certainly had the NBA and Major League Baseball to see how to conduct their business. 713-212-5-790. The Matt Thomas show continues in a moment here on Sports Talk 790. This is Craig Ackerman.

And the Rockets get the job done. Oh, here's another new catchphrase I have for. you. Good gracious. Good gracious. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 119 on Sports Talk 790. This is the last week of our, what the hell are going to talk about?

Yeah, I missed the last three and a half weeks of it. I made a mistake. I should have taken more vacation time. Things didn't time out that poorly for me, honestly. Well, yeah. You really got lucky. I left you out in the lurch with nothing to talk about. Sorry.

It's all right. Brendan, a nice job stepping in. Joe George did too. Wonderful. We all did. We're a big family here. I felt bad, but I was sick. It is what it is.

Sorry. And on vacation. Well, staycation. Yeah, could you imagine? Hey, everybody. I just got over COVID and now I'm on this plane. Yeah. I'm sure that wouldn't have gone over very well.

And it canceled my flight just to be safe. Did you? Yes. But we're back now, Matt. And we're talking about. Well, we're back to talking about a lot. We were talking about when I was getting off, and that was the NFL. Owner and player agreements.

And now we're just on the NFL phase who's been dragging their feet this whole time. Okay, let's do it. Seriously, this might be the last time when we're talking about this, because it just depresses people. But what were they doing? I think they tried to play the wait and see game way too long. That's what I think. But, man, the NBA got their manual out immediately.

and started typing stuff. Yes. Major League Baseball wasn't far behind. I think they just kept on holding out hope that everything was going to be completely normal and they weren't going to have to do anything. Oh, you mean just that we would have a vaccination by now? Yeah.

That was a bad guess. It's like they had a group project and they hoped everybody else was going to do the work for them and then it ended up they had to scramble and do everything the night before it was due. That's my entire high school life. Well, you are the NFL. You know what?

That puts into perspective. So anybody that wants to crush the NFL, you're not allowed to because you are the NFL. Oh, you have that book report due, huh? And how many pages is it? Oh, it's 130 page book. I can read 40, 45 pages a day, write the report. I'm done in four days. Exactly.

Well, the report is due tomorrow and you have it. It's like 9.30 p.m. Yeah. So you know what, NFL? I apologize. They procrastinated. That's what happened. They kept putting it off and putting it off,

hoping against hope that everything was going to be normal. Coronavirus is going to be gone. They can have 100% capacity. They could do four weeks of preseason. They wanted everything to be normal. Unfortunately, the calendar did not do that for them. But why would a $15 billion industry slow play this? Do you realize how cash flushed they are?

Because they looked at the best case scenario, I think. Which would have been what? The flattening of the curve. The frightening of the curve, the no needing of masks and shutting down and able to have fans. I think they maybe were a little too optimistic on this. That has to be the case. Because they're not dumb people there. Say what you all about Roger Goodell.

He's not dumb. He may be toned. He's a lackey for the owners, but I think he's an intelligent fellow. Yeah. He got to where he is because he made enough right moves. One of the best kiss asses in all of America. And again, a man who got to miss out on embracing all those first round draft picks because of the virtual draft.

But at least he got to party at home with virtual fans and his red Vino. Okay. You know I've been on the record on this. We're not playing football until October. Are you with me or against me on that? I want to be against you, but I don't think I can be. Because here's the thing.

These rookies are supposed to be reporting. They're not going in putting pads on and running routes. They're taking COVID test. That's it. That's all they're doing. Walking up, getting swole. Bob, then going on their way? Yeah.

That's not planning. That is, our sport is bigger than a virus. Do you understand there is nothing in this world that wins over the virus that beats the virus? I do understand that. Except father time, right? Healing, resting. But the virus is winning every time. Matter of fact, you know what we did on Friday?

We didn't talk virus at all. That's good. I could not mention virus, Corona. I couldn't say COVID. There were like five or six magical words I couldn't say. What about SARS-CoV-2? That's the warning sign it went off if I said something.

Okay, good. I like that. What was the closest thing I said that almost got me in trouble? Well, that was the thing. We never defined rules. We're just like Matt can't talk about COVID. Yeah. And by like that.

From here on out, COVID-free Friday, the Matt Thomas show. Would you like to join that? I'm about COVID-free Monday through Friday. I know, unfortunately, we're not going to be able to do that. Yeah, it's deeply interwoven not only in the sports, but every, I mean, political, every aspect of life. All right. So let's talk about some good stuff then.

We have the Astros. And, you know, they were supposed to be rained out in Kansas City. And there still might be rain up there. Are we all good? Do we have Doppler Casey? Well, we have people following their flight on Flight Aware. What? Oh, yeah.

Is that people you? No, but some listener tweeted a picture of it. Oh, okay. Yeah. I know you're a big flight aware guy. I have a huge flight aware guy. I know. You're an airline nerd and you're like a sports radio nerd and a game show nerd.

Game show nerd. And play by play announcer. Play by play. Like you could probably tell me who's the play by play announcer for the Grizzlies. Radio or television? Radio. Eric Hassel time. What about television?

Pete Pranick. See, look at this. But I see those guys. Okay. I know. Now, if you were to say baseball, that'd be a little bit different. Okay. Yeah, I'm a nerd about a lot of stuff.

I'm okay with that. No, I don't even mean that in a bad way. It came across it. Well, you know what I'm at? I didn't mean it that way. It's good to be interested in things. Like, what's the dorkiest thing that you like to watch? Well, probably video games.

We had a fantasy five on the video games. I know. Well, I got a text from Joe George saying, hey, call in and be the seventh judge, but I didn't get that at the house to sleep. So you're saying video games was your biggest. By way, Joe George believes you're going to be a video game player until you're at least 80.

Yeah, why not? Because we're talking about it. It's not the biggest demographic. It's a rising one, but it's not the biggest one. That's the thing. Video games, I mean, in your day it was Pong or, you know, Metroid. Or what is it? What is it with the meteors? Asteroid. Metroid.

There's not Atari machines now. So, I mean, it was just different time. If you were listening to show on Friday, I was not an Atari guy. I'm sure you were a pinball wizard, Matthew. I did like me some pinball. Exactly. For sure. But it's just a different time, I think, because it's more ingrained in the culture of people who are born, say, after 1980.

Ross, you didn't listen to Friday show, did you? No, because it sure sounds like it. No, I didn't actually. But I did, Joe did send me the list of the picks, and you got your ass, whoops, sorry, Brennan. It's okay. It's okay. Oh, now, come on now. He's pulling a Matt Thomas.

It's fine. So I thought that Joe's list was stronger, but I didn't get to vote in time. But yeah, I mean, I think it is going to be ingrained. There's no reason for me to stop. No, I'm opinion. Whatever floats your boat. Yeah. I have a good time doing it.

Yeah, I'm not judging. I'm just saying what's the corkiest thing that you enjoy? Yeah, it's probably video games. Yeah. Mine is random things about my industry and life. Mm-hmm. Yeah, for me, it's probably video games, jazz music, military history. Military history.

Yeah. World War II. I'm reading a World War II book right now. What? Yeah. That's actually halfway cultured. Well, I'm a cultured man, Matthew. Yes.

I put on a little Miles Dave. and read my military history. By the way, coming up in about 20 minutes, you know, we're talking about game shows. Do you know how they always say on Family Feud, we ask 100 people? Yes. She's one of the 100 people.

That you're asking about what? They send her questions. She fills it out. Oh, she gets, she's on the Family Feud survey list? Yes, and she sent me the question. That's awesome. And basically, like I told you before, family few questions are nothing about sex now.

Yes, I know. 100% sex. Okay, this goes to what we were speaking about earlier. You know, if you slap Astros on stuff, you get a bunch of clicks. Right. When they make all these sexual ones, the videos go viral, and then you have family feud on the mine, and you try to watch it. So that's what they do. It's sensationalism and the sexualizing of family feud, Matt.

And we have those sexual questions in 20 minutes. Is nothing sacred? Well, I mean, Richard Dawson would say, you know, name something your wife does you wish you'd do less of. Right. Complain. Is it up there being, spent less money, think. No, it's tell me something. your wife needs to do more of in the bed. Of course. You know.

It's like they had one. It was name something you put in your mouth, but you don't swallow. Toothpaste. Gum. Chewing tobacco. Stuff like that. Mouthwash. Yeah.

And other things. That's what Family Feud does now. So if you don't believe in sexual Family Feud questions, you will not want to listen to the 150 segment of the Matt Thomas show. If you do, please stick around. Yeah. If you do, if you want to call them beforehand, 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 and on Twitter at SportsMT.

So during the break, why don't you go find out we want to play tweets, see which ones are the most you believe sincere? Or are they doing these we want to play just to get public opinion on their side? I'm looking for legit NFL players that are really, really, really, really concerned, or are they doing it just because they want public opinion on their side? 713-212-5-7-90 with a message here for bronze roofing. Over 30 years in Houston here today, here tomorrow, providing quality work at a fair price. You know, roofs can last up to 15 years if they are properly maintained. Make sure you're getting a thorough inspection every few years to ensure that that roof of yours is doing its job.

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Hi-Hart. Heart and open for 3. And he hits it. This is James Hard. Wowing the crowd here at Toyota Center. Sports Talk 790. is your home for Rockets Basketball. You know, one of the things you miss while you were gone was the endless conversation about whether or not Dak Prescott was worth his money.

Friday, I just had to go off and say, I'm just, he's making $31.4 million. I don't feel necessarily terrible for him that he didn't get a long-term deal. Whether or not he deserved a long-term deal, or get it, deserved it, needed it, what the dollar amount was. I think it has been the most overblown,

legit sport story of this offseason. Well, you know, Cowboys are a big name brain. They are, but it's just like three or four days after the deadline it passed. The ESPN shows were putting up. I mean, I'd rather watch MLS soccer, frankly. You're lying on that. That's okay. All right.

So do we find any legit tweets from NFL players giving us what we believe to be authentic concern? Well, define legit. I can just read you what they say. Yeah. Drew Brees, we need football. We need sports. We need hope.

The NFL's unwillingness to follow the recommendations of their own medical experts will prevent that. If the NFL doesn't do their part to keep players healthy, there is no football in 2020. It's that simple. Get it done at NFL. So does Goodell read those tweets and go, man, I'm getting put on blast? I think he thinks, oh, look at these A-holes getting together with their in. You think Bob Craft of the Patriots is like, man, I hope. One of my patrons doesn't say something like this.

I think you have to know when 80 players are tweeting out in a two-hour span on a Sunday morning that this is obviously a planned. I don't want to call it an attack, but a planned public relations move by the players. There was communication about that. It wasn't a coincidence. Let's put it out. And that's my point on having kind of a fence setting on this one. I think it does more damage than, now it gets a lot of public awareness out. That I understand.

But does that make the other side? No, I know what you're saying, because when it looks obviously like a PR move that makes you like it, you take it less on its face. Yeah. It seems less genuine. It's less genuine as the thing is. And again, that made me think as soon as I said that, what do you do if the NFL says, we think we've got a good plan and either you take it or leave it? Most of them are going to take it. Oh, yes, yes.

I mean, you had Russell Wilson. I don't want the NFL to do that. I'm just saying this Russell Wilson sounds legit to me as you would define it. I am concerned. My wife is pregnant. Training camp is about to start. There's no clear plan on player health and family safety. We want to play football, but we also want to protect our loved ones.

Hashtag we want to play. It's almost like it would be better served if they didn't put the hashtag in there. Because if you put that one hashtag in and then you go search for that hashtag, then it's one NFL player after the others compared to, man, this guy was authentic. He was really just running the Twitter to say how concerned he is. I mean, Malcolm Jenkins, Zach Ertz, JJ Watt, as we mentioned, Derek. Carr, Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald. It's Deshawn Watson, Darius Slay, Stefan Diggs.

So somebody in the PA, a player association said, hey, I'm not telling you have to do this. Yes. But it wouldn't be the worst thing if you did. What I had read is that the union did not start this, but they said, go ahead and do it. Well, they didn't, they didn't preclude it. Because some of the information, some of the information that they put out was vetted. In these tweets, it was reviewed and they said, hey, make sure all this is accurate. so that when we come out and say and go on the offense on the NFL,

that everything that we're saying is true and accurate. So everything that's in these tweets, they're saying there's no protocols for positive tests. They don't know how when they're going to get tested. They don't know how many preseason games are going to have. All that has to be accurate because apparently it was vetted by the player's union. Okay. Well, you know what?

I don't really care how the end game comes into play. If they come out of this meeting this afternoon with everything locked and loaded and ready to go, maybe there is a puncher's chance we start the season on time. but just the feeling that you've got rookies supposedly showing up, you've got full-fledged workouts starting this week involving the Texans and the Chiefs, it just doesn't have the feel that they're going to get all this together and done in a month's time. And they really have six weeks. Yeah, the timeline seems a little compressed.

But it's only because the NFL's been dragging their feet. What else was I going to tell you about? Yeah, I just, we really need it. I have a feeling that we're not going to have fans. The Raiders are already basically saying they don't want to have fans in their stadium. And that's a brand new Las Vegas venue. Philadelphia has already said, we're not going to have fans at Phillies games or at Eagles games.

So battery sales are going down in Philly. Well, yeah. And really fat women getting in fights will be down as well. Yes. Let's see what else. No cardio on Sundays. Do you think anybody, you think women in Philadelphia do cardio on Sundays? That's when they get in the fights.

Oh, so you're saying they're not going to run to the gym. The only way they were going to get cardio in is they're going to beat each other up. Yes. What's the last time you saw a fight in a stadium stadium? Personally? Yeah. Oh, man. It happens once in a while in the NBA.

I will tell you this. I've been to several boxing matches. Every single boxing match I've been to, there's been a fight. I went to, it was the middleweight content. Jaime Mungia. The junior middleweight contender, as you know, Matt, at 154 pounds. If he's actually really weighs that. He fought in Houston maybe a year or two ago in Toyota Center.

And walking out, there was a fight. I was calling a basketball game. And I don't remember where it was. Oh, this was it. I'm sorry. I found the fight. January of 2019. So that was the last time I saw a fight.

This is all the same you probably had a fight, right? Yeah, I think so. Okay, so I'm calling an NBA game, and some woman is belligerent at this game. I want to say it was Oakland, but I cannot guarantee that. So I went on Twitter and I said, oh, my God, this woman has lost her damn mind. She is either in a fight or arguing with security people. Well, apparently she likes to go search herself out on Twitter, and she found me talking about her. and she laid the wood to me and then she blocked me.

Okay. That's the last time I ever saw a fight, but it wasn't with fans, a fan versus fan. It was fan versus security of set arena. That's always a bad idea. Digging into it with security. That's never going to turn out well for you.

You never, you never, never win. It's just not going to happen. I'm trying to think the last time I saw a fight in a, I saw a fight. caught up on a YouTube rabbit hole of people fighting in football games all the time. Who did Julio Cesar Chavez's Jr. fought somebody in Houston as well.

There were multiple fights in the stands that I saw there. Anytime you go to a fight, I guess it's just because everybody's drunk and they're all juiced up because they're watching fights. There's fights in the sense. And the ring girls are hot. I mean, it's a recipe for disaster. It's a testosterone-fueled environment, yes.

Okay, so do this. When's the last time he went to a non-boxing event? He didn't even name that one. Where there was a fight? Yeah. We're very pleasant here in Houston. I mean, I got in a fight at the Elamable in 2008. I've talked about that.

Yeah. Oh, that was just more of a one-punch thing, though. You know why there are lesser fights, I think, than there were maybe 20 or 25 years ago? A couple of reasons. One, security is amplified. Two, the cost of these tickets are astronomical. I would hate... What does that mean?

The low-born pores can't get in and fight? No, I'm saying that if I'm going to... to fight, I'll go fight when I'm out in a tailgate where it doesn't cost me. Why would I want to go spend $150 on an NFL ticket or a really good basketball ticket and then go fighting and get kicked out and lose the opportunity to go back in that seat again? I don't know. We still see fan fights on YouTube every week and slap them up on the What's on Matt's my show page.

I'm going to ask this question. I think the answer is going to be no. I would like to know from our audience if you've ever been. in a legit fight at a sporting event. 713. Now, do we count boxing or no? Well, okay, if you want to not, I don't know. 713, 2.12, 570.

I'd like to keep it out of boxing in MMA. Just because it happens every time. Well, it's because it's one of the requirements of going to those events. Exactly. If fights in the stands are sometimes better than ones in the ring. I could imagine people in a college football game getting in a fight. Oh, yeah. So if you've ever been in a fight, I'd like to know who you are,

what the situation was, and what the endgame was. Now, if you beat his ass and you got to sit in your seat because that guy was being a jerk, then that's fine. Now, if you also lost the fight, you don't have to tell us that. You can fully make up the story. Oh, yeah. Tell us that you kicked his ass. Yeah, yeah. I would not go on our major market radio show and tell me that you got your ass kick.

Or if you're a woman and got in a fight. Ooh, yeah. And there's video that we'd like to see that. as well. Oh, geez. On the What Time, Matt's My Show page. If you've ever been in a fight before. You always have to kick it up one extra notch.

Well, it's because I'm trying to tell a bit, take the show to different levels. 713-212-5-7-90. If you've ever been in a fight at a sporting event, I'd love to know the scenario behind it. Because I want to know if you won, if you got a punch in, what the fight was about, was alcohol involved, and ultimately, did you have to leave the stadium after paying big-time dollars? 7-13-212-5-790 plus also in the next segment of the show. I'm going to tell you about inappropriate family feud questions that are being asked of Americans, including one of our friends here in Houston. Right now, a message for the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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Welcome home to Shell FCU. Hey, it's Carmelo Anthony. The Matt Thomas Show. Continues. On your home of the Rockets. Sports Talk, 790. Yes. Well, I'm very happy report that we've hit not a single one.

of our listeners ever gotten a fight in a sporting event. Our listeners are lovers, not fighters. We have the nicest listeners. I mean, they're not normally dorks. They don't say mean things on Twitter. They don't say mean things on Twitter. Except those that don't follow me,

then they just go carte blanche. And my listeners, I think, probably have sex more often than listeners of other shows. Really? Yeah. I have no evidence of that. They're more onerous? Well, they just know what the touch of a woman feels like.

Well, okay. All right. I was handed through email the survey of questions that are being asked by a hundred people. Survey says? Okay. And I'm telling you, family feuds become nothing but basically soft form. Yes. Well, they don't show it.

They talk about it. Yes. Yeah, it's oral soft porn. Oh, geez. All right, turn it down. Just a little bit. I like to have it on, but it doesn't run too loud. All right, here we go.

these are questions that people are being asked to fill out okay this is a question for a married woman only oh but I'll also let you answer it I'll get in the mind of a married woman the mind tusha tusha sports rvy name a kind of dog your man is built like St. Bernard that's fairly harmless right

okay for married men only. Your wife is never so happy when she is blanking. Shopping. Yeah. Again, seems fairly innocent, right? Cooking.

Cleaning? Oh, no. Sex is sports RV. You can send those sexes. Oh, I'm sorry. Leading America. Next. Name someone

who you wish liked you more. My kids. Kids. Same thing. Okay. Here we go. Name a rock star who proves age is just a number. Keith Richards.

Yeah. Paul McCartney. And number of all the one. You know what? Ringo Star turned 80 last week. Really? Congratulations to him. You're going to be okay when he dies?

No. You're not? I'm taking two days off. It's Ringo. He was one of the Fab Four. Sorry. He can hardly even play the drums. Sorry.

Terrible singer. Next. This is for women. only. Name something you should not do if you're invited to your ex-boyfriend's wedding. Show up? Interrupt it. Yeah, I mean,

speak now when they ask if you should forever hold your piece. They don't? They don't. They should. I have been to a wedding. I mean, who doesn't like a little drama that takes five seconds? Do you know the only people to do that is on soap operas? Yeah. So the score and ex-lober comes in. Right. Name something a couple does after the last child leaves home. buys a boat. I was going to say downsize.

Oh, that's a good one. That's probably better than buying a boat. Next. Name a part of your body. You're sorry to say it looks as good as it's ever going to. Your stomach? Marin, whatever. Name something Steve Harvey does on TV that isn't as easy as it looks.

A host family feud? Yeah, what else is there? Host a canceled Steve Harvey show. Okay, here come the double-on-tondondering questions. Oh, boy. Question for women only. You were excited about your date until you received a notification from Alexa that he's what? Not as tall as he says he is? Short, fat, gay.

Right? Those are all right. Is Alexa going to notify you of these things? This is a made-up question. That's why I'm confused. Is Alexa just going to say? say, hey, by the way, your date has a criminal record and he's six inches shorter than he says he is. Next, than the sexual line of thinking. In height. In height.

Name one of the little things your husband does is show you his love. Neck kisses. Back massages. Pay the credit card bill. Pay the credit card bill. You don't have to work for a living. Cooks for you. Okay.

Next. Name something a man's wife might make him do to make him look more like Steve Hart. Harvey. What? What? Is Steve Harvey writing these questions? Okay, my answer would be shave your head or grow my mustache. I was going to say.

Put on a purple suit. Here, okay, another sexual question. Oh, boy. Question for married men only. Name something your wife yells at you for doing too loudly. Snoring? Yes, that's a good one. You notice how our questions are all PG or under?

Yeah, I mean, what would this? me you know moaning that's not gonna be I don't like men are in general big moaners I don't know though you have experience

personal experience here we go I'm not much of a few more name something grandma has it's blue a dress underwear

veins oh jeez name someone you'd like to put a muzzle on your wife, your husband at sports RV Don't you hate it when people only call when they want what? Money?

Sex No, I don't hate that. Oh, that's true. Yeah, I would say money or a place to stay. Next. Name something about Steve Harvey. Oh, how many Steve Harvey-related questions are on this damn thing? Name something about Steve Harvey that you're sure his wife must brag about.

Oh, gee many Christmas. His money? His mustache. His devotion. His beard. That's it. His tackle.

Next. When you're camping, name something you hope isn't waiting for you in the sleeping bag. Snake. Scorpion. Your husband? But, oh, shh. I'm going sticks. I'm going to snake is one.

Scorpion. two. Next. The naked sheriff was so tough. How tough was he? He pinned his badge on his blank.

That's a match game question. Nipple? I mean, where he pin a... Couple more. No, what's the answer they're looking for?

He's pinned... Why would you pin your badge on his penis? That seems uncomfortable. On his penis. Why would you do that? They wanted that word. They just do.

Now, I know some guys get piercings. Named something a shoe salesman might do if a customer had really stinky feet. Spray him down with Lysaw? All right. And last question. Let's see here.

Right now where is your husband? In bed? At work? Somebody are. Those are the family few questions that are being asked by people all across America that you will see in an upcoming Family Feud edition.

Great news about a rocket guard headed to Orlando. We'll tell you about that in a moment. 157 on Sports Talk 790. KBME Houston and I Heart Radio station. Your home for your home teams. This is Sports Talk 790 from the classic Chevy Sugarland Studios. Find New Rocks is the Matt Thomas show. All right, if you're just joining us, A, where have you been?

B, we're really happy to have you with us here on the Matt Thomas show at 201. The return of, believe it or not, is in 50-minute sports rb, where today we start giving away Twin Peaks gift cards. Really? Yes. Wonderful. Eat, drinks, scenic views. The topic today, of course, is Connie Mac.

Connie Mac, believe it or not. There is another radio show in this country. has ever done a Connie Mac, believe it or not. It's coming up in 50 minutes. Today's the day, Matthew. So would you give people advice to go to Wikipedia or try some other things? I mean, I'm going on various websites, but yes, Wikipedia is always a believe it or not staple. For example, his real name is Cornelius McGillicuddy.

That's going to be the first question. There's a tip. Somebody's actually listening. Is it a believe? Is it? That's a believe it. Yeah. It's a believer.

Okay. Cornelius McGillicate. Where's he from? Well, his parents are from Ireland. Oh, okay. All right. No more after that. We're going to make him work the rest of the way.

Okay. So believe it or not, all things, Connie Mack coming up at 2.50. All right. So the news, Russell Westbrook is going to make his way to Orlando. Yes. She'll join the team tomorrow. A couple days after that. We'll be able to work out with his team once he passes quarantine,

gets rid of all the symptoms of COVID, and maybe a puncher's chance we see him Friday as a Rockets take on Toronto in the scrimmage opener. Getting his energy back, feeling good, getting back to the old Russell West Brooke, that's what the Rockets need. They're going to make a championship run. Yep. I hope it's all what you're saying is accurate.

Me too. But, you know, they are missing Tabocephalosius since he opted out. Big loss. But they'll get Luke Bamutei and eventually. Luke Richard. Yeah. What do you think the excitement level is going to be Houston and nationally compared to previous years on the Rockets?

Because I think there's going to be a huge opening game buzz, but there's also a lot of people that believe once you get that opening game wowness that it won't be that big of a deal. What do you mean? No more NBA ratings. Yeah, I think so. I think there will be a little bit.

But also there's not a lot of time for the wow factor to wear off. You're only playing eight regular season games for the playoffs start. I think there will be a high level of interest. Eight games in 15 days. They're not messing around. No, they're not.

Long prep time. Lots of scrimmages, lots of workouts, lots of quarantine. Lots of quarantine and COVID testing. Yep. And then they play the games. And the schedule is going to really help the rockets one way or the other. I mean, if they can go six and two, they're going to be out of that six spot. I would like for them.

Not that they really particularly matter. There's no home court advantage now. Well, let me ask you this. Do you want to avoid in round two of the clippers or the Lakers? I would rather see the, honestly, I'd rather. rather play the Lakers and the Clippers. I think the Rockets match up better with the Lakers. I think they can do the size of the Lakers.

Now, you don't want to just take from one game the first small ball game, but I think that is something that the Rockets would be looking for in a seven-game series is the fact that they're just too quick offensively for the Lakers. So Dwight Howard is going to get played off the court. Javille McGee is going to get played off the court. Obviously, they can go with Anthony Davis at the five, but I think that's going to stretch them out a little bit thin. they're also missing what, Avery Bradley and somebody else, who else?

Rajan Rondo. Rajan Rondo. So, I mean, they're missing a couple of pieces. I would much rather go up against the Lakers than a Clippers, to be honest. Clippers scare, quite frankly, scare me. The Clippers, I think, scare me from the day they open up the season. And then they added one of the Morris brothers, Marquief. I mean, to put Paul George and Coilenter on that basketball team?

Yeah, absolutely. You can play small with those guys because they can basically guard one through four, one through five. They're two of the best perimeter defenders in the entire league. Patrick Beverly's a pest. Clippers are scary, man. Clippers scare me a lot. But man, we need them to implode. They're more mentally fragile.

Like Montres-Harrell left the bubble. See you okay? Something going on with a family emergency. Okay. But those family emergencies are under the notion of to be determined when he returns. Did Lou Williams pick which one of his two girlfriends he's bringing into the bubble? Now you know they can't bring friends in until after the first round.

Okay. Or until the, it's after the first run, I think, right? Yeah. Do you get, what is it, three slots or whatever it is? I can't remember. I don't think I would have coined it that way. But to each his own. You know what I mean?

You can't bring your whole thing. If you have, you know, if Sean Kent 15 kids, you can't bring all 15 into the bubbles, what I'm saying. Three members of the family. Yeah, that's three slots. Yeah. I don't know what the issue is here. Good.

So anyways, Lou Williams, he still had multiple girlfriends. Past tense. Okay. Not anymore? There's no way he's a one woman man. Well, that's, I don't know. We never saw the two women together when he was a rocket. These NBA players are going to have to get theirs.

It's been a while. That's what I'm saying. That's what he's probably inviting all over back. I wonder if this whole thing about guys that are leaving the bus. bubble getting caught and getting in trouble is because they're going to pick up postmates or are they going to pick up a friend? Well, somebody told me there was already stories of strippers getting invited to the bubble. Says who?

They're posting on Instagram or something like that. Who told me that? I think it was my brother or something. He saw a story. There was an IG model. There was, there we go. But IG models lie, don't they? Yeah, I mean, I don't know that we tell the truth.

Too. I think it was true. I don't know if I'm not going to call her a liar yet, Matt. I'm going to call her a liar. You think it's out of the realm of possibility that an IG model got invited to the bubble? She was followed by some NBA players. I think that's notable. But the point being is that those girls can't make it to the bubble until the first round of the playoffs is over with, right?

Yeah. So just because a player invites you before even the first scrimmages, I mean the invite's still going to be there in three weeks, four weeks. You know how these guys are. Maybe she's invited in the future. She's on the list. Maybe she's opening up possibilities for whatever player wants to invite her. Oh, wow. Oh.

She's got great personality. Should that girl be on the What's on Match Mind show page at Sports 790.com? She probably already has been. Yeah, that's probably true. Yes. Apparently, she got invited to the boat. Her name is Anna Maya. Does she announce who invited her?

No, she didn't. It's worth noting Mattress Harold follows her. But he's not there right now. Let's see. She is followed by Mo Bamba as well. Hmm. And Obama was definitely pointing fingers. He threw it at Donovan Mitchell.

Okay. Who meanwhile, Rudy Goberra says, I've got nothing to say about this whatsoever. My relationship with him is already fragile as it is. Maybe she, whatever. Could you imagine ESPN standing by at the entrances of these hotels when these players are a lot of people in? Forget about ESPN.

That'd be like the E-network doing her. Bravo and have live coverage of NBA groupies arrive in Orlando. Yeah. Oh, there's IG model number one. There's IG model number two coming in. She's already in her Victoria's secret lingerie. Who are you here to see, ma'am? And then she covers up her face.

Because she doesn't want anybody to know. No. Because part of the trip down there is making sure that that player gets protected just in case he's married. I think some of these girls don't mind the fame of getting known to being associated or linked with NBA players. But isn't that the rule if you're going to meet with a married man, you make sure that you don't say anything? Well, I didn't know we were talking about married men. there's a lot of single NBA players. Not enough.

Yeah, there's married ones as well. That's true. That's true. Is there a sidepiece interest and a wife entrance? There's like a back door? Sidepiece entrance. Hmm. It's like, look, you're going to have to go to the East entrance.

But doesn't the IG model want to have her picture at least taken as she enters the Disney compound? Well, not if the guy's married. This is not going to be allowed. Yeah, but if you don't, if she doesn't answer the question. Has she signed an NDA yet? Is she been owner? NDA is? Probably. The NBA players are letting her know.

Yeah, I got you. All right. Anything else going on? Oh, the NFL is still meeting right now, right? To discuss safety. Yes, I guess. They're meeting today. Right now. Health, finances, etc. Mostly finances, probably. Yeah. If the NFL said to these players,

we're not going to give you guys any tests, we're going to give you a $50,000 bonus to make sure to take care of yourself. Okay, we're in. That's actually not true. Those players would be more than $50,000. Well, depending, yeah. Your JJ Watt contract. You're going to want a little more.

Well, today we're going to, will we see a new Twitter catchphrase? That's the big question. Go on. Well, I mean, it was we want to play. Could today either be, we ain't going to play? Well, it was for the baseball players, it was win and where, right? Right, right. And they lost their battle, by the way.

Yeah, they did. Yeah, these hashtag battles don't win. They don't win these things. Well, the Major League Baseball because of the March Agreement, to handle the power. I guess because of the other CBA, the NFL kind of has all the power as well. So let's ask this. What will be the next NFL power broker

NFL player hashtag? We ain't going to play. You expecting us to play? Keep us safe. Health first. Hashtag health first. Hashtag unsave working conditions. Greedy-ass owners. Goodell sucks.

I think they'll stick with what we want to play. I think they get their message across. We want to play. Well, yeah, because if you start changing and then it becomes just a joke of what you're doing in terms of hashtags. Right. Because, you know, a good hashtag is one you've got to stay with for a long period of time. Like a hashtag, anything goes Friday. Correct. Correct.

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They wind up getting massive banquet services. Yeah. You got a nice spread. Why would you want to go spend your own money when you got all the chicken fried steak you can possibly handle on a tray? I don't know if that's what they're going for. High in carbs and fat.

Yeah, they're going to be. burning off on Sunday. That's true. Unless our social distancing and then therefore they're not going to be nearly as able to burn those calories. 212 on Sports Talk 790. 713213-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. With a message here for my friends at

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Three-quarter, nothing but... On Sports Talk, seven-night. Nylon! On with your Rockies. Well, this is the seventh-ending stretch of Matt Thomas show. Let's stretch out here, Matt. By the way, it's really weird being at many-made part with me and five other people. As far as at night,

are big and bright. Deep in our... So Brendan, my back's kind of hurting, this is good. Being purely objective like you are, what's the score of the game right now? Are we winning or losing? The a show's up 3-0.

Oh, which means our show's up 3-0. Okay, I like that. I hate to be down in the game. Now, don't give up a run. I like this, actually. That was a good stretch for me. I feel good now. Ready for the last few segments.

Including, believe it or not. Yeah. All things, Homer Mac? This is the most I've worked at a month. I'm trying not to tire out on you. Yeah, I hate to hate to you have to call it. another vacation. Well, we've got a long show tomorrow, so I'll be okay.

No, we don't. I know. It's got a 50-minute show tomorrow. It's a snack-sized edition of the Matt Thomas show tomorrow between 12 and 12-50. I think a 50-minute nightcap tonight as well. Yeah, because we go to the network broadcast at 650. Wonderful. Now, the question should be, if we're going to rain delay, should you stick around and do

a bonus nightcap? Clay Travis can handle it. People would love some bonus nightcap. I sure Clay Travis has the latest on coronavirus cases or something. So he does talk quite a bit about that. Yes. He says he doesn't want politics in his sports. So he hates ESPN.

And then he proceeds to talk politics his entire sports show. We were talking about that on Friday show. Yeah. There's anything goes Friday. Oh, really? Yeah. We were talking about how Joe George loves the Dan Patrick show. And I said, I think you're the only one.

And McLeaven probably loves it. Well, yeah, because he's been employed there forever and sucks out, you know. Suckles the teeth of Dan Patrick. Yeah. You stopped me halfway, thankfully. So we were talking about how national shows just don't resonate. Not with me. Not in big markets, for sure.

Not anymore. Jim Rome was huge for a long time. Jim was big for in Houston for probably 10 years. Yes. And now he is a complete... His act kind of war-tired. Yeah, because you have to basically always change who you are. Subtally.

If you're something you're not on the air, that's phony and people... And that's probably a part of the problem with Jim is that his show was basically written out for him. that's true I mean segment by segment by segment and then he would go

on his ESPN show Roma's burning and do the exact same show yeah but we were talking about how Clay is a lot of people

on our station like Clay because he leans a certain way when frankly politics you're not supposed to lean in sports but sometimes people

like appreciate that you do that's fine it's just too much of a political sports show for me yeah and I find it hypocritical

like I said that he complains that ESPN and talks politics, and then he proceeds to talk politics for three straight hours on his show. But it's working. No, no, hey, he's a smart guy. He's intelligent. He makes some good points. Self-made.

All of that stuff. Yeah. I got nothing against him. I just don't like his show. Yeah. Weekdays, 5 to 6 a.m. And then 7 to 9. You're on sports.

I mean, listen and love it. Patronize our sponsors. Anything else you want to say? It's great. No. Okay. I'm probably on suspension now. By the way, Mike Dantonian clarifying a little bit about Russell Westbrook's potential return.

Friday could be a little iffy between him getting there, then the sitting in the quarantine, and then maybe there's not being physically ready to play in the scrimmage. By the way, Friday scrimmage is a little weird. Ten minutes each. And then the last two, which will be Sunday against Memphis and then Tuesday against Boston, will each be 12 minutes left. Was the Olympic Games 10 minute quarters? They're going feeble rules on us?

I don't remember. I forget. I forget. I think it was 10 minute quits. I think the NBA is the only league that does 12 at a time. That's fine. Okay. Well, that's good for a little scrimmage. 10 minutes in.

I was a part of a broadcaster's meeting last week. Very intriguing how they're going to do some things that are really going to try to make the experience of you watching an NBA game as enjoyable as possible. Are you going to be able to hear the pipe? Is there going to be piped in fan noise? Yes. There is. They'll be piped in fans. Okay.

There will be microphones put in and around the court that have never been as close to the action as they're going to be with this new NBA. Are they going to be piped in arena stuff like we were saying? Yes. Everybody clap your hands. The NBA asked me to give the starting lineups. So I did every player. Oh, really? Yes.

In the entire NBA? No, just in them for the Rockets. For the Rockets. For the Rockets. Oh, they're going to play it? I don't know what they're going to do. They're going to mix and match. I don't think they know what they're going to do at this point.

But I did every player. That's cool. So I put Tyson Chandler in the starting lineup when chances are he may not play. Probably not. And worst case, in best case, certainly not starting. And then I did a few Rockets Ball, Rockets win, three-poena kind of thing. Did you give you some scratch for that or what? No.

What? I don't know. That's messed up, Matt. I know. She told me when I was 13 years old. She goes, don't do anything for free ever again. Okay, Mom. Thanks for good advice.

What you do for free? Most of somebody's lawn or something? I don't know. Just do favors and stuff. It's time when you get 13, time to make some money. That's true. Delivering papers out there making profit themselves. So why can't you make a little bit of the side money?

So I did. Okay. On your bike? So like the gift of kindness, very rarely with me. Okay. I'm aware. Everything's going to have a price. That's kidding.

So I'll be curious to see what that's going to be like, but they're going to promise you an intimate, as intimate as you can, watching an NBA game. Interesting. Because I just don't know, Ross, and it really hit home to me yesterday when I was at Minutemade Park. How are we going to have fans and stands? And I don't mean to go all COVID on us here, but I just don't know. Even if you get the all clear, are fans of any sport, of any city, of any team, going to flock back to those arenas and those stadiums, especially arenas. Football stadiums, if you limit attendance and you section a section all row off or a section

off, you might be easy to sell. Like what NASCAR is doing. NASCAR is socially distancing. They had 20,000 people in Dallas this weekend. They had 20,000 in Bristol the week before. How are you going to social distance an arena? I guess some face coverings are required. Absolutely.

I had to wear a face covering the entire time I was at Minna Mae Park yesterday. then yes. I say eventually there would be some fans. So I bring this up, and I brought this up on our Monday night meetings, which we're not doing tonight because they asked what we're going to do one tomorrow. Tuesday night meeting. Tuesday night meeting. I'm in for that, by the way.

This is my RSVP. Thank you very much. When are we going to? I've always said this. Remember, I said it's very early early on. I don't think we're going to get full crowds in football stadiums, baseball stadiums, and arenas until 2022. How are these sports?

organizations not going to take it in the shorts financially. Because as I was saying in the very beginning of the show today, I walked around and it made park ticket to my seat yesterday in the press box. There wasn't a single concession stand open. There wasn't a single employee. There wasn't a single person in the stands. That's money. That's millions and millions and millions of dollars that these sports teams will never

get an opportunity to recuperate. That's tough. That's really tough. And there, I mean, some of them are already having to take out loans and you've got to pay off those loans, if you go through another season of this. That's why these TV contracts are so valuable, these sports leagues. Because

the now the Major League Baseball just signed a brand new, a billion dollar deal with Turner a few weeks back. So they'll have that for themselves. But that still doesn't fix 40,000. Like, for instance, the Astros were going to play the Seattle Mariners this Friday. What

would be the crowded opening day of Main Park? 40,000, right? Right. They always sell that opening day. Of course. American League champions are going to their rings. Even the marlins, well, I don't know about the marketplace. But most stadiums

do very, very well. Yes. Most teams draw at least two million. There are a handful that draw three million. And that doesn't include

the concessions. It doesn't include the parking. It doesn't include the sweet sales. So, again, I'm not trying to say that I'm going to spend a lot of time on this show

feeling sorry for owners. But just if you could, which unfortunately, you can't, go walk into a sports facility and think about the hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue they will not be able to get because of this virus shutting down fans in the stadiums. And even if the virus didn't do it completely and you opened up a partial crowds,

how anxious will the general public be about being back in there? I think rightfully so they would be. And also I think if it's another season of this, I don't want to say like Doomsday League's folding, but can these multi-millioners? dollars would stand two years of no revenue

because even the sucky Marlins of hemorrhaging money even the sucky Marlins who draw a million and a half people right

they're one of the lowest attendance that's still a million and a half people that's I'm sure they're still profitable that's how they

pay their salaries how do you not how do you have zero fans in stadiums for a year and a year and a half the NBA players and NFL players

and Major League baseball players expect to play full seasons with full compensation I think we will I think of Eventually there will be fans.

We got, well, yeah, but ultimately, yes. Soon. I think within next year, hopefully. You think in 2021. Yes. Full crown. Not full crowds. Not full, but. If we get 50%, 50%, sure. Longhors are trying to do 50 now.

They're nuts, right? First of all, Longhorns don't even know if they're going to have a season or not. That's true. Who are they going to play? Does that LSU game off yet? I don't think so. And you could, in theory, in theory, drive that game. That's true.

Although flying, I mean, it doesn't really make. Baton Rouge, not a bad drive. We go Austin to Houston. You stop at Buckees. Yes. Imagine 120 players. I don't know. It would be 60.

Then you head at east. You hit Buckees again. You get Buckees again in Baytown. You had a little further east. You hit a Stuckies. Stuckies. And then you go get some hot boiled peanuts. Yes.

Or the, what are they famous for? The pecan rolls. Oh, the cracklings too. The bacon rolls. Oh, it's stuckies, yeah. And then you hit a Louisiana. You hit a Popeyes as soon as you get to Louisiana. So they're fed.

Yes. High cholesterol level. And they all have got massive diarrhea. Well, that's right, right? A lot of spicy beef jerky. There you go. 227 on Sports Talk 7.9. 713-212-5-79.

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Matt Thomas, Brennan Riley. Coming up in 20 minutes, believe it or not. for a $50 gift card to Twin Peaks. Connie Mac is the topic for, believe it or not coming up. And I gave away one of the answers to one of the questions earlier today. Do you think people were listening? I think people were listening at 201. What are the chances the first person gets it wrong?

Well, the first question is a gimmie. The chance is 50-50 to do or don't. All right. So, Rocket's going to be in action later this week in a scrimmage against the Toronto Raptors. Mike Dantonies speaking with the media today talking about Russell Westbrook, Back with the Rockets. Obviously, it's the key. I mean, you know, anytime you miss a key piece like that,

it makes it a little bit more difficult. But, you know, I know he'll be ready. And so on one side, we're just anxious to get him. Yeah, it'll give everybody a little pepper step. But there was no doubt before. And like I said, the energy has been great. And these guys have been practicing hard. So it's just one step closer to being whole.

And we get him in there. We can work on a couple of other things. get ready for us, you know, Friday's right around the corner when our first exhibition game. So Friday first exhibition game and then of course the next Friday after that the season starts with the Rockets taking on the Dallas Mavericks. Mike Dantone also asked could Russ play on Friday? I don't know about Friday. I do expect that he, once he clears everything, that he'll be ready to go, you know, five on five and all that. I think we'll probably, I would say Friday might be a little early. That'll be a little bit

the medical staff and Russell himself and see how he feels in the days before but hopefully he'll get in a couple of scrimmages and then be ready for us to play. I think young Russell Westbrook would be like,

I want to go out there. But Russ is in year 10 or whatever he is in the NBA, he's a lot different. But to me though, that's something that that's part of his DNA though, is wanting to be out there and wanting to be the full of energy guy. Russell Westbrook is pretty much

unlike any other player in the NBA right now. The energy and the passion that he plays with and he just seems like he's always going to be itching to get out of there. I'm sure he's champing at the bit. I would normally agree with you on that. But Russell Westbrook completely bought into the I'm not going to play him back to backs.

Do you think Russell Westbrook of three or four years ago would have bought him to do that? I mean, it was because he had a knee procedure. It's about safety. It's about he wants to keep his career going as long as possible. And I think the doctors tell him do not participate in Friday scrimmage, he will not. Yeah.

Well, that's fine. Just dress well for the occasion. Well, he needs to have his explosiveness and his strength back because it's not like he's got a great jump shot. But that's one of the things that made him mature just as a rocket was he basically would, after about December 15th, abandoned that three-point shot together. Beautiful. It was, that was the somewhat, I don't want to say tragic, but as soon as everything stopped, well, the Rockets did lose four out of five, and then the last game that they won,

and they played horrible defense against the Timberwolves. But Russell Westbrook was playing some of the best basketball of his entire career. But then you had James Harden slumping at the same time. You get them both going together, which hasn't happened this season. Could be a dangerous squad. You know what's weird for me is that I'm running through this list of names that I'm giving to the NBA to announce. How was a Bruno Caboclo for you? I almost like, am I wasting my breath?

I mean, not that Bruno can't play. Yeah. But my thought is he probably isn't going to start any games. Probably not. Unless something good, unless the team gets wiped by the coronavirus. Do you know that the team is, and this is a relative term, but it's really, really deep. Now, granted, there's no legit 6-11, 7-foot guys except for obviously Tyson-Channler. But Damari Carroll, remember him?

He plays for the Rockets. Yeah, I do remember. Jeff Green plays for the Rockets. Who? Jeff Green does. That Jeff Green? That one. Ben McLemore. When do you ever think about the Rockets and think of Ben McLemore?

How long does it take you before you get to Ben McLemore? I like Ben McLemore. I like him, too, but I'm saying he isn't a household rocket. No, no, he's not. Then you got Daniel House Jr. Yes. Who last year was in the biggest doghouse. I've ever seen a player get into a dog house during a playoff series.

This year's been better. This year's been better. James. I mean, it is, it's a skill group, right? The number one thing that I continue to hear is they're going to get crushed in the rebounding battles. it's going to ultimately haunt them. That hasn't really necessarily been the case. Some of them, yeah, some of them were really skewed.

There were some nights, but would you, how would you describe the Rock as a rebounding team with Clinton was here? When Clint was there, they were one of the worst rebounding teams, so it didn't lose that much there. And actually, they've been a little bit better defensively. And they've actually, they're actually blocking more shots with this group than they ever did with Clint Capella. I mean, the wheels were falling off a little bit at the end there,

But I think one of the reasons of that is James Harden wasn't healthy. He had the turf toe issue. He had taken that knee from Carl Anthony Towns. I don't think he was 100% healthy. And I felt like, honestly, PJ Tucker's three-point shooting was taking a nosedive because I think he was tired. Hey, there's no excuses now. Everybody should be fresh. And that includes other teams, too.

That's true. But the Rockets were not fresh. But yeah, I mean, Kaua, look, everybody's going to be healthy. That's an even playing film from that standpoint. But I felt like the Rockets were one of the teams that were at a deficit. and that's no longer a deficit for them. So there's no excuses with this season coming up. The eight games and everybody's on the level playing field.

Everybody's in a bubble. Everybody's having difficult circumstances. The Rockets should be fresh. They're very talented team. They need to put up a shot out. I'm so anxious about this. I'm excited. I'm excited.

First of all, when you are in an off season, you spend a lot of time talking about the Wood Dakota should haves. But it feels like this has been the most incredibly painful off season for us because there were no free agent moves, there was no trades, there was no drafting. There wasn't even really a season

until about two months ago. We didn't know if the Orlando bubble was going to come together as one and they've been able to do that. And they're back, July 31st. Remember how you and I talked about

how they, just overly slow played this? They kind of had to now. Well, I was on that side. I was like, well, they have all these things,

these procedures they haven't get to play us. You just really wanted to get back into the arena and call games. That is correct. Because I was anxious. I know, I just knew because any time of quarantine is going to take two weeks,

and then you have to have the moving from the facilities to the bubble to all this. It seemed like it didn't necessarily, like they were dragging their feet. And you still have players that are not with their teams right now because of the COVID. Pat Cunnington just talked about with the, he's with the Bucks, right, I think? Yes. He has yet to join his team. They're like two or three different Denver Nuggets who have yet to join their team. How's Matt Thomas doing?

Oh, I'm good. Oh, you mean Toronto's Matt Thomas? Oh. I should check in with him. Yeah, you should. You know, he doesn't follow me on Twitter. Well, kind of hurts my feelings. What does he follow us as a Houston sports host for?

Because we're fraternity brothers in a sense. You don't follow every guy named Matt Thomas on Twitter. I bet I can find you 20 of them. You don't follow all of them. Man, you just outed me. That's good to be back, baby. Yeah, that's one thing, Brendan was nice having you a part of the show is that you didn't. Now, you used to make, you make fun of my age, which just makes you look terrible.

But he just makes fun of everything about me. All I really do is make fun of your age and make up for your lack of dad jokes. Here's another. There's Matt Thomas News. He's verified. What does he do? He's a broadcast journalist. You know what?

He used to work here. Oh, really? Yeah, KTRH. But then you said this town ain't big enough for the two of us and he had to leave. No, I left. Oh, okay. Yeah, I left. I was the one that ran to.

It was a losers leave town battle. Correct. You lost. It was an eye for an eye. Matt Thomas Newsperson versus Matt Thomas the sports guy. There's an artist I think named Matt Thomas too, right? This guy's only got 1,900 followers and he's verified. Terrible.

Are you verified? I'm not. Well, thankfully, if you were verified last week, you lost your Twitter account for a while. I didn't tweet for a while anyways. Were you locked out? Yes. Okay. Like, you couldn't even log in or you just couldn't tweet?

I would try to tweet and say, it would said, oops, tweet failed to send. Okay. You could retweet, though, because you were trying to get everybody to buy your business. Bitcoin or whatever. Send you Bitcoin. So that's what it was. Celebrities were looking to buy Bitcoin. And so Twitter said as a cause as a just a precaution to shut everybody down? So if, yeah, it happens. If you ever see these tweets in the mentions of like, say Donald Trump or somebody famous or Kim Kardashian, whoever, there will be people on the mentions that say, say, I'm going to, they have, they use Elon Musk's name or something and it's a fake account.

Yeah. And they say, hey, I'm Elon Musk. Send me $1,000 in Bitcoin. I'll send you $2,000. and dumbasses fall for this and they send them Bitcoin so this happened where sometimes they would hack verified accounts so they've hacked what Obama and all these other big name people

and so that's why they had to shut down all the verified accounts so they get I think I lost my account for a couple of hours it was fine I lived and I didn't find it funny your Bitcoin I did find it funny that people that weren't verified were like let's go attack those that are verified

I could have tweeted for you if you needed that's quite okay I wouldn't want to be. Five bucks a tweet. Really? From sports. I'm just trying to get back to 25,000 again. Slow and steady climate.

Are we getting you? When are we getting you to 30 for the party? I'm telling you this in all honesty. This is me being as honest and true as possible. It's never going to happen. I have reached my peak. You've plateaued. Plateaued right there.

Very comfortable in my 25,000 spot. Well, 24 change. Well, can I get 15 people to follow me between now and top of the hour? At SportsMT. Maybe we can celebrate 25,000 the second time around. Okay. What did we do the first time? Nothing.

It was around your birthday, wouldn't it? Yeah. So if you would like to follow me on Twitter, get me right at 25,000, Express, I'll give you guys a shout-out. Anybody that follows me in the next 15, 20 minutes, we'll give you a little shout-out as a gift from me to you on this little radio station where you get together every day, noon to three. All right, believe it or not, is up next. the segment today. All things about Connie Mac. I never thought in a million years we would do a Connie Mac, believe it or not, but we're

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Well, you know, someday. Because here's what I can do. I'd go buy them if I wanted to. That's true. Although they might. I think a lot of those are getting. Yeah. And then they went up on following you shortly after that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

That's a whole ordeal. Yeah, yeah. All right. Tomorrow, we're going to chew on the Astros Royles spring training game. We're going to get a full 50-minute preview, Astros Royals exhibition. It would be like the ultimate pregame show. So we'll have that. We can open up talking about the 2015 series.

What do you remember about that series? Wasn't that, didn't Carlos Correa fumbled up? Wasn't there a 6-2 lead in the game? Yeah. I think at the end, Carlos Correa kind of jump for a ball and missed it or it hit his glove or something like that? A game was in Houston where the Royals was kept hitting, hitting, hitting. I didn't leave the ballpark for two hours where the Royals were still batting. Wasn't it a Luke Gregerson or somebody got rocked in that series too?

And it didn't speak to the media after the game, something like that. You guys are spoiling tomorrow's show. Oh, that's right. It's a little something called a preview. Bring up your worst 2015-Wild Division Series against Kansas City. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? Oh, I've missed you saying that, Matthew.

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There you go. Dang. Matt on 790. Matt, you're ready to play, believe it or not? I believe it. Connie Max, given name is Cornelius McGillicuddy. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it.

It was not listening to 201. Maddie. Should we do that every day? Every day. The first question is going to be the 201 clue. Okay. Now, the problem is, will you have written? If we've even decided what it is yet.

Yeah. We don't usually have the topic of 201, much less the question. We had it for you early. Jeremiah on 790, are you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. When the MLB named their all-century team in 1999, Connie Mack was named the manager. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, it wasn't. Who wasn't? They didn't name a manager. Could have gone with Walter Alston, the Casey Stingell, if you will. Perhaps, yes. Taylor on 790. Taylor, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Connie Mack and many nicknames, including the Godfather of baseball and Old Hickory. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Connie Mack holds the record for most managing wins and losses, and also he managed 76 times. Believe it or not.

Believe it. There you go. Congratulations. I didn't know they had ties to baseball. Nor did I. Chris on 790, ready to play believe it or not. Believe it. In 1916, Connie Matt created a code of conduct for his players that included rules such

as keeping clean, not cheating, and not judging players on race or religion. Believe it or not. Not. Oh, yeah. Duh. They were called the Mac Rules. Paul on 790, Paul, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Connie Mack played in the MLB for the Pirates, the Buffalo Bisons, and the Washington Nationals. He sported a career 245 batting average. Believe it or not? Believe it. Statement number two for the win, Connie Mack was a devout Catholic. Upon his death, he willed a significant portion of his estate to St. Augustine's Church in Philadelphia. Believe it or not. Believe it?

No, no such thing. Sorry. Last one. Tony on 790. Tony, you ready to play, believe it or not? Tony. He's speechless, as you would say. He's not ready. Jeremy on 790, ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. In 1936, Connie Mack was the only manager voted as a member of the inaugural class of baseball's Hall of Fame. Believe it or not. Believe it. No. Just five players.

Boy, the lack of respect for managers. All century teams, Hall of Fans, awful. Could have phoned a Charlie on that one. Aw. I guess you could. Would he answer, though? All right. Clanton and Waxler are next.

They're going to entertain the bejeez out of you. They're going to work for you. Who are you? Yeah, who are you? Hi, I'm Ross. Nice to meet you. working for you. They're the A team, and they're up next here on Sports Talk 7-9.