The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Never Change & Kicking Off Houston-Minnesota Week

Episode Date: September 28, 2020

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I've come to talk with me Shotka, Rothlessberger Ringbag, connection Big Ben to his tight end and the Steelers cut into the Texans lead Still reading the sound of silent Who set a downs for the Steelers From the 26

Rush, step up Wide open, Rothusberger To Jiu-Smithsvester for a walk-in touchdown. Nobody was there. Second and six. Connor again. Connor cut to the field.

Hattus the touchdown. Steelers. It's a Steeler team that's never been shy about going for two even before it became in vogue. Fake and toss. They converted. Juju Smith-Schuster. And it's 28-21 Steelers in the fourth. The voices never change.

The voices do it never change, do they? Of Coach O'Brien. Except Cal McNair. Well, unless you're getting Jack Easterby tweets, the same words over and over and over. And over again. That's traveling Texan. Bill O'Brien.

Or on Sports Talk 790 noon to 3. O and 3. Hi, Ross. Hi, Brendan. You all doing all right? I'm great, Matthew. Good to have you all here. Weather's beautiful.

Yeah, 77 degrees today. I brought the convertible today. and pop the top on that. Probably not get on the freeway with it, but on the side roads it'll be fine. Yeah, you don't want to mess up your hair. Too soon. Rossi, you never should try to repeat a show

because they become stale and then people are like, I've heard this show before. That's why you can only repeat TV shows once. Because if you should, like, for instance, Saturday Night Live hasn't had a new episode in forever. You can't play the same JJ Watt episode over and over and over again. People wouldn't watch.

People watch rerow. all the time. But not multiple times in a very short period of time. Okay, I guess. Like Seinfeld has repeats, but it's on TBS, and then it's on Hulu, or it could be on NBC. The Texans just repeat themselves, and they don't have any fresh episodes. The Texans are a mid-season television replacement that the networks, because they're too cheap, i.e. Cal McNair, just don't.

want to put anything new into production. It's the same episode over and over and over and over again. No one was a little bit different. They led going into the halftime. That was nice. Yeah, it's true. And as Sean put like a guy that was like, I don't care what's crap around me. I'm going to win this MF and football game.

In the first half. In the first half. Yeah. Don't you hate it when you have to add prepositional phrases to everything? Qualifiers. Yeah. In the first half. Yeah, second half. They didn't do anything.

Zero. Three and out. Three and out. Interception, three and out. Forced it. Ball game. Couldn't get, the defense couldn't get out the field. Pittsburgh, James Connor was gashing him for eight, nine yards, a carry. Receivers were open. Every tight end the, the Steelers had, even Rice ones were catching passes for first downs. I said this before. I feel like Eric Ebron just wants to hurt the Texans every time you plays him. No matter what team he's been on over the years, he just hurts. the Texans. Nor just Texans in general

haven't been able to cover tight-ins. Probably pretty much in their history. Okay, don't ruin my narrative. Rob Grancel. Even Aaron Hernandez used to tear them up. Name a tight-end that hasn't had like his best day ever against the Texans. Who's the titan? Tyler Eifford. He always gets hurt for the Bengals. That's true. So he doesn't count because... When he plays, I'm sure

he's had some success against the Texans. But I mean, Travis Kelsey has had... Because he owns the Texans. Rob Grankowski, Vance McDonald, Eric Ebron, the governor, Jack Doyle. I mean, every tight end feast on the Texans. I wish I knew somebody in a different front office. And went to them and said, just tell me how much work it is to prepare for the Texans.

Because let me tell you something, Ross, I think preparing for Deshaun Watson is quite a challenge. Because he's elusive, he scrambles, he keeps plays alive, he's hard to bring down, although he's becoming a little bit easier to bring down than he was, say, a year ago at this point. But this Texan's defense is posing no threat to them. And by the way, Romeo Cornell is supposed to be this, you know, savon of all time.

This Texan's defense is not spectacular under him. And Anthony Weber, sorry, you're not doing anything that's making me go, wow, I love the philosophy change. Same goes to Tim Kelly. Tim O'Brien is running this offense, Ross. Not Tim Kelly. Tim Kelly is Bill O'Brien's hotel alias name because they're the same person. like Michael Vic and Ron Mexico like Jack for O'Bill

69 or whatever the hell of the thing is Oh for Jack O'69 Yeah that guy So Tim Kelly is Bill O'Brien's literal burner account Yes Living burner account Yeah there's a living burner

And his name is Tim Kelly Because what I'm watching from the Houston Texans Even when the Texans were scoring points In the first half of the game mystery There wasn't, was there anything innovative? Was there anything that caught you by surprise? When is this

team going to branch out? And what is his team? And when is Bill O'Brien going to say, you know what, guys? Instead of saying, we got to do better. Here's a new one for you. I royally effed up the trade. David Johnson can't move. David Johnson, again facing eight men of the box on a regular basis, couldn't move the ball

down the field. Ross, you have no running game to speak up. You have no chance. You can't even stretch the field. play action no one's biting on because no one believe you're going to hand the ball off. There's no read option. There's no end-arounds. There's no reverses.

I'm not asking for arena football strategy, but I'm asking for something that isn't mundane, ordinary, and what has been Houston, Texan's offense. And poor Deshaun, God bless him, Ross, for being harassed numerous times in a game yesterday. And one time, he could have fallen down. He was basically holding on for dear life to stand upright. and then he throws a terrific pass into, I don't know, quadruple coverage? What the hell? It's history repeating itself over and over again.

Yeah, it's Texans football. Nobody should be shocked at their own three. This is it. This is a Bill O'Brien regime. DeShon Watson gave you some good. Deshaun Watson gave you some bat. And I've been saying this all year. He's a guy who everyone wants to mention with Russell Wilson and Pam Holmes and Lamar Jackson.

He's not necessary. He's not anywhere near that tier right now. And his greatest asset is also his, it's a blessing and a curse. He tries to extend plays. He takes sacks because of it. He has turnovers because of it. And he makes mistakes because of it. It can be his, he can just dazzle and break a couple of tackles and fight somebody off and then find somebody down hill, downfield and scrambling and all that type of stuff.

And it's cool and it's fun and it's exciting and it's electric. But it's also something that is going to cause him to turn the ball over. It's also something that's going to cause him to take unnecessary. sacks. And we used to, you know, make fun of and make jokes about Matt Schaubb turtle sacks. And Tom Brady and Peyton Manning did the same thing. When they know that sometimes you just got to know you're going to take an L. And that's just not in Deshaun Watson's DNA.

And sometimes it looks amazing. And sometimes it just looks terrible. Putrid. And you know how I was kept trying to celebrate by on zero and zero because they had no chance to beating those first two teams? Pittsburgh's not great. No. Pittsburgh's defense looks, I mean, now,

the front seven now poor I got terrible news for you there's a there's an outstanding watt in the NFL I mean a really really awesome what he doesn't play for the Texans anymore I mean he's really good but there's a better watt yeah TJ Watt is better than TJ and for a significant period of time now yeah

it's painful and so T you know and again reporter so what was it like being on the field with your brothers JJ's like I don't care it'll be cool We're like 40 years old and we're watching our kids play ball. But right now I don't care.

I don't want to hear any more about the Watt brothers playing on the same field anymore. Don't. I'm over it. I want to hear about Bill O'Brien being relieved of his duties as general manager and coach. Kyle, you're going to hold your breath. Short of that, there's nothing about the Texans that interest me. And here, Rossi, we're in three weeks into the freaking season. Now, granted, they're going to get fat and happy off of Minnesota next week because Minnesota sucks too.

Minnesota almost beat the Titans. Almost, yeah. at home. And what does the Texans defense struggle with? The run. And how many yards did Daven Cook get yesterday? 150 plus, I believe. But I mean, but Dalvin Cook got 150 yards plus and they still lost.

So that's not a guarantee. Daven Cook can run for two. The Titans are better than the Texans. I forgot about that part. I mean, what do y'all want to do? I seriously, I want to start recording my shows ahead of time. So, Ross, you and I can take Mondays off. Well, we just have to start doing 90-day fiancions?

breakdowns or Love Island. Let's latch onto a show and watch it. Is that Love Island show just nothing but sex? I would imagine. I have not watched one episode of it. I've seen the promos over and over again. Yeah. There's a new show on Fox I do.

I'm starting to watch now. Is it the Bradshaw Bunch? No, I've already seen one episode of that. It's called Filthy Rich. Go on. It's about a famous family who runs a evangelical television network. And the dad, who is the leader of this,

supposedly dies in a plane crash. and apparently he had a bunch of kids with other women and these other kids have come back to take part in the money that is the part of the evangelical network. Is this reality or is it fiction? No, it's real show. I mean, it's fiction.

Okay. You know what Gerald McCraney is? Major Dad on TV? Me? No. Longtime character actor. He's the guy that's the father who supposedly dies. He doesn't die. You'll find out in the first episode. Spoilers.

Okay, well, I mean, it's first. And then Kim Cottrell, who was hot. Samantha on sex in the city. Well, she's now old now, but she was sexy back in the day. She is the... Manikin. Oh, mannequin. She was super hot.

She's the mom on the show. Okay. That's what we're going to have to break down. I mean, I'm serious. If there is a TV show on Fox, you think I should watch, I'm all for it because the crap I'm watching on CBS ain't good anymore. I'm talking about Texans on Saturday Sundays. This week's games on Fox, by the way.

Nothing that matters. Maybe it's... Maybe a change in TV. Maybe a change in TV networks will help this out. Kenny Albert on the call or something. No, it's Chris Myers. Our buddy. Not Chris Myers is a former center.

It's Chris Myers, the Fox. The crews have already been announced? You're always on top of that. Oh, yeah, you know, man. All right, 713-212-5-7-90. History is repeating itself. So give us some fresh material. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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That's a base set. Fish are around third and coming home. The thrown-in-up plate, not in time. Sports Talk 790. Astros win. Home for Astros baseball. We just didn't find a balance. We didn't establish a run.

We just didn't make enough. honestly. So that just kind of backfired on us and it's been a minute enough plays to score 2,000 points and it's like a half and they just win against us.

So he's basically saying if Kevin Johnson, Kevin Johnson it's funny that Johnson name just doesn't work very well around here, does it? Duke, David. If David Johnson would have been given the ball seven more times, 12 more times for a total of 25 carries, it would have

balanced things all a little bit better, that things would have been a lot better. Is that what we're trying to say? No, we're saying that David Johnson is not an NFL running back for a starting NFL team. He's just not. He's just not. And we knew that the moment he got traded here. And we knew that Texans traded their best receiver, maybe in their franchise's history.

Sorry, Andre Johnson fans, but DeAndre is on the path to be better. This is poor DeAndre. I shouldn't say poor. I would say poor Deshaun't say poor Deshaun Ross, but Deshawn just signed a filthy kind of track. He's making 40 mil in the next couple years. He's going, he's going to sign this and I'm going to get him because I'm going to have me a new coach in a couple years and I'll be able to start

fresh or he's going to be like, well, I better sign this because it's going to be more money than I would get as a franchise tag and I'm stuck here for three years anyway. Right? He's not, I don't think he's stuck here, Matt. He wants to be here. He wants to be here for new coach. I think he likes Bill O'Brien. That's, and that's a character flaw.

because what Bill O'Brien has sent him down is towards a straight path of mediocrity. Mediocre. And what he's doing is he's not getting better. That's true. He's Lamar Jackson got better. Pat Mahomes got better. Give me somebody else that's an up and coming.

I don't need Russell Wilson. He's been the league a long time. Josh Allen is playing pretty well. Josh Allen is getting better. Deshawn is right where he is. through mostly no fault of his own, but he does carry some of the responsibility. He just does.

We can't have the Kool-Aid in and go, well, if Deshaun had receivers in an offensive, I mean, yeah, some of that's true. But this is, you know, Deshawn's got to carry some of this too. Not very much, but he's got to carry some of it. The great ones elevate the team as well. This team doesn't elevate. This team just, you know, this is fine.

Nine and seven is the bar. And again, 9 and 7 probably is very well going to happen. Although, as I say these things, you think Green Bay looks like they're going to come down here and lay an egg against the Texans? Nope. Who else? Two games with the Titans? Do the Titans look like going to be a piece cake? No.

Does New England look like they're a joke? Bears are 3 and O. Man, but that's a faulty three. They're still 3 and 0. Yeah. Well, the Texans are 0 and 3. The Bears have won three games. The Texans have 1.0.

But, Ross, you fail to forget the Texans are the best three and O team in the NFL. Is that what you're going to roll with now? I'm going to say with that one. Last week was their O&O, and O. And this week they're the best three and three team in the NFL. Well, I mean, okay, let's talk about O and three teams. Can't mention the Lions, they won. Yes.

Eagles are there O2 and one. Who else is O'N3? The Vikings. The Vikings are O and three. The New York Giants, the Denver Broncos, Houston Texans. and the absolute worst team in the NFL, the New York Jets. Oh, the Texans are better than the Jets, for sure.

Well, yes. All right. So are our most high school teams. We've got, we have Astros baseball tomorrow and Wednesday, so we're going to move everything around. So you've got a few more days of percolate on the Rotten Five. That's true. My question is, jets are last. Will the Giants, Jets, and, well, the Texans join that elite group on the Rotten Five this week?

There are. six 0 and 3 teams. And the Texans are the best one. So we got something that we got something to hang our hand on. Well, we'll see if they're in the round 5. 713-212-5-7-90. Oh, here's the, I got news for you. I got the playing Ross, ready?

O-N-3 to about 9 and 7-8-8-n-8-8. Maybe he squeezes the third playoff team. No way. You're not making the playoffs. I'm not seeing it out of this team. Were you saying that two years ago? I'm not seeing. Remember how we talked about how last year in week one and they lost

close to the Saints, yeah. The Saints, because they gave, Will Lutz kicked a 57, 58-yarder and they were in that game,

they were on the road and a tough environment was like, wow, they're moving the ball, they look really good against a really good team. You felt good about that loss. You feel good about any of these losses

that Texans have had? No, I'm sick to my stomach. Exactly. So you can say, oh and three is O and three, but I think you also have to contextualize it and their own three against the spread.

When is there anybody that's going to say, coach, you goofed in the David Johnson trade, When are you going to admit that? And so Bill goes to the microphone. Okay, I'm ready to say something. And then Easterby, like, pushes him to the side. He tackles him?

No, it's a tug. Smacks him over the head with a Bible? No, but he says, we're not doing this right now. I do want to give you a phrase. The daily affirmation of, you know, the other side of the pillow is just as cool as the other side. You just don't know it. Some stupid-ass thing. I don't know.

Thanks, Jack. glad you guys are, I almost got me a slushy out of this until I realize they don't do slushies anymore. Yeah, they used to do, do they do tacos now or they used to do something for two touchdowns. It doesn't matter. You don't win anything. You get two touchdowns. They got two touchdowns. I should get you something. I think it gets you a smack in the ass.

You get you like, well, if you're into that kind of thing, sometimes you got to pay for that. Soobes, what's going on? Before I get to my Texans content, in terms of reality show, I don't know if you notice not there. There's one coming to Houston in November. already here. And one of your listeners, me, was nominated to be in the show. I have until November to let them know. It's called Married at First Site. I'll let you look that up. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll down, soobs.

No, no, no, no, I totally believe you on this. You're telling me, you have a chance to go on a show, a Fox reality show. You're going to see somebody for the very first time and you're going to marry her right away? No, I said I got nominated for you. I didn't say I was going to do it. I have until November to let him know. So I wanted to give you a little bit of good news because this weekend was soggy cornflakes when it came to the Texans.

So Maestro, if I'm allowed to, imagine you buying a brand new car and it's all nice. We'll say, you know, whatever, my thing. And then your dad takes the V8, V6, V5 engine out of it and puts a one, so, a one-liter engine in it. Bill O'Brien, oh my goodness gracious. You had Carlos Highland team who ran with attitude last year. You had first down machine D-Hop, and you decided, oh, no, I have an ego problem. I'm not going to sign both of these guys who are equivalent to the salary of David Johnson.

So you pretty much traded away 300 yards for 50 yards. Your offensive line on the right side continues to get obliterated, killing our quarter. quarterback. I'm like, Matt, I love, I'm like really grateful for you and Ross. And I'm glad that you are calling out the kids on Kirby. Then we deserve boys on Kirby no more. Sorry, Larry's. But this is so depressing. I guess, I mean. And that's why I can't be a fan of theirs. I just, yeah, soups, thanks for the phone call. Keep us up to date on that reality show. Because if you're in, I want to definitely like be there for like an extra role. That's why I can't do it, Ross. I can't do it. This has been, they have been ridiculously consistent since 2011. Haven't they not?

Is there anything that has been like, wow, I mean, even Jacksonville, you know how sucks for a long time? Then once in a while they surprise you and they go to the EFC championship game. You know, Tennessee sucks for a long time. Who is that, who's that terrible ass quarterback from LSU? Long-ass Burger. Like, Zach Metzat? Remember how Zach Mettenberger just sucked and the Texans could always beat him up. And you're like, man, the Titans, you suck. Like I think a third of JJ Watts career sacks are against Zach Medbred.

Marcus Marietta. Oh, God, they suck. But they go to championship games. Indianapolis, you know, the Texans are getting owned by them for a better part of eight to nine years. They go to a couple of Super Bowls. They trade a quarterback. They go get a franchise quarterback and he gets hurt and retires. I mean, they have ebbs and flows.

This team has zero ebbs and flows. it's straight line into mediocrity, disappointment, and history repeating itself over and over and over again. There's a 4 and 12 and a 2 and 14 mixed in there somewhere. Where's that 13 and 3, number 1C, going to kick it by his ass and get out of our way? They've never won 13 games in their franchise history. All right, so we're still looking for that. Yeah, still on the search, Matthew. Corey and Cyprus will get to you, Elwood and Spring.

I always feel like when Elwood comes on, it should be like we should play the Blues Brothers song. Where's Jake? Coming to you. That's like Easterby and O'Brien. They should have their own version of Blues Brothers. Oh, their version of the Soul Man? Yeah. Okay.

How did John Goodman get mixed up in that? Was he in like Blues Brothers 2 or something? I don't know, but he and Dan Aykroyd are tight. Okay. That's the reason why I came into play, I think. And of course, the original John Ballush? John Belushi, yeah. Not Jim?

Jim is alive still. Okay. May he live and his brother rest. I was going to say Jim may agree who trained off his brother, but that's fine. But he's still. Still did some stuff. Yeah. Signed Frank Stano.

Frank Snottor Jr. Me, he also rest in peace. Well, he's dead? Oh, yeah. What about Nancy? Dead. Oh, well, her boots were made for walking. I don't think there's a, there's a sonatra that's alive, but I could be wrong.

The whole family tree is not snuffed out bad. Among those that are celebrities. Frank Sinatra the third has got to be knocking around somewhere. That's true. All right. So people have been asking, what do you do to solve the blues of another Texans loss? Well, if you're at home and you're a responsible drinker, you sip on a little Balcones distilling, Balcones Distilling, made right here in the state of Texas, made not too far from us about three hours up in Waco.

They have Blue, Baby Blue, which is a very delicious flavor. They have pot still bourbon. They have a claimed Texas single malts. They basically, the Balcones does, has something for every whiskey fan. And what you should do is, hey, I got a stock up because it's going to be a long-ass season for the Texans. yourself a favor, stop by the favorite spirit store and walk it and say, hey, Matt'sman, tell me about this great bourbon whiskey from Balcones distilling.

The Texas Potsdale bourbon is a local favorite of mine because it is made with Texas Blue. Smartphones, laptops, desktops, smart TVs, tablets, and smart speakers. All you have to do is tell your smart device. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHod Radio. Get the game. Then talk about it here.

Sports Talk 790 is Houston's home for Rocket It's basketball. You really have no choice. We're coming into work, and tomorrow we're going to have filmed to watch this game to get better. We're going to have Vikings film to watch for next week. And Wednesday, we're going to have practices. So, I mean, you don't have any choice but to come in and try and improve and get better.

I don't know what the alternative to that would be. And if you're not interested in getting better and finding ways to get better, then you're probably in the wrong profession. You shouldn't be in sports because that's what this job is. It's finding a way every day to get better, every week to get better. And right now we need to do that in a hurry. Well, that seems nice in theory. Are they going to get significantly better, Ross?

You have the three of us. You had them at the worst record of 8 and 8. Are you ready to change your bet? I'm holding steady at 8 and 8. Okay. Well, then that would mean they would be getting better. Eight wins in the next 13 weeks. would mean they would be getting better.

I think they're a mediocre team, and I think they're going to continue to be mediocre, and mediocre teams often finish 8 and 8. Schedule softens up a little bit. So do you think when JJ said what he said, do you think he was like, yeah, we're going to go get better, and we're going to get an improve, and we're going to be better than our 0-and-3 record indicates. Eight and five the next 13 weeks would indicate that. So maybe he is telling the truth. I mean, eight and five isn't it like your gangbusters and ready for the Super Bowl?

Certainly with the schedule lighting up. What JJ really wanted to say was, I don't know what the hell we're doing around here. We don't have enough talent. Our secondary. I don't want to watch Eric Murray play anymore. I just don't. Vernon Hargraves may not be far behind. I'm sure there's swell fellas.

Although Vernon Hargraves didn't have a great reputation in Tampa. That's true. I don't know about Eric Murray's reputation because nobody really never heard of Eric Murray until he signed a big contract with the Texans. versatile works hard good teammate smart yeah knows in the playbook yeah gets beat often well tries to be one-on-one tackling is who was it on that that fourth it was it fourth and short or was it third in short where they gang put a right bunch of everybody on the right side of the offensive line extra linement and they threw out the receiver on the left corner he was all by himself and he just got by eric murray uh i think it was that even a touch was that a touchdown player or at least

I don't think so. I lose track of these things. I had to go back and watch film on that. No, you don't have. Don't do it. I don't want you watching any more film. Don't all of it. You don't seem,

you won't sound like the smarter guy in the room. Everybody that's like, I'm going to have to go check the tape. No, the tape says the Texan suck. They just do. Rewatching it isn't going to make you feel in it, but unless you just want to get names associated with mistackles and miscoverage and first down carries.

And Juju's just an okay receiver, but not elite. ran around like he was wide open all day long, and he was. Hi, Corey. You're on 790 at 1236. Hi, how's it going, Matt? Good. All right. I don't even know what it began, but I want to start off with talking about the overall lack of talent on this Texas team, especially for defense.

I know at the beginning he talked about how Anthony Weaver didn't really impress you, which I'll agree. He's not doing anything, you know, innovative on the defense. But there's just simply no talent on that side of the ball. I think it's probably three guys to start for the Texans right now that could start for about half the other teams in the league. Watts, Reed, and Roeby. That's it. Everyone else. I think Zach Cunningham, I think, I'll be fair.

I think Zach Cunningham could start for a lot of teams in the NFL. Benardrick McKinney as well. McKinney's like a two-down player at this point. He can't cover tight-ins, but of course, that's the Texan's history. They can't cover tight-ins. I mean, you let him meet him hilly-hooker tight-in and just abuse them. on third down. It's sad. I just don't think Weaver has much to

work with on the defensive side of the ball. You let Reader go. You have nobody in the middle. You have done. You have these just off the street guys out there playing. And they're not going to get better. And then on the offensive side of the ball, you have Tim Kelly's calling plays.

But Bill O'Brien still, he's designed the offense. He's just called the plays as Bill Ryan already created. So it's the same stuff as last season. There's no bootlegs. There's no misdirection. The opposing defenses don't have anything new to prepare for when they watch the technical on film. It is sad.

And then the talent, Bill's blind roster today is less talented than when he took over. How is this allowed to happen? I have no idea. Oh, I do. Ask Cal. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate, Corey. That's the thing.

Everything that people are going to call about today, Ross, the answer is ask Cal gave him all the control, him and Jack. Jack, a very, very awesome. some deacon, strength, not strength coach, personality-driven, swell character coach, whatever. Never manipulated a salary cap. Team chaplain to character coach. Never took care of a draft.

Number two in an organization when it comes to player personal. You know our buddy Aaron Reese who knows with us on Tuesdays? He always gives us these tweets that just boggled the mind. Not a single rookie yesterday played. Not a single, not put a stat up, but played. Yeah, Ross Blacklock was inactive because he punched a guy last week. Grenard and there are some, I don't even know. Yeah.

Not much going on in the next couple of rookie classes for the Houston, Texas. So what do I normally do? I take that tweet and I go save that for 2021 because you're not going to have a first or a second round pick. I'm telling you, I was on a Minneapolis radio show today already, and I'm going on another one this afternoon. More in Minneapolis? Well, because it's Houston, Minnesota Week. You start calling you Minneapolis Mats. Because we got the Texans playing the Vikings this Sunday.

By the way, they're undefeat. They're winless. And the Astros and Twins play a series starting tomorrow. So it's all Minneapolis. Oh, that's true. So it's all Minnesota Houston win. I mean, and that's your home. Well, I lived there for three years. Had a great time. A former home. Two eff and cold, but that's another here nor there.

Yeah. Had to buy a snowblower. And I had to sell it right away when I moved back. There's another bad investment I made. That's unfortunate. That in homes. It's not here nor there. Texans are three and a half point favorites. First time favorite all year, baby.

they're also 0 and 3 against a spread this year. I wonder if any Roman knows that. And Paul Nolan and those gang. You mean Chris Hodge. And Chris Hodge. Those guys were doing the weekends. Yeah. That show is addictive, dude.

They're just... Really? Oh, my gosh. It's... It's so nuts that I can't turn it off. Because they treat football picks like stocks. You just turn it off when the sports RV show comes on 1101. I listen occasionally.

I just said occasionally. Elwood in spring on 790. Elwood, what's going on? How you doing that? Good. How you doing, Ross? Just real quick, I don't know if y'all are familiar with Tyler Perry plays, but the Texan are like Tyler Perry plays.

Like, you invest into the characters because he's familiar with them, and then once it hits the big spring, just like Texan's his prime time or step up competition, it's the same old writing, and it gets redundant, and it's pathetic. to me, that's what the Texans are. And on the game itself, before I hang up, how on earth could Bill O'Brien or Mike Tomlin

influenced him into trying to play smash-mouth football in the third quarter? Because the second quarter, we were lightened up their secondary. And it's like, Tomlin made adjustments. And he said, you know, well, let's slow this game down. And I hope Bill O'Brien follow suit and make this a smash-mouth football game.

And that's exactly. Do you know what the problem was I would? I thought the biggest problem was the team in the second half found themselves losing five and six yards on first down way more often than they should. T.J. Watt was stuffing any running game. You could get nothing going. You'd have a sack on Deshawn.

How many times are the Texans faced second and, say, more than 15? It felt like a bunch in the second half, which limits what you can do because you can't use the running game. You have to stretch the ball down the field. And frankly, the Texans offensive line can't keep Deshawn free of pressure for any length of time so he can look downfield. That, to me, was the biggest problem. Not so much what Pittsburgh did, because think about this, Elwood, Pittsburgh did exactly

what Baltimore and Kansas City did. Run it down the Texans' throat, time-consuming drives, take the Texans off the field because they knew that the Texans' defense couldn't stop them. Yeah, I agree with that, but it just seemed like to me, it just seemed like the whole nuance of, like that second quarter, you had the field. You just realize, okay, Pistford Secondary might be just as bad as I was. You know, I'm like, okay, they're going to unleash Deshaun the second half

because the second quarter of Deshaun was ripping. Oh, it was literally two games, my friend. Thank you, Lowe, for the phone call. Why is that, gang? Why was that two different football games? Did the Texans get lucky? Or did Mike Tomlin and his staff make adjustments at the half? I don't know the answer.

The answer is, the Texans could, their defense could not get off the field the second half. Tired? Lack of talent? Finally got exposed? All the above? Couldn't stop the run. Couldn't stop the pass.

Other than that, they were great. And there was a lot of long methodical drives. You had a 12 play drive and then the last, and then a 12 play drive and an 11 play drive. By the Steelers, three of their drives. How about the Balsey fourth and one call for Pittsburgh, Rothelsberger throws the deep bomb and they get a P.I. out of it. That's just a lack of respect. Got to win your ones, Matt.

You've got to win your one on once. That's the Pittsburgh Steelers saying, your defense is atrocious. 1244, the Matt Thomas show. What you're talking about Bill coming up at the top of the hour? Wonderful. NFL rewind from the weekend with Ross. Rewind with Ross. So that three times fast at 1.30.

We go to Minneapolis at 2 o'clock. Our buddy Phil Mackey from ESPN,500, is going to join us to discuss. do the Astros have a chance against a Minnesota Twins? We'll do that in a minute. 1244, Sports Talk 790. Daniel House. Hey, is Daniel House. Matt Thomas continues now.

On Sports Talk 790. I did mention it a minute ago that is Houston, Minnesota Week. Astros and Twins tomorrow at 1 o'clock on ABC. It's a series so big they're going to put it on the regular channel. Yeah, what the hell's going on with that? Well, it's It's really strange. There are eight different playoff series, okay?

That's true. One of them goes on the TBS. I'm surprising they didn't put the Astros twins on ESPN News. Well, it probably crossed their mind. So there are eight different playoffs series. What are people going to be missing on ABC that's normally? General Hospital. What is on?

Tamron Hall. What is that? That's a talk show. Okay. General Hospital and what's at three Is it a woman or a man? No, it's a woman. It's a woman.

I've seen her show before. I'm more familiar with Cameron than Tamara. No, what's on at 3 o'clock? Look at the record. General Hospital. I wouldn't know. People aren't going to get their inside edition? No, inside edition at 3.30.

This is upsetting. No, eyewitness news at 4. You'll get live at 5. Why has the news on every 30 minutes? Because new people make, TV stations make money off of news. Yeah, I guess. They must. I mean, I've never watched news at 3 p.m.

I don't watch local news. who's generally speaking period, but I'm sure he's not doing it at three. Are you going to be upset? You're missing your general hospital Tuesday? I don't watch General Hospital. That's not my jam. Now, if the games were on CBS and I had to miss Bold and Beautiful or Young and a Wressles, there'd be some issues.

I thought they weren't even making new episodes, though. No, everybody's back. Really? Yeah. The only Are they masked up during the show? No. But, and I'm not kidding you about this, they are kissing mannequins. Love scenes are being done with mannequins. Oh, all right. I'll pump the brakes here. What? Yeah, you haven't seen it.

No, I haven't seen it. Soap operas, Manicin love scenes. I think I get flagged by the FBI after Googling that. You've heard about this, right, Brandon? You know. Brennan is screaming it up right now. I've never seen Brendan Dart to the computer faster than when you just said Manicin love scenes.

I'm a little concerned. You might want to check out Kim Cottrell in the 1980s classic Manichin and Manichin. Seriously, I'm giving you a friend-to-friend favorite. Go watch Kim Cottrell and Manikin 85. It's very creepy. Oh, it's delightful. I mean, it's great. It's Jefferson Starship and weird mannequin sex.

It's very uncomfortable. But when the mannequin turns into her, it's a win for all of us. Yeah. Anyways. So, yeah, they are trying to social distance by kissing mannequins. And they put wigs on them or? I don't know the details. I've tried to slow it down to see if I can see what a mannequin, but they've done

obviously really good job of editing. So it doesn't look. Are they in a bubble? Are they getting tested every day? What's going on with that? I don't know. All I'm telling you is most shows are starting to produce now, except for the price is right. They're still showing old episodes.

from like five and six years ago. Well, don't they bring some Bob Barker classics back? Well, they are. They're doing 70s Classic Week, but it's Drew Carey hosting how the show was hosted in the 70s. It's a... What does that even mean? You know, you go back to the...

Like, we would go to a dance party, we'd wear a 70s clothes. Oh, you're just wearing a leisure suit. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. Now, the price is right. You probably could do that. You could just probably separate people by four or five seats, right?

You could probably have 50 people in the audience. Then you could adjust the prices for inflation? No, you probably get a better chance of getting on stage because there's lots of people who compete against. in the audience, you know, because the audience probably has two, 300 people in it. Like, how much is this brand new, 1974 Mustang? And then somebody can bid on how much it would have been in 1974. It's not a bad call.

But I want the real episodes back. I've almost memorized every episode of the price is right, so we need to move it on. Any luck with your mannequins back there? Yeah, this is a real thing. And I told you. I'll tell you what. You can tell. It's just very still.

Excuse me? What did you just say? It's very still. What is? The kissing. If you're a still kisser, 713, 212, 5, 790. It just looks weird. Like, if you see someone's got a video of it online, it's very uncomfortable.

It would take me out of watching a TV show. I told you I wouldn't make it up. This is ridiculous. Yes. Weekdays on CBS. This is stupid. So tomorrow, no mannequin kissing on General Hospital. but instead you get Astros baseball.

In fact, sometime in the 2 o'clock hour, or 1 o'clock or we should honor great moments in ABC sports baseball history. Because when I was growing up, that was the place to watch the games. I had no idea of baseball was ever on ABC. The last time ABC had baseball was actually in the mid-90s. It's something called the baseball network where they split the games with NBC. And on Saturday nights, they would put every game on ABC. And if you were, if you were the Astros and Twins, the Minnesota markets and ABC

would get the twins and the Astros. if you were Braves Dodgers, those two cities would get the ABC of that. So, yeah, they used to have baseball on for decades. And Frankfurters only cost a nickel. Yeah. You know Howard Cocell used to do baseball? What? Yes.

Actually, I do vaguely remember hearing something to say that. And then the last time the Astros were on a playoff series in 86, it was Keith Jackson doing the Astros' Mets with a young Tim McCarver. Really? I'm not lying to you. Interesting. I know this broadcaster. stuff that's creepy to most of it. Yeah, it's fine, man. It's part of your charm. It is. Let's go to Ayy and A-Leaf at 1254 on 7.9. Hi, A.Y.

MP, how are you doing? Well, Ayy. Yeah. I know you will say I've come again, but I've told you, Bidio as the GM or Brio as the coach is not it. And we are still seeing the effect of that, the Andrew Hopkins trade. It's so painful because you see right now the offense is so predictable, very predictable. So that is why we cannot play four quarters. Once again, how can you trade the Andre Hopkins and bring in Johnson? You can see the difference or the contrast.

And as long as BLEO is the general manager or is in charge, we are not going to go far. Up until he is out of there, just taking that we are going to become a mediocre team and a laughing stock. Because I don't, it's still, I still can't phantom me. How do you let your best player go and you want the same results? That's the, really. How do you let your best player go and get the same results? It's just painful as a fan. But it is what it is.

I was right with the team. I'll call it again next week when we are 0 and 4. Very much. Okay. Well, anyway, he's already got it predicted, Ross. This is a 0 and 4. Could happen. like being a Texans fan

I don't have any I've never been a fan of theirs now have I rooted for them absolutely have I thought at one point them being really really good would be good for all of us yeah but it's frankly easier for us to do talk shows when they lose because it's the same stale storyline what does it like to be a real

Texans fan because my buddy Larry I don't know if Larry's listening he could be Larry likes going all the shows so he He could be moving around to get what he wants. Larry and Stafford. Okay. You knew that. Larry will call and bitch and complain about Bill O'Brien how much he hates him

and how the Texans on Kirby down doing this, doing that. And my man, Larry's a good kid. Great family love his boy. But Larry loves his Texans. He's never going to say, I'm done. I'm putting the jersey away. I'm not going to the game. He said it before.

Well, saying it and doing it are two different things. He's never done it. So that's what Larry is. If you are anything the Texan, that's who I mean, that's who I want you to know. I want to know who you are. Because they've, Ross, they've given you, like, for instance, if I was a Jaguar fan, or a Miami Marlins fan, if I was a diehard Miami Marlins fan, Ross, I have two World Series. Do you know that?

Two. No, I got 25 years of suck, but I got two World Series. If I was a Jaguars fan, no, they've never gone to the Super Bowl, but they've gone to a pair of AFC championship games. They've given me some of success. Tell Tennessee, since moving from Houston to Nashville, they went to a Super Bowl.

They were almost there last year. They've done it. They've given me some, something to be like, oh, there's hope. If you're blank the Texan or Texan blank, what have they given you except, I don't know, heartburn? What's talking about? Bill. How would you rate this week's collection of sound bites? Oh, Brendan Riley.

I got to tell you, I think it's my favorite one so far of the regular season. So I don't, seven and a half out of ten. Nice. Ross, you ready? No. We're up in the challenge for you, my friend. I'm wondering what kind of mood he's going to be in. That'll usually, we'll figure out. Well, I think Brandon will give you the mood. That's fine. No, I don't need the mood. Are you sure you don't need it? I'll give it to you. Well, it's probably not good. It's not going to be chipper and belly. I don't think he's doing bellif, backflips. Yeah.

Hey, good to hear from me there, Aaron. 1258, Sports Talk, 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show. It is a Monday staple of the Matt Thomas show during the fall. By the way, we're not on tomorrow on Wednesday because Astros playoff baseball. So if you want to get in here and bitch to us, we are the most interactive bitch station in show in America, right? Sure.

We like people do more being than anybody else. I'm going to have to agree with you on that one, Matthew. 713, 212, 5, 790. 713, 212, 5, 790. Ross is getting ready to do this, but we've saved one sound bite. We're going to let somebody in the audience play. I'll get my stretches and I'm ready. So Ross will have three and then one lucky listener, if they would like to,

would you like to play what you're talking about Bill O'Brien? Where we give you what the question is and you have to guess what Bill O'Brien said. So if you'd like to play what you're talking about Bill, we have no prize to give you. We've got prizes for, believe it or not, today coming up at $250. Oh, we are? Yeah. But just for the fun of entertaining Houston sports fans, 713, 212, 790, and you can be a contestant and a player in this.

What you do, what you're talking about? Coach O'Brien. All right, Rossi. So we'll give an example of how this works, so somebody at home wants to play along and they can do this. 28 seconds on Coach O'Brien's press conference today, what they can take away from being 0-and-3 back in 2018? 28 seconds. Well, you know, that's a good point. I mean, it just proves anything can happen, and you don't want to take too much from a slow start.

And now, of course, that season's different from this one. But we got a lot of things that we can do better. There's a lot of things that we need to do better. And it's a different team relative to 2018. but in the National Football League, just because you get off to a slow start, doesn't mean you can't turn this thing around, and that's what we have to do.

I mean, every year is different, Sarah. I would say that there's not much you can take from that year, three different teams we opened up against that year. We've opened up against, you know, three very good teams. And we just haven't, we haven't, you know, obviously done enough to win any of those games. So, you know, we have to, we did a lot of things yesterday that were decent, but not enough.

And we just have to really, build on the things we're doing well and really correct the things we're not doing well. Yeah, I'm in a generous mood. Why would I want to give anything less than two and a half stars on that? Thanks. Right down the middle. He started hot right out the gate.

It just struggled after that. Yeah. You had a really fast start and a lousy finish, sort of like what the Texans did yesterday. I'm going to give you two because I was trying really hard to find one more ding to give you, and it wasn't easy. But you started so hot that I got to give you two stars.

Okay. All right. up 38 seconds. Most important thing, they have to do better. 38 seconds. What you're talking about Bill O'Brien? That's a lot of work there. By the way, let me ask you all this because you think about what you want to say.

What if the Texan season would have started with games against Chicago, Detroit, and Cincinnati? Will we be talking about a 3-0 football team right now? You think so? You think it's been that bad? No, no. But isn't it, do you think Bill O'Brien's thinking that? Maybe. I don't know. Why wouldn't you think that?

Why wouldn't you think if you had this rigorous part of this, if you had these three really good football teams spread out over 16 weeks as compared to bam, bam, bam, bam, this team would be better off where they are? That's a great question. Do you think the Texas would have been significantly better if they would open up the year against Chicago, Detroit, and Cincinnati as compared to opening up against Kansas City, Baltimore and Pittsburgh?

Well, they're going to play all of them, so we'll see how it goes. Okay. All right, 38 seconds. What are you think? What is the title again? What's the most important thing they have to do to get better? Well, there's a lot of things we've got to do better. There's a lot of things we're doing good.

We have things that we need to build on and things that we need to improve on. And that's everybody and that's every team. Whether we're won three games or we lost three games, we're just trying to go out there and we're trying to do better. We've played well in spots. We've run the well. What we have to do, though, is we have to be more consistent and we have to execute at a higher level

in order to win some of these games. against these tougher football teams? We have to play better complimentary football. You know, we go down at the end of the half and we have a really nice two minute drive, take the lead, and then we go in at halftime, we come out second half and, you know, the defense did some good things in the second half,

but offensively, we didn't compliment them at all. We didn't compliment offense with return yardage. There was more return yardage out there for us, return kickoff return so you know we're just not doing enough of that we do it at times but not enough and so we really need to understand that and and really do a better job of that three stars if you would have said compliment at any point during your guessing he hasn't said complimentary football in a couple of years that's bringing that one back that would have given you like the first ever six star grade he used to say complimentary football every week and then he kind of

stopped yeah i actually think you had the core message right yeah you didn't get many words right but the idea that there's a lot they need to do better, but there are some things they have done well. I thought that was the core message. Thank you. I'm going to give you four stars on that. Four to five. Nice work.

Sports RV. Every word, he says. There's a million words in the English language. That's why he's giving you credit for that. I just would have liked one. Thank you. No, I'm talking about Matt. Oh, I'll give you four.

Very tough. I can give you four. That's okay. All right. By the way, we've got one more, we want to listen to try one of these. So if y'all want to play, we'll be way easier on grades than on Ross is.

doing it. We'll be way easier on grades than on Ross. Because we actually like you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Ross, last one, 35 seconds. It's lengthy. Positives. Is it positives from this week or for this week? From this week. Ooh, this is, this one I can't. Oh, I think I got a good head start for you. But go ahead. 35 seconds. Positives from this week. I mean, yeah, there are some things that we have done well, some things that we can build on.

Deshawn Watson made a couple of good plays. I thought Bernadrick McKinney played well. Zach Cunningham was flying all over the place. We just need to be more consistent. And we need to find the things we're doing well. We need to do them better. We need to do them more consistently. And that's what we need to do moving forward.

Yeah, I think there, look, I mean, you know, it stinks when you have to talk about positives after you lose a game. but there are positives. And, you know, you're right. We played pretty good complimentary football in the first half. You know, obviously we've played three really good teams. We're not we're not there yet. We we didn't win any of those games, but feel like we've definitely improved and we need to try to, you know, play 60 minutes of that type of football. I think if we play 60 minutes of that type of football, we can we can win. But we got to get it going here very quickly. Like I said last week, you know, we got to get it

on. Okay. Not bad. I feel like I'm going to start grading you way on a higher curve. I'm being too, I'm like my son's college professors and love it. Sometimes just grading too difficult. Wait a second.

Is that what he's selling you? Or how do you know his professors are grading? I'm just saying that I feel like that probably I was too difficult that I would, if the roles were reversed. No, I'm talking about your son's professors. Oh, he's probably has given me excuses. Okay. I'm saying that I, if the rolls are reversed and I,

and you were giving me crappy grades, I'd be getting mad at you too. You're supposed to be checked. Before you even register for classes, you've got to check the, what are the professor rating websites? Oh, they still have those? Yeah, was it called prof?

Rate my professor. Yeah, rate my professor. So you're not looking at looks. You're looking at how difficult the professor is. Why would you, what looks? Well, in case you have a hot professor. It makes you want to go to class more often.

How many hot professors do you think are running around Texas Tech? Have you been to Lubbock? professors? Well, I mean, 30-somethings. Yeah, it's okay. So, T.A. Same difference. All right.

We got somebody here who wants to play which you're talking about Bill. Let's say hi to Paul in Dallas. Paul, how are things? Yes, sir? Okay. Okay, that's fine. Oh, he hung up.

Matter of our second, which is talking about hung up, too. So we're going to go, which is talking about free here? I can do it. Are you want to do it? Yeah, because we've got a short segment here. So let's get this knocked down. So you made this one a layup drill, right?

For this listener? This was when I was cutting it up, this was the number, like this was the best backup I had. I don't know that I'd call it a lot of. Go ahead and time what it is. I forgot what it was. It's, is there anything David Johnson can do better to help the running game? How long? 26 seconds.

Okay. This will be a nice easy five-star for you. 26 seconds? On David Johnson. Really? Mm-hmm. Look, when it comes to the running game, it's a team effort. It's about everybody.

It's not just David. It's also the offensive line, and it's my play calling. I'm sorry, Tim Kelly's play calling. So, I mean, just in all aspects of the running game, you've got to get better. So it's just not any one guy. It's a team effort when it comes to the running game. And it's obviously very important to establish a run, and we've got to do a better job of that. No, there's nothing that David can do differently.

You know, I thought the run blocking, you know, I think we have to, as a coaching staff, we have to do a much better job of scheming it up and just doing a better job. Now, David, David's running hard. And look, can we run block better? Yes. But we're all in it together. And, you know, coaching-wise, we've got to do a better job. Stop.

Stop saying coaching better. If Celio Calamete is playing, you can coach him up all you want. He's just going to be a very average left side of your offensive line. Right, Ross? You're not going to coach him up to all pro level, Matt. How weak is that that you just overly defend your players? Right? He is going to protect David Johnson at all costs.

That's right. He's really not protecting his offensive line. He's protecting that god-awful pick. By the way, who leads the NFL in receptions? I believe it's DeAndre Hopkins. And he plays four? The Arizona Cardinals. 113 on Sports Talk 790.

118 of the Matt Thomas show, Sports Talk 790, Texan's second 0-and-3 start in the last three years. Thanks to Austin Rivers for getting us into the show. Austin, at this point, I believe, is a rocket, right? I think so. Does he have free agency left? Still ahead? Who knows?

Miami and the Lakers to play for the NBA championship. Yes, Matt. By the way, America turns its eyes to the NBA finals, or maybe not. Probably not. I had the Lakers in five so go and put that down Okay Yeah I did

So what You had the Rockets in five in the first round series for them No I had Rockets in six And then backed off the five And they got up to seven Hold on you You started at six Correct

You won the first two games Right And then you said okay I'm changing it to five I did Then went back to six Never went to seven, though. You never went back to six. Eh,

kind of had to. Maybe on Plinkos and Powerbombs or something. I didn't catch it. I didn't catch that episode. So, yeah, I did have it. And so, oh, by way, so there's no gut feelings tomorrow. Do you want to do a gut feeling in the next hour? We could, because.

Brendan, do you have a gut feeling ready for next hour? He went 0 for 2 on his, and Jose L2A did not come close to hitting 2-0,300. I can figure one out. Okay, so we have Phil Mackeon from $500 in the Salt Lake in many, Apple's next hour for twins, Astros, Vikings, Texans. After that, we'll go for a gut.

We'll do some gut feelings. Okay. Because the question would be, well, one of the three of you, one of us want to give a gut feeling on how the Astros twin series is going to go. You don't have to. I'm just suggesting it. I got one. I'll tell you right now.

My gut feeling is that it doesn't go well for the Astros. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do the gut feeling yet. We'll save it for like 220. I don't have to pick that one. No, you don't. I just tell you my gut feeling on that one.

My gut feeling is awful. I got acid stomach. Don't. Intigestion. Upset stomach. Oh, geez. Diarrhea? Well, no, but thanks for giving it as a potential option.

Yeah, you get the Ria? I don't know. You get the dysentery? I think Houston Sports gives me that. What a suck year for Houston Sports. So, by the way, I go on. Grinky Kenta Maeda in the game one. Ashos can win that one.

I go on Minneapolis Radio. And they're just destroying me on cheating. Everybody wants their piece of the Astros. Oh, and the twins? Yeah. The twins are really wrapped up in the Astros cheating? No. In Minnesota?

Minneapolis Media's. Really? Yeah, these are baseball guys that going. I used to work with these guys. Yeah. They want their pound of flesh. Whatever. They asked.

They asked me if they think there's going to be any extracurricular activity. Benches clearing. I'm like, this is the playoffs. Yeah, I would never have thought that. In a playoff series? Why would you risk losing any players because of that? Are the Astros and the Kentima Aida going to be going at it? Actually, I said, why?

Actually, I told him, and I said, look, the twins always play the Yankees in the playoffs, and they always lose. You know what you should have asked? Go ahead. Sorry. And I said, why would you want to get kicked out of a game when you think you can maybe win this one because you're not playing the Yankees? And I'm like, yeah, tusha.

Do they cheer for Marwin Gonzalez? When Marwin Gonzalez hits a home run or gets a, get knocks in a couple of runs with the devil. Why don't you ask that to Phil? Do they cheer for them? Why don't you? If you don't, I will, but I thought it'd be good. Go ahead. I don't care.

These are your boys. Okay. So we got that coming up at two. So we'll have gut feelings of 220 today. A little early Monday gut feeling. 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to join us. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We go around the NFL coming up in the next segment.

Also, if any of you want to get in on the college football, this weekend. The Kansas State game Sports RV, holy smokes. That Oklahoma team looked nothing like a top five football team. Not at all. I will say this.

Longhorn's included. Week one was weird. Or week one of conference play or major conference play. Yeah. For the first couple of weeks of football in general. It's getting use of everybody in playing. Yeah. I mean Alabama had a relatively easy go of it. LSU lost that Florida State Old Miss game

was at least at the very beginning. It was a shootout. A&M barely beat Vanderbilt. 17 to 12. Boy, if you took

the dogs, especially in money-lined a couple of them, you were in really good shape. Well, Florida State certainly wasn't ready for Miami. But it was just a weird week.

And I don't know how much we want to take away from that. After no hitting, after teams starting up seasons late. So let's do this. Weird pandemic and all that COVID

and all that stuff. There's only two things come out of this. Either we're going to have a really weird season or all of it's going to clean itself up for week number two. I think we're going to have a bizarre season. I think so too. What was it? Five games canceled over the weekend. Or postponed.

By the way, Houston game got the Memphis game got rescheduled for December the 5th. Now again, it provides everybody behaves themselves. The AAC grudge match. Tigers. Cougars. It could be for the conference championship. Wonderful. That can earn you a birth to the...

To a great awesome bowl. Liberty Bowl? No. No. There's not a tie-in directly. Bifo Brady's Bowl? No longer exists. Boko Raton Bowl?

Still exist. Don't think it's connected though to the American. Probably I'm thinking Fiesta, sugar, I don't know, Roe somewhere in that range. I wouldn't hold my breath. 713-212-5-7-90.

Speaking of not holding your breath. Gerard on the Matt Thomas show. Gerard, good afternoon. All right. Good afternoon, you guys. Hi. All right. First of all right, first of all right, first of all right, first of all right, they both won their fights this past Saturday night.

The only Houston athletes to get a win this weekend, shout out to them for winning their fights. It was two good fights if you guys checked that out. But let's talk about the Texas, man. I think they got a, they got 113. Okay. Then they got Deshawn Washington in the wrong. Time out. Time out.

Yeah. One, 1356. Yeah, yeah. Okay, don't tell me what that is. Are you, you're not in a drive-thru, are you? No, no, no, no, no, no. Is that part of your work or is that you're buying something? Yeah, part of my job, part of my work.

Oh, I was going to say, what could you be buying? It's $113.56 right now. Oh, man, it's just a couple of parts from picking up and things. Okay. I was going to say you were at a best buy. where they come out and bring out the television to you. Yeah, here to go. Yeah, we'll hold.

That's fine. You know, nothing else to do. Ross, how was your weekend? Oh, pretty good. Yeah. Brandon, your weekend, okay? Congratulations on your lines. Didn't see that one coming.

Yeah. I didn't cook a lot this weekend. What else? Yeah, young. Okay, go ahead, Gerard. Yeah, quick thing on. I think they got Deshaunette Washington, in the wrong offense.

That's the part of the problem, man. I thought the office he should be running space of the same offense he ran in Clinton, man. That basically uses his arm and his legs, man. Bill O'Brien is basically running, you know, the New England Patriots type offense. And that's good if you got a pocket passer. That's a pure precision passer,

but that's not Deshawn Watson Strong suit. He's a guy that can make plays in the pocket, but he's a guy that's a dual threat. I think they got him running the wrong offense until we get a new head coach in there brings the offense that fits to Sean Watson's skill set, that's when he'll be able to maximize

his ability and things like that. I think they need to bench fortune. I think he's horrible blocking the guard. They need to bench him. Leave the guy Calimente at the left guard and move sharpening over to the right guard. I know you don't want to pay two second year players next to each other, but

you've got the bench fortune, man, because that guy's been absolutely horrible blocking. So I think they can do that. I think on defense, they really miss DJ Reader. I think that loss really, really hurt them, man. They've been pretty much given up a lot of ground on the run game, and that's been partly because they don't have DJ Reader in there to Ockapal Blocker. So I think they're really hurting in that aspect of the game. So they're going to have to be looking to

improve that position. They can't do it this season when an outseason will improve that position because they're getting smashed in one game. Quick thing on the Astros. I don't know. I heard they're going to start Zach Grinky, man. I wouldn't be going with Grinky, man. I go with Frammer. Valdez, he's been your best pitcher all season. I know Gricky got experienced, pitched well in game seven of last year, World Series, but based on how he's pitched this year, man, I wouldn't have him going game one.

I'll be going with Valdez and probably Elkid in game two, but we'll see how that plays out. Quick thing on the NBA, man. I like the Lakers of seven games. I think it's going to be a good series. Postal knows LeBron James. Coached him for four years in Miami, so they're going to cut that pain off and make LeBron James a jump shooter.

So he's going to hit jump shots to beat them. He's got Anthony Davis inside, so that would be a good match up him against the Outer Bayou. That should be a very, very good matchup between those two guys. And I think it's going to be a good series, man. I go with the Lakers and Seven. And that's all I got, man.

All right, Gerard, thank you. You know what Gerard is? I love Gerard. First of all, he was able to conduct business walk calling the show. It's incredible. You know what he is? He's like his own sports center. Yes.

Like, anytime Gerard calls him – He puts his own around the horn. Yeah. Anytime Gerard calls any further, we have to play. Don-na-an-un-un. And he's just anchoring his own little sports cast. Hmm. I like that.

We don't do this on that show. We don't do that on our show. Yeah. He called My Saturday show. He was on for over four minutes. Stop. He hit boxing, UFC, Rockets Head Coaching Search,

Astros and Texas. No college football. No. That's the only thing he didn't get to. So what did you do during that time? I was filing my taxes. Wait a minute. Taxes were due in April.

A couple years past. Oh, I'm a little behind. I'm a little behind. That's fine. So, Giraud is our own little sports center. Yes. Gerard Center. That's it.

Gerad Center. Da-da-da-da-da-da-na. Why do we bother doing the NFL recap when he just gave us a whole recap right there? Because I already prepared it. I guess that's true. 128 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross's NFL rewind straight ahead after we tell you about what's happening with big city wings. Big on wings, big on sports.

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At least now we know that losing sucks. And if anybody knows how much losing sucks, it's Matt Thomas. I'm outstanding. This is Whitney Merciless. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Everybody in their mother does an NFL rewind where they recap the games. We're not going to do that. We're not going to go through every game, tell you who scored and did what.

We're going to give you the stuff that you can. care about, right? I think so. Thus. Except I didn't put the lions on here, sorry. Well, nobody even, I don't think people in Detroit care about the lions. Maybe Grand Rapids cares.

Ladies gentlemen, I present to you, Ross's NFL Rewind. Yes, Matthew, let's go ahead and get it started with Atlanta Falcons. You get up 15 plus twice in a fourth quarter, and you lose twice. Not only has that not happened in a single season, and it has never

happened in back-to-back games, but the Falcons found a way to do it. Dan Quinn asked after the game, have you spoken with Arthur Blank about your job security? Have you spoken with Arthur following the game, Dan? And how concerned are you about your job status following these two weeks? We visit every week, pre-game, post-game, Mondays, through the week. Anytime, Zach, honestly, that I take away from that is time that all I can do is being in front of the team. I said, I need to be the same guy on our best days and our worst days and stand tall for them

and bring the energy and the coaching and the focus that we need to go win. Anything past that does not help the team. So Dan Quinn focused on helping the team. Also, Nick Foles came into the game after Mitchell Trubriski struggled. Three touchdowns on 16, a 29 passing with 188 yards. Also won an interception, of course, the big go-ahead touchdown at the end. I guess Nick Foles actually already has been named the starter for Week 4 for the Chicago Bears. I was asking this to our buddy Joe George, your host Windy City Saturday.

It's Space City Saturdays, Matt. Same difference. Has there ever been an NFL team that was 2 and O in the season and bench their quarterback in week three? Probably at some point. But not right off the top. Not in the middle of the game that they were struggling. No. I guess you know what they say, man.

If you have two to quarterbacks. You don't have one. You don't have one. That's the case for Chicago Bears. Dan Quinn, how long does he keep his job, Matt? who gets fired first Quinn, Adam Gase, or the field? Gase.

Because you can fire Gase after Thursday, right? Probably. Denver beats them at New York. What do they have for as far as assistance? I don't even know it's under the... It wouldn't really matter. Jets coaching staff. Go get Bill Belichick. I mean, Bill Parcells. Whoever they are,

they're all freshening up their resumes right now. All right, let's move along. You know what? Let's go to the AFCE. Speaking of the Jets. one though the Buffalo Bills with a big comeback win Josh gonna throw it looks look spires into the end zone he's got Tyler croft open touchdown touchdown buffalo touchdown bills a four-yard toss Josh Allen and 15 seconds left on the clock now as a play-by-play guy myself I have gone to a different octave yes but that was

almost like a double octave higher with full soprano yeah so yeah I said comeback win, but of course the Rams were the one that came back and then the bills re-came back. They were up 28 to 3. The bills were on the Rams choked up that lead and then won a 35 to 32. Matt, dare I say, Josh Allen MVP buzz? 300 yards in three straight games. The only quarterback to do that so far. Also four touchdowns and had one rushing as well. So five total touchdowns for him. Who would you rather have as your quarterback? Josh Allen or DeShon Watson? Deshawn Watson? Brendan, do you believe him?

I believe everything about it, including the question mark at the end. Brandon, who would you rather have Josh Allen or Deshawn Watson? I didn't expect that question. I would rather have Deshawn Watson. I think Josh Allen's offense is better designed around what he can do. I didn't expect that question to be so difficult. But I'm going with Deshawn Watson. I will tell you, I'd rather have Deshawn Watson, and there's no question mark at the end.

Okay. That's good. I'm glad you have that confidence, Matt. Let's move on, but let's go to the AFC South, where the Titans are now 3 and O. Tana Hill takes a knee again, and that is going to do it. Titans trailed here today, 24 to 12, with eight minutes to go in the third quarter, and they looked done, done, done. And yet, they decide to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and go win a game to get to three. and oh. 31 to 30 over the Minnesota Vikings. They're now 3 in 0. Derek Henry, the big game,

119 yards, a couple of touchdowns. And I feel like with this music, I should be going, whoop? Where's that receiver out of? But Matt, what? Titans going to win the AFC South, or what's the deal? They have a three-game lead on Bill O'Brien's Texans.

Yes, they do. They're not my Texans. They're not your Texans. They could be your Texans. They're Cal's Texans. Janus. Over Cal and Janus's Texans. Three game lead.

So you're saying there's a chance. They play them twice. All you got to do is win those couple of games, and you're making up most of it. I like the positivity. No. Well, let's not get crazy. All right, moving along. Let's go with, you know what, the Dallas Cowboys.

Did you see Matt in the first half, D.K. Metcalfe, with one of the biggest gavs, a tribute to Leon Lett, where he was walking into the end zone, had the ball knocked out of his hands. Well, at the end of the game, he totally redeemed himself. Russell, looks, set, has time. going to throw to the end zone. DK, he makes the catch. Touchdown. Seahawks. 38 to 31 over the Dallas Cowboys.

Russell Wilson, obviously playing very well the first three weeks. I think he's your favorite for MVP, Mr. Unlimited. Oh, how many touchdowns are you thrown so far? I think it's one. I don't say it's like 12 or something like that. What happened to play by play guys having like deep, deeper voices? I don't know, Matt. 14 touchdowns, one interception, that one interception was off.

hands of Greg Olson. Greg Holson. Huge pickup for them so far. Huge as Matt would say. Relative term, I get you. Go ahead. Let's keep it going in the N.S.C. Last night, Sunday night football, Aaron Rogers versus Drew Breeze.

Green Bay coming into town later in the season, looking pretty good. Rogers under center second and inches. And the big handoff, Rogers rolls, right throws, that's on touchdown. Robert Tonion. Aaron Rogers. delivers the dagger and it's 3627 Green Bay. That's a play by playoff. No Devante Adams, no problem.

Three touchdowns for Aaron Rogers, Alan Lazard with 146 yards, and a touchdown. Green Bay Packers, 3 and 0, Seattle Seahawks, 3 and O, I ask. The best team in the NFC is? The Green Bay Packers, Seattle's defense is a mess.

Okay. And, oh, by the way, Green Bay coming here, and that was a victory for the Texans in our preseason thoughts, I believe. And of course, the other 3-0 team in the NFC, we mentioned them earlier, the Chicago Bears. Who also the Texans will be playing and they go to Chicago, correct? Yeah, because the Texas go to Chicago and go to Detroit and Minnesota and Green Bay come here. There are three AFC teams who are 3-0 currently, and there will be a fourth after tonight's Ravens Chief game, Matt. Who will it be?

It will be the Kansas. City Chiefs. Especially plus the three points. Three and a half. I did a fade MT on that. I think I got Baltimore. You've had a good week, by the way.

You're perfect three and no. I told you, Matt. We're just rolling right into October, baby. And that is the NFL review for the week. Brought to you by? Absolutely nobody at this point. But it could be. Yeah, if we'd like to sign.

Look, Ross puts in 15, 20 minutes and prep on that. Let's get the damn thing sponsored. Come on now. Not to mention I went through Andy Reed and John Harba as press conferences try to get some audio and they were completely boring and and i hate kansas city media now why do you hate them so they're asking really weird stupid specific questions that were not helping me for this segment matt do they go hey coach yes i think hey coach uh you don't want to talk about uh sammy wakkins hey bill nobody cares

when is when's bill going to get the hey bill are you worried for your job probably after you know why because not a single member the houston media knows this job's on question it's not afraid that it's not because they're afraid to ask it's because it's just not going to happen. Bill O'Brien is locked in until Jack Eustra be and Cal decided going in a different direction. You keep going with that.

I don't know. Stay with me on it. I don't leave you astray on something. You think Cal is, you think Jack Easterby is Cal's spiritual advisor and he's going to last bill. I'm telling you Cal doesn't, it doesn't, when he eventually fires Bill,

which he will, it's not a package deal. Okay. Just telling you. 143 sports talk 790 coming up in 17 minutes we go to minneapolis it is houston minnesota week on the matt thomas show well it could be just a couple days depending on the twins astro series also we'll have some gut feelings at 220 rossi what is believing or not today coming up at 250 this afternoon uh go ahead and hit the crickets brennan 713 212 5 790 if you'd like to join us right now if you are mad as hell and well i was going to say you're not going to take any more but that's just not true because you're still watching the games You'd have to be so mad. Rossi, the only way they're going to get so mad is their 0-8. If the Texans play to the Lions level or the Jaguars, the Jets, then people might ultimately be mad.

But I guarantee you, if I went to a bunch of gibbonies on Twitter, blank the Texan, Texan-Blank, we're not giving up on you yet. We love you. Go, we'll get them next week. Which in reality may be true because it is Minnesota. Who hasn't won a game yet either? 713-212-5-790.

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The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by a head. Head coach Bill O'Brien. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston. Of sorts. The Matt Thomas Show. We go to Minneapolis at the top of the hour to check in on what's going on with the Twins and the Astros. And the Texans Vikings coming up this Sunday.

Now, tomorrow, Astros on deck starts at 12 noon right here on Sports Talk 790 for the wildcard game. First pitch will be at 1 o'clock. Wednesday the first pitch is at 12 noon. Brandon, do me a favor. Go on YouTube and find ABC's Monday night baseball music and see if this music rings a bell to

Ross and I won't to you. That's not it. That's football. They didn't do that for Monday night and baseball? No, I did not. Okay, we know what that is. So why do we hate Jeff Passon? I don't hate Jeff Passon. Why do we dislike Jeff Passon?

I'm rather indifferent to him. Okay, I think he's a smarmy geek. Yeah, he's a smarmy geek, but that's baseball writers. They need to check themselves. Before he wrecks himself? No, I don't know. I'm just saying, just you're not that important. That's true.

They're a little holier than that. Little. They're out of control. Self-important, holier than now. So people are making predictions about the twins and Astro series. Okay, wonderful. And I'm going to assume that probably two-thirds or three-quarters of people are saying twins win it, and that's okay. Yeah.

That isn't the problem. They're going to be favored in both the games. So under the category of one bowl prediction, this is what Jeff Passon writes. While the quote, can't do it without the trash can narrative is gidley peddled by those who wish ill upon the Astros. Springer and Bregman will perform as they have in postseason's past. So he's actually saying there's a chance for the Astros to upset the series. So you're telling me there's a chance. I'm telling you there's a chance.

Here comes the part where he's just a shmedly little schmedly. even if it won't be enough to overcome Houston's paucity of pitching. What's a problem? We mentioned this word last week, did we not? Yeah, I said paucity last week. And you got really upset with me. Define paucity again? Which means like not numbering in options or not a lot.

Lack of? A scarcity? How about lack of? I mean, here, I'll look it up if you want. I just think it's so... Scarcity, dearth. shortage, a presence of something only in smaller, insufficient quantities or amounts. Scarcerity.

Okay. Now, by context clues, we could figure that out. But why should we have to figure? What makes him think that a word like paucity should be in a baseball article? I've known that word for 20 years. I have never seen that word until last week. Now, again, Normanclature was same bit with me, so I'm not the greatest thing. That's true.

I'm just telling you, I'm not impressed with people who use big words. word variety proper tense spelling is all very key like I I have very little and I've done this myself

but I have very little feeling for people to continue to put you're a nice you're a nice person while you are a you're wrong you're and you're there

there and there you got to get that fixed that's true people have made too many mistakes over the years you've got to double check that kind of stuff I agree with that

paucity of pitching scarcity of lack their of whatever he's just i'm in my suit at seven 30 in the morning and i want to write a big word it's two syllables it's it's it's it's it's my vocabulary is bigger than yours i don't like it it's telling you okay honest and true just because you don't know the word mad doesn't mean you have to get angry at him oh there's other things i get angry about i just think he's just trying to he's trying to show us how smart he is like ross i've been with you for over a decade i know how

smart you are. Oh, thank you. Well, not very. No, no, no. I think you're one of the smartest people ever worked with. No, there are other character problems with you, but your intellect is not one of them. Thank you. I appreciate that. I mean, that's all sincerity. But you don't ever, there's another guy that writes all the time that just can't write big enough words to make him sound like, and I'm not going to say this person is because I know who you're talking about. Because it makes me happy this person doesn't work full time. Is it John McLean? It's not, no. I don't read John McLean stories. Does he use big words like

I don't know. I don't think so. I'm just telling you, the best writers in the world speak to you, not at you. And by using a word paucity of pitching,

you know, a matter of fact, when I have, when we have, Phil Mackeon, I'll ask him what do you think about the paucity

of the Astros pitching. Hmm. Okay. Stupid ass word. Scarcity like thereof. Just act like a regular person. That's all I'm saying. Matt hates Jeff Passett.

I, I, I hate people like him. I'm sure he might be the nicest guy in the world. Yeah, we hung out with him during spring training. We did not hang out with him. He was in our studio. He was in our studio. But hanging out would mean we would intentionally want to hang out with him.

He was rocking out to some rage against the machine and we were just sitting there hanging out. We hung out with John Heyman for five minutes in the a Astro of Clubhouse. That's true. And look at all the assumptions he made. Yeah, he's got a bad tan. I don't know what's going on with that guy. You think he's still got a bad tan since February? Probably. It lives in New York. It looks sprayed on. Yeah, well, he does MLB

network. So he's like. He didn't look anything like he had a For a while, his avatar was his bitmojee. He didn't look anything like that. Yeah. He's on TV all the time. So he's winning. Is he? Good for him.

He's an insider who gets it right. 45, 50% of the time? You know, we always talk about the NFL. Schefter's a guy we trust. Yes. Mortensen, generally speaking, we trust. Yes. Rapaport we trust?

Of course. A Rafeb. Shefter Rapaport, 1-2. That's like a woe shams right there, one, two. The only person I absolutely trust in baseball is Ken Rosenthal. Okay. I'm with that. All those guys... No.

No. Passon doesn't really break a lot of stuff. No, he doesn't. Sometimes. No, well, he wants to. He wants to be the cool kid that breaks stuff. Why is he always wearing a suit? That's what I'm saying. Baseball's a cash game.

What if he showed up to oppressor in like a full baseball uniform? I would do with Fred G. Sanford heart attack. This is a big one. But I'm coming to. going you, honey. Jeff Passons wearing khaki pants and a collar shirt. Britten, do you get that reference? Clueless. That's okay.

He's playing hip-or music of the show. I'm going to try to give him some of the culture of the greatest pop culture of all time. And then we'll come back with a little Carly Simon at some point. We don't have to. I like her. I like her, though. Maybe some Starship. All right. What are you going to play with music from Minnesota for the top of the other? Are we got anything there? Hmm.

Got to play Prince. Has it got to be Prince? Purple Rain. That doesn't get you in a move for a little red Corvette. You know, my favorite Prince song is Raspberry Beret. Yeah, that's, you're probably in the minority. I would totally agree with you on that. I think we did.

We did Prince. Believe it or not. I mean, Plint's Fantasy Five. Yeah. Did I sit that one out? I think I might have. Because I'm not a super big Prince fan. Like him, but not big collector of it.

I respect Prince. super into his music. Prince is one of the greatest artists of all time. Abs, couldn't argue. Yeah. But doesn't mean, you know, like for instance, Bob Dylan supposedly is one of the greatest musicians of all time. I think he sucks. I don't want to do it because it's just, it's nails in the chalkboard. Right.

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We will have our gut feelings coming up in 18 minutes from now. Matter of fact, Brendan, do me a favor. Let's put a picture up of somebody's gut so people can get ready to add their gut feelings to this week. You notice Ross on Twitter that if you put up pictures next to your previews of stuff, people seem to be orange-tuned in it for some reason. Wait a minute, what? Yeah, like when you put like, hey, coming up on the show, we have this and you put a picture of that person on, people actually care. So we need a Phil Mackey picture is what you're saying.

Well, I don't know if people are going to care about Phil, but I mean, that's neither here nor there. Point being is that you do want to put up a picture of a gut. We want gut feelings coming up a 18 minutes. Oh, well, whose gut are you going to put up? I would hope not mine. No. By the way, Brandon, when you put up a gut, nobody I'm working on the 790 staff. Unless you don't put yours up there.

Let's say how to our friend, longtime friend of the show, KSTP's Phil Mackey, score North 1500 with us on the Matt Thomas show. I'm very curious, PMAQ. You asked about or was your partner about the number of brawls in the Astros twin series. That kind of, when I was on your show today, that completely got me off guard. Are y'all one thing that's going to get nasty

between these two teams? First of all, I'd like to think that a lot of people would enjoy seeing my avatar on your upcoming guest list. Let me tell you. Your beard is gross, no chance. If you'd like me to send a few updated headshots, I'd be happy to send them over. You just let me know. Send me an email.

Have you gained weight? You know what? I gained a lot of weight the first two months of the quarantine, and then I stopped drinking nine beers a day when we were all just sitting at home, and it seems to have helped. Okay, fair enough. I need to be back near my playing weight. All right. Now I'll get that out of the way. Give me this whole fight thing.

Why did y'all ask me that question? That threw me off. I think, honestly, I think there are so many teams. You have the pulse of Houston and what's being talked about there more than I do. But I think the Astros got off so easy this year in terms of fans and opposing teams getting whatever come up and they wanted to. I mean, obviously fans were going to troll the Astros, and they were going to boo and probably bring trash cans and all those things. I think there would have been more Joe Kelly's, had the A, had there been fans, and B, had the Astros played an actual full schedule against the rest of the league, and it wasn't such a condensed sprint where every game means so much. And so to answer your question, I don't think there will be brawls in this series.

But I think there are players on the Twins roster, whether it's guys like Rich Hill or Kent and Maeda who are directly impacted as members of the Dodgers, or whether it's just guys like Sergio O'Oren. who just love to stir up things in Josh Donaldson and play police officers, I just wouldn't be surprised if in a blog game, if Sergio Romo decided to, like, buzz the light tower. That's all I'm saying. All right, ladies and gentlemen, before we go any further, I would like all of you to sick Phil Mackey on his Twitter account at Phil Mackey, P-H-I-L, M-C-E-Y.

So you have such piss and vinegar on the Astros. I'm sure you've destroyed Marwin Gonzalez on a routine basis. accurate? Routine basis might be a little bit strong, but he definitely I think it was John Boy that had like the percentage of trash can bangs or something and Marwin Gonzalez was like one of the, one of the

highest percentage of guys who had trash can bangs helping them out. And so that was definitely a huge topic during spring training and beforehand. And really like, part of the problem with Marwin is that he's just, he's not a starting player, he's just a role player. It's not like

if, you know, it's, I I think it would be different if he were like a middle-of-the-order guy and the twins spent like $15 million on him on an annual basis based on the numbers he put up with the Astros. But it is a little bit curious that the twins signed into a three-year contract, in part based on his career season in a year in which they probably had some sort of system that they're operating. I will say that. All right, well, I'm never going to change your viewpoint on this. All I'm telling you is if Mike Fires didn't say a word about any of this, this would be a mood, conversation, but we'll move on because we've got other things to get to. The playoffs itself. Did the twins, knowing what was going around on baseball yesterday, did they, do you think

part of them wanted to get the Astros over anybody else? Because they had the game in their home destiny with the Reg yesterday, and obviously since I ain't scored the extra runs and the extra inning to win the game. Was there a part of you going and going, you know what, they wouldn't mind taking on a baseball team that has been a disappointment in terms of records and obviously not nearly at full strength. No, I don't think the twins cared. I mean, honestly, the way the twins in Rocco-Badilly have managed the entire season, it's been sort of an extended spring training. They didn't pitch relievers in back-to-back games, really throughout the first month, month and a half. Tyler Duffy is their best reliever. I think he pitched a back-to-back for the first time, like, a week

and a half ago. And so they've made a concerted effort to not punt the regular season, but to focus on health and just to focus on preservation of arms. knowing that they would probably rack up enough wins against the tigers and the royals and whatnot. And as far as jockeying for position at the end of the regular season, I think that's more of a fan-centric narrative, and that if you were to ask Twins fans just totally objectively, and what are you looking to face in the first round? I think the prospects of having to face Beaver in game one and the Indians

is scary to Twins fans because we've just seen so much of Bieber here. and the prospects of that White Sox lineup scoring like eight runs in the first two winnings off of Jose Barrios or something. Like we've seen that too. So part of it is, oh, the Astros, they're not as good as they were on paper a year or two ago. They're not as good record-wise. A couple of their best hitters are having down seasons. And Justin Burlanders out for the year. So I don't think it's a disrespect of the Astros.

I think it's more what's the lesser of all the evils here? And from a fan perspective, how long can the Twirlander? go just avoiding the Yankees at all costs. We should explain to the audience that the Yankees and twins have played each other what a handful of times in the last 15 years, and there are no twins victories in any of those series. So anybody not named the Yankees probably has to make Minnesota feel good. Let me get to tell me what the – because, again, let's be honest here.

I don't think you follow the Astros real close. We certainly don't follow the twins down here. What's the number one thing that scares you about where this Minnesota team could go in a positive? And what's the one thing that scares you that says maybe the Astros in a short series could beat them two out of three. Well, I think the scariest thing for the twins, and I don't know if the people in the clubhouse would say this, because all those losses to the Yankees that you talk about,

which go back, by the way, to 2003, which is nuts. The last time the twins want to play a game, game, was 2004. And that sort of negative juju, and the fact that the twins are, I believe, like one loss away from an all-time North American sports playoff losing streak or something crazy like that. There's a juju that fans and members of the front office that have been around for a while have just felt for a long time.

And it's sort of unexplainable at this point how 90 and 100 lost twins teams, even when you change the roster and the manager, can come up and hit the same brick wall year after year. So I think whatever that is is the thing that's the scariest. On the flip side, as it pertains to the Astros, I think the fear would be, hey, this team has been laying in the weeds. They're down. They're battered.

They've been getting their comeuppance. And Jose Al-Tube is having this garbage season. But are they due to wake up to some extent? What if they're just slumping for a couple months? And this is really one of the best teams in baseball, at least lineup-wise. I don't think that pitching staff is going to be anywhere near what it was the last few years. But what if they're due to wake up for a month? And what if that starts against the twins?

I think that's the biggest fear. And again, as I told you on your show, two out of three with any two teams, scares. It should scare anybody. Nobody that should be a one seat should be thinking, oh, we're playing an agency. This will be a piece of cake. So that's why I think this to me might be interesting for the future of baseball. Instead of having the one game walled card, expanding things a little bit, maybe not to eight teams in each league. But I can see this best of three being a part of the future major league baseball.

And that's certainly for another time. Before I let you run, we're visiting with Phil Mackey from Escort North 1500 in Minneapolis, my old station up there in the Twin Cities. I could say, now I think the Texan schedule has been more difficult than Minnesota's, but I could say the Vikings, just like the Texans, have played three playoff teams to open up their season, and that if the Texan schedule was moved around and he didn't open up with Baltimore and Kansas City and Pittsburgh, and if Minnesota didn't open up the season with Green Bay and Indianapolis and Tennessee, that you might not be steering at O&3. Are the Vikings a real legit O-N-3 team, or is it a byproduct of the first three games of their young season?

Their defense is legit O'N-3. I mean, you were here during the Mike Tice-era defense. Or maybe you came like some of the Brad Childress had a couple decent defenses. But we have not seen bad defense here in like seven years. And this is bad defense. DeNeil Hunter is one of the best pass rushers in the NFL. He's out for an undetermined amount of time. They've got rookie cornerbacks.

They're just getting carved up by everybody. Offensively, they just found a superstar. First round draft pick, Justin Jefferson, wide receiver out of LSU. He really didn't play many snaps the first two weeks. He had seven catches for a buck 75 yesterday, and it reminded people of Randy Moss's breakout games in 1998. So I think offensively this team is going to do a lot better going forward. But I mean, Houston, put this way, both coaches are taking heat. in schedule, the schedule that Texans have played the first three games is absurd. So I would say in

terms of like schedule, sympathy, having to play the two best teams in the NFL, and then one of the great franchises that's just been a rock steady force in the Steelers. I mean, I would put more money on the Texans to turn things around than I would the Vikings. And there's a case to be made, Matt, but the Vikings shouldn't be looking to turn things around. Maybe they should go three and 13 for once. They never do. And, uh, and draft a quarterback in the the first round of an historic quarterback draft. Well, you've got a draft pick. Congratulations on you for that. 22 for 181 for Dalvin Cook.

We've seen that often with its opponents so far in the first three weeks. I just don't know how you have a record day for a rookie receiver. Cook's running left and right, and you don't beat the Titans. I'm astonished by that. Our producer found this, I think, via ESPN stats and information or something. It's the first time in NFL history. A team has had a running back. go for at least 175 yards and a receiver go for at least 175 yards in the same day.

First time in NFL history, and they lose. And by the way, like, Kirk Cousins, you have permission to not melt down and create chaos in a two-minute drill at the end of a game. Like just take a deep breath, you know, survey the field and don't melt down one time. You're getting paid $33 million. Just bring a little bit of calm to a huddle one time. those situations and it'll be okay. I'd like to feel sorry for you, but I, Houston sports sucks right now.

It just does. So I have some sympathy, but not a tremendous amount for you. You guys will be fine. You can still live off that Astros title for a long time. It's been 30 years. I mean, the links have given us some. It's been 30 years. There you go.

One of the four big ones. You know what? WNBA fever does spread nationwide, especially when it comes to your links. Congratulations on being the successful human being that you are, great family man. and we'll talk soon. Maybe, I don't know, does this series go three games? I mean, do you think? I think it does because I think the odds are that, like you said, anything can happen in a three-game series. They're all very coin-flippy, so maybe we can preview game three again here.

You smell great today, by the way. Thank you very much. I think it does because I think the odds are that, like you said, anything can happen in a three-game series. They're all very coin-flippy, so maybe we can preview game three again here. You smell great today, by the way. Thank you very much. And a lot of extra cologne on this afternoon. Thank you, Boney.

You'll talk to you soon. Phil Mackey. 1,500 score north in Minneapolis. And again, I'd suggest you follow him, but he just hates the Astros. Not because of the Astros, he just hates that we got, the Astros got caught. What is your gut feeling on anything? We usually do this on Tuesdays, but because the Astros play in our spot tomorrow, we'll do our gut feelings next. 215.

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Yo they got a gut feeling This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show All right We do this, don't normally do this on Tuesdays at 1 o'clock but because Astros are going to take our spot tomorrow We'll do it right now If you have a gut feeling

about anything. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You're looking at me with a small smirk. What do you mean? Do you have a gut feeling about something? I have a gut feeling about a number of things, Matthew. I'm going to go last because I usually go first.

I'm going to go last, let you guys do it, and I'm going to think about it. Because I've got two that I'm thinking about, and they're both local and they're both sports-related. I just don't know if I want to sit in public. So go ahead. What do you got? Why do I have to start? Because you never go first. A couple of weeks ago, my gut feeling was that the Rockets were not going to win another game in the Lakers series. Unfortunately, that was correct.

7-13-2125-7-90. He's done. I don't think the Astros are going to win a game against the Twins. They're going to go on two. I think so. Okay. I don't want to be right. I would love to be wrong. Because if loving you is right, I do want to be wrong.

Or I don't want to be wrong. 713, 212.5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Brendan, you're up next. By the way, we're going back to you, Ross, because you've got multiple gut feelings. So it's going to be impossible for me and Ross both to be right. Nice!

Do you guys know who the... I don't know how to put this. The smallest underdog is to win their series? the Astros? It is. Okay. That's good. I think the Astros benefit more than almost anybody from getting to shorten that staff, pitching staff in the first round, put a few arms in the bullpen. I think they win the first round.

Okay. I'm next. They'll go back to you. I hope you're right. Rossi, I used to live in Minnesota. Yes. I was there for three years, really enjoyed my time there. Wonderful. When you go to a different market like I do, you have to catch up on sports really fast. I mean, lots of old stories, YouTube videos, reading about history of Minnesota sports. So I felt like I had a pretty good grasp of things. Since the twins have won the World Series in 1991, they have routinely been won and done in the playoffs. I believe that tradition continues. Oh, I love it. I'm going to

say not only the Astro is going to win, they're going to win both games and not have to worry about a game three. That's my gut feeling. Wow, they're going to two and oh them. See, I kind of see that too, but I learned my lesson about picking games. Now, remember, nobody holds each other's

gut feelings against them. I'm holding you to all of them. All right, you had multiple. Continue on. What do you mean I had multiple? I think you said you had a bunch. Oh, I mean, I do, but I'm not going to go on. I only have to go on record with one. Just go one more. If you go one more, I'll go one more. this finals between the Lakers and Heat goes at least six games maybe seven

I think the heat are a lot better than people are giving them credit for which is crazy to say about a team in the NBA Finals Lakers are minus 400 which seems a little bit long as far as odds Heat minus plus 325 is not bad because I think they're more now this was the thing with the the Rocket series and you would say the same thing maybe about the Nugget series Anthony Davis-Laborne dreams greater than any other tandem them, but the heat have the next best six players in that series.

Okay. I like that. So you're saying at least six? Sometimes Anthony Davis and LeBron James are just too damn good and you can't overcome them. Ask the Nuggets and the Rockets. I got a gut feeling here that means nothing to the local scene. Okay. I think when Denver loses the Jets on Thursday, or excuse me, when Denver beats the Jets in New Jersey.

It's Sam Darnold. It's Jeff Driscoll. Thursday night football. They are already giving us the dogs. We got the Battle of Ohio. We've got the Battle of Florida. And now we got Triscoll and Donald. I think Adam Gase gets fired Friday.

Just a gut feeling. Okay. That Dan Quinn gets to survive one more week. You get any more, are you done? I only had one prepared. Okay, fair enough. Who takes over, Greg Williams? It doesn't matter.

We got some folks that got some gut feelings. Eddie! In the Galleria. What is your gut feeling? Hey, well, I got a feeling of Bill O'Brien to either get a pay raise or promotion for his performance, that you usually get. Okay. Tusha. What do you guys think?

I don't think it's crazy. He's not going to get a pay raise going on for. One thing, 2009 and seven. Great comeback after a sluggish start. Momentum. Something to build on. Full the future. Got to work with what we have.

Guys are really coming together. We're building something for the future. Oh, geez. It sucks. Mark, downtown, you got a gut feeling about something? Yeah, to follow on to Eddie's, Bill O'Brien's promotion, he's going to run for mayor of H-town. That would be a gut feeling. Who's running for H-Town?

Bill O'Brien. Would go against Sylvester Turner, I'm assuming? He would not fare well in this city. What percentage of the vote do you think he would get? Bill O'Brien? Bill O'Brien. If he ran up against a tree stump, he'd get maybe 1% of the vote. I got one for you.

Bill O'Brien versus Sheila Jackson Lee. Oh! Who's our third party candidate? Nope. It's down the two. What party is Bill O'Brien running under? Neither one want to tell you the party. The relative two party? Yeah.

The better... Look, relative to... You'd have an all-time low-voted vote count, right? Be like, I'm going to skip that one. Well, I'm sorry to say. We haven't had a Democrat... We haven't had a Republican mayor since the 80s, right? That I don't know.

So probably Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston. Okay. Have we not had Republican? I can look through Houston Mayors. Yeah, look it up. All right, let's go. Julio, by the schoolyard and Katie. Julio, what's your gut feeling?

I have a gut feeling that Bat Travolta, aka Bill O'Brien, is a bad head coach relative to being a bad general manager. Okay, that's not a gut feeling. That's a complete 100% accurate statement. And that was our God feeling. That worked that well. The segment is growing legs. Our last mayors have been Sylvester Turner, Democrat.

Yeah. And East Parker. Same. Bill White. Lee Brown, Bob Lanier, Kathy Whitmire, Democrat. Before that, Jim Conn, Republican 78 to 81. Wow. Kathy Whitmire was a longtime mayor here.

And then she wanted to get to talk radio and I produced her show. In the late 90s. How was she? She was good? She was good. Yeah. Very, very pleasant. I don't know.

She probably could have done it. I don't know why she got out of the talk radio business. I thought she'd been pretty good. Well, she's probably like in her 70s at this point. No, I'm talking about when she, when she got out. A Democrat talk radio on him. I don't, but she was, like, I don't think mayors. Who's the most famous Democratic talk show host?

Talk show host. Like talk radios. Politics. Probably, is there one? Alan Combs, but he passed away. Okay, so a dead guy. But it was handing Colmes for a long time, was it not? They did a show together?

Yeah. Okay. The most successful liberal talk show host? Is that even a thing? Mm. Well, Air America didn't last very long. That was a network of nothing but liberal talk shows. Wasn't there a woman who did one recent, like in the last 10 years?

Hmm. I don't do politics. I don't know. Yeah, me either. I don't know. But I, I cannot think. I would think Henanian Colmos were together. and Combs was like they were fighting all the time.

Yeah, it was like, it was like, pardon my take, but for, pardon my political take. Yeah, part of my political thing. And then Combs did his own, I think he did his own radio show like Kennedy did. And I think it didn't last for it. Okay. So it is what it is. All right. 228, Sports Talk, 790.

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So the Texans are going to take on Minnesota this week We'll actually get deeper in the game on Thursdays and Friday You're going to break it down? No We're going to go behind enemy lines Well we will We already went once We'll go a second time.

Okay. We'll try somebody different. Maybe it's somebody has the disdain for the Astros like my buddy Phil does. Phil Mackey does not like the Astros. Oh, he was, I almost had a quasi-mute him for like a day. Oh, on Twitter? And he's not any different than the rest of America.

America thought the Astros got away with it. And I would think if you're outside of the Houston area, you probably agree with him on that. That's fine. But remember, if the Astros didn't cooperate, they would have had nothing. in my mind. That's true.

That they would have been, they would have punished the Astros and the Players Association would have said, you've got no goods except hearsay, not good enough to suspend. Thanks, Mike Fires. Well, Mike Fires is,

will the Astros ever face Mike Fires ever? I don't know. Ten games this year. What's his contract situation? Is he going to be with the A's next year? Let me tell you, if you're Mike Fires and your contract situation is up, you may want to go to the National League

and like anybody, not National League West. And you don't have to go to the National League. Why? Because then you have to go to the plate. Well, or do you have to? I want if this American League, National League, D.H rule changes for the long term. I don't think so. I think it's going to.

You think they'll backtrack on the, on the extra inning thing, too? Yes. Not the way I want it to, but they're, no. Yeah, I think they'll just flat out get rid of it. Okay. I know it's done now because it's the playoffs. And so too, the seven-inning double-hatters. If they're going to do double-headers in the future, there'll be nine innings.

All right. Mike Fires is a free agent next year. Yeah. Pencil him in in a National League East team. Let's go to JW, point-blank Texas on the Matt Thomas show. J.W., good afternoon. Hey, Matt. How you doing?

Well, thank you. Well, I'm not at home. I'm on the road, but what's going on with this? Houston Cougars. Why haven't they played any ball at all? Because teams are afraid of them? Okay. That's good. Actually, every team that, well, the first couple of games, the Washington State game was canceled because the Pact 10 didn't play, wasn't playing football at the time. Rice has yet to play a game, and they don't know if they're going to even play a game. So they postponed that. And then you had the game with Memphis postponed because of COVID-positive results.

then you had the game with Baylor, same situation, and then you had the same situation with North Texas. So the first game is supposed to be a week from Thursday against Tulane in conference action. They have rescheduled the game with the Cougars in Memphis for December the 5th. Well, don't get much on the road about Houston sports whatsoever. Well, that's why you're here for us. I heart radio app will be your best friend. I can promise you that.

And that's the reason why I call you guys. Thank you. I got a question. How long are they going to put up with the nonsense from Bill O'Brien? Who's that? You're talking about Cal McNair? Probably several years. Oh, my gosh.

I know. I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news to you. But no matter what we say, no matter what fans say, no matter how many people boo, how many call radio shows, Cal McNair thinks everything is fine. It's just a rough start. Thanks, JW for the call. Don't you think, Ross, when Bill goes into Cow's office today? don't you think Cal is disappointing

in how things have started but Bill's like man look at our schedule we've had the hardest three games that anybody could possibly have played this is after his morning yoga with Jack Easterby right? Yes

and Jack has reassured him that everything's okay and Jack brings him his freshly squeezed grapefruit juice yes tell me that that's not a scenario tell me there is no that Cal is not

admonishing Bill for the first three weeks like taking him to task Hey, what's going on here? What's going on here? Cal, Cal's like, Bill, I gave you the general manager's tag. I gave you the freedom to give Laramie Meantlems or whatever he wanted. I gave you money to pay Whitney Merciless and Zach Cunningham. What's going on?

He's not taking him a task, no. He's asking him what's going on, and then Bill is going to explain it as best he can, and it's as he always does and say we've got to get better and there are things to build on, et cetera, et cetera. And then Cal is going to say, okay, well, I hope you guys turn it around. Talk to you next Monday. Yeah, tea time and talk. 20, all right, I'll see you.

Yeah, I mean, the average minutes of a Cal Bill conversation on Monday after games, probably in the 12 to 14 minute range. Yeah, I would say so. Because let's say we had a real legit one. It would be an hour long. Offensive lines not protecting my brand new, ridiculously filthy, rich quarterback. My running game, you kept trying to tell me on David Johnson. David Johnson is getting worse as the weeks move along.

13 carries 23 yards did get a touchdown but you don't want your number one running back averaging 1.8 per carry your receiving core getting better Brandon Cook's spout is there Will Fuller got to the end zone but it's not anything in terms of a scary receiving core

you think Bill changes the subject ask them like how the wife and kids are doing hey man how's Cal the 3rd Cal Jr? Hey how's a little Cal doing it's good does Cal have kids I don't even know he's married right didn't he have an attractive wife who cow she's cute yeah okay yeah um very involved in charity so maybe you go to the charity route like hey you guys still doing that event yon did some footballs from us yeah he changes the subject in the middle of his answer does bill you know we gotta do better but uh you know how hey how's uh how's uh how's Hannah McNair can

can can bill change a conversation with cow and can cow get it back to the team no At all or within a certain length of time. Cal falls for it every time. So you think Bill gets pepper with questions. Yes. Changes the conversation. Cal is like, oh, this, okay, I can go to this ring. And then Cal ends it with, hey, good talk.

We'll see this again next Monday. You guys stay safe out there. This Corona is a mother. He's like, change the subject. Start talking about wildfires in California. Less. Hurricane. So he goes basically to the news.

You're going to watch a debate on Tuesday? Les, Wes, Wes, you on 790. Hello, Wes. Hey, good. How are you doing? Good. I think, you know, from a historical perspective, have, and you guys know this more than anybody,

have we been at a lower point in terms of sports in Houston, just in terms of the professional teams and the fact that U of H and Rice football can't manage to get on the field? Say that one more time? I didn't understand the question. Just in terms of like overall quality, have we been at a lower point? Oh, with all the Houston sports? Yeah. It just feels bleak.

You know, I would say there have been way lower points, Lest. Thank you for the phone call. Rossi, when I was growing up in the early 80s, the Astros were not competitive. the Rockets had just traded Moses Malone to Philadelphia so they were going through complete rebuild the orders had just finished Lovey Blue and were sending out Oliver Luck to be the quarterback

yeah I would say there is was it was a Giff Nielsen around there oh yeah for sure absolutely Giff Nielsen started games so yeah I would say there's been much bleaker times yeah this is fine because in reality the playoffs the Rockets made the playoffs Rockets final eight Astros in the playoffs

And the Texans, again, O-N-3 is not terrific, but you have been proven just two years ago that O-N-3 team can bounce back and get to the playoffs. You got a bunch of championship contenders running around? No. But it has been worse. And I would say this less, way worse. Like, Rockets losing in the first round of a team they shouldn't have lost to would be way worse. Astros not making the playoffs at all would have been way worse. Texans kind of just do what the Texans thing is.

Texans or Texans. Yeah. They stay right where they're supposed to be, not higher or not lower. All right, back to play, believe it or not today. All things about the Minnesota twin players. After a word for Shaw's jewelry at the corner, West Gray and Montrose, they have been in that same corner at West Graham Montrose since 1966. They don't believe in faux sales.

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O and 3 teams. Rossi, somebody's going 0 and 4. Or he could be Cincinnati in Philadelphia and just be a tie. What do you call this? The stoppable force versus the movable object? Seriously, I asked the fill earlier today. Receiver gets 175 yards.

Russia gets 175 yards, and they still lose. How does that happen? Ryan Tannehill is too good. Do you see Stephen Gaskowski kick six field goals in that game? Yeah. This is after we thought after week one he was going to get cut. Mm-hmm.

What do you go, O for four, whatever it was? Whatever it was, but he has bounced back. And he made the game winner in that game. And they're like, they're not cheapies either. A couple of them were like 55 plus. Gaskowski, all jokes aside, he's one of the greatest kickers in the history of the sport. Hall of Famer? Who was it that was saying he was a Hall of Famer?

It was the week one broadcast. Yeah, I can't remember who they were playing or when that was. Was that a Monday night came or I don't remember? Yeah, it was Tennessee Denver? It was, was it Brian Greasy that said it or Lewis Redick and one of those guys? I don't remember. Or maybe it was Steve Levy. That's when, yeah, they had the Herb Street.

Levy? Was they on the first game? I think they were. It was Levy, Riddick, and Greasy. Herb Street was working with Chris Fowler. He was on the other game. I don't think so. How many kickers are in the Hall of Fame? Is it Morton Anderson? There's probably five or six. Okay. We'll worry about that later on. I think we're going to play.

Well, Justin Tucker needs to be there. Well, duh. Greatest kicker of all time. This Harrison Bucker kid kicking three 50-yard field goals. Who cares? What's more about Justin Tucker? Family Cares. So you're saying it's a battle of the kickers tonight? I'm saying first to 37 wins.

Yeah. People think it's going to be Mahomes versus Watson. I mean, Mahomes versus Jackson. It's really going to be Butker versus Tucker. Deal. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show.

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Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. Statements, erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Not two, believe it or not, so all things about the Minnesota Twins wins your prize. Brendan, what is today's prize? Prize is a six pack of beer, 50 wings with two sides from Bayou City. wings all loaded up in a dose Aquee's cooler. At Big City wings, you said?

Bayou. By you. He said Bayou. Did you say Bayou? Did you say Bayou? I did. I didn't read it before. I thought you were introducing this one. All right. Let's play. Line number one. Oh, no.

Man, that's that. That probably sound like a heart attack. I figured you'd want to play anyway. Eddie Rosario hit 17 triples in 2015, which was the most in the American League since Lance Johnson did it back in 1996. Believe it or not.

Nah, come on, no. All right, here we go. Let's continue. Line number two, Sean, on 790. Sean, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. In 2018, Nelson Cruz became an American citizen. He said, via Instagram, the first thing he was going

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That's a lot of work right there for a big old nasty knot. Statement number two for the win. Before being drafted out of high school, Byron Buxton was committed to play baseball at the University of Georgia and also intended to play football. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, yeah, he did.

Yeah. That's a quick Wikipedia check on that one. And the drought continues. Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Kent and Maeda was a five-time all-star in the Japanese baseball league and also a five-time gold glover while there. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Max Kepler was born in Berlin, Germany. His parents were professional ballet dancers who met while performing in the same company. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. You got a low-wing gift prize pass for you.

One more. Billy on 790. Billy, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Josh Donaldson is a huge fan of the hip. History Channel show Vikings and even appeared in a season four episode of the show. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it.

Oh, IMDB can be your friend. Kevin on 790. Kevin, you're ready to play? Believe it or not? Believe it. Homer Bailey is a wine enthusiast and has released his own wine called Homer Bailey Chardonnay with proceeds going to charity. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. There is a wing prize pack.

for you. And that, my friends, is it awesome. Believe it or not, nicely done, Ross. Ross is going to get a couple of hard-earned days off with the exception of the, what is that called? The post-game days off. I'm working tomorrow. Oh, we're doing a pre-game.

Takes time to produce it. Takes time to perform it. The best thing about day baseball is the A.T. Post-game show. Wax, Glenn, next. Talk to you all tomorrow at 12 noon for the ice. next show on 790.