The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans are 0-0, Astros Try To Clinch & Dr.Roto

Episode Date: September 24, 2020

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From the classic Chevy Sugarland Studios Find New Roads Larger than life Yeah Lunch Timers is the Matt Thomas show 1202 in H-town

What's happening in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to the ninth straight day of gloominess over Houston, Texas. It is the Matt Thomas show. A gloomy free show. Sunshine, sparkles,

rainbows. Well, you know, Matt, it is Thursday. Yeah. But I was thinking maybe you need to do your Friday introduction because we're not going to be able to do it tomorrow unless you want to do it at the voter registration event at the Toyota Center. Cut the music.

Cut it. We're going to be... Tomorrow we are at the voter registration downtown. So you're right. And I feel like with the gloom... Yes. ...and doom of our country and the clouds and our sports teams. We probably should try this one more time.

With the... Oh, you start it all over? All over again. I like that. Because I want to get this show today off to a better start than what we're going through right now. Okay. So hit it. Whenever you're ready.

It's going to take a second. Is it to rewind? Yeah, he's got to get the reel-to-reel going. I thought you stopped it and then you would hit it again. Well, if you left-click and copy it down, Brendan. Look at you talking audio on the air. It's kind of sexy. Now we're good.

So much larger than life. Yeah. Launch timers. I'm on my way. Is the Matt Thomas show. 12.04 in H-town. Nice. I think you should still say it at the voter registration event at Toyota Center tomorrow.

That's not going to happen. There might be strippers registering to vote. Stripper Lives Matter, Matt. You know what? It would be good. It would be good that everybody votes. Yes. I don't care what you do.

Just do it. Because the funny thing is this. And we'll talk about this tomorrow. number um voting registration in terms of like people actually going is it's always been very low yes the last several elections i mean i would my guess would be probably over the last i don't know 75 years so if we can get a higher number good that's good because we're giving that right to vote i'm okay with that yes so boat go do it come see us tomorrow we'll be downtown the toota center can be fun we can also vote on it well

than not the Texans are going to win. Can I write you in for president? No, I want no part of politics. Well, you're probably getting one vote. From you? Yeah, I don't think you're going to. Well, I would hope I'd get at least more than one if I was a writing vote. What's your party? What's your platform? Oh, I'm a GDI. What's your platform though? What are you running on though? GDI. What are the, like, the bullet points of your platform? Oh, the Matt Thomas platform would be nice to each other. Okay. Treat each other properly. I like this. Um, Be respectful of other people's views. Here, I got this one.

How about four 10-hour work days and three-day weekends every day, every week? That's still 40 hours a week. Exactly. I would actually go to a fewer number of hours. Okay, so you want to go like French? Like, the French hardly do anything. I think they get like a billion weeks of vacation. I'll give you a few things.

You ready for this? 30-hour work weeks. Okay. Your bosses have to buy your lunch, like a catered lunch, once per week. week. I like this. So let's bump it back to 40 because they're like, well, we can't do it for 30 hour weeks. Oh, and if you're a company that produces car chargers, you know, the ones that you put in your cigarette lighter.

Yeah. And it doesn't work. You get to take that old cord back and get a new one and doesn't cost you anything. This sounds like a wildly specific problem you must be recently having. Well, it's a problem I've had since the invention of cell phones. I do not. I treat my cords in my car. like gold. Don't you have a, you got a, um, you got to have USB ports in your car, right?

I don't know. Yes, you do. You have a, you have a modern car. You're not like a 76 Gremlin. That's true. But I've been doing the car charger bit. Okay. I think the USB port is actually in the glove compartment, which makes it kind of awkward to get to. I might have to. Because I'm done paying for them. Are you, will you buy them at convenience stores? No, I buy them. I bought them at Best Buy. I bought them at drug stores. I'm going to go to Office Max today and get one. I'm trying something new. And first of all, today I went to Best Buy, and the longest cord they had was three and a half feet. And I'm not doing three and a half feet.

I want six feet in my car. And remember, again, if you've ever driven with me before, which very few of you have, I take pristine care of it. I don't move the cord around. I don't talk. I mean, I don't mistreat my cords. But when it stops, it stops. And it's unrelenting. So yesterday, as I'm taking Carly home from volleyball, I'm done like 4%.

charge one second letter one second later this accessory may not be available and I'm just I'm done with it so my platform is this I'm going to go after the manufacturers of you cell phone the third party

whoever it is and I'm going to tell you please start making better courts I will pay 10 to $15 more for a court but you've got to give me longer lasting time I buy on average between the Thomas family wife and three kids

we probably buy seven eight cords a year. Okay, well, I am very well versed on this, Matt, and I'm here to help you. Thank you. Anchor Powerline, A-N-K-E-R. And what is it again? An-N-K-E-R. Anchor powerline cords. Find them on Amazon. Those are the best ones. And you can put this in your car. And they're like $12. The regular Apple ones are like $25. These are half the price, and they're very durable and long-lasting. I'll email you the link right now. Why don't you get it for me for Christmas? You don't have to. I'll wait for them to go on sale. All right.

To the Astros. Six foot enough? Yeah, six is plenty. I don't need nine or twelve. And then it gets all congested in the car. You want white, black, blue, green, yellow. Don't, don't buy it for me. I'll buy it for myself.

Okay. Pink it is. You know what? I wouldn't care what color the cord is if it worked. Okay. That's all I'm saying. You know, I might have a couple spare. I'll give you one.

That'd be nice. Like a little tester. Yeah. And then I will buy some for myself and I'll buy you one for like your own Christmas gift. No problem. No, it's fine. It's from me to you. That's what I like to hear.

All right, on the radio program today, we're going to get to Dr. Roto for our weekly visit at 130. And at 2.30, we have non-flora stories. You've sent me your non-flora story this week. Yes. You have a non-flora story. Brendan, you have a non-flora story. I don't have anything ready yet. Man, I've got some prospective non-flora stories. Sell it.

We're in the business of selling. I've seen some interesting things going on in Detroit I've considered. When in doubt, lie to the audience. Oh, I think the one I saw was from this. Detroit. Uh-oh. We'll have to confer before the segment. All right. So that's what's going on today. We got, believe it or not today, and by the way, our prizes, we've got, and let's say opportunity to go see Sandlot at the Sawyer Yards Theater. It's actually is it a... What? Isn't Sawyer Yards like a driving kind of thing? Is that right? I don't know. But I know that San Lott is... Oh, it's a rooftop thing. I know that Sanlott is the greatest baseball movie of all time. You can shut up. It is.

The greatest baseball movie of all time is Bull Durham. Follow by Major League And that's about it. Number three of that is way down. The greatest. Point being is this. We're going to give away and believe it or not today,

all it takes is one correct answer to win. One correct answer. All right. So we got Dr. Roto. We have non-Florter stories and we have why San Lot is, I've never seen it. So I see you,

then how can you? Because everybody else, everybody else has seen all the movies. Okay. And everybody knows that Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie of all time. I've seen both. It's the same.

sandlot and even close. Really? Bull Durham's great. Bull Durham's amazing. Bill Durham has the baseball jargon. Bill Durham feels like it. It has the speech. It has the reality of what minor league baseball is like. It's finding an older woman and sleeping with her with his socks on. I mean, that's what they do.

That's what minor league baseball is. Okay. It's a sandlot realistic. Not really, but it's, I mean, there's a giant monstrous dog in there that's a little unrealistic. But other than that, that sounds like to me the greatest baseball movie ever. It's about discovering the game of baseball, making new friends, and how baseball brings people together and how he used to play on the sandlot.

Great movie. And of course, it has Benny the Jet Rodriguez. Great movie. You know what I'll do? Wendy Pfeffer. Oh, man. You out me constantly on movies. Yes.

I'll watch it. Okay. And I won't go. You want to go to Sawyer? Let's go. It's Wednesday. We could actually go. It's Wednesday, September the 30th.

Rooftop Cinema Club. com. Sounds fun. Plus, we're getting away some alcohol-free Heineken 0.0.

So, I mean, not a bad deal. What is 0.0 Hynickett? It's got no alcohol? Yeah. So basically it's for families. Do you're going to go up to those...

Give your kid a Heineken? No, I wouldn't necessarily endorse that. Hey, little Timmy. Hey, come here. A little sip of this. Yeah. The Astros may drive me to drink.

Ah. How is my, how's my gut feeling of Jose Altuva batting over 300 going? You know what? As soon as I thought about how I thought he was I contradicted myself in that show. My God feeling was he was going to hit over 300. And 30 minutes later, I was talking about how I think he's injured and he's not going to play well.

I still think he's, look, I don't know anything. I think he's not. I don't think he's healthy. I feel sorry for him. That's not my guy. That's not my guy. He's one for 10 since I said he was going to hit over 300. So we're only two hits back, baby.

Let's go. He's got some work left. Look, they're going to have to hit the ball against the Rangers. The magic number is still at two. Now the Angels have Excuse me at the day off They close all they get to Dodgers But I don't know

Are the Dodgers interested in competing? Are they playing for anything right now? No, I don't think so They're the number one seed right In the National League? American League National League? They're playing for the pride of Los Angeles Matt They don't care

It's a Dodgers town There are people that live in Anaheim Are Dodger fans The Angels do not resonate at all They have the Dodger L-A like tatted on their neck Right. They've only resonated one time with that damn stupid monkey in the World Series against the Giants. Yes, the rally monkey.

It's because when they're winning, it's funny how when they're winning World Series, teams are popular. That's how sports work. 1213 on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90 with a message here for hoops, basketball goals, and supporting equipment. Look, when these clouds finally clear, the weather will be in the 70s and 80s, you want to shoot baskets. and you might as well do it with the best basketball goal on the planet, and that's a Hoops Basketball goal. What you're going to do is you're going to get a temper glass backboard,

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And the Rockets get the job done. Oh, here's another new catchphrase I have for you. Good gracious. Good gracious! You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. All right. So if I watch the Sandlot and it disappoints me, it's going to, I'm a very, our relationship will never be the same.

Now, you have sent me down the Godfather 1 and 2 road and you didn't disappoint. So I feel like you've got some good stuff on your son. Well, are you sure you want me to watch the Sandlot? Yeah, if you want to, if you want to watch the best baseball movie of all time. I'll also say this. It's more of a kid's movie than anything. Okay. Well, that's why you watch kids movies all the time.

Well, yeah, I read them. You're a huge connoisseur of Shrek. too and all that. So, yeah. At the drive-in at Sawyer Yards, I have never been there. I mean, are they, go look what Sawyer Yard is doing for like future movies. Maybe there's some, well, they show like old movies, like old class. I mean, they're doing it sound like.

Maybe they could do a, maybe an airplane or a Porky's or a Bachelor Party. Have you guys seen Bachelor Party? I still have not seen it. It was even on Netflix for a little bit. You weren't even lying when Bachelor Party was made. Is it still on Netflix? I don't know. Bachelor, 12 year old Matt Thomas loved Bachelor party.

Upcoming events at Sawyer Yards. There's an art walk. Okay. Unicorn bike show. Not me, really. Collidescope, whatever that is. So no movies? I have the list of movies.

What do you got? Would you be interested in Jurassic Park? Sure. Yeah, for sure. Have you seen that, Brendan? Oh, yeah. That's coming up in two days, actually. The 26th.

All right. I'm just trying to look for older movies that would fit What about any movie? I mean, it looks like they got a movie pretty much every day, a couple movies some days. Have you ever been to a driving before? No, never.

Never in your life. That was the jam. Used to be able to get into your car with mom and dad. Granted, I was in six or seven years old. I mean, I'm assuming that 19 year old had a much different view of drive-ins than I did. Yeah, that's when you're trying to go make out

with your honey, right? Is that what they say? Make out with you? the honey? Is that what the kids back in 78 used to say? Or, you know, do it in the backseat. Is that you want me to say? What do you want me to say, Matt?

Make it out with the honey. Hey, let's go down to the county fair. And then after that, we'll go to the drive-in. Well, we can make out with your honey. We'll have a drive-in. And I'll buy you some lemonade. So these do double features. And you could get the 7 o'clock movie in,

and then you would get this car speaker that was, I don't know what the size of it would be. Maybe the size of a lunchbox. Well, when I went, you tuned, you tuned your radio. Yeah. You tuned your car radio to whatever frequency. I think both, but I remember being given a car speaker where you would put it next to your rearview mirror on the left side mirror and you would just connect it to your car and you would turn the volume up that way.

Okay. The most famous movies I've ever seen on a drive-in. I know this isn't sports, so sorry. I saw Greece And I saw Jody Foster in Freaky Friday, the original one Those are the two movies I can remember seeing of the drive-in And it was like $6 or $7 for the entire car And the cool thing was you could get out of the car

And be Mr. Independent at 6 or 7 And go get the popcorn at the concession stand That was your big move was that You could go do that without your mom and dad being with you I remember I was with my aunt And she made me going to the women's bathroom Because you know when you're with your young You're young

And you have to go to the women's outside I was really mad and uncomfortable. Yeah. That's really one of my own memories of the drive-in theater. Trauma. Going into a women's bathroom and clearly haven't been in the same sense. All right. So we got that coming up today.

Okay, so the a Astros, magic numbers at two, it would take a, I mean, let's be really brutally honest. It would take a monumental collapse in Arlington. They got four games. The Rangers have zero to play for, except, I don't know, just getting out of the season. and I just I just want my they scored two runs as the ninth inning I was very happy about that Zach Rankie was awfully quiet yesterday

did you hear his post game conversation well he wasn't verbose it was a lot of actually Brian McTaggart asking questions more to the else no I didn't catch it yeah so I just said it was just one of those situations that I would like I want that ninth inning bat to come through the sixth or seventh inning. A lot of men left on base.

A lot of case of choices. Opportunities in the eighth. Opportunities in the ninth. What was the eighth? Second and third with Bregman at the plate? Yeah. And it's not just, and this isn't about Josel too. But I mean, his is the most pronounced because he's nowhere close to what he was statwise. But I mean, everybody's not, I mean, they were what,

one for nine with oneers in scoring position, left. Nine men left on base. Only had seven hits in the game. So, you know, you got to make the most out of them. That's why the other night, when they scored six runs, it was big because the Brantley home run, gives them the lead and then when Melvinel hits a three-run home run

it makes it a different ballgame puts them out of reach so yeah the Astrobatts I think batting around 200 for this prolonged period of time they're waiting for the playoffs to wake up I hope you're right I absolutely hope you're right

I hope I you know what I will I will light a candle I will do whatever ooh okay I will say a and I'm not a huge prayer guy at night but I will say a small I will say a larger prayer for them okay wonderful

because I want to there's nothing better than postseason baseball. Now, granted, it's going to be really odd because you won't build to go to the games. Part of the fun of us having the Astros on is the fact that this is a team that you go to the ballpark and you see all your listeners

and you have everybody wearing gear and we do two hour pregame shows and two hour post game shows and people handing you beers after they win. And people vomiting next to us and watching see how long it takes to clean it up. Didn't somebody pee? Somebody peed on the tree in front of us last time

And there was a... I wasn't there for that. Yeah, and there was the news lady had to, like, tell him, hey, stop peeing. What was the news lady's name? I can't remember. Oh, and that's another thing that makes me as fun is watching newsperson covering baseball. Yes. Who doesn't know anything about baseball?

And ends there with a report with, I'm Darcy Miller. Channel whatever news. Go Astros! It's got to be a big game for Jose Altavei. Oh, okay. And then when Sheila Jackson messes up the name, too, it doesn't... She's like fresh. out of college from Missouri knows nothing about the Astros or something.

Right. Yeah. You know, I hope we score more points than they do tonight. I mean, it's honestly, it's like us trying to cover news. We don't do it very well. We could do it fine. Another murder on South Guest. Now, I have transitioned into weather coverage. I'm like Mr. Overnight.

Yeah, I was going to say, this is news. There's another flood. There's been a murder. There has been even more armed robberies. And traffic issues. Yes. I'd be concerned about you guys sticking to news, though, and not finding your way into food.

Yeah, that's true. It's okay on sports. You know what? We should do it. We should do a food show, Matt. We want to call it, Northbound food? I like that. Yeah.

Because food really, frankly, I don't know if the food in south of here is any good. Hmm. And they're eating in Victoria Corpus. McAllen. I've gone to Appleby, so that's, you know, I don't think it really counts. You've been to the Macau? There's an Applebee's in McCallon? Yeah, I've been to Macalham many times.

Okay. Well, that's because U.S. used to go down there, right, or something. Yeah, plain, you, it was the, it was the, it was, the They were Pan Am, now they're real Grand Valating. You're U-T-R-G-V. So, yeah, I've been down there a few times.

And I've always just basically, like, I don't know You fly direct there? You can, yeah. There's airports all over. There's Brownsville's got an airport. Yeah. Well, you got to ship the drugs from somewhere.

That was said by Ross, not me. Harlingen's got an airport and McAllen's got an airport. Nice. Yeah. Okay. Did you ever cross the border? No. Why not?

Not interested. I've only crossed the border one time, and that was in Tijuana way back. in the day. I was good. Not happy. I went from San Diego through Tijuana to Ensonata and Valle de Guadalupe once. And how were the fights? I didn't see any fights. Like cockfighting?

Well, I mean, doesn't that happen there occasionally? I would have loved to go see a cockfight. Oh, not me. Me and Karim Jackson can go ahead down there. Oh, no. Don't, don't. Do people remember that story? Don't besmirge his name. When he put a cockfight on Instagram

and everybody was really upset. Yeah, that's not good. I don't need animal violence. Me either, Matt. I was just kidding. Well, as long as you eat the chicken afterwards, it's fun, right? It's not waste. Yeah, I'm going to get in trouble. I'm just kidding, people. Go ahead and apologize.

Just get this out of the way. I'd like to apologize for the last three things I said, because I just like to have fun and joke, and if you're taking it too seriously, I'm sorry. Okay. Sign the Matt Thomas show. At least we have that on record. You're going to save that so after any joke I make on this entire show,

I could use that. All right. I'm trying to sell the. city of Houston, then the Texans are zero and zero. Will you buy into it? No. Please buy into this. Well, it's funny how they're zero and zero and have the worst point differential in the

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The beer tovel. Springer dingers. George Springer goes yard. You're home for the Rockets and Astros. Sports Talk 790. I mean, some of that stuff is myself. It's got to protect myself. and, you know, some of the stuff is to play call.

And sometimes, you know, I pick myself in positions in the run game to get hit. We're just coming along, and that's just part of the game. I'm expected to take some shots because that's the game of football and the way I play the game. So, you know, it's not a big issue for me. In my mind, he's not taking a hit yet this year. In my mind, David Johnson is to be determined. And in your mind, you're going to Carolina.

Well, I don't care where I'm going. Just want to go see a Texans win. Okay. This is the Matt Thomas show 1233. Sports Talk 790. 713, 212, 5, 790. So what does Deshaun thing about possibly? Oh, no.

Can't be 0-3, right? Well, it's certainly not the O and O. And that's not the issue. I mean, we're not really thinking about that. We're just worried about doing what we need to do out there on Sundays and playing our best football. And we'll see what the outcome comes. And that's all we can do is just put our head down and grind and just work.

And, of course, we don't want to be 0-3, but that's not the main thing that's on our minds right now. Oh, actually, it should be. Rossi, the NFL is about winning. No, I would have to politely disagree with Deshaun. You need to be thinking, but you should be going to bed at night going, we can't go 0 and 3.

Now, granted, 3% of the NFL teams in the history of the NFL that opened up a season 0 and 3 do not make the playoffs. The Texans were 1 in the 3%, and I applaud them for that. So it isn't a death nail But yeah. It's about winning.

It is about winning. Don't you agree? Yeah, we don't care about stats. It's about winning. That's Bill O'Brien out of Bill O'Brien's mouth. Because here's the thing. You're going to have to get better. I don't think you can get any worse unless you just throw four picks.

And Deshaun's never, Deshawn has never been reckless on the field. He's never, like Philly Rivers can be reckless. Brett Farb, for as great as he has, was in the NFL. He was reckless. He would just. try to throw passes that he knew damn well we're going to be caught.

That he was praying that a deflection or something where it would, you know, the quote unquote tight window. Also has one of the, had one of the biggest arms in the history of the sport. This is true. But Philly Rivers does that, right? I mean, the risk-taking?

I get it. Like Pat Mahomes is a risk-taker. I think Deshawn Watson is a risk-taker more with his feet than with his throw sometimes. I would not characterize Deshawn Watson's passing style as risk-taking. That interception that he threw to Marcus Peters. Marcus Peters broke off of whoever it was he was covering and just made an incredible play.

That wasn't necessarily, that wasn't all on Deshaun. There hasn't been a, and I'll be honest with you, very few, what the hell are you thinking Deshawn wants in moments? I mean, if anybody was to criticize Deshaun, it would be you got to get rid of the football. Yeah, usually his what the hell moments are him trying to extend plays and then losing like five extra yards on me getting sacked because he just, he thinks he's Superman and he can get out of any situation. And a lot of times he's right. But play that court again. Because I, and I know he's, look, he's on a Zoom call. He's trying to, you know, the glasses half full.

I get that. But I mean, we can't agree or disagree with the comment. Here it comes again. And that's not the issue. I mean, we're not really thinking about that. We're just worried about doing what we need to do out there on Sundays and playing our best, you know, best football. And we'll see what the outcome comes. And that's all we can do is just put our head down and grind and just work.

And, of course, we don't want to be 0 and 3, but that's not the main. thing that's on our minds right now. I would politely disagree. It should be the number one thing on their minds. Because I got news for you. This is going to be Ross in an Uber competitive division this year, correct? I don't think any of the four teams,

I mean, throwing Jackson in the mix, are going to run away and hide in this division. I think the wild card race is going to be extraordinarily competitive, even with the third team. So you need every win possible, even if you're not going to be good enough to win, you are going to need an AFC conference win. But I don't think he's trying to say that we're not trying to win this weekend.

He's saying we're not thinking about being O and two. We're thinking it's just the old cliche. We're taking it one game at a time. We're trying to go one and O. We're focused on the Steelers. I think all those things become cliches because that's the mindset you have to have. He can't be out there in a seven-step drop and thinking, man, we're 02. I've got to make this throw.

No, he's thinking about trying to execute the play and try to break it down into game-by-game, play by play and keep looking forward and not think about how we're oh and two you're there's that doesn't mean they're not trying to beat the Steelers but i'll say this and you were absolutely right but i would say if he came out and said let me tell you something houston texons fans we are o and two and we hate this and we're better than this and everyone's saying we are who who you who you thought we were we're going to go to Pittsburgh next week and we're going to battle our ass off and we're going to make we're going to get rid of the mistakes we made we're going to open up the offense, we're going to pick up the tempo, we're going to do everything.

And I'm not saying that Houston fans needed to hear that, because again, it's a 12-second soundbite. Nothing has ever been determined by a soundbite. It's about your actions on the field. I'm just saying that I would have liked to have heard, you know what? This, like, when JJ's pissed, he doesn't hide it, does he? Losing sucks. Ross Blacklock.

Yeah. When he's pissed of him, when he's disappointed and he's talked to him before about throwing punches. Yeah. I just, that's to me, would have been a, you know what, all right, he's not happy with this. He should carry this team's 0 and 2 because 0.N 3 and an AFC South, I don't think he's going to bury you because it's 16 games. It's mathematically never going to happen that way. Plus, again, nobody thinks Jacksonville or Tennessee or Indianapolis or 12-1 football teams,

especially with the Texan schedule getting significantly softer starting next week. I just want him, and I know he is, because this is who Deshaun is. So the soundbite doesn't match the passion. And again, it's a Zoom call. It's a, you know, got to be careful. You don't want to put Baltimore material out there. But I need a little firing up after my team is the team that this city loves has opened up as woefully as they have through two weeks. That's my only point.

So you're calling this? Is it a must-win game, Matt? No, zero-zero teams don't have must-win games. You're so funny with the zero-zero thing. But am I right? No. Why don't... You can win the division by going 11 and 3 in the last next 14 games.

Yes or no? You can win it going 10 and whatever, 10 and 4. Yeah. You might be able to win it going 9 and 5. So if I said this team goes 9 and 5 the rest of the way, then the first two games it really didn't matter then. No, because if they go 9 and 5, then we still not... Depending on where those wins are, we're still not going to consider them a contender. and that's what we want.

We don't want a team that's going to go 9 and 7 or 10 and 6 and get knocked down in the first round of the playoffs. But what did you think they were going to be to begin with? I thought they were 8 and 8. I thought they were 8 and 8. If they're a tier 2 contender, that's where tier 2 contenders go. If you realistically had the Texans

finishing 9 and 7, 10 and 6, won in the division, or finishing of the wild card, everything is going according to plan. A tier 2 contender would compete with the Patriot, with the Chiefs and the Ravens at some point. They were not competitive in either of those games. They have the worst point differential in the entire NFL, 32 of 32. But if any, but if, and here I'm trying to defend the Texans, how many other teams?

They played the two best teams in football. But they, I would have liked them to be competitive. It's possibly to be competitive. They beat the Chiefs last year. They were not competitive against the Ravens. That seems like so long ago too. Yeah. They went up on the road, like do something like that.

Surprise everybody. Or at least get close. And also as I'll make the point spread point again. Vegas says, hey, there may be 10 points. within the Chiefs, not close. Vegas says, hey, maybe they're a touchdown within the Ravens. Not close. What's like, live too up to expectation would at least be, would have been nice.

They're not close to expectation so far. See, I'm not going to let Vegas tell me how the teams are going to perform. I know that maybe that's the right thing to do, but it is. They're usually pretty good. Because, again, it could be a three-point game all of a sudden, and then the opposing team scores two touchdowns and ones it being a 17- That didn't happen to the Texans, though. No.

But I don't let, because Vegas can, Vegas can be wrong too. That's true, but they got down, what were they down, 31 to 7? Right. To the Chiefs. Right. And then they weren't close to the Ravens. So, but would you at least act like you belong on the field with them would have been nice? But see, if you didn't believe they belonged on the field, they didn't do anything wrong for you.

They didn't surprise me at all. Maybe the 31-7 part of it probably surprised me a little bit. But Baltimore came in here and did exactly what Baltimore was supposed to do. Well, the Chargers took the charge. Chiefs to overtime. The Texans got down 31 to 7 of them and scored a couple of late touchdowns. And according to Bill O'Brien, that's something to build on. And they built that right into a blowout loss to the Ravens. And now he's cranky like he was yesterday. As he should be. Because he's failing right now.

1242. Matt Thomas shows 713, 212, 5-7-9. If you want to chime in on the Texans, if you want to chime in on Deshawn, if you want to chime in on the Astros and what's happening or lack thereof offensively, if I go look at Brian McTaggart's tweets, it's going to clinically depress me. Matter of fact, we come back, I'm going to, we're going to read Brian McTagger tweets. Oh no, what's he saying now? Well, it's just crying. It's just bad stuff. Nothing positive.

And I know that Twitter's supposed to be positive, Ross. That's what the show is all about. And Twitter's about. Nothing but positivity. You join this week or something? Even if you join this week, you would know Twitter's not about positivity. I bet you if I read five McTagger tweets, I'll have you in tears. I might have to ban myself from Twitter the first two weeks of November. Why then? Oh, I forgot.

Oh, yeah, I'm taking a sabbatical. Yeah. Because even the people that I follow who I don't believe do politics are going to do politics. Because everybody's going to do politics. Yeah. So, yeah. Ross and I are taking Twitter sabbaticals. We'll be back with you.

We're going to go, what did LeBron call it when he got, he took off Twitter for the playoffs? Zero dark 30 or something like that? I'll talk to you all in January 1st. I'm going zero dark for a fortnight. No, no, no. I'll have to probably wait until the state of the union address. So basically I'm not going to tweet until February. I think first debates next week, right?

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Yes. Let me ask you a question. Do you think these sports radio programmers who don't have real jobs and can pretend to consult for a living? Do you think they would like old sound by introductions to segments? Would that be not sports radio 101 that you should play relevant current people? No. Which one did we just get? I missed it.

It was Carmelo Anthony. What's wrong with that? Carmelo Anthony is one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He's going to the Basketball Hall of Fame. If we flew to Portland. and said, Carmelo, you did a liner

for the Matt Thomas show. Who is Matt Thomas? He has no clue. None. Neither does Russell Westbrook can hear around every game. At least he sees my face. He may not know my name,

but he knows my face. By the way, my mom texted me. Your mom is listening to the show? She listens quite a bit. Oh, really? Uh-oh. I should be nicer to you.

Sorry, Mom. She's already writing down all the things about you. She says, your dad and I took you to a driving movie when you were just a little baby. You slept in a crib in the back seat.

What did they do? The movie, you ready for the movie? What year was it? Well, baby, it's got to be 72, 73, somewhere in that range. Horror movie. I don't know. Carrie. Night of the Living Dead.

Oh, okay. I was in the back seat sleeping like a baby while people were being destroyed. On a big driving movie thing. And mom and dad are probably just trying to get a little free time. Oh, good Lord. I don't need to hear that right now. I'm just vomiting my own mouth. What was I going to say?

Oh, you know, speaking of that, back in the day, you might have been implicable to this, too. Before car seats were really relevant, they used to put you, they would put kids in the, where your feet are in the front seat and the passenger side. I don't ever recall being in any kind of booster seat or car seat or anything. Maybe I was, but not that I can recall. Not that I don't remember being in that position, but I've seen old, old video. and movies of other people putting themselves, putting their kids into the foot area. Hell, we used to just ride in the back of my stepdad's truck.

He had this old Chevy truck and he would get on the highway and we just thought it was cool to be sitting in the back of the truck. How fast were you going? I don't know. We would be laying down. But still. Yeah. Did you ever ride in the back of a truck? Am I the only one did this?

Are we the only family that irresponsible? What is Aldean? Well, I mean, sometimes you, you're just. I can't be the only person that's... Somebody tweet me at Sports Every you make me feel better. You've ridden in a back of a truck, right? Down the street or...

Like during Christmas time singing Christmas carols, but I don't think I was doing it when going going to door to door singing Christmas carols? Oh, I wasn't singing. I was just in the carol. Would you go like hop out and go to their porch and then hop back in and... Sure. Really?

That happens. You would carol? I've never been caroling. No, I've never been like singing, but I remember as a kid going with other people. Yeah, people from church and stuff. Sure. Okay. You just went door to door saying, oh, come, all you faithful.

Then we got some hot apple cider and donuts. Oh, that sounds good. That's the reason why I was a fat pig as a kid. Hmm. Yeah, I don't really ever recall. I'm going to have to ask, I have to refer to my mom on this. I don't ever remember being in a... Now, I probably was in a baby seat, I imagine. Yeah, I think, yeah, I don't know that if I was in that situation, but I'm just telling you.

I don't know. And the old, the astrovan back in the day. My parents had an astrovan. My dad had a gremlin. I love that gremlin. We moved to Houston in 79. Gremlin, no air conditioning. Good times. I-10 heat at 95 degrees

on August night when he's taking me home to see my mom after dropping me off. Good times. Eddie and Beaumont on the Matt Thomas show at 1251. Hi Eddie. Hello, how are you all? Wonderful. A couple of things to say about

Texan and Bill O'Brien and it's just two. It's a name. Two words. Eric be in me. they need to snatch him up for somebody else. And that's all I got to say, and I just want to hang up and get y'all's opinion on that. Well, he will be, thank you, Eddie.

He will be the number one coaching candidate, especially if Kansas City continues to do what they're doing. I brought a barric, and I'm not the only one, but I brought a barric of enemy's name in January last year, this past year, as a guy that would, I think, invigorate the organization. With Jack Easterby as his general manager?

Tell the audience what I've been telling you. They ain't a package deal. I know. You've been saying that. Now, if I'm wrong, you are to admonish me for this. Okay. But if I'm right... I got the... We're going to totally forget. That's what I thought.

Let's see. Christie Bowl, we rode in the back of trucks all the time. Sour stuff, we did. It might be Hispanic thing. Let's see. W-L-F-L-L-R-D. You hung out in the back of the truck on the way to the park, or if you're moving, you would be tasked to hold down the mattress.

Yes. My buddy Wade says... Somebody's got to get back there and hold down the mattress. How about this? But my buddy Wade says, slept in the back of a truck from U.N.T to A&M after a road game in college. See? That's Denton to College Station and vice versa.

Mm-hmm. That's... See, I'm glad I'm not alone on there. That's 200 miles. J-Mack, we rode in the back of my dad's 78 Silverado all the time in my teens. Even flipped out in the back of parking lot when he gunned. it. Yeah, I would say back of the car riding, maybe neighborhoods,

maybe throwing a newspaper, and maybe doing some Christmas caroling. That would be about it. Nothing crazy. You delivered newspapers? I did for a while. Oh, that's cool. What'd that pay? Oh.

It wasn't like we had the Chronicle, right? And then the Katie had the Katie Times. And this was like a rip-off of the Katie Times. The Katie Times rip-off? What was it called? The Katie Daily Caller? It was like a competitor. Katie Times. The Katie Times pick a yune.

I don't know what it was, but it was slow paying. The Katie Plain dealer. I think I lost my bike as part of the whole deal. You lost your bike? Well, like somebody stole it, I think. Yeah, somebody stole my bike too. I got a radio bike for Christmas. I was super happy about it. And it was stolen like two weeks. You were delivering paper. No, I don't know. It was just in the back of my apartment complex. Clayne Humble on the Matt Thomas show. Hello, Clay.

Good friend. What's up? Oh, nothing much, man. I was just calling Rob. You got, man. You were not the only one. that rode in the back to pickup when you were a kid, dude. So we did it all the time because back then, you know, before they had extended cab pickups, you know, you only had a single cap. So, you know, mom and dad rode in the front, you know, if you got, you know, to ride in the middle, you were good. But me and my sister, you know, we just jumped in the back, right up against the back of the cap,

you were good to go. Back then you could only go 55 on the highway. So, you know, it's not like you were burning down the street. Right. Well, and you severed no head injuries, I'm assuming? No, no, no, no. Okay, that's good. I was all good.

Just back when the world was just right. You guys have a good day? All right, buddy. We'll see you later. Appreciate it. Yeah, exactly right. They didn't have extended cabs back in the day, Matt. Back when I was growing up, you got six people.

You got a haul in the 56 Chevy or whatever. I feel like we should play a Bob Seeger song. Yeah. Night moves or something. Okay. Wouldn't night moves be a great driving car? Maybe some Hollywood nights? Yeah.

Okay. Nothing but Bob Seeger the rest of the way. Well, go ahead. turn the page to the next segment, Matt. We will do that. And I know if a good way to segue into sipping something while I'm enjoying some Bob Seeger. Why not? If you want to be on the porch, turn on some Bob Seeger

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We'll give credit where credit is do. Ross found my non-Florida story just kind of by accident because you already had one. He says, Matt, you've got to read this story. So we're going to. It involves mask, taser. Yes. That's a lot of good boxes check there, Matthew. And there's video that goes with it. So we'll tell you more about that. Tomorrow, Ross and I will be downtown at the TOTA Center. I don't know exactly where we're doing it. So Ross, you need to get up a little earlier because I don't give you, I won't have a location for you. Thanks. And they're looking to get voter registration, so we're going to help out with that.

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And we'll make our NFL picks. where Brendan is off to a six and two start. He's due for an O and four crash. Well, he's due for a, the gut feelings aren't working. That's what I get for picking the lions last week. It's to stay away from them. Yeah, that's a stay away for me. Yeah.

So you have the heat Celtics going seven. Right now it's 3-1 in favor of the heat. I think I just sacrificed my gut feelings to keep my bats going. Yes, I like that. Got that. It's good. You also had the nuggets losing in four. which is fine.

Yeah. It might be five. You at Jose L. 2 batting 300. Yeah, he's one for 10. It's going to shake it. Yeah, he's going to be... May not be here in Arlington, but he's going to...

We just... This is purely selfish, okay? Purely selfish. Okay. I don't want to have to read tweets from cranky, holier-than-thou, baseball national dude. I'm talking the Haymans, the Passons, Joel Sherman

The Buster Olney's I think Kirchon's pretty level-headed So I don't follow him But he seems to be pretty level-headed dude There are going to be so many nitwits That are going to go out and brag about How the Astros didn't do squat this year Because they didn't have artificial intelligence

Rossi Think pieces upon think pieces upon think pieces For America's sake And I don't care about the other 49 states America wants Okay forget what I said Yeah for the hour's sake for the 713, 281, 832.

936, 972. Yeah, for about 12 area codes. Basically, Huntsville South, Brian College Station. Yes. I don't even think San Antonio particularly cares. I think they bandwagoned the Astros a little bit, right? But I wouldn't, that's bandwagon.

Austin is a flip-flopper. Yeah. So I was there. They were Houston town. Then the Rangers started going to World Series. They're a Rangers town. Now they're back to Astros, but now I don't know. So we're going to worry about just Southeast Texas.

Okay. For Southeast Texas, we need the Astros to win at least one series. Yes. Because if they don't, heaven help us. Yes. And we need the Harvard of Southeast Texas to play a football game. Talking, of course, about Rice. Yeah, today's edition of Believe it or Not, has this school scheduled the University of Houston and has this game been played?

No, that's not believing or not. It's not, but it could be. So we got back going. I'll get a play Okay oh I was going to read you Brian McTaggart tweets They're not nearly as bad as I thought they were going to be That's good

But Brian McTaggart's tweets Go as follows And And just the numbers is just so painful Because we're not used to this Let me go Astros lost again last night Driving them back to 500

More offensive wolves Have the Mariners and Angels on their heels Things I thought I would never ever say On this radio show That's a that's a funny sentence out of context. If you just don't know. More offensive woes have the Mariners and Angels on their heels.

Now, heels is a relative term. But the magic number for the Mariners to be eliminated is one. And it's two for the Los Angeles Angels who don't play today but play a weekend series against the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium. Look, the Astros road record has been terrible this year. So to guarantee the Astros are going to go up there and win two games out of the next four,

I can't do that? Can you? No. This has been one of the worst road records in recent years for the Astros. I mean, we're going back to what, 2012, 13, 14, how bad in terms of percentage-wise they had been. I mean, hell, they always beat the Mariners and they lost two out of three. See what else they got. Next headline.

Astros get bats, stymie, need to get better. Again, that headline's been out there way too much. Yeah. Next. The Astros are 7 and 9 in their last 16 games. Hitting 202 as a team. That's the headline of 2011, 12, 13, 14. Then ain't the headline of 2020,

or has it been since this heyday of Astros baseball? I really start talking about 2015 when they got the Walled card. He then responds McTaggartos to his own tweet. He quote tweets himself. Will the Texans go 7 and 9? He's brilliant. But Rossi, they're 2-0-2 as a team. I'm not talking about 8-9 in the order.

I'm not talking about using a pitcher a lot. That's hard to fathom. The worst part about it is, Matthew, is that for the most part, they've had their regular lineup. Springer missed a day, and then Miles Stahl started. you had Elimus Diaz at D.H.

Last night. So, yeah, Josh Reddick was sitting down, but Josh Reddick hadn't been hitting anyways. But you're talking about Springer, Altuve, Brantley, Bregman, Tucker Uly, Gerba, Carrea. They've been playing, anything like six out of seven or seven or eight last games.

And that's the lineup that's not hitting. That's the lineup that you're supposed to count on to try to carry you somehow some way in the playoffs. So that's what makes it even more disconcerted. If it were Breggman's on back on the Aaltuve or Brantley's hurt or whatever, it'll be a lot easier to stomach. But it ain't. This is it.

This is what we have. And it's not hitting right now. In a week-long slump, in 162 game season, it'd be a lot easier to just sweep under the rug. But now whenever game has got the microscope on top of it. Correct. I get it. And I tweeted out something yesterday about Jose L. TV wanting the season to be over with. At SportsMT.

And it wasn't me saying that Jose is giving up on the year. I didn't think anybody would interpret that way, but maybe if you did, I apologize. Did you interpret it that way? I didn't see the tweet. I got you muted. Wait a minute. Why don't you hit... Wait a minute.

Why aren't you not hitting notifications every time I tweet something? What? Are you serious? I give you... I don't tweet a lot, but when I do, they're relevant interesting tweets. 34,500 tweets. Over a decade? That's not bad.

Over almost 11 years? That's nothing. I'm not turning... I don't have notifications on for anyone. How many times have you tweeted your life? My Twitter account? 24,100. at sports RV.

So, okay, I'm 9,000 more in front of you. 11,000. But I also every day promote five days a week, I promote the show that we're having. That's true. So let me go ahead and retweet that. So if I didn't do that and type of what was coming on the show, my tweets would be probably right along with yours or close to them at least. It's a debatable.

It's debatable. My point is this, when Jose, when the season ends, whatever it may be, is going to look back and go, I never want to think about 2020 again. slumps happen. I'm not endorsing that this is the full time, the rest of Jose Haltubis career. Sometimes you just have incredibly down years.

And I think he, I will stand by. I don't think he's healthy. And the point is, this is not Jose dropping 25, 30 points in his batting average. Rossi, we're talking about a guy that's basically been a 900 OPS guy since the day became a major league baseball player.

His OPS after last night is down to 590. it isn't the same Jose Al Tuve. And everybody, when I go on other radio shows, I'm talking about baseball, what do you think it is? Is it the buzzer, which, again, I don't believe the buzzer. Is it the sign ceiling?

I don't know, Carlos Correa has fallen on a stack of Bible saying that Jose Altubi was not a part of that. Yeah, he had a crappy tattoo. And the data supports that he was not part of the trash campaign. So I'm not connecting. Does hearing about it all the time, Connected into your mind? Of course it can.

These guys are human beings. But it's either a mechanical problem in his swing that he needs an offseason to fix and look at, or he's hurt, or it's just something that human beings do sometimes. And it's slump. Now, the fourth option is, or he's beginning his downturn in his career. And I will not accept that. I don't think so either. And also think about it.

He's also messing everything up in the field. We're talking about a guy who has a gold glove history. He's just not the same L-Tube. And that's why when I said what I said, it was an indictment of, oh, this guy's mailing it in. You guys have listened to this radio show, hopefully for a long time. You know there is not a bigger Jose Al-Tube fan than me.

Period. End of story. But he's just not the same guy. I think the last time we were saying that was at 18, and then he had knee surgery after the season. Because let me tell you, in all honesty, If it's knee and it's whatever you want, that's the other phrase you want to use that I don't like to use in terms of injury,

then that can make some sense. But there's also a part that has to balance, does a 50% Jose Altova batting second in your lineup help your baseball team? If you have no other options, if you feel like that Jose at 50% is better than anybody else at 100, Meaning what Miles straw, him is Diaz, Jack, what's his fit,

Mayfield. Super Jack Mayfield. Just regular Jack Mayfield. Then you probably bat him down further in the order. I think he should, yeah. I think for sure you need to move him down. Because four times a game with a guy OPS of 590 is not going to win you games,

much less series. And I don't think, and look, Dusty's an old school guy, the trust his guy, that thinks he's on the brink. And I appreciate that. And if there's anybody in that roster

that I would say he's going to break out of it. Remember AJ Hinch's maybe one of his greatest moves ever as a manager was not taking George Springer out of the leadoff spot when he was struggling as bad as he was in 17? Maybe Dusty's going to go to that card. But it's, this has been

two months of this and the little bit of a warm streak he's gotten followed off by significant coolness. He's just not the consistent player that we've come and grown accustomed to and we love and miss. And that's why I said, in some respects, he can't wait for this season to be able with

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a heavily used efficient postman in this entire NBA. Zion Williamson not qualified just yet. Who might be traded. Joel Embed. Joel Embed. Joel Embed. Yeah, they would probably try to move him. I mean, he's efficient.

Mike Dantone is all about efficiency. You look at the numbers, Joel Embed is one of the best post players, well, the best post player in the NBA. How's his outside shot? It's all right. That seems like a very turbulent job. You need to get rid of Ben Simmons.

Because you know what you need to do is you need to go old school like 2009 or even 1994 Rockets or 2009 Orlando Magic. You have a really good post player that you need to double and then surround them with four shooters. Boom, you're done. Fishing offense. Because Ben Simmons is not a shooter. You ready for this? He's the best shooter that can do that can't do one thing. Shoot.

Good great ball handler. Decent defender. Can pass the ball. Got great corner awareness. But Rossi. called an LSU Houston Gougar game. I saw the ball leave his

hand. I'm like, he's going to have to go get a professional shooting coach to fix it. He needs to get whoever helped

Lonzo ball. That's exactly right. What are his numbers? Because they're not great. They haven't, have they gotten any better since he's

first been in the league? I don't think so. So you're basically saying he's a taller taller Russell Westbrook. Great point guard that can't shoot. But is he a great finisher?

I mean, Russ is a great finisher. That's true. I don't even know. Ben Simmons is a decent. Yeah, good. Okay. I mean, he shoots 58% overall. There's 286 from 3.

and career. 0.083. Didn't he go a whole year plus without making a 3-pointer? The ball leaves his hand. And I've called a couple of his pro games. It leaves like it's a knuckle ball. Like Lonzo did too, but Lonzo's done something to fix it a little bit where he's now at least considered an adequate shooter from 3-point range.

But Ben, If your guard can't shoot, I'm talking about it anywhere on the floor, much less three point. It's at least James, and you're going to get consistent scoring from that backcourt just because of Russell 0 to 60, and James can score anywhere on the floor. They're in a spot he can't. You got a center who wants the ball, and you got Simmons who thinks he can still shoot it? He went 0 for 11 from 3 in his first year. Okay. 0 for 6 in his second year.

Got it. two for seven, and these aren't three individual games. These are the entire seasons. He went two for seven last year. How does Mike Dan Tony, who loves shooting the three, going to be able to incorporate Ben Simmons on an offense who can't shoot the three? Mike Dan Tony's great at working with what he's got. That's true. So, I mean, if Joel Embed is one of the great post players in the league, or the greatest post player in the league, he's going to work him in the post. I don't think he's going to tell him to start bombing threes or something like that. My gut, this is an unofficial gut feeling, because I don't think people in Houston care about Philadelphia sports,

but both those guys aren't back next year. Somebody's gone. I would imagine so. Did you see us also so somewhere, some rumbling about Mike Dan Tony could convince James Hardin to go to Philadelphia, but isn't James Hardin under contract for like three more years? Yeah. This is according to John Clark of CBS.

Who? John Clark, NBC, Philly. Local TV guy? Guess so? No, I wouldn't believe it then. Here's what he says. I'm hearing one of the reasons along with coaching that Sixers have a lot of interest in Mike Dantonie's feeling within the organization

he could help lure James Hardin to Philly. Hardin can become a free agent in two years as a possibility of a trade. What do you think about John Clark? What are you saying there? I'm no opinion. I mean, that's speculation. One thing I've learned, Ross, the NBA, in its rumor mill is more speculation.

And you know what I really all started. Unless it's Woe-Jams. Right. It all started with Dwight in the Free Agency movement. That's when I started to learn who I can trust. So I'm sure this John, whatever his name is, is a swell human being. John Clark? John Clark.

But unless it comes to Woe, or Shams, I can't believe it. Okay. Is that an okay answer for you today? That's fine. Okay. That's what I'm going with. One of the basketball, I've got some baseball calls to get to. Remember a couple of years ago when the rockets presented to the NBA

how they felt like they were being screwed un-officiating? Yes. And how the rockets got crushed nationally because of that. The Los Angeles Lakers, this is Dateline yesterday, have presented a case of the NBA that LeBron James is not nearly getting his fair share of free throws, even though they are positive. The hard charging forward is getting fouled plenty by the Denver Nuggets.

James shot just two free throws during game three. And those two free throws came after Denver guard. Jamal Murray was called for a flagrant foul for an elbow to James's jaw. He has shot 10 free throws total in the three games of the best of seven. Quote, this is from Frank Vogel. We're dealing with the fouls through the proper channels with the league. I think he's gone to the basket very aggressively, and I'll just leave it at that. Also, the Lakers are not happy with the amount of technical fouls

that have been called against the Lakers in this series. Oh, no. Dwight Howard has been called for two technical foul. fouls won each in games two and three. Lakers assistant coach Phil Handy was called for technical foul in game two. Vogel was asked about his team's composure concerning the Lakers had been hit with three technical fouls. Quote,

I don't have any comment publicly about it at this time. Phil Handy? Phil Handy. Speaking of driving theaters. Fogo then was asked that the Lakers are handling the calls from referees. Yeah, I mean, I think we're exhibiting decent composure. I know we got the tech in game, too, but yeah, we're playing through it. Assistant coach, Phil Handy.

Getting a technical foul in one of the games. Larry and humble on 7-90. Larry, what's the good word? Oh, no. Go with the pitch. Go with the pitch. Go with the pitch. Matt, the last pitch last night that out who we struck out on. Where was the pitch?

It was outside, high and outside. And what was he trying to do? He was trying to pull the other way. He should have been. He'd probably hit it. Springer struck out on three straight pitches. Where were they? Outside.

Outside. Right. He's trying to pull the ball. Breggman stood there and looked at a ball right down the heart of the plate. Then he swung at one, the second pitch. That was low. and not outside. I know.

Hey, I got to go on this note, Larry. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to hang up on you. I was just going to put you on hold. Oops. Larry, I love you. Larry, please listen to me. I love you.

I did not mean to hang up in. I got to get to Dr. Roto. Because I think the audience would rather hear of fantasy football over outside pitch. Okay. Just saying. The good doctor is next. Time is 128. Sports Talk 7.

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between the dolphins and Jaguars. How is the state split tonight on this Titanic NFC matchup? I'm pretty far from the Jaguars, and I'm not sure the state is split. I think the state wants to see Tom Brady play a little better. But one of the O's has to go tonight, the Mighty Minchus are going to play the Dolphins.

I kind of love the Dolphins a little bit tonight, and I'd like Mike Kiseki. So if you're going to play him, DJ Chark, is going to be out. And Keel and Cole is interesting. And James Robinson should have a very good day rush in the first. ball. Have we been teasing the Jaguars too much? Garner Minchu hasn't had a bad start of the season,

has he? No, he's been great. And I think that, look, they're behind in most games, so they have to play comeback offense. And Minchew is not afraid to throw the ball downfield. Robinson's been a revelation now that they got rid of four net. And, you know, Charc is a good player when healthy. Got hurt last week. But Cole has really stepped up. And Leviska-Shanalt, if you don't know this guy, he's like a Percy Harvin type where he can hatch about four or five passes, and then they've given balls to, you know, and end around and sweep like four or five times. So he's an exciting young player.

I want to spend some time talking about O&2 teams because I'm always curious about where they are fantasy-wise, because as we know, fantasy doesn't care when it comes to team records. Let's start first with the Eagles. What are we finding here with the Eagles off to an O&2 start and where their players are from at least a fantasy perspective? Well, the Eagles promise their offensive line is decimated. So they've really struggled to run the football and to give Wend's protection.

And their receivers are injured, right? Jeffrey's been out. Now Jalen Rakers out probably until week nine. So Miles Sanders is a great matchup this week against the Bengals. I really like him. You've got Zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard. Went should have more time to throw the football. So I think this should be a good week for the Eagles to play much better.

All right. The Vikings are all into. The Texans will see them next week. The Vikings missing Stefan Diggs? What's going on with them so far? Well, look, the Vikings are stubborn in that they've got one good receiver in Adam Steel him. But you're not going to win with B.C. Johnson.

You're not going to win with Kyle Rudolph. You're not going to win with Irv Smith Jr. But you draft a guy named Justin Jefferson, and you've got to let him play. You've got to put them out there because right now teams are loading up. The Vikings' offense is silent. Rodo, you're there. Go ahead, Rodo. Hello?

Yeah, there you're back. Go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. So, you know, you've got to take more chances on offense. And if you don't do that, it's a big problem. And the Vikings aren't going to win games with a boring offense. Well, 11 points certainly would be the definition of boring. Let's go to another 0-and-2 team. Actually, we'll go with a one-in-one.

You mentioned Tom Brady, the Buccaneers. What is Tom Brady's history going into Denver? And the Broncos and the Patriots play-tallet times, I'm assuming in playoff game. what do you think is going to happen for him this week as they go to the Broncos who have a decent defense but just not putting much things up offensively. I think this is a really good matchup for Brady and his receivers. So Bryce Callahan is about 5'5.

He's going to be covering Mike Evans. Right? So Mike Evans has an immediate matchup. Advantage. Chris Godwin has an advantage and we really haven't seen him since week one. So I've got to think that between Evans and Godwin, Brady should be able to throw the football. Hopefully we'll see multiple touchdowns from him.

him. And the other good thing is this. The Buccaneers run defense is terrific. Melvin Gordon will struggle running the football, and that'll put Jeff Driscoll into bad situations, which should mean a lot of turnovers. The Niners were in New York or at MetLife Stadium and lost like half their team for a few weeks. They're there again this week to play the Giants. How skittish do you think the Niners are going to be to try to move down the field when they don't trust the turf? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of pathetic that you can't have that I'm more trustworthy surfaces in the NFL. Look, I like Derek McKinn in this week.

He will be one of the running backs. I like this guy, Jeff Wilson, who will be their goal line back. So let me talk to you about this. If you're in a PPR format, I think you can play McKinnon with full confidence. If you're in a standard format, Jeff Wilson is very sneaky this week. He will get tired. All right. Let's go to some surprise 2-0 teams.

The Chicago Bears had to be the top of that list. How are they performing in a fantasy world? They're performing okay. I think this week, though, you're going to be shocked what I'm going to say. The Falcons run defense is good. All right, Grady Jarrett and those guys, they're going to stop David Montgomery. So now the football goes into Mitch Trubisky's hands, and Mitch is going to have to step up. Now, the Falcon secondary has been terrible, but can Mitch Trubisky have another good week?

If he can find Alan Robinson, if he can find Anthony Miller, then I think they will be successful again. But if he resorts back to the old Trubisky, then the Falcons might surprise and win. will Ryan Tannehill throw for four more touchdowns in a particular game anytime between now and the end of the season? Yeah, I don't know, but the guy went 18 for 24, and he's just very accurate and he doesn't make a lot of mistakes. So, look, it's all based around the run game. A.J. Brown's going to most likely be out. You've got John O. Smith, you got Corey Davis, you got Adam Humphreys. They figure out a way to win each week, right?

It's not a sexy offense outside of Henry, but they figure out a way to win each week. Dr. Orta there was an impromptu quarterback change with the Chargers because of an improper shot. They hung tight with Kansas City. Can they get fat and happy off of the Panthers defense this week? Well, yeah, because the Panthers have the worst run defense in football. So Austin Echler, he's a guy you want to play for sure. Joshua Kelly. If the listeners don't know about him, you better know about Joshua Kelly.

He's their goal line back, and he's legit. So look, I respect Tyrod Taylor. I think he's a hard worker. I think he's good in the locker room. the truth is I don't think you're winning a Super Bowl of Tyrod. Justin Herbert's the future of this franchise. He's mobile and he's got a much better on than Tyrod Taylor. I really like Keenan Islands out of good weeks.

Great Sunday night matchup. Packers, 2 and O, the most prolific offense probably in the league right now. The Saints are giving up a boltload of points, case and point at the game against the Raiders on Monday. How do you see this one fair and out? You know, I hate to say this because Drew Breese is a future Hall of Famer, but I think his arm may be shot. I mean, he was not throwing any out-patter. to Emmanuel Sanders.

Everything was like over the middle, five, ten yards, Tray for him, Smith, Alvin, Kamara. You know, I think that team is much better where Michael Thomas is there. Obviously, you know, he's the best receiver in the game.

I think if Devante Adams is playing, the Packers should have a big advantage between Aaron Jones and Adams and this kid Alan Luzard, who I like a lot. I think the Packers are playing pretty good football right now.

All right. The Dallas Cowboys put together an amazing second-half comeback against Atlanta. They're taking on a significantly better football team. Can we trust Dallas to put up those type of numbers this week, which they did in the second half of last week's game against the Falcons? Well, that second half was crazy. I mean, that may have been one of the worst on-side field goal return teams I've ever seen. You've got to go after the football. So look, Dallas did a great job, and now they're playing Seattle, two teams with bad secondaries.

So I like Tyler Lockett. I like D.K. Metcalfe. I like Michael Gallup a lot. I know. A lot of people don't want to play him after last week's disappointment. I like him for a contrarian week. C.D. Lamb, the Seahawks' slot corner has been terrible all year. I think C.G. Lamb has a good week. You start that game with full confidence. All right. We come back. We'll get to the Monday night game between the Chiefs and the Ravens. We'll get to the Texans and Steelers.

And then we'll start taking your phone calls. If you got any questions for Dr. Roto, two ways to get him in. One is on the phones. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 or you can tweet a question to us at SportsMT or at Dr. Orto. We'll get those answers in for you in just a couple minutes. More with Dr. Ordo getting you ready for week number three of the NFL Fantasy Week. But first a word for TGS insurance.

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show. Our buddy, Dr. Roto, with us to the top of the hour on Sports Talk 790. 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Good doctor. Where are we going to see every position player, every skill player for both the Chiefs and Ravens scoring this week, or are we expecting a defensive surprise?

I wouldn't say a struggle, but perhaps a small defensive surprise. I mean, that's a tough question. I wouldn't bench anybody. Somebody asked me, should I bench Pat Mahomes for Gardner-Minchu? No, you don't bench Lamar. You don't bench Mahomes. You don't bench Madge Madge Edgler. You don't bench Malarre.

You let the game play out. I think it should be a high-scoring game. I think I would say somewhere like 3428. It should be a great game and looking forward to watching it. So nobody, everybody that you normally play plays, right, basically. Yeah, you can't get cute. When you start to get cute with the best teams, it becomes a mistake.

So don't overthink it. I even like Mark Graham. I wouldn't play J.K. Dobbins, but I would play Kelsey. I play Andrews. I play Marquise Brown. I play Edward Salar. Play your stars. All right.

Let's get to the Texans and the Steelers. David Johnson, Roto, was pretty good in week one against Kansas City, a non-factor last week against the Ravens. How do you envision him for week three? Yeah, I don't like this matchup. I think if Fuller's not there, it's a real mess. So I mean, I guess you have to play David Johnson because he's still going to touch the football 20 times. But, man, if he had 42 yards rushing and, you know, two receptions for 10 yards, it wouldn't shock me.

And then, you know, the other thing is that I think the Texans, they've been gashed with the run. So I've got to believe that they're going to try to do what they can to stop James Connor. Well, if you stop James Connor, now Ben Rathesburg is going to throw for three touchdown to Judeo Smith-Schuster and Deonté Johnson. So, man, the Texas just have a bad matchup this week. Steelers are playing good football, and I just wouldn't, I don't feel comfortable starting anybody out from the Texans this week. But it sounds like you want everybody to load up on Pittsburgh players. I would. I really would. I mean, look, I think Ben was probably the best value fantasy quarterback this year. I think Johnson is a fantastic route runner and receiver.

Juju's back to being the Juju that we know and love. And if you roster, either of these guys, if you've got Deonti Johnson or you have Jiu Smith-Suster, you might want a roster a guy named Chase Claypole. This guy is there backup, and he is big, he is tall, he is fast, and he is talented. Well, Houston, you hear it from Dr. Roto, not only from a fantasy perspective or maybe from a game scores perspective on how things might work Sunday in Pittsburgh. Let's go to some phone calls. 713-212-790.

7-1-2-5-790. Manual for Dr. Roto on 790. Hello, Manuel. Hey, hello, Matt. I have a quick question for you, Dr. Roto. I have two questions real fast. I have Mintu or Ryan. Who should they start?

Look, I like Gardner mentioned, he's done a great job. But Matt Ryan is sensational. And even years, this guy is always still in the football for close to 4800 yards and tons of touchdown. I'm not going to get up in that Ryan train right now. Is Atlanta one of those teams that, you know, has underperformed the last couple of years? But they just, at the end of the day,

if you grab a Falcon player, more times than not, they're going to help you out fantasy-wise? Well, that's the difference between fantasy and reality. I mean, the Falcons haven't been much for the Super Bowl, you know, appearance, but fantasy-wise, they're terrific. Calvin Ridley's arguably the best receiver in all fantasy football. Russell Gage has been sensational. Hayden Hurst, it looked good.

I don't really like Todd Gurley, but terms of the passing game with Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, and those guys, they're sensational. Got an email him from Jason. Should he drop J.K. Dobbins for Mike Dave, Davis, Miles Gaskin, or Joshua Kelly? Well, look, Mike Davis has a life expectancy. It's about a month.

With McCaffrey out, he's a very good player. Not this week I'm a little worried because the charges have a great run defense, but he's a good pass catch out of the backfield. I mean, he had eight receptions in the second half last week. So, I mean, Davis is a guy that you might want a roster. I like Kelly Moore in terms of the entire season, but for the next four weeks. I like Mike Taylor. Let's go to Corey Med Center on 790 for Dr. Roto.

Hi, Corey. Hey, fellas. How are you doing today? Good. I'm taking my call. You got it. Good. Hey, Roto, I got a running back in a receiver.

My running back question is Joe Mixing or Chubs. And on my receiver question, I have Julio in the lineup, but I have digs on the bench. Do I need to bitch Julio because he cost me last week? Thanks. Take my call, fellas. You got it. Yeah, you got it. Look, it's never personal. Julio didn't mean to Screw your fantasy team.

And he dropped the wide open path from Russell Cage. I mean, that would have been a highlight, you know, reception for a long time. But I think Julio came up lame on that play. I really do. I think he may try to play, but I think he's going to be way more of a decoy this week than an actual star. So I would be very careful. Let's watch that closely. When it comes to 1145 on Sunday morning, let's see what we want to do with Julio.

Got to be very careful there because I think he may be out there in body but not put up the fantasy production. I forgot to ask you some earlier. Last week we were watching the Browns and the Bengals play, and Drew Sample might have been Joe Burroughs' favorite target. Was he drafted in most fantasy leagues? And where was he? And how big of a surprise has that tied in been for the Bengals so far? Well, look, the Bengals have issues. You got a young quarterback who had a lot of upside.

Joe Mixing, so back to his last call, you know, hasn't been great. I think he should be a little bit better this week. Drew Sample came out, and it was the perfect storm for him because that defense was letting a lot of receptions to the tight end. So I happen to like Drew Sample this week as well. Look at what Tyler Higby did last week to the same team, to the Eagles. Right, three touchdowns. And I'm not saying Drew Sample is going to have three touchdown,

but if he had 45 yards of feeding a touchdown, I wouldn't be shocked. Darius Slay is going to be covering A.J. Green. I like Tyler Boyd this week, too. So Joe Burroughs going to have his good days and his bad days. you know, that's what happens when you have a rookie as your quarterback. Let's go next to Longest Wait. Austin and Cyprus on 7-90. Austin, good afternoon.

Two quick questions on quarterback. Two different teams. One team, Aaron Rogers or Ben Ruffisberger, who should have started. The other one, Gardner Minshaw or Drew Breeze. Yeah, I think I'm going Minshu over Breeze. I don't trust Breeze right now. I think they're more of a running team. In terms of Rogers and Ben, man, that's a really tough one.

I like them both. I think they both have great matchups. I think I might lean toward Ben. I really do. I think that there's no way that this Texan secondary can keep up with the Steelers' receivers. It's just a complete mismatch here. As much as I wanted to do, the Texans start to play well, it's a bad week to face Ben Rothersberger.

Rathosberger at his heyday. Where is he fantasy-wise? What's he a week-to-week basis? I'm not counting last year because he was hurt. This year, I hadn't had to do a whole lot. So tell me, realistically, if Ben Rothersberger is your fantasy surprise, what kind of numbers are you thinking about? I mean, look, Ben Rothersberger has always been a QB1,

maybe one of the lower ones, number 10, 11, 12, but he's always been a starter in a fantasy league. Look, what makes Ben special is what is the guys around him. So you've got James Connor. You've got Juju Smith-Sewster. You've got Deontay Johnson. You got this kid Claypool. You got Eric Ebron.

He's got weapons. It's not like he has nobody out there, you know, with him. So, look, you could have. the best quarterback with the worst weapons or a very good quarterback with great weapons, and it makes a guy better. So I think Ben is in a good position, and more importantly, they play with pace, and people need to understand what pace means. It means they get more plays in.

More plays, more production, more production, more fantasy points. All right, before I wrap things up, we ask you once a week to come on this radio show and give us the absolute no doubt about it, fantasy stud of the week. We call that Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Yeah, there's a lot of guys I like. I like Miles Sanders this week, but I think this is a Kenyan Drake week. I know people are liking Kyla Murray and I am too

and DeAndre Hopkins, but man, I think they need to get Drake involved in this offense more than they have. Look at what Aaron Jones did against the Lions last week. I think Kenyon Drake gets 100 yards rushing and lock him in for a touchdown. And that, my friends, is Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Where can people find you this weekend?

You can absolutely find me at sI.com. That's 4 illustrated and then you can find me there we have a great football fantasy sci fantasy plus product it's wonderful i highly recommend it you can always find me at twitter at dr r o't you know very good dr roto have a great rest your week and uh enjoy the battle of the sunshine state tonight all right talk to you got it that's the one and only dr roto with us here on sports talk 790 final hour left to go on the show uh we will feature uh believe it or not today for a chance to win some driving movie passes and some Heineken 0.0.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show. 202 Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. Ross busily working on, believe it or not, while Dr. Roto was on. Always appreciate the nonstop effort that you put into the show. Sure. I still have a category. Corey. I was busy. I have a lot of fantasy teams and I was tinkering with them throughout the

fantasy, throughout the fantasy segment. Explain with the audience what you've been deliberating the last half hour. You eventually pulled the trigger on and now you were great. I made a trade. Yeah, I don't know. I traded O'Dell Beckham and J.K. Dobbins for Cam Newton in our work league. Okay. Because I have Carson Wentz and he's been so, but I mean, I feel like he can turn it around. It doesn't matter. Nobody cares. But you ask. Yeah. You know what? Again, we all feel although you're of plate. Yeah. I read an article that said sell high on Odo Beckham,

but actually upon review, it said buy low on Odo Beckham. So I misread the article. One of the leagues I'm in, which I'm a new league today this year, if you lose your week two matchup, they have natural rivals in our league. People you know better than others. Okay. And the guy I'm in with is one of my neighbors.

And if you lose in that week, they get to rename your lawn. They get to rename your team for a week. Oh, okay. Did you lose? I lost. What's your new team name? Well, the best part about this is that there's only about 40 characters you're allowed in here.

Okay. So he knows that one of the songs I hate more than life itself is Imagine Dragons, Thunder. Oh, that's true. So he made me name my team for this week, Thunder dot dot, dot, dot, thunder. You couldn't put Thunder, feel the Thunder because it would be too many characters. Thunder? It should just called you Imagine Dragons. Yeah, that's fine too. It doesn't matter.

That sounds like the least intimidating fantasy football team name possible. I frankly got lucky because I would have probably, if we would have had Rivals Week in our 790 league, who would your rival be? You? Me? You and I work together. That's what? Matt, I think of us as friends. Okay, whatever.

I would have named your team. Yeah. U.H. Cougars National Champions. Yeah. Well, I mean, that would be just complete farce, unless we're talking about their golf team in the evening. 80s or something. First of all, we're undefeated and second of all, people don't want to play us. Also winless. And that's

scoreboard. By the way, we're supposed to have Dana Horgerson on the day, but the North Texas game got canceled. Well, what I make your team name? Hmm. The fancy Matt's? No, you like, you secretly like that name. Because you secretly like being

better than everybody else. Let me tell you something. I don't want to be discount, Matt. Yeah. Like, when I lived in Utah. And I was just when we moved back in like 2005. I had a producer named Rick. And he and I would go to, I'd take him to lunch every once in a while because he was actually a nice person to me. And one time I went to a Chinese buffet because I love Chinese buffet.

Yeah. And I got a coupon out. Okay. So it was basically 50% off the order. It was basically I pay for mine and his was maybe $5, $6 off. And he gave me crap for the rest of my time for using a coupon. What's wrong with that? And they called you discount.

Matt? They're like, every time they'd say, Matt, we're going to lunch today and what coupon you're bringing with you? What's wrong with that? What's wrong with saving a few bucks? That's my point. Why are we shaming people for saving money? Again, that was also 2006, 2005, but I think shaming still.

I don't think coupons are ever worth shaming about, ever. Half the time I die now, it's because it's wherever I got trade from work. But you don't understand what I'm saying? Yeah. If I took you out to dinner and I used a discount card, would you shame me for that? No, I don't care. You know what? The same thing happens with like my brother.

When I give my brother, I got like a bunch of specs, gifts cards from work, from some trade. And I gave him some for Christmas. And he's like, well, this is like you didn't give me anything. I'm like, what? It's still $100 to specs. What does it matter that it didn't cost me anything? It matters that it's still a gift card for you.

We argue about this all the time. And so anytime I can find something free, I make sure to give it to him so he can get upset. It's a gift card you don't have to use now. Yes. Yeah. It's going coming out. Look, I can run up a specs tab.

now, all right? Trust me. Like, I'll give you an example, something else. I buy gift cards to popas because it's, you know, and so poppas are on Christmas time. If you spend 50, they give you a $10 gift card. Yeah, some of them you spend $100, you get $25, whatever.

But those are only date specific. You can only use them in the first three months of the year, first two months of the year. I've given those gift cards out to say, hey, go to poppas. Now remember, you've only got until February to use this, but use it. I don't think that's a bad thing. No, I always get...

Do you take less that somebody gives you a gift card and puts a time limit on? No. You know, way, we used to get the bobbleheads that the Astros would give out? Yeah. We got like a Jeff Bagwell bobblehead. Jeff Bagwell was like one of my brother's favorite baseball players.

I gave it to him for his birthday. He was in August. And he got all mad if he's like, did you pay for this? It's like, what does it matter? It doesn't matter. Shut your mouth and enjoy your bobblehead. Shut your damn mouth and it's a gift's a gift. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm glad you agree with it. Winer's. So if I take you out to dinner and I use a coupon, and you will not besmirch me. I will say, man, why don't you tell me you had that coupon? I would have got one, too. Okay, so if you want to call me a fancy, Matt, because I live that lifestyle.

No, you really like that. What's something that's really going to hurt you? No, well, something about this right now. Let's go to the phone. 713, 212, 5, 790. We owe you some headlines. 713, 212. Oh, the guy just dropped, so we won't take the phone phone phone.

Okay, forget him. Athletics. Kelly Ico. Eco, he's Eco. It's eco. It's eco. It's eco system. Yes.

Basically. said that he got a report from somebody in Rocketville that Daniel House apologized to his teammates for getting some ass down in Orlando. And I think James Harmon was like, yeah, we get it. Well, they probably said, yeah, we get it, but you could have waited. And you were, you behaved yourself all this time. I think he put up like a like a PowerPoint slideshow and showed like pictures of her and like thong, in the thong. I'm like, look, guys.

Could you turn this down? Exactly. I mean, he did like a whole presentation. and it's like at the end of the conclusion, that ass. Well, they're also like, that girl's been going to your room and y'all wouldn't, if she wanted to stay in your room, you wouldn't have said no either.

We don't know that, but. No, we're just kidding. But that's good, right? Are they going to forgive him? Everything's good? What if she wasn't attractive at all? It doesn't matter. It's up to each and it's up to individual.

And it's up to James. James is the de facto leader of this team. It's up to Russ. If they are like, you know what? Stuff happens. You had to get that ass. then okay, we get it. Lakers are better than us anyways.

Well, I don't think James said that. If he did, I know it was a serious problem, but I don't think you did. He's probably not wrong. Well, here's the point. They all could have been put in the same situation. They all could probably relate to it. But everybody except one person behaved themselves. In the entire NBA, since they, basically since the playoffs started.

He's the only player that, couldn't resist the booty and embarrassed the organization. And you got to, I don't think they're, I don't know if they're married, but you got a lady and some kids at home. Uh, yeah, I think there's a wife.

I'm not for, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that they're married. But anyways. Even if James is like, that's cool, I don't think James and Russ,

if Darrell went to them and said, hey, I can go get this for Daniel. I can't imagine James calling Daryl and saying, uh-uh, don't do that. Because it did ruin the, flow. It didn't make a difference

ultimately in the series, I don't think, but it did take a double-digit score, eight rebounding guy and a hard worker on the floor. One of the better perimeter defenders. In the most important time of the year. Houston Sports. Astros and Rangers tonight. Game one of four. The silver boot yet to be determined.

Coverage begins at 6 o'clock with Michael Conner. The silver boot on the line tonight on Sports Talk 790. The Astros? You ready for a nose for Thomas? prediction? Yes. 14,648 stars.

The Astros by the end of tomorrow night, 10 o'clockish, will have secured the second spot in the Western, in the American League West playoffs. They are slight favorites tonight with Christiane Javier on the hill. And I'm telling you they're going to win tomorrow night. They're going to win tonight. They're not going to have to wait for the Angels Dodgers game to finish Friday night for them to figure that out. Is Lance Lynn really been turning it on?

His ERA is way lower than I remember it being. He's been good for them. He just is. All right. Let's get back on it. Brian and Conroll on 790 at 2.11. Hi, Brian. Hey, man.

Big fan of the show. Thank you. Just a quick fantasy question. I know that the expert's not on today. Am I crazy for starting Monshu over Watson this week, just given the matchups? I drafted Watson pretty high, and I think Monshu might have been my last pick. But just the way he's playing, I just wanted to get your thoughts on that, man. Thank you.

Thank you. Ross, I don't think he's crazy at all. It's not crazy. Men's shoes numbers have been really good through two weeks. Deshaun Watson's not so much. And they're going up against a really good defense. The best defense that will play to the three games. Yes.

But again, here's the thing. Just because the paper says it doesn't mean it's going to translate to Thursday and or Sunday. Problem is, it's the Miami Dolphins. I don't know anything about the Miami Dolphins, Ross. Is their defense going to cause? Miami Dolphins. They're 30th, I think. If you were paying attention to the Rotten 5, I think they're 30.

and yards given up? Oh, and I was paying attention. They gave up 400 yards, 420-something yards, and then like three or four touchdowns to Josh Allen. I'm going to go Garner-Menschu over Deshawn Watson. Sometimes you've got to, if you're overthinking the matchups, you just got to go with talent, and I would go with Deshawn Watson personally,

but I'm not going to say you're crazy. He asked if he was crazy. I don't think he's crazy. No, I would say not only you're not crazy, but if I'm that, like, for instance, I just picked up Philip Rivers in one of my leagues. Big Philly style going against the New York Jets. Yes.

I've had Tom Brady. Tom's had two decent weeks, but he's not, I don't, will he ever throw it for $3.15 a game this year? I don't think so. That was a stayaway for me. So I went and got Big Philly style to play against Jets defense. Philip Rivers is not a good of quarterback as Tom Brady is. Yeah, I'm all over Big Philly style in the DFS this week, Matt. Just saying.

213. Matt Thomas Show continues. Non-Florida stories in 15 minutes. This is Sports Talk 790. This is Carlos Corre. Back to Matt Thomas. That's poor stock seven night. It's your home of Fassos baseball. I hear that liner all the time and I always want to end my sentence is the same way.

Yeah, I'm scoring. Like, honey, what are we doing for dinner night? What do you want? I'll have some chicken fries steam. Hmm. And like a whipping sound? Well, I don't think we're adding sound effects. No.

Why not? Eh, it seems a little weird. Okay. You're home for Astros baseball. Who's, it was in Shrek, the cat? Puss and Boots. Puss and Boots. That's how Puss and Boots.

Antonio Banderas played that cat, right? Antonio Banderas is Carlos Correa with that soundbite. Carlos Correa. Well, we used to play the RICO. Suave. Remember that song? I think Carlos Corre could be a salsa dancer on Dancing with Stars. Name the Astro who goes on Dance With Stars first.

Carlos Korea is the chalk pick. Yeah, he's always wanting to build his brand. Bregnant might do it. That's a great point. Tubei needs knee surgery first. Just, well, you know, so I'm sorry. I don't think he's healthy. I'm just making a joke, though.

That's better. I forget people run with things. Don't run with that. I'm just making a joke. Okay, so let's size it up. As in who would win? I'll give you the five people that I think would be on there in no particular order. Okay.

I got a couple. Josh Reddick, Alex Fregeman. Yes. Carlos Correa. Okay. I could see Springer doing it because Mrs. Springer wants him to do it. I'm going to tell you who's going to do it and who would win. And then the number five would have to be, no, Zach Grinky.

Do you want me to say it? Is it obvious? No, I don't know. Go ahead. Uly Gurio? And he would win. I think he's got the best moves on the team. I don't know why.

Okay. Just a feeling I have. So we're going to recap it again. Yuleigariel. Korea, Springer. Bregman. And who was my fifth? You said Reddick.

Reddick's out first. But Reddick would enjoy it tremendously. Reddick would have a lot of fun. He's voted off first. I just don't think he's got the moves. He'd try his ass off. I think all of them would. How about Dusty?

Dusty's got moves. Remember they did the Fox broadcast? When was it when they were playing the Dodgers a week or two ago? And they were having Carlos Correa miced up. And there was like some song on. He was talking about how Dusty Baker still had great moves. Not to time myself, but I would love to see Dusty Baker in the Soul Train line. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean, yeah, with people on either side and you go down and dance. Could you imagine Dusty Baker in one of those 1974 polyester suits doing that? Yeah, because he had those suits. He would crush. I don't know. Now he's got creaky knees like Yordon Alvarez. No, Dusty's knees aren't creaky. He's in his 70s.

It doesn't mean he's got a cranky knee, creaky knees. Well, I don't think he's got the moves. Like, it's like when, what was that, Chloris Leachman or whoever was on this? Chloris, not Chloris. Colorox Leachman was in the. Cloris. I misspoke. Okay.

Clorice Leachman. Oh my God. Wasn't she on the show? Wasn't she on there? She was immediately voted out. She's like 70, probably. Like, we're never going to get, we're never doing the 30,000 Twitter party because it's just not, everybody's Twitter accounts are slowing down. Yeah.

I'm losing followers. They're dropping people. At sports RV. Yeah. But if we ever get to 30, meaning I'm guessing, by 2030, we will do a sole train line in Las Vegas. How many pandemics will we have been through by then?

Sheesh. Will Las Vegas ever be back to Las Vegas? Oh, Cloris Leachman is 94. When was she on? Wasn't she on Dancing with the Stars? Well, back 38 years ago in season one. Okay. Yeah, she was on the seventh season.

Which is really three and a half years ago. That was 2008. It's been a long time. Was that 12 years? ago she was on there. I felt like it was like three years ago. How do we get to connect to this? You were talking about Carlos Correa and his liner and then who's the best dancer? Yeah, yeah.

Well, if Cloris Leachman can be on there, I guess Dusty Baker can, but she was voted off pretty quickly. Yeah, for the sake of keeping Astros on the stage, I would not want Dusty Baker on there. I just, I don't envision him being the time. I mean, again, Soul Train line, 1974 to 78, he's my go-to-go-to-game. but Don Cornelius is dead. He was doing the Soul Train. The Soul Train show's not even around them anymore.

So can't even do that. Who's going to do it? Steve Harvey? He does everything. I can see Jamie Fox hosting the new version of Soul Train. That's below him. He needs millions of millions. No, you don't, it's not below them.

You put it on ABC once a week at night. They're thinking game shows that made them popular. Hell, Pressure Luck was a middle-of-the-road game show on CBS in the daytime, and now it's a hot show on ABC at night. Who's watching that? Who's hosting Pressure, luck. Some girl.

Okay. I don't know her name? No. You know everybody's name? And I don't know her name. And then what's a woman you don't know? I see how it is. No, I'm just saying I don't know her name.

She does fine. What's the one that Snoop Dog does? Well, he used to host the Joker's while. That got canceled. Oh, it's gone? Yeah. Now he just does Corona commercials. Doing them quite well.

It's not like every five seconds. I see him doing a Corona commercial. Yeah, good for him. All right, quickly, I invite you to find your beach. Yeah, quickly. Let's go to the Texans real quick because they are trying to finish up getting their preparation. Tomorrow's the last prep day.

They jump on a plane Saturday to go take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. And there's a thought of them. I hope it doesn't happen. But I think a lot of people, if you were to take a blind vote about whether they go 0 and 3, here's DeShon's thought about maybe opening up the season with three straight losses. That's not the issue. I mean, we're not really thinking about that.

We're just worried about doing what we need to do out there on Sundays and playing our best football. And we'll see what the outcome comes. And that's all we can do is just put our head down and grind and just work. And, of course, we don't want to be 0 and 3, but that's not the main thing that's on our minds right now. Main thing on their minds is getting better. Main thing on Bill O'Brien's mind a couple days ago, scoring more points. And so he got angry with the media.

Was that Monday? No, it was on Wednesday. They don't talk on Tuesday. Okay. Well, hopefully he can cheer up and score some points. What do you think when Bill is at his absolute happiest, non-alcohol-infused, what's he like? And his absolute, probably coaching football watching film. I mean, is he gregarious at a dinner table telling stories, telling jokes, laughing?

Well, you're the one amongst us that's been to dinner with him. That was one happy hour. How was he? He was fine. He was actually fairly relaxed. I thought he was getting pressed by some people. He got pressed a little bit and didn't like him. it, but that's okay.

But I applaud him for wanting to do that. It was the first time I'd ever heard Jack. He used to be speaking in person, so that was kind of cool for me. I like that. You're bald bros. Yeah, and he, he quotes scripture quite a bit. I don't do that on Twitter. No, no, no, no, no.

He said, I'm on Twitter. Oh, I was going to say, do you get out the Bible? No, no, no, it's better smart. He's like, the book of Luke. It's like in the middle of happy hour. You know what? I'll take some prayers right now for anything. Okay.

We're praying for you, Matt. The end of COVID, the civil unrest. Okay. What else we want? Oh, the U of H plays somebody in football. I'll take any of it.

Okay. Peace and world. We can have political conversations and not attack each other. I'll take all of that. I'm not holding my breath on any of that. I know. Sorry, Matt.

I'm not looking for miracles. So it was, oh, he tweets scripture all the time? I don't think he does. I don't follow me, though. I just think he's, I think he's positive speaking guy, though. That's good.

Matter of fact, we got a couple minutes here before we get to now in Florida stories. Brendan, can you find us a lighthearted, positive feeling music so Ross can read some Jack Easterby tweets? Okay. I like that. Like, uh...

Like, you just find something. We don't know. Just something uplifting. Doesn't have to be any one of the lyrics. Just something that's going to, uh, you know, get everybody in a better mood here on a Thursday with another gloomy day here in Houston, Texas. Okay.

So why don't you get his... Jack Easterby's Twitter account. Get his phone's account. Maybe just read five or six of them. Okay. You know, how there's like mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel? Yes, we'll do nice tweets. We're going to do the opposite. We're going to read nice tweets. Jack Easterby's Twitter account is at Jack Easterby. He's only

got 6,600 followers. Is he verified? He is not. Okay. Neither am I. That's okay. Just some dirt. God has been good to. Here we go. This feels like I'm at the ballpark in a minor league baseball city. Hello, folks. This is Jack Easterby talking about his Twitter. Jack Easterby. Focus on the opportunity. The process and the effort, not the burdens, the naysayers, and the problems. You gain strength, courage, and confidence. By every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face, you must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Huh? Let's see. He's just retweeting all these leadership. Do you want to just read his retweets? Yeah, I read them, sure. Joy is the serious business of heaven. C.S. Louis. Okay.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. Another gym of wisdom from Jack Easterby. It's a great day to have a great day. Put that on a t-shirt. Don't forget the smiley face. Our greatest fear should not be failure.

Our greatest fear should be of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. What does that even mean? I don't know, but I'm buying into it. That's a quote from Francis Jim. Remember, he was in charge of positive persuasion at New England, right? He was a character coach. And now he's the executive vice president of football operations. For whatever in the hell reason.

Here's one from Jack. Thankful. Now, let me ask you this, Brendan, you're a radio guy. Is this going to have to do a weekly segment of positive Jack Easterby tweets? If there's enough, yeah. I love this. I don't want it to stop. Leaders should be dealers in hope.

Oh, here's a good one. Thank someone for what they mean to you today. You know what, Matt? I want to thank you. Matt, you mean a lot to me. Ross, I want to thank you for being here always well in advance of the show. Yes. I want to thank you for having, believe it or not,

locked and loaded before the show even starts. Well, I want to thank you, Matt, for just being so helpful and never holding me down or keeping me pinned in a corner. Always expanding your career. Helping my career flourish. I told you about that job opening in Wichita. You didn't take it. Thanks.

Brandon, I want to thank you for... They didn't call me back. Thank you for getting the, believe it or not, Sounders right after only what, one or two times doing it? For the most part. Yeah, you've done all that. All the accuracy levels. Do my best. Now, we've got to get you more in the culture of the 80s and 90s with shows. But that's not going to happen. I'm thankful you accept that that's not going to happen.

another Jack East to be Jim. Right. Growing is hard, but worth it in the end. All right. We have non-Florida stories. We can't do them on Thursdays. Okay. But we'll find a day.

We should do like once a month because these are all actually from last couple of weeks. So don't let me forget, Brandon, once a month on a slow day, like midweek, let's do Jack Easton be tweets. Because that right there is the opposite of what the Jimmy Kimmel's the world will do. We'll take people and say terrible things about it. That's nothing but positive. Is he getting any replies to any of that stuff? Let's get some retweets. Get better today.

It's mostly retweets and likes. I got you. I mean, if somebody says thankful, I mean, what are you going to reply to that? You're welcome? Or for what? Yeah. Like, is there a new signing on the horizon? Yeah, exactly.

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It is a weekly Thursday staple to show at 2,000. 30 or get thereabouts. It's non-Florida stories. Everybody in their mother does, hey, quirky morning show. Let's do a story about Florida. Well, we want to be a little bit different. We pick any other state in the union and any country to find Florida stories. Gentlemen, what I typically do, and I'm because I'm lazy, I just Google weird news stories to see what pops up.

And most of them are involving Florida, so you can't use them. So there was a story on classic. Classic hits 106.com, which is apparently Central Pennsylvania's music leader. Don't ask me how I got that. So they aggregated something from NBC news. So this is really from NBC courtesy of Classic hits 106. Okay. Associated Press, September 24th, which is today.

In fact, this morning, a Massachusetts construction workers love for black licorice. fill in the blank What do you think it is? Gets him fired What do you think it is, Brendan? I've seen it. Okay. Wound up costing him his life.

Hmm. Well, I was close. That's why I went first. Fired from Earth. This is depressing. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks through his nutrients out of whack and caused the 54-year-old man's heart to stop.

Quote, Dr. Neil Boutala, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Even a small amount of licorice you can eat can increase your blood pressure a little bit. The problem is glyzazeric acid found in black licorice and many other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals called electrolytes. It's more than liquorish sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of over-the-counter, even some beers like.

Belgian beers had this compound in it. Oh my god. This is awful. This death is an extreme case. The man had switched from a red fruit-flavored twist to the black licorice version of the candy a few weeks before his death last year. He collapsed while having lunch at a fast food restaurant. Doctors found he had dangerous hate low potassium, which led to heart rhythm and other problems. Emergency responders did CPR and he revived but died the next day. I got news for you, Ross, and Brendan, I have not had a piece of licorice probably in 40 years. Black licorice is the absolute bottom worst candy that exists.

It doesn't taste good to me. I've never craved it. None of that stuff. So no thank you, Classic Hits106.com for sending this story to me through NBC News. And that's my very sad Massachusetts non-Florida story. Thanks, Matt. Now, who of the two of you has a more uplifting story? Mine's very fun.

Okay, well, there you go. You're next then. Okay, a Detroit man jumps his car over a drawbridge while high on Whippets. Okay. There's really not a whole lot more to the story than that. Wait a minute, that's it? Did you show one headline? I mean, I'm not quite done, but there's not a whole lot else going on.

The drawbridge operator saw him accelerate as the bridge started going up. tried to stop it, but it was too late. He successfully completed the jump, but on landing blew out all four tires and skidded through the gate on the other side, so he couldn't get away. They believe he intended to just drive right on by after landing, but it did not work.

Not bad. I thought it was fun. That makes me feel better now. If you were going to be just headline person, you could make a story up like, woman makes out with alligator and lives to tell about it. And then you have nothing else to say about it. Well, I think the four blown-out tires are...

That backs up the story. All right, Mr. Depresso, go ahead. Depresso? You said their story is not very uplifting. I didn't say it's uplifting. It's just funny, though. All right, go ahead. Let me take you to Louisiana.

And let me tell you about a man named Justin Lavoy. Lavoy. He was taken into custody after he and a female acquaintance were spotted permitting or committing suspicious activity in the woman's residence. He was arrested and then pat down where the cops recovered a concealed handgun,

marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. They also subsequently seized several other handguns from his truck as well as homemade silencers. He was then arrested and of course brought into the LaFouche Parish Sheriff's Office where he was processed and then strip searched where it was revealed he was in possession

of another firearm. According to police, Savoee had a .25 caliber Titan pistol concealed in his rear end. The handgun, which has a 2.5 inch barrel and measures 4.375 inches long, was loaded. No.

The police chief later said, quote, whoever thought a 0.25 caliber pistol could be in assault weapon. He has got a five years suspended sentence for violating probation

in order to refrain from frequenting bars and lounges and quote the excessive use of alcohol and illegal drugs. First of all, carrying a firearm in that area is dangerous in itself in the La Fouche parish. But what if it got, what if it accidentally

discharged? Well then he would be discharge from Earth, I would imagine. That's not good for the... I mean, do you get shot in the ass and survive? I don't end up? I mean, where? Was the barrel pointing outwards? I hope he didn't break wood.

Here's the mugshot of Justin. I'm good. He looks like a normal young man. He's 24 years old. All right. That's why Louisiana at end of day comes through more times and not. We go to the La Fouche Parish. I think a couple of times the last year.

To be honest with you, we probably could just go to the Gulf Coast and be just fine. Yeah, I think so. All right, let's play, believe it or not, next. What's the category? You're working on it. What? We've got great prizes to see Sandlot on Wednesday, September the 30th, the drive-in and Sawyer yards. If you'd like to play for that with a chance, throw in some new alcohol-free Heineken 0.0.

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tomorrow we will be downtown at the TOTA center Polken LaBranch Big voter registration get together Yeah make sure you remind me I'm only going to text you 10 times Let me tell you something Brendan If we don't start the show on time tomorrow It's somebody's fault

It's not named Matt When we've ever not started a show on location, on time? I'm just telling you, I'd like you to do there before, 1159. It's all I'm asking. Why? I can set up in a minute. Okay. All right here, I'm setting my alarm.

Let's see, what song should I go with to remind me that we're going to? What's a good vote song? Well, I don't know. Hail of the Chief, no. I don't have that in my sister in my song. Just think about that. All right. So tomorrow we're down there.

Gordy's parody will be in. We will check in in in Pittsburgh with Tim Ben's, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I think is the name of the paper. I almost lost my mind, Albert King. There we go. Perfect. We'll make our NFL picks and the Gordy Parity and, you know, what else we got going on? You got a lot of stuff going for.

Fridays are usually a pretty busy, fine. Brian T. Smith will be with us as well. Oh, strange times by the Black East. That'll be it. Okay. So that's tomorrow. Because these are strange times. Come downtown, say, if you've not registered a vote yet, do so.

I think Clutch is going to be there. I'm going to be there. Ross may be there if he shows up on time. Things will be good. It'd be very exciting show. Okay. As you scroll through your music list. Yeah, I'm good.

Okay. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's FACTS scoring sports game show. We simply called it. Believe it or not.

And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212 5.7.90. Today's edition of Believe it or Not, brought to you by our friends at Houston Woodhouse Spas. Print out your gift card for the gift of re-laxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. The category

today is all things that Jack Easterby may or may not have said in a tweet. If I read you a real tweet from Jack Easterby, you'll say this. If it's a made-up one, you'll say this. Two, believe

or not, on whether or not these are real live actual Jack Easterby tweets to win your prize, Ross will eloquently, eloquently take you the prize that you win. Yes, Matt, you can fill up your car with pass to see the coming of age baseball movie, The Sandlot on Wednesday, September 30th, and the drive-in at Sawyer Yards. Plus, we'll throw in the new alcohol-free Heineken 0.0 to keep you hydrated during the show. For more information, check out rooftop cinema club.com. Let's play. Believe it or not.

JT on 790. JT. you ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. Your drive and ambition will lead you to your goals. Believe it or not. Oh, that's so stupid. It's got to believe it.

No, it's so stupid we made it up. Sorry. Or as Alex Trebek would say, sorry. 713-212-5-790. This might be one of my favorite, believe it or not, topics of all time. Nathan on 790, Nathan, you ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. Put your energy into things.

that matter. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, Ross made that one up too. Where are these coming from? Did you really make these up? I found some daily affirmations. Oh, fair enough. 713, 212, 5-790. Colton on 790. Colton, you ready to play Believe it or not?

Believe it. Allow yourself to be yourself. Believe it or not? Not as correct. Statement number two for the win. Do the next right thing, believe it or not? Believe it. There you go.

Congratulations. You're going to the big movie show. Let's continue. Al on 790, Al, you ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir. Growing is hard, but worth it in the end. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Believe it. Statement number two for the win. it always seems impossible until it's done. Believe it or not. Oh, he did say that. I'm sorry, though. Appreciate you listening. Jason on 790.

Jason, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Try to get closer to your true self every day. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he didn't say that one. All right, I want to save one more for Wex when he comes in. actually let's get a call

and we'll do the caller it would be nice all right let's get him screen and then we will get him on the ear here we got one more here for the chance to win tickets to see

a sand lot of the drive-in and soyer yard so let's go to line one said he's not gonna do it huh he said that I'm okay he was too busy listening to the radio that's all right

okay well that's it we'll close the game out we'll save this last one for Wax this was such a good topic it's almost like we should have given away trip like to Tahiti for five or six days.

You know what I'm saying? Could you imagine if we ever got a big believe in or like we gave away a Corvette? Wouldn't that be awesome on believe it or not? You'd feel a lot of pressure. Give away a Corvette? No, I wouldn't feel any pressure. I don't care. Well, I would.

Only if like if nobody wins and we get to, we get it, then I would put a lot of preparation. It would be, if I said to you, we're giving away $15,000 to a winner on believe it or not today. You would take extra special care with the Believe It or not category. I don't think so. You'd have to get three right or something like that. that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know, in the original game, I had to write 15 and you had to get three right. It's funny,

we were once told many moons ago that the game was so good, we should do it once an hour, and we're like, well, I think that's just too much. Overkill. One time per day is good, but yeah, we were told it was overkill. Yeah, and then but we still, these, you had save these for the end of the year. Okay.

The best of. I save every one. Do you? Okay, well, if if Wex can get in here in the next 10 seconds, we look. No, that's fine. But he's running out of space. All right, tomorrow all again, we're downtown at the Atota Center for the vote registration. Clutch is going to be there. There's going to be some special merchandise sales there. Get yourself registered because we know what we need to be able to vote.

No matter what your political party is, you should vote. Yes. Because you have a say, we've been given this opportunity, we've got to take advantage of it. I'm a wig guy myself. What color? The wig party. Name a wig party candidate right this second. John Adams.

John Quincy Adams. No. Oh, the wigs aren't around anymore. they're not. It's a defunct. How long was Whig Party lasted until 1942? Believe it or not? Oh, you want to do all things? Well, you want to probably do something like that on Election Day. I was going to do some kind of election history thing.

I think we should take the day off on Election Day. I think it's going to be a hostile world. I think nationally, we should all get the day off on Election Day. Just to just to vote and just let everybody just get mad or happy. Let the working class folks get their votes. All right. People that aren't me. That's right. I'm off at three today. Okay. Way to grind to their sports, Harvey. for Oz for Brandon I'm Matt.

Have a wonderful rest of your day. Adam Clinton. Adam Wex are up next. They are the A team, and they're going to entertain you between now and 6 o'clock. Astros baseball against the Rangers. They're going to clinch it by the end of tomorrow night.

Trust me on this. Talk to you all tomorrow on noon.