The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Terrible Astros Takes, Fantasy 5, Spencer Tillman & Brian T Smith

Episode Date: June 26, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. Is the Matt Thomas show. 12 H-Town. I know you're not working. The bars are closed. Actually, I don't even know.

Had the strip clothes opened up for a while? I'm not asking you, Joe George, if you know, but just... I think they did. It's kind of an open-ended question. It is a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. That is Joe George, who came back after last week's beat down on the Fantasy 5 to come fill in today for Brendan. Thanks to have you with us on the show this afternoon. Yeah, I was a little upset when I found out today.

I wasn't going to be able to try to get my revenge. Yeah, you're not because I'm going to beat Adam Wexer today. Like I had before, I want to know against Wex. The only person I know how much success against is you and Ross. Everybody else I did you just fine with. we've got a fantasy five coming up at 2.30 this afternoon. We'll tell you about the topic in just a little bit. Ross is not here again today. From what he told me to be a text earlier today, he had scheduled. He was scheduled for a 10-15 COVID test. And honestly, Joe, I don't know very many people personally in my little world that I, you know, my friends, my co-workers, family.

I don't know very many people that have had the test. So we're going to just peel the curtain back on a sports. RB COVID test. And we'll go through the experience. He had a devil of a time trying to find one. He was going to try to go get one of those rapid test. Two things. One, they're ridiculously expensive. And two, they're only 80% accurate.

Yeah, they're 100% accurate if it's positive. 80% accurate if it's negative. Yeah, I'm okay with that. I would rather just go with the real test and wait a couple of days. So we'll check in with that. Spencer Tillman from Fox Sports works with Tim Brando on one of the college football games of the week.

We're going to talk to him at 1 o'clock. I always think I just, Spencer's got a soothing nature to him. And he always has those sort of funny, cliche terms on the Texans broadcast that you make you think, okay, what does he always say? Put smoke through a peephole?

That's his go-to phrase on Texans broadcast. Now, because of the rules he has, unfortunately. We cannot talk Texans with him. Wink, wink, wink, wink. But we can talk college football with him. So it will be Foxes Spencer Tillman to join us at 1 o'clock. We may not get into any sort of Texans conversation. I certainly respect the rules that he has under on that. Brian T. Smith, well, is it two. And we mentioned our buddy Adam Wexer is going to come in on the Fantasy 5 at 2.30 today. Topic today on the Fantasy 5. Frozen treats you would buy at the convenience store.

you know when you were a kid that's what you did every day right you saved the pennies the nickels the dimes and quarters if you even got a dollar bill you were really happy so you'd go to the local uh when i was a kid it was stop and go and you totem now there's like uh what's uh there's the quick stops and the uh valeros and whatnot you know you pull that little that big whatever you call that thing not a container but uh it's like a freezer a free yeah it's like a it's like a it's like a yeah a mini freezer and you open it up and you go what am i am i going to have today. And we're going to figure it out. And Ross will not be here to judge. Joe, you are the seventh and deciding judge. I feel like you've got experience in this category. I was more on the ice cream truck. Just wait for it. Same thing, right? Yeah.

So basically, and we should tell that, it's what you'd get on the ice cream truck or at the convenience store. Yeah, that's a good call. I'll have to text Wex and make sure he knows that. All right. The NBA schedule will be announced tonight. Very excited about that. That kind of puts my life in perspective a little bit. I don't know how many games I'm calling because we don't know the whole arrangement,

how many national TV games and what we do on the TV side. But we'll have NBA basketball here for you on Sports Talk 790 at some point, July 30th. I mean, let's be brutally honest. If you're the NBA, the last game the Rockets were supposed to play before the pandemic was Rockets at Lakers on a TNT national exclusive game. Why would you mess that up?

LeBron, A.D. against a healthy Russ, a healthy James, a healthy rested PJ Tucker. That bad boy is going to be like at 9.30 our time, 10.30 in Orlando? You think they're going to play games that late? Just to appease the L.A. audience? Well, first, to appease it, yes. And secondly, double hunters. You're not going to put game one of a double-hutter at four. Now, I have been told there are going to be some day games. But my guess is those day games are going to largely feature the Washington Wizards,

the Phoenix Suns. Like we're just like those teams that are just happy to be there. You know what I'm saying? I mean, you're not putting LeBron at 1.30 in the afternoon on a Thursday. So they're going to take a couple of weeks to finish out the eight games, then the playoffs, which will resume in a best of seven format. Speaking of the NBA, I took this as very, is very positive news, despite the fact that the coronavirus spike is happening in Florida,

much like it is here in the state of Texas and notably in our community. 302 NBA players were tested for the coronavirus. 16 of them, according to a woge, have tested positive for the virus. That's just over 5%. So the glass mostly half full says to me, that's fantastic news. That is a very, very, very small population. Now, the cynical side of me is, hopefully those 16 players are just having the normal symptoms of, say, a cold or a cough, and they're not having terrible problems breathing and whatnot.

But are those 16 players privately thinking, you know what? I'm glad I got out of the way. Because when I go to Florida and go try to play for a championship, I'll have it knocked out. Well, the three players on the Kings, I don't think they're worried about championships. No, they're going, but they're worried about just. I honestly, I don't know. Why would you even go? You're on the Kings.

Well, you have not a puncher's chance, but you have a chip in a chance, as they would say in the poker game. Yeah, I mean, I like their team for the future, but they're just, at this point, like if I, I would just stay home, honestly. If I was on a bad team and I tested positive, I'm not going to risk it. But if you already got it, though, that's my point, is if you already got it, you're not going to go to Florida and get it again. That's true. At least in the next three to four weeks. That's why it's so weird to say this.

And I don't want to – I would never wish disease on anybody. Well, there's actually a couple people I would wish disease on, but it wouldn't be the virus. It would be much worse. You get it now. and hopefully, again, here's the thing, it's under the caveat of hopefully you don't get the serious side effects to it, but if you get it, get it over with,

you're free and clear in Florida. Where if you don't have it and you jump on a plane and you go, you do have a chance of getting it down in Florida. Although, as I've said multiple times, I don't think once you get in the bubble, I think you're in a great spot. I think the chances are significantly lesser

to get it in the bubble then you would get it if you were outside of the bubble, especially because Orlando has had a huge spike in the last handful of days. All right, lots of get to on the radio show today. We are a part of it. Anything Goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show. If you'd like to get in, 713-212-5-790, for those of you that are bar owners,

and we're feeling your pain, my man, and my friends out there that are having to go through this. But, you know, obviously, we are seeing some elevated numbers like nobody else's business. And if we don't in this latest round, get these numbers flattened out a little bit, we're going to go back to square one, which will be,

everything will be closed. So yeah, bar owners out there thinking about y'all as they have decided as of about 10 minutes ago to shut your doors for the temporary. And under the auspice of hopefully sooner rather than later your return. All right.

So we mentioned Spencer Tillman. We mentioned Brian T. Nancy Armour. Who? Nancy Armour. I have to properly renew it in the next segment of the show. I have to set this up. Because let me tell you something.

You know what you would do, Joe, if you just, anytime there was a negative story about writing about one of your favorite teams, you call that person gutter trash or whatever, you would just be, you would do what a lot of people criticize the president for. If something is said that criticize the presidency,

When Donald Trump, what does he do? He goes to Twitter and he destroys them, right? I don't want to be that person. I want to be able to say that Nancy Armour is fair and balanced, and I want to make sure that she's a person that's been able to take a lot of people to task. But yeah, I'm going to have a bias towards Houston sports when I read things on the national side. And I don't read Nancy Armour. She probably spends a lot of time talking about Olympic softball, and I just don't particularly care.

She writes for the USA Today, sorry, but no one's growing for sports journalism at the USA today. It is what it is. There's a couple of guys that are really good. We've had one before. Mark Medina, who covers Zambay, does a real nice job. Bob Nightingale's a good guy. Does a decent job.

But Nancy Armour, not on my radar. Well, she took the Astros a task yesterday. And when she did, is she did it because I think, frankly, she's bored. And she basically cut and paste off of other people's stories and went back to a lazy narrative. And that's the problem I have with national people. Don't go to lazy narratives because it's easy and simple for you. We'll discuss that next.

Time is 12.12. If you want to get in, Anna, anything goes Friday, 713, 212, 5790, 7-13-2-5-790. Anything Goes Friday. Matt Thomas Show, Sports Talk 790. This is James Arden. It goes to hard three to shoot, jacks up a three hits. This is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Are you kidding?

Joe George is producing the radio show today. Joe, you are also a booker of guest. I think, frankly, 80% of the great guest the afternoon team gets is because of you. That's pretty accurate. Or would you even care to make it a little higher number? No, no, because I don't book, like, Dream when he came on and stuff like that. Okay. So 80%.

So have you booked a Nancy Armour for the A team? Definitely not what I would call an A guest. All right. Will you be booking her for the show this afternoon? Definitely not. Has Adam Clanton gone after her on Twitter yet? I'm going to assume the answer to that question is yes. I haven't seen it.

Usually I'm always, I mean, a Nancy Armour column destroying the Astros is right? That's like the Adam Clanton wheelhouse, right? Yes, he has three hours ago. And he said the following. Go ahead. Do you read? Among the many things forgotten during the pandemic, how awful an armor is. But I'm here to remind you that the ranger.

and every other MLB team are doing the same, and that this Karen couldn't wait 24 hours to drag up Kobe Bryant's past sins after he and his daughter died. Did he go at Nancy Armour or just put her name in it? Oh, it's at, at Ann Armour. And did she respond? Called her a Karen, by the way. No, he did not.

No, she did. She did not. I'm sorry. Oh, she didn't. Okay. Do you feel like Karen's are getting an unfair? I don't know a lot of Cairns. I asked that to Ross.

Ross and I've had this conversation a bunch of times because his mom's name is Karen. Okay. So I asked if we should change it to something else. He said, no, it's fine. So. To me, there's only one. My grandmother's name is Karen. Yeah.

There's only one logical name if I wasn't going to be able to Karen. It'd be Debbie. I was kind of thing Stacy. No, there's some hot Stacey's out there. Definitely. Cairns are usually not. Deby. Debbie's probably good.

So let's do this. Do you want to start a trend here on the show instead of calling them Texans Karens, Astros Karens, Rockets Karens, and the media? We could call them Debbie's. Should we come up with one for each team? Like Texans, Debbie's.

Then it gets confusing. That's fair. You know what? I'm going to start from here on out. I don't know if it's going to gain any momentum or any steam. But from now on, anytime we were going to refer somebody as a blank Karen of some sort, we're going to give respect to the Karen's out there.

I don't believe there's a whole lot of them left, not one of the more popular names, but Debbie seems like it's just a perfect name. So Nancy Armour is a, we can call them Nancy too, but I like Debbie better. You go D-E-B-B-B-B-I-E. I feel like for this conversation they're all I-E's. Okay.

Yeah. National Colonial. this Debbie. So she basically, here's what she did. And I'm just guessing this a little bit, gang. I'm guessing she had 80% of this column written three weeks ago. And she needed just one more little nibble for her to completely destroy the Astros and talk about how awful Jim Crane is. The only thing we, and I'm going to see, here's what she's basically saying, she's mad because he wants to make a buck. He's, apparently, he's awful because of the situation involving what happened in the

clubhouse last year with the Astros and the cover-up. And that was awful. We're talking about the woman and how the ex-General manager, assistant general manager, went in there and started talking about Osun and whatnot. That was, that was an awful look by the Astros. It just was how they didn't trust the reporter. You guys don't know what I'm talking about. and there has been some other things that obviously the Astros have could have and should have done better in terms of handling public relations.

The Verlander situation with the Detroit Reporter. Obviously, the sign-sealing thing was a huge black guy for them. But, you know what? Unfortunately, sports teams, just like the ones that we love and like to talk about and root for, make mistakes. And the Astros have certainly made theirs. But basically, Nancy Armour ran to her typewriter, her computer as fast as she could, to completely destroy the Houston Astros over what Jim Crane said was, hey, I'd like to have fans in the stands so we can, you know, make some money.

You know, I'm pretty good at numbers and run a lot of businesses. The impact on the teams, losses on the teams are accurate. The numbers that are out there north of $3 billion of losses for the teams is accurate. I can tell you that. You know, our losses would be significant, tens of millions. And so the only thing we have to do that can counter that, you know, costs are kind of set for the rest of the season is get some people in the building and sell some tickets and some merchandise and some cold beer or whatever they like to have.

So it's going to have an impact on the teams next year. I think, you know, the bigger the teams, you know, the bigger the impact because the revenues are higher. So the math is the math. How dastardly! Jim Crane wants people in the stands, as long as the state allows it. You heathen! How dare you, Jim Crane,

say that if Governor Abbott and the coronavirus and the flattening of the curve allows people to come in and buy tickets. How dare you? Listen to what this woman said. And I would say listen to what this guy said if Nancy was a guy. Crane, she's speaking of other owners around baseball and other presidents talking about bringing fans and stands. But Crane was the only one to be so nakedly craven about it.

And given the worsening health crisis and huge. Houston, his comments came off as particularly callous. First of all, I'm going to tell you something right now. I'm never going to read a columnist in sports who thinks it's important for her to say, or him, I want to make sure I'm very clear on this, when you use the term nakedly craven in a sports column, you don't like sports. You want to write articles about anything but sports. nakedly craven. Who the hell watches, enjoys

family time, buddies, and sports and beer and popcorn and mascots and star spangled banner and fireworks and deep in the heart of Texas and then goes to their keyboard and says so nakedly craven about it? how self-righteous is this, you know what?

And again, I want to be very fair and honest here. This is not about her being a female. This is her about being a columnist for a major, or I guess a major, yeah, USA Today's big. Add to the same thing, if Paul Heyman wrote this, where you know what, Joe, we are equal opportunity offenders in this radio show. We offend everyone. But I don't intentionally go and tack people unless they deserve it.

And again, the Astros have done a horrific job on a very important. variety of angles. From not taking what the woman's comments were seriously during all of the the playoffs when the Astros won the American League, to the sign stealing, to some of the PR things they have done, they deserve a lot of blame and ridicule and criticism. That isn't the point of this. But you're telling me, you're taking Jim Crane's comments. And oh, by the way, I'm guessing that Nancy wasn't on the Zoom call.

did that sound like, and again, if I'm being my epic because he's a Houston owner, please out me. I'm accepting that on this show. Did that sound like a man that was, did he say, I don't care what the governor says. I'm jamming people in at May Park whether they want to go or not? Nope. Did Jim Crane's any point? I'm opening it up. Y'all take y'all's chances, bitches.

See you later. And I hope you don't get the Rona, but come watch our games. No, we need to do any of that. he basically said he's going to watch the situation Major League Baseball is going to watch the state of Texas is going to watch a situation and if people can get in the stands

he's going to welcome them because they want to go like Governor Abbott or Lena Hidalgo today says that there's going to have to be like no events with more than 100 people well that that rules out minute made that means

no fans so he's not going to make people go And first of all, it's never like he was making people go. He's saying we'll sell tickets if we're allowed to. Because he runs a business. And that's like, why are you mad at Jim Crane? That's what I'm saying. She had this article, she had this column locked and loaded. All she had to do is get one more paragraph so she could put the term nakedly craven in her column.

It's why people hate media. That's why you do. nakedly craven. Who says that? When's the last time you ever said nakedly craving about anything? Never. Yeah. Because you're a normal human being. You're not trying to be the smartest guy or girl in the room. Again, the Astros deserve and receive and will continue to receive a tremendous amount of criticism for the way they've handled a variety of public relations issues.

That isn't about trying to defend what the mistakes they've made because they've made about plenty. But this is absolutely pathetic. that she's taking a comment that he made on a Zoom call that she didn't take part in. I said, ooh, look at this. I think I'm going to, you know, ooh, Houston cases are rising. Jim Crane doesn't care. She's basically taking a statement and making a bunch of assumptions off of that statement. And it's pathetic.

And that's a pathetic column. And that's why I don't read her. And that's why when she's in the trenches with Greg and Andy when she was, I didn't listen. I didn't listen to my own radio station because I knew that. she was either going to talk about Olympic sports or people that are nakedly craving about something. Sorry. It's a Friday. I'm kind of fired up.

You feel better now? Speaking of feeling better, we've got to check on Ross. Miss Ross. COVID update next to the Matt Tobas shows, 1229 and 790. I feel pretty. Honey? Okay, Google Play Sports Talk 790 on High Heart Radio. All right, Joe, here's a problem.

Great producer would have come back with ER. the general hospital theme uh what else would be a great medical saint elsewhere that's a little older maybe er be appropriate so let's get the segment off to a good start because we're going to check in with a buddy ross who had his COVID test today much better now so a couple days ago ross is like um got a member of our family who tested so i think it's the right responsible thing for me to check So he said, look, take yesterday off, take today off, and hopefully you're back with us Monday. Sports RV fresh off of the test. Am I accurate?

About an hour and a half ago, I suppose, yes. All right, take us through the last two days and spare no details. Spare no details. Well, I mean, if you got some private things going on, I don't think the audience wants to hear that. But sure to that. I've been in my bed most of the time. checking my temperature just about, I don't know, every couple of hours. It's been fluctuating up to low fever down to normal. So I've been having a little bit of a cough, been having

some sniffles. I did have a family member that I saw on Father's Day test positive, and then a couple of others of us in the family are symptomatic and getting tested as well. So yes, I did think the responsible thing was to stay home and get tested. So got tested today, and hopefully I'm supposed to get the results within two to four days. No, wait a minute. I can't wait for this, because if you're getting it, and I'm probably going to get it from you. Well, it's definitely a possibility, Matt. What? I'm checking on you. I'm asking how you're feeling.

I'm staying home. I'm going to be, I'm going to be basically in my apartment for the next four days doing, I don't know, watching TV and catching up on any Netflix show that I'm behind on, pretty much. And perhaps adding a few afternoon delights to the what's on Matt's Mine show page at Sports790.com? Well, I mean, if I can clock in for it, then, yeah. Oh, so you wouldn't do it on the kindness of your heart. Yeah. No, I think, I don't think so. I do need to go ahead and get on our website and put in my sick days because I don't take that many, so I've got like 45 sick days piled up. Do you know I have, I'm not kidding you, I think I've got over 200 six days available to me.

That seems like a little high. I'm going to go, I'm going to bet the under on that. Maybe you have 200 hours. No, you know what? You know what I think I have? I think I have 360 hours of sick day, which is, what, 18 days? Yeah, it's about 20 days, give or take. I've got 45 days.

Oh, you know, now I'm going to find out what it is. But, okay, so you were going to, first of all, go get a rapid test. And that's kind of, and that's kind of costly, huh? Well, it's kind of not up to me. I was, I try to find, most everything is booked right now. Even the, I tried to go to an urgent care clinic. And they were, first of all, they're going to charge you $75 just to meet virtually with a doctor. And then the test was going to be $130.

I went through the state and I got a free test. I took it in the green lot of NRG Stadium. Would you, from my car, put my window down, they jammed a swab into my nose and then sent me a bottom on my way. How high did you, how high did the swab go up your nose? I don't know. I know that it felt very uncomfortable and she put it up there for a couple of seconds and she did one nostril. I was like, okay, cool, we're done. Then she just starts jamming it in my other nostril.

Oh, great. It wasn't fun. It was a little uncomfortable. for a few seconds, but it wasn't too bad. But you're okay now. You're not having any side effects, and you're not like you can't breathe or anything, huh? No, I mean, I would, I had to,

it made me have to sneeze because there was an irritation up in my nose and my nostrils, but that was pretty much it. So if I ask Adam Clanton again, three nose swabs up their nose or a spoonful of mayonnaise, what do you think he's going to choose? He's going to choose the swabs. And it's not that bad. If you really hate mayonnaise, I guess you'd go with it.

I would go for the mayonnaise, though, personally. It was uncomfortable. All right. So tell me about this green line in our, How packed was it? I was one of the first five or six cars there because I guess I was one of the first appointments. But when I was leaving, there was a lot of cars in line. And oddly enough, there's like military people running this thing.

So it was like an area 51 situation. You have to check in in the front. You put your ID up to the window so that they can read it. They don't want to be near you, I guess. And there's like these, there's like army people there. And they were running the whole thing, and then a nurse swabbed me. By the way, I just checked on our time off balance. I have 45 sick days available to me.

Yeah, that's what I have. I think that's the most you can possibly have. You can't cash them in, unfortunately. Probably. And they do roll over as compared to your vacation days. You do not, but that's really internal HR stuff. Yeah, that's just, yeah, go ahead. So I was going to say, you can't really, you just sat in your car, you listen to

790, you should listen to music? What was your day? What was your, like, sitting in the line? Yeah, I was listening. to in the trenches. It was, of course, Indy Kalu and Chris Cordy, and they were talking about music videos where girls who were dancing with hardly any clothes on, and I made sure to text in that Tip Drill by Nellie is one of the all-time greats. If you can find the uncensored tip-drill video, it will change your life. Yeah, I'm a big fan of that song as well, as you know.

And you couldn't really meet anybody. Couldn't like, you know, introduce yourself. You couldn't say who you were or what you're doing because everybody's kind of stuck in their car, right? what do you mean why would I meet people at a COVID test in well I mean you know what people meet people stranger I met my wife in a car in college be some of people in a bar somebody online why don't you is there a COVID 19 out of my car and hit on people in the COVID line is there a COVID-19 meet up or something I mean I can't that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world I mean you could kind of self-quarantine with each other you can quarantine together I got you yeah so fluid's going hmm yeah you got to be careful about

about fluids here in 2020 of all sorts. Yes, you do. All right. Last question, do you have aches and pains? Yes or no? I have a little bit of body ache. I have a slight fever. I have a cough, but it's producing slim, so I think that's good.

I'm still optimistic that I'm going to be negative. So you have a flummy cough. Okay, that's good. That's compared to the dry cough. Correct. I'm not short of breath. I haven't had chills. Have you been eating anything, and can you taste the food?

It does, I got to be honest with you, Matt. Oh, no. Food does taste a little funny. I can taste it. You've got it. And then you're giving it to me and to Joe. We're going to, the entire station, we're going to be quarantined for two weeks. I'm sorry.

It is what it is. It is. But, I mean, let me tell you, if this is the worst you feel right now, you're a lucky man. You understand this, right? Yeah, I'm okay right now. We'll see how we're feeling a couple of days. But I'm going to go get some curbside groceries from HGB. so I don't have to touch them and they don't have to touch me

and then I'm going to go east basically hole up in my apartment for a few days. Do you want us to build a water tower with the Save Sports RV on the top of the water tower? No, no, don't worry about me. Don't keep me in your thoughts or prayers or anything. Just be safe and I don't want to get too political or anything, but maybe just exercise caution and care for each other. God, do you feel like that was like the Jerry Springer kind of nice saying right there? Yeah.

Ross, I have a question for you. Okay, what's up? We were going to, we started calling it the vid-19. Now, do we have to stop that now? No, you can call it whatever you want. Okay. I'm just making sure that, like, we didn't have to change the name of what you and I were going to start calling. Why would it, why would it change?

I don't know. Maybe your perspective has changed now. Because now I'm a vid-19 survivor, perhaps. Okay. On Twitter, at Stroh's relegation. Important question for Ross, were there any cute nurses at the testing site? The nurse I had a mask on

So I don't Let me ask you this Hard to tell Let me ask you this gentleman This is a real grown-ass man question, okay Is it easier to creep a little bit With a mask on than it is without a mask? I don't think so

Your eyes are still out Yeah but I think people are focusing more on the mask And they are on the eyes I think the ice becomes a non-factor What if you need to tell yourself When you're creeping on people with the store, Matt. By the way, why do I not want to watch the tip drill uncut video? Why would it be opposed to that? I'm saying you should watch it.

It's just a lot of swear words? Yeah, I'm saying you should watch it, uncensored. Okay. Hold on. Paul, really real real? Okay, he said the H.E.B. Sorry, they're trying to bring in my groceries. This is live radio. This is fine. Ranging in, the sports talk about at least point for a few weeks.

Sorry, Matt, trying to get my groceries. Are you going to tip her, by the way, or him? I don't know. Well, I can't hand them any cash. How do I do that? Can I do it on the app? Oh, so you're blaming the ron on you being a cheap skate? Well, I'm not going to be a cheap skate. I would love to give them a few bucks. Okay, well, get the wallet out, and then just put a plastic bag around the money and say, here, sir, enjoy the rest of your weekend. Thanks for taking care of my groceries. I'm going to hopefully, hopefully there's a way to do on the app. It's already costing me like six, seven bucks anyway. Oh, that is tough, having someone get your groceries for you for entire $6.

All right. More importantly, you had your 10-year Twitter anniversary yesterday. You have me and Darren Ravel in a fight, and I am the small favorite. Is that correct? I have you at a minus 170. Lance Surline puts you guys each at a minus 120, but I had to put out there, Matt. I know you have, first of all, we've seen you both lined up next to each other. Yes. There's a significant size advantage on your side.

It's not because of a blubber. It's just, I'm just a bigger bill than he is. People don't know this, Matt, though. You have a sneaky mean streak. Yeah. I am a ride or die. well I don't know about that no no I am I mean if there's anybody in your world

that when when I pass away and they ask you to speak at my funeral you're going to say Matt was a ride or die guy and if you wrote with him he loved you all more but if you were not with us you're against us and I had a little oh he's taking care of his order there yeah all right well sports RV in all seriousness thanks for calling more importantly I hope you get a negative test and hopefully we get you back here Monday or Tuesday

depending on that test results. All right. Thank you, Matthew. All right, there it is. And again, just to make sure you want no water tower with Save Sports RV. No, no. Just be careful and exercise caution in your day-to-day life. All right.

There it is. At Sports RV, Sage Advice. Thank you, friend. There it is. Sports RV live from the H.E.B. Getting his groceries. You know why I don't do curbside? Because you put all the blood, sweat, and tears and getting the order that you want,

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You know how sometimes they have the TNT exclusives or EABC that in the regular season, what they call, they're calling them seating games. They don't want to call them regular season games. Yeah, they're saying seeding games. All eight are going to be AT&T broadcast. Now, that may be a national goal on too, but if you're like, there are some people that just do not like Reggie Miller. There are some people that do not like Chris Weber, or they may not be the biggest fans of Hubie Brown.

I can't imagine not liking Jeff Van Gundy. I think Jeff's fantastic. But, yeah, you know, those guys. are going to, E T&T is going to have it. And by the way, I don't envision the ESPN TNT crew going down to Florida, at least for a while. Early on, someone said, who calls the finals? Sorry? ABC. So Kevin Harlan? No, T&T. Kevin Harlan said they don't think they're going down there until the conference finals. That's right. Yeah. So I think it's do the same. They'll go down there earlier before the conference finals, just to quarantine and go through the process. but if anything, they won't go down there.

But if that's only, I think, if it doesn't go to the standard that they're okay with. Like if they know the broadcast can be significantly better if they go down there, but if they're happy with the product they're putting out there, they won't never go. Here's the problem. And I know this from a little bit of experience, having kind of going through the protocol of the NBA. Once you go down there, if you are not a player, first of all, anybody that goes down there can't leave. Once you leave, you're done. So if you're Harlan, if you're Marv Roberts in his mid to late 70s, right?

Hubey Brown, under no circumstance should be going on there. He is in his like mid-80s. There are some older broadcasters that should not be down there. So, and I think, I mean, I'm guessing Harlan's got to be in his mid to late 50s. That's a big problem. But, yeah, if you've been watching this KBO on ESPN, and they don't do the exact play-by-play. But John Shambi and Carl Ravich have been doing these KBO games in ESPN.

They've been doing it from their house. It hasn't affected them at all. And my guess is the TNT has sent them a huge television monitor. I mean, I'm telling you this, the Rocket Games that you will hear on this radio station, if it's Craig or myself, we're calling them off a TV monitor here in Houston. In fact, I envision me doing a noon to three show here and then going to the Toyota Center and sitting in front of a television and a feed that I get from the NBA and calling a Rockets game. I don't know how many I'm doing, but that's that's the plan. Now, it's a much bigger challenge, way, way bigger challenge, but it's not, it's not something you can't overcome.

I wouldn't want to do it for the long term. If the NBA said, we're done with broadcasters traveling, it would really, really, impede my enjoyment for it. Not only because I like to travel, but it's just harder. It's just way, it's not nearly as enjoyable being in this the term is an antiseptic. Is it?

What will be just a room that's got nothing to? No ambiance. It's just a room in a television. That's not how you broadcast games. Yeah, there's just nothing to it. My concern, though, is that it's going to go so well that they're going to say, why are we paying for these guys to travel and not selling these as

seats. Oh, they already do that. I mean, you know a reset for games. Yeah, you guys are moving. They always move you guys back, right? Yeah. It's just that would be like my only, even for TV guys. Like, I could totally see them not.

I don't think people will travel next year. Until there's a vaccine, I don't think broadcasters will travel specifically. I don't think Robert Ford and Steve Sparks are traveling. I know the television guys are not. Yeah. The Major League Baseball Manual is allowing baseball radio broadcasters. to travel, but that's, from what I understand, there are three tiers of people, Tier 1, the players, Tier 2, like equipment managers, general managers, trainers, that kind of thing.

Tier 3 is media and team personnel, you know, cameramen. I don't think Tier 3 can go on the team playing with the guys at this point. So I think if Tier 3, meaning Robert and Steve, were to go travel, they'd have to fly commercially because they're really trying to limit the number of people. From what I are, and I know if you've read it at all. Again, if you're really bored, you should look at it. Tier 1 are the players, the coaches, the manager, the essential people that are in the dugout. Those people are being treated like royalty.

You know how the president has different security protocols than, say, an average person. It's like they have their own secret service and it's just these one protocol after the other. They want to make sure that that group of about 35 people, coaches, manager players, stay healthy for as long as humanly possible. Major League Baseball cannot afford for Tier 1 players, a lot of them to be hurt because it would cripple their sport. so that's why they're limiting who becomes a tier one as compared to tier two and tier three. And we'll get to Spencer Tillman on this because I'm curious what he has heard about Fox. And again, he's been a longtime friend and is just so eloquent on television and does a terrific job on the college football package. We'll talk to him about that.

And among other things about the return of college football, it is that anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-790. Timon, Fox Sports next here on 790. Yes is the Matt Thomas Show. It is 101. The Matt Thomas Show, our pleasure to have with us, one of my favorite people in the city of Houston, one of my favorite all-time special teams players for both the Niners and the Olders.

Terrific broadcaster for the local NFL team, but we love him for his work on Fox College football with Tim Brando, who we had on the show a couple weeks ago. We say hi to Spencer Tillman. Spencer, please tell me you're well. You're too kind, man. Thank you so much for that, Matt. How are you?

I'm all right. My partner's having a COVID test, so we're a little worried about him, but everybody else is doing just fine. Thank you for asking. Very good. Well, I hope everything turns out all right for him and everybody there too. So prayers up for him. Yeah, amen on that.

You obviously are watching a lot of the same stories we're seeing about the terrific number of tests that are being given out, but unfortunately a lot of positive results littered throughout college campuses. As you heard about Clemson, Kansas State, hear a little bit at Houston locally. What's going through your mind as you see as you see these results?

Well, I mean, it's not really surprised to me. I mean, one of the pleasures and joys of being involved in leadership, whether it's on the field or off the field. One of my roles is a board director at Houston Methodist's Hospital. And, you know, we've got one of the top hospitals in the country, and we've got data dashboard reports that come in from our president

and CEO and leader and Mark boom, and it is very comprehensive. And I see all of the detail that's in them, and it's not a surprise to me at all. And then when you juxtapose what you hear being trumpeted, and I'm not being political here, but either from the right or the left, you can understand why things are the way that they are, because there's no consistent message one way or the other. And so people in that kind of rugged individualistic spirit that kind of defines who we are as Americans to try to tempt fate.

And they go out and, you know, engage in activities, whether it's the folks down in L.S. at the bar that they were at and those 30 positives came up. You know, all that stuff is predictable when you ignore the facts. But for me, I just look at it and say it's a shame if we missed an opportunity to really curtail our behavior, mask up, you know, social distancing, because we still can save the college football season and NFL season if we just do those two things alone. Spence, I had Dennis Dodd on from CBS Sports, one of the great college football writers a couple of days ago.

And I had asked him, I said, were you as blown away as I was when Mark Emert, the The president of NCAA said, we're going to leave this up to each of the individual conferences. Were you surprised by that? Because if there's any time where we feel like we need a de facto commissioner for a state of college football, it's kind of be right now. That's a great take, Matt. And I'll tell you why it's important. Tim Randolph always talked about college sports needs a czar. And I think it does.

I mean, the NFL has one unified voice. I mean, the commissioner, Roger Goodell, speaks for all 32 teams, right? So that can be a very significantly positive thing in a situation like this. When you're in a middle of a pandemic and you have ultimately on the college side, at the Division I level anyway, the top level, you've got 130 little archipelagos, little individual islands, and everybody has different budget sizes, and not everybody's going to be able to spend the same amount of money on testing. And so how will that impact them, ultimately travel?

All of those things that go into creating the perfect scenario for, attacking something that you know very little about. It has varying degrees for every institution. Not everybody's going to have the same resources. So to have a unified voice and a way to come together would be a positive. And so college football definitely needs it, but it's needed it for years. And I don't think that part of is ever going to change. It's just the way the landscape is. You and Tim get to do a lot of great conference matchups, say in October, November, even sometimes in December or championship games. But that first month of the year, I'll catch you guys doing a Ball State Michigan game or a Toledo versus Penn State, where obviously these other

schools are taking paychecks. What is that going to be like for those schools if those games get canceled, Spence, especially if Penn State says, hey, I'd love for you Toledo to come, but I can't pay you what I want to pay you because I got to fill 100,000 C stadium up first. And see, Matt, you're nailing really what is to me. I think the underlying most significant issue in this whole discussion besides the loss of life, which is obviously, Perrymont, nothing comes close to that. But when you start thinking about the fact that you have sport, again, in the position of mirroring what happens in the broader context of society or society doing that. That is, whatever happens in sport, whether it's Jackie Robinson being introduced

to baseball by Branch Ricky in 48. You have maybe 18 years later, it took a while, but integration in terms of fullness came 18 years later with the civil rights bill. That changed. So when you have the capacity to create that kind of impact, that's a wonderful thing. But you don't have that right now. You have these smaller schools who get big dollars. I'm talking $950, $1.1 million paydays from their interaction with these other big colleges. And if that's not going to take place, you're going to see the stratification of the classes get even more distinct, right? So if you're a have-not, you're going to be more of a have-not. And to me, that mirrors what's happening in the broader context of society. and that's unfortunate.

Spencer Tumen with us from Fox Sports here on the Matt Thomas show at 106. Spence, this is also brought up a time where you're going to ask these young men. And again, I don't know where you are on the pay for play or pay for likenesses or do the car dealership endorsements. But this has struck a nerve with people that are saying, all right, you're going to send these kids out in potential harm's way and you're still not going to pay them. Does this ramp up that form of conversation as well? I think that's one of the reasons why Mark Emery doesn't want to be part of that discussion. You know, they've lost six cases in a row dating all the way back to the Ed O'Bannon case,

which started the Emmington likeness issue over the basketball games. So EA sports, I guess, was kind of the proprietor of all of that. But the bottom line is you're hitting on another very significant issue. It is going to cause some problems. And it's tied to the same issue that people are in the streets for and have been for the last 34 days or haven't long it's been since that May 25th scenario that happened in the streets of Minneapolis. It's tied to the same idea of inequality in the minds of many people that understand the bigger issue. Because that's what it points to.

Most people, if you're part of mainstream culture, you probably haven't connected those dots. It's like anything else. Until it squeezes you, until you feel it, you're not going to have much to say about it. But folks that are really doing deep dives in this see that this issue is not separate and apart from the broader issue of inequality. Because 68% the college level, 72% at the NFL level, are players of colors that occupy those positions on the field. So when you tell a large enough significant cohort that you can't earn money for whatever reason because of whatever reason, then that is a form of constriction that should not be.

And, you know, I had some very pointed comments while I was at CBS that shocked some people, but I still feel the same way. My attitude hasn't changed about it. It's more sophisticated in the way that it's approaching. I'm talking about the NCAA and its general approach with this whole issue of the restrictive policies that it has. It is nothing but a sophisticated form of slavery covered up with niceties of complexity. No, people are not trudging around in balls and chains. No, it's not. It's more significant. That would not be tenable in a civilized society. But it is still a form of restricted capital.

There is no other aspect of life in human life in America where people who are responsible for generating $1.3 billion per annum cannot participate in some way. I'm not an advocate of blind given a 17, 18, 19, 20-year-old money that's commiserable what they earn. Because it's only going to amplify that dysfunction. So, again, in a nutshell, it's a tough one for Mark Emeritt, and I'm not surprised that he doesn't want to be a part of that. And I didn't bring you on to talk about necessarily that, but it is a factor during all this time. Let me ask you this question that we've had on this show multiple times.

If Spencer Tillman is the superstar running back out of the University of Oklahoma, and he gets to do a car dealership or gets to do a pizza commercial or whatever, What about that offensive lineman that isn't known and doesn't have that kind of notoriety that Spencer Tillman does? How does that offensive lineman supposed to feel? And if he's not getting the same type of offers that a star running back like yourself back in the day where he's able to get? That's what leadership comes in. And the best scenario in that situation, you say, hey, look, if you've got a player that's able to garner that kind of recognition, where it merits in the minds of someone out there willing to pay it, a paycheck,

What you need to do as a head coach is fashion the narrative, which sport already does, to say, you know what, you don't get those yards of this offensive line is not part of that. You have a sit down with that running back and say, you know what, you ought to do every Tuesday. You ought to have donuts ready for these guys. You ought to bring them. You ought to do this. You just detail exactly how that situation should be managed to whom much is given, much is required. That's an ethos that can be woven into the narrative. So let's not ignore the fact the role of leadership in those situations.

There's ways to deal with that, and it still stay consistent with what we are about in America as a whole. This is about rugged individualism. We are a capitalistic society. No, of those 37,000 kids that play in Division I football, not everybody's going to be able to garner the same amount of money. We know that. But you can foster an environment of your 125 or 30 athletes that you may have to create a balance or sense of ecology with respect to how you treat those players that are bringing in money. it becomes a team deal. And I don't think you're going to get pushed back from any athlete in that scenario.

I really don't. And that's up to the head coach that to fashion that. All right. Back to the game at hand or hopefully the game at hand. If I gave you the chance to be the czar of college football, you and Brando split the job. All right, do you want to push everything back a little bit? How would you advise 120-something schools are going to play FBS football this year? Well, what I would do is I'd say, look, the numbers are going to dictate everything.

And right now we've got this current spike, and it's not a misle-reesome. where it's coming from. There are a couple of dates that you point back to and you look at the metrics. You can see that there's a tangent, there's a line that kind of connects those two events, or there's actually three or four events. So there's a rhyme and reason to why it's speaking, peaking, and it has to come back to leadership. So if I'm looking at those numbers, and if I'm the czar, I'm saying, okay, we've got four weeks that we can play with on the back end because remember the regular season is going to end that week before December 7th, December 5th, where the championship games are typically played. So you've got four weeks,

essentially until the championship, actually seven weeks until the championship game is played after that. So if you need to slide a couple of games because a couple of times you get peaking in terms of positive and maybe one team has X amount of players that come up, you can't feel the team, then you adjust it. So you've got four weeks to do that as a whole. So I think you've got time on the back end. I would try to get as many games as I possibly could to sort this thing out on the front end being mindful that you could get spikes if people start to be humans and start to ignore the facts and start to do like they've done in the last couple of weeks. So I think it can be done. I would not push anything back right now. I try to get as much as I possibly could

on the front end, provided the numbers say that you're able to play and you've got a good system in place in a tenable situation to deal with what we're dealing with right now. I don't see any other reason to stop. I just don't. All right. Christobal last question. Is your gut say that we're going to have a disjointed season in terms of number of games that University of Washington somehow plays nine, Penn State plays 10, Arkansas plays eight. I mean, what do you think? Using your rationale and everything stays in, and we have the normal amount of testing and results that come back positive. Could you see in your mind a disjointed uneven number of game season?

And how the hell do you determine a college playoff off of that? Well, the only way that's going to happen is this. If you have a round-robin scenario, I think the Big Ten or the Big 12 is the only one that kind of has that technically around. Robin, where everybody plays everyone, you can have a legitimate champion still be determined. But those games have to be missed within those first three or four weeks, because once you get into conference play, you're not going to have the ability for everyone to play everyone, and then therefore come out with a legitimate champion that can honestly, with a straight face, say that we are the champion.

So that's going to be an issue. There's no question about it. I think the likelihood of us getting through the season 100% unaffected or losing at least one game is virtually zero. Something is going to happen that's going to be an issue. I just don't think we'll get all of them in, but I think we've got enough wiggle room on the back end to make it through and then get a season and get a champion crown.

Great to hear your voice. I can't wait for you and Tim to be calling games. I don't know if you'll be doing it in the same room, same stadium, and the same city, but we look forward to getting you guys back on Fox very shortly. Take care yourself. Enjoy the rest of your summer and stay safe, okay? Matt, Matt, thanks a lot, buddy. You got it, Spencer Tillman, with us Fox Sports here on the Matt Thomas show.

A lot of things to kind of chew on on that, and a variety of different angles to go to. But if you want to talk about the big picture of college football, for me it's not necessarily about the pay for play and that kind of thing because that can always be brought up in conversation, but it's about what about a disjointed season where, you know, Joe George's beloved Aligni play eight. He's shaking his head.

My Houston Cougars play 11. SMU plays nine. Florida State plays nine. I don't know how my college football team plays any games this season. Are you talking about north of St. Louis? If they only play in a conference, who the hell

is Notre Dame playing? Oh, that's right. You're a Notre Dameer, huh? Yeah. They're not playing football? They'll play their four ACC opponents. Right? But what if they only play in conference? Notre Dame's not in a conference? They'll play what? BYU, Navy, and Army? They'll play

their four ACC opponents. Right? But what if they only play in conference? Notre Dame's not in a conference. They'll play what, BYU, Navy, and Army? We can play us and take a loss. We're going to probably skip the Washington State game, right? Wouldn't that make sense? Yeah.

I'd really go to South Bend anyway than Pullman. Love South Bend. Sneaky Good. Sneaky Good Town. Sneaky good. It just doesn't sound like it because it's in Indiana. No, but it's just what you think it is in terms of a college football shrine and one of the great Catholic University, one of the great universities, period.

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I'm outstanding. This is Whitney Mercilis. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 6 o'clock tonight. I believe Joe George will you be hosting the nightcap? I will be. You can break the news of the NBA schedule release. I'm very excited.

I hope it's not like a normal schedule release show where they take way too much time. No, you're going to get their rocket eight games in an email at 6-000-0-0-000. Can you forward me that email when you get it? sure I would love to. Because my life, I mean, I love scheduled days. Honestly, I do too. Especially when it comes to the Astros. Now, the NFL, to me, it doesn't matter because I'm not intimately involved on an NFL

game or broadcast or I definitely have to be there. I mean, it kind of helps out scheduling-wise figure out what we're going to do. And by the way, knock on, we get to go to Vegas this year for a weekend of betting on sports. But what, you need to go? I really want to go. If we can, I think we should go. The weekend the Texans play the Browns, because that's also Masters weekend. I mean...

So that's like college football, Masters. I feel like October, November of the wheelhouses, because September, I may be still involved with the Rockets in some former fashion. I think that's November this year. Okay, I love it. So, okay, before we get to that, anything, any takeaway of some expense? He's passionate about a lot of things. He thinks you progress as scheduled.

I love the dog thing. I don't think it's going to happen. Why? Too many tests, too many kids. We're talking how many Division I football FBS are there? 125, give or take. Each school is 100 players. Right?

Yeah. So it's 100 players. And again, not all of them play. But you're talking about... But one school is double the size of an NFL team. You're talking about 12,500 test. How often? Every other day?

And so you're telling me that Alabama can pay for it? Yes. USC can pay for it. Yes. Notre Dame can pay for it. Yes. North Carolina would probably pay for it. How is Miami going to pay for it?

How is Boise State going to pay for it? I would like the medical community to take these college football teams and these college campuses and use them as a learning opportunity. I mean, you've got top medical schools all over. UH has got all these grants for COVID. Like, there's your demographic. You've got kids traveling from 50 different states, probably 49. No one's coming from Alaska. Oh, by the way, I just, we didn't include a single trainer and a single assistant coach, a single head coach.

Yeah, I mean, you've got people traveling from all over. You'll be able to get data. Like, you'll be able to learn a lot about the virus and what's going on. I think it's complicated because... I think we're going to get college football this year. I don't know about the stands and I don't feel good about September. I feel significantly better about a December 15th start.

So I listen to Dan Patrick a lot and Dan Patrick from the radio host has been saying that his sources have told him the NFL's first contingency plan would be to take the first four games and tack him on to the end of the season. How many stars did I give that the other day? Yeah. I'm adding to it. So I'm now putting up to 100,000 stars.

I think college football's first plan will be to, like we've been talking about, is to eliminate out of conference games and say you're only playing in your conference. And then they talk to ESPN and they expand the playoffs this year. And every conference, the Power 5 conferences, everyone gets in and then you have three wildcard teams. Do it this year. You have the opportunity. Everyone's changing their playoff format.

Everyone's changing everything. So do it for this year. But what if your conferences has certain many, like Big 12 only has a certain number of teams? Do you put somebody to play somebody twice? You could, but at the end of the day, if you're just crowning a conference champion, does it really matter? It doesn't really matter. And all by the way, even though if you're trying to play everybody play each other the same amount of time, but it still means extra playing trips.

What if for one year, Notre Dame and BYU join the Big 12? Oh, that's going to start something new. Just for one year? No. just because if they're only playing their conference or you just have everyone play they play a different amount of games. I don't think it's a terrible idea.

I think if you're going to do that, you're going to have intense conversations about being a permanent move. I can't imagine a one and done on a conference, especially Notre Dame. Yeah, because they would go to the ACC, if anything. Yeah. So, I mean, maybe Notre Dame gets added to the ACC.

Maybe BYU does get added to the PAC 12 for the year. And that's what happens. The independent schools, you play your conference and the best team from those Power 5 schools gets in and then the college football committee says look we think Alabama is by far the best team

in the SEC Auburn gave them the best run for their money they've only got two losses from a talk radio team in from a talk radio standpoint does a 7 and 1 Alabama deserve to get in the college playoff over a 10

and 2 insert team yes so what I'm saying I mean those are the debates we're going to have. And I would love it. From a talk radio perspective, it's great. It's just going to piss off a large segment of fans of those particular teams. Sure. Because the college football conference would have to out loud

basically be saying we value the SEC. Correct. That's right. That's right. That a seven SEC wins is more important than nine Pac-12 wins. Yeah, they would be they would have to be saying that. And then people would get caught up in their fields because the PAC 12 is like, wait a minute, we're power 5 too. Why do I think Pac 12 sounds like this? What if they just expanded it to five playoff teams for college football and they could, the college ball committee could deem one team as the worst or one team as the best and

give them a first round by? Can we just go to the Matt Thomas plan and call it a day? What's the Matt Thomas plan? Five conference champions, group of six highest ranked. champion. Two at large. Eight teams, boom. That's what I want.

Done. Now, the problem is, it's too late for this year, and it's also disjoined it. Because, again, does... I don't think it is too late for this year. You sure? If you have to change the format of your college football season, and you want to determine a legitimate champion, why not? I mean, look what the NHG is.

But how cranky is 7 and 2 LSU going to be? when they don't get in over 11 and O Boise State. Yeah, that's tough. If that doesn't do the case. Or conversely, how cranky will 11 and O Boise State be if they get bumped from 7 and 2 LSU? And of those seven wins that LSU got, Kentucky's one of them, Vanderbilt's one of them.

But just like in the NBA, Ole Miss is one of them. But just like in the NBA, we can't appease everyone during these times. There you go, during these unprecedented times. I get you. Or do we go to like 16 for a year? No, no.

You're not trying to reinvent the wheel. You're trying to reinvent the entire vehicle. Well, they do it in every other division. Who's leading this, by the way? I'd like you to answer that question for me. The answer is there's nobody. And that's a problem. That's why college football needs are.

You're asking ESPN to do it. Let me tell you something. ESPN could give two craps about the non-FP, non-power fives, because they're going to want people watching. They do not want to see a national semifinal between Boise State and Akron. Under zero circumstances, they want that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. BTS in one-half hour.

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IME is 133. It is the Matt Thomas show. Before we got into the deep conversation about college football, which we do love. The pageantry of college football is second to none. And I think it has to be in front of fans. Because here's the thing, Joe, before we go to the school, caller, those that are the leaders in the front of the line of paying athletes are going to want them to be paid if they're going to put them out there in potential, I put that in their

quotes, harms away. Yep. You're going to, you're playing these games during a pandemic so you can get that TV money. Oh, hell's yeah. You're going to not only give them that scholarship that you offer them, but you're going to give them a stipend on top of it. they being college athletics has to be very careful in the next six months

on this. Yeah, and like the argument is always if you don't play college football, it could crush all the other sports. It's just adding to what the financial value of each of those players is, that you're not paying them. This is, it's like for college football and basketball, like it almost could expose the NCAA and really force their hand in all honesty. Because I just, I don't see how

you have to pay me if my name's Trevor Lawrence. I ain't going out there. I'm not playing. If the college football season starts a day after, starting this season, a day after December 1st, he's not playing. As he shouldn't,

because they're not going to change the NFL draft day. No, you know, it's funny. The NFL, all the thing they've really done is they've canceled a preseason game, the first one, and I think they're going to knock the whole preseason out, and they have basically said,

there's no camps, there's no OTAs, there's no practice, as many camps. We'll look forward to seeing all you guys in July. And they're going to push that back. One, what did Dan Patrick, the TV, the sports host say? Dan Patrick thought his sources say, what, four games? They would take the first four games and put them on the back end of the season. So instead of the Texans opening with the Chiefs, the Ravens, the Steelers, and the Vikings, they would actually open with their first game being at home against Jacksonville.

and they would play the worst part of their schedule, the final four weeks of the season instead of the first four weeks. Easy. Yeah, it's simple. Just do it. They're not fighting with stadiums. If they're fighting whether, oh, well, it's football.

Well, what are they fighting for? There's no concerts? Nope. There's no nothing. There's nothing to fight for anymore. And it gives them a better chance of putting people in stadiums, even at 25 or 50% capacity. Yeah, and it sucks for people in Buffalo

and Chicago and the Jets and the Giants. They chose that life. Exactly. Like you chose not to build a dome. It's like if something happens for the twins this year and all of this, you chose not to put a roof on your stadium. And by the way, I will give you a little kudos. And it's hard for me to do that sometimes, especially when you beat me twice in the fantasy five, or at least once. No, I only beat you once. I'm two and one. Okay. So accept this as a compliment. You had said that they, major league baseball, should plan ahead for potential neutral sites. And I think they're going to do that. If they're in a situation where they have to back the season up a little bit, and they're worried about Minnesota having multiple cancellations, Minnesota might lose the right, especially if no fans can ever go to a game, of having the games in Minneapolis. So Target Field, who your team is built for, may have to go win a World Series and say, Phoenix. Because seriously, if you're majorly baseball

and you're going to move this to a neutral site, you're going to a dome stadium. you do not want to say, well, St. Aga is lovely this time of year, and then they get rain and get rained out. I mean, you've got to go to Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Tampa, Miami. Who else am I thinking about in the dome world? Safe co. No, you're not going to fly 75 people to Seattle. But the problem is your domes are in hotspots.

Well, we don't know that yet. Texas, Florida. We could, this, you know, judge. Definitely. Judge Adago wants us doing our thing today, so maybe we'll calm down, if you will. Yeah, I mean, I definitely hope so. Me too. Let's say hi to Christian and Lamarck at 137 on 7.

Any Christian, what's the good word? Thomas and Brendan Riley. No. He's not here. It's Joe George. Oh, my bet. Joe George. Still, I got a couple of questions to ask.

First of all, I'm not. I know that y'all were just talking a little bit about the NFL and Major League Baseball, potentially doing games in the middle of the quarantine blue, so to speak. But when it comes down to Major League Baseball in general, I mean, I know they're not going to be playing games in a bubble like Major League Soccer, the NBA or the WNBA will. So how do you think, I mean, do you think it's going to be hard enough for them to, you know, her 2019 and to 28 cities, because we're excluding Toronto, because they ain't going to play in Toronto this year. But how far do you think it'll be hurting all those teams knowing that they're going to need

to get to and from there safely without, you know, dealing with any quarantine issues? And another thing, Matt, I saw you talk on Twitter on Sunday night to a prominent wrestling broadcaster, Rich Volkini, about the whole Speaking Out movement. And I have to ask, as a wrestling fan, of course, do you think that the Speaking Out movement

in professional wrestling and possibly all combat sports is going to lead to many people wanting to turn off the TVs on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday because they think that their favorite MAP Wars is nothing but just a bunch of scummy people.

first thank you Christian Joe Christian's been calling me for a decade and he always gives me the most most perplexing usually unanswerable questions first of all I don't know about the pandemic I don't know

would you ask me only Dr. Fauci probably could answer another guy on scene and it's all the time that I can't pronounce his name either in baseball like only the MLB can answer how many people can test positive and they can keep playing and they're not going to tell us that. They're just going to shut down one day

if it gets to that point. Yeah. From what, I mean, here's our best guess. Everybody in all these professional sports know there's going to be a certain percentage. That's why today, the NBA, said, yeah, we tested 302 people. 16 of them got it.

I'm not saying they're bragging, but they sort of are. Could you imagine if the MLB said, hey, whoa, I got something for you? We tested 302 players and 174 of them had it. They're not running a woge with that. That would have been the woge bomb of the ultimate consequence. There would have been a cancellation of the season.

Or at least they slow, no, no, there's no way to slow down anymore. That's it. Where they're moving, they're going on. They're going to the bubble. And if they're going to finish out this year, they're going to have to hope and pray that the same 5.3% of people that are in the NBA that get tested positive because that's what it is. 5.3% of NBA players that were tested, tested for the virus.

That's a percentage that Major League Baseball, the NFL, and the NBA would die to have. Poor Choice Awards. Would love to have. Anything more than that, my eyes can say, I wonder what the threshold would be before the panic button would be hit in those respective leagues. Okay. 5%. Five. That's almost two.

no, how many players is that? 22, okay, there's 302 players. No, for baseball. Oh, okay, 30 player active teams times 30 team at 900. So 10% would be 40, 90, 45, so it'd be roughly 47 players.

But, I mean, it sounds bigger. Yeah. But there's 900. Let me take you. And really, there's 1,800, aren't there? Because they're going to be like 60. Taxi squads, yeah. Taxi squads.

But you're not assuming that everybody's going to get testing the results because there are more than 302 players, right? 22 teams. No, it would be no. It's about everybody that's going to be playing. Yeah. So, I mean, it's totally reasonable that if 5% is the number, which is what we've seen now in the NHL and the NBA, if the MLB follows suit, are people going to freak out when they say over 120 people in Major League Baseball players and staff have tested positive? I think people are going to freak out and I don't think they should.

No, no, no, okay. Let's see, 900 players, right? 30 teams times 30, 900. You want to put taxi squads in there too? Sure. So let's put in, let's put every squad at 50. Because you can go up to 60. You don't have to go up to 60.

Let's go to 50. That's 1,500 people. That's an NFL squad. That's NFL essentially, right? Although they're 32 teams. If 5% of, of 1,500 people that's about 75 people. That to me is not a huge wigout factor.

You think it would be if I told you that 75 players of the 1,500 that were tested, tested positive, you think that would be an alarming number to people? We're seeing, we saw three Sacramento Kings get a play their day. It's a blip on the radar. I know. I do think people are going to freak out a little bit. Okay. I go, okay.

I can get that. Well, they're going to freak out just like they saw 23 Clemson players. My own opinion is that Major League Baseball would be beyond pleased. Because at least in the NBA bubble, once you get there, you're in that bubble, so to speak, and you can't leave it. Guess what Major League Baseball players are doing? They're flying different hotels, different buses, different stadiums, moving. once or twice a week, maybe once a week. I envision 12-game homestands, 12-game roadstands.

I do too. I think if the Astros go west, they're going to play San Diego, San Francisco, L.A. and Seattle, or some, you know, combination of. And it's going to be long-ass road trips. If you're playing 30 games, 30 road games, you're going to try to do it in three trips. What if they did 15 at a time?

No, it's too much. It's four trips. Four, like two at home, two 15 stands at homes, two 15 on the road. Yeah, I think it meant a little much. That's a much. Okay. Because you're doing quality of play, it starts a road a little bit. Yeah, because then you're at home for so long.

And you're on the road for so long. Yeah. And I can tell you, from personal experience, that fifth game of a road trip on the MBA side of it, we don't do very many of those because the Rockets are sentry located. That fifth game sucks. I know, but it just makes so much more sense. And I know not everyone's the case, and we're very focused on Houston. Right.

But it makes way more sense to play the Dodgers, the Padres, the Giants, the Angels, the A's, and the Mariners in one trip and just get it over with. I think you go, I think the Astros, and we're late here, would go twice to California, Pacific Northwest, and one trip to Denver, Arizona, Texas. And you knock out three trips in that, clustering up in the north part of it. Like, you can do this. You do Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, on one trip. you do L.A. San Diego.

Now, granted, you don't play everybody, you don't play, when you're playing national league teams, you don't play everybody home and road in that. So when I say L.A., I'm talking to Angels, obviously. Yeah, I think you could knock out 30 road games in three to four trips max. I bet you nobody goes five times. I bet you four trips maximum

for everybody playing Major League Baseball. So every road trip's going to be at least six games, a lot of them probably being 10. Look at us, to schedule the Major League Baseball. We're going to have the NBA schedule coming out at 6.30 today. 6 o'clock today. Hey, it's Friday, which means half-priced appetizers and Margarita Madness at any of the eight

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Fantasy Five. And for those of you that do not know what the Fantasy Five is today, Adam Wexer's going to stop in and he's going to compete against me. The category is best ice cream truck slash convenience store frozen treats. I have a list of eight. I have a ninth one. This is kind of cryptic. Now, I can't really get into great detail with you about this because you're the eventual seventh judge. And by the way, we'll look for judges later on on the show. So please stay tuned for that.

There is something that I've seen in convenience stores in the last five years that I didn't see as a kid that I would like to put on the list. The question is I don't know if enough people know about this new way of getting a frozen treat. We'll just put it at nine. I'm going to. It's number nine. and then you need a number 10. I do just in case that every one of the things. I'm going to keep it at nine, but this number nine thing...

Did that ever happen where you get to your 10th pick? No. I kind of figure it like you and Ross would never come up with like the same exactness. Now, there have been times where I've gone to the eighth for sure. And I will say this, and I don't mean to be, again, to get too much ahead of the horse here, but this ninth thing, which I think may cost me is something that my kids and I love when we go to the convenience store now. It is a operation that we didn't have. You know, it's way back in the day.

So favorite ice cream treats. And by the way, does ice cream in, I mean, we hear him and thank God there's a part of Americana that's great that when my kids hear my youngest, my only one really, it cares. It's my 12-year-old. When she hears ice cream truck, she loses her mind. Yeah, of course. It should never go away. Now, the only thing that's funny about ice cream truck guy in 2020, he's still creepy, by the way. Don't kid yourself.

But he now will tell you. take debit. Oh, yeah. So we gave my daughter a debit card. I don't know they're called green something or something. Are those the ones like you can like track what your kids are spent or like give them a certain amount of money on there? So we give her that. Because I don't know if you know this or not Joe, but today's kids lose cash all the time.

So we give her a debit card and so she can show she takes, she'll say mom can go the ice cream truck and my wife and I's natural response is no because they come from money. He goes, well, I had my, I don't know, it's called a green leave car or something like that. I said, if ice cream man takes it, knock yourself out. Now, ice cream man, when I was a kid, was in a van. Now he is in a big SUV or one of those 15 passenger vans. Still creepy. Are you sure it's the ice cream man? Because that's weird.

Well, we do watch to make sure it's the ice cream man. That's, you know, that's a problem with the marriage. We got a few problems in America, Joe, George. One of them is we can't trust the ice cream man like we could trust the ice cream man back in the day. Well, who just never should have? Well, that's actually true. I can tell you something right now. I bought from an ice cream man back in 1984.

And I didn't trust him then. I don't trust this one either. I feel like ice cream man should have like we should be able to find a search engine on him right away. Like if there is a national ice cream man truck tracking service. so before I send my 12-year-old Carly out there to go get ice cream with her debit card, I should be able to punch in ice cream truck number 3749 and see if he's got a criminal record. Now, if you're an ice cream man out there and you've behaved yourself, I don't mean to stereotype you. It's not my intention, but unfortunately, there have been a lot of issues involving ice cream in

in the history of ice cream man. The best part of ice cream in for me was even on a day that I didn't want ice cream, I'd go get a Coke. Because when I was a kid, we were not allowed to, we didn't have a lot of Cokes in the house. Getting a real Coke for, you know, a dollar or whatever it was, best money ever spent. Because at the house, it was, well, you can drink low-cattery Kool-Aid. And Diet Pepsi sounds delicious. No kid likes Diet Pepsi at 10 years old.

I want the real thing. I want that real Mountain Dew, not the crappy diet. So, salute to all you legit ice cream out there. And again, I think you should join me in the tracking service so our youth today don't get unfortunately put in a bit in a precarious situation. 155 on Sports Talk 790, but we're going to have the contest with Wax coming up in about 35 minutes. Also, Fantasy 5 today is at 230. Hell yeah or not for a chance to win a $50 gift card to Hooters. It's highly Googledable.

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I gave that one run at 1230. I think I'm done with that. And the NBA schedule gets announced today at 6 o'clock. Joe George will be the first Houston radio host at 6 o'clock tonight on the nightcap to announce where the rockets are playing, who they're playing, what days are playing. And frankly, what times they're playing because they're going to be playing some afternoon games. I don't think we've ever carried a daytime afternoon game during the week in the history of us carrying the rockets. We've had some Sunday and Saturday afternoon games, but never Monday through Friday. There's only going to be three courts that are going to be active on a particular day.

And if they've got all those teams that are there, you're going to see games at 12. I bet the earliest game will be 12 noon. I think if you're an East Coast fan of an Eastern Conference team, like if you, you, just love for some reason of Brooklyn Nets, you're going to be seeing games at noon all the time, if you so choose. Brian T. Chronicle joins us next on 790-157 here on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas Show. 202 on Sports Talk 790.

Busy final hour, The Matt Thomas Show, Fantasy 5, bottom of the hour, hellier or not, 252. And after a little getaway last Friday, we are happy to have. back with us, our friend from the Chronicle, Brian T. Smith on Sports Talk 790. BTS, I don't know if you know Nancy Armour. Don't need you to necessarily comment on her column because everybody's got their own opinions, just like I have mine, you have yours. I didn't take Jim Crane's comments during the Zoom call as she replied to it in terms of, she called it nakedly craven about Brian trying to bring fans in. I think he was just talking about what a lot of owners are saying.

He'd love to have fans back in the stadium as long as the states and the coronavirus allow it. I'm sorry, Matt. Who wrote what? Yeah, exactly. Okay. Just so... No, no, I'm seriously. I'm not being a smart bleep.

I'm not familiar with what you're referring to. I was on the conference call. I don't know. Oh, Nancy Armour wrote a skating article in USA Today saying that Jim Crane and the aster's of the worst in sports because he made... He was trying to push the agenda of we need to have fans in the stadium. when Houston coronavirus numbers are spiking? Well, I'll say this.

Number one, I'm not sure. I'm not saying she wasn't. I'm not sure if she's on the conference call or not. I know for a fact she doesn't regularly cover the Astros or in general major league baseball. Much more importantly, and not taking any shots at her, I know of her. I respect what she does. Jim Crane's a businessman. He's a billionaire for a reason. I was on the conference call. It's not like he was begging Major League Baseball for fans to be back in the stadium.

And if he didn't have them, you know, have them and he would go broke. It's not like he said that, hey, Rob Manfred and Fauci and the president of the United States and Tleman Petita, et cetera, are saying there's no way in the world we can have fans. But damn it, I'm going to do everything. thing I can to get fans in that stadium and I don't care about their health. It's not like he went out of his way to say every other team in Major League Baseball isn't going to have fans, but we're going to have fans as soon as we can. He didn't say any of that. All he said was, and it was a bit of an aside, was the plan is at some point to have

fans on Matt, up until basically this week, Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, I believe it had come out that if you were the Rangers or you're the Astros, you could eventually have fans in the stands. And I guarantee you, Matt, every Major League Baseball owner, every NFL owner, and every NBA owner wants to have fans in the stands because that's how you pay the bills. They run a business. So not taking a shot at her. Thankfully, didn't read the column, but might want to do a little more research, especially if you're going to go on the attack like that about something that seems to be completely off the mark. Yeah, I would have had more respect for the column if we actually knew who she was and was on the call.

I don't think she was either. I didn't see her name on that. They're an easy target. And I've praised a heck out of a match in 2012. I've criticized them probably more than anyone in the country since 2012. I tried to call it like I see it. They're an easy target. And in a lot of ways, and we've seen this for the last year or so, you know, with the sign stealing and every thing, and this speaks back to Luno, they're also a lazy target. And there are way too many people out there in the media, whether it's bloggers, whether there's national columnists. I know there was a thing last week with an ESPN reporter who normally I respect quite a bit. But just going out of your way to take really weak, lazy pot shots at an organization that does a lot

of good things. They screwed up, but it's not like they're the worst organization in sports. It's completely unfair if you're trying to do. to actually have balanced, you know, well-rounded opinions around something. Too many people take too many lazy, weak shots at the Astros right now. Well, as I said in the first hour when I discussed this, all of us can't be naive to the issues the Astros had. They handled the Justin Verlander problem with the Detroit reporter very, very poorly. They handled the assistant general manager and that problem with the, what, with the

a female reporter and what she's, you know, Brandon Tomlin's situation horribly. They didn't handle the press conference in Florida when this first came out when they first got the guys there. They've made their missteps. So criticism is fair. It's due. And I think the Astros understand as an organization. I just felt like, and I know if you'll have time, you should go walk your dog more importantly. But I just felt like that this was a column that was written three months ago that all she was looking for was a two-sentence statement to add to her vitriol.

over a team that has been crushed and will be crushed for a long period of time. But what Jim Crane said was not exclusive to him, it wasn't derogatory, it wasn't an FU to government restrictions or what the state says. It was just an owner asking, answering a question about would you like to have fans back and how fans do help generate some revenue towards a sport that will only have at maximum 30 home games during the regular season. It was a very simple question. and I mean that respectfully, it was a very simple answer.

It felt like on the side. I listened to it. I didn't even react to it because, and I saw I got some play on the internet, like, oh, the Astros and Crane, here they go again. Give me a bleep and break. And more importantly, there's nothing easier and lazier than, and this is kind of feeling back to the curtain a little in the media, not to be too much into it, but there's a whole genre of people who love to,

you know, it's like screaming about the government. It's really easy. to sit up, you know, sit, 1,500 miles away or something and type some really nasty things about a team or an organization or a league when you're not around them,

you don't deal with them, you don't see the good and the bad, it's really easy to kind of poke holes in something and throw little punches when you really, number one, don't have any idea what you're talking about, weren't participating in it, and number two,

you're never even really around the team or the club or the league. It's a joke. What have you thought about the MLB? I know you read some of it. I don't know if you read all of it. The guidelines, the restrictions, what you can do. Forget about me. Because generally speaking, our audience doesn't overly care about that.

But just the overall, are Major League Baseball players traveling from city to city, coast to coast because the Astros are in the worst travel spot in the entire sport? Can Major League Baseball players in these divisions in these 60 games really behave themselves? Or we're going to find ourselves in a spot where they're having a kind of. constantly get the ruler out and slap their wrist? I think it's going to be hard, Matt. You know, I've been saying, and you've been saying for three and a half months and a lot of your listeners and a lot of people to read the chronic left, we want sports to come back,

but it's everything's confusing, right? And it continues to be. I mean, you know, our reaction to this, how our elected leaders handled this, the national government, fighting with the state government, fighting with the local government. I mean, it just continues to be a mess. So human nature then kicks in as well, right? I mean, if it's hard to get 18-year-olds or 25-year-olds or 60-year-olds to truly follow the rules,

what about baseball players who for a long time have been used to a pretty sweet way of living and you're in five-star hotels and everything's taken care of and catered? It just takes one slip-up. It just takes, you know, one guy getting it, passing it on to five guys, and he passes it on to a 70-year-old coach. And then you've got some serious issues. So I think for the NBA, we talked about this a couple weeks ago, I think for Major League Baseball, I hope it works out.

We all want it to work out. It's much, much easier said than done. And I do believe that for as much as some NBA guys love their lifestyles, at least they're in a quote-unquote bubble with probably more containment, I think it's going to be hard for Major League Baseball to really pull this off. and I'll love it if they do it, but I think it's going to be difficult. What was your reaction when you saw that 16 out of a possible 302 players in the NBA were testing positive? It's 5.3%.

I took that as a positive because, as I was telling this with Joe George a few minutes ago, if Major League Baseball can get 5%, the NFL can get 5%, with just the sheer way, way, way more players, way more teams, I think that's a controllable number. So if I'm the NBA, I feel fairly encouraged about that number. do you? I think five, if we can make it through 2020 and the NFL and the NBA Major League Baseball are running around 3, 4, 5, 6%, 7%, they will take that and run with it and we'll have seasons, Matt.

I mean, you can't shut down the world. They're trying to shut down Texas, you know, a little again. And that's understandable because things are rising. But if you're going to want to have a season this year, college football, NBA, Major League Baseball, the NFL, MLS, whatever it is. You're going to, what are the, what are the PGA headset? We need to learn to deal, live with this virus. That's the biggest truth of all of this. And yeah, be responsible. Wear a mask, distance, all these things. But you either want to do things and you want to try to get through this like Adam Silver's talked about, or you just give up and say, hey, I'll see you in 2021. Personally, that's really never been how I, you know, think things should be handled or how professional sports leagues make all their billions of. of dollars. So if they can keep it around 5%, 4%, whatever, they're going to live with that, Matt. I actually thought it was very promising because earlier this week, there have been reports,

though it's going to be crazy high and it's going to be shocking and on and on. I think those were kind of nationally sourced reports. I thought 5% was very encouraging as long as they can keep it in that general area. All right. Lastly, let's go to the NFL real quick because we really even talk about this at all in the last couple days at least. Dak Prescott Science's franchise tag. If you're Deshawn Watson, do you have any opinion about him doing that at this point? I don't think so, because while they are similar, right, I mean, they're both franchise quarterbacks, for lack of a better term, and they're both young and they're both on teams that are kind of in the middle area of the NFL. Simple, simple facts. The only

quarterback that Watson needs to worry about, keep his eye on when it comes to his contract, there's only one guy, and he just won the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes. That is not in the same world as Deshaun on the field. And more importantly, in terms of years, in terms of extension, you know, the only person that's going to affect Deshaun Watson's value is Patrick Mahomes. The numbers of like $40 plus million a year for multiple quarterbacks. I love the NFL. It's the, it's the $10 billion business. But man, the salary at that one position is skyrocketing out of control. What the hell happened? Because, I mean, and Dak's good. But could you imagine five years

ago when Dak was a young man being a mid-round draft pick on Mississippi State that he was ultimately going to make $31.4 million for a single season of NFL football? Well, and this is the weird thing about the NFL, right? You have a quote-unquote hard salary cap. But to this day, Matt, one of the dirty secrets about the NFL is, you know, you've got four or five guys that are paid very well. But you've got so many guys that, and majorly baseball is like this, the NBA is like this, but nothing structured like the NFL

is to where one position for the most part dominates the quarterback position. Although, look at the NBA. You know, look at what James Hardin and Russell Westbrook are making, and then really the rest of the Rockets, LeBron and Anthony Davis, the rest of the Lakers, that's kind of how it goes anymore.

I mean, you're basically, you're going to pay for your elite talent, and that's the Sean Watson. That's your franchise quarterback and everything else, especially with the Texans. Everything else is cheered around that. Have a great weekend, my friend. Good day to be back. We'll talk again next week. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it. Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle with us every Friday for a couple minutes here on the Matt Thomas show. 50 minutes away. Wex jumps in to play the Fantasy 5.

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It is the Matt Thomas show. We had a couple of folks that were going to call and say, but they have dropped. What did you say to them, Joe? You didn't walk them into the radio station? That's not nice. I saw it, I'll put you on hold. It is weird.

We have, and I don't know, you've worked out of the radio stations in the last couple of years. All of them. All of them. Do people call? You put them on hold, and they hang up, like, right after,

and then they don't call back? I think a lot of people just don't understand commercial breaks. But the guy called like a minute ago. My guess he probably wasn't listening. Oh, that's not nice. But just called, wanted to talk about it and then well the one thing is and it took me a long time to realize this about radio is that most not most almost everybody that listens doesn't call you get 2% of the

audience that calls a show 98% are just sitting in the car driving around doing you know I do like the interaction but sometimes the calls either can really push the show in a really fun interesting direction and then they can sometimes just completely destroy it but yeah With this going on now, I feel like I've been more open to you guys as kind of opening up to anything you want to get to. We've got a segment here before we get to the Fantasy Five. If you'd like to get anything you want, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 on Twitter at SportsMT at Joe George Radio. And at SportsCovry. If you're asking where Ross has been, he missed yesterday and today, he has a member.

of his family test positive for COVID. He had had some symptoms. And when he called me, we talked to him at 1230 today, he said actually another member of his family had some similar symptoms. So rather safe than sorry, he went to go get a COVID test. He was going to go get it yesterday, but he couldn't find a place. And he wanted to get the one that gave you the 100% positive results as compared to the rapid results, which gives you a little, there's some false positives on there.

Actually, they're false negatives, right? Is what they are, I think? False negatives. Yeah. There's no false positives. There's been false negatives at about 20%. So he got in line today over at the, do you say the blue lot? Green lot. At NRG. Yeah. Are you a big tailgater at, have you a tailgater at Texans games ever?

I haven't been to a Texan's game yet. At all? No. I worked. Adam Sager and I used to do a lot of Sunday shows together. Okay. They're always working during football season. So that, and then for the last, you know, two years, I've had another job. So I also requires me to work.

So this was, right now, a plan is to go to at least one Texans game this year, if I can. I will just say this. I am such a fantasy football geek on Sunday. And Sundays usually are my one day of the week where I don't have to work. Because the rockets, either the rockets or the Cougars play every Saturday. So I'm busy with both those teams, the football team, and the Rockets obviously. So Sundays, I try not to do anything except just lay on my couch all day. Yeah, and for me, you know, I'm from Chicago.

So of the three professional sports teams in town, the Texans will never come close to my love for the Bears. And that's how I feel about the owners. So that was my team. I always want to watch both games. And I just feel like if I go to a game, I'm not going to watch the Bears. game and I just don't have that problem with the Astros and I can miss a Cubs game. It's not a big deal. There's a hundred sixty two of them

this year. It's not a big deal. So like I just don't really want to miss Bears games. Yeah, I would say this. If you're going to go the Sunday night game's fun. The Monday night game is fun. And they don't have a Monday night game this year. They do not. But do they kind of got shortchanged by the old NFL folks, didn't they? I don't think they have very good radians when they're on those. It's actually not short change. It's it's dealing in reality.

You traded your second best player and you don't have the best ratings. In your middle of road ratings in your own city. So it's like you're 9 and 7 most of the time. You're just not. It's not a sexy matchup. But I'll say this. It is fun going to NRG when you're the only game

because you don't have to worry about checking your fantasy. The internet at that stadium still sucks. But I've tried multiple times. And it's not for the case of not trying. I just think putting 72, 2,000 people with their phones in one facility. Unless you have 9G service available, you're just not going to be able to get the good internet.

Yeah, I mean, like, we bought me and my cousin. My cousin is moving to Austin. He's a Vikings fan. We bought tickets for week four already because we can get a refund from it. If they don't, the game doesn't happen or if there's, those tickets just aren't available. So like I'm intending on going to at least one game this year. Yeah.

I still technically have tickets for the December game in Chicago even. Like, I don't plan on going to that, but I bought him just in case. What's the coldest game you ever saw at Soldier Field? Monday Night Football, Bears Vikings. No, he bears Falcons. Michael Vick was still the quarterback. I don't know how cold it was, but it was brutal.

It was unbearably cold. Not the Timmy B says he is missing absolutely nothing in a Texan game. Tim B being not the biggest Texan fan out there. Coldest game I ever went to in my entire life. Texas Stadium. Philadelphia versus Dallas in either a wild card or a divisional playoff game. We took

listeners. We took Dallas Cowboy fans that lived in Houston and we drove up there to see the Philadelphia Eagles against the Texans. It had to have been probably 1995 or 96, probably 95.

And Texas Stadium with the roof, that hole in the roof because, you know, God wanted to watch the games. was it was insanely cold. Not like sleet or snowflakes or drizzle, but just bone-chilling cold in Dallas, Texas. The Rangers' old stadium was like a wind tunnel. I went last year for opening weekend.

Yeah. It was the second and third games were rough. Well, I'm just telling you, I don't blame the Rangers for going with a roof. They needed to, and they probably were, they should have done it at the begin with. Yeah, they just built it terribly. They just built a barbecue grill.

or a sardine can. I think I'm going sardine can. We were going with last yesterday we were going with Barbecue Grove opening cover, a Home Depot, just in general, or a sardine cover. Yeah. It's not great. I want to go, and we'll be this year, but we will do a listener trip to Arlington at some point. Definitely.

It's just not, it's just underwhelming. And it didn't look like the renderings at all. No. Like, it originally, it looked like a knockoff mid-made park, and then they said, when they don't do that and they change a couple of things to make sure it didn't look so minute minute made parkish and then the roof cover is just awful. That was the wrong move.

They should have kept it more minute made parkish. It would have been better to be a duplicate of minute made. Yeah, like Chasefield and Miller Park are very comparable to minute made park. They just are. These multi-perp, not multi-perperperperp these open air stadiums that have a baseball diamond. They're just naturally going to look like each other that way.

And when one design's good, why change it? Yeah, especially when they go in the same architectural firms. All right, our buddy Adam Wexters into play the Fantasy 5. We need five people that have sweet tooths. If you like ice cream and you like going to the convenience store to get your ice cream because you just want a little snack, or you like to go to the ice cream truck

and you're not a creeper, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Fantasy 5 with our buddy Wex after this at 28 on 9. Sports Talk 790. When you get home, Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard radio. For the COVID and Joe George just looking his wounds after an ass beating last week on the Fantasy 5. It was time for us to bring in some new meat. I mean competition. And for a second time on the fantasy 5, we say hello to our good friend Adam Wexer, part of the A team. Three to six on Sports Talk 790. On a Friday, coming in early, hanging out with you, absolutely love to do it.

Are you going to hang out with our buddy here, Joe, with the NBA announcements? I was thinking I drew a blank. In light of the fact that you've got a 6 o'clock announcement of the NBA slate, I think it's a fine idea. You're more than welcome. Quick analysis? Because you and I are going to work together on a television screen at Toyota Center. Can't wait. And I'm sure you guys talk.

I want to get to the Fantasy 5, but aren't you just waiting until tonight for them to say on July 3,000? 30th, we'll have Rockets, Lakers, or something pretty out there. Oh, yeah. Something big, very big for the opener. It's going to be strange. Noon games during the week. My guess is less than sexy Eastern Conference opponents. And there'll be games that will start at 9.30 Houston time, 10.30 Orlando time.

Can't wait. Could you imagine a player falling asleep at 1 o'clock in the morning in the fourth quarter of a game? Yeah, absolutely. some of those teams that have already been eliminated. Yeah, yeah. All right, here we go. Fantasy 5 category today is ice cream treats you'd find from the ice cream man.

Did you were an ice cream man guy? Did you go to the truck sometimes? I've actually gone more with the kids since, you know, after school. The truck is smart. Parks outside near the time the kids get out of school. They're the sucker for that. You got it. All right, you are the guest.

So you have the option. Would you like the very first pick, Wex? Or would you like to hand it to me and you take picks two and three in our snake system? Because I'm so selfish on what I just want, I don't normally do the Fantasy 5 for me, but for the win. But I can't help myself because there's one ice cream treat that I think is so unbelievably awesome. That I want to go first and just take it, just so I can have it. That's how I do it well, and that's why I think I lose 60% of the time. I know.

It's a bad strategy, but on my entrance into it, I'm going to start with the bomb pop, not the original. The chocolate banana, the fudge bomb. Banana in the middle, chocolate on the top and the bottom. It's big. It is hearty. What? It will fill you up. What?

And it's so tasty and refreshing. Okay. Hot summer day. Fudge? Follow by banana. Yep. Follow by fudge. I have seen that.

They're the best. And I'm taking that with my number one pick. Not even on my board. I figured it might not be. That's why I knew the strategy might be arrived. but I'm going with it anyway. All right. The goat of picks.

And again, along the lines of Adam Wax for thinking about this, about how you decided. I love ice cream cones. I love going to Baskin-Robbins. I love going to marble slab. Well, sometimes you just don't have time for that. So you go to that freezer drawer at the convenience store and you get the quick version of it. It's the cone. It's the vanilla ice cream.

It's the chocolate swirl. It's the nuts on top. And then at the very, very bottom of the cone, there's nothing but glorious chocolate. I'm speaking of the drumstick. Yeah, that's old faithful. That's family feud, 100 people surveyed top answers on the board. That's 61 people. But I love that.

Yeah, I get it. That's definitely on my list. Would have knocked that off the board next. All right. Staying in that same kind of genre, I would say a cousin to the drumstick is something that I didn't have as a kid, but as an adult I've had. way too many. You know, when you're hungry at one o'clock in the morning, where do you go eat to get a burrito or a chalupa? Wow. Or just a good old-fashioned taco, right? They do offer a few other items in the dessert family. What's it going to be? But it will not be a Taco Bell. I will go to that

freezer at the convenience store and I will get that vanilla ice cream and the nuts and the chocolate and that waffle cone Shamed as a chaco taco taco You know I did enlist my kids today for some assistance earlier Asked him for some choices And I said I had to introduce that to them

I said the chaco taco taco? What do you guys? They're like, what's that? I'm like, come on guys So good Yeah Again, I think it's just I think it's like a step cousin to the drumstick But it's still a different category

Yeah, the idea of adding the crunch To your frozen treat Smart play and after I omitted that in my initial choice, I'll be thinking about that moving forward. My next choice, a lot of people, I don't know if anybody else calls it this, and there's about five different versions. It was offered in the dessert drawer at Minutemade Park for years, and then it wasn't. And then I think it came back. It's, I call it the King Kong cookie.

Some call it the chocolate chip cookie sandwich, or a chip witch, or a big bopper. It's a chocolate chip cookie, vanilla ice cream in the middle, and a second chocolate chip cookie cookie to make yourself a sandwich. The chocolate chip cookie sandwich is pick number two. It was definitely what I got late innings at Astros baseball pretty much every game. For the sake of us, we'll call it the Chip Witch. Chip witch, okay. There are many versions of it. See, I feel like since you took the drumstick, I'm allowed to take the very, very similar variety, but it's pretty simple stuff.

It's just, it's a Nestle's ice cream crunch bar. Nestle crunch bar. Got the stick, got the vanilla ice cream, coated in chocolate, nuts on the outside, boom. Number three, Nestle Crunch ice cream bar. Yep, on my list as well. Round two and three hurt me more than your first round pick. I got to be honest with you. I know.

Went outside the box to start. I'm not a huge candy bar eater, but if you're going to give me an amazing candy bar, that is delicious frozen, you're going to then give me the option of having ice cream surrounded that amazing candy bar? Again, not as a kid, but as an adult, I love me a Snickers ice cream bar. Okay?

That is my third round selection. Now I'm going to go old school for a second. Sometimes you just have to go back to your days in 1984 when Bluebell was first bringing out frozen snacks and other companies did it well. Just give me the ice cream and give me a chocolate gram cracker crust on top, put it behind it, and just call it a good old-fashioned ice cream sandwich. And when you eat the chocolate off of the ice cream sandwich, your fingers got all sticky with the residue of the ice cream sandwich

when you lick your fingers. Deliciousioso. Good old-fashioned, original ice cream sandwich. If you were listening closely to Matt's description of the ice cream sandwich, we just told you all the reasons it did not make my list. Why? It's coating is garbage. Oh, it's delicious.

If you try eating that without the paper or you've done a faulty unwrapping, you're in big trouble. And I'm all for, you know, getting the maximum amount of the treat, licking your fingers and all. You don't want anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it can be a sloppy, sticky, unnecessary mess. It's like for me, crawfish. Some people say the work is worth it. In this particular case, the ice cream sandwich with all the work that comes with it is definitely worth it.

Well, now I have my final two picks of whatever I want I can go for here. Yep. And I do feel like here in Houston, since this is where I've called home a whole life, so it's summertime 95% of the year, you always need something to cool you off. Oftentimes that is ice cream. But anything out of the truck, anything out of the case, I feel like I can't omit the flavored fruit in the treat. So I'm going to take a strawberry banana fruit bar. It's basically a popsicle.

It's strawberry banana. I need something that's not ice cream every single time. And I'm a big fan of the strawberry, and I'm hopefully going to have many of you out there doing the same thing. Didn't want to go with the simple popsicles. That sounds almost halfway healthy. It tastes so... It's like a banana split, but it's a popsicle. What?

So good. So good. Oh, gosh. This is a tough call, though, for the last one. There's so many just slight variations on everything we've already chosen. Don't want to eat anything with a spoon, even though some of my... were good. I kind of took those off the list. I'm looking for ease. Carnival style.

So again, I think this is going to help me lose, but it's for fun. I'm thinking about the kids out there. Maybe some people driving around with their kids, they'll hear it, and they'll say, yeah, yeah, that's so awesome. My friends over Good Humor make this. Not Blue Bunny or Bluebell

or Nestleysel Tohouse. The Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Bar. A little piece of cake right there on the pops stick. I know you think I just helped you win. We will see. I love you like a brother And I've known you for 20 years Sometimes for your show

People hook you up We'll see if I did that time Last time he was this confident He lost the Fantasy 5 for the Beatles Yeah because you had your stupid friends call in Down to Chute Two for the final selection I'm gonna also stay with the

You don't have to have ice cream every single time I'm gonna go with Red on top White in the middle The original Blue on the bottom The Firecracker Popsicle Yeah it's just the original bomb pop

I could have gone that route. Probably should have. But I'm here to enjoy myself today. All right. I'm going to eat all five of those. So two things I did not put on the list. Klondike Bar, which you just can't go wrong. It's just chocolate and ice cream.

Nothing's in a square. Super simple. And the new thing I was telling you about Joe George, you can go to the convenience stores across my neighborhood. You can buy a cup that has like a shake in it or a smoothie or like a Oreo mix and it can be blended for you while you're there. But I thought that was little too... You blend it yourself.

Yeah. Yeah. They have the machine where you just... Yeah. It takes like a minute. They're good. They're really, really good. Yes.

But that's 20... That's like 2015, 2012. Those are the things. I think I had a handful of those when we were out in Florida. It's spring training. Like stopping by a convenience. When I've been on some trips to cover the NFL games, they cover the Texans, stopping by where nothing's open.

I've got to go to a convenience store. I'll hit that. That machine... It works well, too. It does if you know what you're doing. All right. So, Wex. goes with the fudge banana pop.

Can you say bomb pop so people know how awesome it is? Bomb Pop. Thank you. Chip Witch, Nestle Crunch Bar, the Strawberry Banana Bar, and the Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Bar. I'm going with the drumstick, the Chaco, the Snickers Ice Cream Bar, the Ice Cream Sandwich, the All-O-Riginal, and the Firecracker Popsicle. 713212-5-790. 713212-125. 790.

We need judges now for and who to win the Fantasy 5. Leonard on 790. Who wins? Wex or me? Wex. Thank you. Shocking.

Shocking would be the term I would use. Line 2. Jeff on 79. Wex for me. I'm going with the guys like nuts and get his fingers old sticky. Mr. Matt. Okay. I think I thank you. Yeah.

Line 3, Marshall on 790. Who wins, Wexer Me? Matt wins easy. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful weekend. Here comes the onslaught. No, you had a 1-0-0 lead. All right.

Line 4, David on the Fantasy 5. Who wins, Wexer Me? It's close. You both hurt yourself with that obstacle crap. Anybody could have won a really good ice cream for Sadroupic. But I'll go M.T. In a narrow win. All right.

Thank you very much, David. He would know he's in Vegas. He likes ice cream. He really analyzed it very well. He did. It was short and succinct, too. We like that. All right.

Randy on 790, Randy, who wins a Fantasy 5? Wex or me? There's just something about those peanuts and that knickers bottle. When they get frozen, they're just unbelievable. It wasn't even close. Lexa stuff. I don't like the way he analyzed that. And that's a 4-1 win.

But also not surprised. All right, Joe, your vote doesn't count, but would you like to add your two cents? He's getting it to you. I would have gone with Matt. just on the Chaco Taco Also, don't know if I would have it Big Dilly Bar family But it's very specific

Do they sell those anywhere but Dilley bars like a dove bar basically right? In Illinois they sell them at convenience stores I don't see them down here But like they sell dilly bars everywhere Normally in Illinois But Texas it seems like a small thing With your kids meal or off to the side

Yeah exactly But I would have gone Just the Chaco Taco Alaw is my number one scene So Brother Bear says SportsMT wins hands down Sorry, Adam Wexert, too much fruit. I know.

I did it for me. I didn't do it for the people, and it cost me. I got selfish. The strawberry short kick I can go with. The Nessly Crunch is delicious. The Chipwich is your goat pick. Yeah, I should have gone. I figured I should have taken that first.

The fudge banana just doesn't do it for me. It's, I'm sorry. Yeah, you're right. And it apparently doesn't do it for the listeners either. You took the Snickers. I might have been smarter to go with the Twix ice cream bar. Also, awesome. Every one of the ice cream bar.

They're so good, so good. All those Snickers, Milky Way ice cream bars, Twix, excellent choices. I'm surprised that drumstick isn't just getting, like, that to me is the definitive one. At the end of the day, you go to get in the Klondike, which we didn't even pick. The drumstick, there's eight choices in the case. You go in there and you're like, should I try this? Should I go with that? I don't really feel that.

Okay, I'll just take the drumstick because I know it's golden. That's right, because you've had it before. You always know it's there. Hell yeah or not. Highly Googledable about judges next 246 on 790. Right, half the workday is done. Celebrate with Matt. Hey, Matt.

Love you. By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Oh, it feels good. Another win on a Fantasy 5? I feel like I just got a great kickoff of the weekend, Joe, George. Are you going to do it on Thursday next week since we're off on Friday? No, no, no, no.

You're just going to go into a three-day weekend out of two-week street. Yeah. Wouldn't you if I were me? Think about my percentage of wins, generally speaking. I shouldn't have done it with you last week. I mean, 2 and O and never played again. Huge mistake. Yeah.

But you're still betting. Waxal thing's ever won. Don't bring that up with him. But does he win his own? Y'all all, bit steal this game all the time. What do y'all do your thing of the draft? We do drafts on Monday. He's usually, he's got the second most wins.

I'm in last. So you've succeeded on my show, yet struggle on the other one. Fair enough. Five minutes left to go on the show. should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply call it Monday through Thursday.

Believe it or not, but on Fridays we call it Hellyernaut, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Today's edition of Hellier-Nout, brought to you by Woodhouse Day Spas. Printoutch gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. today is, is this person

a county judge? I'll give you a county the judge, and if it is, you'll say this. Hell yeah! If this person is not a judge, they're actually a television character, and thus you will say this. Two hell yeah, nots in a row, and this is this person, a county judge. When you apprise, the prize is a $50 gift card to

Hooters, wings, burgers, beer, all sorts of good stuff at Hooters. Thanks for dropping those gift cards off. Let's play. Hell yeah or not. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. Mike. Tyler County Judge, Joe Goldberg. Hell yeah or not. No, he's a character on the really good Netflix series, You. Have you seen that one, by the way, Joe? You've got to check out you.

Super creepy, super good. Let us continue. Line number two. Lee on 790. Lee, you ready to play. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Nekly Craven.

I couldn't have said a bit on myself, my friend. Lubbock County Judge, Chuck McGill. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. No, he's a character and better call, Saul. People don't know their county judges around the state. Very troubling. Line three.

Kevin on 790. Kevin, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, go coogs. Go coogs. Dallas County judge. Clay Jenkins, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win.

Bear County Judge Nelson Wolf. Hell yeah or not? That's going to be a yes. Hell yes. There you go. $50. You can take me to go eat at a hooters before a Cougar basketball game. Line number four.

Ron on 790. Ron, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, and another belated vote for you on the ice cream. Well, another vote for Matt. I don't deserve you as a friend, my friend. You can make it up to me, by you. Well, let's just win. How about that?

Let's go. Here we go. Travis County Judge, Sarah Eckhart. Hell yeah, or not? I'd say hell yeah. Hell yeah. Territ County Judge, Joe Wilson. Hell yeah, or not?

I'll say not. And you win, my friend. Congratulations. Yeah. How about that? All right. Let's go. We had a chance for one more winner today.

Let's go to line 5. Robert on 790. Robert, you ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Eat them up, coogs. Angelina County Judge, John Nix. Hell yeah or not. Oh, not.

Yeah, character nozark. Statement number two for the win. Galveston County Judge Evelyn Dutton. Hell yeah or not. That is right. She's a character on Yellowstone, which I think I'm going to start binge watching. My wife's all into it.

I've heard nothing but great things about it. That's the binge watch of the weekend. Joe George, you successfully did a hell year or not. You didn't make one screw up. Not a single one. Well, see, Matt, once Brendan Riley decided to take hell yeah, and believe it or not, out of the Stone Age

in the way that you play the sound effects, it's much easier now. So that's a sports RV. You're called, basically. Yeah. I'm good. I'm glad you can blame him. I hope he gets a negative test back.

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