The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: Alex Bregman, HORSE Was A Bust, Hopkins Physical Done

Episode Date: April 13, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. What's happening in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790 with Ross Villarreal and Joe George filling in again for Nick Lowe. I'm Matt Thomas. Hope you guys and ladies are in a good mood today.

Weather is gorgeous. Makes you want to go outside and play a big old game of pickup basketball or softball London Sports RV. Pick up a what? Pick up game of basketball or softball? I don't know. Maybe the first thing I thought was having a porch beer, but I guess it's a little, well, it's afternoon now, Matt.

We can do that, right? Oh, yeah. It's, as a famous singer once said it's 12 o'clock somewhere, right? I think it's 5 o'clock somewhere, but we're close. Oh, it's okay, fair enough. It may be 5 o'clock in Europe, but that's not either here nor there. Hey, gang, we have Alex Breitman's going to join the show at 1.30 this afternoon, Sports Harvey. What?

Yeah, he was busy with the Houston Food Bank. I was going to get him on Friday, but he was busy right in the middle of our show, so we're going to talk to him halfway through this radio program to see what he's been doing. Obviously, taking care of a lot of Houston's needs and major donations to the Houston Food Bank. He got Paul Wall involved. He got Jim Crane involved. He put his own cash in there. So we will talk to our favorite third baseman coming up in about 90 minutes from now.

We have open lines available for you. We have almost the day. We've got a pulpery of topics to get to. And if you'd like to join us in any of these things, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to reach out through Twitter, you can do that at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. So, Ross, I got to be honest, this weekend was a little harder than most because in terms of just trying to, the weather wasn't great. You get outside for a little bit, but it was just kind of muggy and dreary, and you kept thinking the rain was coming, but it never really did. So I just, and I just can only watch so many master's highlights.

I mean, watching Tiger last year was kind of cool, but I'm not overly into the 2014 or 15 or whatever the case may be. television viewing for me was more difficult than it was perhaps in other weekends. You didn't get engrossed in the ESPN horse competition on Sunday? I'm glad you brought that up. I'm going to get to that right now. So Saturday night, I remembered that SNL was going to do all new material. And they were going to do like everybody else has been doing their SNL shows. You know, Ellen's doing her show from home.

Everybody's working from home. I'm working from home. You're in the studio. But we're all moving around in these. these days. So I thought, all right, this is going to be a nice walk in relief. So I stayed up till 10.30. Instead of putting on ESPN Classic or going down a YouTube rabbit hole,

I was going to watch Saturday Night Live. And then come to find out Tom Hanks, Ross, was the host of said show. Tom, the lead, the first celebrity to acknowledge that he had the coronavirus, he and his wife, Rita Wilson. And he looked in good spirits. He's been a host of SNL for a bunch of times. And I'm thinking, all right, this is going to be what we need is America.

Tom Hanks, looking good, feeling better, hosting one of the shows he's hosted a million times. We're going to get all of our favorite sketches. And Rossi, we're going to laugh for 90 minutes between 1030 and midnight on Saturday night. Have you ever laughed for 90 straight minutes on a Saturday Night Live episode? No, no, but there's been 45 to 60. Okay. During the heyday. Yeah, I was going to say in the last decade.

No, the Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Victoria Jackson, Kevin Neal and Dennis Miller. That was never some 45 to 60. That was like 30 years ago. That's, yeah, that's the point. But there are a few skits. There's obviously, they do a really good job of political satires. Larry David does as Bernie Sanders never disappoints. So I'm ready to sink my teeth and to laugh at my ass off

because it's been kind of a dreary weekend. And Rossi, I watched 90% of it. There was only one skit that I thought was halfway funny. And it was the, how low can you go? segment, basically three women video chatting to have sex with anybody that showed up because they were just sick and tired of being alone. That was the only quasi-funny funny segment. The rest of it was, I mean, I couldn't laugh if you'd started tickle me in my feet, Ross. That's how bad it was. I'm not going to tickle your feet, Matt. But, I mean, well, then why'd you watch 90% of it if it was

because I kept trying to, I wanted it to laugh. You know what they should have done. You know, We as consumers always can tell people how to do things better. You know what I mean? No matter how hard you try. And look, they tried. They wrote their own stuff. They had no rehearsals. You know, when those who don't know saying at live,

they don't just show up Friday at 3 o'clock and rehearse a couple things. I mean, they are working on the show the Sunday after the Saturday show all the way up to it. So they're rehearsing and they're trying things out. They're adding lines, deleting lines. They're doing a variety of things to make it as funny as possible. They're adding lines in the middle of the show? No, I'm talking about during the week when they rehearse. Okay.

So they're always testing things. Well, they didn't obviously have a chance to do much testing of this. I've never thought Pete Davidson was funny ever. And he's the second or first get out of the box. Kate McKinnon, who does a lot of great impressions, was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an 80-something-year-old woman on the Supreme Court, who her material went right over my head. And Rossi, it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.

Well, did she dress up? Did she have like a Ruth Gader, Benzburg? Wait, Gator, Bader Ginsburg. Did she have a wig? Yeah. Okay. And she put on makeup? Yes.

And then it was like they were doing a table read? It was a, no, they were doing, it was her doing a one-person skit of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's quarantine workout. Oh, okay. I mean, remarkably unfunny. Well, you stuck with it for 90%. It couldn't have been that bad. No, it was that bad. I know the choice.

What else are I going to put on? And literally anything else? Well, I guess. So I thought I'd give it to Weekend Update. And then Weekend Update is the two news anchors who always do satire news. And some of their stuff's pretty damn funny, typically. They put in a bunch of people laughing after every one of their lines. I wanted to throttle those people, whether they were for sound effects or real people with microphones turn on.

But every time they write a story, it was this unnatural, non-funny cackling. So that was worse. The only segment again, and y'all can go find it. It was, how low do you go? It was the only funny segment on the entire show. So that was major disappointment number one. Then last night. And I don't know if you all are in the same boat as I was in terms of trying to find something entertaining.

I thought I'd put the horse thing on ESPN for a little bit. Not live. Clearly pre-produced. clearly had a lot of elements to it because you're asking eight or ten people to be remote on a basketball court in their house. Again, I understand why they tried it. I understand they're trying to find original programming. I understand they're trying to find something to get us off of watching old games of 20 years ago.

And again, I understand that. But Ross, I have seen junior high television production classes with more, umph to what that ESPN thing was yesterday. It was awful. In fact, it was so bad that I wish they would never would have done it to begin with. I would have rather enjoyed more retro games than seeing Paul Pierce and in his backyard or Chris Paul or some of those WMBA players who I don't know who they are. Rossi, it was terrible.

I mean, it was beyond. bad it looked like again they put together the very last second they've had all week to work on this you would have thought you get one opportunity for us to kind of sink our teeth into this this horse bit and it was wretched just like the NBA 2K thing was wretched there's a lot of interesting people out there trying things to change up the sports programming landscape because we're all desperate for something fresh but the execution is terrible and I don't you all saw it or not. If you how much you watched it.

But I did turn the horse off because it was so bad. It was grainy. You couldn't figure out of, you know, where the shot was taken. Oh, God, it was just, I needed something this weekend, sportsy and funny, and I got neither one. And I'm done. I didn't watch any of this. I actually have the thing recorded for the horse.

I was going to watch it. I planned on watching it, but I was going to watch it when I got home. I was at my family's for Easter. Of course there were under 10 people there, so we're okay. Good. And we were distancing. What, it was just getting crushed on Twitter, so I didn't even end up watching it when I went home. I was going to watch it.

I wasn't to say I was excited. I was just curious, and I was going to turn it on for a couple of minutes. But everyone crushed it so soundly. And then I did see a couple of clips of how poor the quality was. I don't even bother watching it or turning it on. And I don't need to do that to you, because I'm not trying to influence what people would watch or what now. I'm just telling this is just my own opinion for the weekend. Look, we have no games to get to, so you kind of just run through what you did.

But man, was it wretched? And I was so hoping it was at least, I don't like to use more cute, but something to pass the time. Because remember, Ross, they put it on 7 o'clock on Sunday night. I mean, everybody settled in for the night, not going anywhere, nowhere to go. You've eaten dinner probably already. You finish up your Easter activities with family. You just want to get to the couch and just chill out and watch something. and it sucked.

So I put a poll question out earlier. I guess it was Saturday night or Sunday. I don't remember when I did it exactly. But the question was, what was more entertaining? Saturday Night Live, NBA Horse, they were both equally entertaining or neither was entertaining. 81% of the people that took the poll question said neither was. 12.5% since Saturday Night Live, 5.8% said horse, and 1% said equally. And I hope, and this is the reason why I bring this up,

I hope the NFL doesn't try to get too glitzy on this. Because so far, in the sports productions we have seen, the 2K competition, the horse, it just, it doesn't look good. And again, you can say, well, what are they supposed to do? You're right. Was it better than nothing at all? In this particular case, Ross, maybe nothing was better in this case.

NFL draft, at least they're doing the right thing. They're combining the networks. They're not trying to compete against each other. There's going to be one central broadcast. They've already decided who they're going to take video feeds from. And I'm sure they're working around the clock to make this thing look as aesthetically pleasing as possible. It's not going to be perfect because you are still dealing with the Internet. But, man, I was very disappointed.

SNL and the horse game was and the worst part was as soon as the horse was over like at nine o'clock I thought if they put something else on like SportsCenter they just replayed the same horse game over again to make matters worse so that Ross was my weekend how was yours mine was good overall had a great sports RV show on Saturday just fantastic how great was it thousands of calls and then just chilled out. I hung out. Saw my family a little bit on Sunday. And then came home and I didn't watch horse.

I did watch some of the Tiger King epilogue episode. Yeah, that wasn't bad. It was okay. Yeah, there was no Carol, which made me mad. Well, how mad did it make you mad? I ain't two out of ten. I'm trying to be dramatic. Well, you try to be dramatic?

I thought it was going to be like more information. I didn't know it was just going to be some follow-up with a bunch of interviews with the people who have already done. it. No, my guess is they were like, you know what, let's take advantage of the fact that we are the hottest thing out there and let's put together 40 minutes of interviews basically saying the same thing. Yeah, it seemed unnecessary, but that's okay. And I realized, I didn't realize how, I mean, I guess I did realize that there, that you would think of all the, the notoriety that those people have gotten in the last, you know, two months or so that they would get their teeth

fixed. One person did, the rest of them did not. Yeah, that's okay. Well, we don't know how much money they got off the thing. Oh, I'm sure they did quite well. You think so? I mean, better in a hole in the head, right? Well, most things are. Yeah. Well, let's say, like, his husband that had the bad teeth. Like, how much money do you think he got off of this thing? I don't know, but he got his teeth fixed.

The worker that still works at the zoo hadn't got, his lower bottoms aren't good. And the guy that was like the documentarian needed some new chicklets as well. I just think if you're going to be on national TV and get all the notoriety, you probably should have at least halfway decent clean teeth. I'm not saying poorly whites, but I'm not saying major gaps, you know? Okay.

That concludes the dental segment of today's show, I hope. Yeah, we're trying to, we're trying to just irritate everybody as much as humanly possible. All right. The NBA believes they have a resolution, at least a plan in place.

We'll discuss that on the show today. The NFL gave up on something that I'm very disappointed. We'll tell you about that. And what else we have on the show today? The WWE wrestlers are going back to wrestle live, and they're not particularly happy about it, because one of the members of their organization, not a wrestler, has the virus. So that to get to as well.

Plus, anything on a latest poll question is out about the NFL from our friends at Seton Hall. Is Seton Hall the only school that does any sort of paneling anymore? You ever notice every time there's a panel question, Seton Hall's running it? They're on top of these things, Matt. They must be bored as well. 713-212-5-790. Did you watch the horse? Did you think it was entertaining?

Was it a nice little getaway? Or was it as painful as I thought it was? Saturday Night Live. Go back, give me those great original characters that we all know and love. That would have been the way to go instead of one unfunny Pete Davidson cut after the other. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79. Alex Bregman at 130 right here on Sports

Talk 790. The pandemic continues. The no damn sports pandemic. I'm not leaving my house. Luckily, the most infectious lineup in Houston sports continues. Now, here's masked, rubber glove, but still Jesus-sandled, Matt Thomas. Sanitize those toes, would you? You don't know where they've been.

All right, time is 1220. It is a Matt Thomas show. We're going to visit with Alex Berman coming up in an hour from now. It's got some great work done with the here. Houston Food Bank, and we'll talk to him about that and how he's keeping himself active during this time. Later this week, we're going to try to catch up with Eric Gordon of the Rockets. We'll have a couple of members of our people we miss hearing from series. So we'll keep things going here on the radio program, but if there's anything you want to get into,

whether it be these networks trying to come up with alternative ways to keep us interested, give him ideas. We can do whatever we can. It's 713-212-5-790. Brian Winhorse yesterday, D-10. that the NBA has extraordinarily tentative plans to put in a 25-day NBA back-to-work schedule. The schedule would, once they get cleared, meaning that it's okay to resume somewhat normal activities. We may not be normal for over a year, who's to say? But they're going to say there's 11 days that the NBA players will be able to have individual workouts,

meaning they'll be able to go back to the gyms where they practice team facilities and have individual workouts. After the 11 days, there would then be a 14-day training camp. So essentially the moment they get the all-clear, and Commissioner Silver believed it's okay in the best interest of the NBA to resume some sort of activity, there'd be a 25-day window to get ready for the season. Gentlemen, I'll throw George and Ross in the mix on this. this seems I don't want to say aggressive that's not the term I'm looking for

but maybe ambitious optimistic yeah I'll go with that that sounds good ambitious is good as well I mean I guess I'm not surprised because we also then had

Mark Cuban last night say that he his prediction even though he quotes he didn't want to make one would be that there will be basketball without fans

he said that on Fox News last night so I'm not surprised by this but I think optimistic is and ambitious are fair words to describe this plan So, you know, and then they didn't say when they were going to start this 25-day window.

They wouldn't have been silly enough to do that. But I like that there's more proactivity at least being pushed out there as compared to, well, I don't know if this is going to happen or not. Because let's face it, guys, the thought is still, it's going to be quite a challenge unless somebody gives us some amazingly good news in the next, you know, 14 to 24 days. The NBIGA has already said they're not going to comment anything publicly about a return until the very earliest May 1st, at least talk about it. So maybe that June 15th date that was originally set up three or four weeks ago might have,

is still that target date. I was something thinking about this, and you guys can help me with this. It would have seemed to me that the whole thought of putting everybody in a bubble creates a tremendous amount of chaos, a lot of extra planning. Help me. Again, I'm not saying this is right or wrong. But if you were to quarantine the players and the essential staff that would travel, you could quarantine the plane, you can quarantine the bus, you could quarantine the hotel,

the arena with a few number of people's people in it. Why wouldn't it be a wee bit easier just to go ahead and resume in the NBA arenas or those cities with emptier fans as compared to trying to get everybody in one place? we were trying to at that point keep 2,000 people away from the virus. Is there anybody have a logic on why that would not make as much sense as much as putting everybody in one city? I mean, I think it's more easy to monitor. It's more easy to go to the public and say, hey, we're being safe about this. If you're just having everybody do it on their own, I guess maybe that looks worse and the optics of it are bad,

where you can say you can say you're making more of an effort and you're doing. it more for the safety if you have everybody under a watchful eye and you can say this is what we're doing and we're watching everybody yeah i would think the advantages of a central location and obviously Vegas is being talked about more anything else would be uh one set of television crew i mean you'd have several crews but you'd have one set of cameras one control truck you would have you wouldn't be worrying about having to hire those people in every one of the cities. You could probably condense a schedule pretty damn quick. There's no need to travel anywhere. You're not having to go from, say, Sacramento to Houston. You can keep a very close

watchful eye on people. You're probably limiting the number of hotels around the NBA that would be in this situation. Again, I'm just throwing all the different measures out. But there is something that, and I don't know if LeBron is just the leader of this, but he continues to, not incidentally in the last 24 hours or so, but he continues to be like, how are we going to do this without fans? How am I supposed to play a game of basketball in an arena where part of my getting motivated to win and compete and play hard is the roar of the crowd, both good and bad? I would think those guys would have to probably, A, suck it up, and B, think about all the times they played AAU basketball or they were in gyms competing in tournaments. They were still able to succeed.

LeBron James was still at the age of 17 playing an AAU game in a gym with no fans. He was able to thrive. There's no reason why. I don't know if LeBron was in front of no fans since he's been like 14, but he's a special case. Yeah, give me an example of Eric Gordon. Right, anybody else. Basically, LeBron's been a phenom since he was like 14. Yeah, it's true.

Probably LeBron was drawn 4,000 people. I was probably a poor example on my part. No, no, I totally get what you're saying. I mean, he probably played some horse game against his friends or something where he was competitive. I'm sure he gets competitive in practice. Everybody, he's a competitor. He'll be fine. Yeah. I would think at the end of the day, and he may be very difficult to persuade, but Commissioner Silver may have to call the league's most recognizable player and say, this is we're going to have to do. If you don't want to do this, we're not going to play a season.

And with him being 35, Ross, and opportunities to grab championships, you know, ticking away a little bit, Father time always wins. I can't imagine him going, you know what, let's just blow this season off. Because I think, you know, and maybe some people think that the Lakers might be more vulnerable because there are going to be some short playoff series that maybe an 8 could be to 1 or a 7 could be to 2. But, yeah, I don't think there's anybody that's associated with the NBA that wants to just close the season off and say, you know what, we were given a window to play this, we were given parameters, we followed them, but because we have no fans in the building,

it just isn't worth playing. I find that to be, that would be the most difficult excuse to try to push off to an audience of, we needed you, because you weren't there, we decided it wasn't worth playing. I don't know.

It'll be interesting. I'm wondering how they're going to do this and how they're going to pull it off with everybody. And it just always seems like whenever they come up with one of these solutions, there's going to be something that we'll figure out that we can't do it because of this, this, and this. And that just seems to be every single time.

It's almost like we'd have to take the 20 smartest minds in basketball operations and just logistics in general. I mean, this would be like a group of people that would need logistics specialist and go over every single possible thing that could potentially go wrong because that's what you're doing. Here's what you don't want. You don't want to resume this thing, run everybody to Vegas, and then because something wasn't discussed and thought about ahead of time have to cancel this a week into it. You know what I mean? Right. That would be a disaster. Who would be the smartest person thinking of?

I mean, there are great logistics people, right? There are great conventioneers. But even convention specialists, they allow the people that go to their conventions to have free time. Do they not? They do. They allow them. They don't tell them they can only go within one block of the hotel. They tell them they can only get on this bus.

I mean, this is something crazy on that I don't know that anybody could possibly say, yeah, I know how this is going to work. I've thought of every possible scenario, from the food that is served, to the hotels that clean our rooms, to the medical staff, to the video crews, the stack crews, to the broadcasters, to the players, to the coaches. You just have to get a piece of paper and just write and write. What do we do in this particular case?

And I'll be honest with you, Ross, the easiest thing to figure out is we probably shouldn't do this with fans the rest of the year. That's a whole other avenue that probably would take until a fall or December or January to figure out how you effectively get fans back in your arenas. Doing this right now would be the right thing. Probably even further down the road when it comes to fans. That's why, Ross, think about this. College football and pro football may be thinking about no fans this either too, this season two. Because you're not just worrying about 18,000 people. you're trying to jam 70,000 people in those college and pro football stadiums.

Are we going to be ready for that? Or are we going to take everybody's temperature at the gate while they're going to the metal detectors? Joe, what are the bears draw, $45,000 maybe? Maybe we'll sell out per year? Something like that. I think I'm actually, no, it's like 28, I think. I'm kidding. I know the bears, but I draw well.

The bears. The bears. By the way, you've ever seen Soldier Field before? I know you have, Joe. It looks like a spaceship. I've been near it, yes, but I haven't been inside of it. It's awful. Yeah, the old pillars, the old soldier field that look like a majestic old facility, gone with the Starship Enterprise.

That's what's become. But you know what? That's what kept the Bears in downtown Chicago. 1231. Matt Thomas Show continues. 713-212-790. 25 days, a tentative plan once the NBA gets the all-clear. I hope they do get that all.

all clear. With Ross and with Joe, I'm Matt. We appreciate you very much listening to Sports Talk 790. Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hart Radio. Sure. Mr. Bunby. Would you like it regular? Or chopped and screwed. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Keep it trill. 1234, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show 7-1-3-213-2-5-790. If you want to get into the conversation, 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Terrible news coming out of Alabama this weekend. Tavaris Jackson. We'll get to John and Bear Creek. We'll get to you in just second.

Tavarish Jackson passing away a former Seattle Seahawk, former Minnesota Viking quarterback, dying in a car accident at the age of 36. And the reason why I bring it up is A, it's because it's sad. And B, I was there, Ross, when he was the quarterback originally for the Minnesota Vikings. And it was a great, you know, you have great sports debates about who should run things and who should take over. and that was about a year and a half of Minnesota argument about

should you stay with Tavares Jackson and let him be the quarterback of the team or do you go get this aging 38 39 year old quarterback who used to be your biggest rival Brett Favreve and should we bring him from the Jets to the Minnesota Vikings so and Tavares is great about it they obviously chose Brett Fav got to the NFC championship game got to a playoff appearance after that but just sad that he had passed away in a car accident at the age of 36 he. He was the quarterbacks coach, I believe, at Tennessee State. But I don't know any more details of that, but just want to pass it along.

Tavaris Jackson was a good guy. It was in a really tough predicament and was able to be professional left to go find work somewhere else and at least get some sort of NFL career before going to be a college coach. So Tavares Jackson, unfortunately, passing away at the age of 36. Let me go to John and Bear Creek at 1236 on 790. Hi, John. Hey, how you doing, sir? Good.

Well, I was reading on, I think, the Washington Post that the Taiwan Baseball League is playing baseball, and they have cutouts and mannequins in the stands. You mean no fans in the stadium, correct? No fans in the stadium, but they have cutouts of people and mannequins all through the stands. That would be a little creepy to ask, to be honest with you. But do the robots cheer? Yeah. What do they do to sit there?

Well, they painted signs on them and had pictures of drums and things like that on it. They showed a little picture of just a small snapshot of what the stands looked like. I may have to go look at that. I know they're playing because thank you, John, for the phone call. Ross, you know, we've got a lot of degenerates that listen to this show. a couple of friends of mine are betting on Taiwanese baseball games. Yeah, there you go, Matt. You've got to do something.

Are they televised anywhere here? Actually, I think there's a report that ESPN's trying to strike a deal with them right now. Oh, really? Because they want live sports, so they're trying to get it on ESPN. Taiwanese baseball. What's the level? Do we know how good it is? I don't know.

You want to make a bet on it? Sure. I bet it's below Korean in Japanese. No, I'm sorry, but just making bets. Should we have our daily, like our handicappers picks? How about we just pick our favorite? We pick a team and then we root for that team. Yeah.

That's not bad. There's only six teams. Okay. How about this? Tomorrow we each pick a team to root for. Okay. Now, the problem is, do we know what this? I don't want to pick some loser team.

Well, I was going to say, I don't want you to pick the, because you're a bandwagon fan. I don't want you picking the team to take out until six and oh start. Why not? Because that's not good. That sounds great. You should take a, uh, uh, uh, a, uh, a, You know, it'd be like picking Man U every year, right? Using your soccer vernacular there.

Well, Manu hasn't been winning in a very long time, so that'd be a bad pick. Okay. But, you know what? What's wrong with picking men? Look, if I want to finally root for a winner, I'm sorry I've been dealing with Houston sports my entire life. Okay. So you know what you're doing?

Hey, ladies and gentlemen, sports talk 790, listeners, Ross is going to pick the New York Yankees of the Taiwanese baseball. Let's go. 27 rings. Zez. I'm with it. I got no issues, no shame. Joe's going to pick the Florida Marlins of the Taiwanese

Baseball League. Yeah, if I want to pick teams that are going to get their teeth kicked in, I could just root for the Houston teams that I've been rooting for my entire life. Things are going okay with the Astros, by the way. Don't worry about that. Well, I'm sorry. Everybody says their one title is tainted. By the way. And America hates them. I'm glad you seguaded it. Did you see TMZ's Twitter account

today? No, I don't follow TMZ, Matt. No, do I. But somebody retweeted it. There is an Astro Scout selling his ring from the 2017 World Series Championship. Oh, that's cool. Is it cool? I mean, yeah, if he wants to sell it, well, who cares? I don't know.

Those things are hard to come by. Well, if he needs the cash. Because if he's a scout for the Astros, chances are he's got laid off by Jeff Luno in the last couple years. Or fired for that matter. Exactly. Maybe not. Maybe you're right. I think he's

And I've not pulled up a story yet just yet I think he's looking for $10,000 Oh, okay Is he putting on the eBay or what? Let me do some more research on I just saw the headline Let me tell you this I wouldn't want to buy somebody's ring

That has their name on it Does that seem a little weird Well if you're going to buy somebody's ring In the secondary market That's just how that comes with the territory right Yeah that's why I wouldn't do it But if you could get a legit full of diamonds

World Series or the ones the staff got not like the ones that were everybody in the stands got I mean the legitimate what if it was everyday employees what's that

what if it was one of the knockoffs that everybody got oh that wouldn't be very nice I'm sure that the the auction house would have to authenticate you know where it was from

10,000 let me do a little research on it because I think I saw $10,000 with the amount of money on it do you melt it go from there or do you say you know what I'll keep the ring even though it's got the name Jones on it. I want to talk more about Korean baseball.

I mean, Taiwanese baseball. You want me to tell you the name of the six teams, Matt, that are in the Taiwan Baseball Summer League? I'm going to write these down. And by the way, we will make the official announcement on the show tomorrow, which ones we're rooting for. Also known as the Popcorn League, for whatever reason. They just call it popcorn? That's it? Yeah.

Okay, go ahead. There is the Taiwan Power. Power. There is V-Time. V-T-I-M-E? V-E. Oh, V-Time. Okay.

I think these are all named by corporations. Taiwan Cooperative Bank. I heard Taiwan Cooperative Bank's got a good squad this year, Matt. Cooperative Bank. All right. There's three. Go ahead. The National Sports Training Center.

These are the teams? Yes. National Sports Training. Let's go. NSTP. Topcoe scientific. Topco Scientific. And then finally, of course, Chi Lee Coral Lee.

Chi Lee Coral Lee. I think Chi Lee Coral Lee has got a solid squad this year as well, Matt. Dun, dun, dun, dun, chile, corolli. Yeah, that's my team. Okay. You're a chili corally guy? I'm a chili corolli. I'll take V time.

I don't know why. So wait a wait. We're already declaring our teams right now. Okay, that's fine. You declared yours. That sounds like this. I don't know. I want to get ahead of the game.

Sounds like you say something of your high school girlfriend. Very awkward. Chili Coral Lee? No, never mind. Let's take a break. V. Chil. Chili Coral.

Chili Coral Lee. Oh, this is, we got some room in this one. Let's go chili Coral Lee. Quick time out, 1243. Brought to you by Chile Corolley. It's the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 790. Your rockets, your Astros, your voice.

Alex Brightman with us in 45 minutes here on the Matt Thomas show. I found the story on TMZ Sports. Group called Golden Auctions says, The ring belongs to Team Scout David Brito. He's the first person presented 2017 Astros Ring for Auction. No word is this coming from TMZ. No word on if the decision to part ways the conscious thing, considering the championship was of the heart of the sign stealing scandal.

Speaking of, it also features of one of the most iconic phrases for this particular ring, quote, earned history. It is a ring decked out as described in orange and blue sapphires. We're told this ring, despite all the surrounding drama, could fetch anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000. Wow. That's a lot. You're going to make a bid, Maddie?

No. Joe, look up and see if David Brito is still with the team. because that'd be an awkward conversation. Hey, Jim, thanks for the ring. I had to put it up on auction. Why? Because I'm broke or I just don't believe this championship is worth anything? $20,000 to $60,000.

Eish. People have money? This kind of spell on that guy? Well, this one article, some from the Chronicle, says former Astros area scout. Okay. That probably helped a little bit, right? He is credited with discovering Framber Valdez. So we got Framber alerts thanks to David Brown.

Wait a minute. You tell me that David Brito discovered Framber Valdez? Maybe he should get the ring back, right? Did I say that out loud? Yes, you did. Look, I'm not anti-Framber. I'm just anti-Framber pitching. What do you want him to do? Get everybody's equipment to the bus? Maybe he's probably a swell fella.

But is there not a pitcher that would drive you nuts more than the last? two years in Framber Valdezron? Seriously? He was solid at 18. 19, not so much. He's got a spot to be in the starting rotation, does he not? He might. He's in the mix. Or did he get hurt? Didn't somebody get hurt? I forget.

Well, I mean, I think it's going to be between him, the new guy that got over from what are they going to, Detroit, Tampa Bay. Austin Pruitt. Austin Pruitt. And then Josh James, another one of those guys that you just think, man, this is this is the guy that can turn the corner and be a front line starter. And then he walks five people in an inning and a third. But man, we talked to him during spring training. He looked like he was ready to go.

He was in shape. He was wearing his going out shirt in front of us, which was interesting. Which is you know now having been to West Palm Beach, not a great going out place. That's true. But you kept wanting to go to Rachel's, so. Yeah, I know. They wouldn't let us in for some reason. They wanted us to wear a collared shirt.

You couldn't go in your khaki shorts and your Birkenstocks. So false. All you do is mislead the audience. That's not true. So David Brito, former Astro Scout says, I don't need this ring. I'm going to make $20,000 to $60,000 on it. What's the most valuable thing you could auction off in your life? Do you have anything?

My soul? Oh, I know what that goes for. Sold many years ago. Two drinks at the casino. Gosh, do I have anything of value? No. I've got autographed baseballs and stuff. That's what I have.

That's really about it. I don't ever ask anybody for autographs. I've never had, so I don't really have anything that's been autographed. Geez, Matt. How about my TV and my living room? That could get me a whole. I was thinking like my TV and my PS4. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Okay, before you go on in for the... And I'll listen to this argument. What would make you anyone think that y'all's TVs and PS4s will be special than anybody else's? No, no. That's the reason why you have auctioned. They're not. But we don't have anything of value. Yeah, Matt.

I got to tell you story. Kim and I were newly married. I think it was when Roger Clemens was still pitching for the Astros. So, yeah, this had to have been... When was his last year? 0-405? Did he pitch after? 2005 for the Astros?

I don't remember. Maybe we just had Cameron. And we were doing some stuff with the TriStar folks. We did a radio show from some event hall. And Roger was the guest star. And she's like, you have to get me some autographs of Roger Clemens. And I'm like, I cannot do that. As a sports radio host and a guy that goes in a clubhouse,

that's just an uber no-no. You cannot ask for autographs because we get access to the general public does not. She goes fine. So she goes to Academy buys like three or four baseballs. She puts them in her purse. We'd go to this party, and it was a big mosh pit, Ross. And all she was doing is she got to the very front row. You know my wife.

She will do these things. Very pushy. Very pushy. She'd put up her hand in the air with a baseball. He would sign it. She would then take the ball, put her in her purse, put her hand up again. She got three Roger Clemens baseball signed in about 75 seconds. Good for her.

There's still my office as we speak, so. Oh, are they? I might have to make a run through there before I leave today. No, my house is quarantined. Oh. Oh, your house office. Yeah, my house office. That's, yeah.

But those, what do you think? What does a Roger Clemens ball go for? I mean, he signs frequently. So it wouldn't be worth a whole lot. Yeah, so that's what you got. That's your most valuable. No, I'm just saying that just came up the time. I'm looking at them right now.

That's the reason why I brought that up. I just thought about it. what would be something that you would go to auction? Well, here we go. I just went to eBay. Roger Clemens signed baseball. Are these authenticated? No.

They're just signed. We put them back in and we put them a ball case around them. Could have been signed by anybody. Let's see. Rogers Clemens signed baseball $70 to $90,000, it looks like. If you sell retail, it's like $300. So I'm not going to auction with this. I just go on eBay.

We better serve that way. Give them the commission check. Yeah, I have never, you know, those auctions, things I you know I always think man there's no way they're going to get that money but somebody has to give them the good advice to say hey you got something so valuable that you trying to do your own private you know bidding is not worth it let an auction house take it and that's what I mean if you're going to give up a ring that's got the sapphires in it between 20 and 60 thousand dollars oh hell yeah I want golden auditioned auctions to handle

this handle this property not me I won't get fair market value for it the first one up for sale. I wonder if Mike Fires are going to sell his ring. Because apparently Mike Fires has been quite busy. You see he's on TikTok now, boys? Yes, I have seen that. First of all, I believe nobody over the age of 30 should be on TikTok, period. Correct? Is that fair to say? Yeah, that's fair.

I downloaded it, and I watched, I watched like a few TikToks, and I didn't get it, and so I turned it off. Mike, I know that TikTok's not for me, because my 12-year-old daughter loves it. So if she is all into it, that's probably not my jam. But yeah, He TikToked a video this weekend, and apparently it was just wearing underwear.

If you want to call it that? I thought he had a cowboy boots on as well, right? So the Astor's pitcher who threw his team under the bus, old teammates, is in a cowboy hat, boots, and underwear, dancing on TikTok. We shall not judge. It sounds like you're judging. Would I judge Ross in this show? I don't think so.

Yes. All right. The second hour of the radio program starts in a matter of moments. I want to get into something that kind of went under the radar the last couple of days in the NFL that I think is a huge, huge mistake, and I want to help the NFL fix it. I'll discuss the rule that has gone bye-bye after just one year and how we're going to get this fixed if and when we have an NFL season. 1256, we start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show in a moment.

This is Sports Talk 790. is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, here we go. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790 with Sports RV and with Joe George Radio. I'm Matt Thomas 713-212-5-790. If you want to get in on the conversation, 7-13-212-5-7-90. We'll have Alex Breggman in one-half hour here on the radio program.

Also, you want to visit with us via Twitter at SportsMt, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. Guys, we did not mention this much late last week, but I think it's worthy of a little bit of time here. The NFL has decided that they're going to not bring back the challenge rules for pass interference in the NFL. A lot of it, well, almost exclusively, the reason they brought it to begin with in the 2019 season

was because of the terrible non-pass interference call on the Rams in the NFC championship game in New Orleans. So last year, if you were to grade the efficiency of the pass interference system in the NFL and the challenge. This is the challenge process. What would you give the grade, gentlemen, each, on how the NFL handled their pass interference challenge rule? F minus. F, yeah, F, F minus, but the same thing. Maybe not even, maybe Ross is zero for not even turning it in.

They at least try. Don't you sometimes get like 10 or 20 points even for turning something? something in? When I used to get Eps in college, my senior year, I got an F on a paper, and he put a big F over the middle of the page and said, try this again. Ouch. Oh, it hurt. You were professors that hated you?

Didn't you have some guy you used to buttheads with or something like that? Well, he was, but heads would be a strong term. Okay. He just never, he just didn't, he was not advancing him with the times. And he was jealous of you. I mean, jealous is strong term. Couldn't believe I was in the business while trying to get my education at the same time. But that's not here nor that.

That's the point of this. So what they've done, gang, is the NFL basically said, we're not going to have this in 2020 once the NFL starts playing games in 2020. Gentlemen, we can't let this sit in line. We can't let this just go, oh, well, it was worth the try. the NFL thought about at least two different teams thought about having a sky umpire do the exact same thing that a video review would do except a real human being would make the call upstairs as compared to the officials down on the field and they would hit

like a buzzer to throw a flag or what no i think it's what if you wanted to challenge the call you could do that and have the sky umpire evaluated as compared to the field of the referee on the field. My feeling is, and no one's told me this, but this is just my gut feeling is that these guys did not want to change their calls because they didn't want to make their fellow officials look bad. Because, look, we all watch our fair number of games, right? And we all saw our fair number of challenges. I would say, and there's no scientific evidence to this, but when you'd watch an NFL game, 75% of the time it screw the call up, you, you're going to They would throw the challenge flag, and then you would go,

shoo, at least they've got the video replay system to show the umpire or the field judge, the side judge, they goofed up, they'll change the call, we'll start playing games again and be fine. But it was just the opposite. What was the percentage? Like 15% of calls are overturned? I don't know what the percentage was, but it was embarrassing. And there was a number of times where it was completely clear that it needed to be overturned and it wasn't.

So what went wrong, guys? Is it what I think it is? that you had people that were afraid to overturn calls in front of their buddies? I think there's some of that. And I think most of it's subconscious. I don't think that anybody is looking at a call and saying, well, I'm really going to hurt some feelings here. I better not overturn this. I don't think it's, I think it's almost like human nature, right?

Matt, if you make a mistake or I make a mistake, let's say I say something wrong on the show or I'm doing it. And you come after me about it. I'm going to be defensive about it. I'm going to be like, you know what? I didn't make a mistake. You're wrong because that's just human nature. and that's how we are. So if somebody wants to, if a coach over there is saying,

hey, you made a mistake or your crew made a mistake, it's human nature to say, no, I didn't, look at this, this and this and this, and because you have that coming into play where people don't want to admit they're wrong and they want to defend their people, and you also have the language of clear and obvious, which makes it more and more murky, because a lot of times it's pretty clear,

or maybe you think it's like a 51% it should, be the other way, but then you say, oh, well, it's not clear and obvious, so I have to keep the same call. And then I think that language entering into the conversation also makes it very difficult for them to overturn it. So I think they should get rid of the nomenclature of clear and obvious. And I think they should have a third party somewhere, somebody in New York or wherever, some kind of video center where it's not the people that are there that are making the call. I think that's the way that they should do it. And that's what the XFL did. Remember this past year in the five games they played, they had a sky official in the press box that could overturn

anything that was happening on the field. Yeah, I got no problem with that. That would have been brilliant. There's some things about the XFL that I think absolutely would have made a lot of sense. My point is this, Ross, I just don't want to ever have to see a team, whether it be the New Orleans Saints or the Houston Texans or whomever get royally screwed by a subjective call. See, I don't think you could hurt feelings with crew guys with they say, well, the side judge ruled the player out of bounds because he thought there was only one foot. Well, the video evidence showed two, so there's nothing subjective to that.

If the second foot got down, that side judge goes, okay, I didn't see it as well or I goofed, whatever. That's fine. But to have someone overturn a subjective, it'd be like you and I having this conversation of an opinion in your heart. saying, well, I'm trying to correct you. But if it's your opinion, I really can't correct you. If it's a fact, then I can't correct you. You can go, well, yeah, Matt, you're right. I didn't mean to make that mistake.

Subjective means there is some interpretation for it. And there were too many times last year in the NFL that these officials or the crew in New York were afraid to overturn a subjective call. And that's why we brought it in to begin with, because there was nothing. subjective about the atrocity that was the NFC championship game. And there were calls, maybe not as egregious as that, but every time I'd watch an NFL game, and it became a laughing matter at some point.

Oh, they're not going to change this. And that was a terrible attitude to have, is that these officials were afraid to make the call because it wasn't black and white. There was room for interpretation. And that's the thing that bothers me about this, is that if you have guys that don't have the stones to stick behind their call, we're never

Ross going to have great officials in the NFL. We're never going to have great officials if they're under the belief that every time there's a pass play that involves contact that they get the call right every time, whether a flag should have been thrown or a flag should have been thrown. And that's why the

Sky Judge, who works with those guys, who knows those guys can be, look, I'll look at the screen up here, I'll look at it two or three times. We don't have to drag the official to come down. Let's get this figured out because I'm afraid we're going to have another situation just like this because if there's been anything else in the NFL that has garnered more controversy among its officials, it's whether or not it's a pass interference, offensive pass interference, or no call. And I'm sorry to say that we're going to have a lot more problems just like we had in previous years unless somebody has a checks and balances system about that very important penalty because not only is an important penalty, but as you guys know, it can be a 35-yard person.

penalty. It can be a 47-yard penalty. It can keep drives alive. Instead, we threw it out because there were too many kinks in the system in the first year. I think it's a sad state of affairs for the NFL. So I just want to get that odd. Just that was just a bad, bad decision made. And there was even some people that thought about the Sky system, but the NFL competition committee wasn't prepared to bring that into potential legislation. Yeah, and we talked about it too, Matt. Like the whole reason that this happened was the, what was it, the Rams and Saints game, right? And the, NFC championship? Or was the division around? It doesn't matter.

No, it was a championship game. Yeah. Like, even if you go back and look at that one, if you look at it full speed, there's enough open for interpretation where I think that they wouldn't even have overturned that one the way that they were doing it last year. I think even the one that there was a whole impetus for all of this, they would have not overturned. What happened, Rosson Fishing? More camera angles, open up more wounds? Is that what it is?

Better technology? I don't know. I mean, some of the calls are so bad. bang that's kind of difficult, but some of them, they just seem very obvious and they just can't make a change on it. And I don't know why. All right. So anybody I have a thought on that? You're welcome to join us on that conversation piece.

I just think it was a really good, I remember Ross after the NFC championship game going, hey, gang, don't worry. The NFL's going to fix this. The NFL's not going to have to call Sean Payton a half hour after the game and apologize with a goof. Now we're right back of where we started. And look, you can get younger officials, you can get guys with less body fat, but you're also then going to guys that are inexperienced and don't know what it's like to be in the big moments of these games. You need a video helper. Put a guy up in the upper deck or in the press box, shut the door, lock it, cover up all the walls,

and let him stare at that thing without having to feel the pressure of whether or not he's going to hurt feelings or not. I think that's part of the reason why this rule was put into place for the right reasons, but never executed. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. Ross, the folks at Seton Hall School of Business, have a question out there or did. 762 respondents to this question. Should the NFL start their season on time? Kind of a bizarre question, right?

You would think in theory everybody would want it to start on time if the situation presented itself. I would think all 762 respondents, including us, would be speaking out of ignorance because we don't know if it should start on time because it's literally April. They hadn't even been in the draft yet. But okay, what do they say? 36% should start on the time, start on time September. 46% should not start up. on time. 18% have no opinion.

Only half of those people would consider themselves to be good or rabid, avid sports fans. Half of them were occasional sports fans or none at all. So that was kind of a, you know how we were talking with Joe about the question that Clay Travis put out there about, you know, how his respondents were sports fans. They legitimately went to 762 people and said, we don't care if you're a sports. fan or not, but let me ask you this question. Should the NFL season start on time? I feel like in one of those questions, you would need to get 762 people that are sports fans.

Because if you have no interest in the NFL or no interest in sports, then why do you particularly care whether or not the season starts on time? That matter to you, does it? No. So the more I think about it, the more I think the NBA's got a better shot at this, because we're talking about a smaller area, a smaller group of people. I think baseball is going to have a real difficult time, and I think the NFL is going to have a real difficult time. The thing about the NFL that they do have for them,

much like college football, is they don't have to compete with anything else in their venues. If they would eventually have fans, granted, playing December, January, February football games in Philadelphia probably would suck. but you're not fighting with anybody to play games at Lincoln Financial Field. If you felt like delaying the season to get a full season in and to get some fans in there might be the best thing they can do that.

The only thing that's really people are, the only schedule that's really of all the leagues that are fighting for is basketball because you're going to start bumping up against your next year calendar. And that's where I think there needs to be a sense of urgency as to if and when they're going to start resuming playing games. We take some of your phone calls next on this, including whether or not Major League Baseball could see themselves returning. Again, this past weekend, there was a story on Friday's paper USA Today about splitting it up between Arizona and Florida. It presents its own.

These bubbles present their own problems. But they're the only ones. And again, baseball too has a little bit of an issue because of weather constraints, especially because if you start playing July, August, and Phoenix, You're looking at 105, 10, 10 degree temperatures for baseball games, and that can't be good for anybody either. 713-212-5-790. The time is 114. It is the Matt Thomas show, and this is Sports Talk 790.

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713, 212-5-790. Let's go to Ben on the southwest side at 118. Hi, Ben. How are you guys doing? I don't believe the... Good. I don't believe Major League Baseball will take place at all this year. There's a couple reasons.

First of all, then putting together the plan for the Grapefruit League and the Cactus League is fine. And they have to do that. My question would be they have to do that because it looks like collusion if they're not at least trying to make this happen. I don't think they want it to happen. They're not going to have any fans in the stands. They don't make a lot of money on the regional money, I don't believe, because it'll be regional games. I just think financially the owners would hope that the scientists and the doctors will bail them out of this. And for instance, if they start to poll scientists and doctors, and they get, say, two doctors out of 100 to think it's a bad idea and the other 98 thinks it's okay, I think baseball could very well say no.

We need 100%. and I think they can hold out the players need this more than they do it I don't think the owners want this season to happen do you think there's some truth to that yeah I'm here I don't know that you give me a lot to chew on I can't imagine there's the majority of owners in baseball would want a no season I don't know I would have to initially disagree with you on that okay I don't think they're going wow we can save a lot of money if we don't play this

year. You know, they pay these players out because they're obviously very successful, very big Fortune 500 companies that draw millions of fans and have large television contracts and sell lots of gear. I mean, yeah, gate receipts are important. But Ross, what do we talk about just the other day? Was it 18% of Major League Baseball money is made through ticket revenue? Is that right? I think it was more than that, but I can't remember. But it was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, Ben, they's like 30%, but still, yeah. TV deals are way bigger than anything else for all sports. But don't you agree they're going to have to get the doctors okay from the signing?

Can we agree on that? They have to have, that community have to be 100% on board with this whole thing. Do you agree with that? Well, I don't think it's just baseball. I think it's football. I think it's all the sports. I think it's anything. They're all going to rely on that, and they should.

I mean, if I was in a position of making the decision and 198 doctors said no, you know, the other way around, 98 doctors said, it's a good idea. Two-step no, I'd say no, because I have to protect my fans. I have to protect the whole situation. You know, whether it's going to be fans and I have to protect everyone in this. So I'm going to be super, super cautious.

I just don't think they, I'm not saying the baseball is doing anything illegal or anything or colluding. I don't think the owners are saying let's not play, but I think part of them kind of want the doctors to bail them out of this. And I think the doctors would be the ones. And they're coming up with the plan because if they don't come up with a plan at all, then that would look like collusion, correct? Like almost a lockout if they don't even come up with a plan.

plan, so they must come up with a plan. We agree on that, too. They got to have a plan in place. So you're saying they have to have a plan. They have to have a plan in place because it doesn't look good for them. If all the scientists and doctors say, yeah, go, it's a go. It'll be fine. The Arizona idea is a good idea.

The full idea is a good idea. You have our blessing. The scientific community gives them their blessing. Then they go. Then they do go. But I just don't think they want to go. Just don't think it's going to happen. Why wouldn't they want to go?

Well, because they're making no money, like you said, in the stand part of it. Unless you believe, do you believe that they're worried? Well, let me, if 30%, if the number is right, if 30% of Major League Baseball's revenue comes from ticket sales. So they get 70% from other places, correct? No, no, you're telling me a number I didn't know. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, so 70% would be better than 0%. Well, no, I agree with that.

But do you believe that part of them is worried? I'm talking about the owners. You say they want them to play for sure. Are they concerned that Altuvie and Bregman will not be the same a year from today if they don't play this year? Is that a factor? Are they worried that Bregman could lose some skills? Are they worried that Lovic could lose some skills being away for a year? Is that part of their factor too?

Not really. No. I mean, I think these others... You don't think they're worried about them coming? Okay. Yeah, I don't understand the logic of your question. that it wouldn't be out too being pregnant be every single human player. I mean, everybody's going to be.

Oh, no, I just mentioned those two. I just mentioned those guys because they're under contract for a long time. No, you're right. They're worried about everyone. Sure, absolutely. They're concerned about everybody. But is that a factor that you say they definitely want to play this year is one of the factors that they definitely want to play outside of the 70% of the revenue,

also that they're worried that their players will be less than. I guess we could argue all players would be less than. Yeah, nobody gains an advantage unless you're like Chris Sale, who's going to be out for the entire season with Tommy John that taking a year off is going to make that big of a difference for anybody. Yeah, Ross, I didn't catch much of the logic of that phone call. I was trying to, and I just couldn't.

Maybe it's a horrible my head. It didn't make sense now. Okay. I just want to test that out. Okay. So let's try to figure out what he was trying to say. I will say, I think the owners, I think they want to play. He said the owners don't want to play.

But I think the owners don't want to cancel. their season. And they want to be told to cancel their season. Because I get this feeling that there's going to be a way out of paying all these contracts and advertising revenues. If they're told by the CDC and the government, you're not allowed to play baseball, I think they're not going to lose as much revenue as they're predicting. Does that make sense? Like, instead of, they'd rather have no season than a hundred game season or whatever. No, I'm just saying, like, they don't want to cancel it themselves. Like, they don't want to, the owners do not want to collectively make the decision not to play.

They would rather be told they want to play or be told by the government and the CDC, you're not allowed to play baseball. Well, there's no scenario what it would be their call. The reason they're not doing this right now, if it were up to the owners, they would be playing right now, I think. Yeah, that's right. This isn't baseball saying, we've decided we don't want to play baseball. This is the CDC saying you're not playing baseball.

And the governors and the president and the mayor saying we're not going to be able to, we're not holding, we're issuing stay-at-home orders. Do you think the Players Association feels the same way right now? The Players Association, they want to get out there because they know that their union is going to lose a whole year of salary. Because I'm sure they have the same provision the NBA does. If there is something, what do they call the phrasing in the NBA? I forgot what it's called, but it's something where on a natural act

where a catastrophe or something that would preclude games being played. there is a provision that the NBA owners don't have to pay the contract. It's like a doomsday clause. Is that what this actually called? No, it's got a much more formal name to it. Point being is that, I don't know, does Major League Baseball have the same thing? I'm assuming that if you don't play Major League Baseball, those players don't get contract. That's why they're pushing to Arizona.

They want those games played. The players want to play. First of all, that's in their competitive nature. Second of all, they don't want to make, you know, if you are a player that's going to make $25 million a year or $30 million or you get that's money you'll never get back what tell me where it's in the best interest for either side the players or the owners not to play

the owners aren't going to are there any owners that are saving money by not playing no that's my point you have television contracts regional networks national deals national apparel deals corporate sponsors you also have

hundreds of employees employees that you're going to have to lay off or furlough. Let me tell you something. You guys telling them for Tina how much fun that is to do that. And the PR backlash that comes with that. They want to keep people employed. And you know what? They'll pay these contracts out because they know they can do that.

Plus, Major League Baseball, my guess, has such a treasure chest that they'll pick up the loose ends of anything that's not paid off, meaning maybe the gate revenues won't be nearly as good, obviously, because there'll be no fans. but my guess is usually baseball will figure out a way to get those teams some of that money back. But if you don't have a season and doesn't exist, yeah, you're not paying 25 contracts at, you know, certain dollar amounts, but there's way more money to be made by playing the season there would be to tell the guys to shove it for a year, especially because they're not going to play minor leagueers this year.

So, yeah, I don't know. This is way over my pay grade, honestly. I just know that I can't imagine there are five, ten owners privately hoping that this season. doesn't come together. Because if that's the case, they should be owners to begin with. And I don't think there's anybody in baseball right now that's wishing and hoping there isn't a season. Because it would permanently destroy the game in some aspects. Because it would scare people to want to go back. And it would be basically that, you know, this wasn't worth it.

Sports leagues carry an emotional attachment. Now, emotional attachments don't pay the bills. but if we see leagues dropping left and right, there's going to be some, you know, some negative, you know, tough emotions over this. And I'm not maybe not pointing this out well enough, but my point is that we need sports, and I think that giving up on this thing

unless the CDC says absolutely no chance, no way can you do this would be a huge fail on these sports organizations part. That's why the NBA has this 25-day plan in place if it ever comes to play. Let's talk to Alex Bregman. next 127. The Matt Thomas show continues here on Sports Talks 790.

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Let's say hi to our good friend and a man who has been putting in some serious time helping our community. In fact, Feed Houston Fundraising Campaign is out there benefiting the Houston Food Bank. Friday, Braggs was working like a muddha. Alex, Matt, good to hear your voice. Thanks for spending some time with me and congratulations to your great event on Friday. Tell us all about it. Yeah, thank you for having it. me. It's been a great

last few days. My fiance and I were sitting here during the quarantine and trying to figure out a way to help. And we reached out to Jim McInvail and Paul Wall and decided that we were going to come up with a campaign and try

and raise as much money to feed these kids in Houston as possible. And we wanted to do it through the food bank. They have a unique opportunity and that is $1 donated equals three meals for these kids. And there's a tremendous amount of good that you can do

as a small amount of money. Any amount of money donated helps. And we set our sites at a million dollars. And we're hoping to reach that now well in the next few days, actually. It's been incredible. Just the amount of support the Houston community has shown. We're up to $570,000 as of noon, which is about 48 hours from when we launched the campaign.

So it's been a great last few days, and Houstonians are just wonderful people. And I've seen that in the last few days, and I hope they would continue to help this effort and help feed people. Yeah, let's tell the folks how they can do that. You get to your phone, you text Feed Hugh F-E-E-D-H-O-U to 414-4-4, and then all the heavy lifting can be done from there. Text Feed, Hugh, F-E-E-D-H-U to 41-44-4. We'll give you more details on that coming up. So Breggs, tell me about a conversation that would take place between you, Paul Wall, and Jim McInville. What's that like?

Well, we got on the phone, and we all thought that one of the biggest needs that our community would have during this pandemic was to feed children that usually rely on schools for their meals. And we could, none of us could really stomach a kid missing a meal. and we wanted to do it through the food bank who's just done an incredible work. And I mean, any, whether it's $1, $5, $25, like you're putting meals on the table for kids. And we wanted to team up together. I know in talking to Paul, who I've been friends with for a few years since I've been here in Houston, Jim McInnell actually went to a school when he was in Houston, and he kind of inspired Paul to want to give back to his community.

So Mattress Mac has just been an unbelievable human being and an unbelievable Houstonian and someone that we all look up to. That's sweet. Alex Spragman with us here for a few minutes on the Matt Thomas Show, Sports Talk 790. Look, all of us have cabin fever, but you're supposed to be playing games right now. How crazy has it been? What is your normal day like? I mean, mine is doing this radio show, hanging out with my kids, helping with their schoolwork.

You're trying to plan a wedding. What's that eight to five Alex Bregman Day like these days? Well, we're trying to make the most of it. And we're, you know, I wake up in the morning and I get a workout in. And then work on this campaign, man. It's all day thing. I'm completely, like, bought in 100%. I'm doing working on a little bit of a podcast.

working on a little bit of a podcast as well. So that's pretty much my day. Working out for a few hours, eat some great meals that Reagan's making over here at the house. It's just been fun. So her cooking ability was a large part of you getting the engagement going. If she was a terrible cook, would you still try to marry her? 1,000%. She's just amazing.

And like you said, planning a wedding during this pandemic. is kind of crazy. Reagan's like, we're worried about whether or not we're going to be able to have gathering, a gathering by then. We'd hope so, but we'll see. Yeah, I think a cyber wedding would be kind of weird, but that's, you know, I don't know what your schedule is all about, but everything is cyber. Are you reaching out to your buddies on Zoom and that kind of thing or phone?

How are you communicating with your teammates and your friends? Yeah, so I have been FaceTime. with all my teammates and stuff like that. But I'm actually launching my podcast here in the next few days. It could be as early as tomorrow. And I've had numerous people on the podcast. Enki Johnson, Myron Roll, who's a doctor on the front lines of this, Stephen Wonderboy Thompson, a mixed martial artist,

Dr. James Dent, who's here in Houston, who works with kids that have special needs. I'm going to have Mattress Mac, Lance McCullors, Shane Hanchie, the number one calf roper in the world on there. Just a good unique group of people that I've had on the podcast so far. So making the most of the time that way as well. Who's the dream interview? I mean, Matt Thomas. Are you kidding me?

I was going to say besides me, but I didn't want to come across as egotistical. Beyond me, who is the dream interview? I don't know, probably Joe Rogan. I'd like to talk with him. I'd like to talk with, I mean, Connor McGregor. There's a lot of people that I would definitely be interested to talk to. But you know what? I've had an absolute blast, and I wouldn't trade any of the ones we've done so far for anything.

Isn't it harder to be on this side of the microphone sometimes? It's not, you know, it's easy to be the one to answer the question, ones have to come up with one since you know you got to keep the thing moving you have to be interesting i mean you're getting this training because when you retire in 15 years and after you go to the hall of fame you're going to want to get this broadcasting business full time i'm assuming right i don't know about that but it is a little bit different on that side of the microphone it's uh it's been interesting to try and uh play the host of the show so it's uh it's been fun but um like i said before we're just trying to make the most of our time and uh stay active

workout just for both physical and mental health during this time. You can get a little stir crazy. So I feel like us working out every day has really helped us during this pandemic. But then also giving us something to work on and helping other people. And we're, I mean, we're more than halfway to our goal. And I assume in a few days when our Feed Hugh campaign hits a million dollars, we're going to try and take it to the next step and raise too. I'm really excited about it, and hopefully we can continue to put food on the table for those in need during this time.

Yeah, FeedHugh, F-E-E-D-H-O-U, you text that to 4144-4 to help feed the Houston Food Bank. That's Feed-H-E-E-E-D-H-U to 41-44-4. And Matt, I want to, Matt, I want to say that if you donate $1, you're putting three meals. the table for a kid in need. So just $1 makes that big of a difference. That's huge. And by the way, I mean, I don't

know how emotional you are and stuff, but these commercials I'm seeing on TV are our first responders and these arenas and these convention centers being opened up with these food panters all across the country. This is a trying time for all of us, especially for those that aren't able to

feed their families right now. It really is. And us is, As baseball players, we want to be playing baseball, but we know right now there's more important things to do right now in the world. And that's help other people, and it's great to see people coming together, helping one another. And I think our city does just such an unbelievable job of that. And just in talking with the people at the food bank right now, there's more of a need right now for food than there was during Hurricane Harvey. So I know that Houston will get behind this and help out as much as they can And we'll get through this all together

A couple of rapid-fire baseball questions Have you mentally prepared for the thought of not playing in front of fans this year When you guys get to get back out there? Yeah, we're pretty much prepared for anything And we know that we don't have any control over it But we got to try and do everything we can to stay ready Arizona, Florida, when you hear of those options, are you indifferent to it? Or you're like, all right, whatever we got to do to play?

I mean, what is? And how often do you get updates from your teammates and whatnot about what the next step is and what the next thought process is? We get updates pretty often, but I'll be honest with you. I want to play in Houston in front of these great fans. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. I have no control over where we play, but I would love to be playing in Houston

in front of the best fans in baseball. Oh, couldn't have said it better. Are you going to cages and hitting? Where are you getting your swings in right now? Yeah, we got a little social distance slings at the cage, about a mile down the road. One of our friends was kind enough to let us open and just let us in there to hit.

So we're thankful to him and keeping the swing ready to go. Yeah, don't tell anybody where that is. We want no one else to go there except. That's all we need is people like watch it over you. Hey, that would be great. That would be great. That would be a lot of fun. Yeah.

Did you watch this NBA horse stuff on ESPN yesterday? I didn't see it. No, I didn't see it. You didn't miss anything, so don't worry about it. I was going to say, as Major League Baseball come to you and said, hey, let's do something fun with video to get people some programming. Has anything crossed your mind? Have you asked to do anything?

at this point? Well, I see McCullors is playing for us in the MLB the show tournament, and he's off to a two-and-two start. Real life, we'd probably be four-and-oh. But we're off to a decent start, and it's been fun to see everything that everyone's doing on social media. The TikToking that's been going on, it's been a lot of fun to see that. And the coolest thing is seeing people come together. And, yeah. How old are you? 26, just set my birthday, a quarantine birthday this year.

So I was going to say, are you? It would have been the fourth day of the season, but instead we spent it here at the house. And Reagan made me some cookies, and they were really good. It was about the extent of my birthday. Let me tell you some of his interview. You dropped her name five times in the last three minutes. She must be with an earshot of you because, seriously, you're trying to gain some points or something with her right now, yes?

Oh, I lost the bet, so I have to mention her name five times in every interview from this point forward. What was the bet? I'm kidding. I'm joking. I'm joking. The reason why I ask you your age is because it's 26 too old for TikTok, or is that about the right at the cusp of people should be on TikTok accounts?

Well, I've been on TikTok. During this call on Reagan's page, so everyone go. follow her. It's Reagan Howard, too. And she posted one last night. She freaked me out. She didn't let me know what was going on. A piece of pasta in her mouth. And she asked me to crack her neck. I didn't even see the camera. Excuse me? She brought it up at the end. And she asked me to crack her neck. So I, like, tried to crack her neck. And she bit down the pasta and it made, like, the loudest cracking sound. So she got me. Y'all are weird. I mean, that's just no other way to say it. I mean, I love you, but you know you're weird.

The video. Go watch the video. No, I'm not going to watch it. No, I'm a grown-ass man. I'm not going to watch you and your fiancé E POSA together. No chance. No chance whatsoever. If you don't watch that, do me one favor.

And I hope everyone listening can do me one favor today. And that is to text FeedHugh to 4144 and help these kids out. I'd much rather do that. Seriously. Here it is. Feed Hugh. F-E-E-D, H-O-U to 414-4-4. And go ahead, since she's in shouting distance,

give her TikTok mention one more time so she can get more in orderity. We can watch you sickos do a Positas. It's Reagan-Haward, too. Soon to be Reagan, Reagan, Breggman, right? Ray Bragg. Instead of A-Breg, Ray-Breg, shortly. All right, I'm confused. Let's just more importantly send people to feed Hugh to 4-1-4-4.

Alex, my friend, congratulations on kicking ass on this. You have stepped at a big time for our community and for that. We thank you. Stay safe. Good luck with all the engagement activities, and I cannot wait to see you at Minutemate Park very shortly. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. Thank you, everybody, for helping out.

And thank you, Houston, for coming together and look forward to helping out as many people as possible. Thanks. You got it. The great Alex Spregman with us here on the Matt Thomas show. Feed-H-H-E-E-D-H-U. to 4144 and help out that Houston Food Bank, as he says, three meals can be taken care of for just a single dollar. Back with more in a moment.

146, the Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. So when there's no sports, what do we talk about? Hmm, maybe Netflix binge talk. No, no, no. Kids driving us crazy talk. Yeah, that works. Hand-wash talk. There's a new favorite.

What's new on Pornhub Talk? Have you seen the one with the nurse? Oh, sorry. You should wash your hands. You're 30 peat. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 790. Thanks again to Alex Breggman for joining us on the program 150 here on Sports Talk 790. With Ross back in our 790 studios and Joe George producing.

I'm Matt Thomas. Thanks very much for being a part of our program today. Top of the hour. Some news concerning DeAndre. Hopkins will get to. But Joe George just gave me some information during the break as we were talking with Alex that the XFL

has done something today. Joe George, what was that? They filed complete bankruptcy Chapter 11 in the state of Delaware. This is to and Darren Reveld tweeted out some of the details that some of it includes trying to pay

Bob Stoops, the million dollars that he's owed. June Jones was close to $500,000. It looked like the city of Houston or the Houston Sports Athletic Commission, whoever, is owed like almost 300 grand. They owe MetLife Stadium 400 grand. So they filed complete acreancy to help try to pay off some of these debts or not pay them at all. I got a question for both of you. Does this league even survive a year even without the virus?

That's a great question. I didn't know Bob Suisse was getting a million dollars and Mark Trussman was owed 777. thousand dollars mark trustman like of all people like in their league he's terrible well i don't care yeah yeah i don't listen to that chicago bearer did they win any games this year i don't think they did to be fair doesn't matter point being is this in a 10 team league with second tier players in a in a fludgeoning startup league somebody had to Vince had to have said to himself and he He didn't obviously. We cannot overpay these players and coaches.

We can give them good comfortable living. But nobody for a 12-week season, it's 10 weeks of games and tweaks or practices, should be getting a million dollars. Bob Stoops was not going to bring 7,000 people to Globe Life Park just because he was a coach of the Dallas team. They may have thought that, but that was a massive mistake. That's why I asked that in all seriousness. Listen, all that money that was owed these people. I know the folks at the University of Houston

are owed money for games that were not played. Yeah, that's who it is. It says Houston Athletics, and the total that Reveld tweeted out is $294,000 with the road. I'll answer the, I'll ask a question again. My guess is yes that he would have taken the massive losses for this year, but he's probably, but he being Vince,

probably thinking, how am I going to restart this league when I've lost all these players in the NFL, and I only played half the season, and I got no full year of marketing. And I did, could the NFL have lasted beyond one season? Because these numbers don't make it sound very good. We don't have, we don't know how much the, the TV deal was, right? Did those numbers ever come out? I don't think so. Sometimes they come out for like NFL, NBA, and MLB and stuff like.

like that, but we didn't see it for XFL. That's what intrigues me. I wonder how much money they were getting from the networks, because obviously that's where the bulk of their revenue is going to come from. And that didn't come through, so maybe they could have survived, but I don't know.

Joseph Twarty for the Chronicle tweeting out, Roughnex coach June Jones, the 12th largest unsecured claim for non-insiders at $583,000. That's nuts. So Vince McMahon owes June Jones almost 600K. Sure sounds like it. So where's my money?

Well, how would you pay those guys? I mean, besides Bob Stoops, all these coaches are on their last chance to have any kind of semblance of a professional job. Why would you even paying that much to start with? I bet you Bob Stoops would take that kind of money to have to get him out of retirement. Yeah, but besides Bob, like June Jones is, you know, no one's calling. Yeah, there was nobody, there was no way knocking down June Jones's door to come coach and It's like he could have taken like 200. We don't know that.

We don't know that. Someone would have. Let me tell you. Let's do this. What does that job realistically pay? What it should have paid? Okay. Your head coach of a professional league's quote unquote, you're running a

operation. You're probably doing a lot more than just being the head coach. Your staff is probably half the size of an NFL staff. But you're also playing 10 games, no preseason games. you're not involving a huge draft. It's not a 12-month-of-year job. What is that? A good paying job for a head coach,

or that would probably be $150,000 max, right? I was thinking like $250. I think $250 to $3 is somewhere in that target range. Like your top-of-the-line coach is three. Your bottom-of-the-line is $150. And I'm presuming that June Jones is still owed that, and he's already been compensatives for stuff already, right? See, I don't know what this means.

Unsecured claim for non-insiders. That's above our economic knowledge. I'll give you, I just look this up for a reference. In the Canadian Football League, coaches generally earn between $275 to $400,000. And that's probably what should have been in the XFL, but it sounds like to me that wasn't they... Sounds like they way overpaid for...

I mean, I will say this. When Stoops got higher to the XFL, In my mind, that added some legitimacy to it. Yeah, because he was the first coach. But then when they named the rest of the coaches, it didn't feel the same. But my question to you guys is, did Dallas fans run to the stadium because Bob Stoops was coach? How much of a tangible difference does Bob Stoops make that franchise compared to just hiring a good football coach? And like, for instance, if Bob Stoops coach is a Dallas team, they don't win any games, having Bob Stoops in your sideline does nothing.

If generic coach leads them to a four-and-one start, then people are going to be obviously wanting to rally to go see their games. I don't know. I just think paying for guys past their prime big money because they think they're going to be a ticket draw is a foolish way to be conducting business. I don't even think it's necessarily ticket draws it is, I mean, adding legitimate. It's a name that we've heard of, like I just said. When I heard Bob Stoops, I said, oh, you know what?

Maybe this XFL is something to take taken more seriously. If you hear names and Mark Trussman, even though, obviously, do so great with the Chicago Bears. You hear those names in June Jones. Those names do add a little bit of a cashé to the league rather than some guy we've never heard of, absolutely. Cashet is one thing, but it's spike ticket sales as another. That is my only issue.

It will add legitimacy to the league, and I think, yeah, I would say eyeballs on the television and ticket sales. Yeah, I'll give me that. Yeah, if Bob Stoops is back coaching in this league, that adds dieballs, which in turn, you would hope, turns into some money. Clearly, it did not. And whatever he thought, I mean, June Jones, great coach, right? We love him.

Run and shoot. But he wasn't going to bring people to the stadium. It's a name of legitimacy, but he wasn't going to add it. Those people that went to the Houston Roughnex games didn't care if June Jones or Rossville or Real coached the team. It was about how you were if you won the games, it was entertaining, good formula. Man, Ross, we're never going to, guys, we're never going to have spring football ever again, ever. Ever.

This will never be tried ever again. RIP to spring football. Somebody will try it. No. Yeah. I will make a, how big of a steak dinner can we make a bet on this? I mean, I don't know. And how long is, you said never.

So this is an open bet for the next. When you and I are in a nursing home together, an assisted living. Although you're probably, you're probably going to live longer than I am. Assisted living home. you and I sharing our blunders, getting our bass from our night nurse, we'll settle the bed at that point. There will never be another spring football league. Attempted.

Of, that's, of course, there will be. Somebody's going to try it. They're going to see money. They're going to see dollar signs. They're going to give it a shot. Were they going to see these dollar signs? Because I certainly didn't. If Vince McMahon didn't see it, how is anybody going to see it?

That's it. Done, Finito. Update on DeAndre Hopkins. Next, 159 on Sports Talk 790. is the Matt Thomas Show. 202 on the Matt Thomas show. Final hour here on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt Thomas with you from our Kingwood Studios today.

Ross is back at the 790 flagship, along with our producer Joe George, filling in for Pro Nick Lowe. 713212-5-790 is how you reach a show. 7-13-212-5-790. the physical that DeAndre Hopkins took for the Arizona Cardinals comes with a passing grade. So Joe, we're missing anything else.

We're missing the David Johnson portion of the trade, correct? Yeah, that's all we're missing right now. When's he getting checked out? What is it taking so long? Well, you know, WebMD, those webcasts take a while. Is that right? No, I'm just kidding. I don't know.

Why is it taking so long? That's what I'm wondering. Is he okay? Is he going to pass his physical? We wouldn't surprise if he doesn't, correct? Yeah, I guess it wouldn't surprise me. I mean, I'm sorry, it would surprise me if he did not. So if he doesn't pass it, then the Texans can still take him, correct?

I guess they're going to want more compensation. Or do that. The deal can't fall apart because they've already got Brandon Cooks now. Yeah, you've got this if-then statement of, for the better part of, what, three weeks now? I mean, we move these parts. We get these players in return. And, oh, by the way, they got to have this bad boy done, as I said last week, Ross.

They got to have this done by the draft. Because the 40th pick in the draft is, at this point, still technically Arizona's. The Texans right now, if the trade doesn't go through and it's not consummated, would have no second round pick. So it'll be fixed. Yeah, they can't get them to a doctor within a month. what's going on over here. Something's fishy.

What do you think it is? Because I don't know. Well, there's a national pandemic or global pandemic. There have been players that have gone through physicals way before this trade. DeAndre Hopkins just passed his, so. You know what I wonder if it is? I wonder if somebody on either side of the trade was ailing, and they wanted to make sure they got completely healed before they took the physical.

Like, well, Deandre Hopkins had serves. surgery after the season, right? Or he had rib issue. He played with rib issues or something like that. Yeah. I wonder if one and or both of the athletes could not pass a physical if when originally the trade was consummated. That would be the only reason why, because Brady passed his physical.

There have been a lot of Brandon Cooks pass his physical because he's now a member of the of the Texans officially. there are players that have moved on from team to team that haven't had this issue. Again, on the worry scale, zero to ten, I'm at a zero because I know this is going to happen, whether they got to spice a trade up a little bit to appeal one side of the other. And more importantly, they got a clock called the NFL draft, which is a week from Thursday. They've got to get this deal done by then. because their pick, the 40th pick, is the first time they would pick in the draft, correct?

Yes. Well, they're going to want to do that. By the way, do you know we had our guy, Dame Bruegel around the other day? Yes. He has the defensive tackle from TCU being the Texans pick at 40. Hmm. Do you think with Brandon Cooks now wearing Texan gear that wide receiver is not one of the top go-to selections for the Texans? Absolutely.

Of course, yeah. I mean, they've got, where were this wide receiver that they would draft in the first couple of rounds even play ahead of Stills and Fuller and Cooks and Cobb? I would have thought the second, if you satisfied your need at wide receiver, I would have thought they would have gone to maybe perhaps cornerback. Again, it's only one person's opinion, but they need defensive linemen too. I mean, they need defensive line. They need edge rush, whichever you want to call it, outside linebacker, D.N, whatever. Right. and secondary.

They need to be basically all in on defense in this draft, and they need to hit on a couple of those picks, and then I could actually see this team being pretty good, actually. When you say pretty good, what does that mean? AOC's out champions, division around. And then after that? Well, we'll see. Let's let them have games first.

That's true. But if you were to All three of us will do it. If you were to, right now, the completely way, way, way, way too early of predictions the AFC South. How would you slate the AFC South right now? Philip, let's talk about the massive changes

if there are already. Philip Rivers is now the Colts quarterback. You don't have DeAndre Hopkins in Houston. And in Tennessee, Ryan Tannahill has to take the squad now and lead it. And Jacksonville is still a hot mess. I think the Bloom's going to come off the Tana Hill Rose.

Carter Minchu doesn't scare me. Philip Rivers is way past his prime. I think the Texans are the AFC South favorites right now. I agree. I think statistically, Philip Rivers and Jacoby were the same quarterback last year, so I don't think they got better. I like the DeForest Buckner pickup,

but that's really it for the Colts. Derek Henry had the same type of season they had last year. Are we sure he's not going to hold out? He signed his tender, didn't he? I guess he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah, that's right. It was a first round tender, correct?

Yeah, he signed his franchise tag, but I don't buy Ryan's Anil either. I don't buy Ryan. You know what, Ryan? You know why we don't buy Ryan Tano? Because there are so many guys in the history of the NFL, especially in the last 25 years, guys, that have had six or seven balls of the wall game. Unbelievable. You get them a big fat contract, and they revert to their normal ways. And you always got hurt in Miami.

So how do we know? I have no faith he'll even make it through a whole season next year in Tennessee. And they legitimately, I don't think, have a backup quarterback yet. So I think we can all agree. The AFC South favorites, granted, it's only the 13th of April, reside in Houston, Texas. Yes. Where the general manager makes bold moves and his owner likes it? Bold moves.

Let me go to John in Needville, 208 on 790. John, what do you got today? Hey, what's going on, guys? Hey, you know, y'all were talking about the XFL. and I mean, I caught myself watching the games. They were fairly entertaining. I mean, they were good games, especially using games. But I think one of the reasons, I'm not no business major,

but one of the reasons it may not be working out is Vince is footing the whole bill. Vince needs to be the trademark to patent, the copyright owner, and sell the teams to the city. You know, have an owner like a McNair or whomever. Someone, Kilman Fertita,

buy an XFL team from Vince, and then they foot the bill to the city to the sports arena, to the players, to where Vince can't foot that. I mean, yeah, I know Vince has made of money, but, I mean,

maybe that would be the solution to it. But you can't foot the bill for the whole league and then think you're going to make all this money back. Well, the problem, John, with that is, is that you're just not going to be able to find 10 to 15 different rich people that want to put millions of dollars into something that's never worked before. And that's the reason why it may not work. Neither is because you can't just have one man foot in the bill for 10 or 15 teams. But, again, I'm saying, if you have, if you're this visionary, and you are Vince and you're like,

I want to create this Spring Football League, and I know how to market, I know how to do this and do that. I'm going to go find 15 people that want to go invest $4 to $5 million into an operation that has never worked before, meaning spring football.

That can't be easy to find either. No, it can be. No, you're absolutely right. I just, you know, I mean, like I said, it was a better brand this time around than what it was when they were acting like a bunch of idiots on the field.

You know, it wasn't a freak show. It was entertaining. It was entertaining. I'll give them that. Thank you, John, for the phone call. So what do you do? In all honesty, if we ever see a spring football league again, how many more mistakes can other spring football leagues make

that this next go-round wouldn't make? And I believe the answer is none that is destined never to be successful. Matt, one of the updates here from the bankruptcy is that the XFL in this bankruptcy filing I mean, is actually for sale still as well. So in theory, someone could just jump in now and buy the XFL maybe for a cheaper price or further debt as is? You know who should buy it, honestly? The NFL. Oh, it's a same Mark Cuban.

By the way, speaking of Mark Cuban, you see he's thinking about maybe running for president? Of course he is. As crazy as I thought that would be, we have Donald Trump as our president house. Can he still own the Mavs? Oh, yeah. If he's the president, he just can't. Why wouldn't he be able to? I don't know how that works.

Donnie still owns all his property. Donnie. Load Donny T. The Don. The Donald. Do you know what I've been doing lately? You know, Ross and I and Joe, I don't know how political you are, but Ross and I are probably two of the most apolitical people you'll find.

Same. But I watch his press conferences, and I go go back on YouTube to see what fights he gets with the media. I mean, giving us results and what's going on in the testing is, important, yada, yada. But I like when he gets cantankerous towards the media that ask questions. And that's the best part of these press conferences. You are a rude, terrible person. Yeah.

This guy, Jim Acosta, is that namewring ability to you guys? It works for CNN. Now that's what I call a nice question. They hate each other. Despite this. Anytime there's a question from CNN or Bloomberg or MSNBC, he roast that. hell out of him. Ironically enough, he also applauds those

questions that are asked by people from Fox News. I think it's a disgrace. I just watch for when he talks about being involved with models during a press conference. What did that happen? Did I miss that? Oh, it happened last week. If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. Okay. No, there's a I have the quote. That's Ross in the

chair playing those soundbikes. What are you talking about? Yeah, that's what I thought. I know who you are. I know exactly who you are. I don't know Putin. I don't know. I'm a little scared that Ross has controlled the soundbites of the show. Why? And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do.

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We'll be joined by Sean Salisbury, Adam Sager for the morning show, Adam Wexer from the PM Drive with Joe George, who's with us tonight. And Andy Kalu, I'm a little nervous about boys because he's like, he's got some workout, he's got playing. He says, I'll try to make it as close as I can. I think he's fidgety. You think he's going to big-time you? I think he's going to definitely big-time me. Ross, a question that will be on the Monday night meeting, that you will not be on the night,

but you'll be back with us next week. But I'm going to ask you the question right now. You have to answer you're on the show. One of the questions I'm going to ask the guys tonight, and they cannot give the answer until then, is the following. You have five items. You're going to a fantasy grocery store, okay? And I'm going to let you choose any five items you want.

Okay. They have no fat, no carbs, no calories. It's just your favorite five things. But that's the only five things you can get the entire grocery store. You're quarantined for indefinite time. Now, that's food and drink. If you don't take any drinks, you do get to have tap water. So what would be your five things?

Five things that I must have from the grocery store? Grocery store, yeah. Probably steak. This is going to be number one. Gotcha. cheese. Like cheddar or are you going a Batairea? I like a shop chattita.

Shop cheta. Okay. Steak. Shard cheddar. Potato. Okay. Just plain old potatoes? I'm just building a steak and potatoes meal here.

Okay. And I guess some fresh green beans? You're going to go green beans? That's gross. Wait, is that four things? Yes. And then some red wine. You're telling, okay.

Let me, let me. Walk me through this. I've given you five items. It sounds like a fantastic meal, Matt. You would be so tired of green beans after one day. You're telling me no potato chips, no ice cream, no donuts, nothing. What are you talking about? I got steak, potatoes, vegetables, and wine.

How am I not going to live? It would be fine. Green beans. Green beans would be like 760,000th on my list. You got to get some vegetables. in there, Matt? No, you don't. No, remember my fantasy grocery store? Oh, you said there's no calories. I forgot about

that part. Shake that off. Shake that off. Shake the list off. Try this again. Green beans. All right, I guess I'll go ground beef because it's versatile. You can make tacos or whatever with it. Burger. Ground beef, cheese, tortillas. Wait, see, I just keep building a meal.

You hear this, Joe? These are the mistakes are being made right now by Ross. I'll have some ice cold, refreshing dos eckis. And you know what? Yeah, I'll go with some powdered donuts. I like those Donna Madison donuts. Is that who makes them?

Well, I would go with the Mrs. Bairds personally. Mrs. Baird's, powdered donuts. They're better than the tasty cakes and the Dolly Madisons. Essentially, what you'd have to do for this list. We'll have the answers to the rest of our guys on our Monday night meeting. You'd have to have five things in your house that you just never would get tired. of. Never, ever, ever, ever get tired of. Mrs. Baird's powder donuts might be on that list for me.

Okay. All right. So find out the answers. I'm going to guess. I'm going to go and guess Joe's. Chicago Deep Dish, Chicago Dog, No. Chicago beef. Nope. Old style beer.

No, not old style. Don't even answer these questions. Don't even answer. I had some old style when I was in Chicago. I wouldn't that bad. It's okay. It's okay. What's old style like to hear that? Is it like Lone Star?

Probably like Lone Starish. Although I'd prefer a Lone Star, honestly. Lone Star is actually drinkable. It's like a step down from, I can't say it. Because the one I wanted to choose sponsors is one of our shows, so I can't choose it. Oh. Which are all. Old Style or Keystone?

Oh, old style. Old style. Old style or Schaefer. I don't know what Shafers. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Sounds like you're making that up. No, Schaefer's, the tagline is, when one beer simply isn't enough.

This, what? What? What beer simply isn't enough. Well, that's every beer. But ice or, oh, or old style. Bud ice.

Old style? Yeah, old style. Oh, geez. See, I've never had old style. not at a ball game in the middle of summer. I would never, if I lived in Chicago, I would not ever go to a grocery store and say, can you please drink me where your old style beer is? See, I think it's just people really just drink it at the ball game.

Yeah, because again, you're not worried about the taste. You're worried about just the consumption level. Yeah, and it's like closer to water. It's like water with some alcohol in it. I stayed in Chicago for like a week at an Airbnb, and so we just bought like a case of old style and had it a couple of them on the way out, you know? All right, couple of games. Old style or PBR?

Ooh. Man, that's tough. Those are right, model of mono. That's tough. I'd probably go PBR. I'd go PBR too. I love PBR. You'd love PBR?

No, you don't love. Nobody loves PBR. I tolerate PBR. I like PBR. If I'm just feeling like getting drunk, that's my go-to. What am I forgetting? What am I getting with the beer? One more beer.

Natty Light. Oh, Natty Light. Or old style. I'll go old style. Old style. Yeah, old style is going to win some. It's fine. It's going to win some. It's going to win a lot.

It's going to lose a lot. Brian in downtown on 7-dadi. Hi, Brian. Hey, Matt, how you doing, guys? Wonderful. My go-to beer has always been Miller High Life. If you ever been in the Navy, that's what we used to always drink that. Anyway, I don't know if you guys caught yesterday,

but the best thing I've seen on television a long time is when they replayed the 2019 Masters when Tiger Woods man just pulled off a miraculous victory and I mean one of the shots he made

when he came out it looked like he was in the woods with a terrible lot and he sliced that thing around the tree and everybody said

well the best thing you can do is just you try to manage to get it in the middle of the fairway something

no he didn't do that he took that thing straight to the green I mean it was an incredible shot it was an incredible performance

and besides my wife's chicken and dumpling yesterday. That was the best part of my Easter, man. It was really fun. It was the closest thing to live sports I've been able to watch, even though it wasn't live. It was very enjoyable. And I don't know who else caught it but me, but, man, I really enjoyed watching that.

Yeah, thank you, so Brian. I'll be honest. He's not in Margaritaville. Back that off. What are he talking about? Brian is not a Margaritaville. Okay. He's in chicken and Dumperville.

He's had a lot of old throwing back some old styles. Old styles and the C&D. We watched some of the Masters yesterday. If you would have seen my oldest, it was like, we already knew the result, right, obviously. But we watched it like we were watching it live. Like if Jordan Spieth was going to make a putt or any other guys that were in contention, it felt almost live. Which one was it?

It was last year's there, my year when Tiger won. I am Astonished even a year plus since then that he won that Because Ross, he was left for not literally dead, but in the world of golf left for dead Change his swing all the time He had a problem with the drugs He had a problem with his back. He's had numerous physical ailments His mental game has been erratic at best

And you know what's crazy is he didn't do squat before that and end that squat after that that. It was almost like the golf god said, we're going to give you one more chance to be on top of the golf mountain. And he did it at the most famous event of the year. And I guarantee you, television ratings for golf haven't been the same since Tiger won on that Sunday a year ago. It's, yeah, I watched it. I mean, there was very few things on television this weekend I liked, but watching a Masters was one of them. It was amazing to see a guy that had been left for dead in terms of being competitor and going for the title from most majors behind Jack to rally and win the thing on Sunday when we kept, and I'll put myself in the leader in this category,

we kept trying to think of ways that he wasn't going to win the championship and he didn't want him doing it. 228, the Matt Thomas show continues. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you're on Twitter, you can follow us at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. Also, you can download in at 713212-5-790. With a message here for the Shell Federal Credit Union, I'm very proud to speak for these folks. Unfortunately, they're unable to talk with you in their branches, but you can visit with them

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Whoa. How many shots to the head did you take? Hey, uh... 233 in the match. Thomas show. 713, 212-5-790. Let's go to Steve on the east side on 7-90. Steve, good afternoon.

Hey, good afternoon, Matt. What was that tagline for Schaefer beer? I believe it was when one beer simply isn't enough. The one I had heard from a friend of mine who grew up back east was Schaefer. The one beer to have when you're having more than one. Oh, that's probably it. I think I like yours better. There's more accurate.

Mine sounds better, though. I thought that was a good tagline. Well, that's all I have. I think yours is right. I thought mine was, I'm going to give you credit on that one. Say it again for the audience. Shaper. The one beer to have when you're having more than one.

There you go. That's exactly right. Ross, I'm going to go find some Shaper beer at a liquor store this weekend and come to your house and bring you some shaper. No, I'm good. Thank you. I'm social distancing from Schaefer beer right now. Okay, fair enough. Anything else, Steve?

Are they still manufacturing? That's it. We'll see. Thank you for calling. All right, we'll see you. Well, let me do a little Google search. Ross, plug your Twitter account. Follow SportsMT.

He's trying to get closer to 30,000. It's really been quite the slow climb. So go ahead and follow him. No, I said your Twitter account, not mine. Oh, okay. At SportsRvie. I mean, you can follow me or not. It's fine.

Looks like it still does. Yeah, it's still sold today. It's owned by, got bought by Pabst in 1999. Wow. How about that Papsed Brewery, literally. Schaefer and PBR. Yeah, you're going to have to find some Schaefer. Oh, Stroes too, right?

Strow's buy them for a while. Ever had any stroes? No, I don't know what that. That sounds terrible. Lord, that would hit my stomach and hurt me for a while. there's too many beers up there Ross that just tear a man's stomach up. Do you understand these things?

That's why I got a cold, crisp, refreshing Doseki's once in a while. Of course. You can buy that almost everywhere. Yeah, I can't find Schaefer beer anywhere so far. Well, I'm going to make a beer running away. We're going to come to your house. I'm going to come do Twitch with you one day this week.

Oh, are you? Drink some beer and play Twitch, yeah. The other reason why is I'm having incredible amounts of cabin fever. It's terrible. I know that's not a great example, but I'm just damn. It's America's oldest logger beer.

It's around since 1842. You would not enjoy the taste of it. It looks like you can get it on Walmart.com. Actually, it says delivery and pickup not available. I think it's for the best. Probably so. All right. Let me do this real quick.

NBA news over the weekend. Do you think Brian Windhorst is strictly information? or do you think guys will throw things to him so he can pump things up a little bit? Quick news item, Matt, speaking of NBA. Yeah. Carl Anthony Towns' mother, remember we'd heard

that she was in a medically induced coma because of coronavirus. Apparently she has passed away. Shamshrani just tweeted that out. Oh, that's terrible. Man, this is a do... How many deaths we got? Do you ever look at the TV news

in a far right corner that had that number that goes up and up, but it's depressing? Yeah, I don't watch a whole lot of the TV news. You're probably... It's probably a smart idea in your prayer. All right, let me get back to the NBA for a second. 25 days is what they think they would need in order to get a season resumed if they do resume a season. 11 days with guys having individual workouts, followed by a 14-day training camp.

They don't discuss. This is again, this is when the NBA gets the all-clear. And I would think it'd probably be more than just you can resume businesses. I mean, they would have to really get a lot of people on their side on this. 11 days of individual workouts, 14-day training camp that puts them at 25 and then a resumption of some sort of season. First of all, you and I don't play doctors, but it feels like to me, Ross, that's a good amount of time to get going. That actually seems like a little bit too much time, but you know what these are guys? It seems about right?

Some people are asking for a full month. That's pretty close. 25 days is pretty close. No, I mean a full month for like training camp. Oh, oh, that's ridiculous. Yeah, you're right. It's ridiculous. You saw 11 days of stretching.

11 days of good shot, man, good shot. 11 days of that fake defense, man. You were really moving beautifully. You put a body in front of them and it's all changed. So after that, do you think, well, what is you, any, I feel like I asked, we asked each other these questions three to four times a week. Yes. Are we going to Vegas or are we doing?

this in people in smaller venues in these other NBA cities. Or none of the above. I would think you would have to keep everybody quarantined during, we keep calling it the bubble. It's not going to be a literal bubble, but something like that. Because then it's just

too easy for one person. That's why the whole league shut down because one person got it. Yeah. And by the way, I very rarely get things right on the show. Remember I told you about how Donovan Mitchell reacted to Rudy Gobert? Yes.

You asked me if there was shade on that. There was intense shade on that. They weren't speaking for a long period of time. Apparently over the weekend, they had a visit over the phone, and they're much better teammates that they were today than they were, say, a week ago. Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, because we wouldn't want this harmony with the Utah Jazz. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, that sounds horrible. Yeah. I go back and forth on what I want to see. Do you give them some creature comforts about business about, being in the city in which they live in. But then you're adding more planes. You're adding more hotels. You're adding more different types of personnel.

That's the thing. I mean, you're having so much exposure that one person, then they can give it to everybody else. And that's why they stop the league is because they didn't want that. But you know this bubble we speak of? And it's only metaphorically speaking. The bubble would be what? The arena, the locker rooms, the hotel, the buses,

and any ways in between, correct? What if a player misses a bus? What if a player misses multiple buses? You know what I mean? There are so many... You're talking about maybe three to four square miles, right? I don't know. I don't even know.

Presumably, yes. If it's Vegas or whatever, you can do... Yeah. You can do it in a very tight space in Vegas. Because the Thomas and Max Center is on the UNOV campus, but it's also very close to the strip. So you could find... I mean, what...

I mean, every hotel is open in theory. You could put every single player in the league. Well, hell. It rockets in the Venetian. No, no, no, no. I think it would be the opposite. I think you put everybody in one hotel. What's the biggest hotel in Vegas?

MGM. I think MGM. I think that is correct. They have 2,000 rooms there, you think? Probably. You could put every single member of the NBA society in the MGM hotel. But then you're asking for 2,000 people to follow one set of rules for multiple weeks. Maybe not even 2,000.

Maybe, again, if you paired it down to just the playoff teams, you're down to 1,000 people probably. That's still a lot of people that have them behave themselves. Guys are antsy, haven't seen their girlfriends, want to go out. MGM Grand is the biggest in the Vegas with 6,852 rooms. Okay. So that's easy. You go from MGM where you could eat, walk around, be in your room. You make that a compound, so to speak, right? You go play at the MGM and you go back and forth for six weeks. That get pretty tiring pretty quick. But it would be a necessary evil in order for the league, the crowned champion.

Then the question would be, could, how many hours? athletes are talking about. 500 athletes. Let's see. There's 16 to playoff team, and they each have 15. So that's what? 250 players.

Are you asking for 250 players and support staff to all behave themselves for six weeks and not to go outside of that area? That's going to be impossible. It seems like it would be impossible. It's impossible. And wouldn't it make sense?

I might be wrong, but does Tillman own MGM? No, he owns a gold nugget. So wouldn't it make sense to use a Tillman hotel also since he owns one of your teams? Well, the Golden Nuggets not big enough. Okay. And it's also in downtown Las Vegas, which would be adding an extra 15 minutes to the drive. Not that that's a lot.

My guess is Las Vegas is a ghost town right now. Nugget does have 2419 rooms. Is that that many? Yes. Well, according to my Google machine. 2,000. Okay, that'd be enough rooms. Yeah, especially if you have to double bunk some people.

It is what it is. And you could help out an owner in the NBA who's hurting. Now, how many other teams in the NBA would want to help? I don't know that answer to that. You could run a shuttle between the Golden Nugget in downtown, Thomas and back to and from. But that'd be it. We're asking again for 50,100 athletes to behave themselves.

Can we do that? seems impossible. Forget about athletes, forgetting about human beings. Ross, if I told the thousand of our listeners, you could only go between the Toyota Center

and the Galleria and back and forth for six weeks. How many of our, how many listeners would say, screw that, I'm going to go for a walk, I'm going to go outside of this to get away from you people.

It's about 15 minutes from Thomas and Mack to Golden Nugget, about 10 miles. But if it meant getting a paycheck for millions of dollars, versus not getting paid. Isn't it worth it? But here's the problem, though, Joe,

is if one player deviates, and that one player who deviated gets into a trouble spot and winds up the virus, the whole bad boy shuts down. Dude, it'd be constant testing. What's that? They would be tested like every day, right? Yeah, they'd have to be.

Have to be. But then, and then, let's say you get tested, and then you go, okay, well, I must be okay, then I'm going to go out and get in some trouble. I'm not talking about NBA athletes. I'm talking about just human beings. It's like when you go to weight watchers and you get to go on the machine and test

and see how much you weigh that day. If you've lost five pounds, what's the first thing you're going to do, do? You're going to eat a cheeseburger because you get away with it. No, Matt, then you're motivated to lose more weight and so you eat better. Well, I'm talking about my own personal story, Ross. I'm talking about, Matt, you dropped to eight pounds.

Congratulations. Good. Double cheeseburgers on me. I don't know. I would hope that the finances and the money that can be made in saving this season and declaring a champion would be enough for any human being to behave and stay on the rules. But human nature doesn't make me think that's a 100% certainty. Final segment of the Matt Thomas show straight ahead. 245.7.9.

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Yeah. By the way, speaking of a game, tonight on 7.90 at 7 o'clock, we will rebroadcast the Houston Cougars versus the Oklahoma Sooners from the 2016 opener. Is that right? Yeah. Well, you know, Matt, normally on the nightcap when we're going to replay these games, I do a pregame show kind of as a joke or a fun segment before that.

Do you want to call in and do the pregame show for that one? No, I'll be very busy. We're getting ready for our Monday night meeting. I'll forget it. You can call Tom Herman. Yeah. Talk about how he moved on to Greener Pastures. There was a certain quarterback Oklahoma.

His name was Baker Mayfield, right? Yes, he played in that game. As did Joe Mixing. That was a big controversy, by the way. Was that before or after he hit the girl? I don't know. Samajé P. Ryan, also in that game? I thought Samajet P.Rone was good.

They were both good. They both played in that game. Was that one Ed Oliver was a freshman? First game ever, I believe. Now he's starting the NFL with Buffalo Bills. Tom Herman tricked him in and go wasting his career at U of H, and he regretted the rest of his life. he proudly wears the Cougar Claw

around the city of Buffalo He's literally said multiple times He should have gone to LSU And it's like his biggest life regret Well, they didn't pay him You know, he was wanting more money Oh yeah, okay I mean, when you think of football factories

U of H1 LSU distant second Okay, who's the last You of last, give me the last three U of H first round picks There'll be a one this year Josh Jones Will be a first round pick So Ed Oliver

William Jackson the 3rd went to the Bengals and the T.J. T.J. Hooschmanzada? No. DJ Hayden. There you go.

Didn't DJ Hayden like a decade ago? No. Wasn't it this decade? Was it? Yes. That's good for him. 2013. Yeah.

Just seven measly years ago. So tonight, as I segue back into more positive conversation, U of H, Oklahoma, 2016 opener at NRG Stadium, ironically enough. It will happen for you here on 7.90 beginning at 7 o'clock tonight right after the nightcap. Yes. I guess I won't have a pregame show for it.

Sorry. You could. I mean, you could get Greg Ward on the show. You can get a Tom Herman, if you will. Tom's busy, I'm sure. You could get a... He's probably FaceTiming recruits. You get a Bob Stoops on.

He's not busy these days. That's true. was Lincoln Riley the coach? No, it was Bob Stoops, wasn't it? Bob Stoops took over maybe the next year. Because Lincoln Riley was going to be here to replace Tom, and Lincoln said, no, I'm going to get the job at Oklahoma. So, yeah, Stoop's still the coach.

Yeah, Lincoln Riley took over in 17. And he's gone 12 and 2 every single year at OU. Yeah, I mean, he's, remember he was supposed to be the next thought of the coach for the Dallas Cowboys? And I know the NFL is sexy, but man, If you're in Oklahoma and you get to own that conference for the foreseeable future, why wouldn't you just stay there? Longhorn football's coming up.

I see. I hear the chuckling under your breath. They last won the conference in 2009. What year are we in now? 2020. What is the Longhorn Network, by the way, running these days? What they always were. 2006 Rose Bowl, 2008 Fiesta Bowl.

I don't know. I saw there was the, they had the 2005. Red River shootout, which it will always be the shootout, Matthew. Rhett Beaumart didn't fare too well in that game. No. You know we had to do, let's take one minute every day between now and when we get to resume normal life again and run through the Longhorn Network programming schedule. I'm with it.

They can't show this year's commencement. They can't show that. No. But then they were your proud home of Texas softball and women's basketball and baseball. If ESPN is struggling with all their broadcasting, what the hell is UT doing on their Longhorn network? You can't run old coaches shows. I guess you could.

Yesterday in NBA TV, their whole day was based in the 2010-2011 season. Right now they have, it looks like, according to this thing, I just Googled, college basketball, Texas at Oklahoma State from 2005. It's probably a good one. Sure. Rick Barnes and the boys invading Oklahoma State. Eddie Sutton was probably still there.

I don't believe he was, yeah. And then coming up at 3 o'clock, more college basketball, 2005 Texas versus West Virginia. Do you remember that game distinctly? No. Okay. Was that from the tournament? Didn't they play them in the...

Yeah, because West Virginia wasn't in the Big 12 back then. I don't know. Man. Bottom of the barrel programming right there. What are you talking about? Compelling stuff. Let's see, the 2005 squad. DJ Augustine might have been on that one.

I think PJ Tucker was. You know, on the Shasta, we're just doing nothing but every win of the last two years of basketball, which, you know, that takes days and days and days. Yeah, there's no network. Nobody cared enough to make University of Houston Network. They need to. No, no, there's no Shasta. That'd be a much better programming option.

Shaka Smarts. You don't believe that. Shocker Smarts, run of the NIT championship. Round two. That's right. I'll put on my NIT championship t-shirt for that one. All right. My guess is you'll play a little bit of the Alex Breggman conversation we had on the nightcap tonight?

Probably in its entirety. It was so good. I'll probably cut you guys talking about TikTok for five minutes. Probably not going to rerun that part. Yeah. How about the wife eating the strange positive? Do you see the TikTok on that? No.

No, I'm good. I may have to go see it just for, you know, for research purposes. I see, I see you. That's right. All right. A team is coming up next with Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler. Thank you, Joe George, for his work on the program. Ross, you've been an able assistant as well.

Look forward to visiting with all of you guys tomorrow. Glad to assist, Matt. Yeah. What's our big popping hot sports topic for tomorrow, Ross? Whatever, whichever league has the newest plan about being in some sort of bubble or city. Hey, do me a favor. We'll talk about how the plan sucks. Yes.

And, by the way, watch lots of NBA horse tonight. I want your full recap tomorrow on the show. Because the semifinals are tonight, apparently, for whatever reason. I don't think they're on tonight. Oh, okay. For Clanton and Wexer, they're up next. They call themselves the A-team, and they're on the way here on Sports Talk, 7-90.