The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Super Bowl Matchup Is Set, Astros Trade Ryan Pressly, Rockets Sweep Cavaliers

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the NFL conference championships that have set the stage for a rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. Matt and Ross also:react to the Astros trading closer Ryan Pressly to the Chicago Cubsdiscuss the latest update regarding Alex Bregman's free agencyreview the Rockets sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliersbreak down the Cougars defeating Kansas and the Longhorns taking down the Aggies in men's basketballplay "To Tell the Truth" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 10-0-2 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Pitches it out to Barclay, takes off to be outside. He's at the 50.

He's at the 40. He's at the 30. He's going to go. 15. Quarterback draw. He's at the 5. He is in for the touchdown. I guess his legs are right.

Jayland does a little dance. The fliers fly skyward and the Eagles. Not just beat, but annihiling the Washington commanders 55 to 23. What a day, what a win, what a crowd, what a team, what a season, but it's not over yet. Give it off left side, Kareem 100 to 10, angling to the fire. It's a 90-yard drive to start to start. the AFC championship game. They're going to play.

Mahomes keeps it on an RPO at the five. These are going to throw it. They throw it in the left flag. Cut! It's Sima GP right at the third. She's a... Great. Sitting in the morning, son.

Can't wait. I'll be sitting when the... T-minus 13 days till the Super Bowl. Watching the ships rolling. Hmm. It should be fun. Good morning, Ross. How the heck are you?

I'm doing great, Matt. Why are you so down? Don't care. You don't care? No. Why not? I mean, I'll watch. Yeah, you're gonna, first of all, you're gonna watch.

Of course. People are saying they're not watching. You and all of America, a bunch of frauds. No, no, no, no, no. Like you're not gonna watch the game. No, no, no, I never said that. But I'll be damned if I'm excited about it. It'll be nothing more than just a football game on

while I'm eating some big city wings at my house after the game. I'm not even going to a party. I told Adam Clanton not to have a party. And he's like, I'm not having a party. Nobody wants a party on this one. Boring. First of all, we don't want to have you. What's more?

Okay. It's the, for the first time in NFL history, a back-to-back Super Bowl winner is going for a three-peat. They're going up against the two-seed Eagles. I just don't get it on this. I under, okay. You know what we're to do then? No. No, no, no.

No, we're not going to do. I get it to an extent. The way that everyone is so down. like this is some dog matchup. Y'all are a bunch of whiners. Can we ask the audience? I'm sure the audience is going to be on your side, and I'm okay with that. I'm saying,

explain it to me. What is so bad about a two-seat Eagles team and Jalen Hertz going for his first Super Bowl? Sequin Barclay, one of the most electrifying players in the NFL. Andy Reid looking to cement himself as one of the best coaches of all time, and he and Pat Mahomes going for the first ever three-peat.

All right, you asked, and I'll answer. I have no affiliation, no, I have complete indifference to the Philadelphia Eagles. And for that matter, I probably would have complete indifference of the Washington commanders too. I was just that you would have preferred the commanders? No, no. Let me explain here. Indifference to who would have gone on that side. I just, in my mind, when this postseason started, I really wanted to see Lamar Jackson

or Josh Allen go to the first Super Bowl. And that's just a reality. because I hate the chiefs. It's not that I hate Andy Reid, or I hate that Travis Kelsey is doing a little dance, making a little love and getting down tonight. It's not because the officials apparently are giving them multiple calls again, which I'm kind of fatigued over that too. Ross, it's just not interesting. It's like a reboot. And some people love reboots, TV shows, movies, some people don't. And I'm in this particular situation, I could not be less interested in these two teams. And you asked, I'm giving you the answer. And if I'm wrong, I'm a bad guy.

No, it's not about being wrong or anything. It's just in a matter of opinion. And I think most people agree with you. The vast majority of people that I've seen talk about this matchup or talking about like it's some kind of dud matchup against a... It's not a dudmatchup. It's going to be in a really awesome game. And so, you know what we're going to do? We have to pray Rossi that it has to be a really good game. But in terms of the hype,

I would have much rather have seen the Ravens or the Bills. And I think I was pretty clear on that. I think a lot of us were. Because remember we talked about this so many times before the playoffs began, there was going to be at least one, if not two really awesome quarterbacks

that were going to once again answer to why they can't win the big game. And Josh Allen is now, 0 and 4 against the Chiefs in the postseason. Lamar Jackson has to once again have to hear about how he can't get past there. And I'm not necessarily fatigued of that. I'm just saying that I would have liked to have seen something different. And that's what dynasties do sometimes, ladies and gentlemen.

They give you fatigue. When the Astro, when the Yankees were playing on a routine basis in the 1990s for the World Series, I had fatigue. When the Celtics were going to the NBA finals, year after year after year. I was getting fatigued. Now remember, there were some Lakers Celtics matchups during that time of the 80s

that was incredibly good. And hopefully we'll have a great game. But I ain't going to lie. And you put a poll question up this morning. The least of the attractive of the four matchups is the one we're getting. And it may be the best in terms of quality. Obviously, the candidate chiefs have been,

we've been telling the, America has been telling the whole world this year, the Kansas Chiefs are a lucky football team. They're winning games on last second field goals, or blocks, or past interferences. You know what Kansas City is? Excellent. It's a dynasty.

It's about to maybe win a three-peed in four out of six years. I mean, it's a dynasty. Tell me not to like it. So that's what my philosophy is. I appreciate it. I respect it. Don't like it. Yeah, I mean, I'm just respecting what the Chiefs went out there and did. I mean, they took care of business against the Texans.

and then everybody was talking about the bills and it was a good game and well there was a questionable fourth down call or a spot on a fourth down call in that game but other than that I mean I was really impressed with Andy Reid and I was really impressed with this Chief's defense and doing what they could at the right moments and getting the victory over a very good Buffalo Bills team and they earned it they absolutely earned it nobody yeah nobody should be no fan in America should be bitching and complaining about calls I mean I am a little fatigued about that.

You know what? There may have been the spot in the late in the game was very iffy. There was a catch that may have not have called, but every time Buffalo had a chance to put the kibosh on some sort of drive with Kansas City, the Chiefs got the first down. I mean, come on. The Buffalo bills have to stop somebody.

If you're going to win the AFC and finally get over this hump, you got to make some plays. And Pat Mahomes made the plays over and over and over again. You cannot take that away from them. Yeah, I'm just somebody who, I love to watch sports for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is to see the greatest athletes on the planet. Another one of those reasons is to see historic greatness. And what we're seeing right now with the Chiefs is historic greatness.

And I guess that's just the way of you. I understand. And I'm well, well, well in the minority. And everybody hates the Chiefs and wanted to read against him. They don't even hate them. I don't, again. A lot of people do. Yeah, I mean, I get it.

I mean, and Kelsey's, and we're going to get. Taylor Swift's up. Taylor Swift fatigue. I don't even care. You know what? You're a soft, triggered snowflake. If you get all upset that they show Taylor Swift on the TV for like five seconds, it's a three-hour broadcast, and they show Taylor Swift for like 20 seconds of it,

and then everybody gets all pissy and upset. Well, you shouldn't do that. It's a great football game. She's a great popular. She's a most popular pop culture figure in the world. And maybe for the rest of her life, she'll be down. And I don't even care about that angle. Like the game itself, I mean, the touchdown that the bills got at the end of the game

and then get the two-point conversion to make it to tie the game on the fourth and five touchdown to Curtis Samuel. I mean, it was just, there was a bunch of great things about that game. And I'm just sitting there, like I said, I know I'm in the minority. Like, everybody's upset. That was a great game. That was a fun game. See, again, I think I can separate being upset from being bored. And I'm just, I can't, again, 530 Sunday, February.

Is it February 9th, I think? Yeah. I'll be in front of the television. I'll be with the family. Rosh, you come over to if you want to bring a pack back, you know, spend the night. No, I'm good. Sleeping bags kind of thing. But I got to feel my gas tank twice to get up there.

I can't be, I want to be authentic with the audience. And I'm just like, okay, let's go. I mean, two weeks is fine. But I'm not getting. a deep dive on it. Ross, you've got a specialty podcast called Inside the Chiefs and you can do all that.

But yeah, I mean, there's to me, there's 20 other local things that are going to intrigue me more than will be the second time in three years. And like I said, I have no affiliation at all for the, I mean, if it was Dallas, it'd be something juicy to get on or Minnesota with the Sam Darnold

or Detroit with their first time. Is my right? Sam Darnold, right? Yeah, yeah. No. but I'm talking about this is a guy that was loved for dead you had the

the lions was scoring all the point I mean there were several teams in the NFL on the NFC side that would have been more intriguing so either with Washington or Philadelphia I was indifferent to but man I would have loved to have seen Josh Allen get his first shot I would have loved to have seen Lamar Jackson I would have loved for that selfishly for the Texans to get that first shot

they weren't going to get it but my point is it's fine but you know what it's the Burger King of Super Bowl The networks disagree. I think this is maybe the least desirable matchable people. This is probably the number one matchup. The networks wanted. Yeah, they're fine.

They wanted Eagles and Chiefs. And so, yeah, like I said, I mean, Nick Seriani was, everybody was talking about how he needed to be fired, and he was a terrible coach, and a lot of people talking about Jalen Hertz in that offense. Sequan Barkley, left for dead by the Giants. I mean, I think there's plenty of intrigue in this for me. Yeah.

All right, we got a lot to get to on the radio show. So we'll throw this out very early. But we have a loaded program in terms of topics. Are you, now don't tell me you're not going to watch the game, because that's just a lie. Don't lie to us. But are you generally excited about the game coming up? Like, Ross gave a nice, detailed run of how awesome this is going to be, and I'm like, okay, that's fine. Give me a good three and a half hour game.

Actually, give me a good five-hour game because of the halftime is going to take a little long time. 713-212-5-7-90. Are you fired up for this matchup between clearly the two best teams in the NFL that performed it beautifully during the postseason? In Kansas City, everybody was trying to take them out their pedestal. They're still on top. 7-13-212-5790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. It's 1016.

It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in Boston for Rockets and Celtics tonight here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Sports Talk 790. 1020, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a plethora of topics to get to in no particular order today. Casey beats Buffalo.

We had Philadelphia crushing Washington. We have the Rockets playing the Celtics tonight. After beating the Cavaliers two times in one week, we have my Houston Cougars pulling off a highly. and I mean highly improbable win against Kansas. The luckiest thing I've ever seen in basketball history. It's almost like again, everybody has been sending me tweets

and my buddy's been sending me texts about ESPN had it at 99.7% with Candles were going to win. I'm sick of those numbers. See, I'm not on Wednesday. I'm going to have to call in on Wednesday because I'm just ready to tell some people to shut their bumasses up.

This ESPN percentile, whoever does it, enough of that. Well, of course it's 99.7. But the thing I'll respond back? So you're saying there's a chance. And there is. And there was. And there was.

And then we got Ryan Presley traded. We've got Alex Brickman. We've got to hear how your weekend went with the Astros Fest thing going on. And then let me tell you something fighting Texas Aggie basketball. Oh. And let me tell you, back in the day, Rossi, when these were student athletes and they weren't being compensated. Legally. It was very difficult for anybody to say, oh, that team choked because they're kids.

They're 18, 19 years old. Rossi, they're growing ass man making NAA on money. Aggies, you choked. You 100% choked. 22 point lead second half, you choked. Let me get the win probability for you on that one, Matt? No, I don't want it. Looks like it went up to 98.3.

Oh, my God. Was it 22 second? I know it was a 22 point. 22, yeah. It went to 22 points in the, I think 22 points might have been the first half. Okay. At the most, it was 22 points. So I'm going to peel the,

the curtain back just for a second because that's what we do here on the show. My middle son Peyton, who I love and adore him. We'll be graduating this May come out. I love and adore him as well. You do. He's very, very emotional about his Aggies. Uncomfortably emotional about them. Okay.

So we have to walk on eggshells when we talk about the Aggies. I'll text them when they win. If they get close or they lose, I don't respond to him. Okay, that's just the rule. His brother knows that, his sister knows that, and his mother knows that. We just don't talk about it. So Cameron, his older brother, sent us in a family group text, Hey, Pay, great job.

Y'all are kicking Texas' ass in their own building. Okay? Payton doesn't respond. I said, pay, get to a television as soon as possible, and watch it. This is fun. You guys are about to beat the Aggies twice in the, and the Longhorns twice in the same year. And then the implosion.

So after the game, after losing, Tremont Mark, with the former Cougar, by the way, and former Arkansas Razorback. Cougar legend, Tremon Mark. Yeah, it's fine. He wins the game. I don't send the text. I don't say anything.

Find out late yesterday that Peyton called his mother and said, please tell my siblings, my brothers and sisters, and my dad, I don't want to talk about Aggie basketball at any point the rest of the year. So there you have. What program did he think he signed up for? I don't know, but he's so miserable. The Texas A&M Aggies? Who's basketball team who has never been to an elite eight?

And whose basketball, whose football team hasn't won anything in football since Hitler invaded Poland? He signed up for that and he can't handle losses? Come on, Peyton. Let's go. Cousin Ross. Grow up, Peyton. Let's go, buddy. I just can't.

I can't do it to him. And when my son calls his mother and says, please have dad and my brothers and sisters not text me about Aggie basketball the rest of the year. Oh, hold by the way, my, I want to take a phone call. I got somebody at the front door. Is Matt leaving his hotel? No, just hold on one second. Are you getting up right?

You really? I'll tell you the reason why in a second. Are you serious? Hang on one second. Hang on one second. Okay. I'm just going to stall. I'm not even going to take a phone call because we're only a couple of minutes away for brick.

I'm intrigued. What is going on here? I'm just trying to listen to what Matt's talking about. Okay, now he's coming back now. All right. And a great call there. Steve in Pearland. We'll talk to you down the road.

Go ahead, Matt. What did Steve and Paralline have to say? He said you suck. I'm sure. It's very rude. It's very rude. We hung up on them. All right.

So I have a stat service that helps me with game stats for the game. Oh. They were late. You don't even do your own game. prep. No, I do my own game prep. I prep like a muddy. You heard the broadcast. You know how good it is. He had a prep service you just said. Well, but I mean, it helps me. It doesn't like, I mean, it doesn't speak for me. I have to still communicate the game. Well, they got real, the stats prep service got late. So usually when I get it in the morning, I go down, printed downstairs at the hotel and I go

get it. Well, I tell my mom on the air for the next four hours, so I can't really go down there. So they brought it to me. Isn't that nice? That is, that's great, Matt. Okay, there you go. That's all I had. It was nothing, anything more than that. This sounds like fancy mad activities. I got another story about this hotel. You're getting show prep run up to your five diamond hotel room? I got another story that's crazy. Okay.

But let's take some calls first. 713-212-5-790. Are you excited? I'm not asking you to get fired up. I'm not asking you to lose your lunch over this game coming up. But tell me your excitement level, maybe like a 1-10, 1-5. You're not going to watch. A bunch of frauds.

No, I'm not saying you don't want. If you're not watching, you're lying to it. You're lying to yourself because you're not going to watch lifetime. You're not going to watch empty. Puppy bowl. You're not going to watch reruns of golden girls. You're going to watch the game because you're a grown ass man or woman.

But there's a difference in being excited about something and having it on. And I'm going to be brutally honest. Hopefully the game will make me excited. But at 5.30 on Sunday to February 9th, it'll be just be on. Except for halftime when the greatest

I'm getting a little choked up about this. You okay, Matt? Kendrick Lamar is going to be out of half time. I know. You're excited? Oh, my God, I'm pumped up. Can't believe it. So fired up.

So happy for him. Renfro, Missouri City. What do you think about the Super Bowl coming up? Oh, man. I'm telling you what, I'm super excited about it, really. Because, first of all, Jaylon Hurston made it again, second term. He'd get a chance to redeem himself,

because if you notice the last football, when both teams, played. It was who was going to have the ball last. And Kansas City had the ball last, and they didn't give it back. Because neither team could really stop it. It was definitely a good game to watch. And it's good to see a repeat of the same two teams trying to duke it out again. And I'm like you, Matt, Kansas City is just good.

Like you said, they're a dynasty. And, you know, when you look at it and you see how they want and they're saying, hey, that's what good teams do. I remember the years when Pittsburgh was playing, and how Pitchburg kept going. They were playing ugly football, but they was winning. And when you win, I mean, I think that's all that count. And when you do win, you do get a lot of hazers and everything else, you know.

But it was excited. I agree with you. Buffalo had that chances to make one stop that's all they had to do. It's like one stop, get the ball back. And then because I really felt Josh is going to be good. He's good. There's no doubt about that. He's a hell of a football player, a hell of a quarterback.

You know, but I was very impressed also with that opportunity that they had, they just didn't take advantage of it. But Kansas City is just that damn good. They are being hated a lot, you know, and everything. Most teams hate winners, but we've got to give them that dues. One thing that's, I want to throw this out there. The Washington, the Washington commander is going to be a good team, too. I mean, that kid played a hell of a football game.

He just didn't have any help with his team fumbling the ball and everything else, you know. So that really took them out of the rhythm, those fumbles of the fumbles off to kickoff, and the other two fumbles that they had. So, and I thought if you gave him a chance of the tight game, he would have been some exciting plays, too. So we can get ready to look at, you know, Washington Commanders being one of those teams that's going to, they're going to definitely feel on this season and everything else. And they just played a great Philadelphia team, which I think is going to. to be around.

Those two teams are going to be around for a while. And how Dad is going to get back in the midst is going to be funny. Because I don't see that as being able to overtake those two teams real quick. But let me say this, if you don't have a good offensive coordinator that can design plays as the game goes in the read is one of the best. I want to see what this guy from Chicago going to do with, you know, the officer coordinator just got the coaching job. I want to see what he's really going to do, because I'm really excited about his play calling, and I think that's what's going to kind of start the

growth for the Texas. If we don't get a play called, this guy, Bob, so it doesn't learn to, you know, the game as he grow, all we're going to pass on him really getting it together because that's the only thing that I can see holding down the Texas team. But I'm excited about this football, the Super Bowl coming. Thank you very much, right. Appreciate the phone call. Thank you for joining us. More of you coming up in a matter of moment.

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Two Creeks Crossing Resort. Website again, check it out. Two Creeks Crossing Resort.com. We're going to honor the former Astro Orion Presley coming up at about 25 minutes or now. In the next segment of the show, we're going to get Ross's Astro, what they call it. I don't know what they call it. Astro's Fast. Yeah, Astro's Fan Fest.

Saw a lot of photos with you. You did? probably could have worn on a little bit of a nicer collared shirt, maybe some khakis or something. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? You could have dressed with the occasion. Was anybody dressed nice there?

I was in a coat because it was cold. Did Gordy wore a sweatshirt? Let's see. Wexler was in a hoodie in jeans. Are you criticizing him? Dan Matthews was in a hoodie in jeans and I was in a quarter zipping jeans. Oh, maybe then you were the best dressed of the group's out. You know what?

Shut your bum ass up. At least I didn't wear it. Bregman jersey. Who did that? Ryan Roraima did that last year. Oh, Ryan Rarima did? Last year. Oh, no.

I think it was a Bregman jersey? I can't remember. Look, the guy was going to Astros fan fest, and he wore a jersey. Yeah. Are you okay? No. Are you choking back there? Yeah, actually, I've had a bad cough.

I haven't been able to kick it for like a week. Really? Oh. I got a little bit of scratchy throw. This weather change is going from 20 to 50 to 20 to back in. fourth, it's not great. How's a casino in Boston? It took me yesterday. It's fine. Steve wins? Steve wins? Pockets got fatter?

I'm going to tell you all something. If you want the nicest casino outside of Las Vegas, it's the encore. So nice. I love it. It's a for those of you've gone to Vegas, it's the exact replica of the encore in Las Vegas. It's so nice. I was like, they're going to kick me out of here, and I wasn't even doing anything.

Food options were good. People were nice. The tables We're not pleasant. Nice to me, but it's... Limits? Limits high? 25, but you got three to two. Oh, that's good. Yeah, in Cleveland, there was six to five on the black check, so I was not happy about that.

That's a stay away, Matt. Well, I can't stay away when it's 20 feet from my hotel room. And your eyes start twitching. Start getting the shakes. Let's go to the phones and talk to Bobby in Memorial at 1038 on 790. Bobby, good morning. Oh, man, I'm super happy. I've been a Cougar season ticket holder now for 6-7.

eight years and I don't know how many they've won in a row at home 33 but I've been to 32 of them and just to watch the way they play defense and the intensity that the coach instills in them and it's just a joy to watch and the coach is

just a wonderful person and oh my God I used to go to the games and before he got there and no one was there and now that he's there everybody comes in with the U of H hat shirt something and it's just I can't even tell you what a joy to be a season ticket holder and for the people that haven't gone to see them

some of these games you can get on stub hub for like six dollars during the week so i encourage everybody to uh come check them out live because it's just awesome and that's all i got thanks for the show bobby all i appreciate it yeah um i got to look i'm an equal opportunity optimist and an equal opportunity pessimist the building still even though every ticket is sold people can still get in. No show factor at Cougar basketball games is immense. Really? Yeah, and I'm very disappointed.

Isn't that thing only hold like 8,000 people? No, it's like 7,400. Oof. Yeah, I don't know. Come on Coox fans, there's 7,400 Cooke's fans getting mad at me on Twitter, so we could at least fill up the building. Yeah, if anybody's ever been mad at Ross for any length of time, that includes his family.

Please go to the next game. That place will be full. I'll never have an unsold seat. True Wars never spoken, Rossi. I'll tell you that. Yeah, it was very difficult for me because the game between Kansas and U of H had like a 60-minute head start on me

on the Rockets and Cavaliers. So I would call the Rockets Cavaliers and then check the phone and I'm like, oh, they're down by six, down by nine, down by seven, down by three, down by zero, up by three, up by four. I mean, it was, it, It was all over the place, and then they were down six with like 15 seconds left.

I'm like, all right, I'll turn it off. And then I go check the phone because I had the feet on. And they were in overtime. I'm like, what happened? It was as gutsy of a victory as you will find. First of all, Fogg Allen looks like it's an incredible place. I put on Twitter yesterday. It's the number one place I want to go to see a basketball game that I've not gone to yet.

And to go into that building against a top 15 team to beat them, that was a huge win. And Joe Larnardi, if you don't get them out of the fourth spot in your little bracket, I'm going to find you and beat you down. Yeah, I was watching it on Saturday. It wasn't, what time was the game? I can't remember. 5.30? I don't know what exactly.

Oh, I was watching the Rockets. I was watching the Rockets, and then I had that on a side TV, and I stopped watching. I literally thought it was so far. I was like six seconds, and they were going to the free throw line. I completely blocked it out of my vision. And then five minutes later or whatever, I'm like, well, What? Second OT?

Yeah. I had to go on my phone and look at the play-by-play because I was in disbelief. Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. Joanne Roberts had 24 points. I mean, that's a career high for him. I think.

He's the one that made the fallaway throw, or no, did he, he made his two free throws? He had a bunch of baskets in overtimes. I know that. And then Malik Wilson, I'm trying to give you a comparison. Malik Wilson hardly plays. But because of injuries to a variety of different folks. folks. He stepped up, and I think he scored like 18 points. I mean, it would be like Aaron Holiday scoring 25 for the Rockets. That's how big of a difference maker. Yeah. I mean, it can, but it doesn't

normally. And here's a guy like, Malik Wilson would be the easy case of, I'm a really good player. I was highly recruited. I'm not playing here. Guess I'm going to do. I'm going to enter the portal. He's been here since the start of his college career, I think. I know he's had a chance to leave, but he hasn't. And he made the most of his time. 15,000 people completely shell-shocked in Lawrence, Kansas. Very, very impressive win, and I'm happy. And Ross, I brought this up yesterday. I think it was somebody in the Rockets Traveling Party.

He's like, it's like Final Four, bust. I'm like, yeah, it kind of is. Pretty much. So I will be despondent if they don't make it the Final Four. I think they're going to make it, Matt. I don't really know the rest of the landscape. But even if I did, I don't, you can't, it's, there's 68 teams. It's going to take, I mean, you have to go through a bunch of really good teams in short periods of time.

But damn. Yeah, but when you're at one-see, that first matchup is cake. Second matchup, usually you're like eight to ten-point favorites. Then you're into the sweet 16. Well, my guess is, you know, again, Lenardi is just one person. But the net ratings and the Ken Palm have the Cougars way, way, way high. Yeah, Ken Palm still has them at third behind Duke and Auburn, who beat Tennessee over the weekend. Yeah, the Cougars have not lost since they played those games in Vegas,

and that was like in, what, late November, something like that? San Diego State or something? Yeah, I mean, you got a haircut the last time they lost a home game. I mean, that's been that long. I probably did get a trim around them, actually. Okay. So, shout out, and by the way, shout out to the Rockets, too. How about the Rockets winning in Cleveland?

Yeah, we didn't even talked about that. They swept the one seed in the East. Swept the one seed. And granted, it's Cleveland. was on a back-to-back, but you know what? I'm a bitch. It just is. Yeah. And, I mean, Karras Levert wasn't there. There's Cavas fans on

Isaac McCorough. Don't forget about him. He wasn't there either. But Evan Mowgli was there. He played. Shingoon and Jalen Green, would they have 26 apiece? Yeah. Amend Thompson? It's becoming like a folk hero around the country. I tweeted, was this premature, Matt?

I tweeted he's their most valuable player. Amen Thompson. I don't know. Let's find that. He wakes up with double doubles. He has a triple double against Cleveland on Saturday. He defends five different players. He's their best perimeter defender. He rebounds.

He's smart. I mean, yeah, I'm pretty good with that. Okay, I didn't jump the gun. Okay, good. All right, come back. We're going to get a full report from Rossi on Fan Fest. What the Vibe was like? And how many Alex Breggman questions did he ask everybody?

And who gave the best and who gave the worst answer? It's all straight ahead. As Matt Tom Mitchell, Ross continues, I'm here in Boston for Celtics and Rockets tonight, right here on Sports Talk 7. Matt and Ross return on Sports Talk 790 1049

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570 is how you reach our program. 713-212-5-7-9. Rossi, you were at Astros fanfest. Give us the vibe, give us a rundown, and give us some anecdotal things about all the different folks you talk to. Let's see. The vibe was good.

It didn't seem, they announced 21,000 fans, I think. It didn't seem to me like it was more populated than years past, but that's okay. Let's see. As far as the guest list, I think we started with Spinter Erigetti was really good. Dana Brown, the way that Dana Brown was talking about the Alex Bregman thing,

and I saw Ken Rosenthal put out, I think it was recently, that he wouldn't bet against the Astros and the negotiation. But just the vibe and the body language of Dana Brown talking about Bregman, it seems like it's a far-fetched thing to happen. But also it's not his call necessarily. No, no, no.

I'm sure the deal is there. When it comes to money spending and money. competitive balance tax and all that type of stuff. It's Jim's Crane's call. Yeah, but I wonder how much of the Presley salary dump is going to help on that. I don't know. If that was imminent. Yeah.

So here's when you say that, and not hearing Dana specifically, I got to cause some clips on the social media. But is he doing this because he's just trying to keep the door open a little bit, the door crack? I think that's the phrase we've been using. is he doing this to make sure that Jose Tube, you know, because remember Jose was pretty adamant about wanting to keep his guy here. I mean, was it trying to placate to him, or is it, well, if nobody else wants him, we'll take him. I mean, it could be all the combination all the above I just said.

But, yeah, I got the same vibe that it was, we're talking, but we're kind of already set, too. Yeah, and, you know, Dana Brown is always a guy, And you've interviewed him, man, we have over the years, he always is super optimistic. He's always like, yeah, man, maybe we can get this done, maybe we can get that done. Jose Bray, remember? Jose Bray was going to come back. This is a good move for Raphael Montero.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. John Singleton's got a lot of pop. Like, he's always optimistic. So for him to be like, yeah, I just, it just seems like a remote possibility, right? I don't have his exact words, but basically to that effect, that just makes me think that it's not going to happen. So I was surprised to see the thing from Ken Rosenthal. that he's favoring the Astros in this negotiation. And Ken Rosenthal, obviously over the years,

been very plugged in with the Astros. The number one thing I can't get past is that you wouldn't have made all these other other side moves if you really thought Alex was going to come back. And look, if Alex comes back, I'll be very happy. I mean, I don't want to hide the fact that I would be not fired up for him to come back. But you would be then taking, granted, again, Al-Tube is no longer an elite second baseman, but you're asking him to do something he's never done in his professional career. And at his age, and again, it's not like he's filing for Social Security tomorrow,

but we know what it's like to see massive changes for a defensive player late in their career. And I don't think anybody is going to be thinking, oh, Jose Al-Tube is in the left field, this is going to be fun. That's another thing. Everybody that we talked to, we kind of joked about playing left field, and they all seemed to kidding about laughing it off and dismissing it as just, complete nonsense is what it felt that was the vibe you're asking for the vibe that was the vibe right right okay so arrogated you talk about his flow uh yeah we did talk about his flow he said he likes it he's gonna keep it um also uh taylor scott he was super nice and outgoing and and and loud and fun and so i don't know matt

maybe he just didn't like he just in front of the show now no i'm just kidding he was exactly like he was with you so was he really i'm gonna tell you don't take any offense to anything he said he was very of fact, straightforward. That's just his personality. He doesn't mean to any offend. So we had Taylor Scott on last year and we thought he hated you, but it just turns out that's just kind of the guy he is. He's not rude. He's just

short and matter of fact. Yeah. You know, it's funny because we had Stephen Adams on it at Media Day this year and we were kind of taken aback by him not being very gregarious. Yeah, he wanted to suplex you. He did. Or at least put me in a full Nelson. Yeah. And we

had him on the post game in Cleveland a couple nights back and I see him in the hotel and we say hello to each other. He's very pleasant, but he's just, you know, some people just don't want to do media. Yeah. And it's like, I feel like with Taylor, you know, middle relievers don't get called on a lot, so it's not one of those situations where he's comfortable or he's okay kind of being in the background. Stephen Adams may be in the exact same situation. They'll do it. They'll give you the answers, but they're not going to go out of their way to give you anecdotal stories.

Yeah. You know, it is what it is. I thought Spencer Arrogati was extremely articulate and fun and funny. I think if he wants to at some point later in his many, many years down the road, pursue a media job. I think he can do that. We've talked about that already with him before. Yeah, he's good. He was great.

Remember he no hit my May Creek Rams like twice? Oh, yeah, that's true. Well, also, well, can they even feel the full squad over there? I don't know. Sorry, Matt. I mean, I love my high school, but it's not the same high school I went to. Hayden Wiseneski was good. Hayden Waznowski said he's in six fantasy leagues.

Oh, God. So we were talking fantasy football basically the entire time. That was fun. That was a good interview. What else? Bryce Matthews, the young prospect. And? He's good.

Where's he going to play this year? I think shortstop at Sugarland. Huh. Okay. And then Astros legend, Taylor Trommel was also on. And how was that? He was good. Good.

So you guys did okay? Yeah. So it took three of you to interview these people, though, huh? Yeah. You know, everybody wants to get on the act and have a good time. Talk some Astros ball. It's all good. Okay.

All right. Well, good. I'm glad you guys had a good time. And it was cool. The temperatures made you wear a jacket out there. It was chilly. By the end of it, my hands were getting cold, but I was fine. Were they selling the old jerseys of former players out there, too?

Like at massive discounts? Yeah, I think so. If you want a Ben Gamble jersey, you can get one on the, on the cheat. Yeah, I wonder if you can get a Brian Mueller on the Jeep jersey too. Well, those might have been sold out, Matt, for years. Yeah, those are definitely gone. Yeah. All right, we need to honor Ryan Presley.

We'll do that to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in Boston. We've got a pretty good match. Do we have an NBA finals preview, Rossi? Hello? Hello? That's probably not, but that's really not the craziest thing you've ever said. Well, you know, it's funny because I have an engineer and statistician in Cleveland who I like

Like, we got a really good group of people we travel with and that are working these cities. And I told the Cleveland, I said, hey, I'll see you in June. And you're like, okay. I'm like, I don't know. Look, I've seen Cleveland play twice. I've seen Boston in person once and I see Boston on TV all the time. And again, I'll know more. Obviously, tonight when the Rock is by the Celtics, but I think the Celtics are going to have very little resistance with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I tend to think you're right. But if that Cavaliers team is healthy, that defense is going to keep them in games. And if they just get hot for a series shooting the lights out, which they can't. I didn't see that defense on Saturday. I can tell you that for damn sure. No, I think when, yeah, the Rockets played really well. Look, they shot like 40-something percent from three. They're not going to, rockets aren't going to do that every single game.

Let's be honest. All right. We honor Ryan Presley and talk about the departure of our former closer, former eighth inning guy. Next, it's 1057. Ross back in our studios here in Houston. Yes, I'm back here for synergenics. Those are the people that we need to talk about when we're talking about your health and well-being, your day-to-day life.

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Swing and a mess. Slider gets Duran. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. And Ryan Presley strikes out the side in an impressive top of the night. Darren Resley tells the rubber from the first base side of the slider. Come set, letter high, hands away from the body. The one-two to Torres. Swing and a mess, got him on the slider. Yankees down to their final out.

He's throwing it as hard as he can. What a pitch. Holding on, Gell off at first. The O-1. Breaking ball, bounce right side, charging Dubon. He gloves, underhands to first, and that is the ball game. Ryan Presley gets his 100th career save as the Astros pick up the victory. And they've taken the first two games in Oakland, winning tonight by a final of 6 to 4.

That is three straight wins for the Astros. Low ready for an 02 from Presley, pitch on the way. And that is strike three call on the out. side corner Presley pounds his chest with his right hand as low goes down looking to retire the sides a lot of drama at the start of this inning but it ends with the ranger stranding a couple run all for a long time i have a simple question for you Houston texas do you appreciate ryan presley as much as i think ross and i have over the last seven seasons since 2018 huge part of this team's success winning a world series being a world series being a

an absolute fantastic closer slash late-end guy. Has he been perfect? No. But I would say, Ross, if you were to give somebody, like if Mariano Rivera is an A-plus, eh, it's not, that's too big. Let's recalibrate. Who is a...

Billy Wagner? I'm trying to get off of Hall of Fame, guys. I'm just trying to be a really good guy. Like, who's a really good closer right now? Josh Hater? Okay. You're not helping me here. if a high-end guy is

A plus Like doesn't surrender anything Okay I say Ryan Press is an A-minus Ooh I'm going to be Is that too generous? I'd say this point in his career B

We're talking about his Astros tenure Astros tenure Astros tenure A-minus is fine Yeah Yeah that's what I'm going with He was a lockdown guy for a couple of years There was some slippage in his game he stopped throwing his fastball,

but he was still great, and most importantly, nails in the playoffs. Yeah. If A-plus is the gold standard, it's like Mariano playoff, he's in A-minus. Now, were there some games in July that made you queasy?

Of course there were. Would you like to have seen more clean innings the last couple of years? Absolutely. But yeah, I would say A-minus Astros' career. and if you give me a minus, that means you're winning a lot of ball games, you're saving a lot of ball games,

and you are helping your team out during its most prosperous time as a franchise. Yeah, 45 in a third inning in the postseason, 2.78 ERA, 60 strikeouts in those 45 innings. Pretty darn good. Pretty darn good. Pretty good. It is about Toma Michelle Ross.

Would you like to say your final farewells to Ryan Presley? You know, I didn't put out the, what was your favorite Ryan Presley, is at Astros' moment because really there's frankly a lot of them. How about getting the final out of the 2022 World Series? With a great grab by a hundred pence and right field, right? Val territory? Kind of.

Not exactly. Kyle Tucker? Yeah, wasn't a great grab. It was a great grab. Against the wall? No. That was down the foul territory. Yeah, foul territory.

I was thinking about the foul line. Kyle Tucker down the foul line. I just don't know if you're messing with me or not. No, no, no, I'm not trying to. you know, as you get older, you lose memory. So I forget your name half the time. I'm why to write it down in bold. It's Ross. All right.

So, ladies and gentlemen, we say goodbye to Ryan Presley. Astros get a prospect in return, have to give some cash to the Cubs as part of it. But what I'm not catching, and I was watching a little bit of MLB this morning, this morning. It's almost like saying watching USA Today Today. Okay. Reading, I should say. They were like, this is going to help Bregman situation. I find them to be two completely different situations.

I guess it helps them stay under. Does it get them under? Look, we need a capologist basically. No, we don't know. That's boring. People would not like to hear that. I can't figure out what the heck is going on. I thought they were making this move to get under the tax.

And then they're going to go back over it with Bregman. Yeah. By the way, do we need an update? Let's go ahead and fire that bad boy off. Sure, why not? Bregman up on Matt and Ross's show. The bit's never going away. Much to the chagrin of some.

Sounds like the Mets are out, Rossi, on Bregman. The Mets are out? Yeah, the Mets. And it sounds like the Tigers are the team that probably financially, and probably from a need perspective, need a third basement more or infielder any more than anybody else. And they're kind of just sitting on their hands. Hmm.

Okay. Bragman's calling like A.J. Sam Braff, what's up, man? I can bring some incredible salsa to the upper Midwest. I guess they need it. Oh my God. The Mexican food in Detroit atrocious. That's where I had Chi-Chi's for the first time, remember? That's where you did what for the first time?

Had Chi-Chi's. Did you like Chi-Chi's? It was mid. I've had better. Really? You know? Like later in life? It's been a while since I've had Chee-Chi's.

Yeah, I would say mostly as a youth. Hmm. So you're saying you could use more Cheet-Chi's? If it tastes better, of course. Hmm. You don't think Chi-Chi's has gone up in quality? It depends on who's serving it. Hmm.

Your father managed Chee-Chi's? Yes. I told you that. He was a Che-Chi's manager. Yeah, your dad managed Chee-Chi's. Have you ever managed Che-Chi's? No, I've never even bused tables with Che-C-C-C-C-E's. You never bust Che-C-C-C-E's?

No, I've never busted Chi-C-C-C-E's before. That is correct. Correct. Now, if I would have stayed with my dad and he raised me... But you've been served, Chi-Chi's. If I would have stayed with my dad and grew up with him, he probably would have got me some Chi-Chi's. Hmm. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Let's say farewell to Ryan Presley. His wife and I follow each other on Twitter, so she's a good cat. What? Her name is Cat, actually. Did you spell their name wrong? Did you correct your tweet? No, I didn't. I had a few beverages during the evening last thing.

You know, I'd really try to take it easy on you, Matt. I really do. You shouldn't. You should absolutely rip the crap out of me. I was like, I'm just letting that one fly. By the way, how many different ways can you spell press? There's like 10 different ways. It's literally in her tweet that you quote tweeted.

Because it's right there. She knew that I was at a bar. Maybe she didn't know, but clearly, yeah. I guess I could have texted you. I didn't want to call you out on Twitter. Oh, like I said, I tried to. to take you out. I try to take it easy on you, Matt. Please. No, no, no. If you

giveeth, you must take it. So I would have had zero problem with that. But yeah, I misspelled it. And I also did a y-o-o-you-ar and y-o-u-re in it. But again, I had a few beverages. It was at a Boston pub. Yeah, a lot of vodka crayons or what? No, no. I had some pints.

Really? By the way, I have ripped on this city a lot over the years. Boston? I like it more than I do. I like it more now. Why? I just think it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's really and good. It's got a lot of culture to it.

It's got a lot of pizzazz. The bars are good. The restaurants are good. The food is amazing. They're diehard sports fans of all their teams. They're a little rude. But other than that, they're fine. I mean, the gardens, the garden.

Fenway Park is a museum. The Patriots of... I thought you hated Fenway. Was that somebody else? I don't like Fenway, but I mean, you have to still respect it. It's in a neighborhood. They jammed 34,000 people in the stadium It probably only should see it about 23.

But yeah, I have to respect awesome sports towns and say what you will about New York and Boston. They are diehard sports cities. Yes, they are. And they have a palatial casino. It took me for some money less. But that's fine. I hear or there. That's okay.

And I, by way, had an interesting Uber driver yesterday, too. Explain. I left the casino. It was probably 33 degrees. No way it was even 40, okay? Would you bundle up in your scarf? What would you normally wear when it's 33 degrees? A coat and a scarf.

Yeah, long pants? Yes. Mitten's perhaps even if you wanted to. Perhaps, maybe earmuffs? This woman that picked me up yesterday was in really short shorts. Okay. And it was just odd that somebody at 33-degree weather would be wearing in like shorts you'd wear it to a workout. Hmm.

Was she a Canadian? Maybe she was from Tibet? No, she didn't speak a link of English. Okay, so she could have been from Tibet. No, she listened to his, she was listening to Latina radio. Oh, okay, let's see. Well, I don't know if there's a Spanish being north of the 40th parallel. Hmm.

She might have listened to satellite radio. I'm not, I'm vexed on that one. But there was not a single word. Oh, no, no, she could be from the bottom tip of Argentina. It's cold there. I guess that's true. I mean, I don't know. Perhaps she was a Chilean.

but I uh the the uh the uh the the bellman at the hotel were kind of being rude about the Uber cars coming in to pick up people up and I said to her I don't know they were just it's a small driveway so I think they were just kind of just trying to keep you tell them to shut their bum asses up traffic flow I said say do you know who I am well I said that to the woman I said hey is everything okay because I know that guy was kind of rude and she had no idea what I was saying oh okay maybe she was intentionally like faking so she could avoid conversation yeah she's like I don't want to talk to this but you don't me, I'm not a talker in the car anyway. Oh, please, you're a liar. You say you're not and then you do. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Matt. No. I put my head back, close my eyes. Nice rest. I know. I'm a non-talker in the Uber and I hate when the drivers are super talkative or somebody you're with is chatty with a chatty driver and I's like, I just want to jump out of this car. I was dreaming of 21s and I wound up getting 14s all day long against the king.

We're talking about blackjack. The people at IHeart Radio would like to know. Matt Thomas is talking about the card game blackjack. Yeah, for sure. All right. Up next, we're being shamed by a media member if we don't love the Kansas City Philadelphia of Super Bowl coming up. Really?

Who? You'll find out next. 1114 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713-212-5-79 if you want to chime in. Presley memories, Bregman News, Rockets, Cougars, Super Bowl. And shame, shame, shame from an NFL reporter, or at least an analyst. 1114 on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790.

All right, we hear on the Matt Thomas show do not preach to you. We give opinions. We like for you to have opinions of your own. doesn't necessarily mean you have to agree with us, but we hope that they're a respectful way, whether it's talking to us through Twitter, which is really the anti-respectful way to speak to people, or the phones at 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I open up the radio program today with the fact that, while I think Kansas City and Philadelphia,

probably going to give us a very good game, I would presume so. They are the two best teams. They have beaten quality opponents. my excitement level for it is me because i've been there and done that when watching these games and frankly a lot of it to me was i want to see some new teams and two players that had kind of been wearing it out in terms of not getting over the hump and those two players were lamar jackson of baltimore and josh allen of buffalo so needless to say i'm not stoked now sunday at five 30 week two weeks from yesterday i'll be ready to go

Watch the game with the family, eat some chicken wings, so whatever, and enjoy myself with friends and family. But I'm not fired up for it now. Meanwhile, Nate Burleson of CBS on the NFL postgame show yesterday. Oh, no. Wanted us to tell, wanted you to hear this from him. Say this to the fan bases out there. If you're not a Chief's fan, that's okay.

But resist the urge to fall for the narrative that we're tired of seeing them win, that we might be fatigued of watching KC go to the Super Bowl over and over again. You are witnessing greatness and just be happy that you are alive to be there to see it. Excuse me. First of all, you can't tell me how to fan, okay? Sorry, Nate. Nate, you're an excellent water receiver in the NFL. You're very good on that CBS morning show that no one watches. But thirdly, don't tell me how to fan. And And fourth, you ruin the Hollywood squares. Nate's making a lot of great points.

Get them, Nate! Nate and the rest of you, national media pundits, do not tell anybody how to fan. If they're fatigued. Ross, we were fatigued about the Patriots going year after year after year. Yes, we were. So guess what? Fatigue is a part of sports. It just is.

Do you not think America's fatigued by the Astros? Of course they are. I get it. Well, they still put them on third. Thursdays at 2.30, so I don't know. Yikes. I just don't, you know, I don't want you to tell me what I can

and cannot have emotion wise. Whoa, whoa, Mr. Stop the Wave. You tell people that have a fan all the time. That's a stupid act that interferes with the game itself. That's stupid. If you like the way you're stupid. I'm going to tell you how to fan on that. That's a stupid-ass way to fan. You know what that means? You're wearing George. You got long hair.

idea who it'll leave you're like darlene of the astros you have like you only know three players no that's different i had not heard that nate burleson by that's pretty much what i was trying to say in the first like uh look guess what ross i'm not working on wednesday because i'm traveling with the team i'm going to tell you this right now Nate first of all you ruin my hollywood squares two putting drew barry more in the center square is ridiculous is it her production company or something it's hers yeah she It's a executive producer. That's why she's there.

That's the only way it makes sense. I would dig Peter Marshall of the grave right now to host the Hollywood Squares. You do a better job than Nate Burleson. You would rather have a rotting corpse there. An inanimate rotting corpse is better than Nate Burleson. That's kind of harsh, Matt. You know what? That's maybe a little harsh.

Give me John Davidson an 85 years old or Tom Bergeron, however old he is. What's Tom Bergeron up to these days? Not. He's obviously pissed off. He's not hosting a Hollywood Squares. He's not doing America's Funniest videos anymore. No. He's probably retired.

I mean, he's got to be probably, Burjorn's got to be, he's not doing dancing with the stars anymore either. So he's like, oh for these days. He is 69 years old. They should be retired. Play that Burlesing bite again.

I want y'all to hear this and how Nate's telling you what you should be doing about the Chiefs and how you should feel about them. Say this to the fan bases out there. If you're not a Chief's fan, that's okay. But resist the urge to fall for the narrative

that we're tired of seeing them win, that we might be fatigued of watching KC go to the Super Bowl over and over again. You are witnessing greatness and just be happy that you are alive to be there to see it. I'm so happy. I'm alive to see the Chiefs. Give me a break. Going for three straights. Shut your bum ass up, Dave Burles. Three straight team wins.

Be happy that you're alive. Be able that you have your eyesight that you could watch Pat Mahomes. Oh, please. that's never been done before. Andy Reid going for his fourth Super Bowl trying to cement himself while he's already shortlist one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Don't give me two hours of bump. Jalen Hurts trying to get over the hump. Can Travis Kelsey get there one last time, even though his legs have failed him? Xavier Worthy, Longhorn legend. Be happy that you're alive to see. Something like Jeff

Passett would say. Give me a break. Be happy that you're alive to see. happy that you're alive to see the Dodgers spend all this money. Yeah. Why don't you be happy that you would Drew Barrymore or know each other very well, so you get to ruin a great game show of the last 60 years? You starting rumors, Matt? No, but, I mean, seriously, if you're Drew Barrymore and you have all these celebrity friends,

you're thinking, I need a definitive host of the Hollywood Squares. Nate Burleson sounds about right. And if you think I'm bitter, damn Skippy I am. You're very bitter. I would be significantly more apt to host the Hollywood Squares than Nate Burleson would be. First thing I do is I get Drew Barrymore on the center square. She's like lower middle, if anything. Thank God that show is getting universally panned.

You're really broken up about this Hollywood Squares. No, but I'm just, look, I'm going to enjoy the game in two weeks. I can separate the game from the hype of the game, and there'll be zero hype on this show. It lets you just want to just get in and go, man, I kid out weed for the big. Please. We were tired of the Yankees domination. We were tired of the Celtics. We were tired of the Patriots. That's what we do as Americans and as sports fans. We like variety. We're not big fans of dynasties. I don't know. It just seems like dynasties build. They do kind of build interest in the sport to me. Oh, please. If we had, you're telling me that if the Baltimore Ravens were in the Super Bowl, they would be little interest in us. Are you kidding me, Lamar Jackson's first chance?

There's, of all the events in the world of sports that don't need energy to get people excited about, it's a freaking Super Bowl. Everybody and their mother's going to watch it. Our favorite, Kendrick Lamar is going to be at halftime. That in itself is worthy of watching that thing. That's true, actually. But don't give me the, well, interest will be heightened because of the three people. I didn't say that.

Well, whatever, people are saying that. First of all, people think that the chiefs have the referees in their back pocket. I mean, and I'm not going to buy into that narrative. I'm just not. They're not going to go find a middle market team to go, oh, they deserve all the breaks. If that was the case, the Rams and the Giants and the Jets would get all the breaks. That is correct. That is correct.

I mean, come on. 31 owners aren't allowing the Hunt family to rig the NFL for themselves. By the way, where was the Hunt daughter last night? She wasn't up on stage, was she? I don't know, Matt. Why are you worried about her? I'm not worried about her. It seems like you are.

I'm not worried about. Well, maybe she's not feeling well. Maybe she went up there. But mom was. Clark was. Yeah. Clark, I'm so honored to have this. I've done so much to help this team.

No, you're lucky, you know what, a club again. Just like another owner's in the NFL. What is it, 20-something of the teams are owned by they were inherited or something? Kids, yeah. And Clark's like, damn. I got a hot wife. I own an NFL team. I'm a billionaire. Life is good.

And by the way, I got something for you for the pro-Canada city crowd. Andy Reid might be just as good as Bill Belichick, Rossi. I think that's totally arguable. Bill Belichick won in one place with one quarterback, although there was the Mack Castle season that they were very good. He did win 10 games with Mac Jones. Yep. Andy Reid has a better...

Now, Andy Reid's coaching tree hasn't shaken out as good as it was a few years ago, but he still has a better coaching tree. If he wins this year, that'll be four Super Bowls to six. And he took another team and a whole different organization with a whole different quarterback to a Super Bowl with Donovan McNabb and the Eagles. It's very arguable to me. Good, I'm glad.

I feel better now. All right, we're going to talk to Gary and to John, and then after that we're going to play to tell the truth. We may push to tell the truth back a second, but I got some good ones. This week, Rossi, I've got four takes. You're going to believe three of them. one of them you're not going to believe.

Do you comprehend? Okay, wait, let me write this down. You're going to believe one? No, you're going to believe three. You're going to believe three. How many do I believe? No, you are. You are going to believe three. I'm going to believe three.

And one of them is going to be not what I believe. Okay, one of them is a lie. Correct. Okay. Up next, we'll have that plus phone calls. Gary, John, recipe, 713, 212, 5, 790. Now you're Google searching. She's the owner.

The daughter of the chief's owner. What's his name, Mr. Hunt? And his dad was Lamar. Not Lamar. Mike? Mike. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You almost got me.

You almost got me. I said almost. Clark. Clark. Clark. Don't do that. That's terrible. Oh, man.

I was so close. Don't do that. that. So close. And I would have at you to come because I'm, look,

I am preparing for a Rockets game trying to engage the people of Houston. I don't need a low-hanging attempt at low-brow comedy from you. The game isn't for seven hours.

I'm still prepping like a mother because I'm a preparer. You're not going to be preparing the whole seven hours. You're probably just prepping for a mid-afternoon nap. Not really. Our bus leaves

like less than two hours after our shows over with. Oh, okay. Seriously. You hear how embarrassing. Ross is trying to get me to say anything. It's probably going to ultimately happen. That was great.

That was fantastic. It wasn't fantastic. It was embarrassing for you. I feel shame for your career. Gary in Spring at 1134 on 790. Gary, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys. Matt, Ross.

I was calling about two things. One for the Rockets. Man, I just, the Rock. They are so good. It's unbelievable. how fast they got so good. They've got it all. They've got offense.

They've got defense. They've got a great coach, great players, and they're becoming very intimidating. They're very forceful with their game. So they're just, and they're so fast and jump so high. They just got it all, man.

It's so exciting to watch them. And so I'm really glad that they're playing and doing so well because no Texans, no Astros. So, but I wanted to, comment on that but if you were talking earlier about are you going to watch the super bowl and i'm not going to watch the super bowl a couple reasons one is there's no

houston on the helmet or the or the jersey i'm i'm a homer and the only reason i'd watch it this time is for commercials but if you go to a party you can't hear the commercials anyway so i've got my my uh dvr set for i'm going to watch leave it to beaver i'm going to watch andy griffith I'm going to watch Wagon Train and I forget the other show I'm going to watch what a rifle man I'm going to watch that and then I'm going to go to bed so that's my plans for the Super Bowl night

but man I love the Rockets they are so good and you do a great game great job calling them too Matt anyway so that's my Super Bowl plans you know what I'm in this fancy hotel you know there are like 50,000 channels of like 1950s TV shows Did you know that?

I didn't know that. Like there's like me TV and there's a channel on my TV here in the hotel that's got nothing but Saturday Night Live reruns. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's mostly older people that are watching a bunch of TV, right? Yeah. But I mean, you could watch Gunsmoke, Bonanza, My Three Sons, Leave It to Beaver. The Rathlman. Ruffelman. Mission Impossible, the TV series.

Hey Matt, what was your favorite 1960s Western television show? Ramon, what happened to Chuck on Happy Days? Do you remember Pinky Tuscadero, Ramon? The Andy Griffith show, you ever whistle that song just while you're hanging around by yourself? Ramon, did Am B really hate Barney? That's over my head. What's that from?

Andy Griffith. Apparently, Am B. a lot of problems with people on the cast. Did you prefer the Ruffelman or Gunslinger? Gunsmoke. I don't think it was a gunslinger show, too. Gunslinger was a show too. Was it really? Yeah, don't be trying to correct me. You and Tom.

Starring who? I don't know. I think you're making it out. You want to bet me? No. Let me see. Glensinger's show. A fast gun takes undercover assignments and post-Civilware of New Mexico. CBS. Yes. Tony Young, starring Tony Young.

Ramon, what's your favorite CSA? Now they have an FBI CIA. It's very confusing. What? That's a lot of letters there. No, I, if Gary's doing that, he's going to be a minority. I mean, look, I'm not asking you to take notes during the Super Bowl. I'm not asking you to go watch endless Super Bowl coverage from New Orleans.

But, I mean, we're going to be 540 or whatever. whenever it is, we're going to be watching. Two things we can watch. We're going to watch. We're going to look for the national anthem, how it's performed, how the game is going. Oh, who's singing the national anthem? Do we know yet?

I don't know. Maybe it's Matt out there. And then we're going to know, and then we're going to look at Twitter at halftime and half America's going to hate Kendrick Lamar and half's going to say that was the best performance they ever seen their life. Hmm.

So that's how it works with most halftime acts. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. Oh, I know. These are guarantees. I guarantee you put Kendrick Lamar in on your Twitter on the search and you will see the, a plethora of opposing opinion. It will not be universally loved.

Yeah, he is, I believe, the first, no, well, there was a, uh, didn't the Snoop Dog and them do it? I think he's the first rapper to do it by himself. But he's, he just announced he's having somebody with him, though. Oh, yeah, that's Cizza. Who? Cizza. Cizza what?

Cizza who? I mean, there's a person on live name Cizza? Yeah. S-I-Z-A? No, S-Z-A. Where's the eye? Sizzah. No, it's just Sizzah.

Kind of like the Riza and the Jizzah. Excuse me? And the ghost face killer. John and Needville, 1139 on 7.90. John, good morning. Jesus. Who? Gizzed these nuts?

Good Lord. Hey, you know, Matt, I think what you're saying on this dynasty thing and people hate the dynasties, it's so much of, it's not the dynasty, it's the always in the face. It's always, that's all they talk about.

It's always mainly, it's the cheating. I mean, the chiefs, I mean, come on, we all know that was the first down last night. I mean, Ray Charles could have seen that. You know, with the Patriots, everybody hating on the Patriots, it was the smugness and the way Belichick, you know, reacting to the media. and deflate gait and spy gait and blah blah gates uh but here's the thing i you ain't cheating you ain't getting hated but john it's it's not cheating they're not

doing things to circumvent the system they're not trying to deflate the football they're not trying to push the ball two yards ahead or where it was placed there you may be getting evidence hold on john john they're not getting they're not cheating they're getting benefit of the doubt calls to an extreme. It says most people are on the NFL. Now, Chiefs fans will have to disagree, but they're not cheating the sport. They're just taking advantage of the brakes they're giving.

I do say Mahomes tries to get personal fouls called against defenses when he slows up all the time and takes a late slide or just as he did against, not last night, but the weekend before, against Houston with trying to get him when he was going out of bounds. I mean, that's taking advantage of,

I'm sorry, and I think Andy Reid is one of the greatest, not the goat, but he's right there. He's right there. He's a great, great coach. But I think it's just, you know, it's the arrogance, it's the smugness,

it's the always in the face, with the Betty Boo, Taylor Swift junk. It's just, you know, everybody, I think, except for Casey fans, they're tired of it. Everybody's tired of it. Well, here's the thing, John. Thank you for the phone call. I will say this. Anytime you are a part of a dynasty, you're going to get more media attention because

you are on television more. You are the premier game. You are going to get more interviews because that's what, I mean, if you're a sports or, If you're a sports media group, why would you spend a lot of time detailing what's going on in Seattle or Carolina when you've got Kansas City? You pay attention to what's good. Now, I don't think, I don't think Mahomes is smug. Look, again, I'm not thrilled about Kansas City being in this thing again.

But I'm not, I don't want to recreate a news headlines that aren't there. And, Pat, to be smug, Mahomes would have been like, man, we told you all going to be back. You didn't listen to us. No. And by the way, Travis Kelsey and a microphone is a meathead. I mean, that's not being saying.

That's just who he is. He's just a meathead. You only had two catches. What's he even doing up there? Yeah. Well, because, again, they know that, guess who? I mean, Travis Swift is going to get some attention.

I should have a longhorn legend Xavier Worthy up there. Yeah, I mean, He can fly, can he not? His 060 is incredible. Very fast. And you remember who traded down to allow the chiefs to pick him, correct? Would it rhyme with the Ruffalo Rills? It would.

He knew that. By the way, speaking of that real quick, here is D'Andre Hopkins. He's going to the Super Bowl. You know what? I found a reason to hate the Chiefs. I figured you would. Here is DeAndre Hopkins on the field talking about the opportunity to go play in his first Super Sunday. You know, man, I've been doubted.

a lot of people wrote me off you know 12 years in the league man you know I got traded for some pennies in my prom so you know I was going to thank the organizations that gave me a shot you know I could still go out here

make plays when I need to draw double teams and you know play meaningful football Pennies in the prom pennies in his prime yes pennies in his prime or pennies at the prom I thought he said what makes more

sense to you, Matt. I don't know, but it sounds like pennies of the prom. No, he says pennies, he's, yeah, pennies in his prime. Okay. I mean, he's from South Carolina, you know. That's true. You know how that goes. He wasn't referring to other trades. He was referring to one in Houston. That's correct. It was

pitties. You and I were going, what, for 30 straight seconds? We'll never forget that moment. All right, to tell the truth is up next. This is where I've got, remember, Ross. I have four takes. Okay. Three of them, I believe. Believe.

Okay. One I don't. One you don't. Got you. The tell the truth is up next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Back with more of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross here on 790.

More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Oh, but Ross, I do. I do know how to tell the truth. And I'm ready to tell you the truth right now. All right, Ross, I have four takes. Okay. How many of them are you going to believe?

You believe three of them. Correct. Oh, yes. Connor, I have four sports takes. Which one, how many of them do I do not believe? You do not believe one of them. There you go. All right, we're two for two.

Here we go. Deep breath. Number one. If I were the Texans, I would give Chip Kelly a blank check. Come be the offensive corner. So all you're going to handle is the offense. I thought you were going to say I would petition to go to the NFC. No, no.

I mean, that's actually not a bad idea, but no, that's not it. Number one, I would give Chip Kelly a blank check. Number two, let's not fool around here. The only reason why Bregman has not picked up this contract at 6156 is because there's a certain dollar value. He wants $200. He's not going to get it. He wants more than six years. He's not going to get that from anywhere else.

So let's do this. Let's give him the seven years. Get him to 175. Those are two magical numbers and call it a day. Bregman is not going to get the 8200 or the 7-200 that he was looking for. He's obviously kicking the tires on it. Jose Al-Tube wants him back. He wants to play in left field or is willing to do that.

Let's just do it. 7-1-75 and call today. To make sure that Bregman doesn't wear another uniform in his major league career besides the Astros. Number three, if I'm the Texans, and I'm going to start bringing up stadium talk soon, may not be tomorrow, may not be next month, but it'll be probably the next 18 months. I would try to push to move a new facility to West Houston. somewhere in the town and country area, somewhere along the same Houston tollway. I wouldn't go as far as Katie, but there's got to be some land out there. And I would build my monstrosity of a sports facility.

I'd put up night at restaurants and bars and all that kind of stuff and make it a West Houston community. I would suggest out of NRG, out of that area, whatever they're calling it, and I would bring the Texans west to build their own little complex. And number four, if Gerard Johnson leaves or is promoted to the offensive coordinator position for the Texans, there is a natural fix to replace him as the quarterback's coach. And that coat and that person would be Case Keenum. Case Keenum should be on the Texan staff. with this change

if Gerard Johnson does not stay at quarterback coach and those are my four takes which one of the four do I not believe we'll recap again one I would give Chip Kelly a blank check two I'd bump the Bregman deal to 7175

and call it a day three if I were the Texans I would invest or at least look to go West Houston Cyprus Cypair whatever or four if Gerad Johnson leads or it becomes the new OC, the natural fit at quarterback coach, would be Case Kina.

Which of the four, am I not telling the truth? Wow, Connor, these are some bad takes? He believes three of these? Well, we've run into the fact that he's believed bad takes before. So that can't be... Hey, I'm in the room. I mean, maybe a long way from you guys, but I'm in the room. That can't be the deciding factor, just because his bad does.

He doesn't believe it. I'm going to go with... Okay, three I think is easy to throw out. I think Matt does believe that. He's talked about it before. I agree. I think four is another throwaway for me. I think he believes that.

Really? Case Keenham? Yeah. Quarterbacks coach? I think it would be a natural fit. Him to try to have a good relationship. That's not that crazy. It's not that crazy.

You're right. It's between one and two for me. I'm going to go with two. I was going to go with two as well. We can go with the same one. No. I'm going to go. I don't think Matt believes that

the Texans But I don't know why he would be all in on Chip Kelly Why would he want to believe They would go all in on Chip Kelly? Yeah, I don't think he believes that. He'll give him quote a blank check. I guess from the standpoint of A good reason would be

Because you would figure Chip Kelly's not getting hired away at any point. I'm going to go with two still. I'll go with one. All right. If I'm the Texans, I absolutely think about moving outside of NRG area. Because first of all, let me walk you through this.

Downtown is not going to be any more of a hot spot anymore. So first of all, there's nowhere to go anywhere else in downtown. There's no plot of land just sitting around. You might as well take your chances on the most heavily populated growth area of Houston. And I would say that is going to be west of downtown, whatever that may be. So I believe that for sure. What are they doing or not is two different animals, but I'm telling you where they are right now ain't it. And downtown ain't it.

So what's the most affluent suburb area? Probably west of the tollway. Never two. I absolutely believe that Case Keenan would be a good quarterback's coach. I think he's going to be a coach at some point in his career. He might as well work your way from the quote-unquote bottom to the top. He's been the NFL a long time. He's been a de facto coach in the field as a backup for,

CJ, obviously the relationship is strong between those two guys. I think Case Keenham should be a quarterback's coach with the Texans if that spot is opened up. And the last one. Which one of the two I believe? I believe you absolutely should give Chip Kelly a blank check. He would be the hottest commodity. He took, helped Ohio State winner national championship. He's got NFL experience.

He is a guy that you know will not be a threat to Domeko Ryan's. Domecoe knows Chip Co. The relationship would be amazing there. And I think he's a very good offensive mind. Is he a good head coach at the NFL level? As an offensive corner, very, very successful. So the only one I don't believe is that I wouldn't give Bregman seven years in 175. And that is to tell the truth.

That would lose him a bet to me. Connor, come on. You know he's not going to believe that? I knew it was too. For the sake of the segment. For the sake of the segment. Oh, you're such a martyr. That's not right.

Connor, you deserve a big fat hell in that bad boy right there. Altruistic. We appreciate you. Oh, taking one for the team. Yeah. You've got to build the drama. All right. Let's celebrate. Can we talk about the Chip Kelly thing?

Yeah, go ahead. No, I mean, you know, down the road here. Oh, after the news at noon. How about that? Yes, the news at noon. Well, don't worry. We're going to play some highlights of an amazing AMC championship game, NFC championship game in a moment. So we got that

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Pitches it out to Barclay, takes off to the outside, he's at the 50, he's at the 40, he's at the 30, he's going to go! The quarterback's raw. He's at the 5.

He is, in for the touchdown. Jaylon hurts. I guess his legs all right. Jaylon does a little dance. On the clock. The flares fly. Skyward and the Eagles not just beat, but annihiling the Washington Commanders 55 to 23. What a day, what a win, what a crowd, what a team, what a season, but it's not over yet.

On the left side, Kareem 100 to 10, angling to the five. It's a 90 AFC championship game. Now, the host keeps it on an RTO at the five. It's a lead flag on this time. Touchdown! rushing touchdown of the game. Oh, geez, they're going to throw it. They throw it in the left, flat cut.

It's Sima GP right in the 30. Was that the announcer saying you poured water on his head? Yes. It must be an inside joke or something. Yeah. You can't explain? I don't know. I don't know the inside joke.

I don't normally listen to Chief's football on the radio. You listen to Rockets Radio. Do you have any inside jokes on that? Yeah, there's always a lot of inside jokes, especially when Adam Clinton's on. Yeah, that's true. what should I pour on myself tonight? I know what I'm going to do? If the Rockets beat the Celtics, I'll pour clam chattel all over my head.

Yeah, extremely hot, piping hot clam chowder? No, probably lukewarm at best. Okay. You're going with the white or the red? That's red is New York. This is, we're in New England territory here. Okay. By the way, do you know there was an earthquake about an hour from here?

No, what happened? An earthquake? Okay. Well, I mean, was it just a regular, was it the result of something? I don't know. I don't know. I just turned the news on this morning and it said there was earthquake all throughout New England and we are in New England. Well, that seems rare.

What was it on the Richter scale, Matt? I don't know. Richter. R-I-C-H-T-E-R, Richter? Sure, why not? All right. Hey, it's Matt and Ross, and I want to know how fired up you are, lunchtomers, about the rematch for the second time in three years, Kansas City and Philadelphia. you. Ross and I

do not share the same sort of pregame buzz for such event. It'll be game on watch because it is Super Bowl Sunday and everybody in their mother watches it. But it is far for me to be the premier matchup. Now, Ross, you put a poll question up on your

Twitter account, which I would normally look at. At sports RV. It's muted most of the time. Yes. What does your poll question say at this point about what of the matchups people were looking for? It was preferred. Now, I should have done this before the game because now that it's Chief Eagles, everybody started whining.

And, whey, two of the best teams in the NFL are playing in the Super Bowl. But, yes. If you're in the Super Bowl, you are the two best teams. Yeah, well, not necessarily, but... Go ahead. People get lucky in the Super Bowl. That's NFL.

Okay. Hashtag Eli Manning. But most of the people wanted bills no matter what. The most... I said, what was your preferred Super Bowl matchup? You people are liars. Bill's Commanders, 46%. Unless that would have been the lowest Nielsen rated of the four matchups.

This is going inverse. I wanted Bill's Eagles, is what I wanted. Bill's Eagles was 43%, 6% for Chiefs Eagles and 4% for Chiefs Commanders. Yeah, commanders, I mean, look, Daniels is amazing, but they don't have a lot of household names. A little Zach Ertz caught like 30 passes yesterday. Their defense sucks.

They're 105 points in a game. Give me a break. they turned the, but they fumbled like four times. Okay, so you're supposed to score 28 points off of every single turnover? My God. Well, their defense, yeah. Well, it's twofold. Their defense is horrible, and they turn the ball over to the Eagles four times.

Yeah, it's bad. That game, I checked out quick on that one. I was having a, I was having the Boston, Sam Adams, or in that. I was looking for the, the Jaden Daniels overrushing, so I stayed with it. Didn't get there. Also, the Barclay overrushing didn't get there. He was still filthy. you not? Yeah, I know. All right. Time now for the news at noon.

Yes, Matthew, it is the news at noon. We did talk about the Super Bowl, so we'll go ahead and say we have that covered, but also over the weekend, you had Ryan Presley traded to the Chicago Cubs. What does that mean for the Houston Astros and Alex Bregman? Ken Rosenthal on MLB Network talking, saying he would still bet on Houston. Their fans won Alex Bregman back. And the Astros are trying. I don't know how far it's going to get, but if I had to bet right now, I would bet the Astros in this negotiation.

Even though they've made their offer, it was six years, $156 million, Jim Crane offered that to Bregman, but if they come up a little bit and he doesn't really have anything that he likes as much, and supposedly has long offers along those lines, but again, it's where do you want to play.

And if Alex Bredman goes back, apparently he plays third, They moved Paredes to second, and Jose Altuve would play left. That's interesting. Now, that gets crazy, too. Altuve said today, I will do this for Alex Breggman. I want Alex Breggman on my team. And from that perspective, that was a thought a really cool statement.

Altuve's days as a great defense of second baseman are long gone. But at the same time, position change. He's a prominent player, Hall of Fame track. I thought that was an impressive statement. Left field? Left field. He would bet on the Astros, Ken Rosenthal. I wouldn't bet on the Astros.

Me either, but I would bet on King Rosenthal. That's a pretty strong statement for Rosenthal to come out and say that. Agreed. That's really good. Because, again, it's not about, it's not about, if you say you're betting on that, that means that he must have somebody in the Breggman camp that says he's really thinking about doing this.

And really thinking and pondering are two different things. My thought is that Breggman's probably pondering. during here. He's still Rossi. He's still question. He's in a quench to find that big deal, and I don't think that deal's out there for him anymore. And the issue is, does he run it back with the team

that, for all intents of purposes, he said, bye-bye, see you later. Love you, Houston, goodbye. Wish you well. We had a farewell, got him out of the dugout. We're into the dugout. Remember he tweeted, thank you, Houston, all that kind of, I mean, you don't do that kind of stuff, and, like, all of a sudden, come back.

Yeah, but this is the perfect opportunity to do that Wolf of Wall Street meme, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. He would do that, absolutely. And that would be, it would, it would be incredible. A lot of people do that. They're like, oh, I just resign with my team. So I'm going to put out the I'm not leaving.

It's like, you were never going anywhere. Breggman was like 99% gone. So that would be great. Yeah. All right. Presley gone. Breggman's still here. Do the two things.

Are they in unison with each other? think so. Wouldn't you think the Asteros would go over the luxury again if Bremen resigns? I mean, the money has already been spent, right? That's what it seems like. What else you got? Well, quickly on the

Super Bowl, we didn't talk about this angle, Matt. You have the Chiefs opening up as one and a half point favorites total on this one. 49. And a half. Gut reaction. Give the points and I'll take Kansas City. That feels actually

kind of low. God reaction is under, right? These two really good defenses? 49? Yeah. Well, the reason why it's probably higher is because the Eagles put up 55. Yeah. I mean, and Mahomes didn't have,

and the Chiefs didn't have any trouble scoring on the Bill's defense. And by the way, I want to make sure we're clear about this. We have different audience moving around. And I know that there's this easy narrative of the Chiefs get all the calls. And are they getting calls? Yeah. I don't think, I don't think you have to be blind to figure that out, or not blind. but the bills had multiple chances Ross to stop the Chiefs.

Every single chance they had a time they had to stop them, except for that one sack on that first down play late in the fourth quarter that Forson to get the field goal. Other than that, the Chiefs were a better football team that took advantage of every little maybe slide extra play and got the first down, completed third first down plays, and Buffalo didn't, period. Kansas City earned that win yesterday.

I agree. They weren't gifted the game. They just weren't. It wasn't not, yeah, so many different plays go into an NFL victory and the Chiefs got it done. All right, Matt, let's go ahead and wrap up the news at noon with talking about your Houston Rockets. As you are in Boston, they have swept the Cleveland Cavaliers on the season. They are 12 and 4 against the teams with the top 10 records in the NBA. 12 and 4, your Houston Rockets are for real.

And the last time they really got embarrassed was against these. Boston, Celtics, and Houston a couple weeks back. So revenge has to be on the mind. By the way, congratulations to Jason Tatum. 13,000 points. He is the seventh player in NBA history to do it before the age of 27. He's got 13,000 points?

13,000 points. Wow. Good for him. I think of him as this like 23-year-old out of Duke. Like, that's a great. crazy. Good for him. They're really, really good.

I think they're the best team in the East. Their record is second best in the East, but I haven't seen them and Cleveland face-to-face, I think the Celtics are significantly I would say the favorite finals matchup right now is Celtics Thunder. Ah, but until the Rockets

Rocked their world and for the third time in NBA history, Rocket Celtics in the NBA Finals next on Sports Talk 790. No. Come on now. Let me have this, Let me have this enjoyment.

How about the rockets in the finals this year and the Cougars in the Final Four? You think I was difficult to live with. Celtics in five. That happens. Oh, gee. Again, more hate. Why am I hating? More anti-Huston from Sports RV.

See, I'm sorry. I just have to be realistic with you folks. I'm true and true. You want Homerific takes? Go to another show. No, no, no. We go to this show. We're pure homerism.

We discuss and discuss all we do all day long. Okay. And that's your news at noon, Matt. Thank you very much. All right. We teased Chip Kelly. And you don't, not a lot of grown men cheese. Teased Chip Kelly.

We'll do that next here. 1214 on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. On Sports Talk 790. Astros remain uncertain about Bregman. They're certain about Ryan Presley. Now I'll remember the Chicago Cubs. Rockets are certain.

that they're playing excellent basketball, trying for win number 31 tonight against the Celtics. Cougars will be on the road this week at West Virginia for a chance another quad a one win. They'll have Texas Tech this Saturday at Fortita Center. And the Texans at this point, Ross, are looking for an offensive coordinator after relieving Bobby Sloak of his responsibilities late last week.

And? Hello? What happened? I just walked in. Sorry, I got stopped up by a salesperson. Really trying to sell the show? Yeah. Oh, well, not you.

me. That's fine. I'm okay with that. No, I'm just kidding. I was actually explaining to this salesperson, our new time slot. Oh, no. We have a person in our building that doesn't know our time slot. We're all good now. Sorry, I went to get some water and I got

held up. That's my bad. What, were you asking? How long have we been back? I just, well, but I just recap the headlines, and then I was talking about, I gave you the, I threw the ball up in the air for you to head about Chip Kelly, and I was just curious what you're thinking. Oh, okay, yeah. So, um, so, um, so you, you, you,

Your thoughts on Chip Kelly and handing him a blank check. Yeah, I would do it. He's probably one of the, he's the most, not I may say he's available, because he's not available. He's at Ohio State. But he's, while he recognizes a great offensive mind, I think the relationship between him and D'Amico, obviously because of coach and former player,

D'Amico can just hand the offense to them and know that he's very confident in the way Chip calls a game. Chip's got no interesting of being a head coach again after leaving UCLA to go take a downgraded. It'll be OC at Ohio State. I think it's a perfect fit. I really do. Yeah, I'm on board with philosophically going with what you are talking about. Because when the opening happened and Domingo Ryan's was one of the candidates and whoever

else, I talked about having basically what kind of the chiefs have right now, where you have an innovative, offensive mind, and then you have a defensive coordinator who has been fired from a head coaching job. and you don't have to worry about them going away. Because if you're Damico, right, Bobby Sloick, one of two things was going to happen with Bobby Sloick. Either A, he was going to get hired away to another team, or B, he was going to get let go like he did.

So you're always going, if you hire, keep hiring young guys, it's not going to work out. You're going to have a scenario where within two to three years, every time you're either going to be firing them or they're going to be getting hired away. So philosophically, from what you're talking about, Chip Kelly makes the perfect sense. As you said, he's not going to get hired away.

He's good at his job. Let D'Amico do his thing with the defense. Let him handle the offense. Not necessarily as a co-head coach type of situation, but D'emico doesn't need to be in those meeting rooms. Chip Kelly knows what he's doing and has been doing it for years, and you really don't have to worry about him getting hired away as a head coach. And think about this.

If you bump up Gerard Johnson to offensive coordinator, guess what you're doing? You're giving another primo coaching position, your staff, to a first-time offensive coordinator. Do you want that if you think Damico? I mean, if you interview him and think he's ready and stuff like that, I mean, he's been in the building, so I would be okay with it. But again, you're either A, going to fire Gerard Johnson, or B, he's going to get hired away.

Right. Well, here's another thing. And look, we tease the McNairns for a variety of things. The one thing they do spend, do is spend money. And if you're going to have to get out the checkbook to write it, if Domingo goes to Hannah, forget about Cal, Cal's playing. He's booking his trip to the Super Bowl to. see what kind of shows he can see in New Orleans.

If you go to Hannah and say, Hannah, this is the guy that's going to solidify our offense because guess what? Chip Kelly is widely regarded. I mean, look what he did at Ohio State. Look at the relationship I had with him when I was a player. Hannah will do that. This will not be a – the Texans lose out because the Texans won't spend. The Texans will spend on their coaching.

And I think Chip Kelly, unless he's just comfortable in Columbus. But I think there's a way, I think if I'm Chip, I'm listening, why not? Why wouldn't you listen? Yeah, make them an offer. The money's right. So, and that's one thing I do appreciate about the Texans is that I've never had to them be, they've never been miserly about really anything. They constantly improve their workout facilities.

They constantly improve their locker. And they're always trying to make things better as a warm, inviting place. I think it helps out with free agency. besides the fact that I'm obviously paying. They don't save money. They're not at the floor. They're not, you know, they're always right at the tippy toe on the salary cap. And so, yeah, I mean, if there's an organization that will do some spending when it comes to something that you don't have a cap on,

why don't you go get the best offensive coach that may, and again, I don't, we don't know if he's available or not, but his name is being banned about with several other teams around the NFL? Why don't go, why don't get a guy that would be the opposite of what you had as an inexperienced offensive coordinator who was either, as you said before, made to be hired or made to be wishing him the best as he go gets on their job somewhere else. Yeah. You need some guy in his 50s or 60s who's been a head coach. The two defensive coordinators in the Super Bowl are Vic Fangio and Steve Spagnolo. Yeah.

And neither one of those guys, well, they've had their head coaching opportunities before. And they know what their crescendo. They know what their peak is. And this is where they're very happy. Plus, my guess is a Chip. I mean, I'm assuming that Chip and D'Amico got along. And why wouldn't Chip want to be? you know to have half the responsibility and have a guy that he that played for him clearly he doesn't

want responsibility he was the head coach at UCLA and said I'm good yeah that's exactly right all right 713212 5 790 713 212 5790 if you're following us on Twitter you may do that as well at sports mt at sports RV and at Connor D. McGovern lots of get to these are the topics we're throwing out and I want to get you guys an involved in this. One, Ross and I have argued and debated about the excitement level for the Super Bowl coming up. He is much more into it.

It's not a debate. If you're not excited, you're not excited. Yeah, but I think my reasons make much more sense than yours. I have minimal excitement for the Super Bowl. I mean, I'm going to watch it. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate the Chiefs. But I think we as a sports society in the last 30 years, where have been fatigued by dynasties.

Now, Ross, you and I were not in sports. Hell, you weren't even alive when the Steelers were winning their Super Bowls. As a kid, I don't remember me having much fatigue about the Niners going to the Super Bowl at the time. Did you hate the 90s Bulls? Did you hate the 80s Lakers? I was a rocket fan, so yeah, I didn't root for them for sure. I mean, we hated the Warriors because they tormented us here in Houston. Oh, yeah.

The America at large hate the Warriors? Maybe to an extent. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah, we hated the Warriors. Especially when Kevin Durant went over there. Remember all that talk for all those years? If you can't beat him, join him. I got bad news.

I didn't really hate him as much as others. Oh. You know what, Ross? What? Houston. Ross is a bandwang jumping. Ross appreciates greatness. Ross loves, if a team is really going good, he wants to continue to jump on.

Oh, no. I'm watching one of the greatest teams of all-time. Wheeves. Look at this all-time great team. This is horrible. Whing. I didn't say it was horrible at all. I'm not interested.

I didn't say it was an interesting, but I'm not going to buy another pregame. You're not going to get a break-it-down four hours a day of Chiefs, Eagles' breakdown for the Super Bowl. No one would want that. It's boring a F. Dynamic running backs of Kwant Barkley against the Chiefs is terrible. Nobody's saying, again, here's, we're going to you the embellisher. I think of a call on you. You want solid, rational takes, me.

embellishments Rossville area 713 212 you better not if you do call damn it'll have to get him replace you the rest of the week

713 212 570 719790 713 212 570 come on in lunch timers It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on sports talk 790

You know what I hate Ross on Twitter the people being mean. What do you hate, Matthew? There is some photos going around today that continue to show Jose Altova practicing in left field.

Would he really be out there today and would anybody be allowed to see that? Are these AI photos? I saw some AI photos of him dropping fly balls in left field. All right, maybe that's it. Yeah. Ari Alexander over Channel 2 says

the current offer of 6156 is unlikely to get a deal done. Boy, Braggs really wants that bigger money, doesn't he? He doesn't particularly care that, I don't say that's not true. It's not swaying him that El Tuba is willing to move to a different position. And one thing I want to you bring up, again, what you said earlier in the show, when we asked you about the vibe, you didn't get a strong vibe from Dana on El Tubian left, correct? Repeat that for the audience.

Right, yeah, it didn't feel like it was real. It's just from everyone in kind of the players and we were joking. We made a bunch of left field jokes all day. And everybody was just like kind of laughing at all. Like, yeah, that's as ridiculous as it sounds. It sounds as ridiculous to us as it does to them. Well, they're all being very, the soundbites that I heard,

the astronauts were being super coy about it. Like Joe Espotted was not willing to address what he would do. Well, what are the options? Because Peretti hasn't played the outfield before. you're not moving Jeremy Payne out there, right? No. So you're going to, if you're subpar in one defensive position, it doesn't really matter where you're moving that subpar person.

You're just going to do it, especially if the guy is the one that probably volunteered his availability, to go out there. Because Perretta, I would think, is probably a part of the future of the Astros. You gave up a boatload of, you gave up Kyle Tucker. You wanted a lot in return. You weren't just trying to grab a one-and-done guy. my thought is that at least for the next couple of three years that uh isaq paredes is a part of this team

so you're not going to flippantly put him out to somewhere he's ever been before when you were when you're trying to establish what he could be and he very well could be the future second base for this team after all two of eight's gone if you're thinking about him long term it only there's just i mean you can be coy about it all you want but that's the only thing that makes sense. Unless you played Alvarez more and left than you're willing

to tell the audience, and that would be more Jose Al-Tube at DH. But I still think, even I'm just trying to deduce things here. If you have Yoron play 40 games and left, you give Dubon maybe 15 or 20,

you're still looking at about a 90, 95 games in Jose Al-Tube and left field. And that's not a full season, but that's still more than half. It's still probably more than you would want. Yeah, it's true. But as Ken Rosenthal said in that bite, Matt, his days as

an elite defensive second baseman are long gone. Well, I don't think anybody was arguing that. You got mad at me for bringing up his stats. I know you, because they were nothing but nasty stats. They were fair. They were accurate. That's one thing, but they were. 67 games in left.

for Dubon last year. No, well, 44 started. I guess maybe he was shifted or came in late on some. Yeah, which means you could very well do that with Altuva down the stretch, although you're taking his bat on the lineup. You don't want to do that either, especially if it's in a key spot. Yeah, you might have to defensive replace him at some points, yeah. Yeah, I just, it just doesn't make a, I don't know, why would Rosenthal say that? Remember, these national guys are so tied into the agents. This is like a mind trap for us. We're trying to circumvate this maze that we're in right now. Yeah, we're not getting anything direct.

We've got to read the tea leaves, Matt. Well, then how are you reading? It's right now I can't get a damn leaf if I'd spent. Well, Ken Rosen's all thing is throwing me for a loop. Because I told you, I came out of that weekend with all those interviews, fan fest, I came out of that weekend saying, yeah, this, this Breggman to, this Breggman thing is far-fetched. Or maybe they're thinking it would be somebody else and left. And so if Breggman does sign, maybe that could be it.

everybody's laughing off the Al Tuvae and left thing because it would never happen and they would put somebody else in left, whether it be Paredes or Pena. Yeah. But how is Jose going to, I mean, this is, and again, I don't, what did Jose do at the age of 19? He had to play. I remember when you're a kid, you always play different spots. I mean, it's, and he's caught fly balls before, but not at the, at the steam that would be coming something towards the left field. No. That's different, man.

It's tough. But let's go back to my original point. Are people A-Iing Altovae in left field? That's ridiculous. Maybe it's real. I don't know. I don't know what picture you're talking about. Yeah.

I'm anti-A.I. By the way, I've already made that decision. I don't want that anymore. Yeah. The thing with AI is, who asks for this? Now, it is funny. When I put into grok or whatever it's called, I put in Patrick Mahomes kissing an NFL referee,

and then it pops right up. It does make me laugh. And then I post it. Yeah, so you're part of the problem. You're right. You know what? I'm going to stop. I'm going to be anti-AI from now on.

Do you know what, delete your account? No, I'm not going to delete my account at SportsRV. Yeah. If you're a porn bot or a crypto dude, follow Sports RV. Absolutely. At Sports RV. We'll take you.

We don't discriminate. I try to keep my own as an organic of a list as possible. For whatever reading, you're a psychopath. I am a psychopath when it comes to that. That's fine. I can respect that. Unless you're calling it to my face. That's true.

713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-790 do you are we supposed to believe the Cubs when they say that Ryan Presley are closer for sure I guess so because apparently that was the big stumbling block hmm really that he wouldn't wave his trade he wouldn't wave his claws until they named him closer that's the one of the reports I saw oh I believe that from Ryan Presley I mean come on I don't I haven't looked at the Cubs Let's go into the mind of Ryan Presley. By the way, I'm a big fan and he listens to show we used to. I don't know if he still listens or not, but he's told us how much he listens to show me.

I appreciate that. He probably stopped listening the last couple years. Well, it wasn't our fault. We just reported the facts. It wasn't like we were trying to embellish numbers and stuff. I mean, he was getting knocked around. But my point is... Okay, so if you're in Ryan's head, and you know the numbers weren't as good last year,

and And he was getting a lot of people on the base pass, and he was not necessarily blowing save because there weren't a lot of save opportunities for him, frankly, because it was in the eighths compared to the ninth. Do you think he's watching himself in his performance differently than the rest of us are? Because, I mean, it's pretty incredible that he would be able to go

after being moved to the eighth inning and having a okay year last year, all of a sudden be able to command the Cubs to say, hey, Chicago, I'll come to you, but I need you to make me my closer. It's almost like he is, his performance is different than what the rest of us are seeing. Well, I think if, I think there is a world where you can convince yourself that Ryan Plessly is pretty good. First of all, you'd have to not look at R.A. But some of his, well, you also have to not look at his batting average against.

is there any is your numbers dork is there any number that says oh Ryan we get why you think you have been a victim of some bad breaks or maybe defensive his field independent pitching is better and also

we've gone through this number before batting average balls in play it can be very lucky right you know you can hit somebody can hit 10 bloops against you and they have a thousand batting average you probably did a pretty good job pitching you just got unlucky

his batting average in balls in play last year was extremely unlucky. 338 as opposed to 272 the year before. That's a 60-point jump. So theoretically, that number would go back down and his numbers would improve next year. Does that make sense? Yeah.

Problem is, you're going into, I mean, when the wind blows out at Wrigley, you think it's a piece of cake to hit a home run at Diken Park. Imagine how it's going to be a breeze, literally a breeze to hit one out in Chicago. Yeah, by that singular metric, he had some bad luck. I would take, it's funny because I was watching,

I told you I watched MLB today, they had Matt Baskersian and Harold Reynolds on. Now again, Harold Reynolds, eh. Bascurgian said, what would you rather have? Bregman playing for you every day? Or Press of the Bullpen? What do you think he said?

I hope he said Breggman playing for you every day. Nope, he took Preston. Who said this? Harold. Come on, Harold. He's getting older, I guess. Yeah. I guess you, you,

Because bullpens can move up and down so much, one year you can have a bullpen that's amazing. The next one, you can have a bad one. Maybe he's thinking, you know what? Brian Presley since 2018 has been pretty damn consistent. I mean, look, I have appreciation for him. I think the team... All right, so you have a Bray, who's your eighth inning guy now,

Hayder your ninth? Who's your seventh inning guy? Is Taylor Scott ready to take the bull by the horns on that one? Did you bring that up with him when you talked to? No, what's Bennett-Suzah up to? Is Bennett-Sooza? Doos are a seventh inning guy now? I don't know.

Are because, of course, I play back up. Brian King. You got, you know, I don't have to go through the roster, but you got guys. Well, how about the other little nugget from the weekend? That Lance McCullors is not going to be ready, ready for the start of the season. What's Forrest Whitley doing? Forrest got a shot, right? Yeah, oh, Lance McCullors Jr. and Louis, yeah, Luis Garcia, not ready for the season.

By the way, Ryan Presley's number has all got worse, though. Chase percentage with K. percentage, walk percentage, hard hit percentage. Not good. So you're saying is the Astros got better. Or they're not going to miss him as much. I'm not going to miss him as much. And maybe the Cubs maybe the Cubs are like, yeah, we'll put you as closer

because generally in 2025, you don't need to necessarily need your best reliever as your closer. Their best reliever last year, the Astros was Brian Abrae. He wasn't the closer. But you could use him anywhere. The Astros got to get Brian Brayu a rest this year. I felt like he was just way too much. I think he played 163 games

in the regular season. I think he was playing more than a game per month, which is hard to do. That doesn't make sense. No, I didn't, but I was going to let it slide. He played 78 appearances. Yeah. Woo!

And pitch 614 innings. It's crazy. 72 the year before. Hope his arm didn't fall off. Well, he's got, let's see, a couple more years of arbitration, so they're going to run him into the ground. I will not, I will not be used after appearance 61.

All right, let's see. Who are we going to send out there? Brian Abray, who's under team control and arbitration, or Josh Hater, who are paying $20 million. Let's send Brian Abrae. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790. It was a glorious basketball weekend for Houston. For our friends in College Station, it was not. A little basketball chatter next.

1244, Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, putting the H in Hangary. Want to just scream for a second? H-Town Sports for lunch on 790. Down to 13 seconds. Trey holding it now, now starts to dribble to the right side. 10 seconds to go.

Bounce past Julian Larry. In some trouble. Out to Tudan Mark, six seconds. Tremont drives in. Off the glass. It's good. Three point seven to go. Aggie's inbound.

Here's Taylor two seconds. One launches for mid-court. Old DeRandot! Texas wins the game! What a comeback! The Longhorns down 22! And they break the hearts of the Aggies of Texas A&M! Final score, Texas 70, Texas A&M, 69!

Did they really break the hearts, or is it just yet another bitter pill to swallow for fighting Texas Aggie fan? Yeesh! I'd have to say that'd be heartbreaking. Of course. Give up a 22-point lead against your rival. In a 40-minute game, Ross, against the team you obsessed so much about? Man, that has to hurt.

Back-to-back wins over the ranked Missouri Tagas and the ranked Texas A&M Aggies. So, your coach is going to get you guys into the tournament after all. You've got some nice quad one wins. Oh, man, this SEC schedule. Did you see the Alabama, like, down the stretch schedule? No, tell me.

In basketball? I'd have to pull it up, They're playing, here I'll pull it up. They play number one, Auburn, number 20, Missouri, number 12, Kentucky, number 14, Mississippi State, number eight Tennessee, number five, Florida, and number one, Auburn again. It's like the last eight games of the season for them. For a school that doesn't even care about basketball, I mean, they kind of do. Yeah, they're top five in the country.

Seven straight games against rank competition, unless Missouri falls out because they're not very good. You notice, Connor how his voice trailed off during the end of that? I said unless, unless. That felt unnecessary. We beat Kansas. That's good. We beat Kansas. I think we beat Florida.

That's great. Oh, the Florida's really good. That's all I can remember. So any chance, Ross, that we as a city of Houston, because we are 24-7 sports and nothing but? Yes. Can be a basketball town for the next two months? No. By the way, Texas's next game at number 23rd.

ranked Ole Miss their coach your buddy my buddy he's your buddy yeah we took a picture together at the toot center many years ago okay

he had the red raider sign up well now he's with old miss Chris Beard is well they've got the team ranked it's better than they're doing at Texas imagine going from living in Austin Texas

to Oxford Mississippi Now, Oxford, the co-eds at Ole Miss are legendary. Are you saying that factored into Chris Beard's decision? I don't think so, especially after the reason why he left Texas to begin with. Well, it was fired. That's true. They've lost three in a row, by the way.

Mississippi State is ranked two? How many SEC teams are ranked? I believe every school in the conference is ranked. Mississippi State, A&M, and Missouri have all beat Ole Miss recently, but they did beat Alabama before that. Why is the SEC so tough in basketball? Because you can pay the players now. Yeah.

By the way, I brought this up earlier, and I need a ruling from you. You know, there was just a bunch of words you couldn't say in terms of describing how college teams performed. I thought the number one is you've got to be careful when you say choke. Uh-huh. But I think those gloves are off now because of the fact that they're, They're paid athletes now. Yeah, but as you said, they were kind of paid before.

Yeah, but they were illegally paid back then. Now they're legally paid. Probably too much. But my point is... Not too much. If you can get it, you take it. I know that. But can we...

Can you say when a team loses a 22-point lead in the first half of a game and it's only 22, 20-minute haves that you choked? That's a choke. The choke. And the referees, we're calling a lot of fouls, just saying it helped the Longhorns get back in the game. And the Aggies missed a bunch of free throws. I think they're the worst shooting free throw team in the conference.

Just throwing it out there, Rostie. Okay. You can say what you want. I never necessarily. I mean, the choke is a choke as a choke. Much of fourth graders can choke in a basketball game. You weren't worried about the age or affiliation to such chokage. Yeah, a little Timmy in the YMCA.

They got up eight and they lost 16 to 14. That's choke. Oh, you are tough. You are a tough critic. All right. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Okay, so we're not going to be a basketball team city for the next two months?

What you're saying? I don't think so. No matter how deep the Cougars go in the tournament. I needed them to lose that game, by the way. Texas goes. I needed the Cougars to lose because you said they were only going to lose two games. I got you to back off saying they were only going to lose one game in conference. I'm kind of scared about West Virginia.

First of all, it's not an easy place to get to. secondly it's way up there third and they just came off the big high of beating kansas at kansas uh yeah they're four and foreign foreign conference so you'll be fine all right that's good cyclones are third in the country cougars sixth god how does iowa state have a program i mean i've been to aims there is nothing there but the come and go they're always good they are always good their football's always going to bowl games they've played a couple of conference championship games over the years yeah they do pretty well for being in the middle of nowhere iowa

seriously you're in the name's no it's literally in the middle of nowhere not on the bucket list i mean when when the price is right has a has a has a chance to win and a showcase a trip to ames iowa the contestants overbid intentionally hmm that's a game show really banger of joke Oh, man, that's hilarious, Matt. The material I come up with. It's just unsurpassed. It really is. No one gets it a bit of me.

That's fine. I can love with that. All right. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Are the Super Bowl parties being planned for Houston for the Philadelphia versus Kansas City for the second time in three years? No.

We're all going to run to Discovery Green and watch it on the big screens. Oh, is there going to be a big screen? Maybe. You're going to watch it at home. What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm going to watch it at home. Get some chips and some dip. Maybe make some chili. With beans. Without beans. What is wrong with you?

Beans have flavor to it. What are you talking about? No, there's no. Beans is filler. If you try to go to an international chili competition and you enter a chill with beans, so it will be a moot point. They're going to kick you out and spit in your face. You can put beans in your chili, but real chili. doesn't have beans. How about that? So you're telling me, if I look up the definition of chili,

there is no suggestion at all that beans could be in chili. They shouldn't be. It's like putting ketchup on a hot dog. You can do it. You can do it. I guess you're right. That is the perfect example. You could put ketchup on your hot dog, but we'd make fun of you. My buddy, Reid Gett is listening to show, right now says we can be a college basketball town for the next couple of months. I'm going to flat out

tell you right now and read if you're listening. I bet you got my back on this. I want final four. This being top eight year and year out is pretty damn cool, but I need the final four. It's in San Antonio Ross of all places too. It's a hop, skipping

a jump. I'm reading more about beans on Wikipedia. Sorry, hold on. While it is generally accepted that the earliest chilies did not include beans, proponents of their inclusion contend that chili with beans has long enough history to be considered authentic. We'll put it this way. If you went to the grocery store, went to Ray Tree U.E. You can get both. You can easily get both. You don't have to ask for any special attention, like a special can.

The Chile Appreciation Society International specified in 1999 that cooks in their competitions are forbidden to include beans in the preparation of chili for official competition. It was 26 years ago. Things change. Hmm. things do change. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Lots of excitement about the Super Bowl coming up. Lots of excitement about our rockets taking on the Boston Celtics tonight. We'll have it for you

at 630 with the tip time. Who has the launch pad at 530? I think it's one of the Adams. I don't know which one. Which everyone's not working with you. Rockets rap will be me. Yours truly. Talking all things, rockets versus the Celtics after the game. Give us a call. 713-212-5-790.

Have the calls picked up? They've tapered a little, but it's also been weird, like late night Sunday games. You know, it's fine. All right. Tonight you're going to get nine calls. Hey, it's an early game. It's a big matchup. Hopefully the Rockets win. Let's talk some Rockets ball

after the game on the Rockets Wrap. And I will bitch about my broadcast location the entire time. God, nobody wants to hear that, Matt. They do. When I take a photo where I sit, you're going to be like, damn, Matt, I feel bad for you. You're going to get a bunch of those sting and the rafters gifts? No, this is not. I'm down close to the floor.

Oh, what are you whining about? You'll find out tonight, as I tweeted out about 615 local time. Okay. Sting in the Raptors. I appreciate the fact you know they had a little wrestling reference, so that makes me happy. Well, I've just seen it on Twitter a million times. Anytime, you know what, I'm sick of these people's seat shaming. Your ass is watching from your couch.

If somebody's up in the Rafters, who cares? That means they're at the game, they're enjoying it. Generally in these arenas, there's not a bad seat in the house. It doesn't come over across well when you put it in picture. but even like at the top level of the Toyota Center, you get a pretty good view of the game. Yeah. Even if you're the top row at Arrowhead yesterday,

you saw the game. Right. You're a seat shaming, eating Kraft Mac and Cheese on your couch. Shut your bum ass up. Ooh, that's good. Save it for Wednesday, too. Don't forget. Yeah, you're right.

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We're tonight, we're going to have a fun one between the Rockets and the Celtics. We'll have the broadcast 530 on the launch pad, 6 o'clock network pregame, and I'll have the call from the garden at 630. Ryan Presley accepts the trade. Waves, no trade clause. We'll go to the Chicago Cubs. Alex Bregman remains a free agent. Although you've got different people in the last handful of hours saying that that 6156 is out there,

and Bregman's like, thanks, but no thanks. But you know what? These things, Rossi, it feels like could change in a dime. We're at January 27th. You know, like, the first day of spring training is like three weeks away. Yeah. we'll be out there in a couple of weeks, Matthew. Yeah, isn't it crazy?

Yes, it is crazy. And he still doesn't have, I mean, and I feel like we're a broken record on this. There's, he, there's no way he envisioned this going as long as it did. I'm assuming that he thought Juan Soto's deal would get done, and whenever that was done, the trickle-down effect would happen after that. Pitchers and catchers February 13th. That's two weeks and three days.

God, it's just absolutely crazy how this is gone. For a guy who's still, and say what you will, Brammon Stone is prime. He just won a gold glove. His OPS was what, 760, something like that? 768. Yeah, I mean, there's not diminishing returns on this. Could there be in three to four years?

Yeah, but most guys 35 are going to have diminishing returns. There has been some decline in the last couple of years with the bat. And the sluggish starts have been a part of his regular resume. OPS Plus last three years, 134, then down to 122 last year, 118. But you would still take a guy with an OPS plus of 118 and at their base of old glove. Absolutely. The question is, do you want that at the back end of the deal? And the answer is no, but also to me, it's like you're, think of it as you're paying him, I don't know,

$40 million this year in the next couple years, and then you're only paying. him 15 the latter years. Once you average it all out, I mean, $25 million for a third basement in his prime who's going to hit you 26 home runs, like you said, and provide all the leadership. We did talk about that a lot with the players on Saturday, about how important Alex Breggman's leadership was as from a game planning standpoint. Jeremy Pena talked about it with Sean and Brian about how, like at 2 a.m. Alex Breggman's calling him going over stuff with hitting. And Jeremy's like, I'm trying to sleep, bro. But that's the guy. He lives and breathes baseball, he's a born winner, a

born leader, and you can't put a dollar amount on that, and owners and general managers don't, but it matters to those players in that clubhouse. So when you were asking about Bregman, and we're going to go to the phone calls just a second here, at 713-212-5-7-9. When you were talking about Bregman to the

particular players, at least that you spoke to, what was their body language like? Yeah, I mean, everybody was just effusive in their praise is the only way I can think to put it. Like, they just, they love the guy. It's like they're everybody's, lit up. It was almost every time we said, what does Breggman bring?

Oh, it's like, there was just a reaction about how much they love they have for the guy and how important he is to them and their success. So there was none of this, not rolling of the eyes. I'm going to want you to put that on you. Like even in the middle of the questions, I remember Taylor Scott we were talking to because he

had interviewed with, I think, pitching ninja about it. He was just like, oh, that dude, that dude's crazy. It's so incredible. Everybody just talked, just so much praise for Alex Breggman and what he brings to this team. And I think again, to show you the kind of praise and how well

respected he is, Jose Al Tuvae is ready to take his second base glove and put it in the outfield where he's never played before. It was funny. He was asked. He said, you were playing the outfit? He goes, have you seen me playing? Have you seen me? There was no late game scratch. Hey, let's put Altubia

out in left field just for blank and giggles. I'd be careful. I'm going to pull up his history. Has he ever played anywhere but second? Probably sometime. Oh, here were four innings at short in 2016, two innings at short in 2019. That's it. And then before that,

13-year-old in the Venezuela League. Apparently also worked the concession stand in between his double-headers of his games during that day as well. I'm sure he did a great job. I'm sure he gave great customer service. You were tip anybody at the Little League concession stand? I haven't been to one as an adult because I don't really go to Little League games. That's fair.

I don't know if I've been. Maybe when my nieces and nephews start going, but they're pretty young. Here's the negative. You know, a lot of these people now don't allow, are a lot of cashless places. I think that's hurt the tip industry. Absolutely, 100%. I think it's hurt homeless people. You just tell every homeless guy, huh?

Well, yeah, don't have any cash, bro. But it's like, you know, when you go to arena, and I go to all the 30 different NBA arenas and you go put in your card and they ask you if you want to tip, well, if you don't tip off that, it's no big deal because they don't really see it. If you don't tip somebody with cash right in front of you, then they're going to get mad at you.

They're not going to get mad. They're going to be disappointed. Yeah, it's happened this weekend. We had the company work party thing. I couldn't, I didn't have any cash on me, so I had to get the broads Venmo. The Broad is what you called her? The young ladies' men.

Venmo. Oh, I like Broad. better. When were who you are? How was the party, by the way? It was great. There was somebody who was super... Now, the DJ was just playing music, and there was this one person that was extremely insistent.

It was not a karaoke party, but they pushed extremely hard, harassed the DJ to make it into karaoke. So it was a party where people were dancing and listened to good music, and it turned into people just yelling at songs they didn't know the world. Well, there was only one person.

was really, really pushing for it to be karaoke, Matt. Do I know this person well? I think you can guess who it was. Is it a 790 or? Oh, I know who it was. Come on, man. I saw the video. You should have come up with it faster. And to be honest, the video that I saw featured two people with microphones.

Yes, it did. And one of them I know really well. I got roped into this. Wait a minute. Nobody roping into karaoke means they put the microphone on your hand. Are you serious? And put masking tape all around you to say you can't remove the microphone of your hand. Have you seen Chris Gordy on the prowl? He's literally begging everyone. Come on, Ross, you got to do it, man. Nobody else will do it. You got to get on there.

He needs me to sing. So, okay, people don't know. It was me and Chris Gordy. Chris Gordy does the shaggy song, Angel. He has somebody do the chorus, which I've had to do for him before. This is maybe the third time I've done it now. And then he does the Shaggy part. And he was like, come on, man, you got to do it. Nobody else will do it. You got to do it. I was like, all right, fine.

Yeah, I got roped into it. And he gets so excited to karaoke. It's like your, you're like a 12-year-old nephew begging to take you to AstroWorld. Come on, let's go to Astro World. Come on, you got to go to Astroworld. You're like, okay, all right, fine. We'll go to Astroworld. Fine.

I'll sing the chorus to Shaggy's Angel. I was sent an Instagram DM, and it said, this has to stop and it was video view and gordy our buddy brian apparently wants to talk some sports with us if you want to talk some sports with us or karaoke or a weird thing at my hotel and it's not directly happening at my hotel it's happening in the building next to my hotel matt you can get arrested for that man you better watch out

all right i'll tell you about more of that plus what is today's today's today's hell if i know all right oh my god it's 113 yeah the shows was flying by today That's the category. 7-1-3. What do you want to go? Eagle stuff. I know we've done some chief stuff. We don't want to do Eagles, believe it or not today?

Like the band? Well, I mean, I know what I could have. No, I'm thinking like the Philadelphia Eagles. How many of them are still alive? All but one. Oof. Now, they've had a lot of different members over the years. That's true.

Yeah, of the main ones. Joe Walsh is still kicking right, kicking right? He's an old coot right now. My God. He was terrible. just terrible. 7132. I mean, I didn't even editorialize there.

713212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Our time is 114. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross via real. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. If we're going to put this song on, shouldn't Gordy be in the studio with us? Yeah, I guess so.

You know what? I don't know if Gordy's how. up and you on a Wednesday while I'm going. Maybe you guys could do a live karaoke on the air with this song. No, I'm good. Give him like six whiskeys and he'll be ready. Wait, Ross, this is the chorus part. Yeah, this is the part I should sing.

So you were like the Pips to Gordy's Gladys Night. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, he always wants to make a show. And then this part comes in, and then he goes into his full Jamaican accent. You see it. I'm using this song ever since we've been working with this because when we were New Orleans in the Super Bowl. He used that song. Yeah, it's his go-to. You play the hits, Maddie.

It's true. I like to have diversity in my karaoke. Well, you're a piano, man. That's always what you were a girl, too. Yeah, but I mix it up. I'm going to go with some Bob Seeger next time I go. I may do a little bit of fast car. Night moves. The versions are the same. Yeah, but I mean, there's a thing in the other one. A little more country twang to this recent version. I guess.

All right, 713212-1-2-5-7-90. Let's go to Brian in Pearland on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Brian, good afternoon. Hey, guys. If you want to control a karaoke machine for a while, I don't want to give it up, do American Pie. You'll be on there for at least 10 minutes, and just piss everybody else off behind you.

It's just waiting to, you know, to do like living on a prayer or something like that. So just hug the microphone for a while. If you're going to get up there and do it, just do it and just take the entire extended cut version of American pie. Gotcha. And Matt, lay off the good people of Iowa. We have family that has gone to Iowa State, but you're correct. It is in the middle of nowhere. I have been there on my way to Clear Lake Iowa, which Matt used the music officiantado would know.

That is the place where the music died back in the 1950s. Right. with Buddy Holly and Big Bopper and Richie Valens. So it's a beautiful part of the state. But, yeah, there's a whole lot of nothing for about two hours on the way up. Well, I'm going to be fair. Let me be fair in this. I have been to Des Moines slash Ames three or four times in my life.

I like it very much. I like Heartland of America. I like good food. I like nice people. I'm not looking for a lot of recreation. activity like mountains and beaches and whatnot i just i mean if i'm going to a city like that to call a game i just wanted to be a nice good atmosphere good feeling good sports and that's well that's good for me but i just don't know how you get an 18 year old that lives in la chicago detroit miami and go hey

ames i was where you should play your college athletics yeah yeah i mean the nearest major city to that is probably minneapolis well you know what and i don't mean to work blue on you here a little bit, but the reality is I've asked people, how do big city kids go to Midwestern small cities? This is pre-NIL. It's because they say that, well, the recruiting is wonderful, and I'll let you interpret it from there, Brian. The rest of the phone calls yours. Yeah, real quick on the stroze. You know, look, I would love for Breggman to come back like everybody else.

But let's not forget, you know, what happens when you put second basement in the outfield. and that's not their natural position. We saw it with Craig Bezio, and that lasted, what, all of one, maybe two years when Jeff Kent was there, and it wasn't the smoothest transition. But let's not forget, there's 14 million that you clear off the books.

That gives you some flexibility now, maybe to go out and get you another just arm or maybe another outfield bat or something like that. But it doesn't clear up the space for Bregman, but I think you could move Caratini, which he's not as valuable now. he's still a good bat off the bench being a switch header and all but because you don't need him at first base now he's going to back up catch what maybe two days a week something you could

probably get away with caesar salazar being that third catcher who hasn't had a full full go of it you know because he's been stuck in the pipeline down at triple a but once a week you could probably get away with that but you still have to move dubon but if you're putting dezenzo and all these other uh spots you know maybe he's your new utility guy and you move up on from Dubon and that frees up an additional 10 million between those two. So if you're going to do it, you still have to make other moves if you're not willing to completely blow past the attacks. But I am curious to know how much his elbow is still maybe causing some concern those elbow

gremlins that were in there. And people are just balking at it for whatever reason and maybe need to see him. I don't know if he's doing private workouts for people to prove that everything is fine. but, you know, let's not forget he did have those elbow issues there towards the end of the year, and I wonder how much that is causing all of this. Thanks, yeah, thank you. Oh, if you need to believe it or not, all things, Eagles, St. Thomas Eagles, Boston College Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles, Eagles, the band, there you go.

This is the category that writes itself, SportsRV. Honestly, on the elbow gremlins, if the Astros, if the reports are accurate that 6156 is still there, that means the elbow must be good. I don't think we would hear through the grapevine that people are worried about the elbow. Yeah, I don't yeah, that doesn't

factor into me. No, I don't think so either. It was interesting to brought up, we really haven't brought it up, but I mean, from what we understand everything was good. And my guess is medical, I mean, when you're being courted by teams, they're looking at medicals. Yeah, I would have to say that if the Astros indeed were really, that

that 6156 contract is sitting on a table, that's knowing that Bregman his elbow is okay to go. Yeah, I mean, it's possible, I guess. And remember, he, he was never disabled last year, was he? He played through it, did he not? Yeah, correct.

You missed a couple of games here and there, but... Yeah. But you never was disabled during it. So, all right, thank you for the phone call. Where are we going with this? Oh, there's a lot of Iowa State talking there. Yeah, I don't know. What does the Presley reduction in the...

salary due right now they're got to be feeling good there's got to be some flexibility now they don't have say four days ago but that flexibility would go away if Alex Breggman was to resign and so you were there Saturday there was just a lot of people it was

so you're telling me that Dana was being coy would that be the turn you want to use? I would say he I think he was basically calling it a long shot the door cracked yeah not closed Yes. I mean, I can go find the audio for you, if you'd like.

You don't have to. I'm busy. You're busy working, believe it or not. Yeah, believe it or not, all things, Ryan Presley. Oh, that's good. I might take up a lot of knots. It's fine. Put up a spelling of his name. No, why? Because you got it wrong, Matt? Well, I mean, I wouldn't be the only one. It's not that easy. You literally quoted his wife.

Lovely. Big fan of the show. Is she? Loves a show. There's no chance. Okay. Maybe the, I know Ryan did. I don't know. Probably not or an alias

I won't even know and not towards the end. Yeah. Hey, he's just calling. Hey, I've got to stop giving Ryan Presley a hard time. Well,

you know, we used to, I used to, I had a caller, I had a former player's wife call on her an alias one time. Really?

Oh, yeah. That sounds like fun. That's, that, you know, that is, that's disingenuous. She was trying to poke the bear

to see if the bear would growl at her, at her husband's performance. I'm not going to I don't say who it is. I want to, because I'm going to be respectful, but it was a relief pitcher when I was very young in my broadcast career that sucked. Pete Incavelia? No, I said reliever.

Oh, wait. An inky-dinky dude didn't suck. Now, granted, his best days were as a ranger, but he didn't suck. Pete and Cavillia, that was a rare poll. It was probably shouldn't go to the Ken Obergefell card. I don't know who that is. I was just naming a random, the first random name that came to my head in my head. It's probably you didn't say John McLean.

That's usually your first go-to name. I haven't used that in a while. I know. I'm proud of you. I only do it because it annoys you. It does annoy me. You know what? You bring up John's name annoys me.

John doesn't annoy me. You annoy me. I know. That's what I'm here for. Just thinking on an extra hour of this. Weekdays 10 to 2. Have we told everybody in our offices that we're on 10 to 2? Weekdays 10 to 2, folks.

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7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Nate Burleson is telling us how to feel about the Chiefs winning another AFC. You'll hear from him next on 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Congratulations to Mike Tomah. He is a new Texans president for business operations. Previously worked as the chief operating officer of Legends Global Attractions,

which provides services in business planning, project management, sponsorship, premium ticket sales, merchandise, marketing, food and beverage. And apparently under the new regime, he will be working for the Texans and has to report directly to Hannah on a daily basis. You made up that last part. You don't know that. That's not in the press release. It's not in the press release. This guy's reporting directly to Hannah. See you at Neiman.

Let me say. Everybody's reporting to Hannah. If you don't know that by now, you don't know anything. It doesn't say in the press release, see you at Sacks. That's not accurate. We'll be having a 9 o'clock morning meeting every day at Sacks, 1130 lunch at the Neiman Marcus. And ironically, at the 1.30. 30 at T.J. Max in River Oaks.

We'll be reviewing the terms and conditions of the MX black card. We could really add some stuff to this or not. So, Rossi, he's got a stadium background. Interesting. Sounds like Matt Thomas was right. Now, this could be

about a refurbishment at NRG. It could be. They need to do something, I guess. Yeah, I mean, there have been stories about the scoreboard is so outdated and doesn't work that you can't get it repaired. That's what the rockets ran into at Tota Center. These scoreboards, they don't have the shelf life

that our scoreboards back in the name we were kids used to have, Ross. You just change out the light bulb? You can't do it, yeah. You changed the light bulb out in 1987. Now you've got to go buy a $300 billion big box. 8K pixels a little bit harder to replace than the little light bulbs, I guess. You get that right. All right. We have the Chiefs and the Eagles, and the network that's carrying the game, Ross, is Fox. So Tom Brady will be on the call.

Really? Yeah. How does Greg Olson feel about this? Oh, it's costing about $5 million. He's not real happy. Well, they said he went from $10 million? What is it? $10 million and $3 million?

Something like that. Could you imagine not only getting the second best game in the week as compared to the best, but you're taking a 60% pay cut. It's tough. To watch Tom Brady fumble through broadcast, although he did a good job on Sunday, I guess. He was fine. He doesn't buy.

People are, I got my buddies texting me about how bad Romo sucked. I don't want, the only, there's just nobody I go, man, I don't want to hear this. I keep asking you this.

Is there legitimately anybody that you hear on a game broadcast NFL that says, it would be better serving me having the volume off? No. No, there's not. There are some people I prefer than others. But there's nobody I go,

turn this off. Yeah, I would agree with that. So, all right. So even though the game is on Fox, Nate Burleson, who has butchered the Hollywood Squares reboot, hosts the CBS This Morning Show, which is fine. I don't watch that show. I'm more of a today guy.

And does the NFL today, which is good on that, came in with this on the NFL post game show. Say this to the fan bases out there. If you're not a Chief's fan, that's okay. But resist the urge to fall for the narrative that we're tired of seeing them win, that we might be for the fan. fatigued of watching KC go to the Super Bowl over and over again. You are witnessing greatness and just be happy that you are alive to be there to see it.

I'm so blessed. You get him, Nate. So blessed, wrong. Thanks, Nate. Thank you so much for telling me how blessed I am. Yeah, I wonder why, where that came from. Maybe he's a criminally, or what does they call it, terminally online? Yeah.

Twitter hates the chiefs. I don't even hate the Chiefs. I think Twitter hates Chiefs for a variety of reasons. Let me give a no particular order. One, they get all the calls. Mm-hmm. Two. Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift. Three. Pandeyrevee lost his weight. Pat Mahomes is kind of cheesy. Corny? Corny. Dufacy. Whoa.

These Mahomes' Mottos commercials are hilarious, Matt. What did you just say? Mahomes' Mado. I don't know what that one this one is This is the State Farm commercials Oh so he's like a good baby Okay I'm sorry mate marm I forgot we rhyme on this show

There you go mate marm Much better They're good They're recognizableable That mean we have to celebrate them All right Matt I got Except Oh go ahead

No no I'm accepting it That's it Good accept it Quickly though I did cut some Dana Brown from this weekend on the Astros Fan Fest Spectacular. Go. You tell me what you're feeling like. Okay, good. This is the first question.

Out of the gate about we'll start with this one on Bregman. And there's another one that maybe gets more interesting. I would say the door is cracked, you know, not open, but you know, it's interesting that he's still here on the market.

Ultimately, I think when we made some moves earlier, you know, put Perretus at third base, and we signed Walker and you know so we kind of solidified the infield but the fact that Bregman's still available

you know I said look we've had conversations about it you know that as a front office and said look this guy's still available you know where is it going you know so those are just some small talks that we've had. Small talks that we've had the door is cracked not open

your thoughts Matthew that we saw that he's out there we moved on but we lobbed of text like it would be like Ross

help me out this is porn allergy time and here it comes here we go your girl that you broke up with you got a new girlfriend you got us

you went and got a new girlfriend but you're like man she's not as good as the other one was in some respects all lob and see what's up girl kind of thing doors cracked not open meaning if she came in the door and shut the door and locked it up,

you'd be with her. But, you know, you got back, your backup piece is okay too, right? Interesting. If you had six Long Island, maybe that door cracked becomes door open. Or, yeah,

or three vodka sodas in some people's cases. Okay, more from Dana Brown. This is also interesting to me. Yeah, the re-engagement is more so internal. We have not talked to Bregman, but we've had some discussions about Bregman, just the fact, the mere fact that he's still available.

You know, what would we do if we were able to, you know, sign them back? How would that, you know, shake up our current roster? And so we've certainly had those conversations, you know, just for the mere fact that he's still available. And, you know, we treat it like any other free agent. We're having discussions about all these free agents that are available. And so the fact that, you know, Breitman still available, we had some conversations. Internal conversations have not re-engaged with Breggman.

That really, to me, sounds like I can't believe I'm even having to discuss Alex Berman. I thought he was gone. I'm with you. That was the feeling I got. At Matt 83, L-A-F. blank Nate don't need anyone telling me what to appreciate. Nate can keep his lame-ass opinions to himself. You tell him.

I like that. I'm going to give you a Matt the Ben. I'm giving you a like on that one. Damn, Nate and Merylson tell me what I like. But back to Dana. So let me ask you this. Is this a case? This is just me.

This is pure conjecture of my part. Is this Altovae and Crane wanting more of Breggman to stay more than the general manager? that could be possible a little bit under that at all or am I just making it? I mean the general manager I mean it's not Dana's money so ultimately

ultimately the buck will stop with Jim Crane so I don't know that's interesting or would you feel like if you're Dana Brown I spent all this offseason I work this trade to get parades we signed Christian Walker I did such a good job

and then we're going to go back to Bregman again when I thought we weren't we didn't you know it would have changed the way he operated this off season I don't know I got another analogy for you. This may be even worse. Oh, here we go. My wife wanted a wrestler at some point.

Okay. And we negotiated for a wrestler. Okay. And then at the very last second, she changes her mind and says, I'm going to go get this other car instead. I did all the laboring. You wanted me to get you a wrestler, so I got you a wrestler, and now you're looking to get another car. How did you feel? How did that make you feel, Matt?

I was fine. I was indifferent. The other car was better because I'm not a big fan of electric cars, so it really helped me out quite actually. You sound a little upset. No, I'm actually very happy. But, I mean, I did put the legwork in and the rest of it. It feels like you wasted your time.

I did waste my time, but, but, but, Dana didn't waste the time. Dana went and said it, you need a first base, we need a third basement. We'll go get you something. Is it like when somebody asks you for their advice on something and you do, they go against your advice anyways? Yeah.

Don't call me if you don't want my advice. Yeah, I mean, you could, take someone's advice and you don't have to heed their advice though Matt. But you're going to appreciate it? Yeah. Maybe, maybe yeah. I think all of our analogies aren't horrible in this particular case. We're doing great. All right.

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We love him. So excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him for sure. This is the Matt Thomas show. Really fast. I've got to pay off on something I mentioned earlier. There is a very high-end apartment complex right next to our hotel in Boston here. I went and looked up the rate for a one-bedroom apartment, Ross, $4,600 a month. Oh, wow.

It must be extremely spacious, three, four bedrooms? No, one-bedroom, about 650 square feet. Oh. But I'm intrigued by this complex. Is the whole place gold-plated? I think the most expensive apartment in this complex is $9,000 a month. Jesus. Here's the weird part.

I can see into people's apartments. If I'm going to pay $4,500 a month minimum, you can't see a damn thing from my apartment. I got to the hotel yesterday, or when I woke up yesterday, I looked outside to see what, because beautiful, Boston has got a nice skyline to it. There was a guy making his bed.

I'm like, I'm not supposed to be able to see this. It got creepy. Then why did you get your binoculars out? I don't have benigni. I knew you were going to say that. I knew that was the follow-up. I thought the softball you hit it out. Why did you get your telescope out then?

Stop. If I'm in that apartment complex, do I know that people at a rando hotel can see me? Hmm. What if you witness a murder like a rear window situation? Okay, that's enough. I'm not watching Lifetime movies for that ever. And if I can see them, can they see me as the bigger question. I believe the answer is yes.

Yeah, put your clothes on, Matt. Close your blinds. I'm not doing my show and just my underwear anymore. I can tell you that for damn sure. That's great for all of us. Five minutes left to call on the show. What should we do?

We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B. Leave it or not and here's how it works. You'll call 713212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not, all things about Ryan Presley.

I'll read your statement about Ryan. If the statement's completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. Believe it. If the statement is erroneous full of uncanny up, you'll say this. Not. Two believe it or not to win your prize. What are you playing for today, Connor? A pair of tickets to see Reba McIntyre live on March 4th opening night at rodeo

Houston presented by Shell Federal Credit Union and some 790 T-shirts. Guys, that's a really nice prize. Reba freaking McIntyre? Let's go. 713-212-5-790. Kevin, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Ryan Presley is second on the Astros' all-time saves list behind only Billy Wagner.

Believe it or not? Believe it? No, he's fourth. Come on. Dave Smith and Brad Lidge are ahead of him. Let's continue. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Joe on 7-90.

Joe, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? I love the Cougar talk, Matt. While growing up in Dallas, Ryan Presley was personally coached by former MLB pitcher Andy Hawkins. Believe it or not? Believe it, Matt? Not. No. Ross.

Where do the hell of that come from? I googled pitchers from Texas. I mean, my gosh, that is outstanding work. That's a best of, even though it didn't come across the best of earlier. Gill on 790. Gil, you're ready to play Believe it or not? I think so. Before deciding to turn,

decide, before deciding to turn pro out of high school, Ryan Presley was committed to play college baseball at Texas Tech. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. In 2010, Ryan Presley was traded by the Red Sox of the Twins

in a package that landed the Red Sox Trevor Plouffe. Believe it or not. I didn't even get that. What did he saw? I didn't. Can you read that, please? In 2010, Ryan Presley was traded by the Red Sox to the Twins in a package that included the Red Sox Trevor Pluth. Believe it or not?

Nope. Not. There is. You win. Not a great question. Probably one of five worst ones ever Ross put up there. Let's go to Tim on 790. Tim, you ready to play Believe it or not?

I'm ready. Ryan Presley is available to book for speaking engagements at athlete's speaker.com. Believe it or not. Oh, yeah, he is. I leave it. Ross, what's the radar on to Ryan Presser? I didn't inquire. I didn't want to get an email.

Yeah, that's true. John on 790, John, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Yeah, everything. Everything in by high school. All right, Ryan Presley also played football in high school, but his career was derailed by an ACL tear. Believe it or not. Matt It was

I've said it once That's 10 he never who's had ACL tears and who hasn't He had an interception He was a DB and tore his ACL Wow Kind of big for a defensive back I don't vision more as a safety

Frank on 790 Frank You're ready to play believe it or not Believe it Matt Ryan Presley has worn the number 55 his entire career Because that's where he was selected in the 2008 MLB draft Believe it or not

Believe it No Rossley made that up. I'm sorry. Man, Reba's going to have to get some people in the stadium there. Chad? Oh, Chad's already a winner. Let's go to Clint on 7.90. Clint, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

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