The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans COMPLETELY Change O-Line, So Long Laremy, Caserio Adding Pieces, Rockets Win 3 Straight

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Texans trading five-time Pro Bowl tackle Laremy Tunsil to the Washington Commanders for picks. General manager Nick Caserio also traded left guard Kenyon Green to the Philadelphia Eagles for safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson. Matt and Ross also:break down all the trades and signings the Texans have made so far this offseasonreview the latest pro football headlines in "Ross' NFL Rewind"recap the Rockets defeating the Orlando Magic to go on a three-game win streakgive their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-0-1 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Again. Laramie Tots will get it again.

What in that? First of out. Offense number 78. Yes. The 5th year penalty. It's not third down. Illegal formation. Offence under 78.

He did it again. He did it again. Illegal formation. Say 78. Offense number 78 is not on the screenings. That is five penalties called against Laramie Tunsel. Offense under 78. 78, there is.

It's still again. Holy cow, with this left tackle for the Houston Texans, all they do is commit penalties. First and foremost, he should go up to Laramie Tunsel. And just to make sure he's okay. Not to be like, you know, dog, all these penalties today are anything just are you okay is everything okay last time i saw you you were shutting everybody down but uh now aramy tonsill had six penalties called against him today and five were accepted

i mean pete and i've called games together for a long time j on first down here's the give and they blow the play dead looks like a false start on the texans let's find out who before the snap full start offense number 78 to five-yard penalty still first down he got it out of the way early Laramie Tudson. It's every week, though. I mean, you're a pro ball player. There's no excuse for that. None.

Back to the 50. We go. Texas fan. What? I take twosies and wensies off. Miko says, get you ass out of town. Man. Don't forget the constant fall starts because he wants to keep his pressure rates down. And his mid-run protection.

Pass blocking? I'll give it to you. you're Rossi. Pro football focus ain't lying. He was a pro bowler. Pro bowler. You got to play in the tug of war. Thank you Domeco. Thank you, Nick. And by the way, I'm putting Demeco's name in front of this every single

time. Because how many times have we heard SportsRV that those two gentlemen, D'Bico Ryan's and Nick Gasseriel are in unison? This was done with the same page. This was done

with the same page. trash offensive line DeMico's like I can't possibly get rid of my best left tackle my pro bowl oh yes I can he wants a new contract imagine that being a mid offensive lineman he's not mid he's mid

I don't care about the mid proble crap you get to play in that you get to play a game of flag football he was named to the proble he's not mid that's ridiculous he's a mid rusher he's a mid leader I can tell you that for sure okay we can say and a high-octane false starter and a legal formation guy. Seriously.

The Texas offensive line got worse. Well, guess what they did today? They just made another trade. They did? They got rid of another offensive line within 10 minutes. You know what D'Amico said? Get your ass out of here, you trash offensive line.

Domingo said, well, CJ, good luck. C.J. is like thoughts and prayers. Kenyon Green. First round bus, bye. This is, by the way, this is on D'Amika. This is on Casario. He's having to fix what was a trash line that he created.

That is correct. 100%. So by the way, this is not a celebratory day. You seem to be celebrating. Well, I'm celebrating that somebody got in the building and said, all right, we've got to fix this. Rossi, they're going to load up on Lyman on the draft. They have to.

And they may be making a free engine move. Who knows? But there was a variety of layers to this, and that's what we have until 2 o'clock today to go through all the layers. A full four-hour show. Let's go. Yeah. I would say this, not that you should ever allow public opinion to determine whether or not a trade is good or not. Because ultimately, the end result is how does he perform in Washington?

And is C.J. Stroud not concussed in a week after week one. I mean, that comes right down to it. That's going to be real. Your pass protection got worse. That it did. Well, maybe it's actually a net zero with Kenyon Green going. But with Larry Trenzel gone, it's worse. They went into the ivory towers of Texanville.

Hmm, okay. Cal obviously was not there. He was busy playing video games. He was there. He was playing video games. Yeah, he was in a different room. Hannah's meanwhile talking with the new team president about getting a new stadium built, so she's busy.

She's asking how much. would it cost to get a Nordstrom's in the stadium. That's right. So she can go to cut out, knockout two birds with one stone, basically. So Casario and new offensive coordinator, Nick Cayley, new offensive line coach and Domingo, they're in this room. They shut the door, they put a padlock and they put a big old-fashioned, do not disturb.

And they had some hard conversations. The realization was, Laramie was looking for a new deal, or we'll be looking for a new deal and not too distant future. They looked at the metrics of what the new offensive coaches will do for this team. Could you live in a world

without Laramie Townsill protecting at the left tackle spot? And the reality was adding the money that he's spent, that he's costing you, and the thought you're potentially going to lose him for a compensatory pick-up some sort in a year or so. And that you get to pick up some more mid-round selections. And the fact

that maybe they're just needed a cleansing. And sometimes, Rossi, as you know anything in life, cleansings can hurt. Hmm. For instance, I'll give you an analogy. Oh, here we go. Oh, goodness gracious. Stay with me on this. I'm so nervous for you.

You're overweight. Now I'm talking about you. Yeah, I am. That's okay. No, no, I'm not talking about you. No, I am. I mean, I will have this particular point. That's all right.

Any particular person is in overweight and you need to go on a diet. Uh-huh. Time up with those first handful of days when you are used to eating. cheeseburgers and pizza and French fries and donuts. How bad are you hurting? Your stomach is like, feed me, feed me. That's what C.J. Strauss going to be thinking about. I need offensive line protection.

We're going to give it to you. You've got to get past this first cleansing part. Like, for instance, unfortunately, alcoholics go through withdrawal. Withdrawal problems. So we're going to have Texans' own line withdrawal. It's going to hurt for a while. but you can chip with extra tight ends oh my god

I mean I'm just I'm just throwing us out here okay this is a bad analogy I think it's wonderful I'm sorry the Texans needed a cleansing withdrawal pains are coming and Casario has got to fix it he's already bumbled it once a second time will cost his franchise

even more but at least they're looking at the at least Damico's like man bra love you we're in unison me me and you nicky are but damn we're bad i think yeah it just became to the point i'm gonna get a different analogy man than i think it's probably better i'm gonna tell you that whatever you say is going to be better and i fully accept i think laramie tonsle was part of a team and with his production at a certain level you could overlook awards right let's say um let's say matt you have a drinking problem but you come here you're you tended to you do a great job everything's great. But then at some point, you start showing up late. You're not prepping as much.

Right. To a certain point, you can take Laramie Mitoenso doing all the things you talked about, not going to OTAs, not being a team player, worried about only his stats, and that's it, and not being part of this Texans culture that D'Amico Ryan's is trying to set. But when you get the production level doesn't meet the headaches, a decision was made. And that's the decision that they made. And by the way, there are guys in the Texas' lines. locker room that like him. Yes. Titus Howard, one of them. Titus Howard being one of them. Joe Mixon went on his Instagram. I mean, I don't think Jim LaMery Townswell's a bad human being.

I don't think he is malicious. I don't think he is trying to hurt the team. I think when he gets out there in place, he plays hard and wants to win. But how badly does he want to win? How badly does he want to be a leader? This is one of the whole thing. Every year when these fake media people who slurp up everything the Texans give to you in terms of well we just named our captains today Larry Townsend was a captain but he wasn't really a captain he had to be a captain because he was one of the veteran players

in the team what kind of optics would have been if the bros will not have hired elected him captain for all the years had been the NFL it would have looked terrible I don't think the players care about that no the optics I'm disagree with you the optics would look bad if Laramie Tunsell was not named a captain okay and they had to do it by

default so Dalton Schultz is sitting there like man if I don't vote Laramie Tunsell, though. The nation's going to get really mad at me. So I'm going to vote for Laramette. Dalton Schultz, the whole nation. No, the nation won't care. I'm just saying that you sometimes put people in look, I've seen it in club sports.

I mean, I don't mean to get. Oh, geez, here we go. It's happening. It happens in club sports. You can't, those of you have competed in high school and in club sports, you know what I'm talking about. Sometimes you have to default to a captain who's been there, done that over the years because you don't want the smoke that comes with, oh, you don't think I'm a captain,

well watch me now. You had to make him a captain. But that's really not even that big of a deal. The reality is this. He might have been named a captain, but he wasn't ever acting like a captain. He was acting like a very good NFL player that at the end of the day, if they wins, he wins, he loses. It's okay. I got my paycheck. And that's how I see it. I could be wrong, but that's how I see it. No, I mean, obviously the reason if everything was harmonious, culture-wise, with Laramie Tunsell, he produces enough to keep him here. And here's the number one thing. Real quick, Rossi.

D'emico could have said, no, no, no. I know you've goofed this up, Nikki, see? But that's my guy. That's my left tackle. That's the most important. That's my second most important position on the team behind quarterback. Why would I get rid of a pro bowl tackle?

Guess what Domingo didn't say, what I just said. He didn't say that. So are we either overrating the left tackle position, which I don't think we are? No. We're overrating the real true value of Laramie Tunsel to the Houston Texans. We will discuss. Texans have made another offensive line trade like 12 minutes ago before the show started, Rossi.

And we're getting a safety. So Jimmy Ward, good knowing you. 713-212-5-790. Busy program today. 11 o'clock. We have gut feelings. We have the news at noon. We have NFL rewind at 1230. Hell, that NFL rewind may go from 1230 to 1, Ross.

moves going on. Yes. Including what the Texans are doing. But ultimately, here is the core question. Can C.J. Stroud survive this season? And we better spend a lot of time looking at first-run offensive linemen because the Texans are going to have to take one. Period. End of story. They've got to replenish and they've got to pray this guy can come up and help out right

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That's two T-W-O-Crexcrossingresort.com. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. There's a lot of things going on in the world, okay? We have the Texans making two offensive line trades and releasing another one. We have the Texans adding like seven more wide receivers to their core, of which only probably half of them stick around. We have the Rockets last night beating the hated Orlando Magic.

hated. But all that pales of comparison to, what are you doing dark breast airlines? What happened? They're charging bags in the May. Oh, yeah. Didn't we know that was coming? No, we knew about the assigned seats. We didn't know about the bag change.

And they got bought by some capital, venture capital company, not venture capital, but. Yeah, yeah. A little marketing 101. I know the dark press and the ivory towers are like, man, people will be pissed about it, but they'll still fly us. I don't know. They're right. You're still going to win with the low fares.

but the dark price low fares aren't as like dark they're not as low as like more the lower than a barrican or smited i would say a handful of times if not more percent of the time that i travel i end up factoring in those bags and choosing southwest that's what i'm saying that's incentivized me multiple times to use southwest over united see i think what you do is you just trickle the fare up a little bit if you're looking to add a little bit money. And you can say, well, you're not going to be as competitive as say, RELTA. Well, guess what? When RELTA sells out its seats, you're going to go to the next lowest. I think that the bags fly free was a huge marketing big time. We're different than the competitors. I think this is really going to hurt dark breast. Yeah. We don't have to talk too much about this. But yeah, I think every company,

it seems like, is every subscription service is going up. Every airline prices are going up. And we don't even have to talk about grocery prices and stuff. We got rid of it. Our eggs are going up more expensive. Our gas is going up. We got dark breast charging for bags. What's next, Ross? I don't know.

I don't want to think about it. Texans posted at 9.30 this morning from Adam Schefter, acquiring safety, C.J. Gardner-Johnson. He's a dash guy. From the Eagles in exchange. Houston Dash? No, Gardner Dash Johnson. Okay. In exchange for former first round pick, Kenyon Green.

Trade includes a pick swap. The Eagles getting a 2026th, fifth round pick. The Texans getting a 2,026th. Looks like, are the Eagles trying to shave money for an older guy? Is that what it looks like to me? I think so. Salary dump. Two years, $19 million remaining on a contract for C.J. Gardner Johnson.

They just paid sick, Sequan. Hertz already has a big contract. A.J. Brown's making a lot of money. Oh, yeah. You know what? As we talked about on the show yesterday, Rossi, you just can't pay everybody. Something is going to suffer. Lane Johnson has to be making a lot of money.

Yeah. Yeah. Good thing is, they just won the Super Bowl, so. Well, this immediately makes a Texan's corner, secondary significant. Absolutely. I mean, this is a. And again, Kenyon Green, help me out with Kenyon Green. What would appeal to the Eagles for Kenyon Green, of all people?

Her and sucks. I know he's a great guy. It's been amazing. I mean, they must see untapped potential, I guess. You cheap? First round cheap guy? I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah, I was going to like, it's not the NBA. You don't have to match money. Nope. No, no. You don't. It is really, really odd. I don't know. Mostly a salary.

Maybe they're going to cut Kenyon Green and it's a salary dump. I don't know. If you guys want to join us today about your favorite Laramie Tunsell is a Texan moment. 713-212-5-790 to join the program today. 7-13-212. 5-7-9. Again, that's 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. So I've already portrayed it as there was a deep conversation involving the old new online coach, the new offensive coordinator, D'Amico, and Nick in the room with the door shut.

It's pretty ballsy for those two offensive coaches and that head coach to go, we have a prize quarterback. We got to keep them upright. We didn't do a good job of it. and we're going to blow this thing up. It's, it's, is it like blowing up a pitching rotation? Is it like, is it like blowing up an in-middle-in field? Is it hard of the order?

I mean, what's the parallel on this? Yeah, it would be like saying, we need starting pitching help and then trading your best pitcher. That's what they did. Now, your best pitcher, by the way. Maybe he's not an ace. Your best pitcher is 17 and 13 in the area of four and a half. No, not that bad. He made a, he was selected to a pro.

I don't, I'm not using that. Everybody has seen him. I'm using that to tell you he's not terrible. Okay, 1713 is not terrible. 450 ERAs. Okay, excuse me. 390RA, not terrible. That's better.

We're getting, we're getting a little bit better. I'm getting closer. Uh-huh. This is about performance. This is about finances. This is about culture. Culture. This is not a, under no circumstance, was Laramie Tunsel a glue guy?

I think this is about And you know, we played those postseason comments from Domeico Ryan's talking about people that want to be here, people that want to play football. And Matt, credit to you, when he made those comments, you were like, is he calling out Laramie

Tunsell? Yeah. You said that. And it sounds like after the fact now that that absolutely is the case. That he is trying to set a culture of people who love football and people who want to be here. They won dogs. It was not part of that.

Yeah. And Laramie Tunsel, as I said, the amount of production, with a certain amount of production, you can live with that. But he hit the threshold to where the Texans said, you're not that productive to be acting like this. We're going to ship you. And by the way, you're selling high to get a certain level of value back. It's obviously not what they paid. What was it? Two first round picks to get Laramie Tunsell here?

And sell it. And, again, he. I want to make sure I'm fair on this because I don't want to, this is not going to be a hundred percent bashing of Laramie. But the reality is he dictated the market because he was the best at his position and the timing was right. And he was able to negotiate a deal with perhaps the worst administration in the history of the National Football League. Well, maybe Matt Millen was the worst of the Lions. But Bill O'Brien is not a far second place. So kudos to him for negotiating what he's able to negotiate over the years.

He's made a lot of money. he is recognized as one of the better offensive linemen in the league but there are intangibles with any profession with any walk of life and any business and when you are trying to get over the hump and trying to recreate what you are as an organization whether it's a sales force whether it's on the pipeline

whether it's on an NFL offensive line if you're going to put a lot of money and a lot of faith behind somebody, you better want to make sure the guy loves what he does and wants to do everything within his power to make sure he is a leader both on and off the field. It's not 50% of

the responsibility, but it's a good chunk. Lamarie Townsill just wants to play. Nothing else he wants to do. And these bogus, well, he talked to the young players. Well, of course he did. He didn't walk in the room, put his uniform on and go out. He talked. Not a bad guy. Just not the guy.

and then when you couple that with all the offensive false start issues and formations was by the way to his credit got better in the second half of the year thank goodness well it couldn't get worse it couldn't possibly get worse this is once again to miko saying i am an NFL player i've been in i was that was he playing the league 10 years give or take yes i know what i want in my room and laramie tonsill was expendable bravo texans I'm just saying a small prayer for C.J. Stroud. Yeah, this upcoming year will be his 10th NFL season. A lot of value back. He's getting longer in the tooth. The production has slipped.

And he wants a new contract. Wasn't a culture fit. Wants a new contract. You add it all up? I get it. I was very surprised when I first saw it. But I wouldn't say it was a complete shock. Your reactions, welcome now.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. He was a good player for the Houston Texans for a significant period of time. Was he ever elite at both what it took to be a complete elite offensive linemen? No. Run protection numbers were not good. His penalty count was high. And his leadership?

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1035, two-fits, actually if you're including Who was we lost last week? I'm drawing a blank. Shaq Mason. Shack Mason. Three-fifths of the Texan starting line. Can you remember? Did he not start?

He started at the beginning of the season. So if you want to say week one started, yeah. Three-fifths of the core of the earth, half of the core of the Texans' offensive line is now gone. You went into the season with it being Laramie Tunsell, Kenyon Green.

Who was supposed to be? Juice Grugs. Shack Mason, Titus Howard. Because Blake Fisher was your swing, rookie, young guy. You just drafted me. He's a rookie. So this is going to be a lot on Blake Fisher, who was horrible to start the season, got a lot better. I think he just needed to get strong.

I think he was getting overpowered a lot. And the fact is, he was a second round pick, right? Yeah. He's the second round pick, Ross. He's got to deliver. He does. Or Casario fails again. Cassario has to hit on that.

He obviously goes. I mean, we were talking about how basically it's a bus with Kenyon Green before the season, it was very apparently a bust afterwards, and now that he's gone, you wasted a first round pick. At the guard position, would they take him 15 or 16? And what you traded up for him, correct?

I think so. Are you that or traded too high for him, basically, one of the two? Either way. This is, again, this is, Damiko going, Nikki, I know what you did and let bygones because I wasn't here when you made these deals.

We got to fix this. because there was something we continued to hear over and over again at the Combine and to season press availability, media shows, whatever, is that Nick Casario and Domingo Rhyans are in unison. And Ross, there are a lot of things that people in sports lie to you about. I don't think they were lying. I think they do have an excellent working relationship. Because if they didn't, we'd find out about it.

We'd have people. The whispers. The whispers. It would be in the wind as a, were. Yeah, yeah. I think they are working together. I think so, too. I think they were in step on this. And I don't know who's call it was. Do you call

CJ as this is happening or do you call him before it becomes public? Sey Straub? Yeah. You got to let him know. Hey, CJ, how's it going? Yeah, we told you we were going to improve the offensive line. We're trading Laramie tonsil.

Yeah. Sorry, what? I'm sorry, my brain fog from all the concussions I'm suffering are just cleared. Can you say that again? Everybody, by the way, has been trying to dissect everything that CJ has said over the last couple of months. Oh, is there really? Yeah. There is zero Laramie-Tunzel conversation. Hmm.

Okay. And by the way, we need to also think about this. You got some guys you get you just putting a lot of money already did in Nico Collins. Will Anderson Jr. is looking for money. And Derek's thing is looking for a lot of money. As he should. As a first-team all pro. I can't, you know what?

Somebody would call me Liberty White-Watt's Matt on Twitter. I'm going to Are you back in? Are you, let's go. Are you a Texas fan for real? I am a fan of this move. I am very happy that I wasn't the only one that saw what everything else, what everybody else is saying. Come on.

I'm closer. Let's go. I'm not all the way there yet. We want you. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. If the Cougars win the national championship. What?

I'll explain. Because my life has been full of sports to spare. Okay. So if I get elation... You don't want to take on more despair. Correct. I get you. Okay.

I think that's fair. Huh. So the Cougars won the national championship. Right. I'll become a full-fledged Texans fan. Hmm. So it's like you're a parent in a house and then there's some screw-up cousin. They're like, hey, can he live with you?

And you're like, no, I'm good. But if things get better, then you'll take on the screw-up cousin. It's not bad. Or? Oh, here we go. I saw your gears turned in. I was like, what is he doing? Or if your daughter gets a scholarship to play college sports,

I'll help her buy a new car. Okay, you'll, you can reallocate the funds elsewhere. Yes, okay. The problem was that daughter of mine decided to go as far as humanly possible for me, she's going to be a three and a half hour flat away from me. And it's an hour or 50 minute drive after that. I think mine has these better. Mm?

Nothing. Oh, no, Huckery. I'm just saying we may be, I think you and I need to do shows in Boston about every three to four weeks. Don't even get me started. Israel? Or is Israel? Israel. Israel, at 1040 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Israel, good morning.

And now. And now. And now. And now. And now. The obligatory Laramie Tunsell falls start. Call. I mean, okay. But when I think about it, So also was the best officer of linemen that they had and that's why Washington went and

got him. He's in a better position with a better franchise and he's going to Taco City with Magic Johnson, one of the owners and they was in the the NFC championship game and they're going to go there again. Only thing that's bad about it is that they're going

into a tough division. Here is the South the South's kind of kind of weak. Other than that, mixing on like to trade. Yeah, y'all want this leader locker room kind of of quiet guys. No, no, no, no. You can't win with guys like

that. You need some guys with some edge to him, and he is one of them guys, and they're going to regret it because the press, once they start losing, y'all going to dog them out. But one thing about the media in Chocolate City, they're a little bit more... What are you calling it, Israel

Chocolate City? D.C. is Chocolate City. Anybody. The brothers know it. You know, you. You I forgot with how you just labeled yourself. DC is called Chocolate City, and that's just a fact. And he's going to be welcome there, and the press is going to show him some love,

and he's going there with Magic Johnson, one of the owners, and Magic is the winner like he did with the Dodgers, and what they did with the Lakers, and they're going to do it in the D.C. too. So bless us to him, and I'm glad he went there, even though I mess with the Texas school. That's it. By the way, for those of you that don't know,

Israel mentioning Washington, D.C. is a chocolate city. AI says the nickname was given to the city by a popular funk song back in 1973. And we'll come back with it. What's the name of the song? I don't know. Chocolate City. No? Is Salt Lake City bread pudding city?

Washington, D.C., known as Chocolate City because of its large black population and significant African American culture. Hmm. Says AI. Chocolate City was an album by Parliament. Oh, okay. Can we play the number one song off of that album when we come back? Sure. Parliament? Uh, yeah. Parliament. Number one hit for them. Help me. I don't know. I don't know if they had a number one hit. Maybe, um, maybe their most recognizableable hit.

Flashlight. A flashlight was great. Maggot brain. Oh, my God. If you, the Maggot Brain album is fantastic. Dr. Funkenstein, that's kind of Parliament slash Funkadel. Yeah. I mean, it's George Clinton. Oh, let's play it then. But they had a bunch of different names. There were Parliament because they were going, they were getting illegal problems with a bunch of different record labels or something like that. that there was parliament funkadelic then there was funcadelic then there was parliament george clinton was like mixing it around and booty collins of course was in the band as you know matt yeah i thought chocolate city was that place where you get to put the uh at the mold of morale where you put stick in like uh lady finger of bread into the chocolate thing machine what you know you know a little fountain of chocolate no do you ever do the uh molder morale uh chocolate fountain

no you stick fruit in there and you get it all covered in chocolate flesh eating bacteria in there. All right. That's all I can eat, Sir London steak. No, this probably not. Please don't come after me in the legal department. It's lawsuits coming into play. All right. 1043, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. More on Laramie. Tonsompson more on the Texans offensive line and how I am one step

closer, Rossi, to be coming Texan Thomas? I thought we're going with Liberty White Matt. I'm Battle Red Ross. You can be Liberty White Matt. What's wrong with that? I'm not Liberty White-Ass, Matt. Just Liberty White. White, Matt. No, yeah. Just Liberty White Matt. Okay. Cougars from the National Championship. I welcome in a new round of his spare teams.

Liberty White. What if they don't? What if they lose in heartbreaking fashion of the final? Then I'm taking a month off. 1044 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-579. If you want to jump in, 7-1-3-212-5-790. I had a listener to the show just yesterday. Ask me about the folks over at Total Concrete of Greater Houston.

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And if you mention me, your best friend Matt Thomas, you get 15% off labor during their springtime breakout sale. Free consultations available at, stay with me, SOSMyPatio.com. SOSMy patio.com. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Do you notice it? Happened my step today? What's happening, C.C.? I do actually.

First of all, I notice you're here. I'm proud of you. We're actually showing up. I'll see you again Thursday and Friday. Can we announce you? what's going on on Friday? I don't know. It's not a, I don't think it's our call.

Not our call, okay. There's a lot of chocolate city in there. Okay. We got a thumbs up. All right. Connor is leaving us and we didn't force him out. As any of you have been listening to show. This is your fault.

You mentioned it, you spoke it into existence. I'm really mad at you, Matt. We would love to keep him, but he was able to get a, significant career advancement and we're going to miss him terribly. Connor, you've been with me, what, a year and a half, give or take?

Almost, yeah. Almost. Me too. Okay. You have been one of the very best producers we have ever had on this show. Thank you. I'm going to say the best. And we've had some good ones and we've had some not so good ones.

But, Connor, you have absolutely crushed. The bar is high now. The bar is high. And we're going to do a special Friday edition. of believe it or not, which hell are you or not, we're only on 1250 on Friday. So at 1243, we're going to do all things Missouri on, believe it or not, in Philly or not on Friday,

to honor his all of honor. All things in the zoo? Yeah. How about all things Connor McGovern? Would you like that out there? I mean, that's up to you. We can throw in some, maybe like two Connor McGovern questions.

Eight might be getting a little too personal at the end. Four Missouri's, two St. Thomas High Schools, and two Connor McGovern personal ones. Wow, I'm honored. Believe it or not, or hell yeah or not. Yeah, so we'll do it at 1243 on Friday. By the way, hell you are not. Believe it not today is all things about Laramie Tunzel.

Hey, we opened the show with Journey and we're giving away Journey tickets to the rodeo. Oh, we are? Yeah. Turn us up, Bill. Let's hear some more of this. It's a slow burn. Oh, here we go. Yeah. I want you go listen to some Parliament when you get home, Matt.

I'm going to. I got a two-hour drive home. Why not? By the way, I'm driving my daughter's car today. You're in the bug? I'm in the bug today. Nice. How'd that happen?

Because it was near the trash can, so I decided to move. And I'm like, you know, I'm taking your car today. Bye. That's funny. She's at the like anyway, so enjoy the little spring break. Mm-hmm. So if you see a very handsome bald man in a yellow bug driving down 59 today. Are you going to drop in the top?

Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Like that. Listen, 18? Oh, good. All right, back on the phones we go. By the way, a lot of folks are not echoing the Israel or Ismael's sentiment about how Magic Johnson is super happy about Laramie Tensel joining the commanders.

I think he is. I think the commanders are happy. I don't think they're displeased. The Texans, this is the fact that the Texans got worse on the field and the commanders got better on the field. That's a fact. I don't think you can argue it. But short term, there has to be a plan in place. And I think it obviously is going to be. heavy, heavy line consideration of the draft.

Okay. I guess, you know, we always do like a little draft contest, Ross. Maybe the question would be, at what point do the Texans not draft the linemen? They should take six of them, or however many picks they got now. I bet we can do a question of how many alignment of the Texas is going to take between linemen and tight ends. Two. I bet you they go more than that. Okay.

There's a shot at three. There's a shot. There's a shot. I'd be okay with it, too. They need replenishing. and cheaper, by the way. This also signals to me that they're believers in Blake Fisher. Yeah.

Or they have to be. Because right now, he's your starting left tax? Or is it you move over Titus Howard? What does our lads have on their depth chart? Because our lines are always pretty good about it. I don't know. They always have pop-ups and try to make me pay for them. I know. I'm sick of those pop-ups. Let's talk to Ed in Houston at 1054 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Ed, good morning. Hey, what's up, man? I was just, I'd come in right on the tail end of y'all talking about Chocolate City and Pfeiffer. And I just so happened to have worked on George Clinton's management team for about 10 years. Wow. So, yeah. Yeah, man. So you have some stories, Ed?

Yeah, but I got a bunch I can't tell. Wait a minute. What's the best story you can tell? Give us a very quick, one minute, best story you can tell. Okay. I'll tell you something, two historic things. Have you ever bought a keyboard, like a Casio keyboard or something? And they had a hand clap key.

You know, like a key when you hit it, it sounded like you're clapping hand. Okay. Uh-huh. Well, back in the day, our keyboard player Bernie Warrell, who was like just amazing, was one of the first people to play a Moog synthesizer. and he would program hand claps into the synthesizer to where not only Moog, but other keyboard players recognize the hand clap as an instrument. So when you see on the little thing, you'll see a trumpet, you'll see a drum, you'll see two hands clapping each other. That's all because of parliament.

All because of Funkadelic. And the other thing is large, like the shows that you see, like Beyonce and them doing, which high production, Parliament Funkadelic was the first band to do it when they were on Casablanca Records. They were label mates with Kiss, but they were hotter at the time than Kiss, and they did an elaborate stage show. Yeah, they used to come out of spaceships and stuff, right? And that was the other thing I was going to say. The mothership that they used to come out of is now in the Smithsonian. Oh, wow.

All right, Ed, thank you. Ed, I'd rather hear about the stories involving drugs, rock and roll, and sex. I tell you what, put me back on. I'll give you my phone number, and we could talk about it over a coffee or something. You know what? I'll just find you, Ed. Thank you very much of the phone call. I want the P-Funk stories.

How about a 1972 story involvement? Ed and George Clinton. But they partied hard. Yeah. There's a series that Mike Judge does. It's like a cartoon series with guys telling stories. And there's a story about George Clinton recording this song. And like they accidentally played an accident on backwards.

But George Clint was so high he didn't realize it. And he just started improvising all the lyrics. Like this part. Well, I mean, that's, we listen. Listen to three James Brown songs between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. That was all improvised, right? Probably some of it. This song makes you feel about Blooming Tunsel Tray, doesn't it?

It's the jam. Yeah, crank this up, Connor. Yeah. Chocolate City. Nothing but the dog in me. Oh, this is a jam. I'm listening to some peatunk today on the way home. I want to get some hook on the way home, too.

Some what? Hoka. Huka? Yeah, that too. Okay. God, I'm telling you, I was born in the wrong decade. Please put me as an adult between 1970 and 76. The revolutionary, George Clinton.

May you rest. Mm-hmm. All right. Rockets got a win yesterday. No, wait. Is he? Got it. Hold on.

Don't know any answers. I'm going to look at it. I'm putting my hands up because I do have the P-Funk Wiki. I think he's alive. He's alive, right? Are you sure? Because he was touring here like last year. We gave away George Clinton tickets.

Oops, he's alive. He's 83. He's still on tour, yeah. Sorry about that, Ed. I don't know how Keiard. You couldn't understand what he was saying in 1973. I don't know how coherent he is. Hey, I'm going to say 82-year-old Barry Mantelow in a couple months.

You are? Yeah. Well, if he makes it. That's rude. You know what? That was rude. I apologize to the man. You never write that one down.

I apologize to the Fano Lowe's. Wins Friday, Sari's? 11.30. Got feelings at one half hour. It's about Thomas Shold Ross on 790. All right. We're in the thick of NBA season. And look, you like to have a little extra fun with the game and you want it to be legal. We're here in Texas. That's why I'm pointing you towards draft kings pick six.

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1103, Sports Talk 790, hour number two of four. We're taking you two o'clock this afternoon. We've got gut feelings coming up in a half an hour from now. The news at noon, which will be ladled with Texans news, including the Texans acquiring a safety from the Philadelphia Eagles, moving another offensive lineman. What was that? I'm ladling it.

You said ladled. You meant laden. You're the king of getting a word 80% right. You don't think it's laden? I don't think it's laden. Is that what you meant? Are you ladled? Yeah, ladled it.

Okay. Full of it. Like gravy. Yeah, yeah. Cream or brown? I prefer cream gravy. You are so careful. His eyes lit up, Matt.

you asked me what kind of gravy I like and Conner Regovern's eyes lit up like a child guy coming down the stairs for Christmas. It's all about the cream, Matt. See? I knew it. I freaking knew it. Cash rules everything around me. Cream get the money. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all.

Okay. I prefer brown. I've creamed it. I prefer brown gravy, but I like cream gravy too. By the way, we did announce that Connor's going away. he's giving me all the drops. That's his parting gift to me. It was like 500.

Oh, by the way. Oh, my God, there's like 500 of me. Good. Play them as often as possible. Make sure the new producer, whoever we have, make sure he knows where all this stuff is. If they had to put the Pope up, Ross, and said, you know, I want you to listen to this.

Well, he's Catholic. He can't possibly get this right. The Pope is truck sticking people? Where was that from? I don't know. I just thought it was funny. It was a Friday open once. Once upon a time ago.

There's a bunch of ready. So this is your last week of Friday opens. Ooh, yeah. How would you do a best up? Find your best ones. Man, I have stuff I haven't been used yet too. But I'll do best one. There's some, I listen to some just to make me laugh sometimes.

I'm going to play those. You put them on a loop to go to sleep? You appreciate that. So love, Connor. There's one that's my absolute favorite that I'll play on Friday. All right. By the way, he has taken over the lead of a certain old friend of ours, a band Borefleet of asking for Rockets tickets.

He has? I thought I was trying to get in the running. He said, you've gotten in a good run yourself. He's like, as a parting gift, do you have your tickets to fill in a while? Like, all right. No, keep asking. One last time.

One for the road. Yes. So we're going to go with some Korean barbecue off the show on Friday. Yes. Have you figured out where we're going yet? I know I have recommendations from a Korean who lived here. Okay. Okay.

And then so we're going to celebrate. No free plugs. No, no. Unless they're going to take care of us and then it's different. So. All right. 713-212-5-7-0 if you want to join our program today 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9 we've obviously spent the first hour talking about

the super mega-trade shocked the world be fair to say no one saw it coming I would say very surprising I love those trade I love trades like that by the way because we had heard those whispers and as you pointed out about Domingo Ryan's comments and and there were you were talking about things getting whispered we'd heard the whispers that they don't like Laramie Tunsell not always showing up.

They don't like him being about himself. And I don't know this for a fact, but to me, just from watching the games, all those false start penalties are because he's trying to make sure that he gets off the line of scrimmage early because he's just trying to keep his pressure numbers down. He's hyper aware, to me, of his pressure numbers and sacks giving up and all that type of stuff. And he cares more about being first and keeping those numbers down than hurting the team with a false start. He's more about his stats than helping the team. As you just described that, that's not an old pro to me.

The all pro definition, you've been using it, and I get it, Pro Bowl. But if that's what Pro Bowl is, Ross, then Pro Bowl ain't that great. Well, he's a Pro Bowl player. He's not a Pro Bowl teammate. There's a difference. I'm sorry, you commit the most false starts of any linemen in the NFL. That doesn't make you a Pro Bowl player. I don't care who vote you in or what's around you. That means the offensive line collectively as a unit in the NFL sucks.

If Laramie Tonsle with all the penalties he had, now, Grant, again, to his credit. Pressure rate was that low, though. And this tax had given up and all that type of stuff. And his back half of the season was significantly better. We were doing the obligatory fall start calls every week. He stopped doing that. Yes. Wasn't holding a lot.

But there were things that were, I mean, the Minnesota game in itself should have been, it probably was the low water point of his career as a Houston as fratman or an NFL player. You just don't continue to have those types of penalties week after week after week against an elite team. And oh, by the way, you beat an elite team like Minnesota. Guess what you're doing in week two of the NFL playoffs. You're at home as compared to going the road. You need your superstars, your high-end offensive players, whether it's quarterback, wide receiver, running back, defensive linemen, whatever, to step up. It's no big deal to block weak-ass Jacksonville or weak-ass clean.

Cleveland. No, but Larry Rie Tunsell did have very good matchups against like Miles Garrett. He did. He's gone against the best of the best and he did a good job of neutralizing. Look, for me, he's not, I said mid, but he's not mid.

He's just not exceptional. In exceptional guys should deserve exceptional dollars and exceptional money that was being spent on him. I mean, he was the best of the worst. That's why he's gone. Yeah. And now we say small prayers. every day for C.J. Stroud.

Now, before the 2024 season, I did see this. He was named the NFL, you know, they named the top 100 players. Correct. The players vote. Okay. He was named the fifth best tackle at number 71 in the top 100.

So he's pretty good. Is that because of name recognition, though? It's almost like Ross, once you want a gold glove, you have to really goof up not to get another one because your name is out there. Well, maybe. I guess he built that up, but it's up to the players. I would say that more with the name

recognition honestly with the media than the players but the players aren't perfect. There's no perfect grading system I'm just saying by you add that he's a top 100 player. You add that he was a pro bowler. He's not bad. He can't be horrible. Not horrible and I'll never say he was ever horrible.

But I believe that there were the intangibles didn't protect him from being talked about in trade conversation. But not showing up for OTAs, not showing him for many camps, the extra days off.

Wasn't there one time this year that CJ just got his ass kicked and everybody ran over there, but Laramie Tunsell? I mean, I don't want to use Twitter and video to do that kind of thing. No, no, no, no, that was overblown. He didn't even, he, it happened behind him. That's what I'm saying. I don't, I won't use that. Larry Tundle, yeah, please, I won't use that.

No, that's okay. Somebody ran with that because Laramie Tonsel was upfield and then C.J. got knocked down behind him and he kind of didn't see it. That's not fair to Laramian either. No. I mean, again, we're just going to be honest about this. There were things about them that bothered me tremendously. That particular situation was not one of them. 713-212-5-790.

Is this word new that the cult signed Daniel Jones? One year $14 million. Colts fan. It's Anthony Richardson and it's Daniel Jones. You might as well just battling it out. I would basically put a surgically repaired to arm on Peyton Manning and see what he's got left in the tank. They couldn't do any better than that? Seriously, those are your two quarterbacks?

Damn, the Texans are going to win the AFCs. South by default again. Because Tennessee is in complete rebuild. Trevor Lawrence wait me up when he's good for more than say four games in a row. And the cult are sending out Anthony Richardson backed up by Daniel Jones. Give me

a break. And that's what it's always been about Ross. It hasn't been about the Texans being the best or the worst in the AMC South. That's what it is. It's about getting to the next level. It's getting to be Baltimore. It's getting to be Kansas City. And don't sleep on, since

and I'm telling you, I know the Chargers sucked last year in the playoff game, I wouldn't sleep on them either. Cincinnati's got issues, defensively especially. I got my guy T. Higgins, though. Again, paying a lot of money for those two players. Because there's what happens. If you spend obscene amounts of money on one position and two players at one position,

you got to hurt, and that's why they're moving defensive players out left and right. Yeah, Tray Hendrickson. They were getting into like 45 to 42. shootouts already last year. Now they're going to deal Trey Hendrickson? Yeah. Well, he's searching for a trade is what they was told. Right. They're trying to deal them. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-7.

The Rockets got to win last night. They've won three consecutive games. We're getting no help from anybody else, Ross. Although last night, we can thank the Nets. They beat the Lakers. The Rockets are as close to two as they are to seven. This is scary.

Welcome to the West. I hate this. It's terrible. This is happening for 20 years. terrible. The Rockets are playing 600 basketball and they might even have home court in the first round of the playoffs. Isn't that crazy? Yes. 713-212-5-790. If you join our program, 7-1-3-212-5-790, this is the Matt Thomas Show Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross return. Returned on Sports Talk 790.

Give it to Adams inside the arc behind him. Green giving it back to Adams at the left elbow looking to find an open man bounce pass or cutter the screen giving it back to Adams and as you called a dump with the right hand for Stephen Adams who has nine first half points tremendous back door cut by Jalen who immediately got the pass from Adams and shot it right back to him for the dump. Brooks bench line right Jabari looking for another three-pointer he's feeling it that was a beautiful sideline three 89 73 Jabari up to 20 to go along with seven

for. Rockets beat the magic last night, 9784. The 1995 NBA season has no problem with that final score from last night. It was shocking a little bit. 39% the Rockets shoot. Magic offense. And they win by 13. The magic shot 33% from the floor, 8 of 32 from 3.

Rockets, by the way, turned it over 20 times. Alpy, my man. How many did he have? Six. By himself. It can be a problem. And especially it's really a problem when you don't have Fred Van Fleet. And a men Thompson can be prone to turnovers as well.

But when you're losing ball handlers and it's more Alperin-Shingoon and more Jalen Green, the careless turnovers. And I mean, Alper and Shingun are like he's at least trying to back somebody down, but he's got a loose handle and people rip the ball from him all the time. Yeah, Alpi and Jalen combined for 10 of the Rocket 20 turnovers last thing. The gentleman was 6 of 18 3 of 9 from 3 Prockets also only made it

11 of 18 free throws Ugly But they won That's all I can ask They won 40 and 25 They will meet They will match their win total

With their next victory from last year Let's go And still have 16 games left to go on the season 17 games left to go on this season. And still have improved. And can get better. It can be better. Yeah.

And they've won three in a row. Yep. And a very winnable homestand still ahead. Tomorrow night? Yeah, you were looking for 6 and 1. How are we looking? We're 3 in 0 so far. Pretty good.

Phoenix lost last night at Memphis. Kevin Durant with a missed three-pointer at the buzzard that allowed Memphis to hold on to the win. You have Dallas on Friday who's got no healthy players left. Chicago on Saturday who sucks, although Kobe White, think scoring 40 in the regular. He scored 44. He's averaging like 18 on the season before that. And then you got Philadelphia on Monday who's down to like three players. So, you know, you got a chance. You cannot let up because here's the thing. As awesome it is to have all these home games and as awesome as it is to have, you know, these subpar teams coming in.

Golden State doesn't lose anymore. The Lakers have lost a couple as of late. That's been encouraging. But Denver doesn't lose anymore. And Phoenix and Memphis. And Memphis. has won a couple straight. The Rockets right now are in the fifth spot. They are two out of the two. And at this point, they would hold the tiebreaker over Denver because they've only played Denver once, but they've got two more games of them. Both in Houston, ironically enough. The Lakers are a game back, or a game ahead of the Rockets, as are Memphis.

The Rockets hold the tiebreaker over Memphis. The Rockets would have the tiebreaker over the Lakers, but the Rockets and Lakers play two more times. And then you have Golden State, who is three back of the Rockets in the sixth position. Golden State, with one more game against the Rockets, has the tiebreaker over Houston. They just keep climbing, too, Golden State. They won five in a row and nine of ten. By the Jimmy Butler, this is what I never would have thought. Jimmy Butler making a significant difference.

It's not like he's stepping in there and scoring 25 points a game? He's just been rock solid for them. you added a talented player to a talented basketball team. Yeah, he's really good. He's not a superstar. He's not worth the 50, 60 million they're going to pay in the next two years.

No, no, no. He's good at it. He improves you on the court. He always gets pissed off eventually sometime. Oh, he will. Minnesota, in the seventh spot, they are three and a half back of the rockets. They have won five straight.

The Clippers have won three. I mean, damn, no one's losing in the West, except teams that are normally accustomed to losing these days. The West is tough. 10 teams with a positive point differential in the West, six in the east. The 10th place team in the West is the Dallas Mavericks. They are 33 and 33, 500.

The 10th record in the east is the Chicago Bulls at 27 and 38. They're 11 under 500. That's why you've got to get fat and happy off of Chicago, and you've got a game in Orlando next week. And you've got another game. with mentioned Philadelphia, and then you've got Phoenix, who is in a complete free fall,

and Dallas, who's trying to hang on to that number 10 spot in the West. They're going to hang on. They're two and a half in front of Phoenix. Phoenix's not going to chase that. So Phoenix is going to get in the playoff game, but they're going to be foddered because whoever advances out of that playing

is going to play Oklahoma City, and they're going to get. Good luck. And good luck enjoying your four games in your three-nights in Oklahoma City. Maybe a gentleman's sweet. Maybe they get one at home. That's true. 713-212-5-790

7-1-3-212-5-7-90 One more NBA note before we get to our gut feelings about the bottom of the hour where you get to make your predictions about anything in sports Over the weekend Was it maybe Friday?

I don't know when it was. Nicole I had a 30-20-20-tribal double. First in NBA history. Okay. I preface this by saying When you watch the body language of Nicola Yokinj, he would rather be doing

anything but playing basketball. He's like, I'm seven feet tall. I've been given the gift of soft hands and a good shot. I guess I'll play basketball. I guess I'll do it. Yeah, he didn't have a choice. He'd rather be working in a Serbian farm, but he's playing basketball instead. When we start putting him in the all-time top ten, are we getting close? And here's the thing, Ross, if we put him in the top ten, which we are getting closer and closer and closer to doing, we got to take somebody out he's going to be there he's he's he's a unicorn

he's seven foot with a touch you said he's a brilliant passer great rebounder his defense early in his career was horrible now it's good serviceable it's serviceable that's as far as I'll go he's just a he's a one of a kind weapon

like he just did something that's never happened ever before even with even with magic with Michael Jeffrey with Oscar Robertson, who was the, for that matter, Russell Westbrook. I mean, these are guys that lived on triple doubles in their NBA career. 30, 20, and 20.

I feel like Barbara Walters, this is 2020. Yeah, he's not going to compile, you know, he's not going to get up to some of the all-time list because very early in his career, he wasn't good. Or he just wasn't, he was developing. He was a young player. But he's three-time MVP. he should win his fourth. I think it's going to go to Shea Gilgis Alexander.

As, okay, we've given Nick Eliokic the MVP all these times. He's 611, listed at 284. He's more al-Luca than he is. He's Serbian strong, would that be fair to say? Not mean. Yeah, he's averaging 29, 10, and 10. I'm sorry, 10 assists, and 13 rebounds. He's by, okay.

the most MVP's ever is Kareem with six, then Jordan with five. LeBron has four. I don't know if anybody else has four. I'll have to go look this up. But once he hits four MVP's, which he should,

I don't know if he's going to this year, then yeah, he's already on the list of the greatest of the greats. By the way, everybody who's ever had one MVP is in the Hall of Fame in the NBA, except Derek Rose, and he's,

I imagine he still gets in. Does he need to win another championship to become one of the all all all all time greats? Because I looked at his Wikipedia page. It takes 15 minutes look at his Wikipedia page for all the different accomplishments he is so far ahead in his MBA career. My question is, if we put him in,

the top 10, who are we taking out? And don't say, I got to rank room for 11. If you have a top 10, you have to take somebody out. Okay. I mean, we can go, are we going through the list? No, no, I'm just saying, something to think about down the road. We've got all the things to get to today, but I'm just throwing it out there. He's only 30.

Okay, players to win four, okay, he's already an elite company. I'm going to list you of the players who've won three MVPs. Bird, Magic, Moses Malone, and Nicolioch. I missed Wilt, he's won four. LeBron's won four. Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, with five. Kareen was six. By the way, I think you brought up the name you kicked out of the top ten.

Bill Russell? Nope. Wilt, Chamberlain? Nope. Larry Bird? Yep. Oh, boy. Don't put you, we're not going to put you on WEEI with that take.

No, I don't think you're crazy. If you're going to take out somebody that's legendary. No matter what. Somebody's got to be 11. And the problem is, Kobe's not a unanimous top 10, is he? I would say most people do. I don't. Okay, so this comes down to Kobe or Larry gets kicked out of the top 10.

Now, again, maybe people are saying Nicole or Duncan or Shaq. I didn't even mention Shaq. I didn't even mention Hakeem the dream Olajian, if you heard of that guy. But are they in the top ten of the all time? Hakeem was in my top ten. I'm sorry. Am I going to get crushed in Houston for saying this? Don't say it.

1127. Time for us to give you some gut feelings. We're going to make some sports predictions. We want you to do the exact same thing. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Give us some sports predictions.

If you get them right, you get to brag. If you get them wrong, we'll just forget about them. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on 790. Listen up, girls and boys. They've been so appealing. Because Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a good feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show.

Connor, this is a special one for you. This is your last gut feeling. Now, you can always call the show. I don't know if your new bosses are going to let you do that, but you could always call in with gut feelings if you so choose. I'll call in and check up everyone with Sam. We're not going to hear from you, but twice a year, maybe, Tom's. Deleting another column from the spreadsheet.

Okay, for a while. For old times sake. You're just going to be happy to know that we're probably going to remember your name more than we do with their producers. There are some like, we used to work with this guy many moons ago? Like we had Noah. I've got his first gut feeling from November 7th, 2023.

And Texans game is close. God knows what happened. They probably lost. Dylan Brooks holds LeBron to under 20 points. Okay. Who knows if that happened? Let's go back to last week. Let's go back here and now. Okay, fine. Let's see.

You have Alex Breggen with an over 800 OPS in April. You jerk You said something else But I guess I didn't write it down Good I said that the rockets would be 3 and 1 versus The Pelicans

Pacers and Magic And they did go 3 in 1 Right they lost the Pacers Lost the Pacers Lost the Thunder No but they beat New Orleans Twice in Orlando 3 in 1

There you go Give yourself props That's something called Nailed it Kana McGovern Had the Rockets winning all four Unfortunately they lost of the Pacers he said Alpi scores at least 25 and one of them. I believe that did happen.

We'll just give him the credit on that. I'm not sure. And then he said... Yeah, he scored both games against the Pelicans, 20 and 22 points. And then the Pacers he had 25. And you said 25 or more. Okay. Oh, okay.

So 25. Pickle ball. In the Olympics in 2020. We're actually, we're going to call him in four years, Matt. It'll be sooner than that. We'll probably know in the next two years. Yeah, that's true. That was a retaliation.

That's the top's true the day before. for. Yeah, I get you. Matt takes are tough. Those Matt Thomas takes are tough. And that's all I have. That's all, we didn't do much of the last week, did we? All right. Or I didn't write it down.

Now, Brad, Brad's the only person in the line here. Are you serious? So here's the bit, for those of you playing at home, we try to take Brad as late as humanly possible. Which means anybody that calls in before him at 713-212-5-790, 7. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. You get in before Brad. Now, if no one calls in the next, say, two to three minutes with gut feelings,

Brad is going next. I'll go with mine. Okay. I still think... Can I say Aaron Rogers is starting quarterback in the NFL next year? Was that crazy to say? That's not crazy. You're running at time.

Aaron Rogers starts week one of the NFL season next year. For some team. I can't pinpoint which team that is. Okay. But I'll go Aaron Rogers starting quarterback. Why not Indianapolis? Well, they're just gathering up bad quarterbacks and left and right there. Yeah.

Texan's prediction? This one's going to wait until April for it, but I'm going to go with they're going to go offensive line with two of their first three picks. I think that feels like that has to happen. it better, put it this way, it better have it. Now, you said this, they're going to trade up in the first round? Yep, I'm piggybacking. Yep.

Texans, all these picks that they're keeping, they have, they're not keeping them. You know that Casero gets the, gets itchy trigger finger, doesn't it? I'll be even more specific. Texans trade up in the first round. There's got to be somebody that love. Got to be. For a lineman. Okay.

Two of the first three Texans picks will be offensive alignment. Okay. Okay. they will not can't continue or you want to win go ahead they will not

draft a wide receiver until the I would say until at least the fourth round one two and three will be wide receiver free for the Houston

Texans man this is the problem you run into the draft you have so many team needs it's supposed to be a very well stock defensive tackle draft very well stocked

running back draft you could use both of those but you also need offensive line and wide receiver and generally picks after the fourth round aren't worth much. And they're cheap. And you're hoping to catch lightning in a bottle with those guys. Gosh, so many needs. They need all of that. I want to see multiple O-Lyman, wide receiver, running back, defensive tackle, even though they signed Shelton rankings back. You need linebacker depth too.

You just do. Yeah. Such is like Jay Cantson. Say again? Oh yeah, Jay Hanson's back. They signed Jay Hanson. Most famous Jake Hanson ever boys was? That was the serial killer. No. What do you say? From Portland. I made that up. To me, it's the Texans. No, the character on Melrose Place, Jake Hanson. I never watched it.

You didn't watch Melrose Place? No. I was like 11 when that was on. Connor, if you were your age back in the 90s and you were a fan of Melrose Place, you had had no problems with, you know what. With the ladies? Correct. When I was single before, I got married before I started dating Kim, I had

We had Melrose Place watching parties at my apartment with me and my guys and some of our girl space friends and it was fun

and then you'd break out the the yellow tail wine Zimas yeah try to get them liquored up and we'd place some

twister and then you'd commit lewd and lascivious acts and apologize later I always apologized I always apologized

all right last chance if you won if you don't don't want to hear from Brad. You've got to call in right now at 713-212-5-7-90. Remember, Brad goes last here on gut feeling. Please. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Brian and Pearland. Brian, what's in your gut this week? I mean, I just make something up just to keep Brad waiting on hold longer. Oh, thank God.

Texans will trade up. They will use their first round pick and a combination of some of the picks they've just gotten. I don't know. It's going to be a fifth or a sixth or a six or whatever. They'll use a package of three of those picks to trade up in the state of the top 15 to get an offensive lineman that they want to help bolster their offensive line. And Forrest Whitley will be your seventh inning guy to start the season. And he will miss, he will miss fewer than 20 games this year. What do you mean, Milt won't miss? You mean like injured list time? Yeah, yeah. He'll make one start a lot. on the aisle, but first something,

but it won't be for more than 20 years. You cannot make predictions on injuries like that. That's Rando. That's a Rando one. All this is Rando. That's true. Don't call me out of my own bit. That's ridiculous. I'm just kidding. All right, Brian. Thank you very much.

I will piggyback off of the conversation about Forrest Whitley. Okay. Forrest Whitley will get at least five holds for the Astros this year. I'm down Hold on Faust Did we get one from Connor And I didn't write it down

Connor did you say anything We didn't got one on you Yeah I haven't given it How many holds Five at least I'll take that I got another one for you Yeah

Josh Hayter over 40 saves Say what What's up It's gonna have a bounce back year The Astros' offense Isn't good enough To have them blowing people out It's gonna be a lot of

Close games like last year Okay You're going to need Josh Hader a lot. He didn't blow a lot of saves last year, but he had a lot of losses. Bad situations. Yeah. 40 saves plus. Connor, your last ones, my friend.

Good luck. I will go, Rockets win next four to go on a seven-game win streak. Oh, hell yeah. And then some future ones, I'll say Texans make a splash at wide receiver. Rockets win a playoff series in six games. What? Hold on. Geez.

Hold on. This guy's doing the whole rest of the sports Well, because he's got, this is it for him. He's got to call us in 2029. Okay, say this again. Rockets win their next four games. Then they win their first round series in six games. Yes. Texans take a splash at wide receiver and then I've only got one more.

What do you mean? What do you mean splash at wide receiver? I got like a splash signing. Ooh. You're going to lose on that. I don't have money for that. I don't know. Could trade somebody.

Don't think so. And then I'll say the Carolina Hurricanes are your NHL champions, Stanley Cup champions. By the way, can you help me out? So you got my Rockets winning a playoff series. Who are they playing and what seat are they going to be in? May I ask?

Ooh. I didn't think that far ahead. Can I think about it? I'm going to give you my gut feeling who we're facing. I think we're going to finish either fourth or fifth. Fourth against the... And we're going to play the Memphis Grizzlies and we're going to beat them. Then what's going to happen in the second round against the Thunder?

We're going to pray a lot. Okay. By the way, the nuggets destroyed the thunder in Oklahoma City last night. It can be done, sports RV. Over seven games? It can be done, sports RV. Yeah, they can nick one.

Can they steal four? Your mouth, the basketball gods are. Probably not. But that's okay. We'll come to that bridge when we cross it. Let's get the three seat. It's possible. Probably.

The only way you're, I don't think you're going to jump Denver. You're hoping that with LeBron out, the Lakers go on some longer losing skit. By the way, last night, Luca Donchich, your favorite player? Not overly efficient last night. I'm not saying he was your favorite player. He's playing himself into shape again. Give him some time. Wait, me, he was always been doughy.

He's always playing himself into shape. Yeah, but that's what he was doing since the day one of his NBA career. Luca Dantzich last night. Eight of 26. Oh, Lordy. Three of 10 from three, finished with 22 points, 12 rebounds, 12 assists.

8 of 26. I'll take my chances when you shoot 8 of 26. He's been a good, not great three-point shooter in his career. Yep. By the way, I mentioned Denver last night, beating the Nuggets, beating the Thunder,

should say 140 to 127. Nicolaeokic, 35 points, 18 rebounds, 8 assist. He was 15 of 20 from the floor. 75% from the field. I got another one for you. Uh-huh. Tell me how smoldering hot this is or how cold and dull it is.

Cam Smith plays multiple games in right field for the Houston Astros this season, regular season. You find multiple. 25? Multiple. More than one. Put your number on it. number it's a gut feeling multiple's

he's never played right field in his career multiple weeks he's never played right field in his life he might not even get called up he's going to uh by the way he's not getting called up you know why to start the season 15 days he's all gonna sit down there and they get an extra year out of it

there you go am I right is that right I don't know I think it's yeah I think he's if he sits 15 days I'll defer to you that's what we call you double day Thomas no they call me buoyed Q and Thomas I thought it was a peach basket actually. No, nobody calls me that either.

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713-212-5-790. Larry and Katie on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. at 1150. Larry, what's in your gut? Yeah, it's really ironic. The last time I called in was when Matt wasn't there, and we were there to block Brad. But I was

watching the Cubs game on Sunday. I have MLB, and Tucker came up, and they mentioned he was over 19, and he flies out his first time, O for 20. The next time up, they had this minor league pitcher that grews a bat in practice

pitch in there, and he hits a home run so he's one for 21. So my prediction is that the bluebirds will be out in Chicago by say May 1st. He'll hit less than 260, less than 25 homers. Hmm. So you're calling him a

underperforming Kyle Tucker or a flat-out bust? Underperforming. And also I will be betting under the 88 and a half wins for the Astros this year. I've seen 86 and a half

Where'd you see 88 and a half? Well, it started 88, but then he went down So everybody's on the under If you would like to Here's some information on Bregman, I've got an inside Scoot

The reason He didn't want to come back to Houston Was because he saw what happened Was Springer, Correa Gonzalo's Bill Trine, how differently they were treated. And he was really tired of getting disrespected. And when we talked about it, he knew that he ended up as an astro,

that he would never get the respect that he deserved. And I agreed with him 100%. And so that's why. And the whole time he was wanting to go to Boston because of the Green Monster. He felt like his swing was meant for that. So he started to use the other thing. personally, Larry? Well, I pitched a bat in practice from 2015 to 22 for home games.

And so, yeah, I got to know him a little bit. So I would never say what he said exactly, but that's kind of paraphrasing what he said. And that had a lot to do with his decision. I think Larry came down to, he was. looking for the most money. He would have swallowed his perceived lack of respect bit if the Astros would have given him $45

million a year for three years with an opt-out. I think Alex was looking for the big bank and do as do most professional athletes, as do most of us in society. So I don't think this was about not feeling of respect. It was about

I'm looking for the big tank. He was actually a tire of the abuse. He really was. Now, Abuse, what abuse are you speaking of? What was, I don't think he was abused. The verbal abuse. From who? The fans when he was on the road.

Wait, what does that do with him being an asteroid? He's going to get abused on a road anyway if he's at Boston Red Sock. What are you talking about? That's not what he said. That's not what happened with Springer and Correa, Gonzalez, and Beltran. When all they all left, they were treated compulsory. completely different. And he knew when he was in the Astro's uniform that he was going to get

disrespected. And he didn't want to end up his career being disrespected. And I agree with him 100%. You watch what happens in Boston. They're not going to boo him in Boston. Well, of course not. He's a Boston Red Sox. What are you talking about?

Boston Red Sox players don't boo Boston Red Sox fan. I mean, they just don't. I mean, I'm going to, yeah, I'm not buying this. I'm sorry. Larry's got the inside dirt, Maddie. I think he's making it up. Okay. You think Alex Breggman's walking around going,

man, people in Kansas City are boomies. I'm wearing an Astro uniform. I don't want to take any more of this. Bologna. Alex is not a wallflower. Say something. I don't know. Go ahead.

I'm going to say that if Larry was throwing BP in 21 and 22, that maybe Alex could have had those sentiments. now and 24, I'm sure he doesn't care. We're 25 now. Yeah, I mean, it's not fun to get booed, but that's life, baby. You're a professional athlete. Well, you said it ruined Jose L. Tuve's 2020 season. He was beat up about the cheating scandal.

I did? Mm-hmm. Are you sure? I thought it was the opposite of that. No, we argued on that. No, I think Alex Spragman is a lot tougher than that. I think Alex Breggman was looking for the case. I think so too.

I think maybe he did have, well, first of all, his first concern was money. They offered him six years and a $200 million, so he would have taken it. So losing Larry's train of thought that when Boston goes to play the Seattle Mariners, Alex Berman is not going to get booed. I find that to be impossible to believe. I think he'll still get booed. Yeah.

All right. We've got to get going quickly here. Chris, Jersey Village. Chris, what is in your gut at 1155? Yeah, you know, Larry's right. I mean, after the whole scandal, Alex, uh, totally. changed his persona from the will barrel

carrying guy to, you know, I'm going to hide in the corner because everyone's yelling at me. So I could definitely see that. I mean, Alex right now is being worshipped in Boston. He's like he's never part of the Astros the way they're treating him in Boston. So I definitely agree with Larry.

My, uh, my gut feeling is sorry, there's something, there's some technical problems we have. Yeah, you know what? Callers can have good point sometimes. You guys aren't the only ones that have good points. I don't know. I don't know. I don't buy this point.

So you're telling me that somebody in Boston loves a Red Sock player. Oh, that's breaking news. Thanks very much for that. Appreciate that. It's all over the media. Matt, look at how they're praising Alex. Well, of course, they're listen. He's a Boston Red Sock. What are you expected to boo?

Ladies and gentlemen, your new third baseman, Alex Regman, boo! You're playing for the Astros. Boo! He's going to love him. Come on. That's silly. Come on. I'm just saying, come on. That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Come on. Go to continue. No, you're right. Money came first, but the Green Wall will be, hey, I'm the one that says he's going to bat 800 OPS. Trust me. I think he's going to rate there. I'm jealous, honestly. Yeah. No, I got you. Hey, my gut feeling real quick before Brad, the best caller of your show. I can't wait to hear what he's got to say. Amman Thompson will be. rookie of the year this year. Well, he's a second year player, so it will not happen.

No, Matt. Callers can be right, too. Callers can be right too. I should have gone to Brad sooner. I'm sorry, Brad. No, don't be sorry to Brad. What are you on your mind, Brad? Yeah, those guys were frauds that just called your show. They don't know a damn thing about how. That's right.

That's exactly right. I'm sure. Now, I know where Alex Breggman lived because I went to the postal boxes and this guy showed me pictures and gloated about. Oh, my God, that's creepy. Now, that's real. I mean, so I know something real.

Those guys pitching for the Astros back. Yeah, right, dude. You pitching for nothing. Here, you know, I never brought this up. Predicted President Trump like a year before he made the, he won the election. Give him credit. I predicted Sam Donald would not stay with the Biden. And you, Matt, said, oh,

Yeah, no, no way. And then you switched up, changed about a month and a half later. And you see what I, he's no more Sam Darnold. Yeah, you also had Bill Belichick as the Cowboys coach next year. And I also had Aaron Glenn as the New York Jets coach. No, you said he's going to be somewhere. You also said Verlander was going to make the playoff roster. He didn't do that.

I don't remember that one. Yeah, I wrote it down. Hey, when you predict. You also, hey, no, yeah, no. So you're going to call about what you're right about. I'm going to tell you what you're wrong about. You also had Joe a spot as manager of the year? Hey, it happens.

I tell you what, when I predicted Bregman should have got traded the deadline. Can you imagine they would have gotten another Cam Smith? They would have gotten two camps. Let's see. I'm reading some more. You got Pedro Leon starting for the Astros this year. Oops. No, I didn't have that.

I will say this. You did. I will say this. Cam Smith will make one of the apples spots and they're going to trade because they're not a relief patient. Oh, man, we're losing connection here. Unfortunately, you're underwater, Brad. Thank you for the phone call.

I'll get some more for you. Verlander's going to retire. It didn't happen. Eish. Wait a minute. This is actually gold. He had Breggman with a three-year deal somewhere. He nailed that.

You know what, Brad, you got that right. Give him his props. I just did. Because callers sometimes get it right. You heard the guys. these callers Jose Altuva MVP season says these callers are talking about the national media loving Bregman getting as a Red Sox not just Red Sox fans come on Matt here's a good one Rockets will not make the top eight these Brad kids keep on coming stop it let him be one more

Bobby Sloick head coach after the after the 24 season wrong all right last one Tim and friends will what's in your gut Tim hey listen I got some inside soup and I was yeah listen I was the I was the I was the Clayton cleaner during the year. And the reason Bregman was really pushing to go to Foster was there was a corner behind the green monster that he really

liked to hide in when everybody was booing. And he thought if he could get that 81 games a year that he was going to be in a better spot. So that's kind of a good, brother. Thank you. Thank you, Tim. Wow. Straight from the cleat cleaner. Better than a cleat chaser, right? Plout chaser?

That too. All right. It's, look, Pollers have good points. They just, sometimes you've got to think about what you say before you say them. It's been a long

rookie season for a men Thompson. Yeah. And, and that Bregman is human, but Bregman's about the cash.

Period. End of story. It's why you hire Scott Borrow's. He was, I guarantee, I know Bregman well enough. Trust me, I'll tell you this.

He could live with booze. And yeah, the wheelbarrel thing, it's the thing of the past. But you know what? Damn it. We're going to break That's fine

He felt sorry And he's so ranked And he's still a great guy And he's going to bat OPS in April In Boston He's going to rank there 1201 Sports Talk 7-90

We start the news at noon Next Launch timers This is the Matt Thomas show He talks We'll get it again What in that Go start

Offins from the 78 Yes The 5 European he's still third down. Illegal formation, offense under 78. He did it again. His defense declined.

He did it again. Illegal formation. Say 78. Offense number 78 is running on the scriments. That is five penalties called against Laramie Tunsell. Offense under 78. 78. There is.

It's their best. Holy cow with this left tackle. But he used in Texans. All they do is commit penalties. First and foremost, he should go up to Laramie Tunsel. And just to make sure he's over. Okay. Not to be like, you know, dog, all these penalties today or anything. Just, are you okay? Is everything okay? Last time I saw you, you were shutting everybody down.

But now, Laramie Tunsell had six penalties called against him today. Jay on first down. Here's the kid, and they blow the play dead. Looks like a false start of the Texans. Let's find out who. Before the snap, false start. Offense number 78. It's a five-yard penalty. He got it out of the way early. Laramie Tugs. It's every week, though. I mean, you're a pro ball player.

There's no excuse for that. None. Back to the 50. We go. You piss off underwear. Ex quarterback who defends, usually offensive linemen. That's what quarterbacks

typically do. Here this. Yeah, you can hear him slapping it like sounds like notes or something. I've slid the table before. That's not. One of my favorite things about radio, listening to radio, is when you can hear them, like grab the microphone or slap something.

Like, you can hear the frustration. I love it. I should do a better job of that. You grab the mic when you get upset. I do. Somebody says that people were saying mean things about Alex Bergman. We can hear you ripping your headphones off. Do I think Breggman didn't like the criticism?

Of course, nobody would like it. But he's a big boy. He's got thick skin. If you're not, if you don't thick skin, you're not playing professional sports, period of the story. But it wasn't the number one reason why he left. Not even close. And he's going to be booed.

If you think he got booed as an Astro as a Yankee, imagine when he's going to be booed like at Yankee sitting when he goes there three times a year. He's going to get double boot, I guess. Double boot is two times here now, right? It's twice. You go twice now. You don't go three times anymore.

With balanced schedule, yeah. He is going to get ripped a new one at Yankee Stadium. He's got to be, is he the most hated person in Yankee Stadium now? Because he was an Astro and now he's with the Red Sox. Yes, I mean, that's a double dip. That's a double dip. Time now for the news at noon at 1210. And the Texans News Ross is just overflowing here.

Oh my goodness, Matt, do we have a lot of Texans news for you? The News at New here on Sports Talk 790. Of course, the lead, a story of the day would be the Houston Texans trading Laramie Tunsell to the Washington commanders it's a third

and seventh rounder in 2025 and a second and fourth rounder in 2026 all coming back from the Washington commanders the Texans are also sending back

why is it not in this article? They're sending back a third of a fourth I believe are the Houston Texans as far as the full compensation for the trade. Our good friend, Aaron Wilson,

was on the A team yesterday. Here's what he had to say. Why did this happen? Why did the Texans trade away? Laramie Tunsell. The way it was explained to the Tunsel camp is that it was in their best interest and they saw his best interest

to part ways at this time. It was a situation where if they have some big things coming down the pike financially, they'll make their extremely the highest pay corner, I believe, this off season. And then a year from now, Will Anderson Jr. And C.J. Strow will become eligible for new contracts. So sounds like there were a lot of financial implications. Of course, the money comes off the books.

We figure, of course, with the culture fit as well, you add it all up, getting some pretty good compensation from Washington. Laramie Tunsell is a Washington commander. The hardest thing to comprehend. And I understand when this happy, a lot yesterday was you took your worst position group and you made it worse.

And that is something that has to be fixed. I don't think the Texans are going to sit with the five guys that are curling on their R-Lad scouting guy draft depth chart and go, we're set. They're going to go heavy in the draft.

I've already made the gut feeling prediction that they're going to go at least two of the first three rounds or their first three picks of it, depending what they do and moving picks around. be offensive lineman. They're not going to stand pat. They've got an amazing quarterback that's got to protect. They just weren't satisfied with what happened last year

and I don't blame them because you saw it firsthand. As of this moment, pending what happened to the draft, Aaron Wilson also went on to say likely Titus Howard had left tackle with Blake Fisher at right tackle. But that's all up for change. Of course. There are certainly spots

up for grabs for the Houston Texans, well, including getting shipped off one Kenyon Green traded for CJ Gardner Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles. Looks like they're trying to shed some salary as well as they have to pay a bunch of guys. So CJ Gardner Johnson changing homes for a third straight season in exchange for Kenyon Green. He's a Houston Texan. Kenyon Green basically been a bust for the Texans. And CD Gardner Johnson, a pretty good safety.

by the way, the clock is on Casario to fix this, by the way. This offensive line, he created this mess. Yes. And he's trying to fix it. And I, and thankfully to make those on board. Thankfully. C.J. Garder Johnson, a Houston Texan. Also,

Texan signing guard, Lakin Tomlinson to a one year $4.25 million deal. Looks mean in the photo. He was a pro bowler in 2021. But since then, just according to one data point, Matt,

would be the PFF grades. In his Pro Bowl season, he was graded at a 73, 13th out of 82 guards. Last year, 44 out of 77 guards with a 62.1. Sounds like a depth thing there. Great. Yeah, depth guy. Look. 62, I'll tell you this,

that's better than Shaq Mason. He was the 44th guard, Shaq Mason to 47th. So you're winning. Yeah. I'm team Casario. Incremental improvement with Lake and Time, Tomlinson coming over from the Seattle. Seahawks. He is 33 years old.

Looks like a filler to me. I would agree as well. And there's you news and new. And Rockets won last night. And then Rockets are, I should say, the Texans also have re-signed Mario Williams. Or Mario Edwards. Mario Edwards. Mario Edwards.

Williams would be. He'd be in his late 30s. Quite a surprise. But more on a lot of stuff going on in the NFL coming up at 12.30. Yeah, we've got the NFL rewind coming up at about 15 minutes. All right. 713, 2, 112, 790. 1 3212-5-7-90.

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One with you. Mine's Gravity. Define Gravity? No, it's just the name of the song. Oh, okay. I'm really bothered by this, and I don't know why. Dark Breast, again, had a chief transformation officer by the name of Ryan Green. In September of last year, he said,

We're more likely to lose money if we start charging for bags. He says the fact that free bags is a key driver of choice creates a risk that customers may choose the competition if we change the policy. They fired him last month. I said, shut your bum ass up. Ain't nobody got time for you telling the world how our marketing goes. Ain't nobody got time for you not opening up revenue streams. Is Southwest public-treated? I would assume so.

why, yeah, I don't think, I think most airlines are. Okay. By the way, do not go look at your 401 case today. Or in the last couple of weeks. What's wrong with our America? We got my eggs are costing more, my 401Ks dropping, my gas prices remain consistent. That's good at least. That's, yeah, I got dark breast charging for bags now.

You charge Houston, L.A., instead of charging $250, charge $265. keep your free bags keep that core dark breast airlines yeah as I said customer fan base pleased I have multiple times

I would say close to 50% if not more the time I've traveled via air considered Southwest simply for the free bags I live closer

to intercount and a way closer than I do to hobby but when the kids and my wife go there are one bag two bag people so that's four

or five bags between three of them that's huge that's a significant saving we've gone and taken the drive down to hobby for that. It's like $200 a trip for sometimes. Dark breast, what you doing, bra? Now, again, their seats are full,

but aren't most playing seats full anyway? I just pray to the almighty dollar, Matt. I think this is a sad day. I am sad. It's almost like, what's a tried and true formula in marketing? I mean, it's like the $1.50 Costco dog. Make it five bucks. Yeah.

I mean, Doc Brass, my man. man, my man, my lady, anybody works. I mean, you guys have lived on slightly more attractive flight attendants with a sense of humor. Really? Slightly. I think they're all comedians too much in Southwest. Sometimes they're too funny.

To try to be too funny. Too funny to be funny. Yeah, I guess you can't be too funny. But the free bag bit, especially since 9-11, when everybody started charging a bank, that separated you from the group. That made you one of us. Again, date. They focus group this or they didn't focus group us and they're like, you know what, we'll get backlash for a couple days. Yeah, absolutely. They're right. People will forget.

We will forget. Well, I'm still going to put in Southwest.com when I'm looking for flights, but now it's different. For someone that lives northeast of Intercontinental, unless it's a dramatic, like $100, $20, $25 difference. If it's $50, screw that. I'm just going to just say, screw it. I'll just flash-minded. Yeah. Or I'll fly barric.

It's costing you like $10 and gas to get down there. Yeah, no kidding. just another dark day for old dark breast airlines. It's sad. By the way, Cam Smith, on the back fields today. You know the backfield craziness out there? That's where Channel Roman Brian McTaggart do their heavy lifting. Yes.

Going to play five innings of right field today. Let's go. Let's get him out there. Get him used to it. If he's got third base arm, he's got right field arm at least. Let me tell you something. If Chazzy Fizz ain't sleeping well, that would be zero surprise. Okay, I'm sorry, Chazzy.

He's turning 30 in April. But that doesn't mean when you turn 30 You can't be a productive Major League Baseball player Okay, but if you haven't become a big time How many players become productive after 30 in the major leagues? He was productive at 28? He didn't embarrass you? He was good. He'd be better than what we have out there now.

22 home runs. OPS 860-ish. Let me tell you give me 20-23 him. I'm fine. I could live with that. Okay. You give me Al-Tubei what he normally does or close to. Myers with a great man.

He is smack at home runs in spring training. Jake Myers. He's got country boy strong power. Yeah, country strong, as Brian McTaghan. Yeah. And then, and then Chatsy Fiss of 20203? Okay. I'll go with that.

It's going to be somewhere in between. You know what it is? They're not seeing it. I don't think they're. They're in their mind are going. We've got to fast track camps with this as possible. Absolutely. I think you're right.

So I think, and I'll have to do a little clarification. I think if they hold him back 15 days, they get to keeping him for an additional year of arbitration. If they, Now, the only reason why he wouldn't be able to do that is if he finishes, I believe, in the top two or three in the rookie of the year voting. You'd then become a super two guy. Which, again, good for him. If that happens, it means the a aster's doing really, really well.

So pay the man. Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. You've got to pay these guys that are producing for you, MLB. Instead of having them under control for six years and they can't have free agency, it's 30. It's the greatest sheister move in player and, I should say, employee employer relations. Could you imagine working somewhere in your life? Now, granted, you do get automatic bonuses.

Yes. Or salary increase, I shouldn't say bonuses. But you can't leave for six years. But you can't freely test the waters of your talents until you've been with your company for six years. So what would you have it? If I gave you, for instance, okay, let's do this real quick, if I said I've going to sign you to a contract and you can't leave for six years, but I'm going to give you incremental bonus. is a 5% per year. Yeah.

That's still pretty good. As long as you're happy with the company which you work. And players who are really good, I mean, what's Framer making an arbitration this year? 15, 16, somewhere around there? You have a chance.

The arbitration process, while it is there to protect the owners, still gives the players a great opportunity to make a lot of money, especially if they're beneficent and doing very well in the field. 18 million for Framber, but if he were a free agent this year,

he'd get much more than that. Yeah. Oh, I still think it, protects the ownership group. Absolutely. But I kind of get it, Ross. If I'm an owner, I like it because I need to keep my homegrown guys. If that was the case,

honestly, you'd have the super wealthy, super awesome players playing for all the top teams and then you'd have 20 or so teams probably underpaying for guys. At least with the arbitration numbers, there is a bar that is being set. Right? And baseball is different because, I mean, you have a

whole farm system and you bring guys up, you send them down. It's more complicated. It is. It is. It's not very, it's not a simplistic procedure. All right. NFL Rewan coming up next 1228. It is the Matt Thomas show. Believe it or not today, all things about Laramie Tunsell after I tell you about what's happening over at Berkeley Eye Center. LASIC will change your life. Trust me on this. You want to see better. You want to live better. I guarantee the folks at Berkeley Eye Center can make that happen. And you can also find out what they can do for you if you are worried about your budget. They'll customize a payment plan with Berkeley Eye Center with savings and financing and maybe even a little insurance coverage that will help you see better and live better all in about 60 seconds. So for more details about

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the Texans, again, confirming they signed left guard, Lincoln Tomlinson. He says he's as durable as they come. He played seven seasons in the row without missing a game. He'll be competing for a starting role. He allowed the sixth highest

pressure rate among left guards. Oh, no. Is that bad? With at least 300 blocking snaps and 11 sacks the most allowed, according to next gen stats. So you're saying there's a chance

Apparently but still an upgrade According to our friends at Pro Football Focus over Shaq Mason Sounds like a just a swing backup guy It's four million dollars I mean just a guy It's just mind-numbing money It's just four milly It's fine Totally fine

All right Matt Let's go On the NFL Rewind a lot of quarterback moving and shaking let's start with Sam Darnold to the Seattle Seahawks three year $100.5 million deal. Gino Smith went to the Las Vegas Raiders for a third round draft pick. So he's with the Raiders.

Sam Darnold with the Seahawks. Wasn't Gino Smith good there? Good, not great. I would say the same thing. for Sam Darnold. If you're a Seahawks fan, are you happy about this? I can't imagine people you're trading mid-town. Yeah, you're training just one guy, another bridge for another bridge.

I mean, Sam Donald, most of the time last year was like, all right, Justin Jefferson down there somewhere. He just bombed to Justin Jefferson, and Jordan Addison was good. Second half of the season, T.J. Hawkinson came on. Let's do a gut feeling. Good season, great season, disappointing season for Sam Darnold as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.

I'll say good, not great. I just think that's what he is. Now, he threw 35 touchdowns this past year. It was, I mean, by all accounts, a great season. Regression from Minnesota, I would think with that lack of targets. Right. With D.K. Metcalfe gone. Lockett wants to be gone, right? Is Lockett already gone or is he you? Yeah, Locketkaff's gone.

Good luck, Seattle fan. I mean, Jackson Smith and Jigba was really good second half of the season. So think about this, he's on my radar, man, for the fantasy season next year. So Seattle fan has the Mariners, new manager. That's going to be a beat. They don't spend money, though. It'll spend money. Justin Turner literally was.

begging them to spend money because they have a great one through five rotation and they didn't. You have University of Washington who's just mid in the Big Ten and then you got Sam Darnel. Have fun. Go Cracken? How are the Crackin doing? Connor can tell us.

How are the Cracken doing in the NHL Stanley Cups? Not super good. They're towards the bottom. They're on TV last week. Dang. And that ends our Crack and Talk 790 segment. Yep. Continue. Okay, so mention Gino Smith. The Raiders.

Daniel Jones, if you had not heard, finalizing a one-year deal with the Indianapolis Colts? How's Colf Van feeling right now? Hey, guys, you want Anthony Richardson or Daniel Jones? Would it be too soon to put another AFC South Banner up at NRG? I don't think it is. Let me ask you this.

How about putting the 2025 AFC South banner in a plot of land out in the woodlands so we could put it for the new Texas stadium is going to be placed? Hmm. They already came out and said they're looking to refurbish. Okay. Well, you want a gut feeling? No, I would lean towards refurbish, but I think if you think they're not thinking about other real estate area, you'd be crazy. Okay.

Because I'm telling you, if you refurbish and you think that area town is going to be a hustle and bustling spot for non-game days, you high. Let me read you through the list of top passers for the Colts the last several years. Last year, Anthony Richardson. Nope. Before that, Gardner Minchew. No, thank you. Matt Ryan. Carson Wentz.

No. Philip Rivers. Jacobi Brissette. Andrew Luck. That is seven straight years with seven different passing leaders in Indianapolis. And Peyton Manning's like, you, I need a shrine. Should be a statue of him outside of Lucas Hill Stadium.

Is there not? It should be. Keeping with quarterback news, Josh Fields, excuse me, Justin Fields. Josh Fields is the reliever. Yeah, that was traded for. Justin Fields, two year, $40 million deal with the Jets. How other are Jets feeling about that? Ugh.

$20 million for Justin Fields? Go back to Daniel Jones in Indianapolis. $14 million to be a backup. That is wasted money. That's that money. You'll never recoup that money. You'll never get great value back in return on that. Horrible.

All right, keeping it moving here on the NFL rewind. How about the Rams saying, eh, Cooper Cup, you're too old. We don't want to pay you all this money. Devante Adams, two-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams. And it is going to be $20 million per year. So is the Cup definitely on in Los Angeles now,

or there's a chance you put those two guys together? $44 million. So $22 million per year for Devante Adams at 32 years. You want to play in the West Coast, apparently. There have been people linking him to Houston. As I said before. As Nick Cayley is here.

He wanted to play in Los Angeles. He wanted to go on the West Coast and return. So there it is. Yeah, Rams to Release Cup, if no trade is made. That is the latest on our good friend, a Cooper Cup. Now, we kind of mentioned this in the last passing days, but since it's the NFL

rewind, we'll bring it back up, man. Miles Garrett, I'll tell you why I did bring this up. he had a story locked and loaded from like last week. I was like, okay, Miles Garrett says he's ready to miss games. He's going to hold out. Right. They're at a standstill.

He's not meeting with the owner. The owner said no. Jimmy has them. Yep. Well, four years, $122.8 million guarantee the most ever for a non-quarterback in league history. Miles Garrett,

I want to play for a contender. Didn't his statement say, I'm all about championships. I didn't come here to make all pro teams. I came to win championships. And then he said, how much? Excuse me. Okay. Cleveland Browns. Let's go, folks.

And remember, four athletes, 99.9.9% of the time, it's about the case. Literally his statement that he made his trade request with talked about wanting to win Super Bowls. Well, there's a chance.

Although the Browns never been to one, but there's a chance. Who's a Brown starting quarterback next year. Deshawn Watson? Uh-uh. He hurt. Oh, yeah,

he's hurt his Achilles. Is the guy with the hyphins too? Yeah, Dorian Thompson, Robinson? No, they can't go in him

with the starting quarterback. You look up something, I'll look it up. I'm going to look it right now. The Browns Browns. Traded for Kenny Pickett. Oh, that's right.

Oh. They got Bailey Zabby and James Winston, too. They sent the trade of Kenny Pickett and Dorian, Thompson. Robinson, the Browns and the Eagles. Eagles continue to shed payroll.

We mentioned that they traded C.J. Gardner Johnson to the Houston Texans. Now they plan to release Darius Slay on Wednesday. This always happens, Matt. Team wins a Super Bowl. Got to get out of Cap Hell. And well,

Darius Slay, C.J. Gardner Johnson, gone from the Philadelphia Eagles. Elsewhere in the NFL, the Panthers have cut Miles Sanders. And we did kind of briefly mention this, Matt, but it was a two-year deal with Mario Edwards here in Houston, Texas. $9.5 million. Mario Edwards staying here. Sheldon Rankins re-signed.

One year, $7 million for him. I want them to get a defensive tackle. We'll see if it happens. You know what they're doing? They're just these little short-term little, let's rebuild this way. And let's, you know, let's build, and let's get as many players in as possible for at least my money. couple of these guys stick. You can find defensive tackles late in the draft.

I still want the Texans to go get somebody. Like the Texans have gone like three hours without signing a wide receiver. There's got to be something that's got a nervous switch over there. I didn't even mention those. Was it Braxton, Berrios? And who was the other? That guy from Kansas City that never played. Justin Wants.

Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to invest myself in these guys until I see him in the training camp and playing in the preseason and making a roster. But they're replacing Hutchinson, matchy, who else? Yeah. The other guys. Derek Barnett and Jake Hansen also re-signed. We hadn't mentioned that. Matt, your thoughts?

I like it. The number one thing they're going to be thinking about is the Laramie Tunsel trade was obviously number one. And number two is making sure Derek Stanley has a new contract before the next year starts. He's going to. Well, I don't know if the year starts. We'll see. I think these moves that are being made, are shaving payroll to make these things happen.

And that's your NFL rewind. Nice to done. Feels very active. Lots going on. Yep. And it feels like the Laramie Tensel stuff has subsided just a little bit. Would that be fair to say? That those that are angrier, angry about it have kind of like, I kind of get it now.

Those that have not been overly, they were pleased about it and felt like, you know what, feel satisfying. And the thing that we brought up at the beginning of the show today worth repeating again is Nick Casario and Domingo O'Reins both have said unless Ross are lying to us that they are working collectively very well together. You don't make a move that big

unless both the general manager and the head coach sign off on it. And when asked if Cal was going to sign off on it, he was busy playing Donkey Kong and was unavailable to sign off on it. Yeah, I heard you just got to level 78. I mean, levels other are Donkey Kong.

I don't know. I think the game eventually like freezes. I don't think there's a limit. I think the game like bricks out. So he's staring at the game right now. I watch a documentary on the guy playing. What was that documentary about the guy who was like the Donkey Kong champion? Who's the last time he played Donkey Kong?

1991? I was going to say in the late 80s for me. And that is the NFL rewant. Thank you very much, Ross. All right. Believe it or not coming up in one hour from now. We want you to be with us between now and then at 713-212. 5-790. 713-212-5-790. I'm going to flat out to ask any of you that are Texans fans right now,

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It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right, 1250. Obviously there's no more outrage. Lamaritansel people loving this. Be fair to say, but it's overwhelmingly positive support for them. But again, we're not in the room. We're also not C.J. Stroud is probably thinking about what potential could be the five guys in front of him next year. Six if you bring in an extra seven, bring an extra tight end and to help the cause.

Dalton Schultz probably a, what a beyond below average blocking tight end. He is not great. Keep a fullback in. Do something. Okay. Creative. Nick Cayley, good luck. Thoughts and praise to you.

Is your first time as an offensive coordinator and a first time as a play. taller. It's interesting how they went with youth in terms of experience at the offensive coordinator's spot. All right. More on that coming up in the final hour of the show plus, believe it or not today, all things about Laramie Monslet at 150. Ross, the folks in Major League Baseball like to create these special hats. And the Texas Rangers had a special hat. They had put online in their online store yesterday. They had to get pulled off the shelves. They pulled it off the shelves. I was wondering if they were going to do that. All right. So they did this for every.

every team. Right. They put the logo in the middle of the... Team name. Team name. Or place or town. Right. T-E-X-A-S is Texas. Correct. If you had put that on the hat, nothing, no big, no big issues. Uh-huh. Instead, what the Rangers did was they went T, E, the logo for the Rangers, which is a big T. Yes.

A.S. Big T. So you got T-E. Big T. A.S. T-E-T-A-S. And that is? T-E-T-A-S.

T-E-T-A-S. Yes. Tet-Tas. Mm-hmm. Interesting look. Mm-hmm. Until somebody figured out what it meant. I mean, there wasn't...

There wasn't one... It's the Texas Rangers. Correct. They're in Texas. Yes, right. There wasn't one Hispanic person in there? Or it was done by fanatics and they just did it to everybody or whoever. Was it fanat or a new era, I guess.

But would you not have sent it to the team to say, what do you think? Yeah. How many hurdles did this clear before it was put out? So for those that don't know, it's a Spanish term for? Chee-chees. Which is a Spanish term for breasts. Yeah. it's more but that what the ranger it's kind of vulgar it's vulgar more vulgar so breast is non vulgar yes

it would be equivalent to one of the seven words you can't say on tv which you can say now is it less vulgar than boobs no more vulgar how did chi tis back in the day get away with it i don't know what they were doing i guess because of Chichi Rodriguez? But Chichis are making their rebranding. Hmm. Chee-chis are coming back? Yep.

I think Chi-Chi's never left. The Chimichanga's at Chi-Chi's was good. So I spent my youth. That's why I got so fat. You spent your youth at Chi-Chi's? Oh, my dad was a manager there, so I would sometimes spend Sundays with him, and he'd give me $25 with a quarters to play video games, and he could eat Chichanga.

You and your dad bonded over Chi-Chi's. We did, actually, yes. You never busts? Chee-chees? Connor, your new job can't have this so much fun to it. You're going to be bored. You're looking to play some sounders. Somebody's going to say something inappropriate the office.

You're like, I can't use it for Friday. I can't clip that. I mean, all these are terrible. I haven't seen the Astros one. The Astros one's one's not good. What is the Astros? It's a giant H with the star logo over Astros. It looks like Ashos.

These are stupid. It's called the New Era overlap 595 collection. And no idea how they're selling at this point. These all look terrible. Let me see. The Dodgers one's actually okay. Maybe the Blue Jays is too. Most of these are terrible.

You know what we're running into, Ross? We're running out of ideas. You have colors. You have a logo. You have the city name. You're just trying to reinvent the wheel. Unless you just frankly just change everything about it. Everything is getting cut to the bone.

You're running out of ideas. look, this is like the Southwest thing. Okay, look, hey, you go to the boardroom? You're like, hey, hey, shareholders need some more money. Shareholders need to see our stuff going up. We need earnings up. All right, what are we going to do? All right, we're going to have cheaper fabrics. We're going to have smaller patches.

This is what fanatics and New Era and whatever has been doing. We're going to, okay, well, you know what? It costs us this much to do it in China. It's cheaper to do in Malaysia. Let's do it in Malaysia. Okay, we've got to come up with new ideas. We're going to do this color, that color, this color, that color. We're going to oversaturate the market.

At some point, you can only cut to the bone so much. to where there's nothing left to cut. So they have to keep reinventing the wheel and keep running up. That's the reason why, again, I think the NFL explosion overseas is going to happen. They have to go somewhere.

They're running out of things to do in the United States. They keep adding games. They are out of ideas. They're new ideas. Let's keep adding more games. I think eventually we're going to see Jersey sponsorships in the NFL. By the way, that's going to be a revenue stream.

It's a revenue stream, but the NBA has already learned. They're not making a, as much as they thought they were going to. The NBA thought they were going to be able to make millions and millions and millions of dollars. We have logos being changed on Jersey patches left and right. And that includes the Rockets for that matter. Rockets are very new one this year with Memorial Herman.

But, I mean, we've seen four or five. It was rocket. It was credit karma. Reddit Rama, yeah. Sorry, Red and Burma. The Celtics were re-E for a while. Now, there's something else. There's some teams that don't even have a logo on it.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think the logo. They tried to compromise. If you want to go full bore, just do it soccer style. Does the WMBA do it? WMBA does it full soccer style. Full soccer style. And that's it.

They've done that? You'll have the city and their team name in the upper left corner or something. Yeah, some tiny patch. You're like, what is that? I can't even see. You can't even. When you're watching a WNBA game, that's what we're doing a lot of that. But if you are, you don't know which team is which,

because the logo of the companies are way bigger than the city name and the team name. This is what's, yeah, it's going to happen. I think we're going to see, did we talk about on-field sponsorships for the NFL? Every 20 or 30 yards? I mean, have you seen a Rockets game? You can hardly see the floor. Now, some of that is superimposed. Yeah.

A lot of that actually is. Yeah, well, they're going to do the NFL too. Yeah. It's coming. You're shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for these games. And NFL's asking for more and more and more and more. Let's go. more marketing, more filled, make stuff to clutter it up.

The only thing I'm asking, Ross, and this is in any sport, that you do not make a marketing arm decision that would affect the game. Like if you shoot from the, I don't know, the Rachree special star on the court, you get a bonus. You have that on, no, not a bonus. No, I don't think it would affect the game. But you already have that on radio broadcasts. We're into the whatever red zone. Yeah, but that's just a sponsor tech. I'm saying that the day you affect the game because of a sponsor edition is the day I'm leaving sports.

That's not going to happen. You better hope not. This is not rocket. We love our great advertisers. No, much to say, I just don't want a four-point line with letters all over and saying if you hit the Rary-Reen four-point line. You get a free, you know, blizzard or something. The synergenics health.com four-point line. Oh, is that right?

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the Matt Thomas show. 104 on Sports Talk 790. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program until 2 o'clock today. Hunter Brown, four scoreless innings, six strikeouts, two hits,

no walks. And if you want to hear those strikeouts, tonight at 7 o'clock here on Sports Talk 7.90. Sy Brown, let's go. Is that we're calling him? Yes. All right. I also got Cy Blanco.

You got a lot of size. Sygetti. We had a side. Kikele back in the day. Yes. Cy McHugh. Mm-hmm. Cy Cole.

He finished second, though. We had... Sylander? We had a Cy Bud Norris? No, no. I don't think so. Cy Feldman? Not exactly.

What else the Astros put out there in the 2014 rotation? Times are better. Oh, Si, your kiddie signed with the Chicago Cubs. Oh, good for him. Yeah. I think it's the Cubs. I can check on that. I want to see it was the Cubs.

One year deal with a chance to make some extra money with incentives. So let me double check that. So those are key. I can't spell your kitty properly. If you like to be a part of our show this hour, we'll welcome you at 713-213-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2. Oh, I'm sorry, they tried tigers.

There's a time. I knew somebody in the Midwest. Close enough. One-year contract for the 2025 season with a club option for $2,000. 26. He obviously knows AJ Hintz a little bit, so. Is he even going to be available? I don't know. That's a good question.

I don't think he's ready for the start of the season, that's for sure. Well, wishing him. Has not pitched since 2003. It's 29 years old. Wonderful. Be fine. I'm wishing him the best. Oh, that's a gut feeling hit for me. I told you guys that Orkidia never played for the Astros again. Yeah.

I will take credit for that Look, I miss a lot of things I need credit once in a while Oh yeah I didn't say anything You just give me the side eye I like that side eye from you Hmm

Okay By the way Aaron Rogers word coming out of ESPN today That he's emerged as a quarterback option For the Steelers Those are all right Pittsburgh fans June 4th you said it Or Keity never plays for the Astros again

But you could come back You said never plays for the Astros again No, you win, fine. Again, victories are so rare for me. I'm like the Miami Marlins of predictions. I'm like the Charlotte Hornets. No, Matt. You're no sure Thomas.

I'm like the Sacramento Kings. How about that? Is that a little bit better? Sure. All right. If you'd like to be a part of the program, we're with you today until 2 o'clock. 713-212-790. 7-1-2-790.

Headlines of the day. Still a lot of chatter about Laramie Tunsell. I was listening to the A team yesterday. You were. One half of that team was not particularly pleased with the Texans trade. What is it, Madam Schmexler? Yes, he was not happy. I wonder if he has thought about it and said,

yeah, the team isn't good offensive line, but there is obviously a strategy. I think there is obviously an overhaul notion to this when Kenyon Green gets moved today. I mean, on its face, there is no arguing. You need, your biggest need to address in the offseason was the offensive line, and you got rid of your best offensive line.

That's a true statement. Yes. Let me flip both sides of this. Part A. Why in the world would you get rid of your one good part? That's part A. Part B is you had one good part and you still sucked. Yeah.

That's okay. You have bad rotation, Matt, but still have a good starter in the mix. And they got rid of them. Wasn't an ace. Wasn't an ace. He was a number two guy. Has money coming on, wants more money coming in. That's true.

And you have to pay other guys. But this to me was more than just about the dollars and cents. It was. Yes, of course. We need a, we need the shed them thing. A culture shift. A shift. And he wasn't fitting in.

D'Neiko Ryan said multiple times. We want guys who love football who want to be here. Laramie Tunsell loved Laramie Tunsell's stats. Laramie Tunsell loved Laramie Tunsell NFL. left tackle money. I don't think he had an insatiable thirst for football. Liked it. He's got a...

You're okay. You have to have... You're okay. I can't judge that. To a certain level. Right. We don't know. But if you want to be... You're not a Borderland O. Pro. You're just going through the motions. But if you want to be a leader and really carry the captain's hat, you're at OTAs. You're at mini-camps. And the reality

is this. If you're a vet like he's been there for as long as he has been you can be treated differently you're not going to go in there at o'ta's and work out like you're a second year player just to make your squad or look or look better to the coaches lemmy tonsle has got the pedigree of the history the resume to say you know what just showing up i also don't believe that laramie tonsle was a cancer or a bad guy in the locker room i'm sure he had his friends and obviously there were some guys that have come to his defense socially and said hey we're going to miss you whatnot but it wasn't enough to go untouchable. And D'emiko

Ryan's to me, like most NFL coaches, Ross, that have been players before, do a pretty good job of reading the room. I don't know if Bill Belichick could ever read the room particularly well? I think he did. You had to.

Well, I think when you read the room and Tom Brady, like, you know, Tom's going and just take care of the room for us. I think D'Amico is a guy that likes to be in the room, look around, get the culture. He's more of a player's coach than Bill is, yeah. I don't think Bill particularly cared if the culture was great or not. I think he said, I've got talent,

I've got Tom Brady, I've got my veteran leaders, I'm good with that. Well, they said a culture of winning over there in Patriotville, for sure. And an expectation level of everybody, do your job, I think. What was it? The phrase?

It's similar with D'Amico. Do your job. But I don't think D'Amico, I don't think a lot got snuck by D'emico. Just a guess on my part. Because he's not that far removed from being in the uniform, in practice, knowing what it's like to be

a early 2010, 11, 12, 13 player in the NFL knowing what it takes to be a positive and tangible on your team. He wants a certain type of player on his team and Larry Mutunzel did not fit that as well as

he would have liked, I'm sure. Otherwise, he'd still be here. And frankly, they would have probably given him an extension and reworked the dollars to make sure that Laramie got taken care of financially. And there was money for Will Anderson Jr. down the road. There was money for Derek Stingley down the road. And obviously money for CJ Stroud down the road.

But at its core, there probably isn't room to mega sign all four of the guys I just mentioned. And also putting in the Nico Collins money that was spent in, is it too hard to spend super mega dollars on five players? and one of them is your quarterback? It seems like it is. It's going to be. Everybody needs to get paid. Is it hard to pay?

I guess you'd have to ask a salary capologist. Is it hard to mega pay five players? Absolutely. I would say so. So maybe you don't do anymore. Maybe when we start thinking about who really needs to get paid with the amount of money that you're going to pay a quarterback and the big chunk that he pays out of your salary cap,

you better be damn sure that if you're going to spend crazy upper third, upper 10% on money and player. Like for instance, if Derek Stingley is an all pro, which he is, not a pro bowler, Ross, he is an all pro. He has absolutely deserved the right to renegotiate a contract to get him paid top two, top three NFL money. You're only looking at one or two of those guys doing it. If you're going to put CJ Stroud in that special stratosphere of $60 million

a year, right, somewhere in that range, someone to give me, then you can't put every player that you, you love in the upper stratosphere of the dollars. Somebody has to take a fault. And in this particular case, it was a offensive lineman who was good, at times really good, small window of elite, but knowing that at the end of the day, not easily replaceable, but can be replaced. And they'll do it in the first and second rounds of the NFL draft, I think.

Back on the phones we go in a moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. Please join us here. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program to 2 o'clock. Believe it or not, in 38 minutes, all things about Larry Tunsel and here on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal.

On Sports Talk 790. We appreciate you spending some time with us today. Tomorrow we've got a shorter show. We're going to 1150. we'll have shut your bum ass up at 1120 tomorrow. I have to tell the airline to shut their bum ass up. I think that this is a major, major mistake by them. I'm just a travel whore.

I like the travel. I like the industry. I'm always fascinated by it. If there was money in owning a travel agency, I would have done it a long time ago. But there just isn't because people are doing most of their traveling using travel sites or booking them themselves directly with the airline. But that's one of those things I would have liked to have done at some point in my life

It's open a travel agency. But, yeah, Dark Breast, I think you're goofing on this bad. I just do. This is a shocking development. And they're also adding basic economy. Isn't Dark Breast basic economy all the way through? Now that you can't get free bags. I mean, now you're probably getting smaller seats.

Yeah, how can they get any smaller? It's terrible. You're really busted up about this. I am. Bring it up every hour on the hour. And I don't even fly Dark Breast that much. I know. You are America's Travel whore.

So I understand. I'm a connoisseur, not a whore. A horror beginning in for free. We have a horror that works with us. I won't mention his name, Michael Garfield. 713-21. You okay? Because I cough back again, don't you, Rossi?

You brought it back. I've been fine all day. I don't think I brought anything back. Eric in Bay City at 120 on 790. Eric, thank you for holding in good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. I've been dropping in and out of the show as I've been working here today, and I heard that Connor's leaving, so I've called today.

so I've called today to launch the official good luck Connor campaign. Yes. I hate to see him go, but I'm glad to hear he's got a great opportunity ahead of him. And all them ladies out there better to line up because Connor McGovern's on the ride. Woo! I believe he's spoken for at the moment. Eric, I think you're trying to create disharmony between him and his girl, and for that he doesn't thank you. Well, Eric, no, I appreciate it.

I appreciate it. You can have a lineup. He gets a man-dagement ring on him. nothing's a done deal. That's true. I can't argue with that. You could always keep the line outside, but I appreciate all the time. He's let me through with my ridiculous Zach Grinky take.

So bad. You know what's great, though? I'm going to miss his hockey takes. Unlike Ross's soccer takes. I'm sorry. Put me to sleep. Yeah, all I do is talk soccer on this show. I appreciate you, Eric.

Thank you. You bet, Connor. Bye-bye. That was a non-Zat Granky call. That's a small progress right there. Thank you. You actually don't talk too much soccer. I don't bring it up, really.

No. I mean, unless I'm joking and messing with you. Right. Which I rarely do. When is World Cup? Is it this summer? No, man. It's once every four years. Thank God.

Now, the Champions League happens every year. And, of course, the Champions League final out shines the Super Bowl in terms of ratings and revenue every year. Who's your pick for the check? Champions League final. I don't care, because cities out. I'm going to go...

I want Barcelona. Anybody but Madrid, please, for the love of God, anybody but Real Madrid. Can my son's team win this thing? Of the Tottenham? No. There's... You know what your son did? He chose, like, the...

Who's a big-name team who just never gets there? The Yankees? Nah, it's not the Yankees of soccer. Cubs. Cubs are better reference. Yeah, he chose the Cubs of the... He basically chose the Cubs. That's a great...

You did perfectly. Thank you. He chose the... Cubs of the Premier League. Now, they didn't win one time, but that was also about 10 years ago. But they've had decades and decades of close. Right. That's basically like Tottenham Hotspur. All right, so I'm going to give you my favorite sports teams, and you're going to give me a soccer team.

Oh, no, here we go. This will be hard, but you're going to figure it out. I'm going to try. University of Houston, Cougars, football, and basketball, okay? Houston Astros, Houston Rockets. I have no NFL team but these recent moves has given me a little bit of faith

that the Texans are getting this figured out and I told you earlier today that if the Cougars win the national championship in basketball I will have room for additional despair in my life and thus I will allow the Texans into my heart You said you were going to become a man city fan years ago and why was I a man's, why would I have chosen man city? I don't remember why. You just said I'll take Manchester City.

Problem is this, if I told you I was a man city fan I just can't sit through a game. That's okay. You're supposed to come to a game with me and your son at a soccer bar. That's the beauty of enjoying European soccer. You get day drunk and nobody judges you. Can I bring my phone? You got to put it down for 45 minutes.

Watch the game. We'll talk about the nuances, Matt. Offside traps, tactics, triangle passing, total football. I got a Rockets game. And eight in the morning? I'll figure it one out. Are they in China? You know, the Impelicans are playing some preseason games in Australia next year.

Really? Yeah. So they'll be on from, like, the future? Well, they're not going to be playing anybody from the NBA. They're playing a bunch of Australian teams. Okay. I think we're going back to Alabama next year. I'm rooting for Barcelona.

To answer your question, Connor. Let's go. Forza, Barza. Stephen, who's your soccer team of choice? I don't even know. I don't want soccer. Bless you. I hope you guys are doing okay today.

Just wanted to kind of like talk about the Laramie Tunsel trade a bit. Obviously, I was a little surprised yesterday when it happened just because, you know, as it stands right now, your offensive line is worse than what it was last year. It was pretty bad last year. But they don't play until September. And so I'm kind of just giving it time to see what Nick and Damiko can cook up to improve that. that line. And I think what it comes down to is that, you know, what did we hear all last year from D'Amico was that guy's got to be accountable. And he was never going to call out a player during a press conference. So, you know, I think this is just one of the clearest examples of

they didn't like what they saw last year. And, you know, they're kind of just going scorched and they're going to rebuild this thing. And it's up to then to get it right, you know? So, I'm not mad at the trade, but I'm definitely, okay, they got to make some moves to make this thing better because as stands right now, the O line is, I think there's a lot of faith or maybe too much faith than what we have at the moment. So appreciate you guys. I'll all hang up and listen. Thank you for the phone call. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90.

Do you think C.J. Stroud, how intimate, and this is just purely guessing at our part. Okay. Let me give you scenarios. C.J. was in and involved in every step of this. B. C.J. got the phone call just before it happened. C.J. didn't get to call at all and found out when we found out. Or do you think C.J. was like, you did what? And I'm going to walk you through what we're thinking.

We're going to go heavy in the draft. We're going to get this fixed. You know how bad your offensive line was. Even with Laramie out there, you're going to have to trust us. Yeah, I would say he wasn't consulted much. How about this? He was asked about Laramie Tunsell, and then they moved forward with the deal. And I'm going to say he probably vouched for Laramie Tunsell or said he wanted to keep him or he likes him or he thinks he does a good job.

And overall, and he would want to keep him. I mean, no one would say he's gutter trash. He's a bad dude. Get rid of his ass. But you could also go to CJ and say, we got to take care of some of the guys on this team. Including you. And maybe most importantly, you.

See, Jay's like, I can run around. A little chicken on my head cut off for a year. I can live with this one for one year. Of course, I don't have three concussions. You still have to shore up the offensive line. You've got to do something. You're going to have to do it via Drapics because if you are paying Will Anderson,

if you are paying Derek Stingley and C.J. Stroud, you're not going to be able to pay premium at the tackle spots. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know. The team got worse right now. They just are. But I think something you brought up earlier in the show

makes some sense. Maybe Blake Fisher is on the rise and that the rookie year is the rookie year and go through pains. This guy, there's no reason why any player whether it's Blake Fisher or not, can have a year. where they go through a lot of growing pains

and come back in their second year and make an impactful part of this offensive line. Titus Howard, you re-upped. So you got some money tied up into him. Juice Scruggs is going to be another year in the system unless Juice Scruggs Ross is just a guy. But you've also spent a high draft pick on him. Yes.

This is where Casario, I mean, it's not like he's void of the position. He just went with guys and drafted him fairly high that just haven't panned out. Everybody that he's gotten rid of was on the offensive line that he built. Kenyon Green first round pick, Shaq Mason Free Agent, and Laramie Tunsell was here, so he didn't really build Tunsell, I suppose. Yeah, yeah. But he really...

Laramie built Tunsel was destroying Texans' draft picks and getting a crazy amount of money and not hiring an agent or firing its agent and signing his own deal. I've never had an agent before. Never needed one. I'll be your agent. Would you really? Mm-hmm. Okay, let's, let's, I'm due for a new deal.

What are you looking to get me here? I don't know, 10% of whatever you get. Oh, you just want my money no matter what it. You're not going to get me a new raise. No, I don't care. I got you. That's fine. All right, update on the Astros, we come back.

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Let's do a quick live listen in. Esauk Peretti is on the plate for the Astros and the Mets in a no-score game. Bottom of the six runners at first and second. The first pitch in the Senate. And any of their four at bats. The one-oh. That's a strike on the outside corner. Well, Joe Espada, he's made it a point of emphasis to see a few more pitches.

Feels like that's an area of the Astros didn't do so well in. And the number certainly back that up. One of the more aggressive offenses in baseball last year. Sometimes to their detriment. 1-1. Swing and a foul off the catcher's Sengo. The goal's behind home plate, and it's one and two to Yorda. That's also part of the reason why picking up guys like Issoc Parades and Christian Walker for the

Astros was so appealing because there are two guys who have a pretty extensive history of seeing quite a few pitches. The 1-2 to Yordon, and that's fouled back to the screen, a breaking ball away, and it's 1-2 still. And even with how aggressive they were last season, the Astros still led the American League in batting average, and they were still second and on-base percentage. They trailed only the Yankees last year. Dubon at second. Al-Tubei at first, excellent speed on the basis for the Astros.

pitch, swing and a mess. Fastball downstairs, gets Yorda and a big strikeout for Garrett. Trying to strand a couple of runners. There are now two outs, and Yider Diaz will take his turn. All right, a little drama here. So Pipert up lined out and struck out. By Paredes, a strikeout of Alvarez, two outs, bottom of the six,

no score, Mets, Astros. Altube is at first. I don't know who's at second, and we go back to West Palm. Dubai on a second. on the way and that's fouled out of play behind home strike one Garrett one of the pitchers who calls his own pitches using a pitchcom he's got the device on his right side on his belt to communicate with his catcher who is Hayden singer this afternoon the 0 1 and dribbler behind home foul and it's

nothing in two now to yiner want to win a pair of tickets to Astros opening day Register now for your chance to experience opening day and win two tickets between the Astros and Mets by going to Astros.com slash OD sweeps. That's OD sweeps. Oh two. Swing and a mess. D.S. Chases a breaking ball in the dirt and strikes out to end the inning. So the Astros had two in on, nobody out but failed to score. Runners at first and second.

Nobody out. Paredes Paredes. Pop to the catcher. Then a strikeout for... Turn it on. There you go. A strikeout for Yordon Alvarez and Yarnar Diaz. Our lights came back on.

They went off. This is weird. Are we on the air still? I hope so. Man. They're going zero, zero going to the top of the seventh inning in West Palm Beach. Oh, the humanity. Seriously, do we lose power in here for a second or something?

I think we're fine. The lights went completely out. That was weird. Anyways, Oprah on air. There, the lights had to be on for the 3 o'clock A team show. That's fine. We've got to get them on TV. How's that working out?

It's really out of going to a restaurant and seeing those two numscoles on my television sense. I know. I'm jealous. I'm going to be honest. I'm jealous. We can't do half the fun things we do because the show is on television. But it's cool.

You tell your grandma you're on TV. I'm on TV occasionally. I don't even tell. First of all, I'm a little grandparents. left. ESP and 3 doesn't count. It sort of counts. Check's clear.

Isn't that TV? All right. You're right. Maybe if Craig gets sick, I'll do a Rockets game filling. Oh, it'd be good. Well, you don't want to get Craig to get sick. You're right. I don't want Craig to get sick.

That was rude for you to say. That was rude. Talk to Craig at length yesterday. Swell fella. What did you all talk about? Just basketball. Okay. Basketball stuff?

Breaking it down? Mm-hmm. Okay. Do you see Ryan Holland's his suit the other night? Which one? The full pink suit that he wore? No, I didn't catch that one. Oh, Lord. I was like, did you just get that made? He goes, no, I've had it forever.

He was looking fly. That seven-footer has a pink suit in his repertoire. Every suit he gets has to be custom-made, correct? Absolutely. What are you going to go off the rack for seven-foot suits? The XL places, big and tall? Really, that big? No, probably not. I don't think so. How many suits do you own? right now legit suits

functional one okay I think I'm in three I'm thinking of three suits most of my most of mine were too big so I had to get them I got reshaped resized

yeah you keep losing weight that tapeworm is ravaging through your body well it's because of well the media phenomenon great this year

they had muscles last night muscle you didn't eat them did you I had a few and I quit okay it's just too

much work. It's like a stay away. It's like crawfish. Too much work. Okay. Muscles are way less work. You get your little fork and jab out some meat. 141? This is about... Come on. One is one one of some of his best work. No, he's got to use best of on Friday, so that's not making the cut. That's true.

Okay, so back to it. We got... Back to what? The Astros in spring training. Hunter Brown's Dealing, baby? Yeah. How do you feel about the nickname Diesel? Who gave it to him? He's had it. It all depends on who gives it to you. I don't know.

Diesel. I don't remember the origin of it. I like it. Maybe it's because he's from Detroit, Motor City. Makes sense. Went to the same school. My mom did. Wayne State University?

Really? Your mom went to Wayne State? Uh-huh. I didn't know that. You know, I never brought this up before, but, you know, she was a, uh, my mom and dad got divorced at a very young age and child care wasn't, you know, we did not grow up with any sort of wealth at all, so she would take me to class with her sometimes. Really?

And I would bring a coloring book and I would sit in the class and she says, please be quiet while the teacher does the teaching. And I was great. That's adorable. Yeah. And as a reward, Fat Matt, we went to McDonald's on the way home sometimes after classes. This is an honest-to-God story here. I don't know why we're doing this for Wayne State, but we got a minute left before we get to play, believe it or not. We would get a cheeseburger, a small order of fries, and a small Coke.

Okay. At McDonald's. This has got to be about 1978. I'm thinking, Rossi. Okay. Let's play the name game. Let's put the pricing

prices right here. $3.99. Okay. I'm going to say it again, and then Connor, you jump in as well. One small cheeseburger. Yes. One small order of fries. And one small Coke.

And this is with tax. $2.99. With tax. You said $2.99. Before tax. $2.9. No, with tax. I don't know what the tax rate was in 72?

Just give us a $3. 23. 323. What do you say, Connor? No, it's got to be less. 250. I'm going to go, I'm going to go $2.49. Fine.

$2.50. $1.6. Dang. I changed my three times. I know you did. You're a fraud. I am a fraud. Yeah.

You can't even play the game right. Can you imagine burger frying a Coke for $1.6? It's a good run, Matt. Now you can't even get free bags on a Southwest flight. Now, yesterday, because the food was so, you know, made it. the arena. I got a double cheeseburger, small fries, and a small sprite at McDonnells on the way home.

It was $5.50. Hmm. So an extra meat patty. Yes. And the price was five times the amount. Thanks, Joe Biden. That was 1978, though. Come on.

And that was today's edition of Rick Ronald's Price is Right. Wonderful. Believe it or not, you ready to go? Lock the load it? No, not at all. I'm about to make up. Be ready to say not, folks. I'm making up a bunch of stuff.

We've only said, Connor, did we not announce this before the show even started today? I'm sorry. Don't help the listeners. I'm sorry, I know. This makes you upset. Oh, I love these Mets' road uniforms with the New York. Why?

I think it looks sharp. Okay. That's the second time they've worn. By the way, the Mets have got something going with runners at first and second here in the top of the seventh. Drama? Oh, against Taylor Scott, front of the show. We'll tell you how things turn out with him.

And believe or not, next, if you want to play, 713-21-2-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right, Taylor Scott's got a little work to do here. Two outs, top of the seventh, no score, Mets, Astros, something called Alexander Canario at the plate.

The count is three balls and two strikes. Well, don't play, because we're watching the TV version, so it's well behind. By way, Astros tonight, 7 o'clock. I believe Astro lines at 6 this evening here on 790, so be ready for that. I couldn't be more ready. Really? And now Taylor Scott has walked the base is loaded. It's fantastic. Don't bring that up when he joins the A-team out of this year.

By the player interviews are going to the A-team. Dang. Are you that upset about it? I like an interview in the players. Yeah, why not? That's true. We will get Brian Bogusevic with us every week starting next week. That's good.

Starting a week from tomorrow. That's going to hit every week. Player interviews are hit or miss. Yeah. And then Brian McTaggart, a week from Thursday starts. And both those guys will be at 11 o'clock in those respective days. Wow, unbelievable. Every Wednesday, Bogussevick, every Thursday, McTaggart, 11 o'clock, right here on these airwiffs.

And sometimes if it's really really good, we'll replay it later in the show to kind of give you a chance to catch up on it. Yeah, we should do. Do you a chance for I believe it or not? Tomorrow. There's different audiences throughout four hours, Matt. No question. Do you think,

would it be sweet if everybody listened to us every hour of the 20 hours we're on? Some people do, and for those that do that, we appreciate you. Oh,

let me tell you, I will give you the biggest hug you've ever sat in your entire life if you tell us you listen to show 20 hours a week. 20 hours? I don't even listen 20 hours

and I'm here. I know. I can feel it when I'm on the road. I know. I'm sorry. Ross, you're there? I got attention span issues, Matt.

Yeah, but you've had these for 15 years. Yeah, I know. Well, I'm sorry. You want me to get some ADHD drugs? I'm going to take a picture of me and just put it in this spot while I'm gone and just stare at you. We could zoom. You want to?

Yeah. But I'm not, what if I'm not wearing full of clothes, though? Will you put clothes on? Eh. Is that too much to ask? I like being, I like, I like, either put clothes on or give me some amphetamines. Let's go. All right.

Tomorrow we're on 10 to 1150. We are carrying Astros, live spring training baseball. Wonderful. So I'll put a live figurine of me or a fake big figurine. You know, one of those AI creations is what you could do. You can stare at me lovingly in your eyes. I believe a Grand Slam was just hit. Oh, my God, it's 4-0.

Oh, Taylor Scott's going to be pissed. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not. If here's how it works, you call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-790. 790. Today's edition of believe or not

is all things about Laramie Tensel. I'll read your statement about Laramie. Stamunders is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If a statement's erroneous Philibunkin made up, you will say this. Not. Two, believe it or not, in a row on all things about Laramie Tensel, the Washington

commanders, your winner prize. Conner, we're playing for today. A pair of tickets to see Journey on March 14th at Brodio Houston. A pair of tickets to see the psychedelic furs live on July 12th of the House of Blues and some 790 t-shirts. Dave on 790 day. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Larimerick Tunsel has never been named to an AP All-Pro first or second team. Never ever. First or second team. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. He has never. Sorry.

On time, pro, believe it. Yeah, whatever. Rubin on 790, Rubin. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Laramie Tunsell's major while in Ole Miss was journalism. Believe it or not. Not. It was.

Maybe he's going to host this show one time. Michael on 790. Michael, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? All of it, man. Best show on 790. Laramie Tunsell's love of the movie, The Blind Side, factored into his choosing to play at Ole Miss. Believe it or not.

Not. Yeah, Chris Gordy made that one up. Statement number two for the win. Laramie Tunsell was arrested on June 25th of 2015 on domestic violence charges into Oxford, to Mississippi after an altercation with his stepfather. Believe it or not. Ooh, that year. Believe it.

That's a believe it. Of course. Thank you. Congratulations. Appreciate the nice words. He's a winner. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. His junior year at Ole Miss, Laramie Tunsel was ejected from a game when he slapped Alabama's Reggie Raglan in the helmet with an open hand. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he didn't really hurt his hand if he'd have done that.

Desmond on 790 Desmond. What was your favorite part of today's radio show? I love it. Laramie Tensel has been in the top 10 most pennies. Hey, turn that radio down. Laramie Tensel has been in the top 10 most penalized players each of the last three years, and he was number one last year. Matt.

You was. And turn, get your radio fix. Sorry, it was to believe it. Joseph and Lake Jackson. Joseph, ready to play. Believe it or not. Yes, sir. In 2018, Laramie Tunsell was on a podcast hosted by Peanut Tillman and admitted his parents received about $75,000 for him to commit to Old Miss.

Believe it or not. That's a lie. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Laramie Tunsell has one nickname listed on its pro football reference page, King Tunsell. Believe it or not. That's right. There's actually no nickname listed.

Congratulations. We've got a minute and a half left to go on the show to promote tomorrow's big program, which will feature a complete breakdown of the Taylor Scott home run giving up. Ooh, four nothing. Yikes. Oh, base hit to open things up. All right. I think it's DeZenzo, is it?

Something's cooking for the Astros in the bottom of the seventh. We've got to shut your bum ass up tomorrow at 1120. And will the Texans grab three or four more receivers by the time this program resumes tomorrow at 10 a.m? Probably not. Rockets and the Phoenix Suns coming up tomorrow as well. The Durantle is in town. Do you see the latest Kevin Booker and Kevin, Devin Booker trade?

What is it? Rumors innuendo. It might take three first round picks and a up-and-coming third and fourth year player for Devin Booker to be moved from the Phoenix Suns. Ground rule double. Uh-oh, they're cooking. Comeback City.

It'll be a... Or something called Bastidas. Bastidas! Oh, Jeremy Payne is on headset? You got to fill time something. We should get players on during a headset during our show. That'd be actually great. That'd be really, really good.

All right, up next. Who is it? Well, it's the guys that normally are following us, have been following us for years. Oh, okay. It's Wexler. It's Clayton. It's the team.

They're going to entertain you between now and six o'clock. I'll talk to you tomorrow with Ross for 10 to 1150. Right here on these airwaves. It'll be called Sports Talk, 790.