The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Scott Boras Speaks At MLB Winter Meetings, Astros Trade Possibilities, Rockets In Win-Or-Go-Home Vs. Warriors For NBA Cup

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" review the latest updates from the MLB Winter Meetings. Sports agent Scott Boras says that many teams are interested in Alex Bregman. Chandler Rome also states that the Astros are listening to trade proposals concerning Kyle Tucker and Framber Valdez. What will the Astros lineup look like in 2025? Matt and Ross also:talk with Rockets head coach Ime Udoka about tonight's matchup against the Golden State Warriors in the quarterfinals of the NBA Cuppresent what they would sacrifice to get a Rockets winfurther preview the Texans hosting the Miami Dolphins on Sundaydebate the songwriting skills of Billy Joel and Kendrick Lamartell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.3 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It is great to have you with us today. On a night that will be one of the most memorable in Houston sports history. Will it?

I mean, kind of hoping? Being purely selfish? the streak must end 15 long regular season games but tonight things will be different inside

Toyota Center a crowd of more than 17,000 ish hopefully arriving on time it is an 830 slash really 845 tip of the potential slides you've got basically no excuse Amen Thompson Dylan Brooks

Fred Van Blit Tari Isan Jayshan Tate Maybe Aper in Shangoon Jacques Landell maybe Stephen Adams maybe We'll take the floor

Against Steph Curry Traymond Green and the rest of the Golden State Warriors Jonathan Kaming He's been rocket killer, frankly. He's been destroying the rockets, unfortunately.

Trace Jackson Davis. Who? Cavan Looney. Oh, I've had enough of Kavanaughan Looney. I've hit my limit. I'm at my Looney limit. You said that more than once in your life. We will rob. And the 17,000 people that will be in that arena.

Yelling at the top of their lungs. Turn this thing around. You should play some calls to really accentuate this bit. God. The NBA Cup. Have you caught NBA Cup fever, Houston? I've caught it. That's because you want to go to Vegas. It's in my pores. Where are they going to put you all up? Is the

Circus Circus or what? Think of what the exact opposite of Circus Circus would be? The aria? The Cosmo? Higher. I don't know. What's higher than that? The J.W. Marriott? I can't say, but... Okay. It's spectacular.

Okay. And Ross, the best. best part of it is we'd be living tomorrow for a Saturday game. You're going to lose. Game prep. Hashtag, you're losing 5Gs. That might be accurate.

For the financial well-being and my children's, my wife's Christmas presents, maybe the Rockets should lose. I can hear your unborn grandchildren weeping that you're going to Vegas. Did Pappy leave us any money? No. But he was really, it was

very damn important for him to go to the NBA Cup games in Las Vegas. No, but he dried out his mouth and he lost $4,000, so it was worth it. He brought us back some souvenirs. All right. NBA Cup key chains, you got for free? Hey! Do you want me to, I'll buy you a shirt, do you want me to?

An NBA cup shirt? Yeah, no. I would actually, if I could actually find one, I'll get you one. I'll get you, I kind of wear. It's kind of wears all sorts of free stuff you wear. Yeah, just give me the typical. Vegas souvenirs. You get a drunk one, drunk two shirts, and we can wear them together.

Oh, that'd be outstanding. All right. So today on the radio program, yes, it's an NBA Cup knockout game. But there's also a little bit of enough is enough. Seriously. Make a stand, baby. 15 straight losses to them?

That's unacceptable. 2020 sports RV. Russell Westbrook and the boys. God almighty. Can we just win one more? When game? We're supposed to play now at Golden State five times this year.

I do not want it to be 0 and 5. And I'll be damned if Brandon Posemski is going to be the one causing me a trip out of Vegas. Pajemsky is ball in. He is really good actually. Well, against the warrior. I mean, it gets the Rockets special. And Andrews-Wiggins.

The starting five for the Rockets the last time they won, if I have the correct one, which I think I do. It's 2020, you know. James Hardin, Russell Westbrook, P.J. Tucker, Robert Covington, Daniel House Jr. Wow, that's an interesting five. And they blew them out. I want to say like 135, 105, something like that. Oh, look at this guy. You nailed it on the head. Thank you very much. I didn't look at it. Wow. That's why we call you Peach Basket. Because I keep bringing it up. Peach Basket Thomas with the basketball knowledge.

Was that in Houston or in Oakland? It was in San Francisco at the Chase Center. Wow, we won a game there? The Chase Center's been open that long? Good arena, by the way. The opposing starting Jordan Poole, Andrew Wiggins, Damian Lee, Grahamon Green, and Marquise Chris, Rockets Legend. Marquis Chris, friend of mine. Marquise and I have hung out a few times. Guys are Broskis? I didn't know that. Yeah, we did. He's a big, not Parchisi.

What's a Baccarat guy? Parts. I was like, I'm going to say Bacac, but it's not right. You're at the casino with the Griswolds playing Parchisi? Yeah, Bacchisi. He's a huge backerat guy. I'm not speaking on a turn. He just, that's, that's his game of choice.

He's done well. Okay. You say so. All right. So if you are willing to sacrifice something tonight for your beloved Houston Rockets to end a 15-game winning, losing streak, what are you willing to sacrifice? 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9.

790. This streak has to have. Now, Ross, I've sacrificed a lot lately. I can't think of something. You know what I'll do? I'm going to tell you how important this is for me that the Rockets not only win this game to end this losing streak, but a potential trip to Vegas. I'm going to make a declaration that you never would have ever heard in a million years. I will give up the McRib until the Rockets beat the Warriors. That is something that should be taken very seriously by those of you in the Houston sports community. Oh, you're giving up a disgusting pressed pork gristle sheet. We're all proud of you, Matt. I call it America sandwich. You call it whatever you want to call it. It dipped in the most mid below replacement level barbecue sauce you can find. There's a lot of people selling that kind of stuff, too.

Have you seen people trying to hoard out barbecue sauce? Why are you calling out Alex Spregman like that? Cracked is fine. Hey, come on. Lather that bad boy in. So I have given up McRibbs until 11. What's the last time you had a McRib? Probably 10 days ago.

Okay. By the way, I tried to eat it in my car. Major problems. You got barbecue sauce everywhere? On the steering wheel. Yeah, it's a mess. Don't eat. The McRib should be enjoyed at home with family, with friends, with close loved ones.

You know the worst thing I've eaten on the road? It is a box of a couple of dogs and fries from Mames-Money-Miland. Oh, you did that? Were they with all the stuff on it too? That was a mistake. Same thing. Same thing. By the way, when I get a rig rack from Rick Reynolds,

I have to get it without lettuce because when I get the rig rack, the lettuce just flies all over. And the special sauce and the pickles and the sesame seed bun gets everywhere. And the two all be fatty as well. Of course. All right. So what are you giving up? You want to think about it?

I'll think about it. Doesn't be something big. You know, I'm going to give up praising the University of Houston Cougars athletic program. Oh! If you're giving up the McRibb. Connor, I want you to think about it as well. I want all of Houston. It has been, what was the exact date on that 2020 game in San Francisco?

It was February 20th. So we're looking at almost five years in between regular season victories. That's... Well, there was a pandemic pause, but the... season still went on. Oh yeah, they still playing games. Enough is enough. The Warriors must go down. Gary Payton II needs to be humbled.

Yeah, he's too cocky. Oh, my God. Kyle Anderson. You all know who Kyle Anderson is? I don't even know if the general audience is. Kyle Anderson... A certain percentage. He walks and runs like he's 75 years old, and it takes him

at least 12 seconds to put a shot up. You know how you have a character? shoot. There's no catch shoot. It's catch. Rotate the ball on your hand. It's like he's shot putting it up there. There's nothing fluid to his game. It goes in. It does go in. Although he's only shooting 29% from three. Oh, well, he's got a higher career numbers, didn't he? Yeah, he's having a down season.

All right, other things to get to today on the radio program. We've had 24 hours since you and I visited about all these trade rumors with the Astros. Okay. Are you starting to settle in with some more thoughts about how crazy or maybe turbulent off-season this is going to be for the local nine.

We'll get to that. Okay. We will get to shut your ball mass up at 1130 today. E. May Doka joins us at 1 o'clock. Believe it or not, all things, De Anthony Melton.

I'm throwing a random goes to say, no, no, I wouldn't do that. That's rocket's legend, De Anthony. And by the way, did you see who the new ambassador to Italy is going to be?

No. I'm not even going to say the first name. that popped to my mind. Go ahead. Who is it? I'm going to tell you. When we come back.

Papa John? Who is Papa John? It's the pizza. Oh, you mean the man who runs a pizza place? Papa John. Yeah. You're actually not incredibly far off. I don't even, please.

Don't even look it up. No politics on the show. What kind of politics are? What are we talking about the Italian ambassador? I won't look it up. Because it's got a Houston look to it. Is it Mario Mario? Well, he's, I guess, Japanese.

Connor, did you see who it is? I did, yeah. Okay. That's, it's a, there's a significant, Houston. The my pillow guy. Nope. Mattress Mac. Nope.

713, 212, 5790. Is that right? Yes. Are you serious? Yes. What? How did you guess that on the fifth try? You saw it from somewhere.

I swear. I was just kidding. I was thinking, you said Houston, so I said mattress mac, and then I said tell him and fortita. Who are those are the first two years? Are you into Tehram and the Fatita? I don't think he's walking around. Hey, President Trump, but I'm been happy to go to Florence with you.

Is he of Italian origin? I don't know. I mean, if, let me tell you. He's Sicilian descent, apparently. If Prez calls me and says, you want to be an ambassador to some country? I don't think he's calling him out of the blue. I imagine there's some reverest relationship there. Whatever.

I'll take the gig. Get free trips there, or at least government's paying for it. My first guess would be large donations. maybe he wants to open up a Joe's Crab Shack there. Really? Joe's a Crabbshack in a Napoli. Yeah, and in the Cadillac at a bar. They do a great.

I don't know how we do that. That's terrible. 713-212.5. Oh, my God. 790. Let me tell you out of the big city of wings. They don't have an Italian flavor. They're not.

You know what they do have? They don't have pesto flavor. They don't have pesto flavor wings of big city wings, although they're probably thinking about it. I just came up with the idea. Copyright that. Sam, you listen, Pesto-flavored wings. And you get a dipping sauce, not ranch. You get marinaires part of that. Give me the credit.

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A great place to hang out tonight, watch sports. get a gift card and enjoy some great eats that's big city wings and big city wings dot com more matt thomas show with ross now on sports talk 790 it's important houston texas to sacrifice some things you know we could actually use this as a multi-sport event here what do you want to sacrifice for bragman to come back for bregman to come back yeah um well you know you sacrifice you sacrifice your wallet, you could buy some season tickets and tell Jim Crane Charter whatever you want. Good. I'm a spoiled, credentialed media

member. Yes, you are. You come in the game tonight? The Rockets game? Yeah, of course. What do you mean? I'm on the Rockets beat. You are? No. No, our Rockets beat reporter is Connor D. Montgomery. How's he been doing? He's been going to I haven't seen him lately. That's fine. That's fine. He got a girlfriend and he's like, I can't go to games.

Like, I'm busy. So that's basically it. He's now. He's now. He's a girl he doesn't want to cover sports events anymore? No. His priorities are... He's on a different kind of beat. What? Excuse me? What did you say? Sing it, Elton. We need your help here. A little pregnant pause.

By the way, did you hear about Elton John lately? Today, he was named icon of the year by Time Magazine. That's different than person of the year? Yeah. Why? What did he do? Just being him. He's wearing bedazzled outfits and going on a farewell tour for six years? Yeah. You know he's blind now?

What? Yeah, he cannot see. Well, yeah, that's... I got that part when you said he was blind. Yeah, I figured. That's my fault. Okay, so his music should get better, like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. I don't think he's like blind, blind,

but he's definitely unable to go out and tour and stuff and do that kind of stuff anymore because of the... It's not because of eye diseases. They got the cataracts or... I don't know what it is, but... Hmm. Okay. That's not good. No. You don't want to hear that. No. But he is time icon of the year, which I don't know why. I think it's for charitable work and that kind of thing. So, yeah. I mean, he is knighted. Sir Elton John. Sir Elton John. Yeah. He doesn't have a channel. I wonder why he missed on. He never did. He never did. Oh, Elton John's got a way greater than Billy Joel. I mean, Elton John's got more hits. Elton John's better artist. I would lean towards that as well, yes. What do you mean? What do you, what are you scared? You got nothing. You got nothing. You want to say something. Slightly overrated, Billy Joel?

Shut your bum ass up. Slightly overrated. Shut your bum ass up. Oh, that's not until 1130. Sorry. Slightly overrated. Uh-uh. No.

Got some hits. No. You saw what the house look like? I was there. Yeah, 40,000 people. You know what I was thinking? Slightly overrated? No, I'm just kidding.

You can't judge him on his 70s. All right, it's enough from you. I mean, Piano Man, one of the all-time greats. Thank you. He's got some other good hits, too. Got lots of good hits. But then Uptown girl, she brings you down. Brings everything down.

If I was him, I'd be embarrassed with that song. Yeah. Moving out, it's not a great one either. Yeah. See? I'm bringing you to my side a little bit. But his super big hits are some of my favorites, obviously. Yes.

All right, 713, 212,790. I ask you a simple question. Me and Elton and Ross are asking, what do you want to sacrifice for a rocket's win? They've lost 15 consecutive games of the Golden State Warriors. Richard and Link City on 790. Good morning, Richard. Hey, guys, good morning.

What a beautiful day in Houston, huh? Yes, sir. Tonight, tonight we beat the Warriors, and it's because we're going to make sacrifices, and I would sacrifice beer. Now, that's a big sacrifice. I won't drink beer until they beat the Warriors, and I'm counting on them beating them tonight.

I don't drink beer every day, but every weekend I drink a lot of beer. So this is kind of a big step. Okay. Now, okay, so that's my sacrifice. Now, when I get to the Astros, that was my main reason for the call. Sure. Last season was so painful.

Last season was so painful. And I was glad to see them claw their way back, and I was glad to see them find their way in. And I love the U.S. Cacucci kind of chapter of the year. Like those games became must-watch TV for me, and I love going to his games to watch him pitch. But now that he's not on the team, It looks like Bregman's not coming back. So this isn't going to be a reunion tour, kind of watch him play out his career. I'm on the team that says, let's trade Tucker while let's, let's sell high and get as much as we can.

I'm not saying selling cheap, but I'm saying really try to get like two, like two, I guess, triple A, like class A blue chip prospects from from a good team. and maybe a few others thrown in if we can and do something about our outfield positions, maybe third base. Because we've got the bones. We've got good players. We've got Alvarez. We've got our catcher. We've got our shortstop.

We've got a good pitching staff, good enough pitching staff that we can fill in the gaps later. That's my vote. And I say trade Presley while we're at it. Well, I think that's definitely in the conversation as well. Thank you, Richard, for the phone call. They've been trying to trade Presley. and he has no trade so hey uh we got a 35 year old who has been slipping the last couple of years we want some of your best prospects and oh by the way he might veto your trade doesn't sound really like a big sales job does it very appetizing yeah um i mean you not talk about this yesterday if bragman's leaving that's a huge chip a huge core of what has been an amazing championship run yes and you're not signing kyle tucker there's is no chance, no way,

know how, ain't going to happen. And Ross said, I've been saying it for two years that way. I mean, the moment they went to arbitration and lost, you're like, you MFers. As soon as I get out of here, I'm out of here. Yeah, he's, I'm with you. He's gone. And I would trade

Framber Valdez because you should be putting a lot of money in his piggy bank. I mean, not that it is, he's been very, very good, but I don't want to overpay for a guy that still makes coffee nervous. Framber's settled in quite nicely after that bad start in May when he gave up like three. He still sweats bullets like you wouldn't believe, Rossi.

He also throws no hitters. He also gives up three home runs in an inning, and that was one time. Literally one time. He's cracking like an egg out there. Literally once. All right. 1028 on Sports Talk, 7-80. Real quick, Gill and Hockley on 7-90.

Good morning, Gil. Okay, let's get this going here. Billy Joe was married to Uptown girl, Christy Brinkley. That is right. And, uh, uh, uh, uh, and Elton John's married to who? I don't know.

Some guy? I don't know. Yeah, there you go, some guy. What does that have to do with any? That's my dozen. Well, you were comparing it to. And I think we're talking about music. What does their sexuality have to do with their songs?

I love them both. Because he had uptown girl, which is, you know, what's her name? Yeah, Uptown girl sucks. Maybe he should have been gay and he wouldn't have made up. down girl and I would have liked them better. The video was awesome. Her prancing around. Come on now. Yeah. And they were married for like three years.

I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't. Yeah, and that song makes me want to put a hot poker in my ears. That's not nice. So maybe I wish Billy Joel was a little more like El John in that respect. I just voted for Billy Joel in your poll question. Three, he's got Billy Joel. Overrated, underrated, properly rated.

I'm just asking. I know what you're asking. You're looking, because you're a prater. I'm not, I'm asking a prater. Early on. I got 69% properly rated. That's what I voted. What's overrated?

26%. Okay. But no, it's still a vast majority say he's properly rated. I'm just asking. I'm just asking. I, you know what? I didn't say anything. Yeah, you did. You completely said something.

There's a piano man's a little lazy songwriting. Oh, whoa! Get him! Oh! You're fired! Let's go break one of our nine producers back. I would say elementary. Who says Tonic and gin?

Gin and Tonic. He's trying to make a rhyme. Davy who's still in the Navy. Yeah. And we'll be for life. No, no, no, no. Oh, we're playing Billy Joe coming back here. I don't care what you say.

I hate you both equally. You're just a poker and you are just a hater. It sounds like it's written by an eighth grader, but it's a good song, though. Oh, I don't know. It's been sung by about six million people. People in concerts. Yeah, I'm not disputing that. He's no Kendrick Lamar songwriting, that's for sure.

I know. 10.30. Sports Talk, 790. Piano, man, I got you. Others don't on this radio show. Let me tell you about Two Creeks Crossing Resort. You know what we're going to do, Ross? We're going to go. We're going to drive up to Lake Livingston area, and we're going to get in the car.

We're going to put Billy Joel on for about 75, 80 minutes. And we're going to drive up there. We're going to have a good relaxing weekend at Two Creeks Crossing Resort, and you should, too. Bring music. Bring, you know, groceries, whatever. They've got great restaurants in the area as well. But if you want to get out in nature and enjoy this cool weather we have and still enjoy modern amenities,

then Two Creeks Crossing Resort is where you've got to go. Again, about 90 minutes from downtown Houston. You go on their website, Two Creeks Crossing Resort. They've got plenty of different lodging opportunities from waterfront cabins to glamping tents to yurts, plenty of space for you, your buddies, or maybe a weekend with a wife or bring the whole family up there. Lots of modern amenities like laundry facilities,

There's a workout area, high-speed Wi-Fi. They've got this little ice house that opens up the weekends. It's really a lot of fun. And more importantly, for somebody that's not really overly naturey like me, I think I made up a word, that's fine. You get to go out and breathe the fresh air, but still get all the modern amenities of your favorite resort. 40% off right now, Reynolds, at 2Creekscrossingresort.com.

That's 2TWO.Creekscrossingresort.com. Hey, it's Hunter Brown. Strike three with jazz. Catch every Astros game on Sports Talk 790 or the IHeart Radio app. Yes, bro. Home of your Astros. Millions and millions of people. Love this song.

Millions. This song is timeless. Millions and millions of people love Toxic by Britney Spears. No, I don't. They think she's a whatever. This guy, 70 years old, he's still putting up 50,000 people in stadiums. He's fine. I brought the house down at a midtown bar.

Oh my God, I knew you. I was wondering how long it take to make you about you. Jeez. I sang the song. The bar owner, I won't name the bar. He don't spend money with us. Anymore. Anymore.

But he bought beers or bar drinks for everybody because I was like, man, you are a crooner. I'm like, yes, they call me the crooner. I bet they called you the backward spooner. Excuse me? All right. This dude doesn't. Dove Clyman. He's not...

Mute him. Mute him. Are you sure? He's just an aggregator. Yes, mute him. Mute him. R.E. Sports Update. You probably mute Mike Florio, although he does a good job aggregating. Dove Climb. No, mute Doug Climbing. I long muted Mike. Hi, my name is Ross, and I want you to mute Dove Climman. He does not put out anything on his own. He puts reactionary stuff.

It's probably not even him. It's probably somebody who bought the account and just goes for impressions to try to make money off of it. Dove Climbing. I don't follow him, but he's in the 4U tab, so that's my first mistake. NIL collective funding per NCAA estimates. Yeah, he aggregated this. I saw this also for her. Number one school in the country that has more NIL money. This is a made-up estimate by the NCAA, by the way.

I was going to say, when do the NCAA have time to do this, is my question. They based it off of, I can't remember. It was like season ticket sales and sponsorships. They based it on an estimate. That's why you don't see, you're going to go through the list and you're not going to name Oregon. so that's how you know this list is wrong. Okay, well then, you know what, if it's wrong, I mean, go ahead. Well, it just says Texas is number one at 22.2 million.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm going to say Texas is not, I'm not even talking about this as a Longhorn fan. Texas, I'm sure it's probably at the top three. No, no, no, this, I'm not saying to strike a conversation. I'm just, this is matter of fact, but you are right. Where is Oregon in this mix? Nowhere.

Because basically, Phil Knight said, I've got a blank checkbook for you. You, whatever you want, you can have. it. I'm 86 years old. I eat food out of a blender. My night nurse comes three times a day. And we're good. And whatever you want Oregon, it's yours.

I want to die with a national championship. And he's probably going to get one this year. They're significant favorites. Yeah, there is no, why, it's interesting. So I guess Oregon did not reporting thing, or Oregon's like... It's NCAA, like I said, they made this up based on

I think it was like sponsorships, estimated sponsorships and ticket sales. All right. Well, then forget it then. You're right. If Oregon's on the list, then it's an on-conversation starter. You can go to the top ten if you want.

I have it if you'd like. Go ahead. Texas, Ohio State. That's LSU. All three of those, over 20 million. How does LSU have money when they can't even build roads in the state of Louisiana? When the kids don't even start a dish in the seventh grade. Governmental corruption?

Have you seen Houston, Texas? That's Louisiana in a nutshell. Have you seen our roads? Yeah. I guess we should be bagging on Louisiana roads. Although when they start putting paint to separate the lines, it'll be a good thing for them. I think they're also, instead of bike lanes, they're doing walk lane, barefoot lanes in Louisiana. And when they get their first dentist in that state, it'll be really something incredible.

Georgia, 18 million, Texas A&M 5th at 17 million, Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Clemson, all around 15 million plus. A&M is at 17.2 and they're not on this group. This whole list is all whack. I told you. You don't want, you're right. Dove climbing, you've been muted. Done with you. What kind of name is Dove Clyman.

Like when Mrs. Climmon was built, it was birthed this child and it came out and she... Maybe it's German. Climmon. Dove Climmon. Dove Climmon. Do you know a dove? No, I don't know. I don't know a German accent.

Dov-Tale? Dover? a short for something? I don't know, whatever. Dove is a Hebrew name for boys that means bear. That's what Google just said. So maybe that was a strong, brilliant name, my Mrs. Clyman. Bear climbing. He's from the old west. It was like a coach from the 1920s.

Yeah, I think he's a linebacker's. Bear climbing taking on Nudraqdi and the boys from Notre Dame. He's also a linebacker's coach at Southern Miss right now, ironically enough. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-2-5. 7-90, we're asking you guys to sacrifice something for the Rockets. Now, you don't have to sacrifice it anymore. If the Rockets win the night, your sacrifice is about 12 hours. So that guy can start chugging beer right after the game.

Let me tell you something. If the Rockets win tonight at approximately 1145, 1145, I'm going to McRibb, get a McRibb somewhere. Okay. I can probably take that a Rick Ronald's location I'm going to. Okay. It'll be probably Kirby and 59. They're open late. And you'll be tweeting from the toilet at 7 a.m.

I would never bring my phone to the bathroom. You don't? I guess if you're sitting, that's true. Yeah, come on. Not standing, though. That kind of gets weird. People do it. You do, I know.

Don't you feel naked when you go to sit down and you don't have your phone? No, sitting down for sure. Are you reading the shampoo label like the good old days? Or the walls and like old, like, old, like, a, truck stops and whatnot for a good time call this person. And then the guy, two lines down, says, oh, I called her. She's great at doing these things. Hmm. That's fine.

Anyways. We're going with this. I don't know. We were talking about Dove Climbing. No, we're doing, we're doing, we're, we brought up NIL stuff. We're done with, no, I'm just, uh, and also 30% of people are saying Billy Joel's overrated right now. That's because you have 30% of your audience is losers.

Just say it's non-zero. I wasn't asking for zero. get 30% in anything. That's not true. I get 30% of people say that McRib's the greatest sandwich ever made on Earth. I did the poll twice and it was around 60, 40 both times.

I knew another one. That further proves the point. Proves what point? Anything you can get, you can get about 30%. So you love the McRib. I do love the mic rib. You should be thinking more than 40% should be on it. I'm fine.

You know what? I don't want you, I don't want you Chimperin-O in the McRib family. I asked if CJ Stroud was a franchise quarterback and I think it was like 89% yes. You want to try that one? You want to try that right now? Yes. I'll do it.

What do you think it's going to be? You said it was 89 the first time? I can go find the exact number. Let's go with, I'm going to guess, it's going to be his answer will be somewhere between 70 and 79, that he's going to take a slight drop off. Like this year, would you? Okay, well, they're wrong.

Would you say he's not, if you say he's not a franchise quarterback, you're an idiot. Has he taken a slight drop off this year? He's not, his numbers aren't as good as they were last year. And honestly, I miss the last couple weeks. kind of. I just watch the games like condensed games. No, I mean, he's still the best thing going right now.

I was out of the country. We know. We were very well aware of that. He's still the best thing going for this team. But he's been a byproduct, and I've talked about this five million times, and I'll continue to talk about it. He has been affected by the woeful offensive line performance. There's an indirect performance of his performance based off of the fact that it doesn't trust the five or six guys in front of him.

Somebody called Real Frank Brank. He is the chief data officer at Fantasy Points and Fantasy Points Data. Okay. Has the Texans with the worst rate of blown block or pressure allowed in the NFL, 30.3% of the time. Best in the NFL is the Eagles, only 15% of the time. Worst is the Texans double that. Second worst, the Patriots, third worst, the Raiders at 25%. And that would mean there would be very, very,

very understandable why there would be a slight drop off. He's not getting this sort of protection. He doesn't feel as comfortable. His feet aren't set as much. He's throwing probably off his back foot more than he ever did before. And you know what? Dem's the brakes. This can be fixed, right? There's no reason why the C.J. Strog cannot come back next year and put up the numbers that he put up his first year in the NFL. Well, and they're eight and five and poised to win the division and get in the playoffs and see what happens. And then losing the first round again, playing at 3.30 on a Saturday.

I mean, it is what it is. They're going to win the first round. Promise? No. I can't promise they're going to beat the Titans two weeks ago. That's true. In Michigan, go to the country for that. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Shut your bum ass up coming up at 1130. The news at noon at 12 o'clock. And we'll have E. Mae Adoka at 1 o'clock. If you want to sacrifice something for Alex Breggman's contract, you know the easy thing you could sacrifice? Ross would be your wallet. My wallet. Tell Jim Crane,

whatever it takes. What are you doing a go-fund me? Jim Crane's doing okay. It's true. He's doing quite well for himself. He's not my money. It's just a budget. Everybody's got a budget. Yes, he does. 713-212-5-790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790.

We're going to hear from the front of the show, Scott Boris, right now on the program. I don't know if it's got on all the years. Never? That's one of those situations you want to lie. Frequent guest, friend of the show. Boris Corporation's own Scott Boris. Who's having a wonderful postseason.

Yeah, he's doing great. 2,024 didn't treat him so well. 2024's treated him quite well. He spoke today and says that our favorite third baseman, a lot of folks would like to talk to him. him. We all know what comes after A.V. That is

the C in champions. In Bregn's case, C-square. All these teams realize what a leader he is, what a champion he is, and plus his skill level to boot. So he's had a remarkable career to date. He's very much in the battle. You know what, Ross, I really want you to

become a sports agent, and I will have you represent me. Okay. Could you imagine the ego you had? Now, granted, Bregman's paying Scott to do this. Not saying these things are the kindness of his heart. Wouldn't you like to have a press conference with a bunch of microphones and someone talking about you in this glowing way?

That's what Scott just did to Alex Breggman. After A, B, come C, champion. He's a C2. Oh, my guy. C squared, yeah. C squared, yeah. Okay. You wouldn't want that?

Can we spare these cheesy one-liners and talk some baseball? Oh, he's not talking about. No, I know Scott Boris is all about the cheesy one-liners. So it's fine. And collecting that commission. Yeah. What is it? I think they get 3% basically.

Sometimes it's a max of a 1.5%. Yeah. So let's say he signs. Yeah, if he gets full 3% of $762 million or whatever it was? So if he signs Brangman to a deal at 175, that would be $3.5 million. No. 3% would that be over $5 million. Yes.

From one client. Mm-hmm. Now he's got to spread that out. It's got employees. I wonder what the underlings that the Boris group makes. How many employees do you think there are? I could even guess. Could it be 100? 100?

Yeah, that sounds about right, right? I'm like a Boris Corp. I don't know. Can I find this? Why wouldn't we want to go work for him? If we're the low end of the totem pole and our boss is making that kind of money, I mean, he's got to be giving us a nice Christmas party, right? 75 employees says Google. Could you imagine working for Scott Boris and you're, and say, what do you make, man?

$42,000 a year? What? No. I don't think so. But you have to have like an NBA to work for him, right? Let's see. Former Major League players, Scouts, lawyers, analysts, trainers, and a research team. Any of those fit for you?

No. You're stuck with me. You're stuck for me. All right. I could call myself an analyst. I've heard you analyze things. Trust me. I listen to Rocket Trap.

Hey. I'm the one. You try talking to yourself for 17 minutes. Hey, don't believe. Don't complain. I'm the one listening. Come from my record, 21 minutes. minutes on one Rockets game.

I don't think you're, you may get it tonight with a late start. 1147 show starts. Me, myself and I on Sunday night after the Clippers. After the win, too? Gerard called. But does he even count? For a monologue, sure he does.

Okay, back to Scott Boris for a second. Yes. He is also talking about the fact that he and Dana Brown still hard communicating. Dana and I continue to talk. And, you know, we obviously are making every attempt. We know that Braggie plays really, really well there. We've got a great group of teammates, a remarkable history that a few teams enjoy, so we continue to talk about it.

Can I read between the lines? This is just sports fan. This is not even me, educated sports host. Okay. Scott's been like, Dana, this is nice and everything, but get Jim on the phone. I don't need to be wasting my time with this. You know what we want. Tell Jim this is what we want.

If you don't give it to us, we're going to go try to find it somewhere else. Yeah. I mean, how much conversation can you have? You're not like, you're not adding 25 square feet to an apartment. You're not adding an extra cow. I mean, this is, there isn't a conversation. Brangman at this point is not backing down. I would think he's not, especially if Boris is telling the truth that there are multiple teams going after him.

I mean, I think the Yankees and Red Sox, the Tigers, I mean, the Blue Jays. I mean, I think these reports that are out there saying there's interest, I think are sincere. now because you have interest and when you want to offer our two different animals here but you're not you're not fighting over the color of drapes you know what I mean? Yeah well but if they continue to talk I think that to me has to be a positive sign for your chances

if you're hoping the answers are going to resign them because if Jim Crane had taken a hardline stance that I'm not going over this years and over this annual value then there would be no conversations I guess you're right there's nothing else to talk about but I think that's good but it's a cut and dry conversation right there's no way I don't think so there has to be if there's no I mean with contract negotiations. I'm sure they're talking to multiple parties.

So if you're Dana, you have to say, you know nothing except the Houston Astros. Jose Al Tuvei, what is one of your best friends in life? You met your wife here. Your child. I mean, you know nothing. You are going to go down as the greatest third baseman in an even close in Astros baseball history. We're going to retire your number. They're going to do all that anyways. You've got two championships, you've given all you want, and now you want to be paid for what you had given to this franchise. And if they're saying, no, thanks. We don't think you're worth that. Then he's going to go get it from somewhere else. Alex Breggman doesn't know the Astros anything.

No, I'm not saying he does. I'm just saying that's what Dana's got to be saying. Is that, do you really want to really go somewhere else? If Dana is saying that, then Alex Breitman can say, I don't know you anything. Yeah. I mean, you're right. I guess I'm supposed to be happy talking. But if the numbers don't change, the numbers don't change, right? Well, that's what I'm thinking. I mean, if you're getting Stonewall, don't unless Scott Boris could be saying, yeah, we continue to talk, but maybe nothing's happening or maybe they're checking like,

hey, this is our offer. Does anything change? Nope. All right, talk to you tomorrow. That's right. Come on in. Hey, are you still stuck on that 6156? No, we're not.

Scott, I got good news. We're going to go 6161. Talk to tomorrow. All right, bye. Pay for my room service bill. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212. 5-790.

When you hear Scott Borough say, we're still talking, to me, I don't mean to use the cliche term, but isn't talk cheap? But you're saying, well, at least they're talking. At least the lines of communication are open. Maybe Dan is just bad mouth under their teams. Do you really want to go to Phoenix?

They suck. It's hot there. Do you really want to go play for the Yankees where you have rude, obnoxious, non-hot women watching you play baseball? What does it matter? Hey, he's happily married. Maybe he's still got a look.

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launch timers this is the matt thomas show 1103 in houston Texas this is out of houston Texas this is out of Hour two of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is very nice to have all of you with us. We are today here until 2 p.m. Rockets against the Warriors tonight. Ime Adoka's going to join us in a couple of hours. You know he's got to be like, come on. You know, when he was a coach of Celtics,

they lost the Warriors and the NBA Finals. And it hasn't beaten him any times here in Houston. That's true. I've had enough. The curse of the Warriors must be lifted. And that's why you got to sacrifice some. not sacrificing anything. Nothing at all.

I thought you're a Rockets fan. I am a Rockets fan. I'm a huge Rockets fan. I love the Rockets. I want them to win. All right. Philip Games says one less white claw than usual.

Oh, that's it? One claw? People are out here still getting clawed up in 2020. I was going to ask you, is the claw is still a thing? Yeah, I guess so.

I thought people had moved on to the Trulies and the neutrals and everything is a seltter now. But Light has a seltzer. Sapoichico has. When he's When he's hanging out with his broskees, does he go to the white cloth? Oh, man, the broskeys like the claws.

Absolutely. Are you guys big claw drinkers? Can't hear you. Sorry. White claws aren't bad. What happened to just drinking good old-fashioned beer? I do they too. It's a more drinkable for the ladies, man.

It's true. When you got the group, the squad, and you're going to the liquor store, you got to get up some for everybody. Yeah. Like, back in your day, it was Zima. Back in my day, it was Mike's Hard Lemonade. Now it's in Smyranoff and now it's the Micehart Lemonade is delicious.

Yes, see, there we go. Well, you, you like sweet drinks. Yeah, I was never a Zima drinker. Okay. I was maybe a once in a while Bartles and James and a wine cooler. Okay, you know what? I was going to say back in your day was the wine coolers too. Yeah. Spive says the more the rockets win, the longer you'll live.

It's a win-win, giving up the, giving up the, I'm not giving up McRibbs for life. I'm just giving up until they beat the Warriors. You know, I might go double McRib. Double McRib? You really are trying to get hot. Port Delicious Patty on top of Pork Delicious Patty. Oh, you're trying to get hospitalized immediately. Oh, my God.

Colton says long live Billy Joel, I'd sacrifice Elton John. Oh, see, this is where I call Billy Joel overrated. Wow. He's not in the class of Elton. He's not in that inner circle, to me, to me. Who's in your inner circle? Ooh, inner circle. Would be Elton John, Michael Jackson, Prince, Kendrick Lamar,

you just show your ignorance every time. You just don't understand. You're out of touch, but we can move on. Yeah, those types. And I think, I think, what were we talking about with college football tiers? I put Billy Joel in the second circle. That's all. No, no, no, no.

Even though you don't personally, even though I'm saying. It's me. It's my opinion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. I don't like hip-hop music at all. But not to realize that Kendrick Lamar is, tier one in that group is ridiculous. Yeah. How many Super Bowls are Billy Joel done?

At least one, right? Did he do one? Yeah, I was going to say that probably wasn't the greatest example you want to go with. He doesn't have as many Grammys as Kendrae Cymar. Different categories. They weren't going on on mon with each other. How many best rap performance Grammys does Billy Joel have? Zero. Yeah, suck it, Billy Joel. How many rap albums of the year does Billy Joel have?

How many top American? American top, what are you? How many Billboard top 100 songs is Kendrick Lamar? Top 100? I don't know. A lot. I would have to look. And a lot of those, it's different as well with rap

because it's a lot of featured songs, right? Like back in the... Guess what Billy Joel doesn't have to do. He doesn't have the future anybody except his own voice. He's never done a duet. No, I can't think of one. No. He's never done a single duet in his career?

Come on. That's reached top 40 now. Got to be somewhere. El and John didn't do many duets either. The only one I could think of is Don't Goh Breaking My Heart by Kiki D. Oh. was he singing on crocodile rock yes he was singing on crocodile

who was singing the la la la part was that him yeah I think they call it's called a produce song oh for sure he's singing castrato well you know he can't sing a lot of songs anymore because his voice can't reach the higher limits and now he can't see unfortunately

I'm going out in John greater than Billy Joel and not even close I will agree with you on that but the downgrade Billy Joel is just not fair I'm not downgrading Oh, you call him overrated. That's a downgrade. I don't know what your definition. When someone calls somebody overrated.

Like I said, I would put the Beatles in the inner circle. And I would put Billy Joel out of it. How about that? You're trying to pacify me. It's not me. I'm not pacifying you. I'm telling you how I feel. What happened to them?

Did I delete? My Billy Joel poll went away. It's probably because spammed. I didn't delete the tweet. Did I accidentally delete it? No, you could. couldn't have. No, it's gone. You know why? Because his Twitter found you. X is like, don't you make fun of him? What? What? Oh, no. What did you do? I must have accidentally

deleted the tweet. That's wrong. Now I have to do it again. Oh, my God. All right, 1108 on Sports Talk 790. Now the poll course is going to be compromised. I know. I'm with you on this. I'm upset at myself. By the way, 92% of people, saying CJ Stroud is a franchise quarterback. It's good. If he throws three picks this week, you can redo that poll question. So 30% of people don't say everything.

I think I'm right more than I'm wrong. 30% of the time. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Let me ask you on this Kyle Tucker stuff for a second here. Sometimes when a report comes out,

it gains more steam than it probably should. So I've taken a step back a little bit on the, I absolutely believe that Kyle Tucker should be traded. But for everything I'm starting to read from different variety of reports, it feels like that Dana's just taking the offers, putting him in his note file and saying, I'm going to take him back with me to Houston, and then we'll sit in our offices and kind of,

I don't think he went on the bus or the plane or whatever, how we got there to Arlington or Dallas, wherever they are. And it's like, I'm here. to move Kyle Tucker. I think he's basically saying what you got, let me hear from you, I'll take these back, and I'll get back with you if I hear something I like.

Which I don't know if it's the right philosophy now. I feel like the best negotiations can be done, mono and mono, looking right in the eye and say, hey, Kyle ain't signing with me, I need a big haul, let's not mess around. I think that's what they need to do.

And I'm not endorsing this. This is painful for me as an average. And I'm an Astro fan before I'm an Astro broadcaster. That's first and foremost. It's painful for me. But it was painful for me when Kyle, every time I look at Kyle Tucker's body language, he's like, I'm getting the hell out of here.

I don't think he hates it here, but he just knows that the Astros are not willing to give him the type of money that he believes he's going to get from perhaps five or six other teams. Especially when there is a trend out there. Still, teams are willing to pay ungodly amounts of money for five tool. Or in Juan Soto's case, four tool. I wonder if they're going to do what needs to be done. What needs to be done is Kyle Tucker and Yorna, not Yorna, Kyle Tucker and Framber Valdez need to be traded.

If you swing and miss in Bregman, which is at all likelihood they will. But what if Breggman comes back? Is that going to all of a sudden change Kyle Tucker's approach? I don't think so. Again, Kyle Tucker knows the reputation of the Astros. Fair market value, shorter term contracts. Other teams, don't believe in that. same philosophy. And that's their problem, but he doesn't care about that. I think, I mean, at the very least, you can contend for a championship. I see it much easier with Bregman than without. I think it's about domino's falling. If that domino falls, you're not, you're not contending, and you need to do something. If Bregman was a sign here, which I believe

is no chance, would then, would that push the Astros training Tucker until the deadline, to see how the team goes this year, but that you do hurt a potential for grabbing players because you're essentially trading your prospects for a rent-a-player. You know what I'm going to say now? Now that you're asking me all this, don't even sign Bregman. Don't even try.

All right, $200 million, we're good. Or whatever it's going to be, $175, $180. This team needs a reset to me. Well, the argument to me from somebody on Twitter yesterday was, why would any team want to trade for Tucker knowing that he's only got one year left in a contract? Well, the team's traded for one-soto. Now, of course, Kyle Tucker is not one-soto.

Right. Not even close. Well, kind of close. So you're not going to get, you're going to get a very good haul. But you're not getting a life-changing hall because you are only, you are in theory only going to grab him for one year. Unless you feel like you bring him there and he's going to sign a massive contract and then it's a win-win for everybody for that other team.

But yeah, there's a risk associated with even trading him this offseason now by the other team because, again, just like Juan Soto in the Padres, the Yankees thought they were getting him from San Diego and he was going to sign a long-term contract and he decided to go elsewhere. So there's a risk on both sides, for sure. 1112 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. Are we doing a good enough job in convincing you that the Astros need to have short-term. pain for longer term pleasure.

Why don't you just say gain? Painting gain? I don't know on a rhymeer. What's the opposite of pain? You gotta go with pleasure. You did. What is the opposite of pain? Gain. Really?

Yes. I think pleasure is probably the opposite of pain. When you go to masseuse. Oh, it can be both. You don't go and say, I can really go for some gain. People say I could really go for some pain. and I would like to see you go to a masseuse and say I could really go for some pleasure maybe that was a bad example

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S-Y-N-E-R-G-X-Halth.com. Centrogenicshealth.com. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. 1119 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Ross, we can tell some people to shut their bum asses up. 713-212-5-790. On Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern. Let's talk to some people. You want to?

I'd love to. Interact with the folks. You know the show's about caller interaction. Is it? Back and forth, Reparte. All the stuff we'd like to have. Plus, we're going to hear what channel room. We don't do that very often.

Sometimes. We got Channel Rome some sound bites from his visit yesterday with the A team coming up in a few minutes. as well. Gerard on the Matt Thomas show at 1120. Gerard, how the hell are you? I'm doing all right, man. How you doing? Good.

Good, good to hear from you. All right, good to hear from you and Ross, man. Before I talk about the rocket games, a big game and now, I'll talk a quick thing about the Astros. I think the Astros can make some under the radar moves to get better. I think Brigham was gone. I think he's going to a team on the East Coast, Philly, New York, Boston. He probably will end up in one of those two destinations.

But as far as the Astros go, they can make some small under the radar moves, man. They had a first basement. I think Donovan back's first baseman, goldsmiths out there, maybe you get him, add another outfielder to go with Tucker and another guy, and yard on it, he's going to pay left field and the outfield. And then probably add a pitcher if you're not going to bring Verland up back.

And I think you can compete in the division at the end that is not a strong division. They're in a very weak division. They're not in the American League East, but you've got a bunch of heavyweights over there in the East. They're in the American League West, so I think they can win that division with some small under-the-radar moves and still compete.

especially where you still got Al-Tubei and Yardarm. Now, as far as the Rockets go, big game tonight. 15-game losing street to Golden State Warriors. They have owned you over the last several years. You've got to get the win tonight. The Rockers are playing some good balls, but they're on two against Golden State. Golden State beat you without Freymon and Steph Curry.

So you owe them one. This will be a good game to get a win against Golden State. And I think the key to it is Steph Curry. You got the baby to slow him down. You know they're going to be setting screens, a lot of the moving screens. So hopefully Addoca get on the referees and get in there and tell him to watch out for the moving screens. They sell a lot of moving screens, but it's part of the offense. So they kind of get away with it more than other teams that try of those high screens separating their shooters.

So I think that's the key. I think, again, the Rockets got to play the defense that they've been playing all year. Sogoon's got to be the guy that they look to go to when the game is on the line. I don't think he's getting enough shots down the stretch as guys like a Jalen Green and other guys like Van Fleet are getting more field or attempt than a subgroup who I think is their best player. But I think they have an opportunity to get a win tonight, and they've got to just come up and step up to the plate, man, against Golden State, man. It's going to be a good game, man.

Goal State is a team that plays great defense as we've seen in the last game. So they're going to try to notify a lot of what the Rockets do. I'm kind of glad that the Rockets did have a little break in between the game that they played Sunday to prepare for the offense that goal to stay. runs because the state runs a lot of motion offense, Princeton-style offense. So I know what Doca and his coach's staff will be well prepared for that offense that they run. And they just got to try to slow down, throw down Step Curry, compete on the boards,

and make sure no other guy from Gold State Warriors steps up and have a big game. If they're able to do that after they get the win tonight and get off the snide of a 15-game losing streak against the Warriors, what's your guys saying? Thanks, Gerard. Appreciate the phone call. I mean, this is going to be strange, but Comingas had a great game against the Rockets. In fact, he had to occur high.

And Buddy Heel was really good before that, too. I mean, we don't even know what the Rockets are like against Steph Curry. He didn't play against him yet this year. Well, Steph Curry is still pretty good. Still the greatest shooter ever walked the planet. You want some intelligence on Steph Curry lately? Not really. Hasn't he missed both matchups this year?

Yes, I said. Both. Thanks for listening. Yeah, I appreciate that. We need this one. We, because of course, I play 19 minutes a game. No, you don't. You just want to go to Vegas. He scored 30 against Minnesota on Sunday. Minnesota kicked their ass. He said Dallas is nice. You can go to Dallas. You love Dallas.

You always talk about how nice it is. I mean, Midtown is nice. I've got friends and family there. Okay. But I can go without friends and family in Vegas. I mean, you can go to the casino. It was my friend. There's casino only an hour away from Dallas.

But there's all. also one downstairs in my lobby in my hotel. Really? Hmm. That is a narrowed down, Ross. You've narrowed down to 125 hotels then. Tropicana. That's gone.

Oh. Dang. All right. Thanks, Gerard for the phone. It's the Hooters? Oh, that's gone too. No, that's the Y-O. O-Yo.

I like the O-Yo. Ross and I have had some great times at O-O-O. I'll tell you some. O-Yo's got $10 minimum, $3-2 blackjack on the strip. Got a little off the strip. And if you're single and ready to mingle with a certain clientele, I don't know it for myself, but I've seen it firsthand from other people.

Oyo is your spot. Really? Yeah. You can hit the spot at Oyo is what you're saying. You can hit that spot at Oyo. And it won't cost you as much as like hit the spot at it at Cesar's. Or at Cosmo.

Are you talking about Vegas hooker prices right now? No. I'm just saying, that the average woman drinks more at the Oyo than she does anywhere else. What? Still? One hand on the dice and one hand with a cocktail. One head on breaded, breaded chicken wings from the restaurant that's in there.

That's true. The very mid-restro? We've actually had great times at O-Yo. I'm not going to downplay O-Yo. I love O-Yo. Except I... It's like an act of Congress to cash out like $900 bucks there. They're like kind of call the manager.

Like, nobody wins $900 in this place. Like limits are like $15 or $20 a hand. And Oyo, it's like, you put out a 10 spot for a bet. Like, oh, thank you very much for your service, sir. Ohio is also the first place I ever saw somebody split sixes against a 10. Yeesh. Good thing you weren't there, Matt. Oh, my God.

I would have gotten out of God, I said. You would have had a connipion, as the kids said. Yeah, they do say connoption. Yeah, there's so much for Gerard the digest. I mean, Golden State is not the Golden State of yesterday year. Let's talk about the first thing he's talking about. Okay. Under the radar moves for the Astros.

Yeah, you're going to have to pull some strings and work some magic. If Dana Brown has continued to do what he's tasked with, and that is not signing contracts over five years and probably staying under the luxury tax this year and not being a repeater tax offender, which it looks like the Astros are going to do if they swing and miss on Bregman and then not have a lot of money to spend and wiggle room.

then, yeah, he's going to Under the radar moves is going to have to be his jam. You're going to need something like a Trey Cabbage move from last year to work out. Trey Cabbage move didn't work out. Taylor Scott was an under-radar move last year. Yes. And it worked out. Correct.

Brian King. Like that type. It feels like it's easier to do with pitchers than position players. Yeah, because every year you got different relievers stepping up and blinded roles. Who's that guy that came on at the end of the year and he was pretty good and then he got hurt? Jason Hayward. The right fielder. No, not Jason Hayward.

The other one. Oh, God. How did I already forget? Got hurt in the right field, played right field and got hurt at the end of the year? Yeah, people know who I'm talking about. I'm finding it right now. Not Cooper Hummel. Where is this fool?

Ben Gamble. G-A-M-E-L. Ben, yeah. Like, Ben Gamble came playing 20 games and he was solid. And you were, like, trying to start him in right field, and then he got hurt. like you need you got a that's not under the radar that's not even on the screen that's what i'm saying you're going to need that kind of stuff to work out because otherwise what else you're going to do you don't have prospects that are banging down the door you you don't have a lot of wiggle room and

free agency as channel of rome said we'll get to that in the next segment right well not no we're going to save it for the news of sorry in the news at noon what's the next segment shut your bum ass up oh okay news at noon with channel room's comments on free agency trades Not a lot of positivity. If you are in the Alex Breggman Must Stay Here Club, you're not going to want to hear What Channel Rom Edison? One word comes to mind, bleak.

Hmm. Despair? As far as championship hopes. They're not going to lose 120 games next year. Is part of this, though, however, because the Astros playing that will be the weakest division in baseball next year? It's a winnable division, even with Alex

Bregman, without Alex Breggman. And if you get some other free agent, because I got I don't I'm ready to make this assessment I don't believe Trey Winkim is going to be the opening day third base

for the Astros What's the matter? I just this put out from Chandler Room preliminary Kyle Tucker trade talks with the Astros and the Cubs both involve Assea Suzuki and Isak Paratus. What?

Hmm So maybe there's a little more to it. Is it time to say goodbye. Kyle Tucker's getting moved? Could it happen this week? All right, let's go.

713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You ready to shut your bum-ass up about some things? I'm ready to shut your bum-ass up about some things. I got something that's going to happen in the office today. Okay. If someone's bothering you, daily, daily, someone is giving you,

if somebody's driving poorly, if your mother-in-law is driving you crazy, you want to tell them to shut their bomb ass up? We'll get to that. And we'll also get to the channel room information coming in the last few minutes. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9.

We've got shut your bomb-ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that. Coming up next here on Sports Talk, 7-90. Ain't nobody getting time. Ain't nobody getting time for that. Ain't nobody getting time for it. Ain't nobody getting time for it. 1133, Sports Talk.

790. Time for you to tell some people to shut their bumasses up. I got one. To any email service that allows you to reply all to everybody in your office so everybody can see your emails over and over and over again with responses for like 80 people, if you hit reply all in your workplace or to your friend group and not everybody needs to see the results and responses you're sending out, shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man.

I am anti-reply-all. It does more harm than good. It just really does. What's the harm? The harm is I got to see your responses. I don't care about your responses. I get delete. I got to move forward.

I got to get my email list is longer. I don't have time to look at your reply alls. Especially when it's, hey, thanks. Or that was great. Much appreciated. Miss you. Happy birthday. Oh, hell no.

See, what's the proper etiquette? For example, we get emails here for, let's say it's our big boss. and it's his birthday. And the email goes to all staff. Happy birthday. And I just text that person. Can you reply all? No.

You reply to that person directly or you text. Oh, for example, there was somebody here recently. They got a big promotion. And it goes out to the email. Can you reply all on that? No. You want everybody to know you're congratulating that person? Why do I care if you know if I'm congratulating?

You know what I'm doing? Because if I see you're congratulating, I'm like, well, now I got to congratulate. No, because those people are trying to kiss ass. The reply all key is for people that want to kiss ass. Or it's for old people who don't know what they're doing. That too. When our, we have a new market manager. Now our boss, our super boss, Eddie got a promotion.

So we have Paul Lambert is now our market manager. And I texted Paul to congratulate him. I didn't send out, hey, everybody, congratulations to Paul, because I don't want to come across a kiss ass. I just congratulate him. Man to man, mono, mono, because I didn't need the whole world to see it. Okay. So for those of you that use reply all, shut your bum ass up.

shit your bum ass up man anybody got time for me to be hitting the delete key over and over again ain't nobody got time for that take you a hot 0.7 seconds it's just the effort that it has to take to begin with you poor baby 713

212 5790 713 212 570 ain't anybody got time to watch the Rockets lose the Warriors for a 16th straight time let's go Rockets ain't nobody got time for the bottom bowl to be half full the whole game Hey nobody got time for that.

Come on, people. Come on, you know, I got to be honest. TNT, I'm not a big fan of yours today. We're starting this bad boy off at 845 tonight with a potential seven-minute slide. Anybody got time for 845 tip-offs? Hey nobody got time for that? I'm going to get some pet pills before the game starts, Matthew. Take me a nap.

Power nap. You need to take a nap at the fourth quarter. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Well, what else you got? I will go. I've been going to the movies a few times the last couple of weeks because Interstellar is back in

IMAX. I wanted to see that in IMAX. And I wanted to see Gladiator 2 in IMAX. So I'm all going IMAX. I also saw it Wicked in IMAX as well. What is the deal when the time of the movie says say 530, that you're not even starting the movie until 6 o'clock?

Now, I understand you have to get a few previews in. I understand maybe one or two commercials. But we're talking about 25, 30 minutes of of previews and commercials at every movie theater. You're already gouging me on tickets. You're already gouging on popcorn and candy

and every single thing else. I feel like the most price gougiest thing in the world is the movie theater. And you're playing a bunch of ads on top of that. Ain't nobody got time for the movie to start 30 minutes after the actual start time you listed. Ain't nobody got time for that. And all by the way, sneaky movie theater.

Show me a freshing cola beverage with the, uh, What do you call that? Ice? Fizz? The Fizz. Okay. The effervescence.

Yeah, and then I go, man, that looks good. And then you go up there and start me $11.50? Woo. And nobody got time for a $12. Fizzy drink? Hey, nobody got time. Sneak that water in. Half-priced Tuesdays are your friend.

Okay. I hate movie theaters, though. But the movie experience, I think, is something we need to keep. I don't want them to go away. You're going to be in the minority on that. I think we're going to lose them. We're losing theaters left and right. Yeah, but I don't think 100.

percent of them will go down. I don't think so. I would agree. It'll be like boxing cards. They'll still be a little bit of them. It's not going to completely die out. They're going to be on pay-per-view and YouTube? Is that what you're saying?

Well, movies are paper-view. That's true. 7-13-212-5-79. If somebody's mad at you or somebody you're mad at them, let us know. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Connor is on the mic with headsets on. He must have something he needs to get off his chest.

He's ready to go. He is ready. I mean, it's nothing too spicy. On the weekends, I usually play pick up hockey and last night I played in an actual game like an adult league that they had and they need players so I played and there's an actual rough and we gotta give it six weeks to you're on crutches

I actually did really hurt my shoulder yesterday I played an actual game and this time they had a rough but the rough didn't call any penalties I got trips like three times one of them when I hurt my shoulder on I was in full like Superman because some guy swiped on my legs so why is there a rough? Nobody got time for you just to stand there and be another pylon in the middle of the ice?

Everybody got time for that. That's funny. The only time as an adult I played with the referee was in one of the Rockets, three-on-three tournaments, and he missed every call. It was three-on-three, and we were playing half-court, and he still missed every call. I was shocked. There was a certain media member. Might mind with Rom-Rom-Ropez, who was railing it.

What is it again? Ron Lopez. Ron Ropez? Okay. Go ahead. Shout out Ropee. good kid uh yeah he was working the refs i was like guy relax the three on three media tournament man i didn't complain i was just well the one i hurt my shoulder on i just i stayed down for a second

no you should complain maybe you should work the refs uh with find out how much he's making if it's over 50 bucks a game you can work him if it's under 50 you got to leave him alone i used to make $40 a game um paring softball and same paul that was an hour though 40 bucks an hour wasn't terrible how long are your game probably about an hour huh you guys can't be out there Too long. It was like an hour 20 out of 15. You know Craig Ackerman plays hockey. Oh, are they in the same?

How many hockey leagues are in this city? He's got to be out there. But he calls himself a goon. He's at their high-sticking folks in the team. Oh, yeah. He says he's the dirtiest player in the team. Which is kind of strange because Craig's pretty mild manner. Actually, I can see that.

Really? Craig's a little sneaky. Sneaky goon? I can see that. Huh. Okay. I mean that in a very loving way, Mr. Ackerman. He's not listening.

Maybe he is. I don't know. He's just waking up about now. Good for him. That acumen life ain't bad. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Worth repeating again, Inter-continental Airport, whoever engineered this rebuild of theirs, the terminals, the parking, the lanes, ain't nobody got time to get around Intercontinent Airport, do it once-around-a-air airport, and it takes you 50 minutes to do it. Hey nobody got time for that.

And by the way, if I'm going to pick up my wife at the airport and you guys know we're coming your way, don't be rude to us. Those people that are just telling us move, move, move, screaming, yelling us. How about have a little bit of decency in your conversation? I'm not sitting there waiting for 45 minutes. I don't want to be there for very long either. I want to pick up my wife. I want to leave. I'm not going to camp out.

I'm looking to go get some pretzels at Annie Ann's inside the building. I'm picking my wife and get out of there. What you got against Ann? Annie Ann's. I love Annie Ann's or Wetzels Pretz. Which one's your choice? I don't really remember Wetzels or having it. I think they're all about the same, right? Yeah, we probably use the same dough. I'm sure they do. 713, 212, 5, 790. If you got something that's on your mind that's bothering you, let us voice be heard right the second. I got another one. I think somebody pranked us or something.

They cranked up the heat till it's like 75 degrees in here and it feels like a sauna. Whoever did this, because Matt says it wasn't him, I believe him. I know it wasn't me. Connor's got a smirk on his face. I'm a little worried. I'm just laughing because I always have to deal with it being cold in here. Dude, it is a sauna in here. Ain't nobody got time for whatever pranksster cranking up the heat over here.

You know what? I'm going to take my shirt off. It's so hot in here right now. You already got a sweater on when you take your shirt off, so. Oh. That isn't going to help? Now Dan Matthews is texting me and Craig. Craig Ackerman, the rat on the ice, huh?

I didn't call him a rat. I called him a goon. Dang. Dan, are you getting dry snitched? Dan, stop dry snitching me. Shut your bum ass up. Shit your bum ass up, man. Jeez.

Come on. I don't need no damn dry snitching out there. All right, let's take a timeout, come back and see if you guys have something on your mind. Last chance, if you have something that's made you mad, maybe all this talk about Bregman leaving. Maybe all this talk of Tucker being traded. It's got you mad. Let us know. 713.

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for all the details or seven one three eight four four eleven hundred happy holiday shopping from the Federal Credit Union. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. All right, nobody's in a bad mood today, Ross. It's maybe just me and you. Not that bad of a mood. This segment's got legs to it.

I know it does. There's no way this mean world in which we live in is always in a situation where you just get nothing to complain about. It is a mean old world to live in. I'll buy yourself. All about myself. Carmen, maybe one of the five saddest songs ever made. Ripping off Rakhmaninov's Concerto No. 2.

Is that what it is? Yes. Does anybody feel bad that Eric Carmen did that? I think Sergei's Rachmaninoff's family is very upset. Okay. Rock Maninoff, Matt. Top five Russian composers all time? He's the Kendra-Kamara of Russian composers. No, I would say that's probably Peter Chikowski.

Okay, very good. All right, last call for anybody wants to shut their bum asses up. 3-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Let us know if somebody's irritating you. Ain't anybody got time for something. Ain't nobody got time for Alabama fans feeling sorry about their situation with the college football playoff. Yeah, you may be pissed at SMU got in.

You may think you could beat SMU, but you lost to Oklahoma. You got your ass kicked by Oklahoma. So shut your bum ass up, roll tide. Ain't nobody got time for that. You know what? You can suck, Tide, is what you can do. Shut your bum-ass up. Excuse me.

I'm with you. How about the Alabama AD? What's his name, Greg Byrne or something like that? He came out and was like, we're not going to make tough schedules anymore. This is how we're going to be treated. You played Western Kentucky, South Florida, 5 and 7 Wisconsin, and Mercer.

Shut your bum ass up. Exactly. Shit your bum ass up, man. You lost to Vanderbilt and OU, both of whom would not have been bowl eligible if they did not beat you. Get out of here, Bama. Seriously.

And by the way, Florida State fan, you're upset about your situation still from last year. Shut you a bum ass up to. I don't want to hear about how you got a state fan. Yeah. They kind of got hosed. Kind of got hosed. They got their perfect recipe for disaster the following year. Texas was able to get in, so I wasn't that man.

Although I was mad when I was at the Sugar Bowl. Are you spending money this year on playoffs? We'll see. I'm not going to Austin. I'll be in New Orleans for my birthday. there. All right. More vacation time for you. That's good. You deserve it. Yeah. I didn't get the days. You should take the days. I did not take vacation for like eight months. I'm not begrudging. I'm not taking these all picking and choosing in days off like some people.

I have to do it that way. It's better. It's more for consistency of the show. Okay. Like I got to take days off next week just because I don't really need to, but you're going to be taking the days I want to take off. I'm sacrificing for you. I appreciate you, Matt. You've sacrificed so much. And by the way, anybody that wants to rip out my mic ribs, stop doing it. I've heard the bid for long enough. It's America sandwich. Shut your bum ass up. If it's such a America sandwich,

well, it doesn't stay on the menu. It's because people don't like it, and it's a disgusting, enough gunk gets caught up in the machines that some company has to sell them off. They sell it to McDonald's, and they press it into sheets and sell it to rubs like you.

Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. An early advance for media that never go to Rockets games. You're going to be there tonight. You know who you are. Shut your bum ass up. Don't come around only when the team's playing.

playing well. Shit so bum ass up, man. Don't call me out like that. I didn't see your ass up there when Christian Wood was playing. I was there. You were there. I'm not telling you to shut your bum out. I'm just telling you the...

Hey, Christian Wood Rockets' legend. If he could just play defense, he'd be a complete player. Is he instill in the league? I haven't seen him yet. He's got to be the league somewhere, right? He was coming off the bench for the Lakers last I heard. Is he still in the Lakers? No.

That was last year. Still in the Lakers. Well, there you go. I don't think he's playing much then. No. Not that I've been watching a lot of Lakers ball. Let's see. Oh, it looks like he's been hurt.

Oh, I got one for you. For Steve Balmer, the coach of the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, our arena's going to invigorate Los Angeles. People are going to run to Clipper games. Guess what? They're like 10,000 people at the Rockets game on Sunday night. Oh, really? It's because the Lakers were playing against Sucky Portland.

And the Rams game just got let out. Nobody wanted to go to Clippers games because guess what? You're just the city's bitch. Wow. It is the truth. That's rude. I would say the city. these bitches the angels.

That's true. That's like Orange County's bitch. No, I like C-Bomer. I mean, the arena is absolutely amazing, but... Yeah, what did you think of the wall thing? Overrated. Rock is shot better against the wall. How did it look? Did it feel cool? The fans getting into it?

Sort of. Yeah. They were just ringing cowbells. Wasn't crazy. Well, I mean... I thought that when they were led by Norman Powell... When they were called by the wall, I thought it would be like, there would be like special graphics for that one area or just a bunch? No, none of that stuff. They couldn't get

20,000 in the building for Evita Zubats. He's a double-double machine actually. Evita Zubats. Evita, excuse me. Yeah, Evita Zubats. Rockets are three and O against Eclipse. Let's go. That's the rivalry. I don't care. No James Hardin

it worked out well. Got bad blood. Is that what it is? Rockets Clippers, bad blood? Yeah, Kevin Porter Jr. over there. 77, by the way, is it? What's a strange jersey number? I like it. he can still score he's not very he's not a he's not efficient under any circumstance we can still score remember there was a question a couple years back what to put a lot of money in his piggy bank to let him run things until he gets sideways they did and then well there is a horrific domestic incident yeah yeah

and he went overseas and now he's back yeah he's playing major minutes for them he's number one guy off the bench for them but he starts when hardin wasn't going so all right uh anything else we've got to we've got anything NFL really we got to tell some people oh how How about Mark Gastinoe getting all mad at Brett Favre? I didn't watch that video. I saw it. What happened? He lost his lunch.

I mean, he was really mad that he lost his sack record. He said it cost him a lot of money because he would be able to sign autographs at a higher value because he's an all-time single sack leader. Get over yourself, Mark Gassano. You steroid, weirdo. He don't come after you now. Oh, he can't. He didn't even know who I am. He doesn't know where he is half the time.

Mark Gassano going after Brett Fav. Shut your bum ass up. All right. I'm sending this to... Set your bum ass up, man. Awful announcing. I'm getting this aggregated so I can get you right. Why don't you train right at, Mark, Yassel?

Time to come at me. I'm good. I like you in one piece, Matt. All right, thank you very much. As much as we can. I don't think his teammates even like... Did you see that Brett Farr responded on Twitter? And then did you see he got quotated by Terrell Owens?

And it was like, why don't you explain all that money you took from people in Mississippi? Oh, no way. Yeah. Brett kind of got away with it, didn't he? I don't think he served any jail time. Here, Brett Farr have tweeted 17 hours ago, I want to clear the air on the footage release, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it's a thread. Terrell Owens, while you're clearing the air, clear the air on the misappropriation of funds you were pocketing.

Him and the million-dollar man, Ted DiBiase, same spot, I think. That's great. All right, that, my friends are- And it seems like Brett should be in prison for this, correct? But isn't he sick? I believe he's got Parkinson's, right? Okay. Who's on the phone?

Oh, I'm sorry. I have the hotline. We got... What is Dan want? Dan Dhan Dhan, Dan, you're dry-synching me. What's the Danyl? Why don't watch you on the show? You're dry snitching.

Because ain't nobody got time for certain radio hosts who stay in five-star hotels and fly on shorter planes. Yeah. You'd be giving certain producers a hard time about taking one single solitary day off to go support a good, cause he raked over the coals for it on a Tuesday when he returns. You see, I was in a good mood. I was going to stop and get you coffee today because you've got a long night.

But now, no coffee. No coffee. I'll take two creams and one Splenda, Pike Place, Grande from a certain raw rucks. And I'll pay you for it. Thank you. Goodbye. I just don't want you dry sense into Ackerman. Let me handle that personally.

I just got to text them somebody. What was your favorite Kyle Tucker as an astro moment? Uh-oh. Is it coming? More on that with the news at noon. Coming up here on the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk, 7-Duty. Lunch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 on Sports Talk 790. E. Mae Adoka is going to join us in one hour. We've got a huge basketball game tonight. inside TOTA Center that's all part of today's news at noon. And we go to the news desk. I always feel like every time I said that, he turns on his news anchor voice. Here's Rossville to Real.

Hey, Matt, great to have you here on the News at Nude here on Sports Talk 790. We're going to go ahead and start with the hot topic of the day. The winter meetings continuing in Dallas, Chandler Rob. That's enough. That's enough. With some big news talking about a discussion with the conference with the Cubs involving Kyle Tucker, perhaps. Isak Paratus, perhaps. Is it Chaos Suzuki?

We'll figure it out eventually. Perhaps Cam Smith, the 2024 first round pick third baseman in the Cubs organization as well. Here's what Chandler Rome had to say yesterday on the A team about legitimate interest in moving both Kyle Tucker on Framber Valdez. I do think Fromber Valdez and Kyle Tucker are available. You know, Dana Brown basically said, what Dana Brown said yesterday is what you have to say as a GM, right? Like, it would be, it would be negligent for him not to listen on everyone. But from what I've been told and from, you know, reporting I did both before

and during the winter meetings, you know, there is legitimate interest in moving one of Tucker or Valdez. Now, just because I say that doesn't mean it's going to happen. It doesn't mean it's imminent. It doesn't mean that they're fielding offers as we speak. But there are people within the Astros organization that are, that are, that are, that want, that this is the course of action that they think is best going to set them up beyond next year. Because they don't want to be sitting here, Ross, having to figure out how to replace a third baseman or an outfielder in back-to-back years and getting draft picks for it.

Draft picks are cool and everything, but draft picks are cool and everything. but draft picks take several years to mature, and there are absolutely no guarantee that draft picks all of a sudden become stars. It would be part of what we're calling a soft reset rather than blow it up full on rebuild and what you and I are both talking about. You kind of batten down the hatches,

maybe you win 75, 80 games for a couple of years, some prospects can come up, you get some useful players out of trading both of those players, and you can contend in a year or two. I don't look forward to a season without those two gentlemen, but I look forward to five years and thinking about what could happen, if you get the right players in those moves.

More from Chandler-Rome. Dana Brown thinks the Astros can still win the division if they make said trade. We were in Dana's suite yesterday, and I think the thing that stuck out to me the most, you know, I asked him, if you trade one of Tucker or Valdez, can you still win the division? And he said, yes, he thinks they can. And when he said that, that kind of told me everything I needed to know that while I'm certainly not sitting here saying they're going to trade one of these guys, it certainly is a real, real

possibility. Let me ask you this. If we were Chandler or Brian McTackard, and we asked that question, Dana Brown, what kind of response would we have expected from Dana Brown? No, guys, there's no chance we can win this division. I mean, if we go 70 and 92 we'll be happy. I mean, I would

fully expect him to say that, right? I would agree that you can always count on Dana Brown to err on the side of optimism, whether it be Jose or Bray, who's going to the Ford of Compet, and he's going to be just great. Whether it be this guy's going to do great. Well, Kyle Tucker's almost back from this shin bruise.

And it turns out he had a fracture and he missed 90 games. Dina Brown's always going to be optimistic. So, yeah, I understand on its face, I'm with you. It sounds good, but how much does it? That's why again, I think it's okay for people to lie. It just makes everything sound better. And hot off the presses here, Matt, on the news at noon. Yes.

A story from Brian McTaggart of MLB.com. headline All-Star Outfielder, talking about Kyle Tucker, seen as more and more likely to be traded. Apparently, Joel Sherman reporting for MLB Network and the New York Post that Tucker is seen as, quote, more and more likely to be traded. The Yankees, Cubs, Giants, and Phillies have all expressed interest in acquiring Tucker. Let's go! MLB.com's Mark Feinson, previously mentioning Tucker as a. potential option for the Yankees on Tuesday. Feels like momentum is building for Kyle Tucker to be traded away.

And we like Kyle Tucker. I love Kyle Tucker. And he has been spectacular for this organization. Last two postseason is not so great, but one's a, they're relatively small samper size. Relatively. It's two games. Well, I'm talking about the year before one great either. It was small sample size, too.

It was small, but it was bigger than last year. It was like 10 games. It was like getting egg drop soup and then getting a big shrimp appetizer. Can a baseball player go into a 12 game slump? Absolutely. Come on that. But the body of work is special 5-tool player, who basically has probably told the entire world,

I'm not signing with the Astros. Who had a higher OPS plus than a one Soto last year. I like when you spit out facts like that. Just saying. And he's also a gold Glover. Just saying. So the market seems rolander. bust for one

Kyle Tucker, Matt. What does that mean for Alex Breggman and the Astros? Scott Boris saying, Breggman still very much in demand. We all know what comes after A.V. That is the C and champions. In Breggness case, C

Square, all these teams realize what a leader he is, what a champion he is, and plus his skill level to boot. So he's had a remarkable career to date. He's very much in demand. So the report coming out of Boston that Alex Cora and the team president over there

apparently making a push for Alex Bregman to play for the Red Sox. Let me ask you this. With hearing of this, doesn't Scott Boros lean now to Bregman say, look, they're going to blow up this organization. I guess blow up would be the term when you get rid of Kyle Tucker that you should even, you should take the asteros off the list because they're seriously not going to ready to contend

if they're going to get rid of Kyle Tucker with a year left to go, right? Wouldn't you say if Bregman, if you're Bregman and you hear that Kyle Tucker's being moved, wouldn't that lean towards not staying with Houston? Yes. Do you keep Bregman and Trade Tucker? That doesn't seem to make sense. That's what I'm saying.

Maybe. Do you think the Astros already know what Alex Bregman's intentions? The writing is on the wall, is what you're saying. I could buy that 100%. Yep. All right. Elsewhere on the news at noon, Matt, tonight, your Houston Rockets, if you have tickets, please. Get there for tip off at seven. Oh, my God.

Okay, stop at you. At seven. Fix that. What? If I say tip off at seven, people normally get there at eight. All right. Have you seen that building? I know you've seen it.

Intimately. Okay. Normally tip off at seven, and people, we'll get there at 8. Today it's 8.30. It's an NBA Cup game. Does it really mean a whole lot of Hill of Beans? Not really, but it's fun. The court's different. There's something on the line. There's something

2.4. It's on national television. The line has gone from 2.5 to 1.5, so I'm a little worried. Get there early. Be loud. Stay late. Where orange? Okay, don't do the last part. And find Ross. He'll buy you a beer before the game.

Okay, you know what? If you find me before the game. And you say, I can't get enough of Matt Thomas, Peach Basket's Basketball analysis. I will buy you a beer. Let me get this straight again. You're going to have people make fun of me with a name that doesn't fit.

You're going to funny. What do you mean? You can't call me Peach Basket. That's not nice. You have that basketball knowledge of Dr. Naismiths. That's not an interim of endearment. That we call you Peach Basket. Nobody calls me Peach Basket. Everyone calls you Peach Basket. I don't go around town. Hey, like yesterday. one of the owners of, and I'll say it, raising canes, owns a bunch of franchises in town, came over to me during the U of H game

and said how much he listens and loves the show. Oh, wow, that's great. He didn't call me Peach Basket. Nobody calls it, except you. You got a weird little fetish. You know, weird little nickname, Giver. T, at SportsMT right now, call him Peach Basket.

No, you don't. Because everyone calls him Peach Basket. Second of all, they're not going to do that. At SportsMT, Peach Basket. No, thank you. Don't do it. Okay. Well, Matt, so what's going to happen with Alex Breggman?

What's going to be of the Rockets? Rockets tonight. You ready for this, Houston? They're beating the Golden State Warriors. Oh, are you? And guess what? Yeah, pull the file out. Oh, my God.

Pull the file out. So ridiculous. It doesn't matter. I'm putting my name on it. Oh, not a gut feeling. Friday's show will be from Las Vegas. With you. With me and you.

You won't be there. You get me a flight? I mean, I have miles. You really want to go that bad? Not really. Okay. I got plans this weekend. What do you got it going on?

I don't know. I'm going to... Go see a movie? Watch Manchester City and Manchester United. Big game, 1030 a.m. Sunday. We're going to put a bet on it for you? Can you bet on European soccer there? What do you think?

I think the answer is probably yes. You can bet on anything. That's right. Bet on rat races. All right. I'm putting my name on it. All right. Hold on.

Let me get the Noste. Rockets beat the Warriors. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please. Yeah, you're just hoping. You know what, for your own sake, I'm not even going to put this on the file because I know you're just gut feeling. You're a fraud. What do you think is going to be like tomorrow at 10 o'clock when I show up at the Rockets Lose? You'll be fine.

Are you sure? Yeah, quit your whining. But think about how Jovey all be if they win tomorrow. Yeah. I'll come in and bring you breakfast. It will be short-lived. Hot cup of coffee. Yeah, that would be first.

Big smile on my face. Happy to see you for once. Check all those boxes. That never. Nothing ain't happening. No matter what happens. Go, Rockets. down the Warriors.

Are you anything on the off the beaten path? No, we don't have time. Oh, by the way, real quick, I got one. Did you see the story about the guy that bought the car from a Utah dealership in Salt Lake City? Yes. He's like, this car has got problems. I don't want it. The dealership, the dealership, excuse me, say, you're buying this as is.

And he says, yes. Okay, I'm buying it as is. and he wasn't happy and he says if you don't fix this i'm going to run this car through your front door of your dealership so he did you know what you got to respect a man of his word although you don't like him to endanger people he didn't hurt anybody thankfully but he completely destroyed the front of the dealership and now he's in jail was it worth it probably not and that my friends is the news at noon thank you matt all right are we going to need to do some research on these chicago cubs players no now maybe do i think it's going to have to

this week. Probably not. But we need to start mentally preparing ourselves. You know what I'm going to say we're doing it right now, 12.13. Ladies and, have I ever done this in the history of what was your favorite? I'm going to do it.

Right now? Right now. Okay. What was your favorite, Kyle Tucker? Oh man, the tweets are pouring in for Peach Basket. No, there's like three. That's not pouring in or any circumstance. No, I've muted all those people and blocked them. Although the blocking, by the way, when I block you, it's for a reason.

I don't want you to see my stuff. Well, talk to Elon. That's ridiculous. Talk to Elon. And by the way, let me tell you another thing. I'm blocking people that are like weirdo crypto accounts and stuff. People that I know follow them. That's why I'm getting all these bot accounts because you weirdos are following these people.

There's one local media personality that is full. following a bunch of weirdo crypto accounts. We got a lot of people calling you Peach Basket. No, you don't. We have no one doing it. No one's doing it at all. Oh, man. Shout out to all you. Austin, Stewart, H-Town Dad, Kyle. Christy, Gregory. Nope. Y'all are the best. You all made my day. That's five people. That's not...

For Peach Basket Thomas. That's not great. That was six, I think. All right, six. 713-212-790. I'm doing... I'm going to go take a time out here after I talk about quality home products, and I'm putting it out there. Peach Basket? No. Oh. Another thing.

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EMEU doca Ahead of a late start Rockets game against the hated Golden State Warriors 15 games in a row The organization has lost I mean I think we were talking about this on Monday Like as far as Houston franchises

tortured by Houston Franchise A tortured by opposing franchise B, Rockets and the Warriors has to be up there with the all-timers, if not number one. Hopefully the Rockets can get over that hump tonight, one and a half point favorites at the Golden State Warriors at home against the Golden State Warriors.

And we also, of course, have been talking about it seems like momentum's building. Like the smoke? I just did it. Are we talking about your bathroom trip? No, by the way, there's people who use playing videos in the bathroom. I heard a rumor there's people having like full-on conversations in the bathroom. Yes, it was a phone call and videos being played.

I just talked to Ross about it. Like a full blast? Yes. What are we doing here, folks? Speak your phone. Is that a, can we rewind? Ain't nobody got time for that? Hit the music really quick, seriously.

Just really quick and then we'll get back to sports. No conference calls. No phone calls. No video playing. Go in there, do what you got to do, and get out. Ain't nobody got time for a three-way conversation in the stall. Ain't nobody got time for that? Ross?

I can't disagree. I'm good. You covered it pretty well, I think. Thank you for bringing that back. 7-13-21-2-5-7-00-00. All right, turn that off now. All right, so we're talking about it feels like momentum continues to build. the story from Chandler Roman

the athletic Mark Feinson, Joel Sherman, Brian McTaggart. I mean, anybody. Jeff Passon, Bob Nightingale, the whole world. If you cover baseball, you're talking about Kyle Tucker being traded. It seems like, to quote, well, you've said this, I don't know where the original quote is, he gone.

He gone. That was a Ken Hawke-Harrison of longtime White Sox announcer. Okay. He gone. So I wouldn't have for the first time ever put out a preemptive what was your favorite astro moment? Kyle Tucker's an astro moment. I think I'm going to go with what one person said.

The catch to end the 2022 World Series. Oh, look at what Brennan said. Four-month long shin contusion. That's rude. Ouch. Grand slam off of Felix Batista. I like Nate in the H's response. How about a jam band Degenerant Gambler when he sucked in the postseason for multiple years?

Hey, come on. That feels rude. What is that person going to do with all those golden Tucker crowns they hand out in right field I have to get rid of I got boxes and boxes of King Tuck crowns go shove them to Chicago

or Boston or New York Well you know you do when you lose a king You claim another one Hmm You you be You uh King Chaz You want to give Chaz the king's crown

I'm just asking Why don't you give to Raphael Montero while you're at it What's wrong with that? Yeah And you can wear a crown on the on the mound. He's giving up bombs. You know what? I'm going to tell you this right now. I'm frankly pleased. Because I'm not trying to brag on this. I'm just saying that when you repeat yourself,

you repeat yourself. I've been saying this for years. He wasn't going to sign. There was 0.001 that Breggen was going to sign here. And now there's, there was always a point 0.000. There was, you just go zeros until you're blue in the face. Kyle Tucker wasn't coming back here. I like that they're doing the right thing, though. Me too. That's what I'm saying. I'm actually applauding them being a slightly proactive on this situation.

Dana's been listening to the show. Dana, you're welcome on this. I said it first on Tuesday or Monday when you're out. Yeah, we were prodding him. You know, sometimes you need to get good advice from people. That's true. Like Ross, I gave you some sage advice about 10 years ago. You never took it.

To get out of the business? I wasn't thinking that one. You know what? You were right about that one. The other one you're talking about? Yeah, you're right, I was. And you didn't take my advice on it. Thankfully, Dana Brown's taking my advice.

I feel like at the end of the day, I'm a good advice giver. Mm-hmm. As a matter of fact, if you would like some advice for me right now. Wow, okay. It's a ask MT. No, that's, well, Google MT is a question. No, but ask MT. AskMT is advice.

Yes, absolutely. So if you guys got anything, let me know. And again, I think I'm one for one with you. You didn't take my advice. been paying regretting it ever since i don't think that's true i think it's true but i don't i don't think i've given out bad advice anybody in my life like taking a job or breaking up with somebody or uh deciding to do this and do that i'm sure you think that i mean i'm serious not that people come to me a lot for advice but i can't remember like oh god i gave that guy

some bad advice or told that girl the wrong thing like i gave some advice to somebody in broadcasting and it worked out to her advantage. Hmm. And she thanks me for giving me with a good advice about it all the time. That's good. So yeah. I'm proud of you, Matt.

So let me tell you, you may not have friends that give good advice. They know, they call me two things. Mr. Anology, Mr. Good Advice giver. And Mr. Peach Basket. No, they don't do that. You're getting dozens of people calling you Beech Basket. And dozens of strong term.

I don't think so. The basketball knowledge is infinitesimal. That's a big word for you. Multiple syllables. I'm very proud of you. All right. So if you need some advice. I was worried about sticking the landing on that one.

I feel the same way when I'm calling a basketball game. That's something I really want to say, but man, I got a short time to say and I only get one chance at it. Yes. You made it. All right. 713-212-5-7-9 if you want to get in. 7-1-3-2-5-7-9. The EMA-a-Docke is coming up in one-half hour.

Rock, as we mentioned tonight. Anything going on with college athletics? Oh, a lot of rumors about Connor Wegman coming to the University of Houston. Yeah. Joseph Duarte saying it was their top target. Rumor has it. Not from him, but from other people I know, that it may not take a whole lot of NIL money to get him there.

Really? Yeah. Why, he's cash flush from all the Aggie money? Well, the Aggie money's there. Aguany money's been good. See, that's the thing. And you have been pro NIL. I am, I was pro NIL until it just became completely

abusive in the whole process. So you want it to go away? It needs massive overhaul. But my point is that those are the schools that just take it, I mean, there's NIM money for Connor to go to play at A&M and now that's gone. Nobody has any regrets

about it, right? I would imagine if you're in a collective and you gave him a bunch of money to Connor Weigman, you have regrets. Yeah. And there's no restitution for that. He doesn't have to pay that back. Nope. Now let me ask you this. What if Connor Wing, unless What's a scrap kind of right me? Let's go to another player.

And you've got a collective from a school that's giving all this money. And the guy bolts after a year. Like Quinn Ewer's at Ohio State? Yeah. Quinn Ewers made millions at Ohio State. Can Ohio State ask for the money back? No, I don't think so. I don't think they can do that.

You can't put it in a contract that way. So there's completely no regulation towards it. No. I can just say, Deuce is out, gone. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we need regulation. I don't know who's going to do because I don't trust the insipelated.

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Oh my God. Who had this film? They were doing a documentary on it. They were doing a 20-year anniversary of this, apparently. Oh, it's a documentary on the SAC record? Yes, about how Michael Strayhan got one. So the film crew happened to be there when Mark Gastino, or was this staged and set up? I think everybody knew what was happening.

The two guys were going to meet. There was a film crew there. It wasn't a gotcha moment. By the way, I'm looking at this, Brett Farve. I have forgotten how long ago it was. He absolutely laid down for that. Michael Strayhan should not have taken that sack That's embarrassing

Michael Shrehan's going to take it Look at him He's not crying like a baby now What was it like is it like 22 and a half or something Or what is it? You know why I hate Mark Michael Strayhan is because he's hosting a $100,000 pyramid He's butchering one of my favorite game shows of all time

And now you got Nate Burleson Another ex-football player hosting the Hollywood Squares Ugh Wait a minute TJ what has 22 and a half as well Is Mark Gassano mad at TJW? Oh, that could be bad There are five people have tied

Mark Gassano Jared Allen, Justin Houston Deacon Jones twice Now they went back and looked at film And counted sacks on that, I believe Did the pro football reference You know about nerds with a lot of free time in your hand Going back to every game in the 1970s

And counting sacks Oh, they are not getting late under any circumstance And you can bet me up on that Not that there's anything wrong with that Not getting late? There's a lot of problem with that No I may have to have love once in a while

Is JJ Watt still the only one With multiple 20 sacks season That's crazy I'm serious I had forgotten how emotional Strayhand got And then Brett Farr went over there Congratiating him and said

You owe me for that one Yeah That's exactly what he said You gotta buy me dinner or a yacht or something And now the Giants players Are going over to talk to putting their hands On Brett Farr I'm like good going This was a setup

Look at him They're all congratulating each other On fourth quarter setup They were up by 10 Or nine with two and a half minutes ago Oh, and I'll like, hey, man, appreciate you, bro. Embarrassing. No wonder there's a documentary about this.

It was a complete scam. Mike and Katie at 1237 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Mike, thank you for holding good afternoon. Hey, guys. Hey, just curious, with all the trade talk, Kyle Tucker, let's say we trade him for the sake of this conversation. Would it be better to trade him to one of those bottom seller teams, you know, the A's or the Marlins or one of those type of teams

and try to somehow get their number one draft pick, then it would be to trade them to the Yankees or Boston for, you know, their normal wine and maybe a couple of players. You know, what if you get or to... I got a simple answer for you. You're going to trade Kyle Tucker to one of those bottom feeder teams you're speaking of. First of all, you can't get their draft picks.

Yeah, you don't trade draft picks. That's number one. Okay. You're going to trade prime. You can't trade draft picks like an NBA. in football. Secondly, and more importantly, why would you, if you're the A's or the Reds or any of the bottom feeder teams, trade for Kyle Tucker knowing good and well, there's no chance in a world that you're going to be able to pay for him long term?

Why would you do that for one year? Yeah, for one year, yeah. Well, the same reason why they did a three-year contract with the Yankee pitcher, I guess, the Yankee pitcher, when you know the age, you're not going to be good for three or four years anyway. Sometimes teams will do something crazy. No, no, no, no. This is a non-conversation. I mean, honestly, this is not even worth of confidence. Every time I call you, I'm a St. Thomas grad. The way you treat me, every time I call, I mean, you're, one of the reasons your kid is in St. Thomas is for donors like the St. St.gians, the Patronos like ourselves, the Carrable, but the Mandolas. Otherwise, your kid would have never been in St. Thomas. I'm so sick and tired of you.

Mike, you know what, Mike, you know what? I'm sick and tired of you dropping St. Thomas. I paid harder in cash for four years of St. Thomas. I didn't get a scholarship. Second of all, I'm sick and tired of you calling with terrible takes. Why don't you call the show with a good take and I won't make fun of you? That's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous conversation.

I stopped you to try it and stop you from embarrassing yourself, but it's too late. Hello? I think he hung up. We did not hang up on him. No, that's what I'm saying. I'm ready to go. It was a stupid conversation. I stopped it.

The A's and the Marlins are not going to be interested in trading away top prospects for one year of... And I... Hold on. It makes no sense. And I resent you thinking that I got a free pass for Cameron. I got the bill. You want to show... I'll send you the credit card or the check that I wrote.

You ready for that? Is that what you want? Wow. I sure is how they can get a discount. If I miss on the discount... Connor, why don't you tell me about the discount for Cameron? I don't know about this. You get a discount?

There was definitely no discount. Okay, then shut your bum ass up and have better takes. Mike, come on. That was stupid. I didn't say stupid until you brought it on to yourself. Floor is yours. I'm good. I think you handled that as best you could.

Best I could. I got personal. It got really personal, really quick. Over a bad baseball take. I mean, not a bad one, an awful one. It was really bad. Again, a friend of the show, Mike and St. Thomas Grad, we're proud of you. But, yeah, there's no reason a team would take on a top-level majorly

talent for one year that they have zero chance of resigning and giveaway prospects when it's not going to help them bottom line it's not going to help them win games to an extent to where they're going to get to the playoffs it doesn't make any sense it makes zero sense and by the way st thomas is a phenomenal high school and i'm glad i spent every penny for my son to get a four-year education there and i'm so glad that Connor is a st thomas grad dan uh dan from our show dan matthews is a st thomas guy i mean it's nothing but success My son had a wonderful time in high school. The all-boys school, correct?

All boys. But there were sisters schools that had sisters. You know, I'm not sisters, but, you know, like, dang possible. Kissing their sisters? No. St. Thomas? Now, let me ask you, Connor, real quick. Did you go out with more St. Agnes girls or Incarnate War girls?

Or none of the above? I guess St. Agnes, actually. But Incarnate Ward is technically our sister school. But I did go out with one more St. Agnes girl than IWA. Wow. was it like 22 to 21? You had 43 girls in high school? I wish.

You were cutting more than a rug, I can tell you that. Excuse me? Mike and pass a get down, Dina. Hi, Mike. Hey, man, I thought how you're doing? Good. Doing great. That was good stuff back then.

Hey, man, we're talking about the trade room of the NBA. A lot of rumors about Jimmy B. Butler wanted to come to Houston getting out of Miami. Have y'all heard you think about that? Oh, yeah, I mean, it's definitely a lot of rumors. And I think Rafael Stone went on NBA radio yesterday and basically said our day before and said, hey, he's going to listen because that's his job as a general manager. But I don't think he wants to mess with this core right now, especially to see where it

ultimately develops between now and the end of the year. But I know Jimmy Butler would like to maybe come back here. I know that the Mavericks are certainly a team that's been talked about. Golden State has been talked about. hell there are LeBron James rumors being circulated right now. Him and Bronie going to maybe to Golden State. So it feels like to me we're going to see some star power here

moved to the trade deadline. I just don't know if it involved the rockets or not. Okay, thanks, Matt. I'll take it easy. See you later, Mike. I appreciate it. And yes, Mike, I did pay for my son to go to St. Thomas for four years too. And by the way, I paid for my mother son to go to Covenant for four years too,

small Christian school in Kingwood. Dang. I got zero scholarships from any of these people. You got a flex on us like this, Matt. Dang. Man, Mike won't come after me like that. I went to public school. Shout out Nimitz High School.

My daughter went to Kingwood High School. So goes to Kingwood High School. Shout on Kingwood. Nice shot with a football team. Go Stangs. They did get their ass kicked by Summer Creek over the weekend in a regional semifinal, but that's still a very successful. High school football is still going?

Yeah. Let these coaches sleep. How long does this go on? They live for this. My God. They live for it. Uh-oh. Yankees, Keith calling in about the Yankees.

I wonder what he's going to be talking about? The Yankees. Does he hate Juan Soto more than life itself? We'll see. We'll find out. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got an update from the Rockets and EMAIDOC coming up in about 17 minutes.

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The decision not to trade them. Hmm. I don't know. there's too much smoke on this bad boy it feels like it's imminent is what it feels like yeah uh let's see that time he bruised his leg and went away for three months before they finally admitted it was a fracture skip says that time he went off in the postseason oh wait hey he did i think had a good postseason you know i keep talking about i want to look it up i think i hope at some point here's one from kentie the if nobody got me kyle tucker does tweets

Oh, those are great. That's funny. Here we go. In, what year was this? I like the pregnant pause on the show sometimes. Oh, I brought it the wrong thing. Never mind. It's fine.

It's fine. 713-212-579. 7-1-3-212-579. If you want to jump into the conversation, is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A 21, he had a great run. 874 OPS. Oh, I'm not, look, I'm going to be sad when he leaves.

It's another chip, another piece off of the greatest run in Houston sports history franchise, right? Four home runs in 16 games, 874 OPS. It's a pretty good playoff run. And it looks like that was his only good playoff run, really. Okay, we're trying. 713-2125, 7-0. A man that is very happy that Juan Soto is not taking a lot of the payroll of the Yankees is Yankees Keith on 790.

YK, what's a good word? Keith? Hello, Keith. Oh, he fell asleep. Is Keith asleep? Like Brian Cashman and the Soto negotiations. Oh, that seems personal, Ross. That's terrible. We'll try to get Keith back.

Oh, man, whatever. We'll try it again. It's okay. Yankees Keith could be getting Alex Bregman and or Kyle Tucker. I mean, Kyle Tucker would fit perfectly in New York, but he might fit better in Chicago. But they probably want to put Judge back and right. I'm going to put him in...

Yeah, I mean, Kyle could play center if you wanted to, but that's not where... The judge is a butcher in center. He put him in, say, yeah, I guess you put, I guess you're putting Kyle in center. Scott Bowles, by the way, going back to Breggman for just a second, said that his client would play anywhere except pitch and catch. That leaves seven positions available. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you're putting...

You're not putting Alex Breggman in center field. Come on. My feeling is, is that he's going to stay in third base the rest of his career. I mean, why would you make him go to a more difficult position? Second base wouldn't be, but he's not. No, certainly would be. All right. Keith is back with us here on the program.

Hi, Keith. Hey, can you hear me now? Yes, sir. Okay. So, Juan's photo is going to be exposed as the mediocre or poor outfielder that he is. When he used to play at Met Stadium. We offered that punk 760 million. Oh, my God.

That's awesome. Let me tell you. Here's what I think is. happen, Matt. We're going to get Kyle Tucker, and we're going to put him on first base. We're going to pay him $320 million, just a little bit short of what they gave a judge. We're going to give him nine years 320. And we're going to put him on first base. He's going to hit 42 home runs per year. He would take, I think he would take 9-320 for sure. Absolutely. He would take that. that's all you got

I'm so mad at Soto but like I said he was a weak outfielder and he's going to be exposed wait a minute you just called him a weak outfielder your baseball team was about to put $750 in his 50 million in his piggy bank and it makes him weak

makes him very strong very strong physically strong mentally strong no no they got him for because of his ability to get on base and the set up judge and whoever else is going to be in the lineup. We're going to take Kyle Tucker in exchange for Toto, and he'll be implanted on first base for the next 10 years.

What if he gets traded in Chicago when he loves to playing for the Cubs? What's going to happen then? Oh, Tucker? Mm-hmm. No, he's coming. The Yankees will pay for him. They need somebody at first base that can hit. We haven't had that in years.

and you can get somebody that can get at least 40 home runs every year, they're not going to let that slide. Tucker's going to be a Yankee. You've called it first, and if it happened, you call and brag about it. If you're wrong, you need to come to apologize. Is that fair? That's fair. All right, we'll see you later.

Appreciate it. I mean, I can see Kyle Tucker in a Yankee. A uniform? Absolutely could. Think about it, Ross. There's going to be very few teams that are going to be looking to sign players for the eight, nine year. and I think that's what Kyle Tucker wants.

He's won it from the first day he signed his major league contract. We have a bet on that, too. We do what I say. The Breggman Beck was over six. Six was the number. I have it an under. You have it at over. I think we said it at seven and a half.

And I have the over. Which means somebody has to win that. I'm checking the files. I don't remember that. I mean, you know I make lots of bets, so it's easy for me to forget one. I got the date on it. August 14th. And I said under seven and a five.

half? I have over seven and a half. You have under seven and a half. I feel like you need some juice on that. No, no, you made the bet. Will you check the tape, pal? No, no, no, no. You got it written down. I mean, you make things up, but that's not... August 14th. We could go check the tape. That's why I started putting the dates on there. I feel good about the Bregman one. I don't feel good about the

copter. You don't get two lunches. Not getting seven years. It's going to get six. What's the exchange rate? Can I convert two lunches and one dinner? Well, depends on where you want to go. Can I use my discount card? Oh, well, of course. All right. Well, then we're, and then all, everything's fair game, then. Yeah. You're like, Billy the

kid in the Wild West with that thing. I, you know, I pay for the discount card. I don't get it out of kindness. Yeah, I pay for it. Oh, absolutely it is. Absolutely it is. All right, let's talk to EMA Adoka. Yes. You might have a discount card, too. Huge game. My guess he probably has a platinum card. I think, does he even have a card? Does he even need a card? I don't think so.

You may want to sign your name, you doka. Yeah, yeah. I. You know, you. Yes. Not an I-O-U, it's just I-U. E-May Doca is going to join us to start the final hour of the show. What is, believe it or not today, coming up at 150? I don't know. All right, we'll get you chance. Mark Gastino.

Oh, that's actually not bad. His wife, ex-wife, back in the day? Good for him. Good catch. A good sack. Yeah, I'm going to leave that blank. 713-212-5-7. I want to tell you about Uptown, Uptown.

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I don't know. I've never asked you this. Are you a napper in between shoot around and games and tonight? Maybe a good one because it's an 8.30 tip off here. No, I am not a napper. And it is a later game. But, you know, keep the same routine and push you back an hour or so like we did shoot around this morning and get ready to play. How are the boys? How's the energy? Look, you got a victory in Los Angeles on Sunday. That's great.

But let's be honest, you've got two things going for you here. You got a lot of these kids that on your team that have gone through a lot of losses against Golden State. and more importantly, you've got a trip to Vegas on the line here. What's been the vibe so far with the squad this morning? Let's go get it done. We had an opportunity the other day where we didn't capitalize on, didn't play our best game overall in Golden State, and a good chance to revisit that,

but also break a streak and playing for something bigger. So let's go get it done. That's everybody's goal right now. How weird has it been for you to have to play Golden State twice this year already, and know Steph Curry in any one of those games? I know the injuries have played and he's getting relaxation here and there and whatnot to make sure he doesn't play in back-to-backs and whatnot. But how much do things change now that you're adding the greatest jump shooter of all time on the floor? Yeah, it's very different, obviously.

And so they've had some other guys that have hurt us in certain areas, but they do play very different when Curry is back. And Green was missing last game as well. So I have some things to prepare for and be ready for, but have experience with that. And, you know, obviously got to pay a ton of attention to them. everything's focused on getting him shots and hold the other guys down like we did with Heald and some of the other guys in the previous games. Fred Van Fleet missing the last game for you guys. And turnover is a bit of an issue of the first couple of quarters, but then a lot better in the second half. What was the change there?

And just in general, we know that Fred Van Vleet has a great assist to turnover ratio. What do you try to preach to the guys as far as taking care of the ball, wanting to make the right passes and good passes, but also taking care of the ball? ball. You know, just not playing the crowd. It goes across the board with everybody, regardless if Fred is there or not. Obviously, handles quite a bit and initiates a lot of our offense, but for other guys who are going to take those steps, understand that they can get to the basket, they can make plays for others and avoid playing in that crowd. And we've seen a few teams, specifically Golden State, specifically the clippers in that game that really load up the paint and protect the paint with some of their smaller lineups out there. And just taking that one less

dribble, making it easily pass, and getting the hockey assist, so to speak, will pay dividends. And so Colton states, the team that forces a ton of turnovers as well. So got to be smart with it, strong with the ball, and take advantage of the opportunities. Rocket's head coach, Emilio Doka, with us here on Sports Talk 790. About a quarter way into the season, the fourth year for Jalen Green started off the season. It's been a little bit up and down since then. How would you assess his season and what do you want to see more from him? Yeah, he had good carryover from the end of last.

year and then you know hit a rough patch some some poor shooting which has plagued a few of our guys this year but the thing i like is that he continues to play and do other things to impact winning not just relying on scoring and still making plays for guys and had some poor shooting nights where he really came through in the fourth quarter and so to keep that confidence still defend and make plays for others is a great sign for him that he can impact the game when the shot's not falling and so for him consistency is always going to be the key teams are throwing some different things at him scheme-wise to try to keep him off balance. And I think his recognition has grown

night and day since last year in that area. I think also we've seen some growth from Amin Thompson stepping in in a starting role. I mean, just also the corner threes have been falling for him. Is that something you guys are preaching for him to let those fly? Yeah, teams regarding him, obviously, and

making improve it. And so he's really worked hard this offseason in that area. Even more so on the wing, he's put in his work as well. But he's such a great driver and slasher that we're encouraging him to do that, attack the offensive glass, and then when he can't slash behind to be a lot better playing the dunker, obviously stay confident and knocked down on those corner three is what you've seen him do a lot more lately. So he puts in work every day and that's only going to continue to grow in that area,

but he's going to impact the game in so many different ways that he doesn't have to be relying on jump shots. He gets downhill, gets into the paint, crash the offensive glass, and really pushes great in transition. Tar Heeson, going through the concussion stuff, the last couple of games, I'm assuming everything got cleared for him. And what's it like for him to kind of have the energy back? I know he's always thriving to get on the court as much as he can. And certainly it was last year fighting through all those injuries. It had to been killing him that he was unable to play the last couple of games.

Yeah, yeah, it was bothering him. He had a chance to possibly play in L.A. And we wanted to be safe and get him a few extra days. And obviously, a big matchup coming up. And so good to see him back out there. the usual energy that he brings to practice to the game. So he'll have that, obviously. And he was a little disappointed not getting to play in this hometown, L.A.,

but the main thing was health-wise, getting ready for Golden State and having these days of rest. And so he's looking good as usual and looking forward to the impact he brings tonight. We were kind of joking about, unfortunately, the two losses this year. One of them involved, but a heel going off, the other one with Jonathan Kaminga. For those audience members, and I'm going to, let's be honest, he's not a household name around these parts. Camiga's done some damage. He's had a very good season. For those that are going to the game that I are listening or watching, he's double zero.

What has he possessed that's going to cause you guys some trouble so far this year? Well, the main thing is he's very physical. He's an aggressive driver that gets downhill and has some athleticism, obviously. And so the games that Curry has been out, he's in more opportunity. And we kind of lost track of him at times, doing a really good job on healed last game and focusing on some others. He kind of got away, especially in transition, knocked down a few threes that we can live with. but that added to his total and just a guy that's super confident takes advantage the opportunity

when the guys are missing and has done that and hurt us in two games so far. Draymond Green's going to play whether it's a starter reserve will obviously find out. Seriously, coach, he drives me crazy with the towel waving when he wasn't playing last week in San Francisco. When he is on the floor and you have had lots of different guys blank talk your guys. You guys are a pretty good amount of it as well. Do you embrace it? Do you tell the guys to close their ears? How do you appropriately go at him knowing as good as he is,

but not letting his words become a huge part of the game? I would say he uses motivation and don't back down and shy away from it, obviously. He does that, but we have guys that do it as well. And so for us, we tried to establish that foundation last year to not take a backseat to anybody and be competitive on a nightly basis and make other teams feel us. And so a lot of those things that we're preaching to our guys, Draymond does for his team.

Obviously, I've had the chance to work with him quite a bit, play against him quite a bit as well, but work with him a team USA. And he was really a linebacker, safety quarterback on defense back then. You see how invaluable he is on the night-to-night basis, and he does that with Golden State at a high level. So as much as some people hate it, and obviously you hate going against it, I respect him for what he's done in this league. And he brings their edge to their team. And we have guys that we have to do the same thing. Dylan's one of ours. And so don't back down, don't back down, give it right back.

and, you know, some extent, try to bully the bully. You know what? I love that attitude. It's fresh. It's different. And I think not a lot of teams embrace that against Golden State. So if I go to your white marker board right now and you were to put up the stuff in the pregame visit with a team, what's the very first thing on the top of that list? Curry. That makes sense.

Yeah, makes sense. Obviously, we haven't played against him twice this year. And everything revolves around him with the team. And so understanding how they're trying to use them, you know, his off ball, movement and you got four guys setting screens. They're moving the ball to try to get them looks. And so that's a big piece of it. We've guarded their off ball action pretty well this year.

But him and pick and roll, him and off ball actions is the key to their game. And so playing through their physicality on defense as well, they've blitzed quite a bit and try to junk up the game. And so Jalen, Fred, and the guys that run the pick and rolls need to know that. Alpern has to be an outlet for them and then make them pay on the backside. We'll have a numbers advantage. And so not being surprised by that. And then guarding Curry are the main two things.

Well, honestly, coach, to wrap this up. If you guys were playing the NBA Cup games in Bismarck, North Dakota, I'd be proud to broadcast them as I normally would. But it's Vegas. I mean, come on. We need this. Don't we need this? Doesn't the city of Houston need this?

Doesn't all of America need the rockets to knock off the Warriors and this long losing street tonight? Absolutely. I think for us, you know, we want to do all the above that you just mentioned. But for us, it's good to play in meaningful games. Our young guys that haven't made the playoffs, This is a higher pressure situation, and we had some really good games at the end of last year that were meaningful.

And so anytime we can get these first on their list and get these experiences out of the way, I think it bodes well for our team going forward. And so this is the first real challenge this year of something that means more you're playing for a cup, playing against a team that has success against you. And so I want to see our guys be confident and aggressive and come out attacking tonight. All right. Thanks for the visit. Good luck, and we'll see you later on tonight at the arena. Thank you.

You got it. Eman Doca with us here. weekly Wednesday visit on sports talk 7-90 yes Ross if the games were in Bismarck I'd be happy to call them if they were in Wichita zero issues if the games were played in uh birmingham I'd be all for it why are you smirking over there mm-hmm I'm genuine when I say this bring your chapstick dry out there in Bismarck no grand forks not Dakota Los Vegas Nevada can I can I just check the weather real quick Okay. The weather here is nice.

It's supposed to rain later this week, but... Let's take a look. Are you doing this right now, seriously? They haven't even won the game. I know. Maybe I'm doing this... Ooh, it's chilly there. It's like 61.

Let me check the weather in Dallas. Oh, man, you're such a buzzkill. I hate you. 60 degrees? Start calling you Buzzkill, Villarreal. 60 to 50, 60 high, 57 low. That's a tight window. You know what?

I'm not referring to it anymore tonight until 8.30. Until tip time. Yeah, right. When you're finally go on air, back on air. Do I say Viva Las Vegas if they're Rockets win or do I just Do I let me? I put a little Vegas flare on it? By the way, last I need a quick ruling on this. I was calling the U of H game against Troy.

Mama, get the dice. Mercy Miller, the freshman who's masterpiece one of his sons, it plays for U of H. Percy Miller? Yeah. And so Mercy hit a three-pointer from the baseline yesterday. And I said, as he went to shot down, I went,

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Me. Good call, bad call, cliche call, expected call. What do you go with that? I mean, I'm always a big fan of Marvin Gay, Mercy, Mercy Me, the ecology. Unbelievable song. Great album. One of the great albums of all times.

And I've got to tell you this, and you and I've talked about this before. I know people don't like long national anthems. I can listen to Marvin Gay's in the National Anthem for four minutes. That was a good four minutes, yeah. It's like a similar to like a Gerard football. I think it was that Sean Selsberry said he was there. Really?

Yes. Was he young? It was in L.A., and I think he was at USC at the time. Yeah, yeah. Okay. But I mean, if you got him singing the national, if you got Ray Charles, if you got Aretha Franklin, they can take their damn time. They can.

And he did. And he did. You have to go get a snack, come back, sit down in your chair, still staying. You can't check your stocks. You couldn't call anybody. There were no cell phones back then. No, all right. Read the paper.

That's true you could. All right, believe it or not today coming up, all things about Mark Gastineau at 150. We've got that. So it's you and me the rest of the way in Ross at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I want to tell you about uptown appliance repair. We did that already the last segment, but I want to tell you right now about quality home products at Texas. Quality home products have these generac standby generators that are going to be huge for you when it comes to in the power outages, whether it's for just your office, whether it's for the

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There is a baseball reporter named Brian Hoke, B-R-Y-A-N-H-O-C-H-H-R-E-H-H-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-H-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E. Two on that sports RV. What do you think? Don't care. Fine. Sign him. That was my gut feeling. I had Red Sox.

You had Yankees, but I was doing it more just to be different than you. Because I can clearly see him. I mean, if the Yankees want to make some sort of splash after the whole situation concerning Juan Soto, yeah, I mean, I could see that. Ryan Hoke. Oh, I've seen him before.

He's legit. I mean, got a 195,000 followers. And he doesn't have an only fan, so he's got to be legit. It's pretty good. 195K wow what a life good for him um are we ready for that is is bregman ready for that and how are we ready

that's going to be very I think you're more hung up on him Breggman being Yankee than he is pinstripes Rossi oh I'm sorry hated Yankees let's be honest we ruin for the Dodgers over the Yankees as much we hate the Yankees let's be honest oh you're going to be honest

hallowed franchises in Baseball history Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Mickey Mantle Reggie Jackson Oh Derek Jeter Bernie Williams

I mean yeah Goose Gossage Dermyn Monson may rest in peace Gary Sanchez Okay maybe not Gary Sanchez Gary Sheffield Jesse Barfield I'm just going on

Dale Barra That's yes Mike Stanton Yes God, I'm just Kyle Farnsworth, was he seeing a Yankee too? I don't know, maybe. I don't know.

Part of our jobs, Ross, if we're doing... Hold on. If we're relating to our audience, our audience is going to lose their MF and blank mind. Okay. If he signs of the Yankees. Well, I'm here to ground you and tell you to be real. If the All, if the New York,

you go to the highest bidder who can contend, the Yankees can contend. and if they're the highest bidder, they're the highest bidder. And we also have to be real and objective that we hate the Yankees. I hate the Yankees. I want them to lose. But also, I would be lying to myself if I didn't say, if I say to you, they are the number one most hallowed

and storied franchise in major American sports. Who's the counter? Dallas Cowboys. That's more since the 70s. Yankees go back to the 20s. I mean. But not 30-year-old Alex Bremen doesn't care about the 1920s. but it's about history.

Well, it's about, no, you know what it's about Ross. It's being part of that story of history. It's about the cash. Yes, the cash is number one. He ain't care about all that. He'll sign with the Seattle Mariners. We've never been to a World's,

never been to World Series. Tampa Bay wants offered me 10,300. Oh, I hear St. Petersburg is great this time of year. I'm just saying. I think in the professional world of sports, while he probably hates the Yankees, he's also 30 years old with a wife and a kid, and he's going to do what's best for him and his family going forward.

Let me tell you, I love breaks I don't care what you know for me wears I'll always appreciate Alex Brighman The human being in a relationship I built with him It's gonna hurt But that's a grit in your That should grit your teeth and just wish him the Give me, oh I need an analogy

I don't know You're You just go to a different You were being in a car dealership for a long time And your buddy goes another car dealership And you're like man I hope you sell a lot of Toyota's You're going to a rival radio station

That's not happening. Are you kidding me? I'm here for life. They cut the check. No. At this point in my career, I'm going for happiness. And the other places would not make me happy. Well, I don't know, never mind. No, it's competition. No, it's competition. It's company A sells widgets and company B sells widgets and they've been your nasty rival for all these years. And all of a sudden, widgets B company offers you 20.

25% or 30% more, longer term deal. You're going to... What's the competition offer you 2 million a year? Ross? I'm staying here. Ah, yeah, such a liar. I'm still a liar to God. I'm staying here. What are you talking about?

I see it in your face. You know, see it in your eyes. I can see it in your face. We'll see. Man, if they got... There was no way they... No, I mean, you know... Look. And Bregman, right? When Springer left for Toronto, it was,

you're going to miss you. But Toronto doesn't have any emotion for this community. And he's been hurt the entire time. And he's also been underperforming. When Charlie Morton went to, would he go back to Atlanta? That where he went to? Or Atlanta? One of the two. Whatever. In Tampa and then Atlanta? You missed him. I miss Charlie Corley. Garrett Cole wanted to be overpaying

him being Yankees since he was a kid. So that was there was, and then he went an astral long enough for us to have this oh my gosh, please don't leave us Garrett kind of moment. Especially when he won the Scott Barrett. Charlie Martin go was a swing and a miss by Luno by the way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Tampa for two years and he's been with Atlanta for four. This one would...

To the Yankees. It would sting because not... It would be a certain level of sting for him leaving. I understand. But if he leaves to go play for the Giants, you're like, we wish you well. Like when Carl's Correa went to sign with the twins. Right. We missed him, but we didn't have any harsh feelings towards where he went

because it was like, damn, it's cold up there. Him leaving as a punch in the gut, and then two of the Yankees would also be a punch in the nuts. Double whammy. So you're saying gut and testicles? Yes. Damn, it's a lot. It would hurt. I'm not saying it wouldn't hurt.

I'm saying if you see Alex Breggen's perspective, I understand why he would do it. Because it's the hire better. Yes. I don't think Alex Breggman cares, and again, I don't know well enough to answer this question. I don't think he cares about culture. I don't think he, I think he,

when you go out and you tell, you go hire Scott Boros, he's the assassin. He's the hired gun. He's not looking for a warm inviting clubhouse, wonderful experiences. He's looking for straight, long-term financial security, so he never

has to do this again. Yankees were just in the World Series. It's not like he's going. Yeah, and he's going to a place where they win. So he's giving the best of both worlds. Yankees are in a better spot probably to make the World Series than the Astros next year. Certainly if they make Bregman. Knowing most players, if you have two deals on the table, warm sunny Los Angeles to play for the Angels,

or cold, miserable Philadelphia. But Philadelphia's got a better culture winning. The average player, nine times out of ten is going to take Philadelphia over Los Angeles. The warm and fuzzies don't mean as much. They don't to today's athlete. They just don't. Proximity to home. Brighman lives in Phoenix in the off season now.

Home is where you make it, Matt. Home is where you put the deposit down for the house. That's what Joe Dirt taught us all. What do you say? Home is where you make it. How did you feel about Joe Dirt, the movie in general? Underrated classic. I didn't.

bring that up to David Spade when I saw him at lunch. Oh, now you brought up his dead friend when we had him on air. Yeah. I mean, hey, remember when Chris Farley died? That really started off the interview great. No, it was not on air. It was over at Bambones. Oh, is that when you told them about his friend dying? I thought you did it on air with some with

David Spade or somebody too. No, never had David Spade on. We had somebody that was at the improv. Was it Rob Schneider, maybe? No, it was somebody that was close to Farley. Are you sure it wasn't in a... No, it was definitely at Bamboons. I know. I know. you did it on part. And I definitely brought it up.

I'll admit that. Hey, remember when your really close personal friend died? That was crazy. Yeah, thanks. I'm trying to eat a sandwich. I didn't say, you know, you're, you're again, constructing a brand new story to sign and play. I said, I loved you guys so much that it's sad to me.

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii. We were driving up a mountain and we found out that Chris passed away. That's all I said. But thanks for creating a story that wasn't true. What did he say? That's good. Can I have some of that chow chow? All right. Well, serves chow chow except mad bones.

Milk bones? What are you talking about? Oh, God. You can't go to McDonald's and ask for all like a quarter pounder extra chow chow chow. It'd be good. It would be delicious. I'll tell you that. 713-212-790.

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John Alexander, The Chronicle says that Texan starting guard juice scrugs not at practice today, expected to miss two weeks. Damn, what is going on? Oh my gosh. That's not good. That offensive line? Maybe Kenyon Green needs to get out. out there as fast than we thought he would be.

Also, by the way, Tillman Fretta telling the New Orleans Saints he would like to buy the team once it goes up for sale. Wait a minute. Say again? I don't think I stuttered. I missed it. Oh, he wants, if the Saints are up for sale, he'll buy it. Dang.

Tellman. Wow. I can get us good seats at least. How is it going to be the ambassador to Italy and run two franchises? Oh, I'm sorry. The other casinos are going to sell? are self-sufficient and restaurants and 7,500 million restaurants. Mm-hmm.

And pleasure peer and chema. Wow. Wow. Could you imagine, could you imagine everything you touching turns to gold? Now, he's probably had some losing business props. He was crying poor during the pandemic with all the restaurants. He's rebounded nicely. He's rebounded.

He's all right. But, man, I'll have that profit. I'll have that profit. You know what? I want to see this. the Rockets payroll go up. He's doing okay. He can afford it. We don't, but it isn't a question. It isn't a question

of payroll. It's about chemistry right now. I want them deep into the, like the luxury tax, all the aprons. How many aprons are there, Matt? I want to pass every tax apron there is. Depends of Betty Crocker's cooking or not. Two aprons, three aprons. Let's go. We're all out. All you're getting aprons. All the aprons. Let's go.

Sign them all. Oh, Saints. Saints football, huh? I mean, I can, I don't have a team. Dang. Oh, are you going to be? I'm a Saints fan? Why not? With the Frittitas?

Can you live in Houston, Texas? That's why not? I told you. Get to the Super Bowl and I'll be a fan of your team. You're not going to be a... That's called... Then you're going to be a frontrunner. That's why I got in when the team was like 0-and-2 last year.

Okay. You know what? I will remain teamless at this point. Come on to the Texans side. But if I get an opportunity to go... The water's warm. Saints games four or five times a year? Nobody's going to call you.

bandwagoner now. They're 8 and 5 and struggling. Dominic in Richmond at 137 on 7-90. Don, what's going on? Hey, what's going on my U.S. brother? I got a question for you. Yeah. Okay, well, I got two questions for you. First, let me ask you something. Your position on the Yankees,

what if Alex, what if it was the Rangers? Would you rather see him go to the Yankees or the Rangers? For me, him going to the Yankees, I understand it. Going to the Red Sox, I understand it. If the Texas Rangers were involved in this,

would you have the same position or worse? The Rangers, I probably would have a worse of it because it would be right in front of us. We'd see them on TV all the time. We, the Astros would face them what they'd face them 12 times a year instead of six. Yeah, I would feel worse if it was a Rangers. Sure. Exactly, exactly.

I think a lot of us Astros fans, we've got such a disliked. about the Yankees because when we became good a decade or so ago, you know, we faced them and it was all that chatter going on. But Rangers and the Dodgers, that's when I would be like, you know, I wouldn't even wish Alex, you know, I wouldn't even wish him well. I'd be like, you know what, blank you by. Blank you by. Dominic, we rooted for the Dodgers over the Yankees in the World Series.

That's how much we hate the Yankees. Do you understand that? That's hard for us to do. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Who is we? I didn't. America. You're rooting for the Yankees.

So you're rooting for the Yankees over the Dodgers? Oh, no way, Doc. What's the matter with you? I darn sure did. I can't stand the Dodgers. I hate it with them. I put the Dodgers, the Cowboys, and Texas Longhorns in the same group. Hey.

Hook him horns. Now, my next thing, I'm being honest. Al-Tube. At the end of the. the season, local television, even made, you know, some national buzz saying that he can't see Alex not being on this, on this, on his ball club. Al Thubay, he gave them, well, he didn't give them anything. He earned it.

He signed a nice extension, I consider a friendly extension. Baseball, as far as the baseball world is concerned, do you, how do you think this is going to make Al-Tubei feel? It hasn't happened yet. different. That was lip service. Dom, that was lip service. Jose Al Tuve did the good thing because as his good buddy and he wanted, he also probably got a phone call from Scott Borris said, hey, why don't you put a bug in the Houston media ear to make sure the Breggman gets as much money as possible? But at the end of the day, Jose Al Tuvei knew exactly what Alex Breggen was going to be

able to do and that was go test free. See, that was more of just being good teammate and putting a proper face on. Altuve runs differently when it comes to contract negotiations and Alex Brickman does and I know he just is he knows his boy is going to be leaving him and that to me was nothing more than just an opportunity to put his voice out in front of a couple microphones it didn't mean as much as I think you've been trying to make it sound like okay okay and my last thing and I hang up to let you guys uh comment on it yeah that was Kankle Springer courier look one the only the only person we've kept is our too bad

like what is the what are we what are we saying everyone knows our model now like so you get drafted or you come up through the farm system you become good

but the market is going to say one thing but the Houston Nationals aren't going to pay in my opinion I hope they can figure out the way to keep pregnant because not only for what he does offensively

and he's hot and cold but so is everyone else but he's a damn good coach on the field. Absolutely. So I don't know. I don't know about this one. You guys have a good one. Thanks, Domit, a good conversation.

Let's run to Daveon's Bring on 790. Hi, Dave. Hey, hey, guys. You know, jumping on the Bregman thing real quick, I think that Crane is going to make a real solid attempt to sign him. And I think as fans, if he does that, that's all we can really ask. and the reason I think he will sign him more than the other guys is because

you know, Correa or Springer, I think Jim Crane values guys who stay on the field and Bregman is like, you know, he plays 155 games every year or you never got that from Correa, you never got that from Springer. You know, you get it from El Cove, and you get it from Breggman. And I think that that's what Jim Crane wants. But Dave, I'm not getting any sort of vibe that thinks the Astros are legitimately close with this.

The offer that was announced about two weeks ago was six years at 156. And that just wasn't going to be the market value. Now, you can go up a few million dollars, but I think Bregman's going to be closer to 200 than he's going to be, say, to 161,65. And that's where I think the Astros have said, with all due respect, we just can't pay that kind of money. So I would not get my hope of it. I just, I don't, and maybe I'm wrong. And maybe, Dave, I'm misreading it. And maybe Alex will have a change of heart on this one.

But I don't sense that that's what Jim Crane is thinking. think there's a threshold for him on years, and there's certainly a threshold on the amount of money he gets paid overall. Can I say one more thing? Sure. I wanted to you said earlier, Matt, you were talking about analogies for Bregman going to the Yankees. Yeah. I think a good analogy would be you go back to the late 70s if Earl Campbell somehow ended up on the Steelers.

You know, or if in the early 80s, Olajuwon decided to transfer to Arkansas or Louisville. Or play for the Utah Jazz Jazz. Yeah, something like that. I get you. Thank you, Dave, for the phone call. We appreciate it. We'll talk to Tim and Galveston next then play, believe it or not. All things, Mark Gastinoe.

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The Matt Thomas show continues. On your computer, listen to Sports Talk 790 on any device with our free IHardt Radio app. Adam Plant came in during the break. Give us his pre-show. What do you got on the big show? We'll let you do a little live tease. We'll throw in here. I always having conversations with you or my blood pressure gets elevated.

Is that just me? But I send you vicious, visage, vicious messages. Vitriol. How many shows, let me rephrase this, how many products in the market are you going to hate consume between now and tonight's game at 830, which is a later tip? Zero because I got a hotel down the street, and I'm going to spend the night in the sitting.

You are so fancy, it's disgusting. I'm fancy. I'm using points. That's not fancy at all. You took the day off because you got in, late and now you're going to take a hotel. Are you doing your show the next day at least? Tomorrow, yeah. Because you'll be well

rested. I don't well, the game won't end a minute. Why don't you move into the city? Why don't you call Kim Thomas and have that conversation? Why does you want to live in the annexed portion of the town when you're here doing all of the things? I know. Well, something called cost of living.

How is that morning traffic? Why don't you move down in my neck of the woods? We can get into some trouble. Why are you death staring me? Both of you. You had this conversation with him off air, haven't you? Oh, I've talked to him about this multiple times. Why don't you get Kim on the phone? I'll explain it. Oh, why don't you go do that? Hey, if I can get Teresa

on the air on live radio, then you can do that with Kim. She's not nearly as dangerous as my wife. That's true. Mine will, she'll count the ribs that she stabs you between. Weekdays 2 to 6, Sports Talk 790. Tim and Galveston on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and not with Adam.

Hi, Tim. Hey, I got a question about the Texans for you, but I wanted to comment on what you all been talking about. Sure. I think that the Rangers would be more of a slap in the face. I did root for the Yankees when we were in the National League, but since we've been in the American League,

I was pulling for the Dodgers all the way this year. Are we not interested in Aeronado and Goldsmith at all if we lose Bregman? Aronado. Aronado has put out a list of teams apparently he's interested in being traded to, and the Astros are not one of them. So I don't know if that means much or anything. Dips don't mean anything to him. Excuse me?

I mean, we're in a playoff every year. Yeah, but he's about cash, contract, happiness. He doesn't, you know. But we can't afford him then. I wouldn't say that. I mean, you're going to open up a lot of money, especially if Bregman doesn't sign here. And if Verlander goes somewhere else,

they're going to need to do some spending here in the off season. I wouldn't say that. I watch a lot of MLB network. And those guys, no one's talking about either of those two players, the Astros having any interest in them. And my real question is why the Texans had to go play the Jets up there two years in a row. What's the scheduling with that? Well, this year they were supposed to play the AFC East.

So they played everybody in the AFC East this year. That was their schedule rotation. And did they play the Jets the previous year? I don't remember that. Yeah. Oh, it was Zach Wilson. Yeah, that's out of concussion. Yeah, yeah.

That was probably a byproduct of your. Your seating in the division versus a placing of the division of an AFC East team. But you do rotate every division every year in the AFC, and then you have like a one-off, and that one-off had to be against that particular year against an AFC East team that matched your ranking in the division. Okay. I was just wondering if somebody overlooked that.

Like, usually they alternate. You play two teams. You play them once there and then once here the next year. No, no. It was a new play. It's like back when Manning and Brady used to play every year because they would win their divisions every year. There's a formula, Tim.

There's no overlooking. Thank you for the phone call. It's a formula. All right, five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B. Leave it or not.

And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-7-90. Let me give you that number again. It's 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe-N-N-N-N-A-N-t is about all. things Mark Gastineau. I'll read your statement about the former great jet defender sack machine until Michael Strayan took his mark away. The statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. If the statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this.

Nah, two believe we're not in a row. I don't think all things Mark Gastino wins you a prize. We're playing for it today. Connor D. McGovern. We got a pair of tickets to see the Transnabuera Orchestra on the Lost Christmas Eve Tour December 26 at the Toyota Center. A pair of tickets to see Nelly, Jal Rule, special guests, Eve, and Jermaine Dupree, Live on the Where the Party Out tour to September 4th at the Williams Pavilion and a $790 t-shirt. Rossi, your favorite Nelly songs? We're waiting people to call him here. I'm going to go with Hot In Her.

Excuse me? What? Hot and her or Hot In Her? That seems rather rude. Hot in here. It's a St. Louis accent. Nelly was famous for proliferating it in the 90s. Why are you speaking so softly? I don't know. But it feels right.

Are you killing me softly? With his songs? Perhaps. By strumming my pain with your fingers? Wait, what? Excuse me? What are you strumming? Don't strumming in here.

713-212-5-790. Kevin on 7-90. Kevin, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes. Mark Gastino was the first ever NFL player to lead the league in sacks in back-to-back years. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right.

83-84. Statement number two for the win. In 2016, Mark Gastonel was elected to the pro football Hall of Fame. by the Veterans Committee. Believe it or not? Not. Yeah, that's right. That's a nice, easy win for you. Congratulations. All right. You want to join in, 713, 212, 5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Jamie on 790. Jamie, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Listening to the Astros talk about Bregman and Burl. All right, very nice. Here's your questions. Mark Gaston was a five-time pro bowler and was a four-time first-team all-pro. Believe it or not. Not. He was. Yikes.

I guess Ross, nobody wants his Nelly tickets. It's a hot ticket. Wait, you and I can go. You wrote the question. Oh, you were talking about the concert. Oh, okay, I got you. Would I have a good time? I think you would have a good time.

Would be better than going to that terrible Stevie Wonder concert? Oh, my Lord. You know what, I'm leaving the room. I got majority rules in here. You suck. 713-212-5-7-9. Felipe on 7-90. Ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Mark Gastino took up boxing in 1991, but ended his career in 1996 after a T-KO lost to Alonzo Highsmith. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. That's right. That's right.

I leave it. Statement number two for the win. In 1995, Mark Gastino starred in the direct-to-video action film called Heavy Artillery. Believe it or not. Not. That is also correct. Another winner today. Well, we've done well.

Alex on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Mark Gastineau appeared at the 1991 W.W.E. Royal Rumble as a surprise tag team member with Lex Lugar. Believe it or not? Hello? Believe it?

No, not a bad question from a non-wrestling fan. Good for you, Ross. That was nice work. Let's go to Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not. Believe it. Mark Gastonel was found guilty of assault in 1984 after an incident at the famed nightclub studio 54, where he fought a bartender after losing to him in an arm wrestling match. Believe it or not.

Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Mark Gastonel across the picket line during the 1987 NFL player strike stated he needed the money to make alimony payments. Believe it or not. Believe it is right. Nicely done. No Bridget Eelson questions?

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