The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Scary Football News, Texans Talk & Who Pays For Meeting?

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. I'm on my way I'm making you. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you.

And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Brandon Riley is the producer of this radio program. Ross Villarreal, cohort, friend, confidant, irritant. With a couple of days off, I'd say they well deserve, but if you really know Ross, he's just taking to take them. So Joe George is in today. A man who walks around a little extra stagger around these 790 studios because he is a two-time consecutive winner of the Fantasy 5,

and I'm going to tell you tomorrow at 2.30, that streak. must come to an end. It won't come to an end, Matt Thomas. I thank you for letting me sitting for these today and tomorrow, but you're going to lose tomorrow. We haven't even thought of the topic yet. It doesn't matter. Well, it's because I think people, it's a, feel sorry for you factor. I like three pets.

Three pets are fun, better than two. Okay, going for three. All I'm telling you is MJ's back, and he's going to claim the title. Well, you were back last week? No, I was off last week. Oh, you were off last week before you were there. So, again, I think people just like, you know, Joe's. He makes $11 an hour.

Doesn't have a lot of friends. You gave me a raise? Okay, sorry. And then we didn't bring up a sore subject. He makes less than $10 an hour. And it doesn't have a lot of friends. Breath is sometimes an issue. That's false.

Okay. I embellish. Hey, I hope you guys are in a good mood today. I'd like to be able to say we've got nothing but interesting, fun things to discuss. So we're going to have to make up some things. I'm going to put both of you on a little bit of a assignment today. We've got non-flora stories at 2.30 this afternoon. This will be Brendan's first foray into non-flora stories.

Have you properly prepped him, Joe? Because in the history of you doing non-in-flora stories, it's a... It's not great. It's... I'm just average. I would say leaning more towards lower, below average. But, I mean, you've got a chance of rally here.

This could be your last non-florida story for quite some time. So, Brendan, do you know the essence of a non-flora story? Yeah, it's a Florida story that took place somewhere else. basically. So the weirder the better. So when Joe says, Stop. Woman gets killed by child, that's not interesting and fun. It's frankly sad.

He just happened to find a state that had that happen to them. That's not the story. Whatever it is. I think you generally get the gist of what we're talking about. So I'm looking forward to Joe finding us an amazing story. Also today is, believe it or not, is it 252 as we celebrate the 78th birthday of one of the greatest musicians ever to be born? and that, of course, is Sir Paul McCartney.

So Paul McCartney, believe it on a 252. By the way, did you see on Twitter this morning, Michael Connor, they were doing most overrated bands of all time? I did, and he chose the Beatles. Yeah. Michael's not very bright. I mean, let's just put that out there. I think it was just like one of those times

where he didn't have a strong enough take, so he stole it from someone else. He stole Ross's take that the Beatles are over there. Yeah, again, I'm going to go back to the preface of Michael's not very bright. I mean, swell fella. Got a big frothy beard going right now. But that was just a massive misstep on his part. Even Octopus's Garden would agree with that way.

Yes? Come on. That's the song. It's still a good song. That's the song that Joe George beat me with two weeks ago. But I'm not bitter. If you'd like to join us this afternoon, we would love to have you at 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

If you're on Twitter, you can follow us at SportsMT, at Joe George Radio and at Brendan Riley underscore. All right. So yesterday, all this news about Major League Baseball breaking of, hey, John Hey, John Hey, Hey, John Heyman, who, by the way, not a good reporter. Not a great guy, I don't think either. Really bad reporter. Really, really bad reporter.

He might be the nicest person on Earth. He doesn't come across. Again, if first impressions or everything, he comes across as a D-bag. He's the one that, again, I lost so much respect for him on the day he, he wrote that tweet about Astro's Clubhouse seems sad. Yeah. When I was in the clubhouse, the exact morning he walked in,

I was in there the entire hour. He was in there maybe 45 seconds. And because people weren't, because they weren't having the music blaring and guys weren't throwing cards or, you know, hit each other with a towel on their ass,

that doesn't mean they're not happy. And he presumed that, and I lost a lot of respect for him. because, again, John Heyman, whether you wanted to agree or not, carries a pretty powerful voice in Major League Baseball. He's been covering the beat for a long time. He's got a boatload of followers. He's on MLB network.

So, and he gets the privilege of going into an Astros clubhouse and seeing things, and you would hope that he would report accurately. He did nothing of the sort. So what John Heyman did yesterday, Joe, is that he took a phone call or got a text, or he made a phone call or a text to somebody that said, hey, MLB is going to be back real quick. Real fast. Really happy.

Everybody's doing well. There's going to be a meeting. What John Heyman didn't do, which makes him not a great reporter, is he didn't check on the other side of things. And that's why I put on Twitter yesterday, Evendrelic, greater than John Heyman, because Evendrelic did what you're supposed to do. And I know there are some people that are mad at Evendrelick

because he wrote the story about Mike Fires, but if a story is presented to you, you're supposed to write it. It just is what it is. It's going to be one of the most important stories that he's ever wrote. It's one of the most important stories and background and scandals that, major league baseball has been hit with since probably the steroids era, safe to say. So Evadrallic does the due diligence and says, I think I'll check in on the players,

make sure they absolutely agree with what John Hammond is saying, which obviously he's getting, he's a mouthpiece for the owners. And that's what the rub is. Because it feels like, and look, I think we've progressed since the last major round of updates. I think you'll tell us about this in just a minute anyway, that there were some people in the Players Association side that said, slow your road. down a little bit, we're not as close as you think. Now, that was as of this morning.

The last couple hours, Joe, right? We got a little bit of better news, right? Yeah, the, the Cubs player rep went on a radio station in Chicago and said that while the deal being reported as close isn't true, he said baseball players and fans should be excited because baseball is coming soon. That's coming from a player rep. That's important. Yeah, because he is intimate in the conversations. Yes. He's going to be one of about 30 guys are going to speak. I don't see a lot of players except for Tyler Bauer basically going off on his own. Is he a player rep for the Reds? I don't know because he just got there.

So he hasn't, he's been with his team for like 10 days. So there's really no way he could be. But generally speaking, the people that are speaking, except in little cliche things on Twitter are player reps. Yeah, it's Max Scherzer. So then Ian Hap has been pretty vocal this whole time. He's been doing interviews every week, basically trying to provide his insight. So we are seeing some players.

with importance talking. And even Trevor Bauer, like, it's almost weird. I feel like I've had to side with him on some of these things. He's making good points, and I don't want to like him, but I like him right now

because he's pointing out the flaws of all the owners of what they're doing, but I do still feel like, Matt, we're closer today to a deal than we were 40 hours ago. I'm not discouraged. I'm just saying that it's a classic case of journalism of taking and run with a story

before you get both sides. What do you think about? It's such a small thing. And maybe this is just like a me issue. But he doesn't even say per sources in his tweet. The way he tweeted breaking MLB and players, you know, are closing in on an agreement to play in the 2020 season, that almost felt like it was coming from a written statement from the league and the players.

He doesn't even cite who he got it from him or that he got it from someone. The mistake he makes is, is he should have said MLB owners believe their close. Because John Heyman's report, if you run it as we did multiple times on the show yesterday, came across as both sides were ready to sing kumbaya. Yeah. And that wasn't the case. Yeah.

And again, in a rush, and here's the thing for young people in our business in all media, you just can't run to Twitter fast enough. You can't run fast enough to Twitter to be mad about something or crush somebody's in their opinion. And you certainly in sports media. And for that man, I'm guessing the same thing happens in news. media too. You just can't run fast enough to Twitter and say something without getting it completely right. Case in point yesterday. There was the big story about the Orlando

International Airport and about hundreds and hundreds of employees being tested positive for COVID for COVID. Is it COVID? Corona. Yeah. I get I get anything that needs to mix up. That's okay. It's it is what it is. Corona. Well, that was an inaccurate story. there were thousands and thousands and thousands of employees tested, and there were 500 people that were found to have the Rona, and it was over a several-month period. It wasn't just the latest round of tests. So I just...

There's a misrepresentation of these stories all the time. I feel like the coronavirus itself, it's so hard to differentiate, like, what's the truth and what's not. Right. And it's the same here with the NFL and the NBA, and the NBA and the MLB and related to some of that stuff is, you know, that first report about the Texans was multiple players, a handful of players. One of being two, right?

And then pro football talks that it was two. It just keeps changing. It seems like no one is going the extra length here. And specifically, John Heyman with this report, it's not even like, I'm not even sure he got it from the owners. I feel like he got a memo from the MLB network saying, hey, I think we're going to be airing games July 30th. Kind of a lot of presumption, basically.

Like, we run baseball games. We need to prepare to run them July 20th. This is what we're looking at. This is what we heard from the owners, our partner, our owner, the MLB, and then he just ran with it. And let's be honest, he is an MLB employee. He is. So he is going to definitely lean his articles and lean his, I mean, at least he should

towards the owner's side. I would. let me tell you if I was an MLB employee too I mean that's part of the reason why I don't have like Robert Flores and I did a chat yesterday for the University of Houston alums and I could have put him on the show to promote it but I don't want to put him in an uncomfortable position because he's not going to crush the owners those the owners that are and that's what these team sports networks are when you know you're you're going to have to kind of walk on a show a little bit and we're all doing that in some

respects no one that is on sports in sports media whether it's a television show or radio show doesn't have to walk a fine line with a variety of things. But all Heyman would have had to have done to make his tweet and his report much more authentic and not a stretch of the truth would have been to say owners feel they're close. But man, you just, Joe, you cannot run to your typewriter fast enough and start your keyboard and you cannot put out that information fast enough. And I think I think that makes you look sloppy. Well, that's where when the report came out, And then I looked at Evan Drugs, Twitter, and I look at Ken Rosenthal, and I look at Jeff Passon, and you see nothing.

I went from excitement to like, oh, this is, this is probably wrong. Yeah. That was like my first initial reaction. I thought it was totally wrong because no one was saying anything about what was going on. Yeah. All right. That's Joe. I'm Matt.

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That's you? Oh, sorry about that, Brendan. All right. Hard knocks. Oh, come on. You broke the information on this. Yes. People like hard knocks.

No, we're tired of it. Do you like hard knocks? Brendan? It's okay. It was greater Leon. Yeah, well, this year for the first time in Hard Knocks history, we'll have two teams. The Rams and the Chargers.

Well, it'll debut coming up probably in January of 2021. At least it'll be warm there. That's true. Okay, zero for one. That's important news. The people love Hard Knocks. The people used to love Hard Knocks. It's like American Idol when it first came out.

Really great show. Really interesting. I like that. But, like, loses his interest. Yeah. Season one of Hells Kitch. Anything of these reality shows, seasons one and two are pretty good. Are you out on Hell's Kitchen?

No, I'm back. Okay, good. But I think the one I'm watching is a repeat of a couple of years ago. It's the All-Star Chefs. How do you not know? Because it says Season 17, and it says repeat. So I think it's an earlier one. Well, that's a repeat, then.

Yeah, so I don't know what happened. So don't tell me. I don't know either. So basically, I'm watching Season 17 of Hell's Kitchen right now. So it's new for you. It's new for me, but I think it's a couple of years old. All right. and so I'm back to it after and maybe that'll be that'll be me in hard knocks but let me let me get let me give you a scenario and you tell me how this is not every hard knocks coach screams and yells yes a player gets used to his dorm room or and our hotel it'll be interesting this year because they're not going to be off site but yeah generally speaking uh guys play music and or cards guys get hurt

during camp. Young undrafted guy hopes to make the team. Gets cut. And gets cut. You get to hear the general manager and the coach break down players they want to keep on their 50-man roster, whatever it is. That's essentially what Hard Knox is. Yeah.

The only reason why I think maybe this year could be more interesting, if they are, if they do go to camp at the end of July as scheduled, then it is going to be different. We're going to get an inside look about the NFL safety protocols. Yeah. and what it's like to be on an NFL team, how they're approaching it, how meetings are different. It will be interesting and maybe that aspect more this year than ever before, just because we'll see like how the NFL is going to play. And oh, by the way, there's nothing else to watch.

Good point. But by the time, if they report to camp July 28th, the first NBA game is two days later. So we will not be watching hard knocks this year. No, we'll have an RDBR. Nobody watches Hard Knocks at 10 o'clock, right? I used to. Here's one for you. I'll be watching Grace Natagan's today.

Did she go ahead and cut all of it all for this part of it? No, no. Still there. So are you up to date on Gray's Anatomy? No, I was trying to finish it before basketball season started, but my family gets to town tomorrow. So we're probably going to take like a week off. So I think it's going to be a little. So how far are you from completely catching up?

McDreamy is going to die the next like three episodes. Well, don't be a spoiler. There could be people out there. That show is like. that are really metrosexual that would like to watch that. That season is like seven years old. At some point, like I could spoil Hell's Kitchen for you and I don't feel bad.

I have nothing else to watch. I'm done with every old sports game. I had on my DVR season pass for Hardware Classics. I have now started watching Astros Classic, which AT&T is doing. Cardinals and Astros were on game six in a night. So, but yeah, don't spoil.

I won't spoil it for you. Okay. So there's right now there's McDreamy. Yep. McSteamy. He's gone. McSteamy's gone? The plane crash.

Oops. You told me about the plane crash. Yeah. McBus gets hit. McDood gets hit by the bus? Yep. You see, that's the reason why I didn't watch show. I told my wife, I was like at some point, like, all these characters die.

Why when Joe comes in, do we break down Gray's anatomy? Because they love to give you a hard time about it. Yeah, yeah. It's not a question that we enjoying the show. It's a chance just to take shots at him. because we're brothers. It's just a wild. I didn't expect to get into Graz Anatomy today.

At some point, Matt, we'll make an announcement that he's upset and invited and inviting him to his wedding. So let's just get, or no, no, no, no. All right. So let's do this, Brendan, when you snuck this out, what's the most embarrassing television show you watch? Oh, God. Now, I'll go and say mine just for you, just for the record. I do watch Young and the Restless and Bold and Beautiful. Every day.

And here's the bit. They haven't had any fresh episodes in weeks. So now I'm watching, they always put on in the same time slot. old episodes of classic moments in those particular soaps. So now I'm watching those to catch up on what I missed or what I don't remember from years going by. Yeah. Go ahead and call me a name.

Go ahead and do it. That's all right. Think it, though. I think it's the same thing. You watch soaps. I watch Grey's Anatomy. It's like the modern day soap. Oh, no doubt about that.

But the problem is I think you're doing it because you're trying to get in good with the bride. Oh, I don't need to get. We're married. What do you're doing with? So you're telling me, you were watching Grey's anatomy without her being there. No. Well, that's my point.

I started because of her. Okay. Well, I think she can... Will you name your first child after one of the characters on the show? Definitely not. Okay. All right, so would you like to announce a show that you're embarrassed to watch? I don't know that we know each other like that yet. Oh, come on.

Let's bring it. I'll say this. I like a lot of CW shows. And CW's definitely not targeting from that. But like the superhero shows, because I watch the superhero shows on the CW. Like the Flash and Arrow. Sure. I like a lot of CW. The last CW show I watched would have to have been the...

Not this latest one where the 9-210-0 characters came back as themselves as actors. Okay. The one that was the new class of 902-0. I've never watched 902-0. I enjoyed Lucifer. I enjoyed the 100. Yeah, nothing embarrassing at this point. It gets worse.

Okay, I'm just going to do it. Gossip Girl? No, I haven't watched that. Gossip Girl? I was very into, probably just as bad, at one point in my life, Vampire Diaries. doesn't do anything for me is it like twilight um maybe the early

maybe the early seasons twilight was like when I was in high school oh that was I think vampire diaries is pretty bad I gotta pass on that one well I'm just when I say shows are embarrassed about that we're grown ass man that talk sports here right sure typical grown ass man sports

guys do not talk about Gray's anatomy young and the wrestlers and we talk about hard knocks yeah we beat our chest and we talk about all the mine of sex we used to have well you're still having your new one So you are having it. My life's different than yours.

That's true. That's true. All right. 1226 on Sports Talk 790. This is what our show is going to be until we get sports. July 30th, right? It's coming fast, though. July 20th, baseball will be back.

Promise? Sure. I don't think I believe you. Why not? You said you feel like we're going to do. 60 games season, 66 game season? Are we sure we're going to go 60? I think it's going to be higher.

Okay. I think 70 is a non-starter. 66 sounds about right. How crazy has it been that you and I and Ross, all we've done over the last three months is guest number of games of a schedule. I know. Who would ever thought that would have been the most pivotal part of any sports conversation? It's weird, like the last two months, like just how everything's played out.

Like, I remember when they shut down the NBA. It felt like that was going to be the most important moment of everything. And then like two weeks later, sports were going to be back. Yeah. Would you like some downer news on the NFL? Sure. It's not coming for me. It's coming from the most famous doctor in America.

And I'm not saying Dr. Phil. So it's not even... Dr. Shepard from Grayson Avenue. I'm trying to think of another... We could do famous... Famous TV doctors? I think we've done that already. I know your fantasy five is next week.

What is it? Our least favorite reporters. And... In honor of John Heyman. Oh. Yeah, but everybody's going to... like him, yep, don't like him. Did you hear I start in person

every baseball writer yesterday? I did, and then Clinton started doing it too. Yeah, you catch yourself. Yeah, and they all have that weird, nasally annoying voice. They all sound like they had no friends. Yes. They all sound like they don't touch women on a regular basis.

Lives in their mom's basement. Lives in their mom or upper, in the spare bedroom, you know, for those of us that don't have basements here. Yeah. Yeah, every baseball writer sounds smarmy, holier than thou. And they protect their sport way more than they should

because they're not the ones that are the gatekeepers. That's why I love Chandler Rome because he is so much of the opposite of what you expect when you hear a baseball writer. Yeah, he's just... He's just different.

Yeah, he's just just... I love him. He's just not smarmy like these other guys. No, he's just generally negative Nelly. But I love him. I don't want him ever changing.

No, he can't, he'll never be broken. No, no, I don't want him to change. Oh, yeah, because he gets older than the business and more games and more traveling. Because I think he's younger than I am. Oh, yeah, he's a baby. But yeah, the Chandler Rome's got that person out of that I don't ever want change. And Jake Cap has got a little of that to him, too. That's why I love them both.

1228. Some caution coming from Dr. Fauci next on Sports Talk 790. Us as fans, we as fans want to see that. From the owner to the coach to the players. Your home for your home teams. It is 1233, the Matt Thomas Show, here on the Sports Talk 790. Thank you very much for making some time out of your day to hang out with us. Twitter streets are kind of quiet early on.

We should make fun of people. It always gets people going. But I don't want to do that. We're nice people right here on the show. We tease because we care. Yeah. I've never heard you say anything like mean. Yeah, it's just smarmy baseball people I don't like.

Yeah. I don't like smarming people in general. Fair? Nothing wrong with that. Yep. And I am still pissed as you've won two straight fantasy fives. It's okay. But I can get past it.

Are you going to leave the studio and not come back if I want to think? Oh, you mean like you have the final segment tomorrow? No, because I'm not going to play, believe it or not by myself. I'm not ready for that. No, no. Have you heard our boy do the audio the last couple days? He said the first day went great. And then he said the day after it was a little rough.

Yeah, it's fine. But he's doing a lot better than you did through the first two days. From what I've heard, I definitely agree. But you guys played, believe it or not yesterday. We did. We bit stole, believe it or not. We did it in honor of OJ Simpson because it was the anniversary of the chase. God.

How old were you during the chase? Zero. Four. So you have no recollection of it. Zero. No, because that's 96, right? Yeah. Yeah.

No, no. 94. Oh, it was two. Okay. I said this on the show yesterday, and we're going to get to this NFL stuff. just a second. I said yesterday, watching that line, because I didn't travel in New York for the finals that year,

was one of the most incredible television moments of my life. Let me give you of the last 30 years, and this is really only about sports. Watching O.J. Simpson in the Chase was one of them. Having

Magic Johnson sit down in a press conference and say that he had HIV. When we didn't know a lot about HIV and AIDS, was a wow, I'll never forget where I was when I saw it moment. So your frame of reference is a lot shorter, but I'd be curious in the last 20 years of your life,

what has been, can you think of something that was unbelievably... Sports related? It can be sports or news related, but you just cannot watch. I mean, obviously, for me, it's like, I was in fourth grade, probably my first vivid memories is obviously 9-11. Yeah.

that moment. 9-11 for me. Let me give you a couple others. Eighth grade I was at lunch when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated. Okay. I'm trying to think, 9-11 for sure. President Reagan was shot. I was in the third grade.

It wasn't a television, I guess a little bit when Obama got elected, living in Chicago was a big deal, going to school at the time. But as it exactly happened. Like, you remember getting in front of your television going, oh my God, we got our first. I guess I remember the re-election more because I was by the party. Okay.

But I don't, honestly, I don't think there are in my generation a lot. Television moments you'll never forget. Yeah. Okay, that's fair. You know, for me, and you'll probably understand this one, when Vince McMahon had to go on television and admit that the previous week, they made a huge mistake and they had to tell everyone that Chris Benoit killed himself and his wife and child.

Okay. But. For those who don't know, Chris Benoit was a former professional wrestler. who basically was on a variety of different steroids and whatnot. He murdered his wife and his child. And at the time, they didn't know what had happened. So they basically, WWE, the night after, or the first time they had a show after his death and his wife's death,

basically did a memorial for two hours about how great he was and then come to find out how he killed them. And so he had to come on the next week and say, oops. I do vividly remember, A lot of them are around like 9-11, I guess, kind of related. I do remember the first time Sammy Sosa took the flag out to right field after that when George Bush throughout the first pitch in the World Series. I remember Saints and Falcons playing Monday football after Katrina. I do remember very vividly the national anthem at WW Smackdown here in Houston after 9-11.

It stands out really strong. You know, it's a weird one. But the bigger point I want on this is that. Joe, I'll be 88 years old and you'll be visiting me in a home feeding me with a blender. And I'll remember sitting in my roommates, my two roommates at the time, we were in an apartment on this television. It was not the big ones you see now, but just a regular old-sized television, watching this incredible chase while our beloved Houston Rockets are trying to play for an NBA championship. I feel like the OJ stuff, from that to the verdict coming in are probably two of the most iconic moments. Oh, for sure.

For sure. All right. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-790 if you want to get in on the show. today, not in Florida stories, lighthearted part coming up at 230. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who yesterday's, believe it or not,

category ironically enough, says football teams would need to emulate plans by the NBA and MLS for a, quote, bubble format, or consider not playing at all in 2020 due to the coronavirus. He said, actually he told this to CNN, that football players would need to be isolated

from others and tested regularly. Here's the quote, unless players are, essentially in a bubble, isolated from the community, and they are tested nearly every day, it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall. If there is a second wave, which is certainly a possibility in which would be complicated by the predictable flu season, football may not happen this year. Now, the NFL, you told me a few minutes ago, has already responded of this, correct?

Yeah, so the Dr. Allen Still, the NFL chief medical officer, responded. But the end of it is, he says, make no mistake. This is no easy task. we will make adjustments as necessary to meet the public health environment as we prepare to play the 2020 season as scheduled with increased protocols and safety measures for all players, personnel, and attendees. We will be flexible and adaptable in this environment to adjust to the virus as needed. So he's being very politically correct. Yeah, but he's still saying it. He's still in that statement saying attendees.

He's still saying they're playing on. If there is any, if there is any. sports league college or pro that has pushed forward with everything without even a thought of a delay, it's been the NFL. They didn't delay the draft, right? They didn't delay it, did they? Nope. Now they made it virtual.

They have decided, what else have been decided? Training camps and OTAs and things like that. Canceled. But 30 years ago, they weren't doing a whole lot of that. So this is not out of the order for professional athlete not to have an OTA, especially because in today's world, the NFL players don't want to get hit anymore. I mean, they're so, so protected about number of practices, number of hours or whatnot. I made this prediction. We were kind of kidding about this.

I made a 43,000 star selection. Osher Thomas did. But the NFL season is going to be delayed. This is only helping my cause, right? But see, doesn't delay almost go against what Anthony Fauci is saying? Because he's saying that a second wave that coincides with flu season is the problem. So if you delay the season, you're just going deeper into flu season. season. I think the NFL should have gone the other direction, and they should have seen this,

and they should have said, we need to be done by November. And they should have said, suck it up, get to camp after the draft, we're playing football. But there's one big problem with that. They wouldn't have been ready. I know. They just wouldn't have been ready for it. Look at these, look at Major League Baseball. Look at the NBA. They're putting out these 100-plus-page guides for the NFL who's going to have more players in camp, more coaches, more support staff, bigger grounds to cover, their guy's going to be 200 pages. Yeah, I don't, you have these huge rosters.

I just, the NFL is, it's hard to see it going off flawlessly where I think there's an argument to be made about the other sports where they could. The NFL seems like there's so many more problems. Like, if you, every team has to be prepared that their quarterback is going to miss time this year to the virus. If you prepare that your second quarterback could miss time. Speaking of viruses, you see the University of Texas got hit hard. Yeah. We're talking with 13 players, I think, tested positive.

10 more are in self-quarantine. Because of contact tracing. Yeah. So if these multimillion-dollar NFL teams are going to have to take the extra precautionary steps, how are 100-plus college football team supposed to do that? Yeah, that's hard because they're not, the NFL can release one 200-page document and be like, you have to follow these guidelines. College football doesn't do that.

No, there's no. lead. I mean, the NCAA still rules over them, but really everybody's on their own, especially when it comes to the power five versus the group of six. Look at U.H. They weren't testing as players got to campus. Other schools were. Like, there's, there is no defining body that tells them how and when they have to test and what protocols they have to go to. And the NFL, at least they can, Goodell can implement something, but the college ball can't. College football, I

think is likely to happen, but just could be a disaster. So you're thinking they're going to move forward and they probably should slow down. Yeah. But I think they, but they also have to. Because you're, you're asking, college athletics is dead without it. You're asking 18, 19 year olds to do all these types of things and they're not getting a sent for. Not that that should make a huge difference because safety is safety.

But to guard, you know, to guide 32 individual properties as compared to a hundred and, how Division 1 play, 120 somewhere in that range? And then you don't even, in the FBS, and then you have the FCS, you have the division 2s. And my counter argument too is, well, if you look at, like every time Mayor Turner tweets out about the people who passed away from COVID, they're not NFL and college football aged people.

They're much older. So there's still that argument of these guys, that COVID is, we're not immune to it people my age, but we are more likely to survive it at a much higher rate. So if they get it, not saying it's not a big deal, but they can move past it and they can get healthy again. I got something for you now.

We'll talk about this coming back. Wouldn't it be better off they got it now as compared to the middle of the season? Definitely. Isn't that crazy to say? We'll talk about a little bit about that next. 1243, the Matt Thomas show. We take you to 3 o'clock this afternoon. 713-1-2-5-790.

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Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 790. You know, you ever check Google and they always give you, like, stories that you should be looking at or they think you're interested in? Yeah. I'm getting daily friends updates. Do you watch the show? I did. Liked it.

Didn't love it. If I missed an episode, I'd go back and watch it, but it wasn't like I was in front of my television 7 o'clock on Thursday nights ago. You know, 20 years ago. Like, I was much more of a Seinfeld guy than I was friends. Enjoy the show. But, man, yesterday they showed a picture of Courtney Cox in a bikini,

which she still rocks that bikini, even though she's like 50-something. And then today, I went to Google just a minute ago. Says, sorry, I'm late. Jennifer Aniston's birthday wish for Courtney Cox is worth the wait. They both have aged beautifully. Courtney Cox, definitely. No, that's Jennifer Aniston?

No, she has too. How about that? Jennifer Aniston, I feel like it looks exactly the same. Yeah. When she wore that doctor's jacket in horrible bosses, oh my God. I had a moment there, Joe. A moment? Well, it's probably several.

But for the sake of the radio show, we don't get into that too much. I didn't see Horrible Bosses 2. I heard it was not nearly as good. Definitely not as funny. It's not terrible. But Horrible Bosses 1 is a good comedy. Horrible Bosses 1, amazing. I feel like the Hangover, number 1, amazing.

Two was so disappointing. I didn't finish it. So like 2 and 3, they follow the same storyline. I feel like Horrible Bosses 2 is kind of the same. It was really just like, the same premise a lot of ways. Which is what you want, right? Like, for instance, in the movie Vacation was so good.

Yeah. Then they went to, they did the European vacation where they made the places they went to the storyline. And that was, didn't intrigue me. Yeah. They come back and they do Christmas vacation. They rocked it. And Vegas vacation wasn't horrible either. But we could do, we could do sequel talk many, many times over.

But yeah. We could do fancy five best sequels, like franchise. No, I think if we're going to do that, we have to do, we don't count one, but twos and threes were good. But how many of them are... See, the problem is I don't... I'm not as much of a moviegoer in the last handful of years. Yeah, but see, I think the best movie franchises and sequels, I don't think are very new. Like the superhero ones, I'm a huge fan of.

Yeah. The, you know, Star Wars and Indiana Jones and all those movies. Okay. We're on it to simmer a little bit. I've got to find whatever the topic is going to be. I've got to find it the one that's going to ultimately end your winning streak. Because tomorrow is a potential mic drop moment for you to go three for three in three consecutive weeks. Ross has done it multiple times.

I've done it a few times. I'd be offended if you won it three times. But three out of three, it's a lot of pressure. You'd want to retire, basically. I think so. Or I would want to come back every week and just go to like. lose. Or just calling and say, hey, guys, I'm still undefeating. And then hang on the phone. Yeah, just call and vote every week. All right. So as I was talking about before,

if you're a college kid, or for that matter, pro kid, I mean, pro young man playing the NFL, getting the virus right now, like Kareem Jackson, the Broncos, former Texan has it right now. You'd rather get it now than say in September, right? If we're supposed to believe that once you get it, you don't get it again, which nobody really knows that that's a complete truth. Definitely. No one knows that for sure. But if, if, you're supposed to believe, but if, you're you're the Texans and you're like, hmm, can Deshaun get it now and there's no football time? Or can Deshawn get it in October when we need him on the field? I just, I can't openly root for somebody to get sick.

I know. Because sometimes you hear, well, I don't feel any symptoms. And then other people are like, I can't breathe. Joe, I don't want you to ever get the virus. But if we lose you in October and November, it's even more difficult because we're, I think we're going to have a lot of sports on this radio station. agree. But I don't want you to get it right now to get it over with because I'm afraid that if I say, Joe, I wish you nothing but the virus. That's a bad look.

Then you'll call me and say, Matt, I'm on a ventilator. I don't know if I feel good about that. Right? No. So I cannot as a human being say, good news. 13 Texas players got it. Uh-oh. Did I see you?

I'm reading your mouth. What's going on? break we got breaking news we got breaking news is this big breaking news this is big breaking news let's get the sounder go ahead sources tell jeff pass and jesse rogers the major league baseball players association has finalized a proposal to melb for a season in the neighborhood 70 games that's not breaking news it is breaking news it's in a proposal No, that's the player is doing it.

Yeah, the player sent a proposal. They've been sent proposals for two months. And we've hit breaking news every time. Brendan Ronnie, is that breaking news? I would not have done it. What? No, in all actuality, anytime Jeff Pass and tweets anything, you've got to play the breaking news.

It's true. I have, I started doing the alert thing. But now that you were so excited to play that. Now that you think about it for a second. Yeah. They've been proposing a lot of things. It gets us to exactly what we said, the first segment of the show. 66 games. 65 games.

They propose 60, we pro 70. Now we meet in the middle. No, no, no, no. Neighborhood of 70. So, okay. So they propose 72. We get to 66. So let's read the Twitter responses.

Would you like to do that? Something called Dodger Serg says, police. Corey says 69. Nice. Sports expert says Guba. Okay, all right, we know they will end up playing between 65 and 66. Just get that number already and stop playing games. Here's one from Tampa Bay Race fan.

Would you believe me if I told you that I was out of your league, Jeff? Let's read it like Jeff Pass, I would say it. Tell me one to ten grade my Jeff Pass. Okay. The Mainjian Baseball Players Association have finalized a proposal to MLB for a season in the neighborhood of 70 games. Sources tell me and Jesse Rogers, meaning that I really got the story right.

And I'm way more popular than Jesse Rogers, but I've got to be a good team player and give him a tweet reference to. 10s the high? Yeah. Like a six and a half. Okay, I'll take it. Because I'm one of the worst impersoners

in the city, Mark. I mean, there's no doubt about that. Okay, so, all right. So now the real breaking news will be what will be the owner's responses? that's what I want you to completely go overboard. Okay. Just hit it like 20 times?

Yeah. And then just say, forget the sounder. I've got so much fast-ranking news, I have to get it out. So what we're going to do is we're going to take a time out. Okay. Now, Jeff Passon is the king of the multiple tweets in a row. He's not going to let that just sit there. There's got to be more to it.

And we'll find out what it is to start the second hour, the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to get in, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-1-1-7-9. to 5. 790. Today's edition, and believe or not, happy birthday, Paul McCartney. You are the topic.

It's second hour of the Matt Thomas show next on 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. It is 101 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Did you check Jeff Passing Sweets? He's a multiple tweeter.

He doesn't just put one tweet on, and he'll go take a nap. I think that's all. What? That's not supposed to be encouraging. The encouraging news that he's going to follow up with Players Association gave the schedule 70 games.

Owners love it. Play ball. I didn't get a follow-up tweet. I set up the Twitter notifications. Okay. So I get an alert every time he woes Rosenthal. Or SportsMT. No, because I just, I see your tweets enough.

Oh, thanks. I don't want to miss their tweets. That's true. All right. So just read the one that, a few minutes ago, for those of just joining us, and B, where have you, A, where you've been, B, we're dang glad to have you. The Major League Baseball Association has finalized a proposal to MLB for a season and the neighborhood of 70 games. Sources tell me, Jeff Passon, and Jesse Rogers.

Ken Rosenthal, sources confirmed players union preparing countable proposal of around 70 games. So let's go 66. I think that's what we're working towards. All right, so let's do this. Let's you and I, because we're schedule makers. By the way, if you'd like to join us on this news, 713-212-5790, 7-719, on Twitter. at SportsMT at Brendan Riley underscore and at Joe George Radio. Joe filling in today for Roth.

66 games. We playing everybody in our own division 12 times, right? Yep. That's a total of 48 games, correct? Yes. How are we going to split up the other 618? The other five from your cross division, so from the NL West, it would be, comes up to like 3.6 times.

So you would play, some of them three times. some of them four times to get it to balance out. You don't think playing a regional rival? What's a regional, but you're playing the AL West and the NL West? Like I just, I don't see. Okay. I mean, yeah, I guess you could send them to New York, but don't you want to not do that? No, yeah, you want to keep your travel down.

The problem is the Astros and the Royal, well, the Royals are in the Central. The Astros and Rangers are not going to hear that. The Astros and Rangers are going to have to travel more than anybody else in Major League Baseball this year. And honestly, I think they're just going to be like, yeah, guys, we're sorry. But this is... This is as good as we get. Yeah, because really...

Because even the West Coast teams, think about this. Even the West Coast teams don't... We'll be traveling up from Seattle down to San Diego. That's just going to be up and down the Pacific Coast. Yeah. Even though we're still trying to figure out where... No one has said where Toronto's playing yet. And they're not playing in Toronto.

I guarantee they will not play a single game in Toronto this year. Well, if they're going to do without fans... And that's a perception. They're going to go to Dunedden, Florida, where they had their spring training. That's what I was, you're sending to Florida. I mean, they'd be miserable because it's. It's so hot. It's so hot.

But you could also send them to Texas, to Arlington. You could use the old ballpark. Or you could put them in a different division, so that doesn't really work. You could actually put them in Tropicana Field. Yeah. And just make it and just make the schedule around it. Here's the crazy thing about it. And I don't think it's going to be enough to justify a huge throng of fans there.

But there are a boatload of Canadians in the state of Florida, especially on the west side of the state. And that's why Tampa Bay was talking about doing the split, right? With Montreal, half the home games in Tampa, half the home games in Montreal. Well, that's part of it, at least. It could have been, but I think they were doing it more because they just realized that Tampa Bay just can't handle 80 games of baseball. So, yeah, that wouldn't surprise me putting them in, I mean, put them in a dome stadium. You want as, here's the thing, you want as few weather delays as possible, right? So if you've got teams that are going to be, that are going to have problems playing in their home stadiums, put them in a dome facility.

Let me ask you this. And this really hasn't been brought up. And you and I have argued about this. Would it be wise for Major League Baseball to just go ahead and neutral sight the World Series and the playoff games? because here's the thing. If you finish in September, which is about what you normally would start, then you would have normal weather issues.

But if you are in a situation where you've got to make up some games at the end of the year because of weather issues, because you don't have any room to play these games. I mean, they're going to probably play, what, 66 games in 75 days.

Yeah. It's going to be a relatively tight fit. And you're going from 10 to 16 teams in your playoffs. Guessing your first-on-stream series? You do not want, yeah. You do not want November 15th as your final of the World Series. No, they will not go past the election.

Because they know they're going to get interrupted by football and everything else. Well, their TV partners have already said, no, that's what the MLB has been saying the whole time to the Players Association, is our TV partners do not want to play past October 31st. That's what we've agreed upon with Fox and ESPN. We're not doing that. Like, this is the end date. So anything the players suggest is going to have to include more. double-headers, more day games for travel. It's going to be a very different season.

We're going to see the owners proposed player sponsorship or jersey sponsorship for the next two seasons, which that would end up being permanent. And by the way, you're talking about the travel situation? I think we're going to see a lot of day games because moving from one city to the next is not going to be leaving the stadium, getting on your bus, getting on the plane, going the hotel, and you're done in four hours. my guess is you may be doing some testing when you get to different cities. Before and after.

Before and after. It's going to be a logistical challenge because you're going to be spending probably twice as long getting somewhere. I think you're going to see the schedule really be, they're going to try to put the Astros in Cali for like a week. Oh, I'll say longer than that. I bet you every Astros road trip is 10 days. I think everyone should be. Like, just like if you're going to put, if you're going to put a team on a plane or a plane trip,

you might as well, like if you're the New York Yankees, you don't have to worry about a plane for Baltimore, for Baltimore. I mean, you make those guys bust all those places. And then if you're flying down to play Tampa, then you are going to,

well, who would be else in that American League East that would be? Well, you're saying Toronto. So yeah, yeah, that's what it is. It's the sport, and I'm talking about the NBA and baseball. This is my survival of fittest. For the players in the NBA, it's can you behave yourself and not leave the Walt Disney World grounds? For baseball, it is, can you build a big enough team that's going to withstand maybe five or six off days in a two-month period?

Now, that's what they basically get anyway. Yeah, and when you lose a player for two weeks, do you have the depth in your organization to withstand it? Yeah, 40 man is going to be very, very important. I mean, you're going to see guys miss 30 out of 60 games, and they can potentially have a blister and one positive COVID test. Shouldered tightness, 15-day disabled list? The matter of the 10 game is gone now. It's up to the 15 again.

I think they should get rid of the disabled list for the season. Just play when you want to. Yeah. Just if you're out there, if you're ready, if your shoulder's not tight anymore, if your blister is healed, if your elbow is feeling better, if your knee is not hurting, it's not swollen, you can come back. They're going to have these taxes squadron. I don't know if they'll do that, but they can certainly make it a seven-day deal or a three-day disabled list.

Do something smaller? Yeah. And they can't do. What are they going to do? Ross and I have talked about this on the NICAP. Like, what are you going to do with COVID? You can call it the COVID deal, the COVID-I-O? The COVID list?

Well, here's the thing. Are we being more transparent about who has COVID now? That's a good question. Are they going to report who is of why these guys? But if someone's out for two weeks. But here's the problem. If you say 15-day disabledist illness, what are we supposed to think it's going to be? And then I think that's what they're going to have to do because are you, is Garrett Cole out for 15 days because he's on the precipice of Tommy John?

Or is he on the 15-day DL because he's tested positive for the coronavirus? And by the way, if you're a teammate of somebody who gets COVID while you're playing with him? Good look. Aren't you supposed to be then self-quarantying because you're in a clubhouse, even though? know you're social distancing, you're still in the same dugout, you're still in the same area. I am. That's why, man, these baseball, these sports administrators have, they, every day they should be

on a bulletin board going, all right, what happens here if this happens? And that's why I think that this is where it's really going to get confusing, is that you have to pray and hope that all these preventative measures do not spark massive tests. One or two guys, that's going to come with, that's part for the course. You get an outbreak of four or five guys. That's why the NFL is in a big problem. Imagine this, Joe, the receiving core. Two guys in a receiving core get it.

The other four guys in the receiving core are like, oh, I must be fine. I know. Or an offensive line or a defensive line that are right next to each other, mono-a-mano, a quarterback to a center. It's going to be, who knows? Who does know? I actually think one thing the NFL should do,

I think they should require everyone to our gloves. require everyone to wear a Nike gloves or Under Armour, whatever their sponsor is, require everyone to wear gloves. Like, it's just a step in the process. Everyone besides the quarterback has to have a glove on. Wouldn't that potentially just help a little bit? Like, you're just got to help, like, little, little things.

Make them all wear gloves. We're seeing this halo helmet going around. What about wearing a mask when you're not on the field? Makes sense? Spread out. Instead of what right now you can go from like the 30 to the 30 oh that's long gone So now they're gonna be they're gonna be spread out throughout the side and the end zones and the end zones and I think we'll be in the stands Mm-hmm like if fans are there I

Even though the look on the Texans website you go there you buy tickets you can buy front row So they're clearly not planned for this right now right Right but everything's gonna be different you're gonna have I don't know if you're gonna see an offensive line like normally after a bad series you would see Tim Kelly get with the the whole offense right there and be like, we got to do this, this, this, and this, or he's just with the quarterbacks.

I don't even know if they're going to be able to do that. That's why maybe delaying the NFL season wouldn't be the worst thing. I know that weather's an issue, but frankly, whether, remember we were told four months ago or whatever long ago that summertime's going to heat this thing up and it's going to go away?

We're getting a new outbreak right now. I know. So I don't buy weather conditions being the determining factor probably just proximity more or anything else i think at this point i just i think no one knows and just about taking care of yourself yeah here's just here it's going to solve it a vaccine somebody in 2024 when you have kids if you also want to and you get it dad your your wife's going to say go to the store go get the COVID vaccine take a shot you're down two days you're back to work yeah and until we get that we're in this who should be with how close should they be should they be

I self-quarantine. And that's why I think they will play. I think the NFL is aware of that. They had a story about how... But they want fans. They want fans bad, Joe. I know. They really, really want fans.

But they got to, they're just going to, they got to focus on playing first. All right. 713-212-5-7-9. We're going to have Joe check the other baseball writers and see if they match what Jeff Passan has to say about the latest proposal from the players. They're saying around 70 games. I feel like we've been saying that for the last several months. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Lunchtime Houston Sports Talk, the Matt Thomas show on 7-90. Anything big out of the Texanville the last handful of days, except the two players apparently tested positive? That's it, right? Yeah, we ever heard anything. There was the one weird day where all of a sudden, Tim Jernigan was not coming to Houston.

That was really under the radar. Out of nowhere. And then I thought maybe they would, replace them with someone else right away? I think they're going to. But just haven't yet. Yeah. Nothing. I think you're going to see the Texans be very active when it comes to defensive line depth, come training camp, whatever that is. I also believe this is going to be a dormant time for contract. You would think this would be the time of year to get contract negotiations going with the Sean. And I would be stunned if they don't really get to it until the start of

the season or close to it. Yeah, because you got to see if there's fans. If there's no fans and you're in a revenue sharing league and your money, if your salary cap just plummets, you can't give them a $40 million contract. I don't even think this has to do with what Pat Mahomes gets because let's face it, Joe, the Texans have never worried about what they're spending and for aided and they've worried, but they're setting a weird bar.

I'll give you a case and point. They way, way over-compensated Laramie Tunsel. and Whitney Merciless. And Whitney Mercilus. And Nick Martin. Yeah. And Miami Fairbairn. Guys they could control.

They overpaid everyone. So if there's anybody in the NFL that you wouldn't look to say, I wonder how the Texans are doing it. Well, you would. And then you'd say, all right, reduce it now by 30%. So, yeah, it's what Pat gets, what DAC gets? I think DAC is more of the Deshawn Bar. Because if you're Bill and Jack Easterby, and by the way, I want to tell you this, this goes out saying really, Jack Easterby is as, you know how you have a right-hand man. Yeah.

And then you've got guys that are, quote, unquote, joint of the hip. I mean, they have a belt buckle. They show the same belt buckle. What are you in Ross? Where are you guys out on that scale? Join it. Join at the hip. I mean, I knew you guys were close, but a little inside baseball here.

before our Monday night meeting, which you catch every Monday night on 8 o'clock, that Matt Thomas host. Before you guys were talking and your wife was in the area. Yeah. And Ross started talking trashed your wife. Yeah. And she talked back. Yeah.

And I was like, oh, I didn't know it was like. Oh, yeah. My wife's a tremendous trash talker. So are you and Ross? Like, do you share bell puckles? Are you that close? I'll put it this way. We are close enough that we have.

split meals together. Like has these on a, on, like a pasta? Or a hamburger with a, with a knife cut in a half? Yeah, but was that for a bit

when you guys did the, uh, Nope. You guys did the, we will do a, we will do this. We will go to a cheesecake factory, order two meals,

and flip them halfway through. That's how close we are. Really? Yeah. That's interesting. I didn't know it was that close. Well, I mean,

we've worked together for over 10 years. That's a good point. It's kind of cute. You like it? Brandon, we'll get there at some point. You've got to be with me 10 years. I aspire to be that. I don't think Matt and I ever will.

No, Joe. I've bought your Chinese food, though. I have such respect for you in many other ways. Thank you. Just the whole fantasy fire is pissing me off still. But that's how they're going to go. It's okay. Where are we going with this?

Oh, so Jack Easterbait is tighter than than what would be the good example? example. Yeah, they share the same belt buckle. Okay. So they're the only two that are going to say, is this worth it? And the other one will probably say, yeah, it is worth it. I don't know if Jack can say something without Bill saying, screw you're wrong, but I think Jack does try. I think Bill trust Jack a lot. Okay. I would agree, except that's what Bill has tried to portray his past relationships. he went on and on and on about Brian Gain and how close they were and then months later he got the guy fired

so but Easterby's been here over a year now yeah but I think so far they're aligned on football decisions and like and that's where I wonder if you challenge Bill internally because I think Brian Gang got fired because of the clowny stuff

and then yeah I think he wanted to pay clowny and Bill didn't Yeah. And it very easily could have come down to one decision. Yeah. And I guess it could be flipped the other way, too, but then but Clowny ended up being traded. And if you're Jack Easter, we think about this, this is the first time, I mean, we tease

about what he's done in the past, but he, as a patriot, didn't have intimate details of what it was like to run a Saturday cap or run a draft. He has been given the keys to the whole operation. And do you know how fulfilling that is? It would be like you're being a waiter at a restaurant. Joe. And you're a really good waiter. And you have the pulse of the restaurant because you've been serving people at this restaurant for years. You know what people like. You know what other can drink. You know what specials work. And Joe, I'm giving you the general manager title.

Exactly. He's been, you may not, you don't know the marketing of a restaurant. You don't know how to balance the books. You don't know how to schedule particularly well. You never, because you've never done it. I mean, you can't. But here is a guy who was a chaplain and a character building coach who is now intimately involved in the draft with the salary cap with the way the organization is its top-down model. Jack's going to be very, very loyal to first of all, Bill, but perhaps more so to Cal McNair. Yeah. Because he's, he'll never get this opportunity again. Well, he may get another job like this, but no one in the world gets this kind of bump up. It's under her heard of in the NFL circles.

You got to, when you're a general manager of an NFL team, you've got to be a personnel guy. You've got to be a guy that's probably handled negotiations of contracts. You've got to be a scout. Some form of that. Number of games at Jack Eastbury has gone to on a college campus in the last five years and scouted potential players. Now, he may have great lieutenants behind him,

but the buck's going to stop with Bill and with Jack. Yeah. And that's an incredible amount of confidence this organization. has given that man. It's... It's unheard of. And for what? It might work.

It might, but it's unheard of. For it to work, because you have to win a Super Bowl, though? Yes. Is that the bar? Yeah. We're sick and tired of winning division championship, too.

And they made so much and so many crazy moves. Right. See, I wonder, like, if Bill O'Brien, when his time is up in Houston, if his expectation, because of what Cal McNair let him have, would be to be the GM somewhere else. let me ask you this. If Deonre Hopkins catches 14 touchdown passes and completes passes for 1,300 yards, and the Texans combination of receivers either are well below that or are injured or both,

why doesn't, wouldn't Cal McNair run downstairs and say, what the hell are you guys thinking? And David Johnson, by the way, rushes the ball for, say, 740 yards. unless Cal agrees with the the idea of not paying someone for a contract when they're for a new contract when they're under a deal unless Cal is under that agreement if he if he's on the same page as them then why couldn't Cal maybe go to DeAndre and say

sorry bra this is just not going to happen right now I think they all could have done I think they just chose not to because I figured he'd be a malcontent they literally signed a new CBA that said they couldn't do like they couldn't hold out like they used to. They changed their rules to stop holding out as bad as it was before, and they still just traded him. And they're probably thinking, well,

if he was a guy that was only giving effort on Sunday, and he's a problem in our locker room now, how much worse is he going to be when I politely tell you're going to have to get paid? So if I was Cal and Bill goes six and ten, I'd fire him, frankly. I think it's that cut and dry. I don't think they will, though. I think he's got to go like three and 13, and DeShon's going to have to be healthy.

I mean, he went 4 and 12 in the contract extension. I just, but he's made such bold moves whether they're bad or good or indifferent, but like Bill O'Brien said, they are bold moves. If they don't work, if they don't lead to success, you've got to start thinking about making a change. You cannot be the Bengals.

But how do you fire a general manager one year in the job? Because that's what he would be. Fire Brian game one year in. Oh, that's true. Precedence has been said. Like they've done it before. All right. 128 on the Matt Thomas show.

I thought we just make some little football name. I miss football. I do too. Let's update the folks on what Jeff Passing had to say. We'll do that next 128. He is on the MLB beat. He also comes across the guy that should not be wearing suits every time he's on the sports center, but that's on here and or there.

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non-Florida stories. Do you guys have your stories yet? Yes. Where's yours from? Louisiana. Oh. That sets up for something very exciting. Why? Because they're backward ass too there. I don't think this one says...

Name the five most backward-ass states in the country. All right. Florida? Ding. Louisiana? Ding. West Virginia? Sure.

California? Absolutely. And then I think the last one's probably something obscure. Like it's like a Dakota. We just don't know. No, because you know why we can't call them. Not enough stuff comes from there. I'm honestly, I bet you Texas is probably next on that list.

Oh, no, no, no. We're nice people here. We're very normal. Okay. No, I would have to go. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, normal. So you're saying Kerrville's all screwed up? Is what you're saying?

Well, I'm just asking. San Marcus? I'm still relatively new here. No, okay. Let's go to the ones we agree on. Louisiana, Florida, California. Who is our fourth state? West Virginia.

West Virginia. Who's the backward-ass state number? five. Well, Washington's pretty tough right now. Well, but that wasn't like a year ago. It's just kind of wacky right now. How about like Utah? Oh, I used to live in Utah. It's kind of backwards. It's not nearly as backwards as you think it is, especially in 2020. Yeah. Very progressive. I grew up with a friend who was like strict Mormon. Yeah. And it was always so weird because she would follow a lot of stuff and not like

but she would drink soda but she wasn't supposed to right you're not supposed to drink caffeine you can drink root beer and non-caffeine beverages yeah how about Nevada first of Vegas gives you but that's weird

because it's like a lot of it's okay but they got Area 51 and they have like the desert where strange things happen and pornography and mobile homes I got at Ohio

I don't know you Mississippi Alabama and the Gulf Coast stage you could probably go with. Yeah, but some of those states is just because they marry each other. Yeah, family members.

So the four states are consensus. The fifth one's up for grabs. All right, remind folks what Jeff Passon just had to say a few minutes ago. Jeff Passon said that the MLB has, the MLBPA has countered with a season around 70 games since then. Ken Rosenthal says it's exactly 70 games.

The proposed start for Rosenthal would be start on July 19th and on September 30. Spring training would be June 26th. It says to the 28th. I'm assuming he means July 18th. $50 million postseason pool. A full playoff is staged in 20,

50-50 split of incremental TV revenues for additional postseason games in 2021, that new TBS deal is what that's in reference of. Uniform D.H. selling sponsorships on the jerseys and mutual waiver of potential grievances under March agreement. So the big question is, if the owners say 60 and the players want 70, what's the mathematical difference of that? I mean, how much?

I thought I saw it this morning because I was doing about 10 different things, but I think it's $250 million. Yeah. Separating a 60 game from a 70 game schedule. So the question that we would have to ask, which only the owners could tell us and those that are that handle the books, which they're never going to tell us about, is can you give, Can you, you know, when you're conceding things, can you concede another $250 million? None of us have the answer to that question. Yeah, probably not, but. Why wouldn't you?

At this point, like, I do feel like this is like the owners with this first deal they proposed. They came farther than the players ever have. So my question is this, if they can't concede $250 million, which we're presuming is the amount of money it would take to pay these players for 10 additional games. Is that how we're going to end the baseball season because of that? Possibly. And the question would then be, if $250 million is too much, could the owners go to the players and say, let's do 66 games, better than half, and essentially then be paying about $140 million in additional money?

Yeah, and the other part of it, too, is the playoff pool, that $50 million playoff pool that the players were talking about. The owner's proposal was for $25 million, so probably just meet in the middle of there as well. John Heyman basically just revealed the sources on Twitter, said players may also broach playoff revenue sharing plan in addition to a 70-game request as part of their counterbacked MLB, and this is where he reveals the sources.

Uncertain how MLB will respond since their leadership thought 60 was going to be a number, be the number. So again, if you're missing out of what we talked about a little bit at the beginning of the show, John Heyman didn't go get the players' perspective on this. He got the owners. He went to the owners, and instead of cross-checking and seeing if indeed the bulls, sides were jiving. He didn't. And he put it out there. And that's why everyone is like, nobody else is reporting what you're reporting, John Heyman, because the players were kind of seeing it

differently than you were. Yeah, I think I told Ross last night, Matt, that I think by Monday we'll have a deal in place for baseball. It feels better, doesn't it? I really feel like by Monday. And think about it, we're now since, in the last seven days, we've gone from 100% baseball. Now, Rob Manfred says, I can't guarantee it. Then they sit down. in Arizona, him and Tony Clark, Rob Manfred. They work on the 60 game proposal. That was yesterday, and it came out yesterday.

Now the players have already counted countered with the 70 game proposal. So, I feel like we could be tomorrow that the owners send back the 65 and then over the weekend the players accept. Yeah. How about this? And then we worry about how about how about it?

Can we come back on Monday with the season? And then it becomes nothing but security, it becomes something about this 125 playing page playing guide. Yeah, I think that's all it's about now. Totally unrelated to that. If those two guys are meeting, who picks up the tab?

Ooh. Let's let me play this scenario out and then you tell me who picks up the tab. Rob Manfred calls and says, Tony, let's meet in Phoenix. I don't know if Tony lives there or not or that's where the player is.

I don't know where that is, but why Phoenix doesn't matter. So obviously, Commissioner Manfred is getting on a private plane. He's not flying. commercial. Could you mention Rob Manfred in an airport right now even with smaller airports

and smaller... Private, yeah. I mean, he's flying private. So that's a cost in a major league. That's going to be probably $25,000. Then they're going to mean... Are they going to mean at somebody's house? Are they going to mean a hotel room? Are they going to mean a conference room? Because it's not just the two of them. There's going to be his lieutenants and

Tony Clark's lieutenants. Yeah. So you got to rent the room. Then you got to eat. And you got to drink. You got a social distance, so it's going to be a bigger room than you normally would have. I want you to answer the question, who's paying for this? Well, you don't go havesies.

No. You don't go Dutch. I'm going to go based on normal dating principles. The one who asks pays. Rob said, we need to meet. So Rob's got to pay. So Rob's got to pick up the tab. Even though he flew to Phoenix, but he flew to Phoenix.

That's what I'm asking you. think about this who you don't go Dutch now what if Tony Clark calls and says okay you're coming to town I'll find us a place that would then mean that the Players Association would pick up the tab on that

I'm going to tell you that Rob's going to pay for the air flight meaning the owners and that the Players Association picks up everything else because it wasn't Tony Clark flying to New York to go meet with the Commissioner Manfred in a hotel

in New York City. You know, but Rob Manfred has consistently put his foot in his mouth. So he's got to kind of make good here. He's got a show. He's got to show that they're willing to come. We're coming to terms. I think Rob is fan. The whole thing.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Rob Man, Major League Baseball owners are going to tell Tony Clark to go find a place and set up a room for 12 people with food and drink and social distancing. Yeah. And he's going to then say, and then send me the check? You really think that's how it works?

I do. because Rod Manfred is like $30 million a year. No, forget about man. I'm talking about the owners. When I speak of Manfred, I'm... Okay. It's everything on the owner's critic. I mean, he's got a...

You know, I have the black car with American Express. He's got the car that is made of charcoal. It's that dark. Man, I... If I'm fine... If Rod Manfred pays, though, it shows more good faith. Even though you're just negotiating one-on-one. Six times six.

It shows better faith if you're the side that picks up the check. I feel like now I've talked myself into Dutch. Yeah. How did you bring in dating tendencies in this whole thing? Because if you invite someone to dinner, you have to pay. If I say, Joe, let's go grab dinner. We're not dating. Neither are Joe, neither are the baseball owners and players.

They're like a massive fight. They're in a breakup. This is like a relationship. We're just friends. This is a marriage that's on the rocks. So why is it upon Manfred to pay for the ticket? Why is it on the owners to pay for it? Because they make them more money.

Okay. We've just tried to make the... So what's your official stance? My official stance is he's flying there. He calls Tony and say, find us a hotel in a conference room. Okay. The players pick up the tab.

I'm going Manfred. Because isn't Manfred a word about a budget? What, I mean, Marriott would have been just fine. Maybe he puts them in a four seasons. But you can't let Tony Clark choose where you're going and then yeah you can't let Tony choose

and then you have to pay for it that's like saying let's go out neat what do you want to go? Joe girl says I don't care and you'll say let's go to a steakhouse but what if she says she wants to go to Tony's instead if you're paying for it you get to make the decision okay look if Tony chose where they're going

then he has to pay that's my point Tony says I'll handle it Tony and the players pick up the tab I've talked you into it honestly I'm usually pretty like solid on my stance of takes no matter how good or bad they are. And you've completely changed me on this one.

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All right, so Joe and I are still arguing about who picks up the tab. And is it even fair of us to even think about real life as compared to millionaires and billionaires? So if I call you... I think it's like you can do it to any group. Because we're not a relationship. You and are not in a relationship. If there was a problem, if there was a fight, if every day, if you and I had a fight,

Wexler and Clank came in the studio before the A team. Which they never did. And there was a stare down. Oh yeah. And I said, hey, Matt Ross and Brendan, we need to go get dinner. You guys pick the place. We got to sell this beef. You got work it out.

You pick up the tab because you're picking the place. That's what you're saying. Or if you're trying to make, if you've screwed up, you say you pick the place and then I would then pick up the tab. Because I'm trying to make up with you. Sure. And that's the question. here is who picks up the check because who thinks they're in the wrong.

I think Manfred thinks he's in the wrong because he's the one that jumped on the plane. So now I'm changing my opinion. There we go. Now we're back on my side. You just flipped me in the middle of a segment. So yeah, I'm wrong. Let's play role play very quick before we go and take some phone calls. 713, 2,1, 2, 579 if you want to get in.

7132-125790. I'll be Rob Manfred. You'll be Tony Clark. Okay. Then ring, ring, ring. Hello? Hey, Tony, this is Rob. Hi, Rob, how are you? I'm a little,

things aren't going well. Yeah, it's a disaster. I'm getting a lot of heat. I was on ESP and yesterday and got ridiculed. Yep. Why don't we meet one more time? Just you and your five lieutenants,

me and my five lieutenants. Look, I'm not going to New York right now. Why? I don't think we need to meet. Okay. Let me be, let me extend my olive branch to you. Let me come to Phoenix. Okay.

Okay. Yeah, we can, you know what? Sure. And let me, I'll fly my own plane, my expense. Okay. And I'll get my own rental car, Uber, limousine. And why don't you find us a place? Definitely.

Look, we'll get you at the airport. We'll take care of that. Oh, you're going to pick me up to the airport. We'll send a limo, but we'll pick a place for it. Okay. So let's make this, let's get this right. You're going to pick the place. I'm going to come here and I'm going to fly here on my own with my lie lie,

because we feel bad. Yeah. You and I did not resolve that. Nobody listening to us right now has any idea who's supposed to pick up the tab for the hotel? Because I don't know. You just convinced me 90 seconds ago.

I was going to pick up the tab. I chose Rob Manfred first, and then you talked me out of it, and then somehow I talked to you back into it. There's a simple solution. All right, Brendan, break the tie. Who picks up the tab for the hotel? Manfred for sure.

Explain. Manfred. represents the people who own the business. I don't know if maybe I'm in the wrong here. I've never taken my boss out to business or out to dinner. That's a good point. Oh, okay. So you're saying when in doubt, owners or bosses always take the employee out.

Does Ross ever pay for you? Yes. Not a lot. But you guys are mutual. Yeah, but I pay most of the time. Yeah. Like you pay when you took us to house parks. Yeah.

And I'll still do that. Matter of fact, I owe you a meal for coming in today and tomorrow. I'll buy lunch tomorrow. Chinese food. Whatever you want. That's so good. Bernie, you want Chinese food? I will happily take Chinese food.

Fair enough. Look, that's what we just did. I know. Why aren't we negotiating this contract? Why weren't they just doing this? This is why it pisses me off about baseball so much is that what's going to happen in like these 72-hour window starting like two days ago when they met for the first time in Phoenix. It just should have been happening all along.

why were you not doing this? All right, maybe our audience can help us. Who picks up the tab? See, I think the biggest argument in the favor of man for picking up is owners always pick, I mean, bosses always pick up for employees. Let's go to Kendall and League City on the Matt Thomas show. Kendall, good afternoon. How's it going, Matt? Good.

Man, I've got to say, as much as I hate to say, if there is a check on this, because let's be honest, they probably got enough points or. cops wherever they go, they're probably going to get it handed to them anyway because of their status. Right. If there is a check, as much as I hate to say it, if they don't go Dutch, it's going to be an itemized split for who

wants to pick up whatever. Like, whoever gets the venue gets this, whoever brings the drinks get that. I mean, they're on such a rocky terms right now that I don't think there's going to be either side saying, you know what, yeah, I'll take care of this, we're in the wrong.

So they're going to basically have the meaning and just not even talk about it. Like it's the, it's, it's not like, it's sight unseen. It's like, we'll figure this out later. It's like put it on an invoice for us and bill us later kind of thing. I think so, honestly, because they know that the public eye is completely on them. They know that they've got to get something done soon. And honestly, I think they feel like, in person, I feel like they really shouldn't let basketball or football or soccer.

any of it beat them to the punch because if they do, their eyes are going to be on something else. They're going to lose a lot of revenue and a lot of fans, myself included. If they can't ask this out, this is why I was perfectly fine with leaving the game myself after I got hurt in college. Yeah. Because I saw the business side of it, and it hurts the game so much. But the problem is it's as important as anything else on the field. What these guys make and how the money is distributed and how these stadiums are filled and how

their advertisements are in. I mean, I wish we could talk about what's happening in between the lines, but I guarantee you, Kendall, that if we took a word-by-word conversation of this radio show in the last 10 years, I bet we talk as much about contracts and business as we do about the actual core supply. You're probably right about that. So that's why it's such a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And with the amount of money that's being tossed around there, it's easy to see why. they're so worried about everything. I mean, but still, I got to say, I think it's going to be like,

let's just try to hash this out. We'll worry about the details later. Yeah, sounds good. Kendall, thank you for the phone call. I have another proposal for you. Is this about paying for the hotel? Yeah. Well, we could also rent out a room

at a convention center, but that'd be too much. You can get this to be private. Go ahead. Early on in my relationship with my wife. Yeah. One of the reasons why I enjoyed it so much, the relationship was instead of just offering to pay for the tab, she offered to get the wine.

So we went to like a nice steak dinner and we were going to order a bottle of wine and she's like, oh, we'll just, I'll get the wine tonight. And I was like, oh, thank you. And she wasn't saying you have to pay for the food, but she was just offering to pay for the wine. Maybe there's a deal here where Manfred pays for the steak dinner and Tony Clark pays for the wine. you do it Dutch that way. Alcohol versus food. But if I'm Manfred, I've already paid $50,000 to fly a private jet to Phoenix from New York on a show notice.

I don't know where you and I stand on this anymore. We both are like flip-flopping. Yes. We're going full dolphin flipper right now. That's why we need sports because we can't make up our mind. We're like America when it comes to politics. Yeah, but this has been like two of my favorite segments of radio. We need a negotiator on this.

Could you imagine that they were arguing about who pays for what? I could totally see them. I could see them like standing up and yelling at each other at the table. And Rob Manfred being like, I flew to come here. Because let's face it, I don't, does the MLB have a jet sitting at the airport waiting for anybody to go on it whenever they need to go? Probably not. Right?

Yeah. He's got to call a private jet company and say, in six hours, I want to fly from New York to Phoenix. And it can't be cheap. So you know what, Tony Clark? Be the better man. Get the hotel at the Ritz Carlton. Get a big conference room.

Serve heavy apps. And get us a deal for 2020. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Next on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. 201 on Sports Talk 790, the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Coming up in one half hour, Joe, Brandon, self will go to non-flora stories.

252. It's all things Paul McCartney as we celebrate his birthday here on Sports Talk 7-9. Now, you played the bump, the breaking news sounder earlier and today for no reason whatsoever. It was to actually you're 0 for 2 on your breaking new sounders. The damn hard

knocks, nobody cares about. Strong disagree. By the way, if you didn't hear, it's the Chargers and the Rams. Yon. And then you came out later that hour and said that Major League Baseball Players Association went back to the owners and you said they won a 70 game season.

Yes. And that was from squirly little, what's his face? Passing. Passing. So now you have an update to what Jeff Passon had to say. Oh, this is John Hammond. Oh, geez. The owner's mouthpiece, literally.

Owners are not responding positively to players counterproposal. Owners believe they had a meeting of the minds and the number was 60 games. One owner's response to player's proposal today, quote, D-O-A. Read that again and then comment right after you say it. One owner's response to player's proposal today, D-O-A. So that $250 million we were talking about. Yeah. Basically $8 million a team.

They don't want it. They really just won't play the 60 games. They won 60. But don't buy it. You're the owner said. You know why? I don't believe it because John Hayn reported it. Until Ken Rosenthal says it or Jeff Passon says it, I believe they will negotiate.

But why wouldn't you believe John because John's got the ear of somebody in Major League Baseball ownership? Because it might be one owner. We also have seen reports for up to eight owners don't even want to play this year. And those reports were basically proven false. We know that Jim Crane's already said yes, that he will play this year. Yeah. If someone else reports it. it, I'll gladly take it seriously.

Until then, I'll have the belief that by Monday we will have a 65 game season. Okay, so we're going to take his report as moments ago with a grain of salt. I think, as we should. You're probably right. Because yesterday we were all gung-ho on John Hammond's report and we got burned. Yep. So I'd be gung-ho about this one when he could be very wrong. The problem is, yeah, because here's the thing.

Not all ownership groups are created equal. What's Kansas City and Cleveland and Oakland thinking, may not be what New York, Boston, and the Texas Rangers are thinking. Yeah, it could be the exact same owner feeding both these stories. It's true. Where one owner is saying, yeah, Rob Manfred's 60 games, that's what we're going to go with. And then now when the players say we want more than 60, he says the offer is DOA. All right, 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790 if you want to get in. I don't think it makes a difference. Now, Brian T. Smith, do you read his column today? he is all he thinks 60 games is asterisk filled that anything less than 80 makes in an asterisk yeah but at this point you can't you can't play 80 no you can't play 80 so and i always said it felt gimmicky less than 80 and i don't know if i'll ever change that but i will say this you know how you don't think you carry much value in life i believe that you do you have sold me on the smaller season meaning every game is more impactful

You absolutely have. So I give you tremendous amount of credit for that. Thank you. Because, first of all, we're starving for sports. Can I peel the curtain back on my own show? Yes. I feel like I do it like once every day. What's up, Matt, Thomas, the show.

Correct. I am sick and tired of what it could have should have. Oh, Sam. And let me tell you. I have the greatest job on earth. I work with the greatest people. We have a really good time. We are the toy store of the world, right?

when people are worried about civil unrest and COVID and how to get the economy going in and keeping their jobs and paying the bills, this show largely never discusses any of the things I just said. We are arguing over the semantics of who to pick up a bar tab and a hotel room at a conference center for a bunch of rich people, okay? But with that being said, this is becoming, it's big of a challenge in my entire career. For the first two or three months, I was okay with it. Because you know what? We thought there was going to be an end of a virus and we were just going to go along and that everybody had to come back because, let's face it. Joe, these teams are coming back.

There may be some civic responsibility to it. There might be some competitive balance and need for our champion to be crowned. And that, you know, we do this for a living. We love what we're doing. but everything we're talking about, every sport, whether it's college football, the NFL, this is money-driven. There are hundreds of millions of dollars that the NBA is ready to collect from its television partners if they have basketball.

If the NBA does not play again, Joe, they will cripple the amount of money that will be used in a 50-50 split for salary cap for future years. the basketball players have tremendous concerns about their social responsibility, about their health. If they are willing to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars and are willing to sacrifice a much, much smaller salary cap and a reconfigured collective bargaining agreement, then so be it. But they're not. the NBA athlete wants the money they're owed and they want to be able to have a say-so on how the games are presented and what they can say, which I'm okay with.

I'm more than okay with. But the central factor to all this is that even though the baseball owners are taking it in the shorts this year, how bad they are we don't know, they still want the games to be played. The players still want to get as much of their regular contracts as possible. everything we have done from safety and the Walt Disney campus and the 125 pages, it's all good. It's all responsible. But the fact of the matter is, everything that we're talking about is being driven by money.

College football, we want the kids representing our schools. We also understand if the Georgia, at the Georgia Dome. What's, what is, Sanford Stadium in Athens isn't full. That the University of Georgia cuts programs. That if Tiger Stadium isn't full in Bat Rouge,

something's going to give. You're not going to be able to pay, you know, Coach O, that ridiculous amount of money. He's going to have to take major, major cuts. Everything right now,

whether we want to be frank or not about it, is the truth, is that we are being driven by dollars on this. No other way around it. So I'm just willing to call a spade of spade on this one. I want everybody to be comfortable. I want everybody to be safe.

I don't want an outbreak. I want a champion crowned. But make no mistake. There's billions of dollars to be made on March Maddenners. There's billions of dollars being made on college football. There's multi-billion dollar television deals in the NFL. There's a new billion dollar deal in baseball. Money's driving this.

So let's not kid around and say that it's not being driven for just the love of the game. It's all about money now. And we're talking about $250 million separating a 60 and a 70 game season, and it's still a bona contention. It's $8.23 million per owner. That's what we're talking about here. You're talking about an average to above average relief pitcher. like that's all. $8.8 million.

That's one player you're not going to be able to sign to a three-year contract. One average player. That's all we're talking about here is $8 million. And honestly, the owners to cry poor again

when now they're getting the players to agree to put advertisements on jerseys, you're telling me they're not going to make $8 million on that. I don't know what they're going to make. We never see. We never see it.

But I feel like we would. I mean, someone's going to pay the Astros a ton of money to put their logo on their jersey. And it should be Waterburger. It'll be Chick-fil-A. Or Big City Wings, if they want it. I'm thinking because of the, I'm thinking about some of the end stadium stuff they do. Oh. That we're not going to see this year.

But it's funny. The logos you see on NBA, teams you would never think would be yeah like the rockets one i didn't know what that company was that's the cell phone company like the southics are general electric you would never have associated the celtics with g e would you like the celtics shows that one because it goes with the jersey and same with the rockets no nothing to do with it like it like it like it like it looks like it fits it's not like an odd looking they're not none of them are obnoxious are they no i and and that's what people said they were going to be and then we saw the NBA ones i'm like oh yeah

that's the biggest game is that people are going to be like oh the authenticity the sport has done out. There's a little small logo. Is it going to be weird? Yeah. Is it going to be weird for like Yankees and Cubs fans and like some of the traditional teams, I think? Sure. To the teams that change their jerseys all the times? Let me tell you. The Celtics and the Lakers have two the most legendary jerseys in the history of sports. And they've got logos on it. And they've got logos on it and we're just fine with it. And honestly, the reason why I think if anything, it's more awkward with baseball jersey is just the literal placement. Like basketball jerseys, it fits nice up by the like the straps part. Like it just blends in well. the baseball one is going to be like front and center like on the jersey or it's going to be like on the sleeve

i would go sleeve all right no you got to put it you got to put on the on the shoulder do you yeah but there's numbers there or logos there no and on the other side there's nikey logos now you'll find it's got me in the front of the jersey the shoulder will not take care of it under any circumstance does it be like soccer where it's the whole front of the stomach no no no no no we see another sport like soccer with the Black Lives Matter in the back. What did you think about that? I'm not surprised. I can see the NBA doing something close to that.

I think the NBA probably will. Yeah. And that would have zero problem with it. I think, or maybe you'll see like custom jerseys. Here's the only thing I'm bothered with. They'll say like Floyd on the back. I'm bothered with when it becomes like a NASCAR car is ridiculous.

Yeah, just one jersey. One, like one sponsorship is fine. Yeah. You put nine of them on there. First of all, if I was a sponsor of the other nine, I would be pissed. Yeah.

Because I'm not going to get fair market value for this. I may be paying a cheaper price. but can you name a race car driver and the sponsor that are attached to it? Probably not because there's so many of them that you don't get that sort of identification. Where I just named Rocket is the official Rocket sponsor and I knew that GE was with the Celtics.

Because it's one. It's one. You stand out and you pay a premium to be that one. Yeah. You actually lower the value of that product if you add more. 17 minutes away. It is time for non-Florida Stories. 213 on Sports Talk 790.

Hey, it's Coach Dan Tony. Back three and the corner is good. Matt Thomas, my favorite voice in Houston. Now that's a little exaggerating. Back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Oh, Maka, love you, brother. You know what? You've never seen me, like people always ask me, they say,

have you ever just gone crazy interviewing a particular athlete? And I have. Nolan Ryan was a childhood idol of mine. Earl Campbell was. So when I've gotten to know them a little bit over the years, I go fanboy. If Paul McCartney was to walk in here right now,

you'd have to do the show to be the Joe George show, which may be benefit for you. Because I don't think I'd be able to put together a sentence. Yeah, I would, because I don't know where I, you know how Chris Farley,

the old Chris Farley show on SNL way back in the day? Yeah. He did, oh, that was stupid question. I'd be the same exact way. I'd be foaming. I'd be like foaming at the mouth. Paul freaking McCartney is. in my studio.

That's how excited I was when I saw Jimmy Butler for the first time. What? I know, but I'm a Bulls fan. And then I saw Jimmy at the Team USA game here in Toy Center. And I said, hey, Jimmy, what's it like, you know, being back here in Houston? His response was, I'm from Tom Ball. And I said, okay, bye. So he gave you the horrible first impression.

And I just walked away. I was like, I'm not interested in doing this. I worked for a company that told me to. go and wasn't going to do anything with it. So I was like, oh, I don't need to interview this guy. Okay. I'll give you another example of that. I was in Minneapolis and when the Super Bowl was in Phoenix, the first time I'd ever gone there, I think,

it was the first time in University of Phoenix Stadium. But we were all in downtown Phoenix at Radio Row. And Chris Carter at that point had not been put into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame. But he's a former Viking, so I wanted to get as many Minnesota connections as I could. Sure. I saw Chris, and I said, and some of his PR flag said, yeah, Chris Carter's available.

I interviewed him for about 10 minutes. He was as surly, and, you know, he gives you those awful look after questions. I mean, I'm lobbing, Joe, softball after softball after softball at him. I left that conversation. I'm like, I hope you never get in the Hall of Fame because you're a Hall of Fame A-hole. Favorite Radio interview? Hmm The favorite one I've ever seen

When I was here in Houston And I was helping work it I was sitting there next to watch Just across from Tim Tebow And his like no sleeve white hoodie But that guy I was captivated Oh The minute he started talking

I was like I love Tim Tebow So much My favorite I had Morton Anderson And Bobby Gabor on Okay This is when we were in New Orleans Uh And the two guys came to the table.

Morton Anderson, Hall of Fame kicker, Bobby Gabriel, a longtime Saints quarterback. And they took over my show. I was just kind of an innocent standby on this one. They just kind of went. They went, and it was amazing. They were talking about their kids, vacations, old memories. I literally didn't have to do much. And I'm thinking these are two great NFL players that literally took over my show.

And all I did was I ate ice cream. They were giving out free samples. until they spilled the ice cream all over our little table at the convention center. Did it break everything? No, it was just ice cream.

Nothing crazy. So they weren't like Michael Connor? No, Michael Connor spilled coffee on our phone board today and we didn't know on the phone board. That's not here nor there. So that's my favorite. In terms of question and answer, it would have to be now in sports related, I think.

I interviewed Larry the Redneck. Is that a lot? his name? No, Larry the cable guy. Who really is a redneck. He was funny. What's so funny about that? I missed him. He called Larry the redneck. Well, I mean, he is, right? I know. And at first, I didn't get it at first, and then you

correct you yourself, and I was like, okay. It makes so much sense. I enjoyed meeting Rudy. That was really cool. Even though I think the movie's super overrated. Super rated. The whole character is super overrated. Yeah, I agree. Completely. But a really nice guy. Yeah. Ross have actually, Ross and Gordy probably answer that better. I'm trying to think of crazy

thing, best interview guests over all time. Damarino wasn't bad. I enjoyed people that I grew up watching. Yeah. And I asked them about the Iso toner gloves because I just had to. But yeah, that kind of stuff.

Wrestling, wrestlers are, I mean, Charlotte Flair. Oh my God, she's such a sexy bee. She just is. She is, wouldn't she be the term of voluptuous? Yeah. I feel like definition, like in the picture version.

Yeah. The dictionary. Yep. Full bodied, if you will. Who was the lady Ross had a crush on this year? What? He was. The NFL network lady.

Oh, I don't know who it was, but I mean. He was in love. Was it Colleen Wolf? Yeah. I'm listening to it on the earphone. I'm like, are you going to have sex with her on the air? I mean, it will probably help raining. So go ahead and do it if you're going to.

That's too funny. All right. Let's go to Tony and Webster at 224. on Sports Talk 790. Tony, good afternoon. Hey, how's going, buddy? Good. Hey, I was listening to you guys a few minutes ago. You were talking about Chris Carter.

I actually had the pleasure of meeting him when I was stationed in Hawaii over at, it was doing the Pro Bowl. It was back in either 96, 97. It was the late 90s. And I saw him at the red light right outside of Aloha Stadium. and I was in my Jeep and had my top drop, and he was in a van, a minivan with a couple other people. And I wrote, he rolled his one at us. I was waving at him. He rolled his wonder down.

And we're at the red light. And I'm like, hey, Chris, man. I said, you know, man, I watch you all the time, man. I love the way you play ball, man. And I said, you know, just keep doing what you're doing, man. You know, you're a great receiver. And he was like, and? Like that?

I was, I just like, look, I wanted to, you know, man, I just wanted to get out of my Jeep and just go over and, like, you know, slap him upside the head. So you had a bad, you had a bad first impression with him, too. Oh, it was terrible. To this day, you know, every time I see him on TV, man, I just, like, you know, this guy's a jerk. But I met Randy Moss that same weekend and Eddie George, all those guys, really nice dudes, man. But Chris Carter, let's see him and Warwick Dunn. I almost got in a fight with Warwick Dunn on Wauke, Wickee Beach.

Warwick Dunn? Yeah, yeah, nice guy, Warwick Dunn. You know, all-American guy, yeah, him. That's funny because isn't Warwick Dun the guy that was, like, building a lot of homes for a lot of single-parent families and whatnot? Including the one that to show Watson lived in. Yep, that's him. That's him.

Yeah, but, you know, just, I guess I just called him at the wrong time, and I had my video camera. That was back when everybody carried a video camera. Yeah. And he was like, get that video camera out of my face. Wow. And I was like, I was like, man. And, you know, I stepped back.

And I was like, I was like, man. And then this little kid comes up. And kid couldn't have been no more than about maybe, maybe 11 or 12. And the kid asked Warwick for his autograph. And Warwick was like, no, I'm not signing autographs right now. Get out of here. And the kid was like, he passed by me. He said, work does a jerk.

Huh. And I was like, yeah, he is. I had never heard that. Thank you very much for the story and appreciate your service. And thanks for listening to show. I very much appreciate it, buddy. Thank you for the phone call. Man, I've heard nothing but amazing things about Warwick Dunn.

I feel like every athlete has one of those stories. I'll give you real quick one. Because he mentioned Florida. One year I was doing Rice basketball. We were playing, he mentioned Hawaii, not Florida. We were playing, Rice was playing Hawaiian basketball and an off day in Mahalalu. And the Pro Bowl was always there. And so I decided I got a credential and went to the,

AFC practice. Gary Walker and Aaron Glenn will represent the Texans at the time. I wanted to go see Peyton Manning because my middle son is named after Peyton Manning. Oh, I didn't know that's why. Yeah. In fact, when he was born in 2003, so this had to have been during the O2 season, I got on a conference call with all the Houston media with Peyton Manning. And I said, Peyton, excuse me, my name is Matt Thomas. I'm a sports reporter here in Houston. My son, my future son is going to be named after you. Would you mind saying something to my wife? And he said, hey, Kim, this is Peyton.

I just want to congratulate you on the birth of your upcoming son. Hope the name Peyton works out as good for you as it does for me. Nice. And that went a long way. I'm sure it did. I mean, Joe George. Was it like the beginning of your marriage all over again? A long way.

So, I got. go to the Proble, he's there. And I'm like, I'm going to go to Peyton and I'm going to introduce myself to him and say, thank you very much for saying what you said. It was one of the most amazing things anybody could say to anybody's wife. And I went to introduce myself, and he was a little surly with me. A big old can of, I don't care. And I'm like, this is so unlike Peyton Manning. So I get back to the hotel and the big story that night on ESPN from the Pro Bowl was that Peyton Manning got called out by his kicker Mike Vanderjacked. Basically Mike Vanderjerk, and I'm paraphrasing here, didn't think that Peyton had the stones

to lead a team to a championship. And then Peyton Manning would later call Mike Vanderjack an idiot. And I don't think Mike Van der Jack ever kicked again for the Colts after that. Yeah, I don't think so either. So it's one of those situations that sometimes you run into an athlete and you don't know why they treat you the way that they do because Peyton, by all accounts, him is still very early in his career, was this really affable guy.

And I wasn't looking to have break bread with him, go to have dinner or anything, but I just wanted to thank him for saying one of the most amazing things he ever said to me. And that was the end result was like, man, I left Aloha Stadium going, God, Peyton, this is terrible. My first impression, you sucks too.

So that's my little story time. Speaking of stories, non-Florida stories, up next, mine comes to you from the world of internet commerce okay

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Thank you very much. Tell your smart device to play. Sports Talk 790 on IHard Radio. I am not really familiar with this song. Maybe that doesn't make me a diehard Paul McCartney fan. Yeah, you can turn that off. Not what I would call a... That's an Octopus's Garden of the Fantasy 5 of Paul McCartney songs.

I looked up an article that was his top 40 songs, and this was number three on that article. Is that right? I plead ignorance on that. Like, let a man. Silly love songs would be my favorite wings. Of course, there's so many great songs that he sang. of the Beatles yesterday

Ellen, a rigby, all that kind of stuff. But I just, that was not one I had ever heard of.

I'm sure ATX Hobbo girl's like, you haven't heard of that one? What are you talking about? Well, she said that, uh,

let's see what we get earlier. Matt needs to know how many gift cards you can use before he offers to pay. What? Are you a gift card user? Of course. But like avid,

like is, not avid. But if the time is right, I'll use it. Because it wasn't there an issue where you tried to use a gift card early on in quarantine when things started to reopen. Right. And you were told you couldn't.

No, I was told that the machine wasn't working, which is BS. That's like when we start, when my other job, we were like, yeah, we're not taking cash right now. And they'd say, well, I don't, oh, we don't have any. No, yeah, if you offer gift cards, you take them. I don't, I don't want to hear about your machine. No matter what? No matter what. But what if their machines actually don't?

Do you really believe when they say that? No. Then do you have my back on this one? All right, time now for 236 for some non-flora stories. This is where once a week we search the World Wide Web for bizarre, intriguing stories about what's happening outside of the state of Florida who provides, frankly, more stories. Do you ever catch yourself in a Florida story wormhole where you're just reading one after the other about crazy crap happening in that state? Yeah, because if you get one on social media on, like, Twitter or Facebook and you click on the story, there's always like other suggestions. Yeah, and they're always Florida.

And going and going and going. Oh, Boeh, do you want to get rid of Arkansas's estate? What is really Arkansas bringing in the table? That's what I thought. I stopped when I drive to Illinois. Arkansas is your jam? Well, it's like the, you go like 12 hours from Illinois to Arkansas to Little Rock, and they use six hours the next day.

Okay, very good. I didn't see Paul McCartney in Little Rock one time. That's where you saw him? How many times you've seen Paul live? Four times. I'm jealous. Yeah. I only saw him at one bad Super Bowl performance.

Yeah, that didn't really count. No, the old guys shouldn't be doing super rules. They never do well. The problem is they are the most recognizable. Paul, none of them were good. Prince was good. He wasn't old, though. Yeah, that's true.

How old was he probably when he did that? Probably in his 50s. Yeah, I wouldn't say he was probably in his 50s for sure. I guess I just feel like, I don't know why I view Prince is so much younger. I know. I understand that. All right. We welcome the rookie, Brendan, to our non-Florida story family.

Brendan, what do you got for us this week? man sues his date for 130,000 euros, which is about 145,000 American dollars at the moment. Okay. Claiming he caught cold sores from kissing her. Personal trainer who says he contracted cold sores deserves $130,000 for her negligence. He says he's traumatized and his life work is seriously affected. The 45-year-old claim she owed him a duty of care to protect him from contract. contracting a virus for life.

His flu-like symptoms, mouth ulcers, and even had to be rushed to the hospital for a panic attack. Wait a minute. Did she admit that she had it before she started kissing him? Was it intentional or did she not know that he had the, that she had this virus going? This article has no word from her or what she said. I'm going to, unfortunately, I'm going to have to claim a verdict to the, to the girl. Yeah, they're cold source. Yeah, and he's looking for money

He's panic attack We all have panic attacks when we get sick My wife says I exaggerate a lot In general? No about being sick What kind of disease? What is that when you're sick When you always think you're sick

Not like kleptomaniac That's when you try to steal stuff What is it? Hypercondria Yeah I don't think I am though But she thinks I am I'm a pussy when I'm sick

Like I can Honestly I want to be left alone And it's the biggest struggle I've had With being married so far is that I want to be left alone and I want to play video games and do nothing else. All right. By way, great story. And how do we side?

We side with a girl, correct? Yeah. So do we know how it ended or is it still in litigation? No, it's still in litigation. This is very fresh. Very good. Do you want me to go? Yeah, go ahead.

We got more litigation here. We're going to Hollywood, California. A couple has been fighting with their neighbors for three years about illegal construction. Where is this? In California. Okay. So the neighbors probably just building something. Sure.

The wife decided she would put an end to this when confronted the neighbors. The neighbors are now being sued because their reaction was to sneak into the backyard of this other couple, climb onto the roof, and drop one on top of the roof. Drop one, what?

The number two. You mean drop a deuce on their roof? Yep, and they're being sued for it. That was their response. I am the judge. I rule in the favor of the homeowners. You drop a dues on my house. I'm going to sue you.

I'm going to fight you. I'm first of all like on your roof. So how to first I was like, you have to hose it off. Yeah. And it's going to end up on the ground. But that's dangerous. Roofs are on an angle.

Your squat's got to be strong. You have strong legs. Why are you worried about the health of the people going up on the roof? You should be worried. worried about the people that have to get the hose from their side of their house and have to hose it down. And make sure it doesn't get in the gutters. Because then it's stuck. Well, it depends on what they ate.

No, no, no, no, no. Do you want to see the picture? No, no, no, no. I want you to get to envision. I drop a deuce on the top of your house. Yeah. You have to get what? A sprayer. Your hose from the side of your house. Yeah. You're going to spray it off. Where is it going to land? Nah, moving. On your car. or anywhere. You don't control where the deuce goes.

And that's the problem. So you just got to pick it up. You got to suck it up. You're not, no. No, you're not going on a roof to pick up. Poo? No, you're not. That's not right.

What are your choices? The hose, and you just got to be, make sure you're far away from it. You have to hose from a distance. You're going to be a big, big, big. What if my hose isn't long enough? Well, I'm sure that's been a problem before. I'm sure that's the first time you've heard that. All right. Here we go.

Oh, I love you, Matt Thomas. All right, lastly. Six, this is Dateline, e-commerce. I have nowhere to put this. Six former eBay employees are charged with harassing a couple. This story's gross. What's that? This story's gross.

Who had criticized the e-commerce company. These employees sent them obscene messages and mailing them live insects. and a Halloween mask featuring a bloody pig face according to documents the top executives became upset with negative coverage of the company in an e-commerce blog

and an anonymous comments that appeared under the blog stories they became convinced that some of the anonymous commenters which include parody accounts were colluding with the husband and wife team who published the blog and text it about the need

to take her down and burn her to the ground. It was a determined systematic effort of senior employees of a major company to destroy the lives of a couple all because they published content

company executives didn't like. Now, do you find a pig face, first and foremost? That one, I feel like that's not the hard to find. But it's bloody. It's weird. And then live insects and a male? What is wrong?

with America. A lot of things. Now, I've had dirty, mean things sending me on Twitter, but I wouldn't expect you to send me something. And I also wouldn't expect you to get on my house and drop a deuce. What would you prefer?

Dead insects. Oh, I don't know. I don't want you dropping anything in my house. I know, but how do you know it's a fake mask right away? But why is it? Whose blood is it? I can't just be like ketchup. This is...

You know what, America, this is why 20. 20 sucks right here. You get mad at some end. All the reasons, this is why? Well, no, it's an... Of everything that's going on. No, it's top eight.

This is what's crossed the line. Well, you got people dropping deuses on people's houses. You have a guy suing a girl because he's got cold sores. And you got people sending insects and bloody pig masks to people because they got mad about something that was said about him on the blog. It's tough. 20-20 sucks. Back to play, believe it or not.

All things. We're going to play, let's do a little silly love songs before we play, believe it or not, with Paul McCartney. We'll play that song next. Get you ready for the A-Team 244 on Sports Talk 790. This is Craig Ackerman. The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene. I know Matt Thomas, all too well. Hey, by the way, this is my new catchphrase. Nothing but nylon. This is my favorite wing song. Love the Beatles, but we're going to think of a fantasy five for tomorrow. I'm going to like text you like 10 times tonight. You okay with that? Yeah, that's fine. Happy birthday, Paul McCartney. By the way, somebody asked

through Instagram of all things, said, can the DH be used for somebody besides a pitcher because Zach Granky is a really good hitter. And you would hate to use Zach Granky's bat if you're going to go against another pitcher. And the answer is no. The designated hitter can only be used for the pitcher. It is exclusively written in the

terms of baseball. So you cannot, and if you move, if you sub out the DH in a spot that's not for the pitcher, then you lose the DH. Yep. So it's only, only, only for the pitcher. What about, what about Otani?

Do we know what the official rule is with that? We'll show you hit from the Angels? If he pitches, he can't hit. So he just won't hit the days that he's on the round. Correct. I mean, you cannot get any more simpler than that. You cannot DH the pitcher. I mean, you can only

DH the pitcher. Okay. Can he be the DH after he's taken out of the game off the mound? No, once you leave the game, you leave the game. But it can be like a double switch. Like he's like switched to the DH. The DH goes to the pitcher

and then they take that pitcher out of the game for another pitcher. Say that again. Okay. So, Atani is the starting pitcher. Yes. He is double switched out into the DH roll. Their D.E. D.H. Then goes to the mound.

Oh, no, but he'd have to face three guys now. Never mind. Because the new rules. Yeah. So, Otani just can't hit the days he pitches. On top of that, nobody can move to D.H after being in the field. You can't move a third basement at D.H in the middle of the game. See, that's dumb. They should change rules for him. No, no, no, no, no. You don't change rules.

These rules have been around since the 70s. No. You just changed it. You just made the nationally take to the D.H. That's an easy one. You're getting, You're getting highly technical. For one player? Yeah, I'm not changing anything for one player. But there's more of them coming. How many?

I think we'll see. I mean, it's going to take time. Okay. But I think it's going to be... Let's make a bet for lunch in 2020, 2030. There'll be less than 10 players that will hit and pitch. Starters or just...

Anything. I'll take... I'll take 10 or less. You take 11 or more. So that's a third of the league. All right. You're taking it? I'll take it.

Dinner in 2030. He said lunch. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply called it. Believe it or not. And here's how it works.

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Paul, Paul McCarney is 74 years old today. Believe it or not. That's a not. That is right. He's 78. Statement number two for the win, Paul is a vegetarian. Believe it or not. I think that's a believe it. Believe it is right. Congratulations. One winner. You may have to help my Joe, George. Thank you very much.

713212.5.7.8 will put Paul on a hold in a matter of seconds. And go to line number two. Scott. Scott on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Paul, or says, Scott, when Paul divorced then-wife, Linda McCartney, the settlement was one of the largest and richest ever. She got $60 million as part of the divorce.

Believe it or not. That is right. No, that's right. He got it right. Ding, ding. Linda died, unfortunately. It was Heather Mills, he divorced for that. statement number two for the win.

The guy dropped? You didn't let him go did you? Uh-oh. You guys were trying to sneak that one by, weren't you? Guy got it right and you hung up on him. Call back that last call to whoever it was. Line number three is Jacob. Jacob on 790.

Jacob, you're ready to play. Believe it or not, Jacob. Believe it. Jacob, Paul wrote what I'm 64 for his dad for his 64th birthday. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, he did. If I said it once, then a thousand times, you got to know what Paul got his dad for his birthday. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to line number four. Robert, Robert on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Let's proceed accordingly. Paul was once arrested in 1973 for growing

marijuana on his Scotland farm. Believe it or not. I'm going to have to say yes. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Paul holds a record for being holding the largest concert crowd ever. He played to 184,000 people in Rio de Janeiro. Believe it or not. Oh, I bet it was close, but I'm going to have to say not that many. Oh, and it was right at 184,000.

Thank you, friend. Last contestant is Al on line five. Al. You ready to play? Here we go. One question for the last. the win, my friend. Paul didn't go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

of the Beatles as a group because he had a concert scheduled in China and he refused to change the date. Believe it or none. No, I made that up. He didn't go because he was fighting with the two surviving members of the Beatles about album royalties.

And that was it. Y'all didn't do so bad except for hanging up that one guy who thought he was halfway to a Hooter's gift card. Put your complaints to Joe George Radio and Brandon Riley underscore Wex and Clanton are next. I'm going to entertain the bejeevese out of you for the next three hours. We call them

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