The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - SNOW IN H-TOWN: Rockets Lose To Pistons, Ohio State Are The Champs, Slowik's Future With Texans

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Houston Rockets losing to the Detroit Pistons 107-96. Matt and Ross also:give the latest updates on the winter storm affecting the greater Houston areareact to Ohio State defeating Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championshippredict offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik's future with the Texansreact to Astros manager Joe Espada's latest comments on free agent Alex Bregmangive their latest "Gut Feelings"recap the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs in "Ross' NFL Rewind" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-02 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. We would normally play Texans winning highlights here, but we don't have any of those. Well, because they didn't win.

And sadly, we will not be playing a lot of rocket winning highlights because the rockets didn't win yesterday. Turn it up, Frank. Old blue eyes? When we finally kiss Good night How I'll hate going out in the storm But if you'll really hold me tight All the way home I'll be warm

This song absolutely fits And it slaps Oh, it's a slapper Oh yeah This is bussin Is it? Yes I think it's a low-key jam

It gets the people going And it is snowing in Houston, Texas. I've never seen anything like this. I have. I know you have. You lived in Minnesota. I lived in Texas my entire life. When I wasn't living in Houston, I was living in Austin.

And that's it. Do you think these women were hot back in the day in the background? Okay. If there's four women's singing, how many did Frank sleep with? All four of them. At the same time? Well, I mean, I didn't want to go that direction. but you certainly did, and that's fine.

And all people say that back of the day Hugh Hefner had it in life, I bet you Frank Santer wasn't too far behind. They used to hang out together, correct? Yeah. Bedfellows, perhaps literally. I mean, he invented a debauchery that was Las Vegas, basically. Yeah. He was having a good time in Vegas, I'm sure. He and the rat pack.

Yeah, and he also had some people bury in cement, but that's a different issue for a different time. That's okay. Supposedly he and Dean Martin were also the genesis for the golf drink cart. Oh, really? By the way, that's Dan Matthews. That makes sense. Dan Matthews, what the hell are you doing here at 10 a.m.? You know, they said, hey, we need somebody.

And bingo, here I am. That's why we appreciate you. Dan, you are the glue that's holding seven-nighting together. We appreciate you. I know that Clanton and Waxson don't want you talking in their show. You're more than welcome to chime in as often as you want. Now, remember, if you chime in with something stupid, we're going to make fun of you. But if it's cogent and it makes a lot of sense, we'll give you proper acclaim.

Can I just, you know, in fairness and just to, you know, make me in my comfort zone? Can you maybe like give me some eye rolls or snarky comments afterwards? Oh, that will be snarky. They'll be direct. Like what the hell are you thinking? I like that. I like that. My favorite,

my favorite Dan Matthews moment when it was filling in for you last year. Okay. Was I said, hey, Dan, we were talking about some, did some legendary broadcaster pass away in the last? I think it was Keith Jackson maybe? No. No. But somebody died. And we were talking about like the Mount Rushmore.

Like, who are your favorite all-time broadcasters? I mean, we're thinking about. the Cosells, the Musburger's, the Nansses, the Enbergs, the Michaels, the Bucks, all that. And he's like, you know, Dave Neal is really just the best. I was like, what? I don't even know who that is. Nor does anybody else in America. He does SEC games.

That's all he does. Well, I said Tom Hart, too. Oh, Tom Hart too, yeah. Well, Dave, actually Tom Hart's really good. Dave Neal is lucky his dad was a legendary announcer. Okay. He got kind of great. He's a nice guy.

He gravy trained off of his dad. Just because he's a nice guy. It doesn't mean even gravy train. Well, no, that's very true. I mean, there's a lot of people in our industry who do that. I know. Don't look at me. No, no, you're not related to anybody.

You didn't take care of the nepotism tree. I am self-made in the business, Mattis. As am I. Sometimes it doesn't even take nepotism. I know, I know. All right. So here we are, we are live at 1006 in the morning. This is Sports Talk 790, where we, our motto here on the midday show in particular is sports, sports, and then more sports.

I mean, there is nothing. that doesn't get by these gates that doesn't revolve around sports. Would you say? I would say. Okay, you would say. Frankly, 98% of you are probably at home, and I'm all for that. The 2% of you that are out driving, go home. Be safe.

Drive carefully. Drive friendly, the Texas Way. And by the way, no, don't drive. No, don't listen to him. Don't drive at all. I'm saying if you're out, go home and drive safe. Oh, yeah, of course. Jeez.

Okay, well, I don't want you encouraging. Yeah, go, go spend some donuts. Because here's a reality. In about four or five hours, the sun's going to come out for a little bit. Hopefully. And people are going to want to jump in the car and go somewhere. Don't do it. You are not allowed to.

This is under MT law to leave your house until probably six o'clock tomorrow night. Because here's the reality. All this snow becomes slush. The slush becomes freeze. The freeze becomes ice. it's layers and honestly tomorrow will be a much bigger pain in the ass to drive than it would be today

today it's fresh fluffy snow and you and I drove today. Yes well you did we went six tenths of a mile from our hotel where we're staying to the offices here at 1233 West Loop South. We sold your done Matt we made it in yeah and you were really nervous and I would be nervous too because I'm not a great driver but I

navigated the murky waters that was the snow and we made it. I just didn't want to die Yeah, but if you don't die, you'll be with me. Exactly. I mean, my God, I'd rather go peacefully in my sleep than scream with a screaming Matt Thomas. It's true. So, uh, we are here and we're going to go live until 2 o'clock. And then I'm going to go over to KTRH.

I'm going to flip. I'm going to be like, if you love me, you're getting seven straight hours of me. I'm good. If you despise me, too damn bad. You're getting me anyway. I'm going to prank call you. You can't prank call KTRH. We're a heritage radio station.

I've done it before. Well, that was because you're warped. I was not a road trip. I know, but you're now a trained professor. You can't prank comedy anymore. Hey, Matt, we got a solid six inches last night. Yeah, that's a tired joke. That's being kept.

Oh, yeah, that's for Friday. By the way, have you caught anything? Are the Wexler, and I know Wexler and Clanton hardly work anymore, but have they been saying things worthy of our Friday opens? Every once in a while, there's some things. I could absolutely throw some. things out. Okay, good. Now, you're working with us until two. You were here at 6 o'clock this morning. So there's no chance you're working the A team. The question's going to be, will the A team even

work today? I think that they are. I'll say yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm proud of them. I mean, the guinea pig test for does the technology work was Brian and Sean. And it worked. And it was, well, Sean had a little bit of issues connecting and then he got with I-heart IT. They got him figured out. So he was good to go. And then once they did, there was no delay. Yeah. All right. So we are here today to talk about sports and life and snow. Yes. It's kind of an anything goes Tuesday. Yes. And I'm asking, I put a tweet out yesterday. If there's any topics on anything goes Tuesday, you'd like for us to get to. Now, remember, a lot of you don't get to listen to us because you're busy either teaching school or you are on sales calls or you're in an office. Tarring roofs.

Yeah. Whatever you're doing. Whatever you do to get your life going and provide it for your family. So if you are new to the show, first of all, I'm Matt. Hey, Matt. To my right is Ross. Oh. And we have held. Tell the people who you are in two sentences.

Major Market Radio, multiple stations. That's one sentence. Okay. Voice of the Houston Rockets. Wow. That's great. But I could probably use about 10 more sentence. Can you give me 10 more?

No, we don't need that much. So if I did it in two, you do it too. Oh, okay. Go. Born and raised in Houston, big time sports fan, and I love making chili. Okay. Dan, in two sentences. Tell people who you are. Two words, movie quotes. There we go.

Now, by the way, if you're going to movie quote it, since you had the ability to ding yourself. You have to ding yourself. There better not be a situation where you bring up some movie from 1986 and you don't ding yourself. No, it's going to be genuine. It's going to be organic. I'm not going to try to force things. I mean, this is kind of like... Then you're not listening to this show. We've forced things all the time.

Have you never heard us run every bit into the ground for 15 years? Hey, look, to use a football line when I need to burn the football, I'll burn the football. When I can make a throw down the field. I've never heard that. Nobody's ever said burn the football. Who says burn the football? Either way, just throw it away. There you go. Just throw it away. You want us to throw away your burn the football line?

Well, no. It's just that's the line that I've heard before of they yell at a quarterback. Burn it. Like, throw it away. don't do anything with that. Maybe there's a little football vernacular. Because you and I've never been in a huddle like that before, we wouldn't know these things. Yeah, I'd burn the football daily. Yeah, it's just one of those.

You burn other things daily. Well, yeah, I've heard. Part of football lexicon. That's all this. All right. Does that even mean. 1130 today, we're going to have gut feelings. It's people going.

I have a gut feeling that we're going to have a massive traffic jam. He just made a movie reference. Oh, I didn't even hear it. I tuned out. Hit your ding. Go ahead. Ding. I'll just say it

You know what? You need to be on that. I don't think my audio's working still, so we're working on it. Wait a minute. Our equipment's not working on a snow day? We'll get IT on the horn after this. Stunned on that. We're based in like Cincinnati. They should be fine, right? Yeah. They're used to this kind of stuff. We laid off all our IT people here.

1,0001,000,000,000,000, okay, the pregnant pause is now officially done. It's true. Sorry. It's true. 1013 on sports talk. I'm saying they can work on it. Goodbye. I'll talk to you folks next segment.

funny, IT people got laid off a year ago. Co-hosts of the Matt Thomas show with Ross gets laid off one day after. 713-212-5-79. Tell us what you're doing. I'm curious if you are with your kids outside playing in the snow. If you are wearing a scarf in the studio in your home, like Ross has got a scarf on in the studio. It's awful.

You look like a complete dork. You look like a completely Harvard, yeah, what do they call it? T-s-up and pinky up in the ear, dork. God Almighty. Is that the winter version of sunglasses inside? That's, yeah, 12 months of sunglasses inside. Like, athletes do it all the time.

It irritates me to no end. Like, Tyler Hero had sunglasses on their day when he and Men Thompson got sideways with each other. All right, 713-212-5-790. What are you doing? And what would you like for us to get to today? Because we did have a national championship game in college football yesterday. That was, on a scale, one of the 10?

Five? Oh, and Notre Dame made it interesting. I'll give it a six and a half. Okay, between a five and a seven. Five and a six and a half. Where the Rockets last yesterday afternoon lose a Detroit Pistons, which was on a scale one to ten, about a four. It wasn't great.

We have a internet rumor out there about the Texans' coaching situation that I want to know if we should give it any legs or it's just internet fodder. We'll get to that. Got feelings. Rossel of the NFL. rewind today at 1230. You got two hours and 15 minutes. You could put it together.

And then we got, believe it or not today, all things about snow. All things about snow. Snowstorms. Chrissy Snow. Enzo's. Enzo is a great name. Now, it's really a dog name.

Now, if you're named your kids, Enzo's, I apologize, but it's really a pet's name. It's literally a Italian man's name. It's a good name for a Taylor. Enzo the Taylor? Yeah. Enzo, Ferrari. Is that who's fit

in your tuxedo, Enzo of the Taylor? Yeah, the ensign. We have to work on it. Look at you all again, going on that terrible Italian accent stereotype. How rude to both of you. 713, 212, 5, 790. Come on in and say hello. We wish you a very happy Winterstorm Enzo Day.

Here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1020 on Sports Talk 790. This is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Normally we have

hundreds of thousands of people that listen to this show. I feel like today will not be one of those days as people are outside taking pictures of their backyards. My wife did as well. Took a video. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to chastise everyone for posting pictures of snow

in Houston, Texas. This is extremely rare. Once every 30 years. I'm okay with it. Yeah, me too. But they're not listening to us. That's okay. Matt, because you're a true professional, you'll do the same great job you'll do if there's 100,000 listeners or just one listener.

That's actually not true at all. No. If we knew we had a huge, like when I go to KTRH in three and a half hours, there's going to be probably four times amount of people listen to that. So I'm going to be much better over there than I am here. Today's a mail-it in Tuesday. Well, and also things are so slow in sports content these days, Matt. You're supposed to say how slow are they? How slow are they sports? NRP Network is doing a bracket that people are voting for, and it's not a bracket of players or teams. It's a bracket of Hall of Fame classes.

You mean the entire class? Yes, of years. Like 2015 versus 2018, Matt, what was the better class? No, that sounds like to me, that's a network. That would be like if we did a radio show that only did one sport. Yeah. Could you imagine... They're manufacturing content best they can.

Could you imagine doing a radio show where you only talk about one thing all day long? All day, every day from 6 a.m. to like 7 or 8 o'clock at night. That'd be one topic all day long. Too boring. Too boring. We've got to move it around. Thank God we don't do that. All right. So last night we were at a certain hotel.

Yes. Underrated. I mean, yeah, I would say a slight underrated. Yeah. They had free drinks for us. That's why I'm saying underrated. So we, so we, we, uh, it was from 5.30 until 7. Yes.

I got there at 6.15, 630. So I had a double fist and get the three. 1022. Oh, no. I'm going to text the tonne right now. Don't put that in there. No, no, no, don't do that. Um, and then we watched, uh, the first half of the, uh, Notre Dame versus Ohio State

National Championship game. And it was largely a bore because Ohio State was dominating. Uh, and then, uh, halftime. And then we went upstairs. fell in and out of sleep, but the game kind of got more interesting towards the fourth quarter. But at the end of the day, Ohio State had the better athletes. Ohio State, by the way, covered

the big number and our national champions. So, what did I do as soon as the game was over with, Ross? What'd you do, Matt? I went to the 4U tab, which is a terrible, terrible problem I have. So after you caught up on all Taylor's videos on the 4U tab, what'd you do? Did Taylor,

I don't know, how did you do a other picks yesterday? I have no clue. I'll give you enough. You have a clue. You're playing opossum on this. I'll go look during the break. Trust me, I'll have zero problem doing the research on that. Yeah.

Oh, so the 4-U tab is dangerous, but you know, it is what it is. There is a rumor going around. I don't know where it came from. It could be just Twitter generated that people are just losing their minds over that says that the Texans make a significant move in their coaching staff

in the off-season. The guy they should go get is Chip Kelly to run the Texans offense. And D'emico played for Chip in Philadelphia. Okay. Chip is also at Ohio State. Just got there after being the head coach at UCLA. Just one the next.

He gave up being a head coach at UCLA to be the OC at Ohio State. I mean, first of all, the money in Ohio State to be an OC is probably very, very good. It can't be UCLA head coach money, right? No, it wasn't. You only had to worry about half of the... UCLA is a nice tier two school. That's crazy still to me, but I mean, I understand. It's working for him.

All he had to do at Ohio State was coach and recruit. No administrative duties, no shaking of hands, no kissing of babies, no visiting with the president of the school, no going on tours. It was just coaching. How old is Chip, by the way? Is he got to be... What was he? I'm saying, oh, is he that old?

I was going to say under, like late 50s, but we'll see. I have no. 61. Okay, so he's got a few more years if he wants to run around. bouncing from school to school or program to program. Yeah. He didn't look that old. For a hefty guy, good for him.

Yeah, he's carrying his weight well. So let me ask you this. I am of the belief that Texans are not going to let Bobby Sloick go. This looks completely manufactured, by the way. I'm not saying anybody reporting Chip Kelly. No, no, there's nobody reporting. It's just a for-you nasty internet rumor. It's not nasty.

Nasty would be different. Just typed again. They're going to against the wall seeing something sticks. Correct. So do you want me to, you want us to address it seriously? Or just go, hey, I saw a funny thing on the internet yesterday. And I'll, by the way, move on to something else. Because I think a lot of people are going to start asking about, you know, D'Amico said yesterday, he needs a week to kind of evaluate the coaching positions.

Yes. Bobby Sloak could be staying. It's still my gut feeling. I'm going to stick with that, even though the comments. Yeah, I'm not going to put my name on it. There wasn't a ringing endorsement. Right. That's my gut feeling.

Right, right. Wait, it is Tuesday. We got that coming up. Save that an hour. Sorry. But, I mean, that's a longstanding gut feeling for me is that it's not going to happen. Yeah, anything can happen. But it seems like he's going to stay. But there certainly weren't any ringing endorsements from D'Amico Ryans, to be sure.

But let's be brutally honest. Okay. The Texans have never been shy of spending money on coaches. Lord knows they've spent a bunch of them money on coaches. Yeah, but none of them were high dollar coaches. No, but they're still, they're paying out on two other coaches. that are no longer working for the organization. Right.

But they never signed them to big deals. And if D'Amico, who I believe is beloved by Cal and Hannah, if Damiko says, I've got a chance to go get one of the brightest offensive minds who, oh, by the way, just led a college team to a national championship. If I got a chance to try to snag him away and I played for him, and I've already built a relationship with him, I bet you Cal and Hannah would say,

give him a shout and see what it takes financially. Yeah. I wouldn't be shocked. That's why Rossi, as much as I'm not a big fan of internet rumors and spreading of them, I'd listen to it. I don't think it's the most preposterous thing I've seen on the Twitter streets under any circumstance. No, I've seen more preposterous things, usually at SportsMT. I understand that.

I would say, but it's just completely random floated rumor right now. There's no basis or foundation for anything of this other than speculation. Well, the reality is that Chip Kelly had an unsuccessful run as a head coach in the NFL. and sometimes coaches want to get an opportunity, not necessarily to be a head coach again, but to be able to write the wrongs of, well, this guy can coach at the collegiate level, but he can't coach the NFL level.

I'm curious if that's even in chips. Or maybe chips, wait a minute. I just won a national championship at Ohio State. I'm going to get paid as much as humanly possible can be for a coordinator. I've only got half the responsible that I used to have. I'm 61 years old. Why don't want to bounce around from job to job to job?

Just throwing it out there. I mean, you would be working. with a really good quarterback and potentially with some good weapons. And by the way, if Chip was to come here, again, I want to make sure we're very close into speculation. This is speculation. Speculation. Speculation. Speculation. Or sound the speculation alarm.

He'd have nothing to worry about. Demico would say the offense is yours. I'll see you later. I feel like he does rain in Sloak a little bit. I do feel like there is a, I think that Sloak is under marching orders from DeMico Ryan's to establish the run and not take a bunch of big risks. That's just my gut feeling. I don't know that, but

I would think D'Amico would say, do I need a splashy hire to show that we're ready to take? Because look, here's the reality of it. The Texans have got to get to the next level. And I don't know if Chip Kelly is the answer to that. But they almost feel like they've got to do something splashy enough. Because the reality is this, Rossi. Even though we've basically discussed how they have got to overhaul their offensive line, what are they going to do?

They've got young guys there. You can only probably get one lineman that you, you think would be good enough to start right away. Maybe we're, I think we're perhaps overselling the overhaul of the line unless you go do spend money in going to get offensive linemen from other teams,

and do you really want to spend your money on that when you ultimately still need other compartments? For instance, getting a second receiver to compliment Nico Collins. Yeah, and you're going to be losing guys. It's the nature of the salary cap, and where are you going to plug those guys? They

need help on the interior line, which is generally going to cheaper than tackle, which is helpful. I mean, can Blake Fisher develop and get better? Can juice grugs and can Patterson develop and get better? You might have some internal growth rather than external help. It'll have to be a mixture of both, I think. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-70. Special shout-outs to our friend, Grace, listening. Our buddy Kenny and Katie is listening. Thank you all for being a part of the show. We're just going to hang out here. Just talk sports, keep it lighthearted. And most importantly, do not drive today. For that matter, don't drive tomorrow unless you absolutely have to. Shout out Sandra, tweeted us some pictures.

She says she's listening. What's up, Sandra? What's up, girl? Appreciate you. Go to the phones next. Talk to the great people of Houston, Texas. We thank you so much for listening. To the Matt Thomas show with Ross, it's 1030 on 790.

Hey, it's Robert Ford from the Astros broadcast team. See, hello! Get every Astros game on Sports Talk. 790 and the I Heart Radio app Home of your Astros. I'm just going to say this. You guys tease me about commenting about our music too much. This is

in my wheelhouse. Not a Peter Frampton guy. I'm just glad you laid out until we got to the wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, part. Yep, not my, cup of tea. Frampton really liked that thing.

The talk box. Is that what it is? I am really heartbroken to have to agree with you, Matt. Peter Frampton, a little bit overrated? I think largely overrated. I think a little bit overrated. What about his cameo on Family Guy? Never saw it.

I never watched one episode of Family Guy in my life. Now, do you feel like we do is kind of a jam? What is it? Do you feel like we do? Do you feel like we do? I'm good. It's over 13 minutes long? This song is?

The original. No, no, I mean, that's from the Frampton comes alive. Yeah. And by the way, Today we're going to talk about music on the show because we're having to cover four hours with the snowstorms. So we're going to be okay. It's an anything goes Tuesday. Yeah.

If I do it on a Wednesday or Thursday and there's a middle of a hot sports takey thing that I'm on the Matt Thomas show. Then I should be slapped, but not today. Today is the day we're relaxing, chilling, just having a good time. Okay. Trying to entertain folks. We've got a lot of nice people listening. Just chilling. Again, yeah, keep sending us photos.

You are absolutely under 100% a lot to send photos. I can't get enough for these winter wonderland photos. I even like the Kyle Field one that I saw. It looked nice. What? It's just a stadium. Oh, it's not just a stadium. I know.

It's the loudest environment, though. They never lose there. No, nobody said that. But it's... It's so loud and raucous. What a storied stadium where they never win. Ross. What?

It's sway. That's some jam right there. Oh, okay. That sounds like they have foundational issues and people are going to get crushed. It's been... Under piles of rubble. That doesn't sound good. It's been swaying for 30-plus years and no one's on an issue.

that's what I'm saying. Shouldn't you be concerned? Wait, let me tell you, Darryl Royal Stadium, big dump. Oh my God. You've never even been in there. I have been there. When's the last time you were in Darryl Kay?

Yeah, shut up. You're such a fraud. Last time. Yeah. Like 1996? This is the last time. In God's honest truth, it was when Ricky Williams got.

Yes. Shut your bum ass up. They didn't even have the other upper deck up yet. I like Old State. People call them, like people call the Cotton Bowl a dump. Yeah, it's all. old. Yeah, it's got troughs for urinals and stuff like that, but

I like a little bit of the old charm. Give me creature comforts. Oh, I know. Miss Fancy High Horse Matt needs a sweet level. That's fine. I like being out there in the bleachers, pan in the trough and drinking beer out of wax cup at the Cotton Bowl. It's a good time. There's something bonding

about like your home stadium for your favorite team being a bleep hole. Because you're all bonded in, well, it's a bleephole. You know what? You guys have said that so nicely Why don't y'all go sit out and Lambeville filled on a 15 degree day? You'll be changing your mind. Give me to the damn sweet.

Matt, can you get me in the sweet? Please. No, I can't get you, sir. I don't want to go there in 15 degrees. We're talking about being in Texas. Also, the bleacher seats, you know, they were built in 1923. The average BMI was a little bit lower. Yeah, by way.

I'm a little big for the bleachers seat. You know why? Once you, y'all are such big fans of old Stam, why don't you go sit in Rice Stadium for some rice out football five, six times a year. Oh, me and six of my best friends. I've been to Wrigley. I enjoyed Wrigley. I've been to Rice Stadium when I was a kid.

All right, let me tell you, old school stadiums I like. Love Wrigley. Love Dodger Stadium. Yes. Fenway Park, a hole. Very uncomfortable. Very, very comfortable. I've still never been there, so I can't tell you.

Okay. It's one of my favorites. Fenway is? Yeah, it's great. But it's also, though, too, like, the venues are fine. They are what they are, and it's kind of the nostalgia charm. But it's the stuff that's outside the stadium. Like, those are both stadiums that are built in the middle of a neighborhood.

Outside is fine. Inside is fine. Inside, when you pay Rossi. pay $148, you can only see 60% of the field, you're kind of pissed. You're just going to be. Maybe I'll sit on top of the green monster. Oh, I would do that. Everybody was upset when they put seats up there. Now they're like the most sought after seats in a building. Let's talk to

the great people of Houston, Texas. We'll start with Ronnie on 790 at 1039. Ronnie, good morning to you. Good morning, Matt. Your producer answered my question that I had about the coogs, whether they were going to play tonight, and he said they're going to play tomorrow. That's right. So that's good.

And I have a story. You may not remember, Matt, but I hope you will. You've been in Houston all your life. I have been here. I am 52 years of age, and I have lived here for 40 years. Wow. Do you remember the radio personality, Johnny Goen? Yes.

Used to be on Oldies 94.5. Oh, yeah. Oldies. Used to be KFNK. Well, a funny story I can. relate about that is his dad was a city councilman in Houston back in the 60s. And there were two morning show guys on 950 on KPRC back when it was a, you know, easy listening music, radio thing. And they used to, they were good friends with Johnny's senior or his dad, whatever, and they used to hassle Johnny going all the time about the fact that Houston was the sixth largest city in the country and we did not own a snowplow.

And they hassled him about that all the time. Just, you know, and I thought that's kind of funny that here we are now. We probably needed a snowplow. You know what, though, and thank you for the phone call, and I appreciate you listening. I'm going to disagree. You don't, you'd be a waste of money. It would be a waste. I have lived here that I said, 40 of my 52 years of my life.

This is the second time I've seen significant snow in Houston, Texas. Now, there has been a dusting. There has been freezing rain. There has been some slate. this is the second time that I've ever seen accumulation. Google says more than an inch of snow on a single day nine times and 129 years. So once every 10 years, not even? Yeah, not, yeah.

Look, the only thing that scared me, once every 14 years. We were at the Super Bowl in Dallas, and they did the exact same thing. But that was more icy and sleet than it was. Yeah, you and Charles. Yeah, Chaz and I. This today has been pure snow. This is no if ends or butts. It's powdery stuff.

I want to say the last time I saw snow in Houston, and I'm sure it's happened since, but this kind of accumulation's probably been in the 90s, maybe. I think like 89-ish or something, wasn't it? Yeah, somewhere in that range. Christmas 2004. What was the snow total in 2004? I'd have to go back and look.

I'm looking. It doesn't have a 2004. You're talking about, oh, no, this is 08. My freshman year at college, I remember. It was Christmas Eve 2004. Were you in Houston, though? Uh-huh. Where was I in 2004?

Oh, I don't know. Oh, you know, I had moved to Salt Lake City, so I wouldn't even hear. 89 was 1.7 inches of snow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, before that, 73 was 2 inches. And then in 1960, 4.4 inches.

And then 1895 was 20. Yeah. So the reason why I don't remember is I wouldn't hear. 1894. was 20 inches of snow. Okay. So I would not buy a snowplow. Now, I had a snowblower in Minneapolis.

Yeah, nice one. Oh, so nice. I heard it was the Cadillac of snowblowers. It was the Mercedes bands of snowblowers. And then, so I bought it in like October for the upcoming season, and then I got the job here in December. I'm like, so I put an ads out on, was it Craig. It might have been Craigslist or something.

I don't know what it was. And he says, yeah, I'll give you X for it. I said, I just paid this three months ago. He says, well, you can't take it with you to Texas? I'm like, oh, crap. So you bought it on the ad? You were going to Texas? I said, I'm moving, and I don't want to snow.

I don't want the snowblower. No, Matt, that sounds desperate. He came to like just upgraded, thinking about upgrading. You lost all your leverage, Matt, in the posting. I know. I think I sold them with a guy at 40 cents on the dollar. It was pissed me off because it was a great one. That guy probably still tells people about that.

I would, too. I'll tell you, I got this great deal of snowblower in 2009. I mean, it was amazing. I'll tell you about that time I fleece that radio guy. I do miss St. Paul in that respect. I live in the inner city. I don't live in the inner city here now. I was three miles from my radio station to my job.

When you get you in that high rise, Manning off post oak? When you get in the penhouse at the Post Oak Hotel from Tillman? He'll cut you a deal. Now you're just poking at me. No, I'm saskin. It's going to be a while. Let me get Carly off the college and we'll figure it out for that. Okay.

Post Oak with a doorman. He needed car. I mean, the car you put in the garage. Now picture me going to the doorman and getting thrown out. Does that make you happy? No, I wouldn't let you in the building, period. That's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, that makes me very happy.

I'm a friend of Matt Thomas. No, you're on the no can't see list. Love it. They've got the photo at the concierge. Yeah. Pablo Escobar, not a lot inside. Oh, come on. 1045.

We got an Alex Bregman call coming up. Bragman Update. Let's play. It might as well. Is there a pregnant update? No, there's not. We might as well play it. Okay.

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Time now for one of these. Bradman of D. On Matt and Ross's show, at least they're normally known. The bit's never going away, much to the chagrine of some. All right. Anthony Santander is now a Boston Red Sox Sports RV. Is that accurate? So that means the Red Sox are spending money on free agents.

Now it's a different position. No, no, I thought it was Blue Jays. Oh, I'm sorry, Toronto. Toronto. He's up there in Toronto, Matt. I'm going to get you to Toronto. This is how they talk. No, they don't. You didn't ask me how my Regina interview went.

How was your Regina interview? Saskatchewan. They talked really Canadian. And tomorrow, the guy was like, yeah, we're going to have a big game tomorrow. Did they really? Yes. Oh, no. I thought I was being pranked.

Oh, no. They were extremely Canadian, but very nice. Okay, my side, he's not a red sock. He's a blue jet. He's a blue jay. Now, that's, and the reason why I brought that up is because the blue jays and redsocks have been talked about this. Five years, 92 and a half million.

The number floated was 100 million. It looks like, sounds like everybody's going under market, Maddie. I don't really improve the whole sense. I'm running up, my bet. I'm good. Let's go. No, let's go. I'm good now.

Let's go. Where is he going to go? Is he worried? I don't know. Is he like, I'm cool, bro? I'm making salsa. He's got to be worried. No, he's got to be a little worried.

I would imagine he and Scott Boris imagine that Bregman would be signed by now. But also, we had the report from Buster only a week ago when one of our Breggman updates that the Toronto Blue Jays were the team. There were varying levels of interest with the Blue Jays having the most money. So with the Santander deal now in place,

Does that mean they no longer have the most money to offer Alex Breggman? Do the Tigers sneak in at this point? And AJ calls and says, hey, man, I know you were looking for big, but come here, we're starting something fun. We beat your asses in a wild card last year. You're going to be the missing piece for us to win the America League. Can AJ make that call? He absolutely can't. Maybe they'll make him the amount of money he wants, but over like eight years.

Eight years, 200? Yeah, like, what if he wants 200? Yeah, so they make the years. Oh, I think the 200 number has been in. back in, they're not, they're just going to take it on the chin. Didn't that kind of happen with the Bryce Harper deal? The Phillies, like they made it super long. It was the money he wanted, but it was like a 13-year deal or something like that.

Okay, so I'm going to get the calculator out. 200 divided by eight would be $25 million. $256 a year, yeah. $156 divided by $6. It's $26. So it's not that much. It's a million dollars a year. Yeah, but it's $44 million more dollars guaranteed.

Yeah. But I don't, it's not the Tiger's DNA to, give out $200 million contracts. Well, they have. It just didn't work out well. That's my point. Yeah, Miguel Cooper. Well, I mean, they're still paying on the Mickey's contract.

Yeah. I mean, they're like, they're like, Oford. Now, Mickey was good for them for a while, but they certainly paid for, they poo holstered down the stretch with him hardly playing. Yeah. I don't think Breggman's even close to,

I mean, I might want to double down on my under 175. unless somebody gets hurt or unless somebody sneaks in and says First of all he's a notorious slow starter and he's going to miss camp This seems like a horrible idea Yeah

Could Scott Boris have screwed up a second straight off season And I don't even count Juan Soto Because that's a generation What do you mean? I think he got Juan Soto more money than people were expecting But he frankly He heard the rest of his clients, right? Who else?

He might have. How many Boris for agents were there this offseason? I think he's got Alonzo too, right? And he's not, he's still looking for work. Oh, God. You're going to make me look this up? No, you don't have to. Let's talk to Eric in Bay City.

Let's go. We've got to figure out what's going on with the Bay City weather. Eric, how's the snow situation down there? Well, guys, I'm glad it's here. Because it gives me a reason not to go outside when the real reason I don't want to go outside is because I'm too embarrassed to go outside after Joe's spot is whining and pandering to the media yesterday that our arms are still wide open. Put your arms down.

Your body odor stinks, Joe. I mean, why would we want this guy? Nobody wants this guy. It's evident now that nobody wants him. If he signs with Boston, let's say he signs for $180 million. Ross brought this up a couple weeks ago. State income tax and Massachusetts has a millionaire's tax. 18 million of that $180 million is going to go to the state of Massachusetts.

So he's going to leave us for $6 million. Nobody wants the stench of a cheater. This guy is... No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Alex Bregman's trash. He bought a gold glove. He bought a gold glove.

Eric, come on. Eric, come on. Eric, now you're just trolling a little bit. How is that Grinky doing? No, Scott Boris, I wouldn't even smile today if we were bringing back Zach. I'm so disgusted. Oh, my God. You're a liar, Eric.

Scott Boris bought this gold glove because defense is the only thing that's really hard to argue. Alex Bregman is a good third baseman. He's not a great third baseman, and he's horrible at the plate. He's horrible. He's not horrible at the plate. He had 26 home runs. These are horrific. These are horrific overstatements. The only player he was better than was Jose Abraeu in our lineup.

Oh, right. And he was better than Pena. I can't do this anymore. He was better than, let's see, I don't even know. Jake Myers. You know what? Dan, give me some snow music. I can't have that last call of the hour stench this program up.

Where are we? I'm watching people. Or we can start next hour with it. Where is this? Yeah. Where is this? This is off Allen Parkway. People are out.

This is by where the, I used to go, I used to go cardboarding on this hill. There are people out there, not snowboarding, tubing. This is off Allen Parkway, maybe by Studemon or where, or no, yeah, Studemont, I think. I think this is Studeon on Allen Parkway. Let's go to a live-broad. Can we do a live broadcast from there? When I was a kid, we used to go cardboarding down there and the YDAWCA was right there. Real fast.

I'd play some pickup ball there, but it got a little too dusty. I want someone. Where is this a corner of again? I think it's Alan Parkway and Studeonon. No, it's a Miller Outdoor Theater. Yeah, they're snowboarding at Miller Outdoor. Oh, okay, that is Miller Outdoor. Earlier they were at Allen Parkway, I'm sorry.

Can somebody get to Miller Outdoor Theater, get on a tube, and call us and take us on a ride? What is he wrong with you? What do you that's wrong with me? No, don't. Don't drive in the snow. Do not listen to Matt Thomas. Stay home if you're home. Yeah, don't go on there.

Please do not risk your life and limb for Matt Thomas's five-second joy. It's called Great Radio. No, it's really not. People got there somehow. They probably walked. My guy's on the Walmart air mattress sliding down the hill. I mean, it's a virginality. Is this what my KTRH coverage is going to be tonight?

Just me talking about people at the outdoor theater. All right. By the way, do we need to, you know what we're going to do right now? What's Kintori doing right now? I don't know. He was on KHOU earlier. I'm going to tweet him right now. 1058, Sports Talk, 7.9.

All right, let me get to a little bit of seriousness here for a second. Before we start the second hour. Good song full, by the way. Is this wintery music or is this Christmas music finding its way into January? I mean, winter wonder. I guess it does kind of, does let it snow mention Christmas that much? It's fine, Matt. It's a snow day.

You got to play snow music. And usually that means Christmas music. You're right. We could also play cocaine. We could do that. It's just snow. Yeah, well, there you go. Matt Thomas show, 10 to 2 for the kids.

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If you think we got it bad here in Houston, there are blizzard warnings from Beaumont all the way to New Orleans. I guarantee you Lafayette television. China snowstorm, Matt. Kay Lafayette. Ain't doing no blizzard coverage. Let's go to the weather center for Harold Osse. No with the weather forecast.

We, man, we got snow going here. We're going to crackling on the forecast. Yeah, what's going on? The Lake Charles Bureau. Where Darcy Nebado is there. Dossi. Ooh, we. Ah, me.

Tomu. Man, thank you very much. Hell, awesome. No, we're here at Lake Charles. We're trying to go to the gambler. But, man, this lake effects, no, it's not good. Let's go check in in Alexandria, where Barney Bibidot is there. That's D-U-E-U-X.

Barney Bivode, Alexandria. Oh, man, I'd have to cancel my fan-born tool today. That ice frozen over in the swamp now, baby. This is Barney Bivodeau. I'm trying to get away from my Cajun accent so I can get a job outside of Alexandria. Back to Harold Arsenal in Lafayette. I would talk about a swamp tonight, baby.

I saw the alligator. I don't know if he was frozen or he was staring at me, baby. Seriously, if you have that accent, you can't go get a job in Kansas City. We got to get the crawfish report too. I'm on in Denver Sports Leader now, baby. That doesn't sound right. Let's go to the Boston Weather Desk.

We've got a member of the new member of our Boston Weather Team, joining us from Channel 73 in Alexandria. I'm warming up with them red red beans on rice tonight, baby. The Brew is not bad to Canadian. I'm 40. Oh, that's, the news director comes in, says, whatever this is. Brett on, baby. going to sign with them Toronto

Blue Jays Are you related to Bobby Hey Bell? In a village old town of I go ice fishing on leg chopper tulis baby Seriously you can There's a lot of accents you can get away Like if you have Atlanta southern draw

Like you know the Southern Bell accent Dan used to work there You can move that to somewhere else If your first TV job Is in Alexandria Shreveport Monroe Monroe Monro

Lov you're in trouble because you've got to shake that accent fast there's no way we're going to job in st louis or in portland harry connor junior has kind of hidden it a little bit but then he'll really pour it on every once in a while when he really wants to let you know he's from new orleans like gordy now gordon hides his we wouldn't let gordon's normal new orleans accent once the i10 exit goes to one from from seven whatever to one then boom the switch flips hey it's not very fair okay Okay, I've got the voice I've got, okay?

Once you hit the parishes after counties, he changes his voice. Absolutely. All I'm telling you is the greatest Chris Gordy moment voice changing was in New Orleans at Super Bowl. We couldn't find a place to park. So we went to the Harris parking line. Yes. He went full New Orleans voice, and it was like they were speaking in the language of love to each other. Yeah.

If I would have said, excuse me, sir, I need to please park a place to park. Oh, no, we got none here on a ball. Yeah. Gordy, it's like, went to that New Orleans voice, and we got like a prime spot on the first. row. Yeah, we'll be in a parking out of it now, baby. You're like, oh, okay. You can't chat and cut at Mothers.

Gordy comes with you, put you the front of the list. I don't know, Matt. Cordy says it's a tourist trap. I can see that. By the way, do not ever order bacon at Mothers. They will make fun of you. They don't have bacon. Okay.

It's sausage all the way. 11-07. Done and done. I feel like you've got already a bunch today. It's not fair. We have an abundance of material. I think there's zero. I've not heard one thing so far.

It is a freaking winter wonderland in Houston. This is, and my mind is still blown. Do you realize if I would have taken the videos and send them to my friends in St. Paul in Minneapolis, they would make fun of me so ridiculously bad. Oh, that's a light Tuesday, guys. This is the most note we've had since in 1989. Give us a break.

Yeah, this is. People's still driving. This is not dusting. This is an accumulation. There's a difference. Hmm, look at this guy. Well, I'm going to get this weather been accurate down. 790 meteorological desk.

Well, I'll be at the KTRA desk in three hours talking to eight times amount of people there. So I'm really going to get my game going here. Yeah. This is a warm up for you, Matt. Should I go deep? Like, this is, what do we call this? Winterstorm Enzo coverage on News Radio 740, KT, R. Yeah, you got to go PA voice.

Uh-huh. You got to whip people into a panic. That's what it's all about on the news station. Storm coverage coming. Are you safe? Details after traffic with Skymike. Let me tell you about Sky Mike's got the easiest day ever. Stay home.

Sky Mike's like, there's no traffic anywhere. Stay home. Sky Mike is like, I'm a rock star today. This is his Super Bowl. He's like, if there's ever a chance for me to get laid easily, this is the day. I don't know if he's getting on the regular night. That's not my business. But this is where people just get erotic with traffic reports.

What? Yeah. 69 is closed at Laura Koppi. Oh, no. Nobody calls it that. He's not, he's what? He's not getting erotic. He should.

He's getting more airtime anybody else in his radio station. Is this what he heard when he was waking up? He's like, today's my day. I've been waiting for this since 1989. A snowstorm is hitting Houston, Texas. Sky Mike is ready. People need me.

I will brave the elements. I will get out of my hotel room. I will drive the six-tenths of a mile. to get to KTRH and provide the traffic updates that people need that Harris County, Brasoria, Fort Ben, Chambers, Galveston, Willis, New Caney,

Kingwood, Katie. Got up at like 4 a.m., he's chopping wood, like Rocky. He's like gargling with saltwater to make sure his throat's fully throated. Right. He's got nine. cups of coffee down his throat. He's got his little bottle of honey bear tea.

Yeah. He's getting the people in the newsroom. They're all doing high fives, fist bumping. He's leading the pre-show rally. Guys, we can do this. Yes. I'll lead us. You follow me down these, the dangerous path.

If you're lost, look to me. West Timer and Gessner, it's congestion, but I'll get people through it. I'm a damn lifesaver. 18-wheeler lost load. I-10 West. Statt. Congestion at 6-10 in Kirby. Hannah's limousine stuck.

We'll get her out of there. Because I'm Sky Mike. Can't do the convertible today. No. All right. We're done. We got four hours to fill out. That filled a segment.

One segment at a time. We're just trying to take it one segment at a time, folks. Caleb in San Antonio. Caleb, what's the time? San Antonio weather situation going on right now? Oh, it's not too bad. I mean, it's a little cold, a little snow

on the ground. What's so funny about that? You don't know nothing joking about that? Are you okay, are you okay, Caleb? I'm sorry. Did you hit some whippets before we went to you? I apologize. I'm just excited. You were excited to call the show

for that we thank you. Thank you, Caleb. You were cackling and some general facts there. Go ahead. Well, I just wanted to see what What do you think about this rumor that's coming across this morning about the Crane family, Jim Crane, the Astros being put up for sale? I did not hear that. Where is that?

Yeah, they're saying, oh, Elon Musk. Did you see this like, oh, geez, did you see this on Facebook or something? No, no, look it up. Elon Musk is going to purchase the Astros. Oh, my God, this is made up. He's going to fire Joe Estrada, just like he helped fire Joe Biden. You got to go, Joe. You got to go.

Yeah, you definitely hit some whippets. That might be glue. That is. Let me tell you. What else are you going to do, but sit at home and sniff some glue on a snow day. You might have gotten into the ayahuasca. Is Aaron Rogers in the background? It's time to play a game called Guess what he's inhaling.

I'm going to sit with whippets. Yeah. He was openly drinking Crisco this morning. That sounds... That sounds dangerous. Yeah. My heart hurts. Yeah.

Oh, these people are four-wheeling in the snow. Now, that would be fun. No, I mean, there's a guy on Channel 13 right now that's at this Miller Park, and all they're doing is shooting videos of kids going up and down this hill. This isn't news. This is in Paralyan this one. Let me tell you, if I was waiting to watch all my children, I'd be pissed. Now, they're not in all my children's on anymore, but...

This guy is getting... paid probably six figures to do a report of kids going up and down hills. You don't think TV reporters making six in Houston? Midday? Maybe. I don't think he's a midday guy. I think he's a general assignment's reporter. Okay.

On Channel 11, it was a double whammy. You didn't get Drew, nor did you get young. Oh, wait a minute. You're telling me that when I get home tomorrow, because I'm going to stay at the hotel again tonight. You mean I can't catch up on my Y&R? I don't think so. I think...

We'll put it on, Matt. What time is it on? 11. We have Channel 11 in here? Yeah, I'm sure. Yes, Matt. We have broadcast channels. Well, I didn't see it.

Oh. Okay. You know what? The CBS app will help me out. Thank God. We've got to find out who, you know, it's a relief. Yeah, whose baby is it? Who got killed?

Who's got the evil twin? Well, Sharon is still shocked with up. Give me the top three storylines on Y&R right now. Sharon is being kidnapped. It's been kidnapped. These people live the most dramatic lives of heard. Ian Ward is back into town. He is? What does that mean?

Well, we're going to find out, but it's been pre-empted. I can't tell you. Is Victor still with us? Nicky? Victor and Nicky are there? They moved to a new house recently. Oh, wow. On the ranch. Now, where do they live in L.A. in this show? No, that's a Genoa City. What? Is that just made up?

Yeah. Okay. It's not real, but it's supposed to be like New York or like a... No, it's in Wisconsin, ironically enough. This show takes place in Wisconsin? Genimel. Shlamis. A meal shlamozling in this show? Yeah.

And the top story line on Bold and the Beautiful is that Ridge and Brooke are on the outs and Ridge got back with Taylor again. And I don't even know if... Which Taylor? No, not Taylor Mathis. Taylor. No, I could have been Taylor Made. Taylor Swift. I don't know what her maiden name.

It's a friend. Taylor Hayes. Dr. Taylor Hayes. She's a psychiatrist. Taylor Made was a guy. Yeah, he's a golf club, too. All right. That'll get you up to you.

We have gut feelings at the bottom of the hour. Oh, thank God. All right, I'll see you later. Oh, that's right. You've got to go to the bit. Rosson had four cups of coffee. We're going to see him in the next segment. 1115 on Sports Talks.

I'm going to me next because Dan already took care of his coffee a bit earlier today. 713-213-2-1-790. 7-190. 2-7-90. Gut feelings, bottom of the hour. Up next. Rockets did fall yesterday to the Detroit Pistons. We'll get to that.

Plus more on the Texans. And any news on Breitman? Don't have much on that as well. Plus, if you watched last night's college championship game, just spending some thought of maybe moving the game out of the day after an NFL playoff game. We'll discuss that next, 1116 on 790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. All right, I just put a tweet out to Jim Cantorri, and we'll see if he calls.

Now, Dan, as you know, I don't like to openly ask somebody to call in. So I need to vet it a little bit to make sure it's really going to be him. him if he does call it. If he doesn't call, no big whoop. Now, was this a straight on tweet or was this a DM? No, I don't think I can DM him. No, I mean, you can't DM him. Hmm. You didn't give out the hotline, did you? No, of course not.

Oh, okay. He just tweeted 14 minutes ago, so I know he's doing his bit. Like I said, he was on Channel 11 earlier, like talking. Yeah, but he didn't have any fun with that. We're going to have some good time because he's a freaking national hero. Yeah. I'm just curious to know if there was any thunderstress. No. You've been thunder snowed. Like that?

What is a... What is a thunder snow? That's a snow rain mix with a thunder? I've never heard thunder with snow before. I'm sure I know it's happened. It sounds like a wrestler. There's a viral clip years ago of he brought up the idea of it and it actually happened and he lost his mind when there was a strike of lightning.

It's like a thunderstorm, but it's thunder snow, Matt. Well, I figured that out, Ross. I'm trying to have you ever seen it before? Have you ever heard it? No, this is the most snow I've ever seen my life. So no, I haven't seen thunder snow. All right. You're the one from Minnesota.

We didn't have thunder. We just had flat out blizzard. 12 degrees and seven inches of foot. Again, seriously, if I sent these videos and photos to my friends in Minneapolis, St. Paul, they would be making. Like, what do we, what do other people do in other cities that we make fun of here when it comes of weather? Is it because it's hot? Like, oh, it's 90 degrees today in Omaha. boo freaking who.

Yeah. That's probably us during the summer, making fun of like the Northeast and Midwest cities where there's not a ton of air conditioning. Yeah, it happens in the EU. Like, they'll have like big news stories in London or something. Oh my God, it's going to be 81 degrees.

Massive heat wave hitting and it's like 81. Right. It's like when I was out in L.A. Like shut your bum ass up. London. When I was out in L.A. a couple of years ago, they had the atmospheric river where it flooded L.A. And it was wall-to-wall local TV covers.

like the heat dome? No. Didn't the heat dome hit Phoenix or something like that? Is it like the Intuit dome or no? No, that's different. Okay. With the wall? By the way, did you see somebody did an air ball against the wall?

Was it LeBron in the game? Somebody had an airball against the wall at the Intuit dome. I forgot who it was, but it happened in the last couple days. Okay. LeBron was enjoying himself last night. LeBron James. He was the national championship game. Yes, he was.

Yep. Oh, the biggest Ohio State fan we know. And Yankees and Cowboys and Cowboys. and he's like our friend Des. And Lakers. Who has more teams? Des or LeBron James? LeBron James.

And he's part owner of Liverpool or something? And will be a future owner of the Las Vegas NBA franchise. Yeah, part owner of Liverpool FC since 2011, Matt. That's your squad, right, because of the Beatles? No. Or were they Everton people? No, but I thought they were Liverpool, but McCartney's not a Liverpool guy. Maybe he's Everton.

Yeah. By the way, my son is devastated how bad Totten has been this year. I know. He says they're not going to be relegated, but it's... Yeah, Paul McCartney supports Everton. They're in Liverpool as well. They're the rivals. So it's like Clippers and Lakers. No, I would say Liverpool is the story team that always wins championships, but Everton has been there a long, long time. So it's more like Mets? Yeah. Mets Yankees kind of thing? Yeah. Okay. Gotcha.

I found the Cantori Or they're the Jets They're more the... Everton is more the Jets with the Liverpool being more of the giants. Okay. Would you say, Dan? I found the Cantori

freaking out over Thunder Snow. Oh, thank God. Hopefully it translates to radio. Yes, we got it, baby. We got it. We got it. Woo! Got it!

Yes! Listen to that. Listen to that. Oh, baby! You got it. I think Cantori could do a rocket game. He described a thunderclaw or whatever, thunderstorm snow, like I would describe a big basket.

Yeah. Hmm. He was excited. My God. All right. So what do you think? Does Cantori call the show at some point? No.

Yeah, I think you're right. Well, I thought Dan knew somebody who knew somebody. Why didn't you let Dan work his channels? Yeah, I mean, I could reach out to my friends. He offered out for you to help. I mean, isn't the Weather Channel? Is it a Weather Channel based out of Atlanta? Yes.

Don't you know everybody in Atlanta? I know some people at the Weather Channel. Dan's connected. By the way, you had you guys said, Kevin Harlan on the other day. I'm very leery of asking him because he's so ridiculously busy. Did you annoy him until I finally said yes? Well, come on. No, I went through the

proper channels and it came up at the last minute because the person who was supposed to let me know he was joining us was like, hey, did it work out with Kevin? I was like, I never heard back from you. And then they were like, oh, hey, can you do it at this time? I was like, well, of course, he's Kevin Harlan.

Yeah, he's good. National Treasure. How did he do on the Rockets King's call? I heard he was very complimentary of Rockets. I think he was good. Yeah, I mean, who was he with? Stan Van Gundy? Yeah.

Stan's good. I like Stan. No, he was. They got some details wrong about the Rockets. It's just because they don't watch every game. It's fine. And he carried it over to the conversation with us the next day where he was like, if you're a Rockets and Texans fan, you need to feel really good.

Well, that'd feel better. So the one time I reached out to Harlem this year was when they were playing the Patriots and he couldn't do it. And normally when a broadcasters or any. Any guests we try to have on says, hey, I'm really busy. I can't join you. I wish I could. He gave me the rundown of what he was doing for three days and the reason why he couldn't do it.

I was like, even when in rejection, Kevin Harlan's a nice guy. He's such a sweetheart. He is. And we'll be on the new Apple, excuse me, the Amazon Prime coverage. Not confirmed yet. Eh, it's going to happen. What do you mean? He's supplanting Al Michaels or additional?

No, this is basketball next year. Oh, basketball next year. I thought I saw it was the number two crew. I was like, if you're bringing over Kevin Harlan, wouldn't you make him the one-one? Iron Eagles in a baron. Iron Eagle is a woman. I got to, I think he, it's a, they're so different.

I know. I would say slightly more polished job from Iron Eagle. Don't correct him on a slip screen. I know. He's an incredibly nice guy too. Super, super guy. Iron is great. It just depends on the style you want.

Yeah. If you think that maybe Kevin occasionally goes over the top, then you're going to say, I'm going to lean iron. If you want the capture the big moment for the highlight reel, it's Kevin Herman. Yeah. Ian Eagle doesn't have memorable calls. Kevin Harlan has memorable calls.

But if you're looking for fluidity for 60 minutes or three hours, it's probably going to be a slightly indian eagle. Like a puppet master. I feel like Harlan's just really good. Or a conductor. I feel like Harlan's just really good at reading the moment. Yeah, but sometimes he does slightly oversaw? Let's move on.

Don't you say a submerged him at all. They're great. They're great. They're great. They're not like a certain announcer on a four-letter number. network per se that might do games with a guy that sells furniture and was once The Bachelor.

Oh, you're ripping on Tess Tor? That's my guy. He's a nice guy. I don't think I like tests. I like tests and I like tests on the blow by blow. Boxing. I think he's I mean, because nobody pays attention to boxing. They don't do boxing anymore. They don't do much and he's. Yeah, they do ESPN Plus. He's doing wrestling now. Okay. I thought that was short-lived.

Oh, no. He's on. Oh, okay. I'm sure all the 12-year-olds left him on the call. We need some gut feelings from me. you all. Oh, God. It's not difficult. You still have an hour to the NFL rewind and the news at noon is 30 minutes. You had me remember an idea before the show and I forgot it.

What were we talking about? Zero surprise. What are we talking about? News at noon at 12. Can I come by more often? News at noon at 12. 12.30 have NFL rewind. Oh, crap. Believe it or not, snow at 150. Fine. So three things. Everything else, I will care. Write this down.

If you have a gut feeling, let us know right now. 3212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 1128 it is the matt thomas show ross and we appreciate you listening to sports talk 790 listen up girls and boys that's been so up the good feeling this is their gut feeling on the matt thomas show all right i've decided to up the ante on jim can'tori i'm going to get him two great seats for the rockets cavalier's game tomorrow if he calls in well if the game's canceled Well, then it was at least worth a try. You were really, you were really Jones and for some Jim Cantor. I've never seen you go this hard after a guest in your life.

Well, I don't like to use Twitter as an avenue to get guests, but I think, I mean, what else we're going to talk about here? Do you want to really get into Texas O-Line future? Yeah, we've got gut feelings now. We got news at noon coming up. NFL rewind. Believe it or not, and all of our wonderful callers talking about the snow, Matt. I've had the last car we took was sniffing glue in San Antonio

we had took some after that right no that was the last call we had we talked about the blizzard there's a blizzard warning in Lake Charles right now holy smokes all right then less can't Tori more of the callers on gut feelings

713212 570 713 212570 they're saying 5.2 inches in Beaumont Huh. 4.5. By the way, Channel 13, fix your graphics. I can't figure out what the hell you're written. There we go.

I can read it. Four inches in central Houston of snow. Look at you prefacing. Two and a half around where we are. How tall is this weather girl? She's got to be at least six feet tall. I don't know. Why are you worried about that?

Look at the graphic. I wish she can cover more of the screen if she's taller. That's good. Do they look for a good wingspan in a weather girl? What's her wingspan? What? So she can reach one end of the screen to the other with their arms? Don't you think that's beneficial?

No, it'd be like disturbing. How's that helpful? If you're scouting weather girls, aren't you going for length? I guess length over with 1134. Yeah. Hmm. She's got to be six feet tall. Yeah.

Like Victor Wimbunyama would be a great weather person. Adam Clinton wouldn't agree. Yeah, I know. He'd call him a bum. Yeah. Even though he's going to be an All-Star, he's averaging 25 and 10 and four blocks a game. That's bum status. All right, time now for some gut feeling.

7-1-3-212-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. We'll call this to Adam Clant and Rule. Victor Wenbeniam, my gut feeling, will be an NBA All-Star. Oh, well, unless he literally fractures both his tibia's in the next week. Yeah, that's a good one. I like that. Wimby is All-Star. Okay.

I will go next, Matt. Oh, we didn't remember. We got a review from last week. Oh, please do. You said Kansas Skitty covers us the eight and a half. They did. Yep. They tried not to.

We were a blocked field goal away from getting the cover, unfortunately. Rockets 2 and 1 on the road trip. That is correct. That is also correct. That's two hits. You said Dion Sanders will not be Cowboys' Nix hood coach, TBD. But I'm with you on that. We also co-put our names on that first time in the history of the show.

Why do we do that? First time in the history of the show. Why do we do that? Alex Bregman signed within the next two weeks. It's been a week. We've got one more week. Right. U of H. Cougars lose only two or fewer conference games.

And they almost lost the Central Florida on Saturday, but a late basket was the game winner. So very happy about that. That's good. By the way, for those of you haven't figured it out yet, tonight's game with Utah has been pushed back to tomorrow. Five o'clock if you're going to see Utah. Utah, Uts versus Houston Cougars. Oh. They were supposed to play tonight, but they're playing tomorrow.

I thought it was already postponed before, right? Well, I mean, just something's refreshing people. I'm just asking, I don't know. Everything is close today. I had Texans covering the eight and a half, and well, if Kaimi Farberin wasn't missing so many field goals, that would have been good. Don't forget the extra point, too.

Yeah, Dion will not coach the Cowboys. I'm with you on that. I also said, you stole mine. I said Alex Spragma's going to sign in the next two weeks, and you said put me down on that as well. So those were my three. All right. Conor or Deem, a governor of fine lad from Limerick had the Chiefs as well,

covering Rockets three and one over their next four games. They lost the Pistons, so that's an L. Right. And they lost to the Kings. And that's all he had. Dan Matthews actually, when he was filling in for you, wanted a gut feeling. He has Ryan Prusely being traded with the Astrosse signing

a left fielder. Neither one of those things have happened so far. Doesn't mean they can. This time. There's time. Hater happened later in the week this time last year. Day or four fan fest. You have Wimby as an all-star? Yep. and then Ryan Presley ducked us at Fanfest

because Josh Hayter got signed. You won't be getting Justin Verlinder on a fan fest unless you're going to Giants Fan Fest. No, I'm good. No real loss. I will go with Bobby Sloick. Will be the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans next year.

So you're not buying the internet rumors at all. How about this? I'm sorry. Either that or he'll get hired somewhere else. I don't think he'll be hired as a coach either. but I think he will be here. At the very least, he will not be replaced. I'm going to still go with a gut feeling. Gut feeling is Bobby Slow against the offensive court in her next year. Still my gut feeling.

Doesn't mean it's guaranteed. Doesn't want to put her name on it. But just a gut feeling. I said with Sean and Brian, keep an eye on Robert Sala. If he gets that job in Jacksonville, maybe that's a parachute for him. Oh, okay. Yeah, I guess they worked together in San Francisco.

But can you go for a lateral job? Why not? If you're going to possibly get fired or be on a short leash somewhere else, Restart the clock somewhere else. Okay. I will also say that week one for the Minnesota Vikings, their starting quarterback, will not be Sam Darnold. I won't claim that one, but I completely agree with you.

I just say he will not be a Viking. Sam Darnold gets signed away by somebody. I think the money is going to be, they don't want a franchise day. They don't want to pay him $40-something million. And look, they drafted J.J. McCarthy for a reason. By the way, we My Super Bowl prediction is not in play anymore Baltimore lost and Detroit lost

Oh, terrible Sorry Matt Well, I had Baltimore Eagles But preseason I had Niners Chiefs Well, I had Bengals Niners I feel terrible about that I'll go ahead and give you gut on this I will say

Buffalo And Philadelphia Man, Jaden Daniels is on a freight train right now. I'm gonna go with the Chiefs and Eagles too. That would be a rematch from a couple years ago, correct? Chiefs Eagles?

Yeah. We were in Philadelphia when that happened, by the way. No, I'm sorry, Bill's Eagles, Beatles. You're going Bill's Eagles? Okay, I'm gonna go Bill's Eagles, okay, I'm gonna go, Bill's Eagles, too, but man, just don't feel great about it. It feels Mambu, I can't claim all these. I had Chiefs preseason, do I have to stick with the Chiefs?

Yeah. But I think the best, yeah. What's the line on that one, by the way? Bills minus two or something? can't be much what's the weather going to be like 12 degrees below zero probably let's see it's bills

nope Kansas City minus two interesting Philly minus six there must be assuming that Jane Daniels is going to come to Earth a little bit here that rookie quarterbacks are not supposed to leave their team to a Super Bowl that eagle's defense is really good but Chaden Daniels has just been

unstoppable so I don't even know yeah all right 713212-570 Dan, do you have any more your gut feelings you want to get in before go to the phones? Oh, he's talking to somebody. Yeah, I had somebody on the phone. What you got? All right, so I've got two. I've got both road teams win on championship weekend.

I've got a Super Bowl of commies in Buffalo. And the rockets are going to split with the cabs. They usually don't put together two back-to-back bad performances. So I think there's going to be some inspired basketball if they play tomorrow night. We'll see. I'm going to go gut feeling they play tomorrow night. Fair? You got some info on that?

No, no, no. I see you going to your phone. No, no, no. If I thought they had, if I had in some information, I wouldn't even, I would, that would be disingenuous of me to give that out. Not got inside information. All I know is on a record. 15 pile is in a row. All on it is on a recorded line, the cavaliers are here in town.

That's all I'm saying. They flew in yesterday to get here before the airport's closed. Now, do the referees? I know for a fact the referees left, they worked the yesterday's game, have left town. So did the other referees get here in time to sit in a hotel today to referee tomorrow night? Are the airport's been shut down?

You didn't know that? That's it. I'm saying, aren't they been shut down? Yeah, they closed at midnight last night. Yeah. All right. They're busting them in? You get you in there, Maddie.

You give us a tight 48? I'm going to get so tired. Are you kidding me? All right. I think it was a foul. I don't know. Well, I'd be the one calling the foul 80 feet away from the play. I'm just standing my stint.

Oh, so you'll fit right in. Oh, that's not nice. All right. Grant and Eric will get to you in just a matter of moment. 713, 212-5-790. If you want to join us on gut feelings, we'll get to those gut feelings from you at 7-1-2-2-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. I want to tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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you now on the Matt Thomas show. Grant, 1149. Grant, what is in your gut this week, my friend? Grant. Yo, how's it going, guys? Great. Thank you for calling. What's in your gut? My gut was with all this wintry weather, the city of Houston will have an NHL team by at least 2030. I think it's coming. I think it's the biggest market that's missing in the NHL right now in North America. And there's a lot of opportunity here.

A lot of transplants from other cities up north. And a lot of folks love some hockey. I think it'll be here soon and later, guys. You'll have a good day. Thank you very much. Grant, I'm going to piggyback off of that. I'm going to put my name on something. Put your name on it, Maddie.

Let me write this. Hold on. Let me get the file out. This is great. You know, I stand for something, Ross. Few radio hosts in his town stand for anything. Can I, like, bring a desk bell if you bring genius? to the show. That's a dated reference. I know. I know what you're talking about.

We talked about this person last night. No, still don't know. Let's move on. I don't know. All right. What do you put your name on, Maddie? When the NHL expands, I don't know when that is. Houston, no doubt in my mind

will be an owner, will be a home of an NHL franchise with expansion. Put it on the board. Put it on the lock it in, you're getting an NHL franchise. I just don't know when. Easy for you to say in the middle of a snowstorm.

Feels more wintry around here. If it was 74 degrees, I would say the exact same point. Oh, man. I'm putting my name on it. Okay, man. It's getting slushy out there. The question is,

you usually do expansions and twos. I can't decide if it's going to be between Kansas City, Phoenix, or Atlanta. that I can't figure out Atlanta's had two shots at it right yes but Atlanta continues I mean Atlanta's a huge sports market

they continue to want to put teams there I mean the MLS team was pulling 50K a game yeah crazy trying to Phoenix I always felt like they the coyotes left under terrible terms and Kansas City's got an NBA NHL ready arena right this second

now Phoenix doesn't have that so that's why Phoenix may be a little bit behind Atlanta St. Farm Arena is ready to go What's going on? Is Tellman going to rent the place or what's the deal with that? Or own a team? He's talked about it. You're asking for the comments. You're asking for the deets. I don't have the deets. What's going on with the comments return?

I don't know about that. But when the NHL expands, there will be a franchise in Houston, Texas. You can put it on the board. Yes. Thank you. We're not going to have to pay attention now, right? We'll have some players on. Eric in Siena Plantation.

Eric, good morning. You're on 790. What's on your mind and what's in your gut? Good morning. How are y'all guys doing today? Good. Good. My gut feeling, I just think it's my gut.

Bergman will come back to the Astros as the last minute desperation. Because he really wants to stay in Houston, but money talks. And all things equal, I think he'll stay in Houston. which will bring a dilemma because what we're going to do with our new third basement. Hold on, okay.

You know, Eric, if you're right about this, I'll give you credit. So you don't pay somebody $156 million to create a dilemma. Right? Am I right about that? No. I mean, yes, but I mean, we'll figure it out. What would you do, really? Can Paredes play in the outfield? I think you would have to.

Some people have thrown out the idea of you move Jeremy Pena. to the outfield. You see that gold gloves shortstop, though. I just, I'm not... Like I said, it was not my idea. You can live with his production at shortstop in left field. You need a little something out of that bat, brother. If Bramond was to come back to the Astros,

it would have to be, you'd have to have some sort of, I mean, amazing shift of somebody playing something you've never heard of before. Issaup Paredes has not played an inning of outfield at the major league level. Okay. Well, then that's what I'm saying. It would be one of those unbelievable moves of players. Like Craig Bissier going from

catcher to second base or second base to second base. What about Christian Walker? Has he played a little bit of outfield? Three-time ball glove winner. You put him at left. Yeah, no, I'm just saying, I don't know. You're not moving out of first base.

He's your first base. I'm just saying for a few games. Yeah. I'm asking. I'm not getting upset. I think, frankly, he's played one game of outfield. I don't think when you go up to Joe

spot and say, hey, would you like Alex spreading to be on your team? I don't think he's going to say, no, we're good. I think he had to say what he had to say. Christian Walker played one game of left field in 2018. So no, I'm just looking out. There's no options. No, I just don't see it. Unless again, you took somebody and said, all right, Jeremy Pena, go work in the outfield. Rossi, we're training camp, spring training is in

four weeks. They're not, if that was to happen, you would take somebody and you would put them in those defensive positions and you'd say, here's this glove to play this position in December. Go do it. Go learn it. No. I mean, I'd love for Bragman to come back. I just don't... What do you...

I don't know how you would do it unless, again, you have to move somebody out of their comfort zone. Yeah, well... And that's Bregman at short, and that's a scenario? More than likely, yeah. But why would you take your... He doesn't have the range he used to, man. Why would you take your long-term future shortstop,

presuming? And alter his, I mean, why would Jeremy Pena want to embrace a brand new position for the first time in this professional career? You wouldn't. That's the point. It ain't happening. No, I think a spot was put in a difficult situation and said, of course we would like to have. I mean, what if he had done the opposite? No, we got Paredes at third. We got Walker at first.

We appreciate Bergman's time, but he moved on. People would come across as him being big-time callous when it goes. comes to his players. And Joe's not going to do that. Isok Paredes has not played a game of shortstop since 2023. He's played seven in his career. Five starts. I mean, that would be a shift that you could now.

What are we doing here? We're not doing this. Can I add one last minute? Anything for you. It's a snow day. Nobody's listening. You're good. Go ahead.

Jerry Jones. Jerry. Has nostalgic memories of Jimmy Johnson's time. that for his next head coaching hire, he goes to the college ranks. And grabs? Marcus Freeman. Whoa.

Now, if I'm Marcus Freeman, I don't take the job. You've got a great job. Is there a Chicago job been filled? Yeah, it's been by... Ben Johnson. $13 million a year for Ben Johnson. He better be... He better turn around that entire offense.

They haven't had a decent. offense since when? Walter Payton was it running back? It's been about then. Even when the Bears are going to the Super Bowl, they still had a sucky offense. No, they did with Rex Grossman. I think some of the Jay Cutler-Brandon Marshall years were decent, I guess. Devin Hester? Yeah, but he, yeah, he was returning kicks and that was their best offense.

An occasional wide receiver. His butt returns. That's right. All right, let's go to wrap things up. Ooh, we have our open for our friend James. Oh, no. That's fine. That's moving on here. That's okay. James, you're on 7.90. What's in your gut? James? James? Yes. You're on. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. All right. It's enough. God love you, Dan. Hi, James. What's on your mind?

Hey, thank you, Governor Thomas for taking my call. And I hope you guys are having fun over there at the station like many people here outside. Yeah, we're playing the snow, James. It's been a real ball over here. Okay. Okay, listen, I got a couple of gut feelings real quick. Okay, first of all, Breggman, I mentioned to you guys a long time ago. He's going to the Red Sox. I don't know what the stall is going on, but he's heading over there. Also, football-wise, look, a lot of haters hate the Chiefs, but the Chiefs is heading back to the Super Bowl.

Not quite sure who their opponent is, but it doesn't make a difference. And then I think if the Astros are going for an outfeather, they should be looking at Alex Verdugo, another ex-Redux. And I know he played for the Yankees. also I wanted to know what do you guys think about Andy Pettit maybe you know getting in in the Hall of Fame one day because I mean C-C-Sabathia was supposed to be elected and I don't think he's that much better than Andy Pettit

but anyway that's just my humble opinion thank you for taking my call Governor Thomas thank you very much thank you thanks for joining us James in 66 WFAN your New York sports leader Pettit's not getting the Hall of Fame sorry all very good yep that's it C.C. Zabathia. All very good. All very good. Not getting in. Sorry. You don't get it.

Yeah, he might get it. There's plenty of Yankees in the Hall of Fame, right? His Yankee Pool. Milwaukee Brewer's legend to C.C. Sabathia. Cleveland Indians. Yeah, he might actually be a legend. Yes, at the time, Indians. He was there for a few years.

Yeah. All right. That's it for gut feelings today. Thank you for James McCona. Always calls me governor. I appreciate that. I don't even know why. Because one time we were talking about the legislature and how I should run, He thought it would be a great idea. He'd be my campaign manager.

What's your platform? Lower, you ready? Yes. Lower prices on sporting events. I like this. Free parking at sporting events. Lower baggage fees with air carriers. No baggage fees with their carriers.

Whoa! You got my vote. And lower concession prices. And anybody that wants to play blackjack has to go through a blackjack class. Oh, okay. I mean, it's a mandatory blackjack class. And then your secretary of state will be a Taylor Mathis. It'd be worse.

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Bum-Bunton-Bombunton bona-bon-a-bon-a-bon-a-bon-a-oh-oh- my God. Are you okay? I'm trying to find the local channel. We don't have Channel 11 on here. Why not? Are they fight? Is Tegna fighting with the people? No, this is.

I don't know what this is. Give me the remote. I guarantee you can't find channel 11. I guarantee you you're on the wrong thing. What are you doing? I'm on Roku. Oh, my God. This is like dealing with my grandpa here.

Let me get this on a here. You're way off the wrong thing. Jesus. All right. Yeah, this works. All right, Matt. Record of snow here. This is good one.

Sox 790. Your thoughts on the snowstorm hitting. Houston, Matt. By the way, I watched a new version of the Hollywood Squares. It's absolutely terrible. Oh, we're getting the news from Tulsa, Matt. That's what's happening here. Yeah, I told you, Channel 11.

I don't go to the other one. Back to what I was saying. I'm going to find it. Nate Burleson should not be hosting this Hollywood. Nate Burleson. Why? Why is it upset you so, Matt? Because. I'm sure he does a fantastic job.

No, he doesn't. And you know the Center Square is on the Hollywood Squares? Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He's on there. It's Drew Barrymore. Oh, good for her. Not a yuckster. under any circumstance.

How's she looking these days? Hmm. I've always been a fan. Triumph was the top left corner. You ask for a verbal answer to a question and you just get a guttural noise from Matt Thomas. All right left hand corner is Triumph. Upper right hand corner is Whitney Cummings.

Excuse me? Whitney Cummings, a comedian, comedian, female comedian. Come again? She is in the, Drew Barry Moore's in the center square. Lower left, I don't remember in the lower right. I want to say is, I don't know. I watched bits and piece of two episodes.

I was so hated. Just give me a real game show host like me. What's wrong with Nate Burleson? Does Nate Burleson come across as a game show host? Is it owned by Disney? Why is he like, why did they get him to do it? That is so random. It's a CBS show.

Drew Barrymore is. Is he on CBS? Yeah, he does the CBS NFL today. See, they just put a little pat on your contract so you have to pay somebody else a whole new salary. That's what they're doing, man. I've heard about that going around. It's overproduced.

It's not funny. The can laugh- Overproduced in what way? It's just, it's not, it looks like, if you, you know what a TV show

looks like when it's overproduced. It's got the quips of the different people laughing at stuff. It's just, oh, it's bad. I just want my regular game shows like I watched when I was a kid,

and I can't get that anymore. They're trying too hard. They blew the pyramid. They blew Hollywood squares. It's, uh, Card Sharks was a disaster. Just let me run these shows. America,

you just got the absolute best breakdown of game shows you'll ever get. You're welcome. Sit and enjoy. Thank you, Matt. Wow. I'll just build some chips. Continue on. Because I got a seven-hour show. Also, America, the literal

first rule of radios, don't eat in the middle of the segment. Matt shovels a bunch of Doritos in his mouth just now, so I guess I'm going to talk. So I have some other sports news to get to, I guess, here, Matt. Let's go ahead and start with the Houston Texans.

Did you hear Damiro Ryans is not so ringing endorsement of Bobby Sloick when he asked about the job that he did this season. I think overall with Bobby, I saw some growth, saw some improvement throughout the year. Normally, I mean, maybe that has me a little bit worried about my gut feeling because normally D'Amico Ryan's is going to be like, yeah, look, he got better, he does a good job, he's here all the time and works hard and really impressed by Bobby Sloick and his work ethic. It was just like, I saw some improvement. Normally, D'Amico will coach speak it to death, and he did not in this instance with Bobby Sloick. He's usually so prepared for any question.

And he had to be prepared for that one. He had to have known that was coming too. Yeah. I'm still going to hold on to the thought that I don't think Slovak loses his job. Now, will it be a new offensive line coach? Yes. I think so, but also I was a little intrigued by the, that answer or non-answer, as it were, by one D'Amico Ryan's.

Also, Matt, unfortunately, the Houston Rock, it's losing last night to the Detroit Pistons. They are now 28 and 14 on the season, only a half game ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies for that number two spot in the west. Cade Cunningham going off for 32 points. He was huge in the third. What happened there? Coach Udoca. Didn't feel like anybody could really stop him. He got two spots.

and plays at a good pace. And, yeah, he got loose there, obviously, after doing a decent job on him in the first quarter, the first half. So credit to him. Put a lot of bodies on him. He got the shots he wanted and made him. You know what would be better for this segment if you played a hollet of me calling a K. Cunningham basket to accentuate things?

We don't have any of those. Wait, why are we not? We have to carry some highlights of other teams. We'll talk to your boys, Wex and Clanton. Jeez. Gosh. Well, you know what, I'll send you all 20 highlights, and you can just listen to him tonight and put yourself to sleep.

No, I would be a wide awake. I'm like, God, this is brilliant. Jalen Green, a bad time for him to have a dud of a night. He had nine straight games of 20 plus points, only got 19 on 21 shots. Fred Van Vleet, I mean, the entire team offensively just not good enough against the Detroit Pistons. Will they play against the Cleveland Cavaliers tomorrow? Matt Thomas says yes. Yes, they're going to, look, obviously if the city,

Houston says don't come downtown because here's the in the reality is the weather traffic wise is going to be 500 times worse than it is today because everybody for the most part today is staying home people are going to get a little bit of cabin fever rossy and that's where I think the accidents could come into play because the weather it's still going to freeze up this slush snow and it's going to take a legitimate 45 50 degree day rossy for this stuff to clear and until that happens, traffic and getting around will be difficult, but I still think they're going to figure our way to play the game.

All right, Matt, here's a story that I actually had last week for the news at noon, but it still works here. Do you know Charles Huff is, Matt? The head football coach for Southern Mississippi, Charles Huff, in an interview, talked about the biggest challenge that he faced this year. Is it the NIL stuff? No. Is it the

transfer portal? Social media? No. The biggest issue he had with his players all season long, was them coming to him and complaining about their college football 25 video game rankings. Huff saw his players complain about their rankings. Some even came to his office not to talk shop or how they would get better, but to air their grievances about the ratings that EA sports placed on them, begging the coach to get their ratings higher. Can I be brutally honest?

They had to be very satisfied. They even got on Southern Miss got on in college rankings begin with. You ever been to Hadysburg, Mississippi? No. It's the plumber's butt of America. It really is. It's like the ass crack. The ad the.

Okay. The swampiest part of the ass crack. It's like deep sweaty crack. We wouldn't know that around these parts here, but right now, but in June you do. I'm going to send this to the Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce for you. When people have their wedding receptions of the Golden Corral, you know it's not the greatest place on earth. Hmm. Did C.C. Sabathia make it in?

Well, wait. Oh, Hall of Famous announcements today, right? Did we, do we have news? Breaking news? He posted a, he posted a meme from coming to America, so I don't know. Maybe he made it. We'll see. All right. We're going to take a quick break. On that note, that's your news at noon, Matthew. And we're still waiting for Jim Cantor. He's got an hour and 46 minutes to come out on the show. That's fine. It's not fine. I want to, I'll duck out and go have a Kalachi. I mean, I got really good seats for him. him. Those are nice seats.

No, I'm talking about, these are seats that aren't even mine. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Can I have them if Jim doesn't take? No, they're for celebrities, not you. What do you mean? I don't think I stuttered. I got 400 followers on Instagram.

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I got an unpopular tag. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. As a matter of fact, I'm cutting your mic, right? I'm not even going to allow this to transpire, even though it is your show. Say it, Maddie. Let it go from your heart, Matt. Apparently, one of the greatest rock and roll artists of all time.

He is? Go ahead. Running down a dream. One of my favorite songs. I'm going, are you going movermated? Slightly. I'm going properly rated. Slightly rated, overrated.

Refugees good running down a dream. Mary Jane's last dance. Free falling? Yeah. Yep. Excuse me. Yeah. If we figured that out, Dan, thank you. It's my.

Slightly, slightly overrated. Traveling Woolberries gives me bonus points. I gotta disagree. Okay. Maybe, you know what? It would be more proper. Definitely not over, overrated. American girls a jam?

Like Peter Frampton is overrated. So I will say, you know what? I would actually, you know what, may amend my situation? Yes. You're properly rated. Oh, there we go. We got you on the... Yeah.

Okay. What about you, Dan? We always do the underrated, overrated, or properly rated, Dan. Underrated? And is this just classic rock? No, I'm talking about Tom Petty. I think we all know how he's rated generally speaking. I'm going properly rated.

I think he's underrated. Ooh, there you go. Big Tom Petty guy. Huge Tom Petty guy. Huge. May he rest? Yes. Too soon.

Gone but not forgotten. Tom Petty. Hopefully the heartbreakers are doing okay. And where are the heartbreakers? Let me tell you some musical groups. This guy brought a folding table to sled on. That's dumb. It didn't work.

He just made a fool of himself on TV. All right, quick ones. Here we go. People we've forgotten about. How do we feel about the heartbreakers? I'm sure they're doing great. Okay. What are the Pips up to?

Pips? How's the news? This is my bet. Now, you're not. I'll shut up. I'll turn my God. Here we go. How are the, no, I give you the group. You tell me what they're doing.

How are the heartbreak right now? A grope? They've got, you got residuals. I was going to say, they've got strong residuals. All right. Strong residual games. Probably still playing shows in Florida. Would you go see a concert involving just the Pips only?

No. Would you go? Most of them are probably dead. Now, Hugh Lewis has lost his hearing, so he can't sing anymore. Like Beethoven. Would you go hear the news? I'd go hear the news. I'm good.

All right. It sounds like most of these people would end up in RICO Starr's All-Star Band. Great backup. This guy was in the news. That hits. That hurts right there. Here's the backup drummer from ELO. Speaking of that, how do you feel about just going to see a concert with the wings without Paul McCartney?

How are the rest of the wings doing these days? How about this one? Would you go see the mechanics without Mike? I don't remember Mike and the mechanics. You don't know Mike and Mechanics? What they have? They had a banger, didn't they, Dan? Like a one-hit wonder?

That's the first time I've ever heard of Mike and the mechanics. No, I've heard of it, but it says supergroup. What are some of their hits? Oh, Mike Rutherford, who was in Genesis. Okay. Their hits are silent running. All I need is a miracle. All I need is a miracle.

Taken in. Yeah, yeah. The Living Years. Oh, Living Years is a good song. Word of mouth and over my shoulder. Yeah, living years. I'm going to have to download that. Apparently, Mike and the Mechanics had some hits.

All right. Let me give you a couple of more. more that would make me think of something on the somethings. Yeah, I don't think you're going to see the mechanics by themselves. This is when you get as high as possible and hit the synthesizer in the studio.

It worked. Top hit in the 80s. Would you go see 9,99 maniacs? Natalie Merchant wasn't there? Natalie Merchant was the one? Yeah, she was a 10,000 maniac.

Is that true? Yeah. I don't believe you Now just because the original's not around Does it mean the band cannot Soldier on? It can soldier on, but it still suck Like journey with that guy from

Wherever he's from, I don't like him Arnelle Panetta? Yeah, not good. Well, not everybody's Steve Perry. What a low-hanging for one of these TV stations? They're all at the same hill at Miller Outdoor Park. Well, they are.

One of them was in Pearland. They're not doing four hours a lot. radio like we are. They're like the little two minute hits. Oh, look, there's a B-ball court back there. Nobody's playing. Nobody's playing over there right now. Yeah, it's too slick. It's too slick during the day. It gets a lot of sand build-up. So it's probably slushy over there. Yeah. I got you.

All right. I think it concludes the number of bands I'm thinking of with people. Mike and the mechanics. Yeah. You wouldn't go to just the mechanics. What about the miracles? Oh, Smokey Robinson? Oh, no. You're not going to see a miracle without Smokey Robinson. No chance. Oh, how about this one? Diana Ross and the Supremes? You're not going to see the Justice Supreme. One of the rest of the Supreme's doing it. I think most of them are dead.

I think Dinah Ross still alive. Good for her. What about Ray Charles and the Ray Letts? What about James Brown and the famous flames? He left them in the dust a long time ago. Oh, my God, he did. He's like, get out. All right.

I think we've exhausted this conversation piece. For now. So about that Texans offensive line? No, I was kidding. Your thoughts, Matt. Real quick, I do want to get... Shaq Mason. Should he stay or should he go?

Oh, God. I mean, I move quicker than Shaq Mason can at this point. Oh, come on. He's stronger than you, though. By the way, I want Laramie Tensel to hold a press conference and apologize for his subpar performance this year. He was giving up pressures against the chargers. How about, how about, Laramie, how about you show up at training camp and actually do some training camp drills? No, he's good.

So I say healthy. I kind of think that's who D'Amico was talking about yesterday. You know what, Dan? I'm so glad you said that. I'm sorry. Who play the bite? When we come back? When we come back?

Oh, no, we got NFL Rewind. But we can play during the NFL Rewan. Yeah, NFL Rewin. We're going to play, who is Domeico talking? about as far as the NFL rewind next. Our time is 1227. It's Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790.

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Just because I know there's going on. We present to you Ross and the NFL Rewind. Yes, Matthew. We will start off with the rewind with some things going on in Texanville. You guys mentioning before the break, who is D'Amico Ryan's talking about here, talking about encouraging guys to work out in the offseason in the building? To start, I think everybody needs a little break to get started,

allow their bodies a chance to, you know, recover and heal up because a lot of guys are dealing with little necks and injuries, so they need their bodies to heal. But I encourage our guys, and mainly a lot of our young guys, to make sure they're here in the offseason working out. As soon as we can have our guys back in the building and working out, and now we want our guys to take advantage of that and be able to work out here, with our staff who knows their bodies the best.

So that's what I encourage our guys to do. It's very hard to show up at the first day of off-season training to expect yourself to be ready to go at training camp. That's just a little too late. There's not enough time that nine-week window to get yourself ready to go from the season. So you can make a lot of gains, a lot of strides, in your physical health, your body. You can put yourself in a really good spot to have a successful

season if you start working out as soon as possible right right after a Super Bowl. You hear that? Letermintsel. Get your lazy ass in the camp and work out and go to OTAs. Go to mini camp. Founce like he's calling

out, yeah, Larryman Tonsol among them. It sounds like he's calling out a lot of people. I don't know who or what. We'd have to get maybe Texans Wex on here. Tell us who's at camp and where. I'm sure he has... Oh, I know if having Texans all these years, Larry Tensel ain't there. I'm sure he has a plot of everyone in where they're offseason whereabouts.

He is the Peter Frampton of the Texans. Oh, my God. You're talking about the pro bowler, Laramie Tunsel. Yeah, whatever. Just saying. Only 2025, he's making $21 million as a base, and then the next year as well, under contract for the Houston Texans,

is Laramie Tunsel. Let's go elsewhere around the NFL. Of course, we know the big matchup of the weekend was the Buffalo Bills taking on the Baltimore Ravens. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat in both of these calls, Matt. Let's start with the thrill of victory. The Buffalo Bill's call of the failed two-point attempt. Here's a snap. Jackson rolling right.

Looking to toss it. And dropping the football. Incomplete is Mark Andrews. It wasn't a well-thrown ball at all. It was behind Andrews and he could not come up with it. It wasn't like well behind him. First of all, it wasn't well behind him. Second of all was a very short pass.

It should have been caught. But also those short passes, they had problems with all day because it has more steam on it. Yes. Higher velocity, if you would. I've looked at it five times at least. Yeah, he needed to catch. You know, he was calling it in the moment from the booth. We'll give him a break.

Here is the Baltimore Ravens' Agony of Defeet call of the play. For the tie, the two-point conversion. Lamar takes a snap. Rolls to the right, throws complete. No! He dropped it. Mark Andrews hit him in the hands. And Mark Andrews dropped it as he fell into the end zone.

One of the more sure-handed players, the Ravens, in Ravens history, dropped it hitting him right in the hands. It did him in the hands. They called me. He was better than great. Call A. They called it as a catch. He was ready to talk about how they take it.

We're going over over. Oh, no. That actually hurt me. And I didn't even have that much stock and no stock in the game. It would be like me calling a three-poener by an opponent. All the way down in. Oh, it hits the back of the iron. Oh, no good.

It's going to go too hard. And then it takes a friendly drop and pulls right through. Oh, man. That actually hurt me hearing that call. Well, the bills moving on to the conference championship game. They are two-point dogs right now on the road to the Kansas City Chiefs. The other team, as far as the agony of defeat. Dan Campbell, tear-eyed as the Lions lost to the Washington commanders.

It just hurts to lose, man. And I don't care if you're the seven-seed, six-seat, five-seed, one-seed, because I've lost it all of them down there. And it stings and it hurts. So, you know. You know what? Five turnovers. Thanks, Fox, for cutting that for us.

Yeah, I was like, you know what? Five turnovers for the Detroit lines. Lions, that's what it took for them to lose. The Washington Commanders also doing their thing, gaining nearly 500 yards, but the Detroit Lions, the dragon hath been slayed. And on the other side of the coin,

how about Jaden Daniels with those 299 yards? A couple of touchdowns also had 51 yards on the ground. 16 carries for him and the Washington commanders. I don't want the commanders because I don't really know them very well. Yeah. Don't you want to have a dog in a fight? Like you want to hate one team? What's wrong? Terry McLaurin, Austin Eklore, Brian Robinson Jr.

The Dynamic Diami Brown. You know who Zach Ertz is? We can make fun of Philadelphia a lot more. You don't want to talk of Olameid Zakeas talk on the show? What's the deal? Alameday. Oh, Alameday. Whatever. You don't even know his name.

Yeah, same close enough. Dan, I'm right about this. We want Philadelphia. They've got much more recognizable people we care about. Honestly. Sequan Barclay's a beast. Yeah, and Jalen Hart. I mean, there's Philly, Kansas.

City would be a tremendous rematch. But a rookie quarterback starting being the number two overall pick and then winning the Super Bowl in his first year, over slaying the dragon that would be Pat Mahomes or preventing Josh Allen from his first ring? I think that's interesting. It's a wretched fan base that deserves nothing good. Really? Wow. I know nothing about the, I mean, I know nothing about the D.C. area of their fans.

I'll take Philly Kansas City or Philly Buffalo. Oh, yeah. What about the Philly fans? Oh, Bill's Mafia. Bill's Mafia. Fantastic. Where's the game, New Orleans? Oh, Bill's Mafia and Nola? Bill's Mafia, New Orleans. They would bring a bunch

of tables down and set them on fire and then jump on them. They've got to sell out of yingling beer. Think about the bar fights, too. Buffalo fan, fat girls and guys that are jumping on tables. Hey, come on. Buffalo's big on the big on women, yes. Hey. The Nolson.

I'm trying to go y'all's bit here. The Canadian beer. Oh, the Canadian beer. Molson? Yeah. Yeah, they're on that. Oh, you're rhyming. Yeah, they're not spending money with us. Matt's moo? I mean, other people have... I think I'm since 445.

Other people... Hey, other people have radio sponsors with beer. We don't have it. Oh, my gosh. Our Salesforce. Hey, look. Row round is really out there hustling for us.

What else you got? I don't know. You want to talk about Rams Eagles? Sequan Barkley, 205 yards on 26 carries two touchdowns. The dude is a freaking beast. Jalen Hartz didn't have to do much of anything in that game.

As the Los Angeles Rams lose to the Philadelphia Eagles 28 to 22. Just pretend you're a Giants fan. You know we always talk about regrets of players that have gone elsewhere and they've succeeded. We haven't been victimized by it too much here in town. Imagine being Giants fan watching a guy in your

within your own division one step away from going from a team that was futile that said they gave up on you to maybe go into the Super Bowl. And they had the off-season hard knocks or whatever and they're like, yeah, we can't play Sequin Barkley. pay him because we got to keep Daniel Jones. It's Daniel Jones is time to shine.

Dude got cut in the middle of the season. Yeah. Well, that's not even the viral clip that was making it. It's Joe Shane, the GM, his son telling him he should draft Jayden Daniels. And, of course, Giants fans are glomming on. See, this guy's an idiot. That's tough. You can keep Daniel Jones and then cut him later.

Would you rely on your son to make a serious pick when it comes to a football team? I don't know. How good of a scout is he? I think he's better than his dad. It sounds like it so far. Well, most people are. but in Joe Shane at this point, although they're keeping him.

I still think Brian Dable's a good coach. It's been a bad situation. I mean, I'm sorry. He couldn't make it work with Daniel Jones. Yeah. And then they didn't keep Sequin Barkley. I don't know how much of that was his call. I mean, isn't that all 100% on the GM?

I would think so. All right. When this program returns, which will be in a couple minutes, Nick Saban tries to jump in on the NIL regulation conversation. Okay. And it's frankly, to me, comical.

So we'll get to that coming up. We've got 150 today. We've got, believe it or not, which is all things about snow or snow or snow storms or thunderstorm snow? Or famous snow? I mean, how many snow? I know a meteorologist that has burned the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Yeah, Jim can't talk. Dude, what are you doing?

Do you think he's heading to Louisiana like he's on the road? Because the weather in Beaumont and New Orleans is way worse than it is here. Yeah, he's probably like Houston sucks. I'm going east. And so many of you, so many nice people have retweeted him. I mean, what are we doing, bro? What are we doing? Look, he's got 24 other people, 25 people liked it, two retweets, two comments.

Come on, Jim. And he's on Twitter right now. He's talking about Snow Thunder in L.A. right now. Irvington, Alabama. He's retweeting stuff. You know what? Who's the second most famous weather per? Can we get Al Roker on?

I can't, after that I can't name any other national people. I don't know. That's the only other one I know. Willard Scott's no longer. No, he's dead. Jeez. Gene Chowell's still alive, I think. He's a little bit more delicate.

I thought that was the movie critic. He's the movie critic. I was thinking about people on the today show. Roger Ebert, dead. Ciskel dead. Can we get Brian Gumble on? What's Katie Currieg doing right now? No, Greg not available either.

Greg's not available. Brian is. I mean, I guess it's the truth. Yeah. You're sick. dick, Matt. You're the one that brought up Greg's name, not me. All I said, when he wasn't available and he's not. I mean, what's the problem? How about this? Can we get any

other person to call? I guess we can call Justin Stapleton. I was going to say, yeah, Stapleton would do it. But you know what? He worked this morning early, so I don't want to work. He's probably napping. Yeah, leave him alone. Billingsley's unavailable. He's retired. I think he works for public radio anyway. Can't come on. Neil Frank's still alive? I think so.

Yeah, Neil's still alive. Ed Brandon is no longer with us. I'm running out of people. I don't know who the main 13 guy is or the main 11 guy or the main 26 guys. Travis Herzog is the main 13, I believe. Travis Herzog. That sounds like a fullback for Oklahoma. It's not like he played for the Cardinals, the St. Louis Cardinals on the mid-70s.

Travis Herzog. The air apparent is Stan Musial, Travis Herzog. Oh, Fullback. Fullback. You said St. Louis. Oh, San Luis Cardinals are football team. What did you say, Dan? Aren't you buddies with Cheetah?

She also worked morning too. I don't like to bother the morning with her people. What's her name now? Cheetah Craft. She got married. It used to be Jones or Johnson or something? Johnson, yeah. Okay.

It was so weird. Missy, our ultimate Spurs fan, she's like, hey, Matt, Cheetah's of the Angels are Astros game where you're at. You should go meet her. So I went and met her and I sat with Cheetah's family for like five innings. It was really crazy. They gave a game, fed me dinner and everything.

They didn't kick you out? No, they loved me. Like, sir, you're drooling. I took family pictures with the Cheetah, The Cheetah Johnson family. Sir, you haven't blinked. two innings. Can you please leave? Turn Siri off, Ross.

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Welcome aboard. Flagship station off your rockets. Imagine that, a TV station once again at the same damn hill. Rossi, they've been at this hill for hours. What do you want them to do, Matt? Get on one of those things.

Now, the guy's running a cardboard box. In a catcher stance. Yeah, this is pretty embarrassing. That's Sherman Chow out there? Yeah, they're definitely at the middle of the theater. Oh, now they're on a table. Yeah, I told you they were on a table before. This is not going to end well.

Here she goes. Oh, is that? Oh, my God, it's actually working pretty well for them. Oh, nope, he slipped. He's fallen. This is when you know you need to go back to regular programming. We're missing the bold and beautiful for this. Well, no.

Sorry, Matt. The CBS app will be there for me. Real quick, a couple days ago, Nick Saban on a radio show says there needs to be regulation that one school can't pay $30 million for NIL and the other can't pay three. He wants regulation, a salary cap for it. He says it's not good for the students of ultimately...

Who wants this? Nick Saban. Oh, he wants a salary cap? He didn't seem to say... Why didn't he publicly say that when he was at Alabama? That's weird. When reached out, when we... We reached out to 15 or 20 really high-profile schools.

They said, shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, Nick, David. We have no interest in Bowling Green being competitive with Florida State. So, yeah. No salary cap on his salaries either, was there? No, there wasn't. No. Well, ultimately, what I think he is saying is he's saying, if you don't salary cap it,

then schools are going to over-promise and under-deliver. We've seen some of that. We saw that with Forest State basketball just Saturday. So, oh, yeah, man. man, we got you for $6 million. No problem. We're going to take care of you. And then you're about $5,0.750 short.

Oh, we'll get you paid. Because really, how, how, I mean, I've never seen an NL agreement. I'm sure there's some sort of legal representation to it. I mean, have we seen a bunch of students sue over this yet? I mean, just in Florida State's the only lawsuit I've heard about at the time. But you know there's going to be other schools reneking on this, right, at this some point. Probably. Or just not, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think if you salary cap it and put them under contracts, but then again, how much is that then become, does the amateurism completely get out of the NCAA? Who knows? But it was just interesting that a guy that, I guarantee you, Rossi, if he was at Alabama still

would not be asking for any sort of salary cap because he would want to make sure that Oregon State had just as much of a chance as Auburn and Alabama to grab the top players in the country. Well, they never have. It's funny, in professional sports, they love the salary cap. Well, not me. Baseball doesn't. The Dodgers hate the salary cap.

Football and basketball love the salary cap because it gives San Antonio and Sacramento just as much of a chance as the New York's in L.A. It's a little different because it's more of a soft cap with aprons, so Golden State can spend more on average than Oklahoma City or San Antonio or Minnesota. it's kind of a it's like the mean it's like the middle the middle ground between right the NFL and major league baseball yeah now in fairness sabin was actually one of the outspoken ones at the beginning when this was all coming on that he was famous for saying this is going to become free agency is that what we want and i would think that those that are involved at alabama michigan ohio state texas a and m make sure we're good with us oh especially the last two years the the spending in the cc is going to be astronomical now. Yeah, I do believe that the pressure on the NIL

has forced guys like SABIN out. I bet you, I shouldn't say bet you, but I would firmly believe if there wasn't NIL issues that Sable was still being coaching. He's still around the sport. He's at every major game. He's not like he's sitting on his house, you know, playing shuffleboard.

Yeah, publicly he has said it was mostly because he didn't want the negative recruiting that everybody was saying Nick Sabon's going to retire by the time you're at the end of the day. Right, right. your rope at Alabama come to us. Our coach is young and whoever, whatever, whatever is. Let's go to the phone, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Jamal's with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jamal, thanks for holding good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, man. Thanks for having me on. Sure. You're doing great. Thank you. How about you?

I'm okay, man. Just enjoying the snow, man. I got an option for the Texans, man. I'm Jamal Corner. find me on X, man, but I got an option for the Texans, man. They can go out and get and explore the option of Jeff Stoughtland from the Eagles,

offers a line coach, and they can put that in one bag, and then when you go grab him, you can go to the draft and then you can grab best available. How about that, guys? Who's best available talking about? Whoever's best

available. In the draft? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I firmly believe that. The Texas are going to go offensive line. They have to go an offensive line on the first round. Right. Yes. But, yeah, in terms of, yeah, I don't know who you're speaking about the offensive line coach of Philadelphia. I'm sure he sounds wonderful.

And obviously, Jamal's in his homework. His name is Jeff Stoutland. Yeah. Stoutland. That's a good name for an offensive line coach. A great name for an offensive line coach. But if you're Jeff Stoutland, he's been there since 2013. You're not going to take a lateral move.

You've got to get a bump. Oh, yeah, you got to go. Good old cash. Tocount to open up the checkbook. Let's go. All right. People brought luggage to sled on. Guys weren't a Spurs shirt, too.

Oh, terrible. Yeah, I, yeah. Probably thinks Man o'nobly is a really good player. So Joe Mixon was cryptic and saying there's a big move coming. Is that T. Higgins? Could be. Is that going to get Chip Kelly as an offensive coordinator? I mean, T. Higgins is this guy, probably.

He's my guy, too. I think he's more Joe Mugins. Nixon's guy. They played together on the Bengals. Yeah, but I've had him on my fantasy league before. Yeah, but you're done. You're retired. You got that right. You're out. So refreshed. I'm sad. Just give him an off-seasoner recharge.

I miss the Toros. I'm going to miss the Toros. You miss him forever. One of the legendary I-heart radio fantasy teams. But honestly, I don't think the Texans have the money for T. Higgins. I think they're pretty strapped financially. I don't think there's tremendous flexibility. I can obviously let some people go and whatnot. but I don't think when you look at, you know,

every time around this time of year, they always show teams with as much cash flush. I don't think the Texans are in that group. You know who they could resign. And that would be a loss for me if they did resign Stefan Diggs. I get that. Refron Riggs might not have much of an market. Refron Riggs runs a 7-4-40.

Hey, you just need to get open. When Dalton Shultz is faster than Refron Riggs, that means he's probably not a mean. Who's better? Xavier Hutchinson or Stefan D. digs. Who's cheaper? Well, Xavier Hutchinson is. As a number two target.

I guess probably not going to cost you much. I would imagine. 31 coming off an ACL tear? But let me ask you this. Why would you want that? Why do you want to put any money in a 31-year-old who, first of all, is going to piss somebody off eventually? I mean, he gets grumpy everywhere he goes, so it's going to be

not a matter of if. He hadn't been a problem. But that's one year. He was probably a great one year in Buffalo. He was probably fantastic one year in Minnesota. He always gets, he's a Jimmy Butler of the NFL. He just is. No, it's different. Why? This is a receiver. Jimmy Butler can go out there and throw

and shoot 50 shots. Stefan Diggs can't go out there and throw himself 20 targets. And that's why he'll get pissed off. He's still going to go out there and play. I wouldn't. I don't know. Yeah, you said that was going to happen when he was here and it didn't. Yeah, and I'm going to be right. And it was a waste of a second round pick. By the way, the Texans don't have a second round pick because of this. Well, yeah. Hope is great.

Hope it was supposed to. He wasn't supposed to tear his ACL. If he was on this team, they to crush the Chiefs by 21. Oh, is that right, Chris Paul Samstring? It'd been nice if he and, it'd be nice if he, his knee, and Tankdale's knee exploded on the field. Yeah, by way, Tank had his surgery over the weekend. Good for him.

Ugh. He had Ligibet's I never even heard of that he tore. I believe we're going to start calling him the bionic $6 million man. The PCL, LCL, ACL, ACL, MCL. I don't know what the WCL is. He tore that too. The amount of aluminum put in his leg, he's now going to run a sub 440. It's going to make him.

He can't go through metal detectors anymore? No, he cannot. But he's the fastest human being alive. That's good. Tankdale will be clocked at 3.9.40. Usain Bolt won't be able to catch him. Okay. Or he never plays again in the NFL.

I know. I don't know. I don't bring it up. So I won't. At least the rest of the hour. Like tank tail. Final hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross is coming up. do we do the show tomorrow from this hill because i mean god this these tv i mean is every tv

station out there all oh now sherman chow was doing it she's glad she's on a certain give me give me another give me another station let's see if go look at 13 26 they're all doing it it's kind of the story arc of everybody's local coverage is so is that of creativity let's just go run to the miller outdoor theater hill oh my god looking for content just like us is right it's on. How am I going to do three hours of snow coverage on KTRH? Don't go on the streets. Now here's a word from Michael Barry.

Ramon. You've been sledded in Ramon. Ramon, do you think sitting by a warm fire is romantic with your gal? Will you go to break? Go into Kalachi. What o'clock on Sports Talk 790? Launch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas show. 105 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212-5-790. If you want to join our conversation, as we are enjoying snow coverage, it looks like Channel 11 has said we're done. We're putting on the prices right.

So it's you and me. It's Ross. It's Dan Matthews putting in his seventh of eight hours, running the technical side of a sports talk 790. Coming up at 2 o'clock today. It'll be the A team for a full four hours of excitement, sports analysis. Should be amazing. And producing that show, we don't know who.

Maybe they should produce our own show. Oh, is, what's supposed to happen? Oh, Dan, you want to chime in on that? Oh, he's not going to put his hands up on that one. Oh, my God. Seriously, if Adam and Adam don't work today, heaven helped them. What do you mean? You and I put in four.

Yes. I'm going to put three more and over at KTRH next down. Sean and Brian Leema did four. Dan's done like 16 at this point. Yeah. Oh, heaven helped them both. It's almost like I want them not to work now. You want them not to work just so you can say something.

I want them to work because they do a great show and it'll be great for the station. Sports Talk 790. You're home for your home teams. Okay. I guess you're right. It would be good for the station. as compared to what does Fox have on at this time of the day? I know, is it Rich Eisen or something?

No, I don't think so. When's he on? No, we don't care. There's no rich on that station. It wouldn't be the Chris Bussarton. What's his name show, would it? Chris Boussard, I got sources here. Ray Parker?

No, wait. Rob Parker. No, he's off there, too. Oh, he's not there anymore? He's Gottlieb show, too. Oh. He's getting crushed by Adam Schaefter? Y'all, give me a second here.

Adam and Adam, I forget what I said. earlier. Please. Please come to the station. We are begging you. You will have zero listeners. Putting on Doug Gottlieb will cost you for long term. You'd be feel the repercussions would reverberate. Yeah. It would be like, if somebody puts on 790 and goes, this is so bad, I'll never listen again. So, not that it's putting any pressure on you guys. I think it is the Doug Gottlieb show. Oh. All right, so let's, do you know about

Doug Gottlieb, by the way? No. First four, horrific radio hosts on our network. We don't carry it for good reason. He's also the head coach of UW Green Bay. Yeah, wasn't somebody dunking on him, one of the reporters? Was it Schefter? Who was it? Shefter. Okay. UW Green Bay

playing in the very powerful Horizon League. How are they doing? They have won two games all season. Oh. They are 2 and 18. They are 0 and 9 in the Horizon League. Their losses, I believe, include losing to a division two school. Dang.

You dump Green Bay. I mean, they've made the tournament a few times back the day. Yeah. Yeah. They have lost. I'm trying to figure out who the school was. They lost to. Michigan Tech, I believe, is a non-division one.

They lost at home to Michigan Tech 72 to 70. Your first year as a head coach. after basically saying I can be a radio host and a college coach at the same time and you are two and freaking 18 that clearly can tell you can't do both. Man. That's, uh,

I mean, how do you recruit players to your two and 18 foot football team? First of all, basketball team. How do you recruit anybody to Green Bay, Wisconsin where you're going to play college basketball in the winter? Yeah. You're probably busing everywhere.

You got, you've, think the roads in Houston are bad. Imagine trying to go from say, Green Bay to, I don't know, Moline, Illinois on a bus. You're not flying to those places. You're busing them. His bio at UW Green Bay has all these quotes from these coaches talking about how great of a job he's going to do. Tom I'm so excited when I heard Doug was going to be the next coach of Green Bay. Yeah, I wonder why. Shocker smart. Doug Gottlie will be a terrific coach. Branking News. Is this about the, what is this about? This is about

Breggman? Station. Oh, station breaking news? Oh, no. What? I'm off of KTRH at 2 o'clock. I'm not doing it after all. Oh.

We'll get you on there tomorrow when it's really all hell breaking loose. At 2 p.m. we're going to Sean Hannity and back to normal on KTRH. So if you're a Hannity fan, you got it. Oh, thank God. More breaking news?

No, I was just giving you a second. No, no, no. That's not your job. You can. can't ask for more breaking news unless we ask for more breaking news. Oh my God. You know what? He's so fatigued right now.

I'm sorry. He's going through it. Look at him. He can barely keep... He's using the microphone to keep his head up. He's bobbing on that headphone right now, on the microphone right now. He's some shadow boxing pretty hard right now. Poor kid.

Let's get the man some caffeine. No, there's not enough left. Let me tell you, is the jack-in-a-box down the street open? I will buy you lunch. Oh, thank you. If it's open. Oh, you're not going to make me go there, are you? We'll go together.

We'll call during the break. Everybody knows that the six- Why are you trying to go to the Rack and the Rocks? Because I want- Food up here. I want tacos at the inn. I want some tacos. You want some of those nasty, greasy,

bean paste meat tacos. Sounds good to me. What is wrong with you? Hmm. A lot of things. You got a fever and the only prescription is Rack-in-the-Rocs tacos. lettuce. I mean, after 2 a.m.

I'm giving you a pass. But this is broad daylight, and we got food options up here. So you're saying that you can't eat it Rockin'Roc's pre-9 p.m. No. Certainly not the Rockos. And by the way, real quick on this one. If you're in an ultimate Reesburger,

if you're getting one of those munchy meals, whatever they call them, where like nine things in there for like $9, you're going to die quickly. You're also a pot head. They were not meant to be eaten by one person. You can split it. You can split it. You and I wanted to split a munchy meal.

I would split it with you. But no, but no growing up an Ness man should be eating a munchy meal by himself. I might have crushed a munchy meal at 3 a.m before. It's like four nuggets, cheeseburger, taco, fries, and a cookie. They felt a cookie in it's like a bonus. It's not bad.

Time and place for everything, Matt. I feel like our in celebratory, and I want to go out. I'm not doing hurricane. I'm not doing weather coverage. No, we're not going out. We can't go anywhere. That's right. Do not go anywhere.

Got to stay true to that. Okay. All right. One at 12. I'll go get some beers. No, no, we're not going to drink and drive, period. No, I'm talking about for when, after we're driving. Oh, bring him to the, we're going to go to that gas station on the street that has $8

another gasoline, no chance. I might spend a dollar in that place. We could pay for them where we are. That's true. I didn't think of it that way. 113 on Sports Talk 70. What's the number one sports thing we want to get to? Because we are a sports show.

The Texans, offensive line options in the offseason. Do you have a list or what? No. Can you create a list in the next? Four minutes. NFL free agency talk? Are we there already? How about who would the Texans pick at number 25?

That's her draft position. Oh, God. We're going to look by mock draft season? By the way. I haven't gotten into my, I haven't rolled my sleeves as I haven't got in my draft prep yet, man. A very happy birthday to one of the greatest

Houstonians of all time. Um, who? Akeem Elijah won. Oh. Eh. I mean, eh. I mean, yeah. Oh, you're going to say he's not?

He is a Houstonian, I suppose. How long has he lived? Okay. Since the 80s? The greatest, one of the four greatest athletes and Houston. The greatest Houston athlete. What's up?

By the way, you know his birthday? Sorry, Altuvae lovers. We're going to play the range game real quick. Within two years. How old is he? 60. Do you want to feel old, ladies and gentlemen? Your favorite rocket of all time is 62 years old.

Oh, I almost said 61. 62. And let me tell you something. If you needed him to back up Shingoon, if Landall and Adams are out, he'd give you five minutes. He would crack his back. Okay, that's very true. Maybe 10 years ago, I would have bought that, but now.

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We are with you till 2 o'clock. believe it or not today at 150 and then we will be back it sounds like things are coming back to normal all the TV stations are getting away from their snow coverage because they kept showing the same hill so they're running out of things KTRH is going to go to Sean Hannity at 2 o'clock

so if you're a fan of that show that'll be available to you and of course Michael Barry will be on at 5 looks like we did pretty good job Ross and the sun apparently is out to no surprise the sun is out yes it doesn't necessarily mean get out there and get on an I10 and go 75 miles an hour. Yeah, the things are supposed to melt and then refreeze as you were talking about.

Yeah. So please be careful out there, folks. I know everyone's going to have cabin fever, but can you hang on to the end of the day? Hopefully. That's what you got. You have to. You're going to have to. Consider yourself like you've been quarantined. Are you been grounded? Now, when I was grounded in high school, I did not behave myself. I would sneak out regularly. Wasn't grounded a lot, but I just would do it. How would you sneak out? Well, mom went to work. I just went, you know, stay at home. I got you. Yeah.

You know the worst punishment from me when I was a kid? I brought this up before. I was no hormal chili. Oh, that'd probably save me a pound or two. Was that when I was a junior and senior in high school, I was a mascot from my high school, as many of you know. Okay. And I drove my car to school. So when she'd get mad at me, she'd say, you can't drive your car to school.

You have to take the bus. Ooh. The mascot of the high school. wasn't supposed to take the junior or as a junior or senior. First of all, if you're a junior or senior, you shouldn't be taking the bus. So she would make me ride the bus as a punishment to embarrass me. So I'd walk out there and walk ashamed, get to the bus stop, hang my head. Yes.

We could just put your cougar head on or whatever it was. Ram head. The bus would come by. Yes. I'd wave and say, see you later. I would get off the bus immediately and my buddy would come pick me up. You'd get off on the next stop? Yeah, and then my buddy would come pick me up.

Oh, she wouldn't let you get picked up either? It was that you had to ride the bus? Yes. Okay. Confessionals. Matt, M.T. Confessionals. That's fine. I like this.

It's only been 36 years ago. Ente confessions. We should do a segment. It's like taxi cab confessions, but it's empty confessions. Well, I confess to you about a lot of things. I confessed you about hitting the guy in the pool stick at the bar back in the day. I told you about plagiarizing a paper in ninth grade. I almost got caught, too.

Oh, I cheated. I told you. It was the early days. I think part of the reason why I have so many nightmares. about my schooling as a kid, even to this day, is because the amount of cheating I did. So a little lesson for all of you. Dang, Matt. What?

Actually, it makes a lot of sense. No, I'm just saying, don't cheat. It's so easy to do it, but you did it and look at the great heights you've reached, Matt. No, no. How about nightmares 34 years after high school? Not worth it. I have the same nightmare once every couple of weeks. Really?

English class. Matt, you've not turned on your pay. She was okay She was married to the band teacher Hmm So it was kind of an odd Okay She was not in my top five

Man you guys must have been lucky There was there was no There was a top zero at my school My all timer was My eighth grade Earth science teacher Miss Courtney God she was a smoke show

And she always Are usually not ugly And she usually had two or three buttons Always on her blouse undone Oh she knew what she was doing Yes she did probably But she was married It doesn't mean she didn't appreciate young teenage boys looking at her.

Clearly. Can we talk sports, please? Okay, sure. I don't really care at this point. What's going on with her show? How concerned are we with the Rockets losing a couple of games recently? Only a half game ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies. It's a challenging stretch of games.

We knew this was going to be the case beyond the road trip. You've got Cleveland in back-to-back games Wednesday here, and then Saturday in Cleveland. And then you got Boston. I had very tough back-to-back with Atlanta. And then you got Memphis, who the rockets have beaten three out of the first three times this year. I mean, I wouldn't say concerned.

I would say cautious to say, hey, I like where I am right now. I don't want to leave the two-spot. But it's about to get ridiculously tough. By the way, did you see it? I didn't make much of it until some of the national folks did. Robert Williams is a backup center for the Blazers. And I believe he played for Ian.

Emay in Boston. Don't hold me to that, but I'm pretty sure that he did. And Robert Williams and EMA were like, hey, what's up? How are you doing okay? And things are going good and talking a lot after the game. And that now there's rumors that the Blazers are looking to push the team out and trade for pieces. And the Rockets would be very interested in Robert Williams. So that doesn't necessarily move the needle for anybody around here, but it might be able to give you an alternative if Stephen Adams can't play every game,

which he clearly hasn't so far this year. Hey, Jack Landau's out there getting some shots up. I like Jack a lot. He got over his personal reasons. That was good. He had a couple of mid-range airballs that weren't great. And Del's had a couple step-backs, too. He knocked down a mid-range.

He knocked down a couple middies, didn't he? Yeah, he did okay. I missed a couple bunnies, as they're called. Yeah, he did. He did. So, to the greater point, though, Rossi, I think we're going to see something done, rockets-related, but it's going to be very minor. It's in that ilk of reserve position player to be determined.

Okay. I don't think, and I don't want to get into particular names, because that wouldn't be fair to the teams, but I don't think the term splash and trade will be associated with the rockets. Okay. Because I do, I think they're generally curious what this is. Because they're on pace to win over 50 games. They're on pace to be a top four.

seed, even if they regress a little bit, top four in the West. Or at the bare minimum, just in the top six. Unless they fully implode and injuries just ravage them, they're going to avoid the playing game right round, which would be a huge significant jump for a Rockets basketball team that didn't even make the playoffs last year. So I think as an organization, I think they're just curious to see what this is. And if they're going to make any drastic moves, it would probably be closer to the offseason than I think would be in season.

it. But again, unless something in Phoenix or something in Miami or something which is too good to refuse, they'll probably refuse it unless it's too good to refuse. Trust the process. Dance with who brung you. It's watch the babies grow.

Huh. Don't you think? The seeds have been planted. The kids are becoming young men. Phase two. Well underway. So when do we go to phase three? Next year? I don't know. Who's in charge of calling the... Who was in charge of calling...

calling in Defcons in the movies. How long was I don't know, does the National Alert Service or whatever do that? So who would move electronic alert system? It would be Tillman that would move from Phase 2 to Phase 3, right? I guess so. It would be Noah. No Eagle? No, like

NOAA. Oh, National, okay. Organization of weather and stuff. Sure. No, he's sure. They're not determining what the rockets move from Phase 2 to Phase 3. They're not doing that. But you ask who determines DefCon. I believe it is.

Or NORAD, one of the two. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe it's the commander-in-chief. Maybe it's Donnie T. Dan sounds delirious. Yeah, I'm a little worried for it. That's an accurate statement.

Are you going to butcher, believe or not, productions? I'm already planning on how I'm going to attack it, but I'm just going to have to concentrate really, really hard. Believe it or not, coming up in 20 minutes here on Sports Talk 7-9. We've only told you this since the same. show opened at 10 o'clock. That was three and a half hours ago. I've gotten it done every single time for 15 years.

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But should we give one just one correct answer right to win the price? Or do you think we should make it challenging and go for two? No, go for two. All right. Let's see if we get called first. It feels like this is the type of day where we're going to tell people what the prize is and they're going to be like, oh, you don't have any of these? I'm going to be like that. All right.

What's in the prize vault? You want to tell the audience? Tell the audience what's got in the prize vault? Pending. Wait a minute. We can't. We don't have a pending. There's no one working today.

Either it has been there or it's not there. I just didn't have it up in front of me. Oh, okay. Hey. Everybody relax. A show of honesty here. So I'm about being honest. Thank you, Dan.

Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Dan. Dan's going to be asleep at 201 today. You want to drive you back to the hotel? You drive up here, didn't he? Yeah, I drove up here. Okay.

I mean, I'll just idle it back to the place, so tomorrow morning is going to be interesting. All right, so we're waiting for, I believe we're giving away a trip to Cancun. Is that accurate today? Unbelievable it or not? I don't believe that. Not in, huh?

What's for the nicest price of you ever giving away? This is the Timberlake tickets, basically? It might be. Timberlakes were great. Did you all have any of those sandlot tickets? I don't know. All right. Well,

while Dan searches in the prize vault for what we're playing for, Rockets and Cavaliers scheduled to play tomorrow. Houston versus Utah, college troops scheduled to play tomorrow. And, oh, I know what we were going to talk about. So the college football championship game was last night.

And I know ESPN is going to brag about their ratings because that's what ESPN does. So it'll figure out some way to promote it. But somebody, we were talking about this morning. Are people asking it to be not played on a Monday night right after the NFL playoffs that the scheme of the game was gone lost a little bit? I think.

Now you reminded me. This is my idea that I was going to talk about at the beginning of the show. Yeah. What about pushing it back a couple of weeks and having it on the off weekend between the Super Bowl? Way too long. Is that too late? Way. It's two more weeks. It's two more weeks. Way, way too long. No, I'm sorry. It's one more week. One and a half more weeks.

Too long. We're already championship weekend this weekend. Too long. I think it's grossly overshadowed by the divisional weekend. No, I don't think 10 more days is way too long. I got news for you. You play it. You play it the Friday before division a weekend.

You get in front of it before you get behind it. There's people who want them to do Saturday because they're like college football is Saturday. Yeah, but they put the year. Then you're going head to head with the NFL. No, no. You are under zero circumstances going against the NFL. You will lose and you will lose badly. I'm not saying I agree with it.

I'm just saying. that people try to do that. Well, you need to find out who they are and beat them. It's just like the same people who say, oh, we should always keep the opening round of the college football playoff on campus. I'm like, would and should are two different things because what is going to happen, our cities are going to come in and say, hey, we'll pay you a lot of money for these games. And the college football playoffs are going to say, okay.

I mean, I think we're losing campus sites. Other people are saying getting it, get it done by January 1st. No, these weeks off. Yeah, coaches will love that. You know what? I brought this up to you last week, and I didn't mean, and I don't think I did a good enough job explaining it, I felt like this had a little bit of the sizzle taken off because the playoffs were so interesting. But then the NFL got in the way, and now it's been an afterthought. So I would say this. If I was in charge, I would have the season done.

I would have the championship game on the Friday night before the divisional playoff weekend. I don't think it's even arguable. They clearly like football game. on Saturday and Sunday for most viewership. So I don't know, but what Friday viewership would be? I was going to say, but they did the semis on Fridays. Did the networks try to avoid the Friday prime time

because they thought is nobody is watching? Well, let me tell you, boys. The semi on Friday. Guys, 25 years ago, they didn't put really good games on Saturday night football. Certainly on ABC. Now they put the great games. Saturday used to be an area of Barren Wasteland.

You put the worst TV shows on Saturday. You didn't put the superstar shows on. Now you're putting superstar sports, events on Friday since we're seeing big time college football being played on Fox on Friday nights well not big time but relatively speaking good matches it's like you of age and stuff like that

that's not necessary I'm sorry you know what that's my bet you haven't worked eight hours in the playoffs in the playoffs they put I mean they put like Baltimore Steelers which was in the marquee game Lions commanders I mean turned out to be a pretty good game but I think they still save the best matchups for Sunday Sunday at 530 that's what it was

that's why they put Buffalo Baltimore there And I think the week before the good game was there. What was it? I can't remember. Well, you had Houston Chargers, then Baltimore, Pittsburgh on Saturday. Exactly. Of course, we know the worst game goes Saturday at 3.30. Well, we're kind of used to that. If I was a betting man, we were betting man right now, which we occasionally do.

And I gave you $1,000 to bet. I'm just throwing a number out. I would just start running. I would kick you in the stomach and run. You got to make a bet. Do the Texans play at 3.30 next January for a playoff game or you get the field. What would you take? Okay, now listen, every playoff game they've ever played in their franchise history.

The odd to be the field. I'll put it this way. The favorite is the field, but the leader would be 330. But it wouldn't be over 50%. Does that make sense? Yeah, I don't exactly what you're saying. The plurality. They win the plurality, but they wouldn't win the majority.

Because the issue would be is if the Texans are a 12-1 football team, they're probably not... Because they could miss the playoffs completely. They could still be the four-seed in being that just everybody else would be the worst. And there were 10-7 in a crappy division. They could miss the playoffs. You don't have to be the four-seat and play at 3-30. I mean, if the Kansas City Chiefs were the three-seed, they wouldn't be four-seat. They wouldn't be playing at 3-30 on Saturday.

I put it this way. They make the playoffs there Saturday at 3-30. Well, I guess maybe. All right, how about this? Tees. Let's make a breakfast bet on this. Oh, my God. Put it deep in your calendar.

I'll take. I don't feel confident enough to bet this. It's nice and simple. I'll take 3.30 or no playoffs. You'll take everything else. No. You got to offer me three. You got to give me three lunches to one on that.

Do you want the other side? I want five lunches. Yes, I'll take your side. 3.30 or no playoffs? Absolutely, that's the favorite. I'll take it. Okay. There it is.

No. Next, we've just made an official bet about next year's team already. Ross has 3.30 Saturday or not at all. Or no playoffs. And I get everything else. You think they're going to be on a Sunday? No, I'm just doing for the sake of the bet. I like it. Monday nights and play now. All right, I got to write this down. Hold on. Let me go. We got pending bets. I have a pending bet section of the Nosturongest Files.

Washington and Tampa wasn't a super sexy Monday night game. Was it? No. No, it was a Minnesota Rams. That wasn't super sexy. Yeah, Washington, Tampa was a Sunday night game. Yeah, I'll just do it for the sake of doing it. Okay. What do you have? Yeah, I'm going to take, I'll take anything but 3.30 and you get 3.30 Saturday or none of the above. I think seating has a lot to do with it too, because if I'm not mistaken, they've always been the four.

No, that's always been the four. But the city, no, it's about the market. It's about the interest. If Buffalo was the four seed, they would not be playing at 3.30 on a Saturday. Well, but I'm saying, though, that like I think if they were a two or a three, then they probably would have been able to get off that spot. But the fact that they were a four, they were like, well, thinking about this, if there are two or three, they're probably playing the... What's the bet? A lunch or what are we doing?

Breakfast. Breakfast? Like a steak bag or sit down? No. Oh, like a wreck, Ronald's. Yeah, like I'll get you a big middle. Ooh, steak bagel. Sometimes those come out funky.

Oh, I like them. When they're good, they're good. $7. When they're good, they're great. It's expensive breakfast. When you get one that's a little chewy and weird. Extra sauce, by the way. Oh, you're sick.

Extra butter sauce? I like it. Oh, my God. Are you trying to have a coronary in the car? Oh, is that right? Biscuits and gravy breath. Yeah, what does that mean? That's terrible.

A lot of cluster all in that gravy. Yeah, but you're talking about adding extra butter sauce? It sounds like I'm asking for like a deep layer of it. I'm looking for a couple of extra scoops. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you guys got the breakfast this morning. Yes, we did. Sorry, it wasn't.

They were setting it up. Oh, so you're like hungry and grouchy. I'll bring you a plate tomorrow. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Can we steal plates from there? So back to my original thought. I think they should play the national championship game the Friday before

Divisional Playoff weekend. There's a great way to get all the intention to themselves. A what Friday? Like this past Friday. This should have been the national championship game. I think the matchup has a lot to do with it too. No, what was the matchup to do with you? You set the date, you set the date.

See, but I think people are saying, why isn't Ohio State Notre Dame interesting to the national public? It should be. It's not because they're not because we have frankly playoff fatigue. We just watch four games. That's how I see it. That's how I see it. I don't know.

How are the numbers looking? What are the overnights looking like? I guarantee ESPN will be bragging about something. Yeah, exactly. All right. We won the demographic 23 to 55 saw a 15% increase. Making them a bunch of phony-ass numbers. They added up with ESPN Plus and the McAfee cast and the whatever.

Yeah. And the Ross cast. Me? We had a good one going. Oh, we did. We did. Our commentary was actually better. We were in the bar double fist and cocktails.

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I wonder if Bunby will autograph the ticket for you. Actually, we send him to it electronically. Well, you're his buddy. I know. I was going to say we can make that happen. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All things about snow, unbelieve it or not, is next. Come on and play with this.

7-1-3-2-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas Show continues. On your computer, listen to Sports Talk 790 on any device with our free IHRCH radio. 149 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got double-header tonight on T. People are like, what are I going to watch it? You know what?

Time to watch some movies. I have two things in Netflix in Q. The Jerry Springer documentary, which I'll be watching. Very good. Have you seen it so far, all episodes? Fantastic. Okay, looking forward to that. I was watching, as we don't have movie channels at our place, but that's okay.

Right. I was watching Weekend at Bernies was on last night. It's a banger. It's okay. The question I have is, what made them think Weekend at Burnies, too, would make sense? If Weekend Burneys was the dead guy, he's still dead, and unless you, like, put him in ice, it would have been a little awkward. Unpopular opinion now. I was, like, nine years old, but I loved Weekend at Bernie's when it came out.

Ironically enough, speaking that same culture and the type of movie, I thought Manichin was fantastic back in the day. Apparently Weekend at Bernies was a cult classic amongst the stoners. Oh. That's zero surprise. Well, that wasn't a stoner when I was 11. I would hope not. Like Kim Cottrell went from Manichin to Real Life Girl back to Manikin.

I mean, that's hot. Mm-hmm, with that terrible Starship song. Oh. What in regard is one of the worst songs ever to hit number one? No, I thought that was, we built this city. Oh. That song blows. That was one of our best fantasy five.

We did decades of number one songs. We were the worst. We did the worst ones. Yeah. We did. I heard you guys did best Christmas songs, right? Who won the voting on that? I did.

Yeah. Sorry, Dan. Did you feel like he got robbed, Dan? Oh, 100%. Okay, I'm sorry. I felt like Willie Anderson, Jr. And I believe you were out to a 3-1 lead in Lost 4th. Wow.

Wow. You went 16 Warriors on it? Oh, man. Cleveland. Now Guardians. By the way, Steve Kerr was asked yesterday, if you watch the inauguration, he says, no, I got a game to work. I had a game film to work to look at.

Oh, Steve Kerr. Yeah, you know, he hates. Steve Kerr. He hates our president. And then Golden State lost $125.85 to the Celtics. He was really distraught. Celtics are good, though. Could you imagine going to a home game of your favorite team and losing by 40 at home?

I mean, that hasn't happened to the warrior fans in a long. time, but especially me, that's good money. That's a, took a day off to go to an MLK day game in San Francisco and spending all that, and then you got your ass kicked. Rockets did that on the road in game seven and get some Mavericks. Well, 05-ish? It's too soon. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should

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Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. If you would have said water, I probably would have said believe it, got it wrong. Statement number two for the win. All snowflakes have six sides, regardless of size.

Believe it or not. Oh, they do. If you're not taking a look at it. Go grab a snowflake. Go look at it. It's got six sides. Tony on 790. Tony, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? That last part about the rockets.

Okay. The snowboard was invented by an engineer in Michigan back in 1965. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest ever snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches 3.3. Believe it or not. Not. Oh, it was.

I don't know. In Montana in 1887. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. You've got to know how wide and thick your snowflakes are. 713-212-5-790. Corey on 790. Corey, you ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it.

Corey, if it seems quieter during snowfall, you are correct. snowflakes absorb sound waves. Believe it or not. Oh, believe it. You should. Statement number two for the win. There is a snow college. It was founded in Utah back in 1888. Believe it or not. Absolutely. Believe it.

There you go. Congratulations. Nicely done. Kevin on 790, Kevin, you're ready to play? Believe it or not. Believe it. In a myth that sound can cause an avalanche of snow as heavyweight isn't, what is, I need this really? It is a myth. Let me try this again. It is a myth that sound can cause an avalanche of snow as heavy weight as is needed. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the wind. Snowfall became a blizzard when it reaches over 15 centimeters or about 5.9 inches. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, it's got to be 35 mile on our winds. I'm sorry.

We did have one winner today. You didn't mention Chrissy Snow. You know who that is? From Three's Company? One of the original roommates, yeah. You know how I know that? I just saw it in Wikipedia 20 minutes ago. Oh, did you really? Okay, very good.

I might have put a Chrissy Snow question, but I didn't. There is Susan Summers, RIP on that. She's dead? We lost her last year. Oh my gosh. May she rest? Yeah. She survived cancer like seven or eight times.

It was crazy. Thymaster? The great videos of all time. Uh-oh. Ross has his scarf on. Gonna brave the elements is I drive him back to the hotel. Have a great day. We'll talk to you all back tomorrow at 10 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 790.