The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Should We Be Worried About Astros? More Texans Off-Season Talk

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Should We Be Worried About Astros? More Texans Off-Season Talk

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 o'clock in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show, Ross, here on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt. Ross is back in our studios. I'm here in Kingwood for one more days.

I am now at officially Rossi at 80%. I was at about 6.9% yesterday. I'm at 80 today. Good morning to you. We're going with 80%. 70? You know what? Whatever you believe, Matt.

How about that? If you believe you're 80%, we're going to go with your 80%. Let's do that. Tell me the percentage. No, that's 80%. You know what? Let's go 85%.

No, no, no. Let me tell you that. That's why he's a liar. As soon as I said 80, he's like, I don't think you are. It's fine. It doesn't matter. It's great. I mean, you want me to be honest?

You shouldn't have been on yesterday. I don't know what you were doing. I don't know what you're thinking. No, I was not through it. I wanted to be a team player. I didn't know you were thinking. But that's okay. We got it cover.

It's all right. Yeah. But again, we get the Jonathan's show ready to go. Ooh, Jonathan Allen, like all SFA, Western Kentucky Tract Talk? Yeah, SFA track talk. Let's go, baby. Cool this week with hog nuts. Yes.

Hey, fun fact, they just won the Southland conference. Shout out to the men's team over there in SFA. See? Look at that. Congratulations. At the house that Jonathan built. Yeah. I walk on those Nacadocha streets, what's only about 20 minutes from my house and they're like,

Yeah, that's true, actually. You're closer to Nacchadoches than you are to the studio. Okay, I don't think you need to bring that up right now. It's a little bit of a sensitive subject. You've been out there for a decade. It's fine. That's true. Remember that one time you came to my house and you're like, man, do I have to get like an airport transfer fee or something?

Yeah. I had to get like a native guide to show me the way. I know, I know. It's what, you know, once you get out here, it's nice. It's just getting out here is not the best thing. It's wonderful, Matt. It's the livable forest. It is quite livable.

Hey, we're only with you today until 1150. The Astros are going to play a game in Sarasota. You're like, well, okay, so what? That's three hours and 45 minutes from West Palm Beach. That will be their longest spring-turning road trip of the season. So, just in case y'all don't know this, they don't like to put the vets on the bus. You know what I'm saying, Rossi?

A bunch of whiners. Ted Williams went on the bus. Come on, man. Mickey Mantle was on the bus. Yeah. They probably walked in the games back of the day. Anthony Aaron was on the bus. Yeah, exactly.

Cal Ripkin was on the bus. Oh, yes, he was. Cal Ripkin got on the bus. Jack's Biggers, you can get on the bus. Even a young Craig Bichio and Jeff Bagwell were on the bus. Absolutely. Here's your starting nine today.

And we want you to listen, of course. Is somebody vacuuming back there? Yes, they are. The door shut. It's still loud. Hey, can you all stop vacuuming? It's fine. It's the maid, isn't it?

No, she's nothing come until Friday. Okay. It's the pre-clean-up for the maid. Oh, everybody that has a housekeeper knows that's the case. You must clean your housekeeper cleans because there's a lot of things, Ross, that she will not touch. I ain't doing that. All right. Let me give me the lineup today.

Joey Lopafito, America's Astro. Yeah, how's he been doing in the spring? We're not going to the stats yet. Oh, thank God. Good, because Gordy ran him through him yesterday. Oh, my God. I saw them again this morning, hoping they were going to change. They only scored 3-1 against runs against Venezuela.

Well, I don't even think that counts towards a spring training result. Okay, that's fine. So they didn't change at all. No. That's fine. I will just say, it's just the preseason. It's just spring training. Yes.

It's just the Great Fruit League. I got all the, it's just out of the way. Okay. They have only scored 32 runs in spring training games. That is dead last. among Great Food League teams. They're saving them for the season. All right, back to this

gauntlet of a lineup today. Yes, let's go. Joey Lour-Perfito, right-field. Let's go. Bryce Matthews, second base. Okay. Joseph Sullivan in center field. Hey, Joey Sully.

He wears 90. Okay. That's great. Next. Third baseman, Jack Winkler. Jack Winkler. Where is 98? Wow.

Okay. Batting fifth and playing left field, Lucas Spence, wearing 89. Okay. Deaching today. You got to get him off his feet. Ethan Frye, batting with the uniform number 93. He's ready to lock in. Playing third base today.

Are they have two third basemen playing today? No, he's at first base. No, they don't have four outfielders bat. This is a beer league in Sarasota. First base, C.J. Alexander wearing 92. Your buddy, Raleigh Unru. Yeah, Riley Unro from New Orleans, baby. Shortstop, 82, his uniform number.

First baseman, Cesar Salazar. He's new one of the first baseman, catcher, Sazar, wearing 18. There's a decent number. And Colton Gordon, who made the opening start for the Astros and Spring Training, will start again today. And he is wearing just number 61. Wonderful.

Please listen to Sports Talk 790 between 1150 and say, I mean, listen to the rest of the day. Listen all day. Listen, 6-8 to whatever a game was on at night. Until Ben Mallor comes on, then we can turn it off. You can turn it off for Ben Mallard or Chris Brousard. Yeah. So, needless to say, Rossing, that's why it proves my point.

This is going to count as a spring training game, but it's not a real roster. And that's why no one should be winging out over the fact the Astros have scored 32 runs and seven games. Well, Gordy's wgging out. Well, that's because Gordy's locked on as spring training.

He is. He is locked on spring training. Yeah, the Astros in the Grapeford League have the worst record. Great. They are one... They have three ties? Well, actually, they're one three...

They have the record of a soccer team that's about to get relegated. They have one win, yes. Six losses. Yes. And three ties. Yeah.

They're like basically the dynamo. Yeah, that's not good. The Toronto Blue Jays have two wins. They have seven losses and they have two ties. Minnesota's two and eight. So actually the rocket, the Arox is the third worst grapefruit league record. They're two and eight. They are two wins, five losses, three times and one tie.

That's great. It's just the grapefruit league. It's just the Grapefruit League Yordon's literally only gotten three A-Bs. Now he struck out in two of them but he's still only gotten three A-Bs. It's fine. Would you like to go over some of the numbers? No.

I would not. I'll skip it then. We'll skip. Yeah, let's do that. Until second segment. Yeah, I don't know. Let Robert Ford bring him to you at 1150. Let me tell you. If we were doing four hours today Oh my God. But since we're only doing an hour... We can bring them up if you want. No. It's just the Grapefruit League.

It's just the Grapefruit League. Do we need to fire the new hitting coaches? I was going to tweet that out. Someone's going to hear you say that. I know. And then it's going to get on Astro's Twitter. Let's go. I don't care.

I don't care. All right. That Ross Villarale, he knows his baseball. He's Astro's hitting coaches. Shut your bumasses up. That's for 1130 today. Fire hitting coaches guy. All right?

Come after me. Yeah, let's fire the hitting coaches now. Oh, here we go. Don't start that early. It's too early. I'm going to do it. You know, you know what to tweet it? You said they have the fewest runs in the Grapefruit League?

Let me double check on that. I know they've got the fewest home runs, I think. Okay. All right, so here's their run scored. They have the fewest run scored in spring training. 32. Miami is second with 38. Oh, it doesn't matter.

Cactus or grapefruit. They're last. Oh, my God. I'm not worried about it. They've given up 45. I mean, I'm a little worried about it. Cam Smith had a great spring last year, and then he had a bad year at the plate.

That's middle of the pack. It's fine. It's fine. Do we need to go find out with the Dodgers spring training what record was last year? It was great, actually. I think I looked. Oh, they're nine and three so far.

Oh, my God. What did I even look now? Oh, my God. Rossi, do I declare, we're going to congratulate with the Dodgers for one of the World Series right now. Don't hit the panic button. It's fine.

They could lose. They almost lost in two different series. Yeah, I know. It was. See, but this is the thing people have to realize. Yeah, it's not, the Dodgers don't give themselves an 90% chance to win the World Series. With all their advantages, they give themselves like a 45% chance, which

is just way better than anybody else. Yeah. Most of the heavy lifting is getting there. Is that what we're trying to say? Yeah. Bottom line. It's coming far. Pitching's going to be great. Hitting? Look, they finished like 15th and OPS last year.

It's probably going to be around there. But you get a whole year of Yon-Avarez in theory. No, I'm saying it. You're getting a whole year of Yorda Jordan Alvarez. You know I pause for a reason. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, some people think he's never going to play 130 games ever in his entire rest of his career for his life. That person is shamed when it hits 131 in like early August. In 24, he played 147. If you get that out of him, that'd be very nice. Right. Let's go, baby. Healthy, Yordawn. And your, your offense is going to be better from that standpoint already. Christian Walker is going to carry over his second half. Zach Cole's. ready to blossom.

Cam Smith's ready to rally. Jake Myers and Jeremy Payne might regress a little. And where are we putting Eastside Paredes? On the Brewers. The Red Sox or somebody? In return, they will get a power hitting corner outfielder. Let me tell you this. I read a story today.

Yesterday I did a lot of reading, which is uncommon for me. But it was sports related because that's not common. You're bored. That's fine. A lot of baseball, I've read two different stories. and I shouldn't say a lot. But two different stories said maybe that Dana overplayed his hand

by not moving ESOC sooner. Because teams now know they've got a log jam in the infield. Yeah, but I think they're showing they're willing to go up and push forward with it. I mean, they're into camp already. We're two weeks into spring training. Well, put it this way.

Games. How do you think Joe Espada feels about this? He didn't like it. Nope. And I think he's going to get... Joe doesn't... Joe is pretty reserved, but sometimes he will...

not lash out sports rave but he will be would be terse would be a good term for it yeah he can be short he is especially with chanel of rome but yeah but I mean it's a tough situation

yeah you know never mind we'll save it to the break no I'm done getting crushed for right now oh no I like when you get crushed okay I know you like it all right I'm gonna say something

that's going to get me crush when we come back. Well, it depends on what you say, because if I have your back, then I'll show your crushing. 1021 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you only today until 1150, so please come in and say hello to us. We don't bite. Well, if cocktails get into an issue, that's maybe something down the road, but that's not here nor there. 713-212-5-7190. 7-1-3-2-2-7-9-0.

If you'd like to be a part of our radio show today, we've got a few things going on. again, Astros baseball against the Orioles today. We'll have a free beginning at 1150. Now, ladies gentlemen, sports ravee is, when you think of the hot take heroes of Houston, Texas, Ross is really the top three that comes to it. I don't think so. But sure, why not? I'm trying to climb the ranks.

Which was causing issues was, what, you said something a little bit in the first segment. Oh, what about the hitting coaches? Yes, you're going to blame the hitting coaches. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to go on tweet and blame the hitting coaches, and everybody's going to get mad at me for that. Yes. If Jose Al Tuvei, if we changed his name to like Tom Collins, who would be your everyday second baseman starting right now?

Can I give you an answer if it would be a battle between Bryce Matthews and Issock Paredes? Yes, but it wouldn't be Tom Collins. Well, put it this way. You can't assume, I'm going to fight you on this for a little bit. Okay. I'm not putting Esak Perides at second base when he's played five games of it in the last 10 years of his life. Okay. Who was the by innings played worst second baseman in baseball in defensive run saved last year?

I don't even want to answer this question. Okay. I think you know who it is. It's our friend Tom Collins. It might be. Can Issaq Paratus be worse than Tom Collins at second base? Okay. See, I'm not

See, I'm not trying to get people mad. I'm just thinking out loud. We're just talking here. All right. Look, metrics are a huge part of this. I don't want to argue with you about this. Because if you avoid metrics, you're not getting into progressive 2026 baseball.

You're not even getting into 2006 baseball. You're going. But when I watch Jose Al-Tuve, I don't think, oh my God, he's our second baseman. I'm sorry, Ross. just don't. That's good. That's great. I don't think he's got the yips going from second to first. I don't think he butchers basic ground balls. Now, are the issues? Range. Absolutely. Is there issues about arm strength? There clearly could be. There could be some plays that are made from second

to first that maybe younger, faster, stronger second baseman can make tough throws. But to me, if you really, really if you took a deep dive into the stats, which I'm not going to do. But if you did, to me, the biggest thing that hurts him is the fact he's got terrible, terrible range.

Is that fair to say? What else makes him horrible? Help me out with this, really. Yeah, I mean, the arm's not great. You don't need a great arm at second base, but I would say probably the range. Okay, so you're going to tell me that we're going to stick a guy at second base

that has such horrific range that he can't play second base when he's the greatest astro of him all? No, I'm not telling him we're not going to play him. He's going to be out there. I'm just saying this would feel like less of a log jam. I mean, Jose Altuve, because he is, of course,

the favorite astro of all time, it's, that becomes, that's part of the problem, I guess, because you want to stick him in left field. He didn't like left field. He wants to be back at second base. He's got to be where he's got to be. he's a star in decline.

I mean, he just is. It's just part of the conversation. Can I give you a maybe a bad baseball take that you will definitely not agree with? Okay. I can live with him in second base more than I can live with him in left field. Because in left field, if you got runners at second base that are trying to score on a base at the left field, that army won't get it done ever. And if I'm going to have a minus arm in my team, I don't want in the outfield.

Yeah, in left field, he was worse. So I know Tom Collins would be just a guy. But there's no Tom Collins in this baseball. I know. So you really, with as much, and it's not a super hot, fiery take from you. I'll give you credit for him. Okay, thank you. But I'm just going to disagree with it to say that I think I am significantly less

bothered about him being at second base and maybe you are and others are. Okay. Now, if the ball goes through his legs or he has the yips or he kicks balls everywhere, then you can come back at me and say, all right, Matt. I'm not doing that. I'm not saying that. I'm just, I know. I'm just saying.

But the bottom line is he is on this team and he's going to be playing 150 games. Well, hopefully not 150 games. They'd like to get him off his feet more, I think, than last year. It was just a lot of injuries. And I think that'll help keep him fresher and help keep the bat going. He was still very good last year. I mean, 770 OPS for 35-year-old's incredible. Right.

Especially with OPS going down the last couple of years. I'll tell you this, Ross, I think this is not going to be something that we're going to be fretting about a whole lot. I think he's going to play second base four days a week. Okay. He's going to get more off time than they ever had before. He's going to de-h twice a week. As long as everybody's healthy, that's the biggest thing. Everybody, like, pitching in position players.

Yep. No hamstring. I don't want to say hamstring off the bone at any point in 2026. I don't want to say that. Because if there's anybody that's going to be worried about his range, when you think if it's a guy that's got the hamstring off the bone? Well, it's back on the bone, I guess. I'd presume so.

Human. 1033, it's Matt and Ross. Ross, you had a hot taking segment number one. You got a hot take in segment number two. What is your hot take for segment number three of this great glorious radio show? It's time to cool off. Is it? I'm good.

All right, before I go to the phone, did you see any of the Spurs' 76ers game last night? I did not see any of it. No. Yeah, they had to throwback night. They had Bob Costas doing the game with Doug Collins. Oh, wait, I thought that was going to be on Thursday. No, Mike Pretello did it last night. Oh, okay.

Oh, is it coming back? Oh, no, it's only on Tuesday. Okay. Just, yeah. So they did the old school graphics. They had Hannah Storm doing the pregame show with Isaiah Thomas. I mean, it was, and they had Jim Gray in the sidelines. I mean, so if you were an OG.

Was OJ Simpson there? No. He was never involved in the NBA coverage. He was on NBC, though, wouldn't he? That he was. Okay. Peter Vessy was also on NBC in the 90s, and he wasn't invited to be the insider,

and he got really cranky about that, but it's a different issue for a different time. What about Magic Johnson? Was he on the coverage too? Magic was not there either. Nor was, go ahead and say Bill Walton was not under either. Oh, come on. Finish it off.

Marr, Albert. No, retired, not there. I heard he was champing at the bit to get on there. Okay. Okay. I couldn't. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm going to save that for Friday. I'd like to apologize to the Albert family.

Jonathan, you could just record the 10 to 10.30 segment of today show. You could use it for the entire 11.30 segment on Friday. So they play this game. The Spurs kicked the crap out of the 76ers. 131 to 91. That's a beat. And now they had a big comeback in the fourth. It was worse than that.

got outscored 35 to 11 to the 3rd? Is that allowed? I don't know if it's a lot. It happened, though. So NBC puts together this huge presentation, and they get a horrific game. Yeah, I mean, it was

Dominic Barlow and Andre Drummond and the boys on the 76ers. Yeah, so it was 3225 spurs after one. Spurs scored 46 in the second quarter. Good God. 78, 53. at the half. Then they scored 35 more in a third compared to 11 as you said

for the Sixers. What's the quick math on that? 71 and 103? No. 113. 113. Yes. And 3 quarters.

69 after the 3 quarter. 113 and 3 quarters. I got some bad news for you, Matt. Spurs are a problem. So, because Adam Clinton is a big friend of ours. We love him like a stepbrother. Yes. he's going to probably complain that only Wimby had 10 points last night in 24 minutes.

And six blocks. Eight rebounds, four assists, six blocks. Gosh. He was a plus 41? In 24 minutes. Wow. None of the starters for the Spurs played more than 24 minutes, and he was the number one starter that played the most.

That's a part of the problem. They're going to be extremely, they're already deep, and they're going to be rested. Not like for the most part now, the court last night was more of a, you know, a difference. They're not going to beat everybody by 40. But for the most part, Wimby's been playing like 25 to 30 minutes a night and a lot of their starters as well. Dylan Harper, what was the second pick of the draft last year?

Behind Cooper Flagg. Am I correct on that? Yeah, he was rookie of the month. 22 minutes, 22 points, 8 of 11 shooting. I'm telling you, I got to bring some bad juju with me to put a curse on the San Antonio franchise. for February they had Player of the Month, defensive player

of the month, rookie of the month, and coach of the month. I know. I know. I don't want to be here either. We're going to see him in the second round. Y'all be able to just be ready. I hate Spurs fans. Oh, they're Cowboys fans too. Yeah. A lot of Spurs

fans are Cowboys fans. It's terrible. And they silently root for the Rangers, too, which is really odd too. You know what? That's going to be must-win series for multiple reasons in the second round if it happens. Oh my god, we can't we can't have it. It's a must-win series for all of our mental health and more. All right, let's go to

Roger on 790 at 1037. Rogers with us here at 713-212-5-790. Roger, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, gentlemen, Matt and Ross. Hey, you forgot about Maddie Goekees and Steve Snapper-Jones, man. Come on. Well, Snappers are all longer with us. I know. So, yeah, about the Astros.

These guys are going to start off so horrible again. Why don't you give him more reps? These guys can, you know, at least make contact with the ball. And that was so bad. And if I think Mr. Spada's going to, I mean, I'm Mr. Yeah. He's the coach? Spada, yeah.

You got to keep on calling Mastrata, but it's Fada. Efrada. Come on, man. Well, the other guy. we call in the show in Colorado. Anyway, so I think he's going to have to reconsider and give more PT and less feel to

Alvarez because he's going to have to have out Tuesday, and we need more room for Esoc to play some kind of position because he needs his back. I just think he's going to have to reconsider some of his stuff. And I know, yeah, maybe

maybe Dana really did overthink his hand. should have did all at in the offseason when they were offering them something. And I'm sure it wasn't to his liking, but I mean, here we are again. So, yeah, and the Spurs, yeah, they're also, they're also, no, it's Spurs, Dallas Cowboys and they're Astros fans until the Rangers make the playoffs and all of a sudden the hat goes backwards and becomes Rangers fan. These guys are so delusional.

And they're all my cousins. They all live in San Antonio. It's horrible. Sipening. All right. That's all I got. Yep, pretty much. Coach a spotter, what did he call him again?

Efrada. That's wrong. Would you call him Efrada to his face? No, you wouldn't. Very rude. You should call him manager too. They had like 20 people on the IEL or 19 or whatever it was, and then they missed the playoffs by one game last year.

I don't want to do this again. I'm just going to tell you, and I'm going to tell the truth yesterday. they don't, they're not going to sit Esoc Pradesh a lot. They're going to have to do some massive switching around early in the season in the first handful of games. I guess they could. Or you could just tell.

I don't know. Gordon Alboros, who by the way loves playing left field. You're going to have to put Correa, Walker, and Altuve on like four days a week. No wonder he wants him traded. Be real about this gang. He just does. Imagine, you know, just think about it.

Imagine if you had all these front line people that you wanted working for you and you had, you've got five spots for six people, it would make things very uncomfortable. Now, you can't trade an employee in another company. I get that. But you know what I'm saying? You've got six spots for six people. It's just got to be yorne on and left. Yeah. And Issaug-D-Hing.

Or Al-Tube-D-Aging. Or E-L-A-L-T-Aging, yeah. And giving them a glove and saying once week, let's give it a go, see what happens. Yeah. because I don't think you're carrying Bryce Matthews on a major league roster. There's not enough roster spots. Yeah, he doesn't fit. I haven't really looked at closely.

I'm going to guess his spring hasn't been that great. Well, I mean, can you name an Astros? Oh, you know what? Taylor Tremel's at a great spring. Yeah. And apparently, Zach Colton hit the ball hard. That's good. Yeah, what are the XBAs?

Exit Velo's. I need that. No, I don't have that for you. I need hard hit contact. I don't want to go back. batting average. I'm not going Chris Gordy. Let's run down the batting averages on you. Cool. Please tell me Gordy's not that concerned. He was wiggin out a little bit

yesterday. Jonathan can attest. Yeah, he was on the little... He was concerned. We can feel his anxiety to the mickey. Yeah, you could. It's March 4th, right? Yes. Those stats were off of March 2nd games, correct? Yes. Okay, just what much? It hasn't been going well, though. I mean, there's no sugar-coding that.

No. I mean, they have the worst run support. Now, remember, if they're also putting out, look at the line I've been putting out today. If they put score 10 runs against the Orioles today in Sarasota, is that going to make us feel better? No, probably not. Esoc Piraeus is OPSing 1500.

How many games? That's a big enough sample size for me. Yes, it is. Anthony Huaso, he's got an OPS of 1,200. Walker Yonick, 1300. Who? Zachary Dalde.

He's doing good. How's our Cajun doing? Which one? Zachary Dalé? He plays like six days a week. Oh, I'm sorry. What's his name? I can't remember his name either now.

Mamie, you've been talking about it for three straight days. So bad. What is his name? Mill Roe or Unro, right? Unro. Right. Unroro. All right.

Unro got an Opeas has a 995 now, man. Woo, baby. That's like a, that's like a red beans and rise on a two. Tuesday. Lafayette Sports Radio. I'm calling Astros PR Department. Can we have the Unrukeen on the show? We like to take care of the local Louisiana kids.

He's never done media before. It don't matter. It's Lafayette Sports Radio. Got to start somewhere. Riley Unroo, baby. Here ready. What do you think Lafayette Sports Radio is doing today? I think they're off the air.

You know, like they just forgot they were even owned by a radio company? That would feel very nice. It's raging Cajun recruiting? I don't know. Talked by UL can they win the Sun Belt Tournament. Speaking of college basketball, did you see late last night? Bill Self got run and getting the Arizona State game. No, I did not see that.

Two technical files, gonzo. That's a shame. I like Bill Self. You do? Yeah. Okay. And I'm looking to see how they did. I mean, it's good coach.

Ooh, they lost by 10. To Arizona State, are they any good? Yeah. No, they're firing their coach. which is Bobby Hurley They told me you finish out the season He's beating two top 25 teams since then

Oh that's good He can't fire somebody like this was like nine games left to go right It seems kind of five You wait, he's still coaching and he's fired Yeah That's ridiculous They beat it yeah I'd be like I'm getting the hell out of you

Shut your bob asses out Yeah We got that coming up by the way In 45 minutes y'all ready for that I am ready for that And by the way TCU beat Texas Tech last night. Thomas household not happy about that. Rivalry renewed, Texas and Arkansas,

a big one tonight, 6 o'clock. Right here on 790. Yes, sir. Razorbacks, 7.5 point favorites. All right, I'm going to watch the game. We'll have a full breakdown tomorrow because there'll be a lot of folks antsy to get into some, what am I doing? UT Arkansas breakdown.

Yeah, I guess I could watch it. We have shut your bomb ass up, but ain't nobody got time for that coming up at about 1130 today. We got a shorter edition of that, so if you need to get in, get and say what you need to say, do it. We're off at 1150 today for Astro Spring Training Baseball. Titus Howard on its Instagram says, After an amazing seven years here, my time where the Houston Texans has come to an end. I want to thank the city of Houston for embracing me and welcoming for the last seven years.

NRG Stadium felt like home from day one, and the love and support from the city meant everything to me. He thanks a McNair family, thanks his team. mates. Thanks, Nick Asero and Domeko Ryan's. And his last paragraph is Houston. You'll always have a piece of my heart. Thank you for the memories. Excited for the next chapter in Cleveland. Titus Howard, thank you. It's nice. Lovely. Wonderful. Touching. Thank you, he wrote it.

He might have had some help from an Asian or something. I imagine he wanted to reflect many. He probably advised it at least. I'm sure it doesn't sound like a yeah it didn't sound like a chat GPT no I'm the proofreader in the Thomas household I'm it's a good or a bad thing you ah that's uh huh it's a good thing it's great I don't I didn't expect a full cackle from you

I'm sorry God I know I'm sorry I'm at 67% today and this is what I get in return Oh you're at least at 72 to start and then you're getting up to like 78 now You sounded better. Thank you. I appreciate that. I was done.

That's nice. It's a nice thing you've said to me in the entire 53 minutes of the show so far today. I'd have a bad problem. Yeah, being mean. Iiding my initial reactions to this. You know that, Joan? Joan, there's one person who shows me.

What did I do this? I didn't say anything, first of all. I didn't say anything. Yeah. That comes across as mean. Huh. Never mind. All right.

You're doing great. So I had a friend call me today Who lives out of town I was just checking out of things And he's like hey I'm curious about the Texans I said what are you curious about it? He says They have like the one of the worst offensive lines

Like in multiple seasons in a row Yet they've traded two players of theirs Yes And I was like I kind of I mean it's not We're not doing I just don't get it to tomorrow But I kind of get while he's confused I think the NFL's confused by this

Now, the simple answer I gave him, you tell me if I'm wrong about this, was that he was due for a contract extension after next season, and that the Cleveland, the Texans were looking to get value in return because they knew that at the end of the day they were not going to resign Titus Howard. Yeah, and same thing, but Tonsal wanted more money and also was, I don't know if you want to call him a locker room distraction or what you, just not a culture fit for what Domingo Ryan's likes. he doesn't like me first guys which laramie tunsell has been and so you add that all up and laramie tonsill was let go there can both be head scratchers i mean they both kind of are the bottom line is two of your best offensive alignment the last two years are gone and and titus i mean

he was a first round pick you got seven years from him almost a jump a starter from the jump correct yeah i would say his biggest detriment is he was never elite but he was a serviceable starting NFL lineman in a variety position. They couldn't keep him in the same spot more than two days.

And he also had a lot of injuries. He was good. But when he played, he was good. Yes. So I'm curious if Casario has this philosophy about once Lyman hit a certain age a number of games

that it's not worthy of giving them big long deals. Now, even though Ed Ingram came here last year, And Ed did fine, but, you know, he's not signed to a long-term contract. And that he may just think that just like a lot of teams have shelf life for running backs, maybe Nick's philosophy is I can't put a long-term contract in front of an lineman who is getting into his eighth, ninth, 10 year in the NFL, which I disagree with. There's a lot of great linemen that have still been around a long time.

Trent Williams been the NFL forever. Laramie Towns has been around forever. Duane Brown was in the NFL forever. You know what I mean? No, there's guys. I don't know if that's this philosophy. I mean, it's just time to pay him and he's trading around. I mean, unless he has a backwards philosophy because he doesn't mind old running backs.

I don't know that necessarily an age thing. I think it's maybe a combination with the age and that Titus Howard's new deal. He's making like $20 million a year. And that he just said, I can't pay that kind of money for a guy that I can't rely on to play 17. Well, it's not even that. I imagine if he could wave a magic wand and go over the cap and pay Titus Howard, Titus Howard would be here. But they are limited on cap space.

And you still have situations pending with Will Anderson Jr. And eventually Camarie Lasseter and, of course, the C.J. Stroud problem. Right. And that's the reality of what we talked about. And we've talked about before. You can't keep everybody if you are setting yourself up for handsome pay days for a handful of your players. And maybe this is the first little example of that, Rossi, is that he's setting up for Will Anderson. He's setting up for C.J. Stroud.

He may be setting up for Camarie Lasseter. those are all within the last three years in that you've got to start getting a year ahead of the game and pray to the Almighty gods that you can draft offensive linemen something he's never done as a general manager for the Houston, Texas. He's due.

See, I don't think it's due. I think there's eyes that are doing improper evaluation. You just can't get unlucky year after year after year. You're just misfiring. It's a it's a I don't want to call it a lottery.

But even the best draft evaluations can fail and evaluate tours. But even in one position, it fails so badly? No, no, it's been center, it's been guard, it's been tackle. Oh. He's been failing everywhere.

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Victor Wembe Niyama might not make it like a lot of the top candidates in the for the MVP might not make. I think Shaggillard is in danger of not making the 65 game threshold. That is right. And a lot of people are crying about it. Well, let's put it this way. Who's crying about it? Is it the general basketball fan, or is it just media people who are striking to try and drop conversations?

Probably media people, I would say, in the most. Well, okay, so let's dumb it down then. Can you be the best player in your league if you play only, say, 58 games? Yeah, you can be, but are you the most valuable? I would say no. if I'm getting great value of somebody at 75 games rather than a little bit more value, but in 55 games, then the 75 person is more valuable. It's the MVP.

So here is another question for you, and I think I'm leaning towards what you're saying. Would you rather have somebody really good at play 74 or excellent for 56? I believe. Now, again, you could probably change my opinion about this. I could probably be convinced that attendance doesn't have to be nearly as big of a part of the award than it should be. But at this point in my life, I do believe attendance is a huge part of it. So I don't necessarily mind the 65 game parameter. Me either.

But to me, this is more my mind media-driven. I don't think. Yeah, well, yeah, I don't think. Because the only time we ever get into arguments about MVP voting, frankly, is when it's our guy going against somebody else. James Harden versus Russell Westbrook and a six seed Right You know what I'm saying

I mean that's when people Really get upset But generally speaking Does anybody really care if Let me give you a guy Cade Cunningham Is second team all NBA or third team all NBA or first? No nobody cares

So it to me is now The reason why it does make A difference in your team is that if you're named on all first, second, or third NBA team, you are eligible for the Supermax, which those agents and those players, their eyes light up really wide and bright and are very happy about that,

because that means they're going to get even more money than they originally could get, which I think having media voting to help you determine your salary is ridiculous. That's why some media don't even vote anymore for those things. But, yeah, I don't know. Unless you're, okay, so who are the MVP? candidates. I mean, SGA always, but he's missed a lot of time. You have Nicola Yolich,

who's in that 11th? Who else is kind of fighting that 65 game number? Shagia Gildes Alexander. Jaylor Brunson in the mix as well. I mean, is he going to be okay for 65? I'm just throwing names out. I'm trying to find, so basketball reference does like, they have a metric and it's called like the MVP index

or something like that. Yeah. And I'm trying to to find that. Here we go. 26 MVP top candidates. They have Yokic. Yep. They, who's played only 46 games. Shea Gilgis

has played 51. Donchich. Kade Cunningham might have been the de facto guy because he's played 54 games. He's going to make the threshold, no problem. He'll get there. Wimby has only played 47 games. So he'll be close.

And you mentioned Jaylen Duren, or no you didn't mention Jayloran, sorry, Jalen Brunson. Kevin Duran is on this list, and those are kind of the top, the top MVP of candidates. It's called a, it's a model built using previous voting results built by

basketball reference. It's been pretty accurate over the last couple years. I mean, is Anthony Edwards? Where is he in terms of number of games? He's not on here, but I don't know if he's missed, he's missed some time. He did miss some time, though. He has played 52 games, so he's got a shot at six. Yeah, so he'll be fine. Yeah. but there are a lot of players who might not get there.

I don't know, Ross. I wish I could have a stronger take or a real fiery opinion about it, but I don't. I would lean probably towards them's the brakes. If you can't stay, if health is a part of your requirement to win the award, then it's a requirement. It is a different game than in years past.

It's a higher, fast-paced game. You have to cover more. You talk about spacing. Everybody wants spacing. That means defenders are covering all that spaces. well. So players are running up and down and not only north to south but east to west on the floor more than they ever have. But I'm okay with the rule. 17 games missed is a lot. What is the reason to the process was to first fall, get people on the court, but secondly,

there weren't there guys that may have been in the past that were not winning the award? And they were saying, wait a minute, if everything is equal, why am I being, well, I shouldn't I get the benefit for the doubt because I play maybe 7 or 8 more games the guy I'm finishing second time. Maybe you relax it by a couple of games. 65 out of 82 is 79%. Okay, so if you got it to 75, that would be what? 59 games

somewhere in that range? 60? 75% would be basically 62 games. Okay. Or 60? If you wanted to make it a little less, that's fine, but I would not ask for it to be eliminated. I mean, some of it takes care. of itself, guys who play like 55 games

are probably not winning the MVP anyways. Yeah. I don't know. It's interesting. It's, it's, uh, the, the debates have been breaking out now on the NBA Twitter streets. Yeah. And they're also arguing about TV coverage again for the upteenth time. You see Charles Barker last week said, the NBA is doing themselves a disservice

by putting all these games on everywhere. And while I don't disagree with him because its inconsistency is there, like our game Saturday with Miami was on Amazon Prime at yeah, I need a pattern. I need a pattern. I need, to figure out. I need a regular pattern. I knew it was, I knew it was TNT on Thursdays. I knew it was ESPN on Wednesdays and Fridays. I knew it was NBA TV on Sunday. Like, I knew when, I knew where to look for the NBA. I don't know where to look right now. I don't know what day it is and where

to look. Well, the argument to that is in the other side is that college football games are all over the place on different channels every week. College basketball is over and people seem to find them. Yeah, but that's generally like on Saturday. I mean, that's just, yeah. The NBA is an all, like I said, I got, I get, I would get, I would even, you wouldn't even know who's playing on T on TNT on Thursday. You would just flip to T&T on Thursday. So let me ask you this then. If it's a case of just going to your phone and looking at the schedule, couldn't you? And that not solve your issues pretty quickly?

It could solve my issues, but it's also an extra step. And then when I'm, and it's out of sight, out of mind. Because you got to compete with YouTube and Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think it's easier for that, for sure. But the owners said, Commissioner Sover, get us as much money as possible. Yes, they did. Yes, they will.

And Adam Sover. Did them a good solid job? Jeff Bezos doesn't default on his checks. Nope. Everybody clears their checks. The Disney company clears their checks. Yes, they do. Apparently Peacock's losing a lot of money, but Peacock's not doing well.

They get my money every month. And you know what? Because the Thomas family of five consumes all the channels, we have all of them. Now, tonight, you've got a doublehead on ESPN. That's consistent. Thursdays, we're usually your TNT nights. Yes?

You got two prime games tomorrow. Okay, so is it Prime every week on Thursday? Prime has been on every 30th. Here's how it's normally going. Please help me out. ESPN's mostly been on Wednesdays. Okay. Prime's been normally on Thursdays and Fridays.

And when they were on Thursdays, they went on Fridays until the NFL left Prime on Thursdays, and they moved them over to NBA on Thursdays. Friday gets them back on ESPN. Saturday, I think, as ABC, those big games. And then, you know, if you get the NBC on Tuesday night games have been consistent with exception to the Olympics, at least that's consistent. Yeah, this Saturday, this Saturday you have Prime Video at two, NBA TV at 5, and ABC Warrior Thunder at 7.30.

And then Sunday night basketball, which is supposed to be their marquee game because they're and all their big sporting events on NBC on Sunday. It's the Rockets and Spurs. Yeah, I need to get in the routine. No, I will not be there. That's San Antonio. Never mind. If you want to come, if you want to, I'm good.

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now. We have a shorter segment of Chuck Chubal MASS up coming up in a few. 713-212-5-790 if you want to come in and say hello. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Why do spring training stats don't matter, Rossi? Because today's stats are going to go into the Astros team leaderboard there. Yes. And they're going to go with Joy Lo Perfito. Baller. Bryce Matthews.

Mashing. Joseph Sullivan. Huh? Jack Winkler. Oh, okay. That's Henry's grandson. Lucas Spence. Sure, why not? Ethan Frye?

Ethan Frye. C.J. Alexander. Wonderful. Ronnie Unro? Rodero, baby. He batting ninth. Cesar Salazar. Do you think Cesar Salazar is pissed at all these guys in front of him?

Why is he batting ninth in that lineup? Just to get him used to his place? I got to call Joe on on that. Why are you doing that? Let's get him some looks. Why are you giving Winkler Spence, Frye Alexander, and unreal, morrow. Maybe we already know

what Cesar Salazar is going to bring. Wait a minute. You don't know? What? Oh, yeah, he's going to hit 35 bombs this year? Well, I mean, he's going to hit a bomb every time you play, which will be once a week. Do you think Cesar or Salazar is like, first of all, you're making me go across

the state? Then I'm only going to get probably 2AB's max? Don't you think we should be worried more about the back up catcher situation than we have been? No question. I mean, there has been never a blueprint that says Cesar Salazar's or have been a quality major league hitter.

Seriously, what if Aledmus Diaz, he had this foot sprain? What if he re-injures his foot, like first week of the season? Running on a ball to first base or something? And then you got Cesar Salazar every day? That's a problem. That's a big problem. I cannot disagree with you. Yeah, I am, um, that's not a number one concern for me,

but it's in the top three. Maybe they think Walker Yonick's going to be ready pretty quick? Because he didn't go higher than A ball last year. He's 23. So, I mean, everybody's on a different trajectory. I get it for going up the minors and all that stuff. Yeah, no individual players run from the major leagues is the same. Yeah.

Yonik was, he played the Arizona Fall League. He had a 770 OPS and 13 games. He's hitting in spring. He also hit last spring, by the way. We need to hear more about him, honestly. I am curious, yeah. When's Dana Brown speaking next? You go down there and talk to them if you want to.

Okay. By the way, I need a ruling from you, and I don't know the answer all the way to this. Okay. My son, my oldest, is going to see USA versus Brazil at Diken Park on Friday. Okay. In the WBC. Wonderful.

Now, do they charge individuals? individual tickets for these things or is it i'm assuming they are i do not know i feel like i should know this and for that i apologize maybe some of you that are going can help us out but we were sitting at dinner last night and i wasn't speaking because i was getting over my shot uh but he's going friday night it's going to be at i think seven o'clock or six o'clock i don't know what it is six or seven his upper deck ticket you want to guess how much it was upper deck uh 40 bucks 51 dollar What do you think? You scolded him for sitting in the upper deck

because you've never done that in your life. No, I'm appreciative of the fact that he did not overspend to sit down on the lower deck. It looks like you've never sat in the upper deck. I mean, others can't. It looks like you can buy individual tickets. Okay, because he has to work during the day, so there's no way he's going to the 10 o'clock game or whatever. Oh, wow. Then there's two quarterfinal games in Houston as well.

Oh, yeah, Houston's, you know, I tell you what, we're doing pretty well on the international sports scene. March 13th and then March 13th. 14th. We got World Cups coming to our spot. Yes, we do. WBC. Yes. I bet you Friday night will be jam-packed.

NCAA. Tournament games? Oh, South Regional will be here. That's right. That's right. I'll be out of town, sadly. Got to make sense. That's a shame. Let's see. Wait, if you have 50 bucks, that's not honestly doesn't surprise

me. It seems high. Everything seems high. I wouldn't head tacos for dinner. it was like 30-something bucks. Yeah. Go get you a Rale-Riempo margaritas can cost you $5 more now. Apparently it's $25 for those things.

Now they put you on your ass. You only need about one. Those of you that don't know, I have very little tolerance. One of those Rale-Reempo-Ragoritas and I'm not finishing the game.

Yeah. I'm probably laying on the concourse. If you see a very attractive white bald man sitting in section 107 or laying in 107, the stairs, it's probably me. $25 is insane for one drink.

Let's put this in perspective. The REL Riempio, as Matt is saying. Oh, those are worth it, though. That's worth it, 25. No, it's not. Yeah, but don't you want to watch the game? No, it's not. I don't get your ass kicked? No. You buy a full bottle of tequila and sneak it in a flask. I am not

condoning this activity. Don't yet. We are the Prada Astros. I love the Yucin Astros. Please. spend thousands of dollars of your money and their concessions. They're overpriced concessions. Yeah. No, I'm not. I know. Their possessions are overpriced. It's a fact. That's everywhere. So you're going to get you a RELRI-EMPO,

then you're going to get you a butterburger at the burger, which is going to cost you. Oh, hell no. Do you see how much those things are? Did I see? Is it $15 for a single? Yeah. No, sir. I'm spending 40 bucks on a water burger and a margarita. Hell no. Just eat before you. That's what I'm saying. Eat before you go to the game. Eat before you go to the game. Pre-game before you go to the game.

Pre-game. Those margars are worth it. So let me ask you one more thing. And again, this is, look, we like Waterburger a lot. We just do. We do. We do. You hear me?

There are better options, but we love it. We like Waterburger. I love it. I love it, too. I love Waterburger. I love Waterburger. Their ketchup is the best. Their fries are just about on brain with McDonald's, and their burgers are excellent.

And they got the chicken and gravy. Oh. Oh, and the honey butter butter. biscuits in the morning. Oh, hell yeah. Tequitos. You hear we ask Waterburger, we're whoring you out. We can just go one issue. It's a full service restaurant. Your drive-thru is really long, so I don't want to spend two innings waiting for my hamburger. Yeah, but it's me about normal. It's part of the experience. No, it's not. When I go to concessions at a ballpark or arena, I want to go to the

concessions. I want to get it quicker and get the hell out. So I would assume, even if you just don't take it Waterburger regular, it's still going to take you a while because I got to cook it and put all the stuff on there. Yeah. So I will be getting a full report from Cameron about his, if he gets a water burger experience, see how long it took to get that. I wouldn't do it. Why would I spend double the amount that it is for a, look,

it's a fast food burger at the end of the day. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Love it. As we just said, we love it, love it. Love it. It's a fast food burger. Yeah. That's more. than a fast food burger.

I can't believe the slander. You want to get it in a stadium? You go to the stadium for a water burger? No, that's not what I'm saying. That's ridiculous. It's more than a fast food burger. No, it's a fast food burger. Oh, damn.

Space City Sports says, I spent $40 on club tickets so your son got hosed. Oh, damn. Oh, is the secondary market? Is it going down or something? I don't know. I don't know if he got them on secondary

or he bought it. I'm assuming because most kids, they just skip going on the stadium side. They just go right to the secondary. I guess. Let me look. Go ahead. Well, I'll just take a look.

I'm not going to make me happy. I'm not trying to make you sad. I know. Let's see. Whatever it happens, whatever you tell me, I'm not telling him. Okay, well, don't tell him. When is he going? Friday night, 7 o'clock.

It's loading. How are you doing, Matt? I'm great. I'm at 72%. I can't complain. Two tickets? Yeah, these are upper level, 18 bucks. My poor son.

Mother life lesson for him. He's learning a lot of things at the age 25. Oh man, some of these premium seats are like $100.30. Oh, here's a lower, lower for $45 right now. With fees, 54. Okay, so maybe he got $30, $30 tickets upstairs and the fees are made it at $50. Oh, you can get lower level outfield for like $40, $50. Okay.

You know what, that's his money. He's working hard. He's got a full-time job. He can pay for it. You can get the corners for about, yeah, 18 to 20. This is for the Friday night game, the night game. Upper Deck Corners, Friday. 7 p.m. United States versus Brazil.

Hey, maybe I want to go. I got rockets. You got rockets. You got rockets. I do, ma'am. No, no, actually, Mann Dathie does. Because I'm doing Thursday and Sunday. Okay, I got you. Ooh, you're doing the Sunday night tilt with the Spurs.

Good for you. That's great. All right. Would you like to tell somebody to shut their bomb asses up? Yes, I would. Is it me? No. Oh, somebody else, though.

You know what? Maybe it is you. Oh, about yesterday. Well, I tried. I appreciate you, Matt. I could be a weak-ass ago. I can't work. It's fine.

It's not weak-ass. If you... You don't mean... If you sound like a barrel of sandpaper. Oh. All right. I'll let you two go first. Ross is somebody he wants to say.

No, I don't. Yeah, you know, I don't. You know what? If I was your partner, I'd be saying this back to you. No, it's fine. Let's move on. You got the message. I'm going to go with...

I'm going to go with the lady next to me on the plane back from, well, the Fort Lauderdale Alport. but we were coming back from West Palm. She had a mask, but she wouldn't put it on. She would only cough into the mask. And I was going to literally ask the flight attendant for one for me. And then she finally put it on and went to sleep. So I was like, okay, maybe I'm not.

Maybe I'm fine. Three days later, I feel like death with the flu. If you're coughing all over the place, cover yourself up, especially when you're going to be on a plane. Ain't about that time for that old lady sitting next to me on the plane. Getting me sick. Hey nobody got time for that. To the Rard Rock Casino in Fort Lauderdale.

Uh-oh. What happened? That it took a loss. Ooh, that's not good. I've always believed that... Did that 3 to 2? Only in the higher limits. So you're playing $25 and it was $6 to 5?

Oh, hell no. No, that's a stay away. I'm going to try to tell you. So let me finish my story. So I decided to move to the $50 table to get three to two because Ross has been beating that into my head. 50 is a little rich for my blood. The woman comes over, the pit boss says we're moving at $75. Now, I was told for years that if you got grandfathered in.

Yes. They have changed that rule. Some casinos don't honor that anymore. They do not, including the Rod Rock. The shoe went to $75. Oh, and no grandfather. No grandfather. Oh, he said, they announced this is the last shoe at 50.

It goes to 75. Daddy took a bath. Ain't nobody got time for raising the limits and not letting you stay in at the grandfather number. Ain't nobody got time for that? This is what I talk about when I tell young Jonathan about how the world's going to hell and it's going downhill faster. I mean, when we were, well, I don't want to go wag with my money.

day, Maddie. Yeah, I'm going to do it. It was $3 to 2 everywhere. It was $10 or $15. You got great comps. The waitresses came around faster. You got grandfathered in. Do you understand what we're talking about there, Jonathan?

They raised the limits on Matt. Usually in the old days, if you sat there and played $50 a hand and you never got up, you were grandfathered in. No matter what, they could make the limit $1,000. Since you started at 50, you stay at 50. Okay. They took care of you. And now, as Matt said, it's happening there.

It's happening in a lot of Vegas casinos. thankfully they grandfathered us at the rolled and rugged the last time I was there so they took care of us there they still honor that there but everywhere you go they're squeezing more and more dimes out of you there's no six to five it's I mean there's no three to two it's all six to five

and they're not grandfathering I'm with you Matt ain't nobody got time for that this is ridiculous we're trying to give you our money you're already getting our money got it from me you're already getting it this is frustrating the kids knew the the world world's going to hell when blockbuster went out of bankers.

Yes. And at least in Vegas, where we're going in July, we get free drinks. They were charged people for drinks at the run. You got charged, too? Yeah, a lot of times they do that because that's run by a tribe, right? Correct. Yeah, they don't do the comp stuff, at least in Oklahoma and Florida that I've known. They don't do the comp drinks.

He had like a double gin and tonic and Bill came up. He's like, he's like, what is this? And it goes, it's called a bill. It's like, I had one beer and I felt like I needed the kiss at the very end. Do they give you at least free sodas? Yes. Okay. I got a coffee, a watt.

I was there for about four hours. You know what? You know what? The 2026, you just bring your flask everywhere. Yeah. You get $25 Ritos at the game. They're charging you for drinks at the casino. Yep.

Where do you even buy a flask at? I feel like people just have them. Oh, go to a convenience store. Two seconds. Yeah. Yeah. Get a plastic one, though, because they have metal detectors. Just asking for a friend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Plastic. For a friend. Or you can use, some people use, breast milk bags or stuff like that, like little flasks like that. And then you can

put them in your pants. So I've heard. You put them in your... Shit your bum ass up, man. If you really want to sneak, you can do that. Jonathan, what's the matter with you? You know, I'm pretty... You're good? I've been pretty good.

Except for the rodeo traffic. Oh, by the way. Spring break. Ross, did you discuss, we talked, when Friday we talked about, I just don't get the, a cookoff hose, the, the, the wagon wheel thing going there. Oh, the trail rise. People got mad at you. They got mad at me.

And what did you tweet out as soon as you tried to leave on Friday? I didn't tweet. I texted it to you guys. Oh, oh, so you know, I'm going to have stones to tell the people. No stones. What do you mean? I'm not going to stop and tweet. I would have.

Get out of here. Belich. Moon. Stop having sex with strangers. Felicia Moon was not fornication. on the trail ride this past weekend. She could have been. Okay, she could have been.

In all likelihood, Felicia Moon was not fornicating on the trail ride. That was blocking me. But yes, we are off the loop over here near Post Oak. And as I literally leaving after the show and we were blocked by a trail ride. So I had to go take the back road to San Felipe. It wasn't that much out of the way. And I needed to go to the 18-M. anyways, but

it wasn't great. Yeah, rodeo's great. Just, we don't need the... It was pretty funny because I was like, Matt, trail rides are fine, and then I got blocked by one, and I was not happy. Yeah. I took the L for the team. I get it. All right,

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Oh. Which is you listened to most of the show when you were under the weather. Gordy just needs to shut his bum ass up, man. He's so negative. Negative this, negative this. It's just spring training. It's spring training. Even Sparky said that last night.

It's spring training. So that's all I got. You guys, great shows always. Have a great show. Shut up, man. We love Gordy. Thank you, Mark. And thank you for listening early in the show.

Yeah, I was on for an hour. An hour and 15, probably an hour and 15 too long. Well, I'd just say it. We've got four minutes left. It's fine. You know what, Matt? It's a great trait to always want to work and always to want to be at work. I'm going to say something right now.

I love my vacation time. I need it. No, you don't. You don't go anywhere. But I need it to rest. I need you to rest. But I try to work. I don't like taking any sick days.

That's the number one pet peeve of mine. But if you're sick, you're sick, you're sick. You had the flu legitimately. You did everything to try to work, and you just weren't feeling good. And I get that. I mean, that's what life is. I felt like hell. I listened to the podcast.

Oh, my God. Yourself? Yes. What did you think? I sucked. Don't use that for Friday, by the way. I didn't hear you. What happened?

Good, don't. I'm glad you didn't hear it. You're not going to tell me By 11.42. Yeah, just go back and listen. You'll be hearing it. Oh, you know, I got one, actually. Oh, yeah.

I just thought about this. I think it was, Tuesday, maybe Monday. That's in the elevator. Ain't nobody got time. I know we're all in this corporate world. We've got to go to our office. We've got lunch.

You might be late to work. But if you're bumping me trying to get into the elevator and bumping out of me and not saying nothing, like you got bumped into? Dude, like, 20, 6? This whole shoulder and it didn't just kept the pushing. Hey man, ain't nobody got time for this.

We had the workplace, dude. You gotta say, excuse me, be polite. Because otherwise, I think you're just being, I think you're just being a little words I can't say. You know what I? Was it a bro or a girl? It was, it was two, uh, two pros. We'll say that.

Two bros. Hmm. And didn't apologize at all? No, just got, was it crowded in there? No, I'm telling you. It went out of the way to bump you? Like, I, I, that's,

felt like he was in a rush, I guess, or something. But I don't know. I'm all the time. I'm just like, excuse me. Yeah. Oh, for sure. For sure. We got one minute left here.

Anthony, what's the matter with you, Anthony? Hey, Matt. So if you're not born in America, you can't become the president of the United States, correct? I believe that's accurate. Okay. So if you're not born in Texas, you cannot be Mr. Texas. Shut your bum ass up, Matt. Don't be so angry, Anthony.

I am Mr. Texas. I wreak of Texas. Listen to me, Anthony. First of all, nobody named Anthony's from Texas anyway. You must be from Pennsylvania or something. I cannot. I got news for you, Anthony. I cannot decide where I live or was born.

My mother and my father had a lot to do with that. Not me. I've raised my family here. I got married here. I worked here 80% of it. my 90% of my professional life. Anthony, shut your bum ass up, mate. Shut your bum ass up, man.

Ain't nobody got time for that? I'm sorry my parents did not have sex in Texas. I'm sorry they did it in Michigan. Not my fault. I got here when I was seven. Sue me. I couldn't ask, what do they call it, Rossi, when you asked to separate you from your family?

Oh, yeah, uh, expatriation or something like that? Yeah, I couldn't ask for that when I was watching Captain Kangaroo and the Jetsons. shut your bum ass up. Now I'm all fired up. You know what? I'm going to go to the refrigerator. Oh, it's working. That's good. Some of you have refrigerators aren't working. Anthony, I hope your refrigerator is not working right now.

I hope all your ice is melting. But if it was, if it is, I'm going to come because I don't hold grudges, Anthony. I want you to call uptown appliance repair at 281-758-9978. 281-58-9-98. Great. appliance repair for your washing, your dryer, your ice maker, refrigerator. 281-758-9978, 281-58-9-9-79-78. For Ross Villariel, I'm Mr. Texas.

Boo. And we're going to hang out with you guys tomorrow. Again, 10 o'clock. Astros baseball now on Sports Talk 7-8.