The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Schedule Is Rough Early, Brian T Smith, Fantasy 5 Worst Songs Of 2000's

Episode Date: May 8, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Launch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 in H-town. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Hopefully you're getting your hair done today because you might be busy tonight. Well, the bars aren't open yet, are they? Yeah, what do you mean when you're busy tonight?

Well, I mean, they got to look there. best in case they get a couple of phone calls from some of their better clients. Oh, the strippers? Yeah. Well, the clubs aren't open, right? No, but they give out their number. I think they're selling, some of them are selling and getting sold as restaurants, but there was a raid with one of those.

Yeah, there was and didn't work out well. Is that still going on? I mean, they serve food. You want to go for a nice little steak dinner. Yeah, the one story that was done earlier this week, they went in the kitchen and watched the guy fry the food and prepare the cassidias and the shrimp poleboys, if you will. Boyce as well. It's quite a, quite a, what's the name of that?

Clubonics. Quite a menu that you would not realize they would have. Yeah. Because you were busy with other things and other people. How busy? It depends on what you're ready to spend on. I hope you guys are in a good mood today. We are here.

We, I got to tell you this. I don't think anybody else in the city of Houston's been breaking down the Texan schedule. I think it's been a non-starter for most people. You're being facetious. You don't know that I only listen to our show Well that's true I haven't listened

But I'm going to guarantee That probably every show That's been on today Has at least talked about the schedule So you're telling me that I cannot Set new ground By breaking down the week-to-week Texan schedule

I mean if you want to not do it It is the Matt Thomas show It's up to you Let's do it Can you give me some NFL music Joe George Because I feel like We'll be the ones The Groundbreakers

on this bad boy. Are we? I think so. No, I don't think so. I think no one else is ready to tackle that topic because they're afraid they're going to hurt feelings. Were you ready to break down the UFC 249 card? That's coming up on the show today as well. Plus a true Debbie Downer guest

on the Sean Salisbury show this morning. And I mean Downer. And I tried to listen to the whole 50 minutes of it. I couldn't do it. So we're going to narrow down about 45 seconds. But ladies and gentlemen, I present to you exclusive to the Houston Marketplace.

Kind of. A week to week prediction of the Texans in 2020. It will all start, allegedly. Thursday, September the 10th, with a 720 tilt against the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. My guess there will be, I don't know, 75,000 people there. We're ready to see the banner being raised, Super Bowl trophy, put into play. It ain't going to matter, sports RV, because guess what? what? Brandon Cooks is going to find the end zone at least two times in a high scoring,

highly motivated way after the disappointment of the divisional playoff of a year ago. Your Houston Texans get off to a one and no start by knocking off the chiefs in Kansas City, 34, 27. 10.5 point dogs and they come back. Week two, the big game on CBS. Tony Romo, Jim Nance will be here for this one. the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans. It's the home opener. You know what happens on the home opener? They wear the white uniforms and good things happen in white.

Liberty White? Liberty White. Lamar Jackson embarrassed the Texans last year. It's Revenge Gate number two. Texans Karen will be in her seat by 324. Will she? Yeah, 325 star. Will she, though?

Oh, yeah. She might be there at 1 o'clock. Will she be allowed in? Oh, yeah. Doesn't matter if there's 15 fans or 75,000 fans. Your friend and ours, Deshaun Watson, will have a spectacular day as the Ravens go to 2 and O. Excuse me, the Texans go to 2 and O with a 21 to 12 win

over the Baltimore Ravens. Wow, 2 and 0, strong start. We go to week three, the second road game of the year. It's a noon tilt in Pittsburgh. J.J. Watt going against his brother. Brothers. Yeah, there's double there now. J.J. going to eat.

He's going to sack Ben Rothelsberger not once, not twice, not three times. As the Texans win a defensive juggernaut 20 to 14 over the Pittsburgh Steelers and get out to a 3-0 start. Wow. You know, a lot of people are saying around the league it's the most difficult schedule. I don't think so. I think that what the team is done with its off-season moves, it's going to rise to the Jack Easterby Challenge. Jack Easterby is going to have the team elevated. Correct.

I mean, vice president of football operations slash Chapman. I mean, a chaplain. Next, October 4th, Minnesota Vikings inside N.R&G Stadium. I mean, this is a no-brainer. Minnesota is going to, Kirk Cousin is going to throw, I don't know, three to five picks. Three to five. Yes. And we will go with the newest member of the team, the new and the new safety from formerly the Cleveland Browns.

Go ahead. I've forgotten his name already. Eric Murray. Eric Murray. Some call him Eric Murray, but we'll call him Eric Murray for the purposes of this conversation. He's French, Murray. We'll take one to the house. And also, Kimee Fairbairn, the third highest-paid kicker in the NFL will kick five field goals.

Okay. In a 19-to-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings. 19-to-7, okay, that's an interesting final. So no offensive touchdowns in a game, but a pick-six and five field goals make up the difference. How are they going to get five field goals in score 19? And a touchdown makes seven. makes 19. Five?

Oh, it'll be 22 to 7. That's right. Yeah, I didn't write this ahead of time. Next, October the 11th, Jacksonville Jaguars come in. Remember last year's game was one for the ages? It was basically the equivalent of game as President Trump would say game seven of the World Series at 2017. Garner Minchew will not survive the game. Garner Minchew will be pulled in the third quarter because the Texans will win this one by a score of 28 to 3.

Then Sunday, October the 18th at Tennessee, Derek Henry will cramp up before the game. The ground game for the Titans will rush for, get this, 47 combined yards. Meanwhile, Duke Johnson and the other one will do a lot of damage. Duke and David. Duke and David. We call it David Duke Connection. That's a little odd, but you know what? We'll figure something out before now and then. The Duke David combination will rush for each a touchdown as the Texans knock off.

out the Titans in Nashville, in a rainstorm, by the way, 21 to 17. Wow. At that point, Ross, I got them at 6 and 0. Any issues at this point? I mean, I could see all this playing out the way you're saying, Matt. Next. This is a good season for the Texans so far. Sunday, October 25th, a noon start with the Green Bay Packers.

Aaron Rogers is not like playing in Dome Stadium. He just doesn't. He likes it outside. He likes it cold. He likes to get sideways with his coach, and matter who it is. He's going to be mad that the, Jordan loves in the background warming up during the game.

Aaron Rogers will throw an interception deep into Texans territory that will seal a 24-20 Houston win over Green Bay to get them to 7-0 on the year. Then after a well-deserve off week, they will go to Jacksonville. And

there are three guarantees in life, Ross. You know what they are? Death, taxes, and a Texans win in Jacksonville. We're usually in London, But Jacksonville this year. Yeah, so they're going to go to Jacksonville. This won't be aesthetically pleasing, but it'll be fine. Okay.

21-14. Texans, Texans Jaguars matchups have never been like a pretty shootout. No, and that won't happen again this year either. But it doesn't matter. All it matters is the Ws. And the Jack Easterby pregame speeches run this squad to 8 and O'N.O. on the season. Wow, the Texans are going to eat a W you're saying. Then a rare matchup in Cleveland against the Browns.

O'Dell Beckham Jr. will not play because he will get sideways with Baker Mayfield in pregame warmups. There's a lot of people getting sideways. Yeah, there'll be a lot of tension with the other teams this year because when you, well, the Texans walk in, there tends to be a lot of second guessing, a quaking in the boots, Pee running down the leg. That's exactly right. This will be a lot of fun. This will be a breakout game for a, let's go with a, Trevor Cobb, not Randall Cobb, not Randall Cobb, one of the Cobbs. Randall Cobb?

Yeah, we'll go Randall Cobb. Kevin Cobb will do fine. A Cobb will do fine in the end zone. And Mark Van der Meerle will say, nibble, nibble, enjoy that Cobb. Touchdown, Texans. Okay. This will be a blowout, 3710 at Cleveland.

Wow. Yeah. Sunday November 22nd, home for the New England Patriots. This one is going to have a huge Jarrett Stenham fan club. A lot of people from the King, area. Okay. We know these people.

They're great people. Some of them. Yeah. It's not going to matter. Bill Belichick doesn't like playing in Houston. We've seen that last time. Remember last year? I guess.

J.J. Watt is going to be able to smell the breath of Jarrett's denim multiple times. That's weird. Because he's going to jump on him and then he'll breathe like, let me go. Why is he going to be face to face with him? Well, because he's going to sack him and going to drop him down on the ground. He'll get up him up and everything because that's what he goes. You got to hit him low.

You hit him high. It's going to be a penalty. Oh, that's true. Okay. He'll never taste the bright though, Jared Sinnam, but he'll get to him. As the Texans win this one, rather comfortably. Wow. 24 to 10.

Then the Texans will go on the road in a short week to Detroit to take on the Lions on Thanksgiving. Okay. J.J. Watt will be home in his bed enjoying that night game after having a restful day because he will not be needed. Texans will roll over the poorest Lions defense to a tune of full. 30 to 10 over the Detroit Lions, giving yet the Lions another disappointing effort and another day for Matthew Stafford, a stat pad after his team falls behind by four touchdowns early. Ross, where does that put me at? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

They're 11 and 0. The tricky game coming up is the Indianapolis Colts. Wow, it's a tough. It's a dicey one, man. Dicey River's doing. Philly Rivers at this point will have thrown 30 touchdowns and also thrown 30 interceptions. And by week 11? Yeah.

That's impressive. They've completely given up on the running game. High scoring shootout. Texans win on a, get this, 57-yard field goal by Kami Fairbaring at the gun. 27, 24 Texans to 12 and 0. Okay. Joe George, listen carefully to me on this. December the 13th in Chicago. There will be light snow.

It will not be a blizzard. There will not be as windy as people had thought originally was going to be, but there'll be light snow flurries throughout the day. And this is where the. multiple tight ends for the Texans, some of them named Jordan, some of them named Aiken, some of them named Thomas, hell even the where, the Kylie Ware, Bear, wherever. Cahley wearing? Yeah, exactly.

That one of that guy's name is. He'll actually make an appearance. It will be a tight end potpourri. Ten catches total for the tight ends for the Texans in a 21, 20 close game. It'll be a 21 to 8 game. The Bears, Joe George, will make a late fourth quarter comeback, but will fall just a teapest. bit short in a 21-20. Can you tell me who my quarterback is?

Who do you want to be? Probably Nick Falls. What's the alternative? Mr. Chubisky will throw. You ready for this? 164 yards, two touchdowns, three picks. Basically what you've seen already.

That sounds about right. Yeah. Then TBD, December 19th or 20th, Ross. Texas is going for their 14th consecutive win open up the year. Hopefully the 19th. It'll be my birthday. At Indianapolis.

Philip Rivers will not play in the game siding sore shoulder because at this point he will be... Or the birth of a child. Or the birth of yet another child. Or actually, it would not be a birth of a child. It'll be at one of their birthday parties. He doesn't want to miss. Because, you know, he'll be running out of the... He's got one every couple weeks.

So in this one, this will be a high scoring game as well. I got this at about 30 to 20 in favor of your Houston Texans. As Deshawn Watson goes to David Johnson multiple times in a touchdown victory. He'll have one on the ground and one as a receiver out of the backfield. Big day for the running backs. Big win for the Texans as they go to 14 and 0. The Natty comes in. Joe Burrow will have several thousand LSU fans in attendance.

Chris Gordy will be cheering from Section 790. He will, yeah, he will be rooting for the Bengals in that game. Oh, he's already got, let me tell you, at this point, Chris Gordy's got four Joe Burrell Bingle's jerseys at this point. He has long to associate himself with the New Orleans. Saints. It won't matter because Joe Borough will be pulled in the fourth quarter of the game after throwing his fourth

pick. Four interceptions. Wow! In that game, Texans comfortably 27 to three. Only a field goal for the Bengals in this game. That's a big shutting down of that Bengals office.

And then they will wrap things up on January the 3rd. All the starters will be out because it will have clinched the home field throughout the playoffs. Number one seed. It won't matter. A.J. McCarran goes for 225 and two scores. Texans beat the Titans. 31 to 17, finishing off a perfect season.

Wow. 16 and 0. I'd love to see it, Matt. Can't wait. Is there another station the marketplace that gives you that kind of analysis? Probably not. It's probably irresponsible for them to do so. 713-212-5-790.

713212-1-790. It isn't anything goes Friday. Please join us between now and 3 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. On the trail, it's hard. That it traps it down with a left-hand hammer. This is Coach Dan Tony. Matt Thomas is a great guy. And I always listen to the radio show.

On mute. What a shot. Happy birthday to coach. 69 years younger. He looks good for 69, does he not? Okay You know what I mean You say yes or no

You don't agree? I guess if you don't agree You can say it's fine He looks If you were to play Name that age You would not call him 69 years old Probably not

I mean he could be early 60s for sure Okay All right So I guess Ross believes he looks Every bit of 69 years of age I didn't say that Well then we'll go ahead and say something then I don't really have an opinion

I don't know I haven't seen the guy in a while I don't remember what he looks like Well I told him that exact same thing and I had pegged him for 64 and then he said it was happy to know that he and I share the same age which is far from the truth

so happy birthday to Coach Dan Tony it sounds like there's You also tweeted out your text exchange Yeah How do you feel and then you put a little You put a reaction on it Yeah on the text Loved it

How do you feel Well no you didn't love it You put the two You put the two exclamation points That's that's emphatic I'm okay I'm not saying if you're okay I'm just I'm just

this has just become a thing recently and I don't like doing it I do it every now and then I don't know I guess I'm just not uncomfortable I'm not comfortable with the reaction to the text that's become a thing in 2020 can I peel the curtain back for a minute go ahead I think the reaction

text is a great way to end a text thread like okay that's good give them a thumbs up or something yeah but I didn't feel like to me was a thumbs up. It was like, what did you say? But yet I still, I mean, I lot, it was a great line. He got me. Like, I always try to get him. So I wanted to put it out there. Happy birthday to coach. But I think the emphatic means, you know, exclamation point means I got your point. We're going on. Because what you don't want to do you, if you don't have time for a long thread, you don't want

to get into it. You just put the exclamation. Any one of those. smiles, thumbs up, okay. When did this start becoming even available? Like last couple of years? See, I'm going to. I'm way behind. Within the last year. I've got an old phone. When I've updated my phone, that's when I got it. Okay. Yeah, pretty recently.

Okay. When do you put the signs up there? Usually don't. Oh, you're, I'm a big sign. Oh, Adam Clinton's big into it. No, like, if I've done it before. If I got like a work schedule thing and I'm just want to acknowledge that I received it via text.

Because you don't want to, you don't want it to say, got it, thanks. And the next person says, you're welcome. Yeah. I think it's a great way to affect. yet not rudely and a text threat. But it's really bad if you're in a group chat with non- iPhone users. Yes, because then it'll say... It'll say like Ross liked this.

Like this or gave a thumbs up. Yeah. It's really awkward. The text will say that. Well, the worst part of it for me is being in a text threat and having the... I want to get out of them sometimes and I can't because somebody is not a part of. Somebody has Android, yeah. Yeah.

So those of you that are Android users, you can go to hell. That happened to me and I'm in a family group text and then started getting political. why I literally tried to leave. You can't leave? I tried to leave the family. I'm sitting here trying to leave. Where's the leave conversation option? Yeah.

And then Kim says, well, you can't leave if all of you're not on iPhone. Yeah. Step up and get an iPhone. I found that out the hard way recently. All right. We just gave you a 16-and-0 breakdown. Time for us to play. One of America's most exciting games.

Would you think it's one of the more exciting ones? Well, I don't know what it is. Well, it's this little game we like to call, what you're talking about Bill. What you're talking about? Coach O'Brien. Now, you've got an important role, George. You don't know this, but you're going to judge, and I will judge, how Ross does.

Now, have you heard these sound bites? I have not. What did he speak? He spoke yesterday on a Zoom. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Now, he didn't take any questions except from, I think, Drew Doherty from Texans media.

So it was a, they did the interview, and then they sent it off to all the different outlets and time. Well, I do you have one thing to say. Are these the same quotes? I read a quote yesterday that Mark Berman had tweeted. Okay. So I do know the question when he talks about playing the chief. from the Ravens Week 1 and 2. Damn.

That's the only one I know. I don't remember it verbatim. Let's, we'll do three of them then. On playing the Lions on Thanksgiving, 20.7 seconds. By the way, Joe, we give one to five stars, one being he missed a completely five. You hit it right on the head.

20.7 seconds. Playing on Thanksgiving is always a special day. It's a real privilege to be playing in the National Football League. To be playing on Thanksgiving. It's a big game. The Detroit Lions. a great franchise. Matt Patricia, a great head coach, Matt Stafford, a great quarterback. It's going to be a tough game, and we're honored and privileged to be playing on Thanksgiving.

That's another great opportunity, just such an NFL tradition to be one of the teams to be able to play the Detroit Lions. We're always on Thanksgiving. Coached in that game before, and it's an exciting game to be a part of. And another really tough NFC North opponent, National TV game. That's what it's all about, right? Football and Turkey on Thanksgiving will be a big part of that. Yeah, did you bring up turkey at all? I did not see turkey now.

No, that he does not get five stars. You have to bring up turkey in the conversation. Alex Trebek. It's a big miss. Yeah, you could have done a lot better, I think. But overall, I hit the points. So I gave like a three. Thanks.

I'm going to give you two and a half stars. Next, on three AFC South games in December. Only 12 seconds on this, so not a lot of mean on the bone here. Okay. Yeah, it'll be tough closing out the season. with the division. I mean, obviously our goal is to win the AFC South and we're going to play those games. Those are important games and divisional games are always going to be big there in December.

And it seems like it's always that way. You know, the NFL wants those rivalry games late in the year and there's a lot on the line in those games. And we have a ton of respect with the teams in our division and we'll be ready for those opportunities. You know what? You're just out of work. You're out of practice on this. Okay. What do you think?

What are you, Joe? What are you giving them? Like a two. Why do they put music behind these things, too? It is weird. All right. Last one. This is going to be the one. This is a chance for you to double or nothing on your score here. 27.6 seconds, football will be played is the slug. Say again?

It says football will be played. Twenty what? 27.7. 27.6. This is a gorty one. That's a terrible slug. Look, obviously there are things going on. There's a lot of factors that are going to contribute when we're going to play. But I just know that football will be played. And whenever it's going to happen, we're going to be ready for it.

We know we're coaching hard. We're talking every day. We're trying to figure out what's going to happen. We have the schedule now. At some point, we know that football will be played. And at that point, no matter when it is, the Houston, Texas will be ready. I think you've got a good chance in this one. Here we go.

At the end of the day, there will be football played. football will be played. When that is played, we'll have to see how that goes. But right now we're on schedule to have a season. And I know that the McNair's and the Houston, Texas organization is going to take every precaution necessary to make sure that people are safe. Players are safe. Coaches are safe. Everybody involved in the organization. And obviously to the great fans of the Houston Texans that we're safe too. Really, really fast start. Kind of petered out towards the end. I'll give you three stars. Yeah, thanks.

Man, I think your first words were identical. That's got a cop for something. Yeah, so I'm saying he got a lot of it early on. I'm going to go like four and a half. Damn, that's a nice roll there. Nice roll. Thanks, Joe. 1229 is our time.

Seriously, this might be our last schedule. Well, we'll have, we had to do another schedule update. Last time we have to, oh, schedule update. Yeah. I thought you're going to say it was the last time we're going to hear from Bill O'Brien for like four or five months. Well, when would be the next time? I don't know. Did the NFL, they didn't do the Texans any favors.

We'll discuss that next. The opponents are the opponents, though. Yeah, but you kind of want to space them out a little bit, don't you? 1229. We'll talk about that coming up next. I feel pretty. Honey? Okay, Google Play Sports Talk 790 on High Heart Radio.

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Let me lay out the show for you the rest of the day. We're going to hopefully entertain the hell out of you between now and 2 o'clock. Brian T. Smith will be with us at 2 o'clock. He is apparently adopting a puppy today, so that might interfere with maybe a little earlier after. He is? I think it's a great story. Good for him.

I hope I didn't give away any secrets, but... Yeah, Matt, why would anybody... Why would you want anybody knowing he'd have as a dog? I don't think it's one of those things you're embarrassed by it. No, I don't think so. So he'll join us. And at 2.30 today, we got a draft coming up here in a little while. Yeah, we'll draft soon.

This week's Fantasy 5 at 230 in which we need you guys to be judges is worst number one songs that were number one songs during the decade of the 2000s between 2000 and 2009. And there's quite a few to choose from. I would say so. I got a list of about 15. I only had about eight. Oh, okay. Because songs that I think I wouldn't like, I think it would be shot down rather quickly. I'm staying true to my heart. That's good.

If I thought a song sucked, I'm drafting it. Drafting it. So I would say this, I was stunned by the number of songs that eventually made number one on the list. It was weird. Yeah, that was a weird. It was a weird time. It's almost as bad as late 80s. Just because of people you don't remember.

Like, what? Give me 1968, which was before my birth, to about, 1982. Give me that 14-year stretch. And then you can have 82 to 2000 now. I like the earlier 60s as well, though. Okay. But 2000s was not a great decade for music. I'd be afraid to see what 2010 look like, which we'll do in a few weeks. Will we? Yeah. I guess the decade is over. It is over. Yeah, we're in 2020. It's been a sucky year. I mean, honestly. So then we'll do top 10, number one songs of the 2020s. Hopefully there's 10 by now. We'll do that in 10 years.

If we're doing fantasy 5s in another 10 years, Ross, you're looking at me like, why am I here? If I'm still doing the Matt Schomb, Thomas Show, in 10 years, God help me. You hear that, Joe? That's what people like doing when they work around me. They just can't get away from me fast enough. Man. I'll brush up my resume.

He's saying this to me right in front of me, which is the best part of it all. Whatever I, he just said, the Matt Thomas show, I better not be here by the end of the decade. Okay. I got you. All right. You're disagreeing with me on this.

That it's a brutal opening four to start the season. I didn't disagree with that. Oh, you are going to agree with me then? I think it's very well within the realm of possibility. They start 0 and 4, although of course you have them 16 and 0. Well, I might change my mind before the end of the show. You never knew. And look, to your point, though, you knew who these teams were when you got, when you knew

where you were in the 8? the day after the season is done, they tell you who your opponents are. So anybody going, what? They're playing at Kansas City and at Pittsburgh? That's unfair. No, they knew exactly what they were going to do. That's the beauty of the NFL schedule or any schedule. And especially the NFL, like for example, we can complain about the, when we complain about a lot about the NBA schedule, because you have back-to-backs and then both teams have two days off and stuff. That is kind of weird. But you're on a week-to-week basis on the NFL, unless you're, you're you're talking about, of course, multiple Thursday night games or something, there's really

not a whole lot to complain about. Majorly baseball and MLB and the NBA can really bitch about where they travel, how much time they have off in between, how many days they don't, like, I think baseball's biggest problem is they don't give enough day off, a days off, frankly. There'll be a stretch where they'll play 21 consecutive games. Yeah, that's why they're trying to start, well, they were trying to start. This whole schedule's all whacked out. Honestly, I think there's only, like, of all the schedules I've seen, there's only one complaint that I think is justified.

And the Texans are in anybody? And anyone's. Go ahead. Did you see what the jet schedule is? They play, on November 15th, they played the dolphins. Then they have a bye week. And then they play the dolphins. So they play the dolphins two games in a row.

I think that is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on a schedule. My guess is this. They would never have said, let's put this into play. I bet there's like some scrap, some leftovers games that they can't figure out. And they hope and pray that it doesn't involve revolver on that. Because we've seen, didn't the Texans and Titans play twice in three weeks last year? Yeah, they did last year, yeah. So that does pop up occasionally.

It's not cool, but it does. But that to me is the weirdest one, one is having one opponent in three weeks playing twice in those three weeks. So let's also get into this. there is a chance. Nobody knows the percentage of it, but there's a chance that those early games, the ones in September, could be chopped. They start the season on Sunday, October the 4th, and they put those three games in September at the end of the year. That, frankly, doesn't help the Texans either.

Is it going to be chopping and putting it at the end, or is it going to be pushing back? Who knows? I mean, I don't know anybody knows. Yeah, I don't know. But let's say you chopped. That doesn't, to have to play Kansas City in Kansas City, home for Baltimore and at Pittsburgh, let's say in mid-January, two of those three games,

that's not fair. That's not going to be fun. Life's not fair of it. So either you're going to get screwed early or you're going to get screwed late. Now, the only thing, you know, so, yeah, if I'm Bill O'Brien, I'm yelling at Jack Easterby going,

I thought you had a connection in the league. Is that what you're doing? Matter of frankly, I think, he's probably yelling at Jack Easterby for something. Yeah, yeah, Jack's like, look, I'll take the paycheck, just yell at me. There is a thought that Bill O'Brien did petition the NFL to play nine home games this year and only go on the road seven.

And when Jack said that's not a possibility, he yelled at Jack. Really? Yeah. Again, I think... Hot coffee in his face? I think Jack's just going to be the yeller. I mean, the yell recipient. The recipient, yeah.

The lap dog, the whipping boy. Is there an easier stretch? Frankly, there is. November. At JVille, at Cleveland, New England, home, and at Detroit. far from murderers row. And then you got the Indianapolis game at home at Chicago. The only problem is you could be dealing with weather in November in Cleveland and Chicago.

But there could also be 61 degrees to unfair skies. How about this, Matt? Isn't it kind of curious that, and we went back years past, myself and Joe yesterday. This is the first time in years and years and years and maybe ever. We went back to like 2012. They are not on Sunday night or Monday night football the entire season. Yeah. Despite being on there three times last year.

How about this? Or two times. Two times. Can you name another team that went to the playoffs the previous year and were not on Monday night football the following year? That has to have never happened. Yeah, I don't know. It's just, it's kind of weird.

How does a team that makes the play, and not only made the playoffs, but got to the final four in the EFC, the divisional round playoff game. Not up here on Monday night football. You know what that was? You know, Monday Night Football that scheduled this year is significantly better than it has been in years past. The bills are on Monday Night Football and Sunday Night Football. So try to go with the bills, no.

I can check all the playoff teams. Well, yeah, there's no, I mean, I will make, I will bet you several really tall beers that a team that went to the division around of the playoffs, the previous year doesn't appear on Monday night football. Because here's the thing. You can skip being on Monday night football if, let's say, NBC takes a bunch of your games. You know what I'm saying? Where they're going to put you on Sunday night football.

Or you play like three or four Thursday night games. Guys, they play one NBC game, the first one, and they play on Thanksgiving. That's it. you know what that proves to you? Not about whether or not there be a playoff team or not. It proves to you that the Houston Texans

in terms of national cachet carry the same relevance as the Kansas City Royals or the Atlanta Hawks or the Charlotte Bobcat or the Charlotte Homer. There's no national appeal whatsoever for the Houston Texans.

The season opener though is probably, I mean, I would say that's bigger than any of the other games. True. First game. But does that mean that you don't, that because the Texans were chosen for that, that they don't appear at all on Monday night?

It's crazy. It's kind of, it's curious, I will say. Titans made the playoffs. They're on Monday night football week one and Sunday night football week 16. Hmm. Riders didn't make the playoffs.

Their first ever home game in Las Vegas. That makes a lot of sense. How many Monday night games are the Oakland Raiders on? I'll have to find it. Because here's the thing. No matter what the Raiders are, they're going to carry in more of a national brand than the Houston Texans. That's true.

They just are. I'll ask you off of this question. We'll come back with it. Who carries a lesser national cachet in the NFL more than the Houston Texans? Think about that. We'll come back and talk about that in a minute. 1243, the Matt Thomas show continues. This is Sports Talk 790.

Daniel House. Hey, it's Daniel House. Matt Thomas. continues now on sports talk 790 thanks daniel 1247 matt thomas show one o'clock we're going to be playing a little bit of audio that uh was heard earlier today on the sean salisbury show that's just going to depress the hell out of you if i played the whole 15 minutes you'd want up drinking and falling asleep and taking pills i was going to do that anyways well i'm only going to play 47 seconds of it because that's all i could handle sean salisbury weekday morning six to ten

doesn't have a lot of guests like that, but today's guest was an absolute bus killer. Okay. All right. Cache. Define it however you want to. Cache, baby.

Okay. New England, no. Jets, no. We're going through every team to see if they have more or less. This will take about a minute and a half. I think the Texas have more cashier than the Jets. Nationally. No chance.

Live because it's New York. San Donald? No, that doesn't matter about the team. It's about the rep, how they are carried across the country. Fine, you're right. Buffalo. Okay, next.

I think when you breathe heavily on the microphone. This is like asking the detention teacher, which one of your kids are your favorites? Miami Dolphins. Dolfins. 72 and O, Don Shula. You're telling me a team that went perfect 48 years ago has more cachet than the Texans. I mean, I'm not going to argue with you. Say yes.

Yes. Okay. So let's go back to Buffalo. Who's a sexier NFL team in the world? The Houston Texans or the Buffalo Bills? The Houston Texans? The Bills went to four straight Super Bowls. Yeah, but that was 30 years ago.

I know. Yeah, they've been a dumpster for like 15 years. I'm going Texans. You know what? I'm saying Texans. I will say Texas because of JJ Watt. Thanks, JJ. Seriously, when you put the Buffalo, like, you know how on Sunday night football,

they put the players up of famous players? When Buffalo shows up, who do they put? Devin Singletary? Texans. Strictly because of JJ Warr. Okay. Baltimore, duh. Pittsburgh, duh. Pittsburgh's huge following across the country.

Huge, huge. That's fine. Cleveland. Yeah. I think Cleveland's got more of a national cachet. I do. Their record shouldn't give that to them. Oh, they've been a dumpster fire for like the last 50 years.

But that's part of their charm is that people care that they're a dumpster fire. They don't have cachet. I mean, look what happened last year. They made a couple free agency moves and everyone picked them. Yeah. They jumped all over. America jumping. Couldn't me.

And then they went six and ten. I know, but like Baker Mayfield was the betting favorite last year to win the MVP. I don't know that's accurate. I'm with you. I think Cleveland has not a lot more, but slops. more cachet than the Texans. Texans for sure have more cachet than the Cincinnati

Bengals. I think that's an easy one. Yes. Okay. Agree. Now with Joe Burrow there? Still yes. Okay. Titans. That's a close one. It's closer to people you would think. Say,

I don't think Tennessee has any kind of national oomph to it. No. Mike Rable brings a little bit of it. I'll take Texans over the Titans on that. Colts? No. Nope. Jaguars? Yes, definitely. So right now we got Cincinnati. And Jaguars is consensus.

Yeah. Cincinnati, Tennessee, and Jacksonville. And Buffalo. We've got four teams at this point. Yes. To the West. Kansas City, no. Denver, no. Raiders, no. L.A. Chargers? No. I'll say no because of the L.A. angle. So we've named four teams in the AFC. F.N.F.C. side. Philadelphia, no, Dallas, no, Giants, no Redskins, no.

NFC North, Green Bay, no, Minnesota. No. Was Minnesota done anything remarkable in the last? Well, they had Brett Farr, Adrian Peterson, some sexy stars. Okay, so yeah, that's a no. Chicago Bears? No. Monsters of Midway.

Detroit, Lions. The Lions is weird because they play that Thanksgiving game every year. that for no, and they don't, and the only reason why they get this is because of tradition. That's it. Nothing more. So I would say no. Like, they don't have more cashier than the Texans. I'll say no as well.

It's close. Okay, so that may give us us now five teams. New Orleans, no. You skip the whole NFC South. We're not going there yet. Okay. You said New Orleans. I'm going there now.

New Orleans? Yeah, I said you can skip the whole thing. Oh, you always over, you think Atlanta's got more cash out? Yes. Not the Panthers. Panthers. Yeah, I was, I know. Buccaneers. Yes, Panthers.

See, Tampa Bay minus Brady. I mean, oh, I know Brady's getting a lot of push now. But when did it? More cachet. Bruce Ariens, Tampa Bay. Now the last couple years, I would say no. Yeah, but we're going to go to big picture. Okay. When they got a Super Bowl?

More cashie. Carolina or Houston. Carolina. Cam Newton, yeah, for a decade, basically. More cachet, Houston or Atlanta? Atlanta. I'd say Atlanta. Okay.

West. Nineers know we can forget the West. Except maybe Arizona. Well, I don't know. I think the Texans have more Cliff and Kyler and Forget about that. Let's go back. They have this great wide receiver

named DeAndre Hawkins. Don't even start with it. This is awful. So essentially, boys, we figure there are six more teams that have more national oomph than others. Than the Texans.

So that's the reason why my nine football is like, I will pass. I think it's also, I would guess that the ratings aren't good. So when they put the Texans on, they don't necessarily get the ratings they want from the biggest city as we are. How many Buffalo games are on Monday Night Football this year? They have one Monday and one Sunday last I looked.

Please tell me Carolina is not on Monday night football. They open the season on Monday Night Football, don't they? I would bet you we could probably find every team. I bet you like the Texans are like the only team that's not on either. The bills have... Seriously. Two Monday night games, one Sunday night and one Thursday night game. In some respects, the Texan schedule does help them.

They don't have to worry about playing another Thursday. I mean, if everybody has to play a Thursday night game, they play theirs to start the season. So they'll have a normal week preparation-wise. It won't be a short week flying up there. The Panthers do not open up on... They open up at Sunday in regular time. They do... Oh, they have a Thursday night game against the Falcons.

I don't know if we're counting that. No, because everybody has to play one of those. And no Sunday or Monday night games. Okay, so there you go. The Texans are and the AFC are to the Panthers and the NFC, and the Panthers are predicted of what finished 3 and 13. Okay. Just want to let Texans care know where y'all are going to be.

By the way, the airfares going to Kansas City midweek will be able to spend. Traveling Texan are going to spend some money this year. Thanksgiving, Detroit, do you want to do that? Why would you want to go to Detroit ever? Because traveling Texans like to go to city halls and put their Texans logo all over their stuff. I mean, traveling Texan, please listen to me very carefully. Don't go to Kansas City. Don't say revenge is ours.

We're going to get you this time. It's not going to happen. save your money in this one. Go to what's a sneaky good town in the mix there? Pittsburgh's okay. I'm never in the Jacksonville. Cleveland's oak.

I mean, there's not a great debt. There's not a great rodeo this year. It just really isn't. Because Chicago and December is going to be cold A.F. You don't want to sit on there for three and a hour. Nobody, only a fool would go there. Only a fool will go to Chicago and December to watch a football game.

I mean, a big-time fool. I already bought my tickets. You did not. Yeah. Did you really? Yeah, I bought tickets. They're fully refundable. What did you pay for airfare? I haven't bought flights yet.

Well, then it doesn't really count then. They bought game tickets. Oh, how much did you spend on those? Like $2.50. For how many? For two. And my dad's going to pay me back for one of them, so. What about the newlywood wife of yours?

We're going back for Christmas as well, so she's not doing two trips. You're going December 13th and Christmas? Yeah. There's no way you're going to have four successful flights. You're going to have one of them massively derailed by blizzards. Definitely. Definitely going to happen. Wait, me, the NFL lets you buy tickets and they're fully refundable? They are this year. So you can go on the Texans website, buy their tickets.

Because if their games get canceled, they'll be fully refundable. Not a terrible investment. I mean, I'm literally looking at the Texans websites. The games are completely open still. Let me tell you this. If you want to go buy some tickets and make some money on the side, go buy the Green Bay tickets. Green Bay fans travel all over. There's Packer fans all over this country. True. They'll scoop them up, no matter what the case may be.

All right. I hate to do this, Ross. We're going to open up the second hour with a Debbie Downer moment. Really? I don't want to. It seems like you want to. Well, I mean, I did prepare it, so I might as well play it. 713-212-5-79 if you want to get in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. A Debbie Downer moment starts the second hour of the Matt Thomas show, BTS from The Chronicle of 2.

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We'll have it for you at 2.30 this afternoon. Did you see the Canadian Football League? It's probably going to cancel its season, and there is a chance the Canadian Football League will go away. We're going to see potentially this coronavirus wiping out two football leagues

in one year. Now, frankly, the only reason why you would watch a Canadian football league would be what? To bet on it, correct? Because it used to be somewhat of a pipeline for the NFL. It really isn't anymore.

I don't like the three downs. I don't like the 110-yard field. I don't like that the goal post is right at the goal line. It makes me think of injuries and whatnot. The three downs really bothers me. Not even the competition play, but to give somebody two chances, it's just not great. Okay. So, and like I said, there used to be guys that you could go to the CFL and you go grab and they would come play in the NFL.

But how many CFL guys do the league grab a year? Maybe one, two tops? It's not very many. I know, like, the big ones are like Cameron Wake. Yes. The Bears signed someone this year. Sean Salisbury. Yeah, Sean Salis.

How many years is Sean playing in the Canadian football? I don't know. He's a Great Cup champ, though. Was he good there during the time? He won a championship. He was he with the Winnipeg. Did he play, though? Yeah, he's starting quarterback.

For that team? Yeah. Yeah, he won a championship, starting quarterback. Damn, good for him. Yes, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He played it for a couple years. Won a great cup, 1988. The things you learn on the Matt Thomas show.

Maybe I should have known already. I think he's got, maybe for a Monday, night meeting, I think he has a good parade story. By the way, I think it was like really cold. He told a story. We had our last Monday night meeting, we had most embarrassing moments as an athlete. I was kicking, scoring an own goal for my own team when I was seven years old when I was playing soccer. Okay.

His was, he never mentioned anything about his during playing career. He mentioned going to play golf and getting on the course and having to do the business. Drop a deuce? Drop, yeah, whatever. And he couldn't wait and he couldn't find a bathroom. So he went out in the woods and wanted to use his socks that couldn't himself up. I've heard that story.

Yeah. And he had a woman with him next to him in the cart, which had to make the cover. Wait, was he hanging off the cart? Well, it depends on how bad he had to go. Where was it going with this? I don't know. CFL is canceled. Yeah, oh, I don't know.

And Matt is devastated because the CFL is canceled. Again, so is Warren Moon the greatest CFL player ever to play in the NFL? Yeah, I would say so. Because I don't, maybe Sean Salsbury is number two. Cameron Willey. As I said, Camerwick's definitely. Who's number three then? Sean?

Doug? Joe Horn? Mr. Flutie? Oh, Doug Flutie, for sure. He didn't do anything in the NFL, really, though, right? He's still through for quite a few yards. I guess. He had a drop kick.

That's true. That's true. We don't see that anymore. Who could forget that? All right. So we have one league gone. So speaking of Sean, let's go full circle on this. I'm in the car this morning, driving in, and he has... Probably Joe Thaisman played in the Canadian League. That'd be another good one. So Sean had this guy named Barry Bloom. Does the name ring a bell to any of you?

Never heard of him. Never heard of him. Yeah, I don't Barry. Do you know him well enough to speak about him before we play this soundby? I mean, I've booked him as a guest many times. Okay, so how would you generally consider him as a guest? Solid. I mean, I don't think he's one of those guys that's like over, not like a, he doesn't try to be like Stephen A. Smith opinionated, but he's solid. Okay.

Well, I listened to him for the first time today. And I wanted to pull off on the side of the road and cry and get an alcoholic beverage of some sort, which you can't drive and drink so that wouldn't have been a possibility. So I got me a tea from Jack in a Box instead. Okay. Did you get some mini churros? No, but that would have been a great call. Maybe a taco? Like a 930 mini chiro sounds good right now, no, no.

So ladies and gentlemen, Barry was on, he writes for Forbes, he's also written for MLB.com in the past, maybe not after what he said here. And it was basically 15 minutes of doom and gloom about the NFL, about the Major League Baseball upcoming season. Well, I'm not going to put you through that because I don't want you to get clinically depressed during the show. But I do present to you a little Debbie Downer moment here on Sports Talk 790.

During your day, everything's going your way, man alone comes Debbie Downer. Disease, a car accident or killer bees. You beg her to spare you, Debbie, please, but you can't stop Debbie. So I think what we're going to see in the next few weeks is, you know, a lot of talk about and rumors about what that plan might entail and, you know, how it's going to come about. And then what's going to happen is before you even get to that date, the public health concerns are going to be so grave. You can't play

in a lot of cities around the country right now, and I just think that the Arizona thing, which really had the best idea was shot down by the players, and they just don't want to be sequestered for a couple of months in Arizona playing a schedule.

So I think that's a non-starter. And logistically, you can't do the other thing because of a variance of reason. I listened to the rest of the interview as I was driving, again. Mm-hmm. He's like, there won't be baseball played. There won't be basketball played.

Really? He just said, you know what? These leagues should stop even trying to bring it back. What's this guy's name again? Barry Bloom. Okay. I don't like Barry Bloom. I don't either.

He made me mad today. Now, he's not the only one that thinks this. But for someone who does use, you know, who is in the sports circles, here's my argument to it. And yeah, am I pushing for an agenda for these sports to come back and play? Absolutely. Selfishly? Completely selfishly.

But if they, if these sports leagues didn't want to come back, you wouldn't be hearing about practice facilities opening up again. You wouldn't be hearing about pods or having spring training in the home stadiums. I think they would just say, we're not prepared. Or they would, I don't think you would want to get out from your key baseball people, your Rosenthal's, who else? Your bus are only. Jeff Passon. You're not pushing out information to those guys to give up, to give out false hope, correct?

I wouldn't think so. There'd be no reason for that. But if you want to argue his side, you could say there's nothing been set in stone. There's no plan in place. There's no infrastructure. place. There's nothing but I'll talk at this point. There's been no action. And it's changed. For the NBA, there has been some action in that they delayed the NBA combine. They delayed the lottery, but they kind of had to do that. No matter what.

So for those of you that listen to 9 o'clock, and we had people that listen throughout the day, we don't know how many people we have. We appreciate you. We do. Very much. If you did hear that interview today with Barry Bloom, were you like, this guy makes some sense or this is, I mean, there's a certain segment of the population that thinks that the thought of even sports coming back is the most ridiculous thing they were heard in their life. I wouldn't think that if you're listening to my show you, but you're in that category, but it doesn't mean that it's not a fair conversation to have or a good debate point. But man, it was today, it was like, and Sean's like, so you're saying you don't think so. No, I don't believe it's, I mean, it was like, and Sean's like, and he did the right thing. he's like, thank you for this different perspective.

I'm like, no, I don't thank you for this different perspective. I hate you for this different perspective. Would you have hung up on him, Matt? Well, I'd been like, why am I doing this to myself? It'd be like having my doctor on the show. What kind of information does this guy have? Dr. Diaz, thanks for having me on the show. Matt, I got to tell you, your blood pressure is high, your cholesterol is high,

your glucose level is high. so you're saying that I should eat nothing but grains. Or like celery sticks for the next six weeks. Yes, I am, Matt. And if you ask me any more questions about how poor your health is, I'll be able to tell you that too. I mean, it was just like, ah, it was awful. I mean, if I wanted this kind of negativity,

I'd go to MSNBC for this. I don't need it on my morning sports radio. So it was just, and he was thoughtful. It wasn't like this was a guy that had, an agenda for anti-sports, but man, it was like, Barry, don't do this to me. This sucks. And that's why I had to think about it. Is this a guy that with an agenda or is this a guy that just has one opinion? Or is this a guy that's like, you know what? I don't care what majorly baseball and MLB and NFL is trying to sell us. This ain't happening. I don't want it to be the case.

I want them to keep going, frankly, because we need it. And frankly, for them, they need it because they need the cache. You don't play these games, you don't finish out, everybody suffers tremendous doom and gloom on the business side of things. Nobody will the players. And those players have that lifestyle.

How is Earl Thomas can be able to rent those Airbnbs if he's not playing? I think he'll be able, he'll probably have a lot of extra free time coming up soon after the divorce. You'll be to have all the orgies with his brother he'd be wants.

You're assuming there are you. Puddles. I'm sorry. We don't say orgies in the show. Huddles. We have 14-year-olds listening. or 12. 25 to 54 is what we're looking for.

That's true. If you're 25 and 54, we love you. Older and younger, we love you too, but we just really love you 2554. 113. It is the Matt Thomas show. So if you want to catch a conversation with Barry Bloom, I would suggest you get a bottle of whiskey first, knock it back, giggle a little bit, and then listen to the 50 minutes that just will permanently put you in a bad mood the rest of the weekend. On the Sean Zelsbury show. Great show.

Great interviews. But just a. sucky depressing. I'll be asleep, to be honest. 113-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We do have some NBA facilities that are opening up, but I think one of my think is only doing one-on-one stuff.

There's no even, you can't even hang out with guys only allowing one person in the facilities. It's a very, very slow return-to-work process. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is a mat. Tom of show. We appreciate you listen to Sports Talk. This is awesome rivers.

It's good! It's back. Hey, it's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. My computer is on for some reason. Let's see here. I'm going to pause this real quick. Two of the NFL games next year, it's my fault, not his. I'm telling this. There is a presidential debate on Tuesday, September the 29th, Vice President.

presidential debate on Wednesday, October the 7th. There are also two more Thursday night games opposite presidential debates. October 15th, Kansas City versus Buffalo. That could be a good game. Are you watching that or are you watching the presidential debate? Getting dual screens going. I think dual screen is definitely the option. Maybe like the debate on the laptop and the game on the big screen?

We are the, we're proud to say we're the most anti-political show on the station. I would say so. By far. However. These presidential debates, this is what I've been wanting from the beginning for maximum entertainment value. I think Biden-Trump debates are going to be incredible. I got to be honest. I cannot wait for the debates.

So, Casey Buffalo versus the president. Yeah, you're going to be able to get some good. CNN feed, MSNBC, Fox News feed, and go to YouTube, it'll have the feed of the presidential debate. Can I go to a sports bar and then watch both? Excuse me. My turn. I'm sorry, go ahead.

Which one has the sound up? Gotta be the debate. Probably. No, no, no, no. It's got to be the debate. Because you don't want to read their mouths. You want to listen to Buck and Aikman or Trump and Biden? Trump and Biden.

You are the best. That's true because, I mean, you can't, you can tell what's going on the football. I got one for you. The next one. October 22nd. Trump Biden. Yes.

Trump v. Biden. Or Giants Eagles. I'm going to tell you something right now, boys. Giants Eagles is going on the computer. What's the spread? What's the line on the game? What's the total on that game? Do we have a financial interest in it?

Maybe so. I'll probably have a fancy play. players in the, are fantasy drafts going off as normal come August or whatever? Great question. Our rule is here. We always draft the Thursday of the, you know, all the exhibit, the final preseason games are on that Thursday. We always draft that night.

We still haven't. I'm in a dynasty league. I'm in a dynasty league. I'm in a dynasty baseball league. We still haven't drafted yet. It's so bizarre. Oh, that is weird. I finished a baseball draft.

Okay. are you ready for this? 2016 presidential debate Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton went up against the Giants and the Packers. Who won the night that night? I have to say the debates, right? Yeah. The debates

crushed. Okay. Much sexier matchup. What were the ratings? What was the percent? I mean, was it close at all. Okay. I'm looking at here. They all, the debate also beat Falcons and Saints. Really? Well, here's the fact.

Falcons were actually good. The fact of the matter is this. There's just more people that like politics than like sports. That's true. Which I don't understand. You don't want me through this. No. Go ahead.

I don't even know. How can you not like sports? I'm not saying memorize box scores or watch every game, but to just say that I don't like sports would be hard for me to fathom. For instance, I don't, I'm not a big fan of the opera, but. But if we went and saw an opera event once or twice a year, I could come to appreciate and go, man, it was magnificent singing, great theatrics. The fat lady was amazing. Yeah, I mean, I would go to, I mean, I'm not a huge fan of the ballet, but I could go and appreciate that.

It feels like to me that those that don't like sports just go, how do you like those guys? I mean, it seems like that you just despise it. I think there are a lot. There's a contingent of people that are like that, but I wouldn't say it's the majority. I say most people are at least, I mean, there's die-hards with anything. diehards, casuals, people who don't watch and then people who despise, right? The spies level is what, 5% maybe?

I would say probably somewhere around there. There are probably more percentage of that that despise the opera. It's crazy. And look, the ratings game is a really badly, badly put together system in radio. But in Houston,

if you're the number one sports station or the number one show in a particular time slot, you're only in that we were talking about 2554, you're only about 19th or 20th on the list, meaning there are 18 radio stations with more men 2554 listening to sports radio. So there's a lot of people that like sports, but just don't like sports radio, which would be strange to me as well.

Unless you just needed to hear, you want to hear the Zach Brown band really, really badly. They've got some hits, Matt. Talking about cold beer on a Friday night. Or you wanted to hear, you know. That's not every town, though. No. In Chicago, the ratings in Dallas. Dallas,

way bigger. Way bigger. Yeah. Philly's way bigger than Houston. Chicago. I don't know about L.A. or anything. L.A. were probably pretty comparable. Because L.A. you got 80 million things to do besides listen to sports radio. But it's just kind of weird that you would think, because we, you know, everyone wants to proclaim that Houston is this some magnificent sports town. Well, if that was the case, you'd have sold out every one of your games,

you would have sports radio stations in the top five in their particular demographic, and it's just isn't the case. That's what, to me, when we were talking about the Monday night stuff, why put the Texans on Monday Night Football if they're not going to rate? They are about as average as it gets. Yeah. Well, it's not necessarily about even the town. I mean, Green Bay is not a big town, but they have cachet.

They have history. They have all those types of things. I mean, what else? There's other teams that we can think of that aren't necessarily Buffalo. Kansas City have huge ratings. Yeah, exactly. I mean, they have Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid, and they won the Super Bowl. So is there anything we can do?

I mean, I'm not talking about sports radio. Forget about that. Is there anything we can do to gather the cachet of our collective sports teams? I mean, I think, well, the Astros, unfortunately, have done that because they're now the most hated team in sports. We're not used to that. It's true. But before all this came down, I think they had a lot more cachet than any other Houston team nationally. Yeah.

Because you know why? Because they won. But no, but by no means was a sexy team. And the greatest argument to that is when the Astros would play in the playoffs every year, guess what they were doing in that first round? They were playing those early Thursday and Friday games. Well, the Rockets were, I have been, I've been on a ton of national games the last several years. They have, yeah.

They have, they've been in the playoffs every year. And they rate well. Television for Rockets games do well nationally. Yeah. It's not because everybody's like, wow, Houston's great. It's because of what, it's because of the product. So it's almost like we've got to forget about the team, the city on the uniform name. Yeah.

The Oklahoma City Thunder. when they had Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and they were making playoff runs, they were one of the biggest brands in basketball. Yeah. In Oklahoma freaking city, it doesn't matter as much. In 2020,

I think it's a lot bigger, a lot less of a big deal because of the internet because of national broadcasts and all that stuff. Because you have more fans, like there are people in this city that have never been to Oklahoma City a day in their life. No.

That are big time Thunder fans. Yeah. Maybe not with Russic leaving, but. Right. But point being is there are teams that are fans, you know, just because of the player.

And that's what today's generation of kids are all about. 127 here on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to join us, it is that anything goes Friday. We have anything, anything, anything, we have something that's not anything that hasn't been a anything goes conversation piece yet. I felt like yesterday's show was on Earl Thomas

as a lot of anything goes. It was kind of a anything goes Thursday yesterday. Yeah. But we can go, anything goes Friday. Yeah. It's 7-1-3-21, 25, so. Spine. Yes is the audience what that is.

Well, we can talk about whatever you want. You want to talk about presidential debate? it's probably call Michael Berry. If you want to talk about what's going on, you want to talk about Debbie Downers. Mother's Day is coming up this weekend. I still need ideas for my mom, my grandma,

great aunt, my sister, oh no. Boy, it costs you a lot, doesn't it? It's pricey. Give them all some cash. How about this? Is a Zoom call good enough for a Mother's Day gift? Hmm.

And what kind of caution are you exercising? Normally we all go out for Mother's Day. That's what in the service industry, Mother's Day is probably the number one biggest day of the year. You know what we're doing our house? I'm cooking for our mother. My mother. No, I'm not.

I'm not seeing my mother. I'm cooking for the mother in our house. How's it going to go? I mean... How are you cooking skills? What do you make it? I'm doing like a brunch type thing. Bacon eggs.

Okay. Pancakes, fruit plate. I've got to have waffles. I guess we could. I want you to make some crepes. Can you make some homemade crepes, Matt? I've never done crepes. I do have a waffle maker in the house.

Okay, there you go. Did you get it from your wedding? You haven't used it. sense? No. We did. We used it like twice already. It's awesome. Love our Woffer. Wedding present Waffle Maker. That's a classic right there. You know, the one thing that I wanted badly for my wedding that I did not get and Kim made fun of me for even asking for it was a direct TV satellite dish. Really? Yeah, I did. I would just ask for cash. Cash is king. Ross, if you ever get married, I will give you cash. Same. You bring it up to the JOP? And I will only.

and you will invite me to your wedding, correct? I just said, you're going to bring it up to the JOP? Yeah, that's fine. I can do that. Probably have like a happy hour after the JOP. Keep it low key. You mean keep it within the area? Yeah.

Let go. If I'm getting married, she's probably not going to be able to drink for like six to six months or six months or six months. We're going to be over there. What's three we're going to be on, on, not Smith, Louisiana. Yeah. There's a lot of good bars. There's got me some bars next to the bail bonds place, right? She's going to be three to four months pregnant, so she probably won't be able to drink if I'm getting married.

Oh. Very. line right there. You missed the first one, though. What do you say? He said she wouldn't be able to drink for six months. It just went right over your head. It's fine. It's a couple times a week. You don't have to point him out, Joe. Just let him go. Yeah. Let him have his shine. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas. Shall we take you today until three o'clock. How about a gift of lower rates on your insurance policy on their home? That's what I can give. TGS can give it to you. You text the word money, Mone, E1 to 23, 23, 23,

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Happy early Mother's Day to all everybody Okay I wouldn't think you'd echo that sentiment Sure happy Mother's Day No need for pregnant problems But that's all right Every day's Mother's Day for me.

I wish, frankly, Father's Day got the same cachet that the Mother's Day is. I get a half a day. I don't even get a full day. I get to like 2.33 o'clock in the afternoon, and then that's back to normal life. Mothers, you get the full day because you guys are working hard. Frankly, moms are doing the teaching bit now and watching the kids more than they ever had before. So this is a really special one for all you. So happy early Mother's Day from all of us here, including SportsRV on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. to join us. 713212-5-790. Let's go to, is it Gilroy on the west side? Hi, Gilroy. Hey, how you doing? Gilroy, exactly. Yeah, I just great to call. I called once before, and I was in traffic and didn't have a chance to really talk to you, and I had to cut it short. If I sound a little curt at that time, I apologize. I would like to ask. I was trying to rescue Bill O'Brien for you guys, you know. Do your favor. I know you don't sound too interested.

Go for it. well not really I'm not that I'm as one of his best fans or anything but you know going back to Duane Brown he he left right he just actually didn't get along is that what was going with that with that trade

particularly yes there was there was more sideways with the owner than it was with the coaching staff but yeah there was definitely some animosity between Dwayne Brown and the McNair's okay we'll throw that out then you have clownie now has clown even picked up yet he has not well that seems like

kind of interesting because we're really mad at the guy for him getting rid of clownie. He's only had 32 sacks in the last six years, I think. He only had three last year. Well, that was a full year for him or not. But, you know, he really has not. He was, you know, he was great. And he also went to South Carolina where the owner went at that time.

And who was the other guy, the, uh, the, uh, DeAndre Halfton. Cornerback. No. Yeah, and there's also a cornerback or a safety that he's gone. He basically has hit people and didn't really tackle, wrap him up on the tackled. but he got traded. He was also from South Carolina.

Aside from that, though, then how about this Hopkins thing? You know, I know, I got something. Now, didn't he start dropping a few passes this year? I'm not, I'm just being playing the devil's out. Please. Well, but the problem is, Gilroy, you're not doing a very good job of it.

I mean, to say that he dropped a few passes for the guy that has been the most go-to receiver in the last five or six years for the Houston, Texas is not, it's not being fair to him at all. No, no, I mean a few. I meant like three, literally only, But he didn't go one year without dropping one, I recall. Okay. And he just dropped.

But it seems like the couple of times he did dropping them. They were really big situations. And I don't know. I think that Bill O'Brien just, he just got to where he just thought the guy just didn't want to do what he wanted him to do. And I could be wrong about that. Besides from that, though, I wish the guy the best because he is, I thought he was number one receiver in the NFL, but, you know, I was trying to help him out a little bit.

And he has lost sort of a step. You know, now he's only like three or four. yards ahead of them instead of like five yards because he's still that good. And one last thing, too, the Astros, you think maybe we might get hurt by a free agency, you know, with the scandal going on and possibly some of the guys that may want to actually leave this situation in this scene? I think money will talk no matter what. Thank you, Gary for the call.

Money's going to speak. Because, frankly, the people that were directly involved, meaning the bosses, the general manager and the manager are gone. And if you respect Dusty Baker and you think he's going to do a good job as your manager and your leader, and this administration is not going to accept cheating, and oh, by the way, the asteros will pay you more than anybody else. You'll come here. So to answer your question, I do not believe the cheating scandal is going to affect for agency. We don't know, right?

But I would say probably not know. Certainly not in the long run. Certainly because everybody's gone. I mean, it's a different regime and all that type of stuff. It is a completely cleansed clubhouse, you hope, is a completely cleansed organization. It's, you know, it's kind of similar to, do you remember when how bad Penn State was in terms of, oh, that problem with Joe Paterno and Gary Sandusky and that Penn State's going to be ruined forever? That didn't last long because they went in there and it cleansed it up.

O'Brien to his credit was a part of that. Going eight and four and seven and five. Whatever it was, but I mean, it didn't take long for Penn State to get a new coach after Bill O'Brien came to the Texans and became a Big Ten contender once again. Baylor, remember when Baylor and all that stuff? Oh, it's never going to come back. These are things, all it takes is a cleansing of the organization of the school, of the administration, and you play by the rules, you do it the right way, and you get to come back.

the death nail for organizations, no matter what the penalty, frankly, is, in that long. And here's the thing. If you are the Astros and you win the American League again this year and you win 100 games, if they play 100 or whatever the case, and you have Jose Al-Tuba have a great season and George Springer and Carlos Gray is hitting like you used to hit, players will come. and if George Springer doesn't come back because he gets a deal he can't refuse, that's going to open up some money for another outfielder to come here. Which he probably will.

So no. To give you a long-winded answer, no. I don't think the cheating scandal at all hurts. Now, will there still be ribbing? Yep. Will there be booze this year? And maybe booze for the rest of the Aster's careers? Yep.

But that's going to dissipate just like anything else is. Stop me when I'm wrong. I mean, I just, I think so. I don't, I just don't. I agree. I agree. Yeah. It's not going to be something that's going to be that's going to linger.

It's not going to be that big of a deal. I think it's more of a, I feel like it's more of a media and a fan thing than within the players. Definitely a fan thing. Although there were people who were coming out and talking and saying certain things. And honestly, if you look at that list, I mean, it was mostly younger players, like the Aaron Judges and the Cody Bellinger's and the guy. Like there was a guy, like Brett Gardner on the Yankees was like,

hey, this is, you know, this is something we need to move on from because he knows he's been around. And the veteran guys and the guys who've been around for years. They know what was happening during that time, and they understand, I think. Yeah, it's funny. Find a bunch of 30-plus-year-old Major League Baseball players that are just, oh, you guys are disgusting. It didn't really come out. It didn't really happen.

There are many more players, in my opinion, around baseball that were like, we got lucky. We better clean up our act. More so than how dare the Astros try to cheat us. It's funny. How many Boston. Red Sox players, Ross, during that time we're particularly outspoken.

I can't think of anybody. Was Mookiee Betts shaming the Astros? I don't think he came out and said anything. Was Janie Martinez? No, I don't think he came out. Shaming the Astros? I don't think so. Yeah. Not coincidence. 142 on Sports Talk 790.

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2015. Was that in Houston or in San Antonio? I want to say that was in Houston Christmas Day. Not 100% sure on that. Okay. I'm not sure. Tomorrow at 6 o'clock, it's Astros Indians, Dallas Keikl's opening day start in the season in which he won the Cy Young. That was the year they went to the Wild Card. Okay. Who are they playing? Who's the opponent? The Cleveland Indians. Okay. And then tomorrow, on Sunday, Mother's Day, it's Astros and a Rangers, George

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Like what time? 650? 648. Okay, I got you. All right. Let's go to Christian Lamar. Happy Friday, Christian. What's going on?

Yes. Tom. And Joe George. Hey, Christian. Look, I know that I'm a little bit salty about the whole fantasy five thing as you've seen on my Twitter. But I mean, it was my phone. I know I shouldn't have ran too long trying to answer my. I mean, trying to answer my.

Oh, no. Don't be, no, Matt just cuts off people that vote against him. Yeah, Christian. No, it's a bit. I say, I say go to hell for people that don't vote for me. That's, that's, that's a term of endearment. Nah, a bit is my whole helicopter thing that Michael Connor keeps talking about. Oh, we haven't played that in a long time.

Yeah, of course. But the main thing I came onto the show to talk about, obviously, with the Texans, releasing their schedule, well, you know, COVID permitting. I just have to ask. But the first four weeks being against rough and humble opponents, especially the first two with the Chiefs and Ravens, do you think that this upcoming Texan season will be the fine solely off of those four games that start the season? Thank you, Christian. The team has gone off the lossy starts before in some of the playoffs.

I mean, that basically has been Bill O'Brien's signature, right? Stumble out of the gate. A bunch of questionable losses, which I don't think any of those first fours. if they lose them individually would be a questionable loss. Those are all four very good opponents, two of them on the road. But it just seems like that's what Bill O'Brien does. He starts off the season week. He finishes strong.

And then everybody says there's hope for next year. So no. Will the season be riding on what they do in the first four? The answer to that is no. If, I about this, listen to this, I have a chance for you guys to win a really nice car. A loaded SUV of your choice, okay? But you have to get the first four games right. Will they go O and four, one and three, two and two, three and one, or four and O?

You're giving me a loaded SUV just for predicting that? Yeah. All right, I'm holding... Cut this audio for a court. Now, we're talking about a loaded hot wheels SUV. Oh, jeez. I mean, the fanciest one that you can put in your pocket. All right, yeah, still cut the audio, Jeff.

It's probably not that part. Let me do this. I'll go first. I would just think based on that they're not as bad as O and four. They're not as good as 4-0, that those you can kick to the corner right away. The opponents are too tough to go through. I will say they'll go one in three. They're underdogs.

Do we have the lines? Are they underdogs in every one of those games, or are they favored against the Vikings? They are 10 and a half dogs to Kansas City. Loss. Six-point dogs to Baltimore. At home? Probably a loss. Five-point dogs at Pittsburgh, and they are a pick-em game against.

the Vikings. Pick them at home. I'll say they go one and three. Which means if you and I tie it, which means you don't win the, you don't win the loaded SUV hot wheel. Okay, I'll say they will go one and a half and two and a half. Okay. What do you think, Joe? Honestly, if you were a betting man on this, where do you go in the first four?

Two and two? Win the home games? I don't know. I just feel like, I think they might catch Kansas City week one. I mean, Minnesota is the most vulnerable of the four, right? Yeah, because if Kirk is bad. But I think Pittsburgh, I know they, under the new playoff format, they would have made it last year, and they almost made the playoffs. Without Ben Rothsburger, their defense is really good. Yeah. But aren't they really super good at home?

I feel like one time Ross and I were in Vegas for a Monday night game between the Texans and the Steelers. Yes, we were. And I got a last second touchdown for a first half over. Yeah, that was a blessing. We bet heavy Pittsburgh, just saying, it is what it is. You can't think, you can't bet with your heart in Vegas. Was that a Sunday night game? No, it was a Monday night game? Monday night. Yeah. God, that was a good night, too.

I miss it in the book. Which book were we at? We were at Bally's. It was the first time we never going to Bally's. We were at the bar behind with a bunch of... I know we were at the bar. And there was a listener, I think it was that saw us there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good time. Look at Matt. Sorry, I mean the days off there. I just missed... You just went into the deepest sadness I think I've ever seen in your life. You look like. like somebody had just taken your puppy away and put her down. Here's the reality.

I work hard. I don't play as hard as you guys think I do. I don't think you play that hard. No. But I do once a year like to play hard. And that's going to Las Vegas. And being in bed by 9 p.m. No, and then getting up at 1.30 and gambling to 6.

Well, it does. And watching a woman, her head snap and fall flat into a big fellow thing of pancakes. Yeah, that place is gone now, though. It is gone. Bill's gambling. Bill's gambling Hall and Casino. What was the name?

Was it the Bill's Casino or was it part of something else? It was either Barbary Coast or Bill's. I think it was Bill's, though. Okay. I'm not sure. Barbery Coast was a jam too. Yeah, they're both gone.

Now, when we go to Gamble Cheap, we go to Hooters. We go to the Link. I have not been to Link before. You haven't? Uh-huh. The Cromwell? Nope. Okay.

Oh, they still have a little bit of an O'Shea's in the Link. Ooh. With a good food cart, too? Old O'Shays was the jam. They had beer pong tournaments. They had like $2 Miller Lite drafts all day every day. Cheap $5 blackjack and a drunken leprechaun pouring shots into people's mouth. And you kind of felt sad about him because it looked like he just kind of drank.

And then you go next door to New York, New York, where they're dancing on tables as you play blackjack. Yeah, well, they do that. They do that. They do that most casinos. But the Seasons are the classian ones. The New York, New York girls are a little. What, cigarette burns? Meth scars.

Tats. What's nothing wrong with? Okay. Any girl getting up there is going to have tats. That's true. That's okay. No, the reason why I got sad for a second is because it is the one weekend where we don't have a schedule. Everybody gets up when they want to.

We want to texting each other five million times. Where are you? We don't hear from you for like two hours. This is what you do. You say, hey, we're going here. You guys want to show up, show up. That's right. We don't put any pressure on anybody.

We don't have organized team activities. And then Sunday, the Westgate Superbook is my favorite time. Oh, so good. They got the big theater. They got the cheap dogs, the cheap dogs and the popcorn. And there's no smoke. Shot specials. Yeah.

Oh. And good tables where there's not crazy limits. Yeah. The Westgate Casino has the low limits. The Westgate is the jam on Sundays. That's the reason why I'm sad again. I miss it. And Barry Matalo plays there too.

Does he? He did. That seems about right. Well, I'd go see him. I'd go with you if you pay my ticket. Would you go if I got tickets? share, would you go with me? If you pay for him.

See, that's what I did, and I got ridiculed for it. You had to deal with my quips the whole time. I mean, is there absolutely nobody would go with you? First of all, I wouldn't pay for share ever again. Okay. Not that I did the first time, but I'm just saying that I was presented a ticket from a friend, a former coworker, and I went with him and enjoy the concert because he knew I liked share.

Yeah, of course I would make fun of you. I don't think I would go. If you were like, Ross, please go. As your friend, I would go. To Man, or to share? Either. You would enjoy. That's called friendship.

I wouldn't enjoy a second of it. Now, first of all, you enjoyed Cher. I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it. Yeah, you would. You'd get some of her jeans going. Yeah, that's her love. That song blows.

That song is late, share. That's not even a real share. If I could turn back time, Gypsy Trams and Queens. I don't even know what that is. Yeah. A half breed. What's a half breed?

That's one of her big hits. Are you sure? How big of a hit was it? It was a huge. Play some half breed for him. It's not the most politically correct song. Oh, what is it? Oh, is it about...

No, it's what you think it is. Interracial. It's about, well, let her sing it to you for 30 seconds. As the kids called it back in the day, miscegenation. It's about Indian relationships. Oh, okay. You're telling me this is a jam. Big hit.

That doesn't mean it's a jam. We're about to draft 10 songs that were big hits that weren't jams. That's true. sing the chorus this was a number one hit no way 1973 this is when she was in her more promiscuous days

she's not sleeping around now well she divorced sunny and then she's like I'm gonna well she's in her 70s he did die but they were long divorced oh Matt you got I mean Ross you got that one right let's go baby you got sunny bone all right it's gonna be a good weekend we should play some Does Ross believe this person is dead or alive?

Because you're usually about about 250 on these things. Ernest Borgdine alive or dead? Dead. I think so, right? Oh, God. All right. Brian T. Smith starts our final hour. The Fantasy 5 worst number one songs of the decade of 2000 to 2009.

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And I'll call the Golden Nugget people to see if they get us like a special 790 rate. I mean, they'll take us, right? You should text, tell them personally. Yeah, but he's busy. Say, hey, you know me. I'm Matt MF and Thomas I'm your PA announcer

you're on the radio club I play you've been in my show a couple of times let's do that like we'll get a special seven and we should just go for two I thought that's what we're doing

when you hit 30,000 followers yeah but that's never going to happen we're trying out here but I mean I just want to we need to get up there and get the Vegas economy going again as long as to save

I'll wear a mask on the table that's fine we'll be stimulating the Vegas economy with our money because I'll be giving it to them trust me Such a money grab.

It is. You need sports betting in Louisiana. If you give me sports betting Louisiana, we're done going to like to Las Vegas. Because I, there's no fun of betting it on a phone online. I want to be, I'm going to be in a book watching it, cash in that ticket. I mean, didn't Tillman buy up a bunch of stuff in Galveston? We need to have him. We need to do that.

Yeah, but maybe he doesn't want to do that. Maybe he wants to keep Louisiana alive. We'll talk more about this. I'd rather be Galveston. Brian T. Smith, what's the good word today? You know, often, Matt, when you have me on, I mean, semi-often, you'll refer to Lake Charles and Vegas in the same conversation. I've never understood that from anyone. Vegas, and you know this because you love Vegas.

Vegas is Vegas. Yeah. I mean, I mean, Lake Charles, like, Lake Charles suck. No, no, no, no, no. I know what you're saying. Galveston, Alexi. I know what you're saying. You're desperate.

But it's just, it's just fun. to me. Like, Lake Charles is not cool. Let me tell you out of this. If I blindfolded you, got you in the car, and drove you to the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles. And I mean this, and Ross, you can back me up on this. And I put you right in the middle of the casino and the restaurants and the swimming

pool. You wouldn't know any difference. You just wouldn't. Not as like to. Right. But the problem is, is that you have to get there. I mean. Yeah, that's two hours in a car.

Great conversation. There's nowhere else to eat. I'll never, you'll never sell me on it. No offense to Tillman, and I'm messing with him. He'll never sell me on it. I'm not going to do some sweetheart deal and get bribed or whatever like other people. I just, no, I just can't feel it. It doesn't make sense to me.

Okay, well, I will take the sweetheart deal. I'll be totally bribed because I'm going to want I'm paying for more for it anyway because I lose all my gambling money there. Hey, let me ask you this. Speaking of the NBA, and you can say, Matt, they're doing. the right thing or you can say Matt, you're right, or no matter. It feels like if they want to play a season, they've got to get their engines started here pretty quick.

Didn't they not? I mean, it feels like they are awfully slow in this. We're going to get back to playing. That's our goal because if it isn't their goal, then they should just stop. But major league baseball feels like us moving along a little bit. It's just for basketball, a lot of hesitation about opening up these individual facilities, a lot of hesitation about having the number of players in there. And they're the one fighting the clock more than any other sport at this point.

Greer disagree. No, I'm really glad you asked me that. I actually have considered writing about it for the Sunday bring, always try to do something different, maybe a big picture, a little more aggressive, whatever, you know, and critical, analytical, whatever it is, in the Sunday Chronicle, because that's our most important paper. I have thought about that. And honestly, you know, like, I remember last week, Matt, you and I were talking,

And we were saying that it felt like of everything that needed to get going that would be the first domino that had to get going. It was the NBA. And we were saying that in a positive sense. You know, baseball would follow the NBA. The NFL would follow baseball, the NBA, and the NHL, and on and on, right? I've been – now, these are all national reports. They're all sourced. They're all pretty much coming from ESPN, which has a partnership with the NBA, you know, with the NBA.

But I've been amazed to see some of these reports. And I feel like in some ways, Martin Cuban has been all over the place with his reaction, his response to corona, some of which has been absolutely fantastic. And he founded more presidential than the president, some of which, you know, he's been at the forefront of making predictions. We're going to be back by this date.

We're going to be back by this date. And I'm reminded that 50% of me can't stand 95%, 99. percent of Mark Cuban sometimes, but ultimately it's the NBA, and I 100,000 percent agree with you. I saw reports this week discussing, you know, with sources or whatever about a reluctance to come back. You either are coming back or you're not, and there's no in between. You know, you can't do a partial 25 percent reopening of the NBA.

Once you are back, Matt, you are back. So the league obviously has to have confidence, but the players have to have confidence. The coaches have to have confidence. I think there's a conference call today, I believe, with Adam Silver and the players. That will be interesting and how, you know, what type of fallout there is from that, what type of response. Maybe it's all positive. But I've been very surprised to see the reported responses that are hesitant, that are waffling. It almost sounds, how should I say it?

It sounds like a lot of these guys make a lot of these guys make a lot of. a lot of money, whether it's coaches, players, executives, millions, 30 million, 5 million, 2 million, and they know they don't really have to work. That's honestly, if I read between the lines, it's honestly what it says to me. Their livelihoods aren't at stake. If they lose their job, they're going to get their job back in six months. It's not like they're working at a restaurant, you know, making $12, $15 an hour with tips. So I don't get that.

And I think from an athletic perspective, compare the NFL to the NBA. Major League Baseball has been slow but steady. The NBA was the first to cancel. And right now, it does feel like they're really dragging their heels, and they look really wishy-washy at this moment. Yeah, again, how bad do they want to play? Here's what I don't hear from enough athletes, period. And maybe it's because, frankly, BTS, they just don't want to go out there because they don't want to face social ridicule. Look, we're a society.

we're all very, very careful what we say. If we say something, the wrong thing, we're going to get people that are going to crush us. And it could be for athletes, it could be for columnists. It can be for us. It can be just general people in society. But I feel like generally speaking, there haven't been enough athletes. And I'm not trying to point the NBA. I'm talking about in Sports General that are fighting hard for this, that are saying,

let's get together, let's get in the room, let's shut the door, let's lock it. Let's go over all the different possibilities. We want to play because, A, we want to get paid. and B, we know that people will love it and people will gravitate towards us and maybe of anything in the last two weeks we haven't heard enough from

athletes in general to say, yeah, let's get on this court, let's make it safe everybody and let's play. Maybe there's just too much hesitancy or maybe BTS there isn't that first athletes who are going to step outside, getting that in that world and go, all right, I'm putting my name on it. I want to play sports this year.

Yeah, that's exactly it. And Matt, no one's going to discuss this because so many national reporters depend on agents and depend on players, and it's about relationships and trenches, and you scratch my back, I scratch your back. Here's my, and I hate the word,

take this is not a take. It's my honest opinion on this. It comes down to the fact that a lot of these guys, the guys that should be speaking out, the guys that should say, yes, as long as it's medically safe, of course,

but, you know, it has to be safe. But once it's safe, we're going to do our damnedest to come back. We want to play basketball. basketball again. Matt, most of these guys make 20, 15, 30, $50 million a year, $60 million a year with endorsements. They live in mega mansions. They have five houses, whatever, you know, they're catered to. They're as protected and safe as anybody in the world in this situation in a lot of ways.

There's not a lot of incentive for them to come back. I mean, unless, you know, you feel like your legacies on the line, unless you absolutely want to, you know, win a championship, and it's a burning Michael Jordan type of desire with you. Maybe that is with LeBron James. But I think that's been really missing the last couple weeks. And in this whole discussion, I mean, yeah, there's a whole safety factor that's obvious. But you're 100% right on this. We haven't heard enough players.

Say the obvious thing. We want to get back so damn badly to get our sport going again, to help the country get going again. Because I think they're so safe and so protected financially, it's not a huge concern from them because they know that when it is officially 100% safe next season, the start of Christmas or whatever it is, they'll be playing basketball again and getting paid $15, $20 million, and their jobs aren't going away on like 99% of the country. And as again, I want to make sure we're fair on this.

This is also baseball, too. I mean, baseball is not, the calendar's not nearly as tight for them, but they're still at least 30 days away from even putting together a season because I've got to go through spring training, get guys ready to go. So it's, you know, you keep hearing these, let's get him in there by June to start them in July. And maybe they're just being Uber quiet. But man, I've heard, you know, Chris Paul will give you an opinion about anything. Justin Verlander certainly isn't shy from giving an opinion.

Maybe their unions, Brian, have told them to back off until we all collectively speak as a group. I just, I don't understand it because they play the game and ultimately they play the game for fans, right? I mean, ultimately, while it's TV and all these things, at the heart of it, they're playing games for fans, and the fans pay their salaries. If you were making, and you should, Matt, I mean, let's be honest, you should make $12 million a year. I agreed. I should make $13. If you were making $12 million a year and you had everything paid for and you had, let's just make up a fun number, $50 million in savings, you would probably be like, You know what? I'm good.

You know, let's make sure until it's all safe. We can all do crazy testing. And then let's go ahead and play. There wouldn't be that push. But if you're a fan, you want them back as soon as possible, as long as it's safe, because you want sports back in your life. I think it's a contradiction that hasn't really been discussed at all yet. And I think you've hit on a really strong point.

All right. Lastly, what did the Texans do to the NFL office to give them the first quarter from Schedule Health? Well, the Houston Texans, I think, are at some level paying the price for having to Sean Watson and being back-to-back AFC champs and always, you know, getting close enough in the sense that they're able to be in the discussion, they're in the playoffs, but they're not good enough to get over the top. And when you do that, you're going to become fodder for a national, you know, broadcast. You're going to become the team that the defending Super Bowl champions are playing at home. I mean, that is not the Texans game, Thursday night football national opener. And it's Deshawn Watson, but if it was really the Sean Watson and the Texans, then it would be a situation where they're playing Monday night,

they're playing Thursday night, they're playing Sunday night. They don't have that. They're playing the worst Thanksgiving game against a very bad Detroit team, and they are playing at Kansas City. And that's it. And so I think that shows you. They're in the conversation, but you go past that, and they're basically the team that the Chiefs are playing.

And that first four, then hosting Baltimore, then going to Pittsburgh and Minnesota, I mean, it frankly would be a lot easier to say they're going to go 0 and 4 than they would go 4 and 0 or even a winning record at this point. So I don't think it makes much heat on Bill because I think Bill has got Teflon around him, but it certainly isn't a great slight to early start things up, at least from my potential of winning-wise. Brian T. Have a great job.

Have a great weekend. And any final thoughts you want to pass along to the audience? I wish everybody well. And I've been rescuing, sheltering two, I mean, rescuing two foster dogs the last couple weeks. And I got another one getting adopted. Both have been adopted. So that feels like the most productive thing I've ever done in my life. It is.

It's a nice pregame show for bigger things later in life. Thank you, BTS. Talk to you next week. Take care. Have a good weekend. All right. See you later. Brian T with us here on the program.

Taking care of the foster dogs. He's a fine American. Let me, we'll talk about this. We come back, because I do want to, we have some fun coming up to the bottom of the hour. It's our Fantasy 5 this week, which is worst number one songs in 90s. Are y'all surprised we've not heard more from players on this? And why haven't we heard from them? I'm talking about as a collective group.

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from the Fantasy 5. I feel pretty good about this. Joe, you've seen the list. You cannot make an opinion because you are the seventh judge if it's necessary we need you to. But I would think all the songs we have chosen are absolutely horrific. There's not one that I go, man, that was awesome.

I think I might have a sauce spot for one or two of yours, but it's whatever. Okay. I asked a question, why haven't we heard from athletes more on during this time? Is it because they're not in a rush to get back? They're scared to say something? Or do you think that they think that this is just isn't going to work? That we're not going to be able to clean these facilities and clean up these arenas and go to a neutral site and get in a bubble and play games?

Why haven't collectively athletes said anything? Via, I mean, you're looking for tweets or? Yeah, go take 20 the last 20 interviews. Justin Verlander had a Zoom thing recently, right? Yeah. Very, very vanilla. I think that probably, you think there's some kind of directive from the PA to say, maybe don't say that much because anything that happens has to be approved by both sides.

So I guess my point is this, is that we have not heard an athlete say, I want to play. I want to get these places safe. I want to get into the basket. I want to go shooting. I want to get practice going. I want to get with my teammates again. I want to get going, and I'm ready.

We've all heard the generic thought about that, but that's been more of a very, very, well, you know, if it's safe, we'll go out. And again, that may be that maybe this is a true opinion. I think maybe they're in, in wait and see mo, just as much as any of us. And I think when the Arizona thing dropped, you did hear a lot of bounce back from, from players. You heard from Mike Trout. You heard from others.

Right. That's the last time we heard something. Really, of you want to put us in a bubble for this long, and we don't get to see our families or our kids, don't like it. That was Barry Bloom in the Debbie Downer moment last hour. He said, basically, he says, as soon as Arizona got thrown out there,

it got kicked back. The only person, at least we've had on the show that was like, let's go, was Eric Gordon. Remember, he said, let's go to Vegas. You're telling me, I'm going to shoot, I'm going to play basketball, I'm going to eat, and I'm going to try to win a championship for two months, I'm in. Now, granted, he's a little bit of a different situation.

He's not married. He doesn't have any kids. I mean, it's one of those scenarios that there's not a lot of holding him back to wherever he is. He's just at home just chilling, literally. And maybe, so what if let me ask you this? If LeBron James, because anytime LeBron speaks, it goes haywire, right? Yes. If LeBron said, I'm ready, let's get with our leaders and let's get this season going

because we're losing the calendar here. Would that change things necessarily? Would there, if he called Adam Silver and said, Adam, look, I've been talking some of the key players in this league. We've got to determine a champion. We've got to get out there and do this. What can we do to push this along? Would Adam Silver push his envelope

a little bit more, knowing that he has the players, the players have his back? I would think, I mean, I guess it would matter a little bit. I don't know how much it would get in the wheels moving. I think the biggest things are waiting on is basically hearing from doctors and health care professionals and then lawmakers and policymakers. LeBron coming out and saying he can come out and say whatever he wants.

I just don't know if anything's going to get done off of it. No. If he was if it was like LeBron and Chris Paul and the top of the NBA players collectively, I think it would maybe nudge the league

towards being a little more aggressive, but I don't know if it really changes things. Do you believe the NBA is being aggressive is the wrong term? Do you think their positive thinking has taken a step back? because there was always this philosophy they were the first ones

to call off their league and they want to be the first ones that come back. Have they slowed down the energy that they would have liked to have had in order to get back and playing to crown a champion? Because guys, do they really, I mean, unless, unless the following statement,

unless they're okay with crowning a champion October the 15th. And are we okay with that? I don't know. I don't know. We're not in these discussions. It seems like they're trending in the right direction. Are we okay?

I think they're okay. Are we okay with an October 15th champion? Well, that will... Yeah, why not? Because that will mean you won't have played, you will have gone from March 11th to probably August 15th without playing a game.

I think I... It's almost like two different seasons. That's what the circumstances demand. I mean, it's kind of like with the... Basically, it's we don't set the timetable. I think it was a Dr. Fauci Code or somebody. We don't set the timetable. The virus does.

But you could set the timetable by saying, we're just scrapping the season. You could do that. That's a setting of the time. They'll say, we're gone. There's your timetable. There is, let's just push this aside. Guys, the virus got us.

We're going to come back in December of 2020, bigger and stronger. And we're going to have our ducks in a row. We're not going to worry about testing. We're not to worry about fans in the stand. We're going to have all this hopefully figured out by then. I think they might be learning from Adam Silver's mistake. Because to me, he was doing a great job.

And then when he said he would reconvene on May 1st with, with like the next step of what the NBA was going to do or what the next plan was going to be or just an update and he was only able to provide anything I feel like that kind of he might have realized he put his foot in his mouth a little bit and you need to slow down. I really believe

and this is just conjecture of my part that the NBA is concerned about its image and trying to push it to let's get our guys back out there because think about this, it went from May 1st to May 8th to only three teams as I think as a today that are opening up their facilities. That means 27 are either not going to do it yet or have no plans of doing at this point. Woj just put a tweet out an hour ago. Story filed the ESPN.

In municipalities where coronavirus testing has become readily available for at-risk health care workers, teams opening facilities for voluntary workouts will be allowed to administer COVID-19 test to asymptomatic players and staff. That sounds like to me, If you're in an area, if you're in a city where there are planning a test, we feel okay in doing this. If you're in a city where tests are still hard to come by, we're not going to take them away from you and face potential public ridicule, which probably is the right decision. You don't need extra test hanging around an NBA practice facility when there are people in the streets that need the tests way more than your players do. Well, to me, the headline there is, you know, he tweets that Orlando has been granted written authorization from the, Orange County, Florida Department of Health

for approval of NBA tests to its players for the coronavirus. Orlando. Like that's the Disney World bubble. That's true. So like that to me that just is like screaming positivity that if Orlando is willing to say we have enough tests

for the magic to be tested, that makes me feel like all the sudden the Orlando Walt Disney World bubble is legit. So if LeBron goes at Twitter it says, I'm ready to get in the bubble. Let's go to Orlando

with a basketball emoji. You don't think that would push the envelope a little bit, generally speaking? I don't think so. If they go on that conference call today that's going to happen, and LeBron and Chris Paul and those guys are like, we'll do the bubble, then maybe there is a change.

Because it means they're bought into the bubble idea. Yeah, I think Ross, I think there are guys that are wrestling with the bubble idea. I think so. I think it's easier, though, in the NBA, because you're almost done. If every team, all 30 teams say half of them are going to be dismissed within two weeks. Two weeks after that, half of that's going to be down to eight teams in a couple of weeks. So you can say, hey, it's almost like you're going on a month vacation. How about when they go to the Olympics?

When the players go to the, how long are they in Barcelona or Tokyo or Beijing or whatever? About six weeks, right? Yeah. So, I mean, you could sell it like, hey, hey, you can go to the, you go to the Olympics for six weeks. You can come to Orlando for six weeks. Yeah, I am, yeah. I just, my guess is they're just trying to be as socially

conservative about getting back out there, that if they start pushing it, that they're going to run into some people, they're going to say, why don't you all stop worrying about your rich ass selves and determining a championship? And let's get a solution for this before we start worrying about who's claiming a championship. That's going to happen to matter what. But I would think. So if you're always going to be worried about that, then maybe you shouldn't play the season.

That maybe you should just say, let's get everything figured out in our society. Let's hopefully get a vaccination by then or at least get a firm control on this. And then in December we'll come play. But I don't think anybody wants that. But nobody gets willing to be the first guy to come out and say, I'm going to Orlando. See you all tomorrow. All right. On a much more lighter conversation piece.

You already hear 10 wretched songs from the years 2000 to 2009. It is our Fantasy 5. The category today is, who has the worst list of number one songs between 2000 and 2009? If you would like to be a judge, if you consider yourself a good music critic, 713, 212, 5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. We need judges right now for the Fantasy 5-790. Worst Songs from the year 2000. Next on 790.

When you get home, Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard Radio. It's a fantasy five here on the Matt Thomas show. The category this week is the worst songs between 2000 and 2009. If you're new to the show, first of all, thank you for being a part of it. Secondly, here's how it works. I will give you a list of five. Ross and I will also give you a list of five. We've pre-drafted them because I wanted you guys to hear a clip of these songs.

and you have to determine which list is best, which would be worst. Does that make sense? Yes. The worst songs. Who has the best list of the worst songs? We've done the 80s. Ross, you won that? Yes.

We did the 90s. You won that? Probably. Last week on the Fantasy 5. You're due, Matt. I won on Best Advertisers. My list was better. it wasn't even close, but that's okay.

Well, at least you're not throwing shade on my victory. That's fine. We present to you the Fantasy 5. And if you'd like to be a judge, 713-212-5-7-90, 7-1-3-2-5-790. I won last week, which gives me the option of taking the first overall selection or picking picks two and three in the snake system. And I went first, when you think of the definitive worst band between the, years 2000 and 2009, you come up with one band's name.

Aqua? No, not a bad try. Nickelback. And you go to December 22nd, 2001 on the Billboard Weekly Top 40. This was number one. The song from the worst band of the decade, Nickelback, How You Remind Me. It's a root canal and listen to that repeatedly. I understand it's the most loath band.

I actually don't think that's that bad of a song. Maybe I'm in the minority. I don't know. I would certainly hope so. Ross, you have selections two and three. Now, I'm going to flip it on you. I think that's not a bad song from a bad band. This is, I mean, I'm not really a huge Madonna fan.

She has a lot of weird hits. And this to me was one of the worst ones. I could not believe when I saw this on the number one list. Madonna's music was a number one hit. This is terrible. Let me tell you. Fans of the Ellen DeGeneres song Show Hate You.

She plays it all the time. Really? When she dances with her friends in the stands. Yeah. Oh, this sounds like a giant waste of time. This song sucks. Play the core.

We got to hit. Well, that might be all he has. Is that all you had? That's not the course. No, the music. Music is the rhythm. Yeah, it's bad. It's not great.

Next. I took a song that is, Also one of the worst bands of the 20-2000s. Actually, some people really like this band, and I'm okay with that. This was the number one song. This song sucks. I speak of Viva La Vida from Coldplay.

Crappy band, overplayed band, overplayed song. It's got that stupid little orchestra beginning. Viva La Vida. Coldplay. 2008. It is nauseating. I will give it to. song blows. Okay.

I get the next two picks. We'll go with someone who has seen her career, jumpstart, not because of her singing, but because of her judging. She is on that show The Voice with her husband or whatever. Well, she was, her career didn't jumpstart because of that. No, I said a restart. A restart.

Rebirth. A rebirth, if you will. Um, is she even married to Blake Shown? I guess she had, no, she's just dating. No, they're just dating. Okay. Um.

She still got games. in her, she's like 50. Yeah, she apparently had game November, the, make that May 7th, 2005 with this horrific song, it's called Hallelujah Girl. Holla back girl?

You can't read your own handwriting? Yeah, I couldn't. Hollerback girl. Yelling at you. This plays more. This is awful. Maybe I have to make an embarrassing admission. This was kind of my jam back of the day.

B-A-N-N-A-N-A-S. She's like a woodpecker singing at you No, I get it Just chipping at you I could see how it could be Very offensive to the ears Just when I mean Very

It's so bad I didn't even Give it the right name 2005 Yeah 19 year old Ross didn't mind that song at all That's just show you how bad it is then Go ahead Your next bit Was that two for me already

No I got next one Okay Next one we're going to 2009 in April This band's had a couple of hits really popular with Mrs. Thomas for some reason. Matter of fact, she was not a huge fan of me choosing this song because she likes the band, but the Black IP singing Boom Boom Pau is wretched. Yeah, I get it.

This is just formulaic. Not great. Yeah, horrible lyrics, terrible voices, nails on chalkboard. Okay. Boom, boom, pal. Maybe the worst Super Bowl halftime. show ever. That validates.

All right. Next. I went with another woman who is very popular in the 80, in the 90s and in the 2000s. But you know what? She made terrible songs. This one is called Womanizer. It was a number one hit in 2008. I feel like Joe, you might like this one.

She's still a smoke show to me. Look at your face. You like it, don't you? This song sucks. It's so bad. Oh, this. So bad. How was this a number one song?

What were we collectively thinking in 2008? This one, this decade sucked. Yeah, it's not that great. A lot of hits. Next, this guy, you could never understand a word that he was saying. I appreciate the reggae genre. But I mean, my God, how did temperature by Sean Paul make number one? What?

Terrible. He had to pay off people to buy it. Sean DePaul. No, Shanda Paul had a bunch of hits in 2000. Some of them I actually didn't mind, but temperature was just a terrible, terrible song. This next song was played lots of times on American Idol when I used to watch American Idol. Hearing it once or twice is fine, but it was played on the radio every damn day, especially in the year 2006 when it hit number one in April of 2000.

Some dude named David Powder With this song Daniel Porter I'm saying it doesn't really matter what his name is Daniel Porter I can't read my handwriting This song is awful Keep going Now this is a great radio production song

You pick up the pieces of your song Yeah that song sucks And then you do this If I have a bad day This song sucks. Don't know it, Halby, came number one. For five straight weeks. God.

Lastly, James Blunt, May, May, make it March 2006. He's a crooner. The words suck. His voice sucks. He just wants to tell you that you're beautiful.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. This song does suck. This song. sucks. I'm on my list. Finish it up.

What kind of voice is that? It was a weird time in the 2000s. What were y'all thinking, America? It was a weird time. Next. You're the last one. I'm going with a hip-hop group from Atlanta with a number one hit. Their only hit, they were a one-hit wonder.

This song sucked when it came out. It sucked when it reached number one on the charts, and it sucks right now. I have no idea how this became number one. That would be, it has the production of a Cassio keyboard that you had from 1995. That would be Laffy Taffy. A D4L. It sucks.

No, I'm not shaking my Laffy Taffy. This is my least offensive song. Oh, you like this one? This is not the worst. Matt is tapping his toes to Laffy Taffy. I hated that song when it came out, and I was shocked to see that it came out. It was a number one hit.

All right. So let's recap. My list. Nickelback, how you remind me. Hollaback girl, Gwen Stefani. Boom, boom, pal, black-eyed peas. Bad Day, Daniel Porter. James Bluntz, you're beautiful.

Ross's list. Madonna's music. Co-plays Viva LaVita. Brittany Spears' womanizer. Sean Paul's temperature and Laffy-Taffy by D.4. It is time for you to decide which group. had the worst. Number one hits

and wins the Fantasy 5. Let's start with Manuel on 790. Manuel, who wins, Ross or me? I was born with Ross. Ross was killing it, but then Sean calls him, he's got that voice where he just want to dance. He was like,

blah-de-bum-bum, you know, and then you want to dance, you know. So, and then you went with nickel back and then that had a bad day song. I just want to destroy that song. I can't stand that. I'll go with you, MP.

Thank you very much, Manuel. Thank you, Manuel. Have a great weekend. Yeah, bad day sucks. Just hearing it. I don't mind that song as much. You're beautiful. You get in the car when you turn on the engine.

All right. Awful. David on 790. David, who wins the Fantasy 5 roster me? Man, I almost want to disqualify myself and call it a tie because he did a great job of finding miserable songs, both of you. But I'm going to give it to RV just because Matt chose a few too many artists that I generally really like a lot

in your list. And I don't care. Thank you, David. Have a great weekend. All right, we're one to one. Let us continue. Line three. Brian, who wins a Fantasy 5 roster me? Matt, I got to give it to you because that holler back. Oh, my God. That is the most worst song ever written, ever played on the radio. Yeah, Hollaback Girl is awful. Thank you very much.

That's terrible. All right. Two votes to one. Thank you, Brian. We are playing best of seven. Remember, the seventh and deciding vote does go to Mr. 2000s, Joe George. Line number four, Benjamin on Seven-a-Nine. Ben, who wins a Fantasy Five?

I got to give it to Rock, man. You got a terrible number one pick, Matt. That was awful. You like Nickelback? Oh, I don't like Nickelback, but it was probably their best song. Well, you don't count. All right, two votes for each. Two to two.

Two to two. Very, very close. Let's go to Scott on 790. Scott, who wins a fantasy five? I got to go with Ross. I don't care. Thank you, Scott. All right, that's three votes.

Three votes for Ross. Two for me. One more than you win, Ross. Well, two more than you win, Matt. I don't think so. Patrick, who wins a fantasy five? Oh, Matt, you get a lot of homework. Great list.

Ross, you win, definitely. All right. You did your great homework, Matt. Mm-hmm. And you lost 42. Who would you have if you would have gone to a seventh vote? Um, I think Matt.

Because bad day, beautiful, and boom-boom power are awful. But see, I'm like, Ross, I like how you remind me. It's not that bad of a song. I feel like Hollaback's kind of a jam, too. And I like Hollaback girl, too. But here's the thing. I grew up in 2000s, went to high school in 2000s. Salafy Taffy.

Oh, my God. Great at homecoming. Well, that's true. See, my age, it was back that ass up was our great homecoming song. We didn't have a homecoming song, I don't think. We had a class song on 1990. You know what I told you before. Can you remember what our class song was?

It was, um, wait. Don't say. Don't say. The Celine Dion song was, oh, yeah, it was. Don't say it. We'll come back with the next. The class of 1990, May Creek High School, which we're celebrating our 30-year high reunion this summer. Our class song is next. 247 on 790.

Craig Bizjo here. The heart of the order is up right now. Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences here on Sports Talk 790. Shout out to May Creek Class of 90. Maybe we have a reunion at some point, although probably I only able to go if we do it in August because the leagues will be playing. I'm not a huge Rod Stewart fan. That may be taboo, but this was a pretty good song. Rod Stewart sucks. This song sucks. I didn't choose it. I know I'm just saying. What's your favorite Rod Stewart song? Is there a good one?

This song is not good. He's got this grating cheese grater voice. It's just very coarse. It's not a good, it's not a pleasant sound. He's not a good singer. He is such a star, though. Man, he is. This is why Bad Day and Your Beautiful are hits because of trash like this.

Let me give you it. Maggie May. Terrible. Do you think I'm sexy? Oh, what of the all-time worst. Tonight's the night. Hot legs. Don't know that one?

Don't know hot legs. Hot legs? Forever Young we talked about that one. I'm trying to think what other songs would be. This old heart of mine is a campy-ass song. You wear it well? Yeah, I wouldn't. I'm not a huge Rod Stewart fan.

I actually don't mind Forever Young, though. Do you think I'm sexy? Okay. I guess this is more of like a rock song. First cut as a deepest isn't terrible. It's not good. Okay. All right.

We're good on Rod. All right. So what we got going on this weekend? We have the sports RV show on Saturday. Yes, 10 to noon. Sports Talk 790. Live it. Love it.

Listen. You're going to call me? You said you're going to call me. Yeah, just text me. I'll do it. Again, all on, seriously, all me tomorrow. What are you going to go? Are you going to go like Home Depot or something?

No, I've got two kitchen cabinets that need to be cleaned out, thrown away, and reorganize. I'm doing those. One is Tupperware and one is like sports bottles, glasses, that type of thing that we keep. And then Sunday is just whatever Kim wants to do because that's Mother's Day. Well, that's right. Well, you're making brunch. Yeah. And then I'm going to take a nap.

Naps both days. You nap on Mother's Day? I nap every day and then weeks. Aren't you supposed to be taking care of everybody? Well, she'll want a nap too, so that's fine. Is it a working one? We'll see. We'll see.

I don't know if Joe knows the working nap story, but he can probably, it looks like he's figuring out. Can you figure it out what a working nap is? Is it like a huddle? Well, fewer people in the huddle. Well, we'll see.

When I was younger, I probably could have been in the huddle. It depends on what Mrs. Thomas wants for Mother's Day. That's right. Yeah, I don't want the kind of huddle she wants. Oh, and by the way, Oh, it's Peyton Manning. I've got to mention it real quickly.

I have started a Cameo account. A what? And officially got invited to join Cameo. And I have my first video that I'm going to be doing for somebody this weekend. Oh, really? Yeah. It's a guy that is graduating from, his roommate, his college roommate, and his buddy is graduating from college.

And he is a huge, huge, hold on, turn that damn thing off, huge Rockets fan and wants me to introduce him graduating from college. Okay, that's wonderful. So if any of you would like to do. like to check out my cameo accounts right at the top of my Twitter page and you know you should send them an mp3 of it or something so i can play it on okay yeah i'm just getting a video of it then i'm sending a separate mp3 that's you're a smart guy you figured that out that's really you and i are marketing machines something like that all right uh that's it for the show today how do we think we

did that was wonderful i can't believe i had a two one lean the fantasy five and lost well you know matt sometimes it happens bulls got down two o against the nix and the 93 oh rough fast we got 30 seconds how much shade will the Rockets 94-95 get this weekend on the shows. Shade? Yeah. Like, if I wouldn't have retired, we would have won the two in a row. Very little, if any.

I think it's a little mention. Apparently this weekend is supposed to be big into the Steve Kerr versus Michael Jordan fistfight. Did he deserve to get punched in the face? Probably not. You think so? Well, we know, knowing Steve Curry, we know he knows. Michael Jordan is probably just an a-hole. Well, that's not a.

That's true as well. We know that. Wexler, Clanton. They're up next. They call themselves the A team, and they're up next on 7-90. Talk to you all to Monday at noon.