The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: A&M vs UT, Which Commissioner Acts First, JJ On Hop Trade

Episode Date: May 6, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. I'm on my way I'm making it. Is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-2 at H-Town. What's happening at lunchtimer's? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to chuckle it,

because I just got a funny from Ross in the last five seconds for when on the air. That's one of my favorite things to do to you. It's like spring something on you right before you have to open your microphone. Well, why don't we do this? Why don't we just tell the audience what you just told me? I think Cinco DiMaio is having some revenge on me, Matt. That's more of the PG version of what he just told me.

Good afternoon, everyone. It's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk, 7-9. Hi. That is Ross, Villarreal. Joe George is back with us. George is going to work a second full day with us in a one-way. I know. Wow.

I am. Oh, wait. Are you leaving? I don't know. I didn't think I was supposed to be doing this today. Oh, all right. Well, you're here. So you might as well enjoy your stuff.

We are with you today until 3 o'clock. We've got a lot of, not main courses, but a lot of side dish kind of ideas. Is that all right? Yeah. So it's like we're at a tapas bar. Yeah. Yeah, in some respects. It's sports empty tapas today.

Yeah, there's no fajita meat, but there's plenty of refi beans and rice and salsa and cheese. It was taco Tuesday yesterday. Tapas Wednesday today. Today is national, I think it's National Nurses Day, which is a shout out to the nurses. Oh, congratulations. Congratulations to them on their day. Well, I mean, they're taking care of our sick people. Oh, yeah.

We appreciate them. And I would have to say if you were to put together the list of Halloween naughty costumes, naughty nurses right at the top. Yes. Probably number one. We ever done a fantasy five of naughty Halloween nurse costume? Let's see. Nottie cop is up there. Well, let's let me write these down because this will take one second.

Noddy cop. I'm going to type in Halloween, naughty, and let's see what goes. into what Google says. I got cop, I got nurse, I got teacher. Nauty cop, naughty nurse. This is naughty jokes. Oh, here we go. Oh, you got the list?

Made. Oh, the naughty maid? Nottie school girl. Ooh, that's right. The... I'm not going to mention that one. Cherokee Warrior. Oh, cheerleader.

Oh, yeah, yeah. We've just given you six. Nottie Nunn, 52 bucks. Let's calm down here. What about naughty none would seem kind of creepy, correct? Well, you know, some people are into that, I guess. Let's get on to something else. Noddy kitten?

Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah. Well, like a catwoman type thing? Matt, you've lost me for this. Okay, let's move on. You've lost me for the segment, Matt. Check out, though. Yeah, turn that off.

Focus on sports. Oh my. These are what people need. This one has a whole. There's lots of meaty sports issues to get to get to today. Not talking about naughty costumes. Yeah, this meaty, all right. Let me say something.

There's another radio show in the marketplace. It's going to go from National Nurses Day to Noddy Halloween costumes. In a millisecond. That escalated quickly, Matthew. It did. It did. All right. We'd love for you guys to join us today. And what a glorious day. My kids and my family are out watching the Blue Aces right now. As well, Angels. Blue Angels, yeah. I'm thinking, I've always got cards on my mind. Aces, Jacks, Queens. Blue Angels are moving around North Houston right now. Not to get political, but isn't that kind of a waste of money? Like, what is this accomplishing? I guess they're just not doing anything anyways. Yeah, my guess is you have some, you have a budget for earmark for special civic events, and this would be one of them. Okay. Let me tell you something. It gets people out of their houses for a little bit to get some sunshine and get some vitamin D. I'm okay with that. Okay. Isn't vitamin, don't you get vitamin D from the sun?

Yeah. Yeah. For some, it's good to get some vitamin D. I am actually deficient in vitamin D. Thus, I take these little gel pills. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, you are pretty pasty. If I would have, I'll bring you some tomorrow. I'll show you what they look like.

Oh, really? They don't like regular vitamins. What do they do to you? I don't know, but when I had some tests done a couple months ago, they said you are really deficient in vitamin D. Yeah, that's because you're a fancy Matt staying indoors all day. I'm regular Matt. I'm staying indoors all the time now. That's true.

Last 50 plus days. All right, if you'd like to join us today, we'd love to have you. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90. If you'd like to reach out through Twitter, you can do that as well. At SportsMT, at Joe George Radio and at SportsRV. We had a caller to the show yesterday. It was kind of an awkward call, but we do enjoy awkward calls, right?

We take on them all, whether they're awkward or non-awkward. And he's like, the caller, I don't remember his name. He says, like, you know, I'd like to have these athletes say more things and give us some backstories and give us, you know, things that would not be the traditional canned answers. You remember that call? We probably had in the first hour of the show. Well, I've been thinking about that, and I don't frankly blame the athletes because, again, most of their good stuff they're going to tell us is going to be long after they retire, where they can write it in a book, sell it, and more importantly, not worry about whether or not they ruffle any feathers are now among their teammates. And that really is the case in anything. it may be at your workplace where you don't want to say something about an employee but if that

employee is gone or you're gone and you've left or you haven't seen each other in 10 years you can be be a little more forthcoming the latest example of this is what i'm talking as jay j watt yesterday did an article uh did a q and a writer with the sports illustrated and he was asked about the dandre hopkins trade what do you think j j watt said about the dandre hopkins trade i think he said about the deandre hopkins trade i think he said about the dandre hopkins trade i think he said said it was a horrible trade. I can't believe we did it. I don't know what Bill O'Brien is doing out there. It seems like he's asleep at the wheel at times and I don't know if we're headed in the right direction with this move. That's what he probably wanted to say. Instead, he says the

following. The trade certainly catches your eye. That's for sure. It's always tough to lose a guy like that. No matter what the situation is. Wait for it. It's above my pay grade and it's something that obviously the team and the organization feels is in the best interest of the team. So as a player on the team, I do my job and I go to work and I play the games. And the GM and the owners, they do their job and they try to do what they feel is best for the team. And so all I can do is show up and go to work and hope that all the guys that we have are great contributors to our team. That would have been great if you would have said capital T, capital E, capital A, capital M. Do you feel like Bill O'Brien is writing J.J. Watts quotes now?

I mean, JJ Wattsman, Captain Coach Speak, I think, basically for the entire time he's been here. He absolutely has. And that's just how you, either you're going to be a blank starter or you're going to be a non-blank starter. And he is never going to ever say anything. The only time I can remember him ever being really out of shape about something was this past year when they were trying to vote on whether or not they're going to play the 17 game schedule and the union vote where he was like, we should we should vote no for this. He's like, no, that's a no for me, dog. That's a no. Yeah. So I will just say this. I don't blame him for saying what he said, but he has to as the face of the franchise.

He cannot go sideways with his head football coach. We've already seen how Deshawn Watson handles it. He doesn't say anything. He just puts out music lyrics. Yeah, should JJ Watt have just put out some music lyrics? That would have made this better? That'd be interesting. Who would he have gone with with music lyrics?

lyrics. Do you go with a... Who does J.J. Watt like? Do you go to the gambler? You got to know one to hold him? You've got to know one to fold him? I don't think J.J. Watt's a big Kenny Rogers fan. Oh, I bet you, let me tell you. J.J. Watt has Kenny Rogers songs in his... I think he's a Zach Brown guy. Yeah, he seems like a modern country, maybe like Ariana Grande. All right, he's definitely a Zach Brown guy. Definitely. Is there a Zach? I don't know anything about Zach Brown, except I know who he is. Is there a Zach Brown song that J.J. could have put out there with some lyrics that would have been able to match

he's obviously disappointment of losing his favorite wide receiver. I'm not familiar with the Catholic. I don't need you all to check it out. It's like a chicken fried and a cold beer on a Friday night. Is that what you want him to tweet out? Chicken fried. Cold beer on Friday night. Hey, what's this DeAndre Hopkins trade like, JJ?

Well, you know, it's kind of like chicken fried. It's kind of like a cold beer on a Friday night. It's like putting a pair of jeans that fit just right? And I don't know the... With the radio on? With a radio. Is that what he says? foolish prides to blame

now I'm falling in love as she's walking away Is this work? Yeah, this works. This does not work. It absolutely works. Well, falling to love it as DeAndre walks away. Yeah. It's almost like, you know, and I started to do some music lyrics on my, on my Twitter, like, two

weeks ago, and people were trying to read into them, and I was like, there's nothing I was reading into them. I just happened to hear a song that I like, and I wanted to put some lyrics up. I'm not cryptic that way, Ross I'm what they You put out lyrics for like a month straight I know and I stopped I think I should do it

I should do a straight day of music lyrics Do one right during the breaks Do a lyric Every break this hour No just during this break next break Oh okay I'll put a lyric up during this break Some kind of cryptic lyric And we'll see what people are trying to like

What's he's what you talking about Should I quote it and put side eye emojis? Oh now now get people pissed at Don't don't do the side eye That's funny last we did that When did we do that during the Was it the There's something coming out some announcement

Trade deadline? It was the trade deadline. Trade deadline. I put side-eye emoji, or you did it, and I quoted you and did it, and then everybody got all of the same. Everybody got all mad. Stop playing with my emotions. I got called variety of names by people.

It's like, dude, if you're hanging on every second of the trade deadline, and this is really getting you emotional, get a life. I'm going to go, I'm going to find a song that is on my phone. Yeah. And I will quote some lyrics. Burton, Cummingston or whatever. Burton Cummings. Okay.

I'm sure he'll have a great lyric for you. All right. on the radio show today, don't expect your athletes to say anything until they retire. When JJ Brought Watt retires, he'll write a book. Seriously, on that conversation, though, I feel like we get mad if they're vanilla and then we get mad if they speak out or actually speak their mind.

So it's kind of they just can't win. I'm not mad at him. I'm just telling you that's just what is going to happen. No, I'm not mad at JJ Watt either. But if he had came out and said something crazy, we'd like, whoa, JJ's a coach killer, JJ's a locker room cancer, JJ's this. That's right.

It's just, it's tough for them to win. It's very difficult. Other things to get to today. MLB is a little more uncertain about their scheduling and kind of trying to slow down old Trevor Ploof's jam on everybody getting together the next month or so. Rossi, there are two of the greatest players in the NBA, in the history of the NBA that don't speak to each other,

that used to be great friends. We'll tell you about who they are and how it got that way. And the athletic director at a school that is afraid to play the University of Houston. That would be no school. Sounds off on a future or lack thereof future of a Texas A&M versus Texas series in football. Basketball, whatever. They've played in basketball and invitation.

They've done a lot of that. It's just not the big one. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We'd love for you to join us with Joe and Ross. I'm Matt. We appreciate you very much listening to Sports Talk 790. This is Craig Ackerman.

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We appreciate you very much listening. Cannot say that enough. Yeah, J.J. Watts is not going to rock the boat because it would do him no good he's probably as all of us are privately pissed and then you and i have a microphone so we're publicly pissed but he's not going to say anything out of the ordinary because he's built a brand that brand is a great defensive player that brand is a charitable person it's a guy that loves a camera in front of him it's a guy that's doing other things like acting he's got that tv shows ultimate tag i mean there is nothing

he's going to do to ruin his next, you know, his future. Yeah, he's Captain America. He's the clean cut. You're never going to do anything wrong. He's basically, I mean, we're going through this last dance thing. It's what Michael Jordan was earlier on his career, obviously not to that same level of being on every single commercial, but I mean, he's been on what, Verizon stuff. He's obviously been the face of Reebok as far as their athletic equipment. He's been all over the place as much as one can be. And he doesn't want to say anything. controversial and I would never expect him to. And that doesn't seem like his personality anyways,

like a guy who's just going to go and start a bunch of stuff. I mean, let's be honest. We've all had things that, and things at work where people have been let go or decisions have been made that you probably disagree with. But it doesn't mean you send an email out to everybody in the office and tell you how how much you hate this decision. If it was something here on our radio station that we didn't initially agree with,

we wouldn't be running our microphone saying, what the hell are we doing? So, again, I will not place blame on JJ. I just want to one single given example of the fact that most athletes, not most, 99% of athletes will save their best material for when they're done. Case in point, you know, the whole thing about Michael Jordan and Isaiah Thomas really wasn't talked about much while they were playing. But this last dance, a lot of this time has been talked about the deep-seated hatred. that the Bulls and notably Michael Jordan had for Isaiah Thomas and the rest of the Detroit Pistons.

You save the stuff for the good stuff that you can sell later on. Yeah, that's a smart move. It's what you're supposed to do. And like I was saying in the last segment, like if you do become that guy, if Michael Jordan came out and said, you know what, I hated Isaiah Thomas. I said I wanted him off this dream team where I'm not going to play.

He'd be a villain. I mean, even... And it would create serious problems for Team USA basketball. Because then you would then be saying, well, oh, you're telling me now that Michael Jordan decides who's on the team and who's not. It was always kind of assumed, but until somebody says it out loud, you can't assume that to be fact. So, yeah. Some things are better left on set, I feel like.

Yeah, and let us guess. Because my guess is JJ can't be happy about this. I bet he was first of all, for 1,000% he was shocked, like all of us. And he said that, yeah. And he had to kind of figure out what's going on. And then I think if you do, Bill O'Brien maybe sold him on it. Maybe he had a conversation with Bill O'Brien and said, hey, this is what I'm doing, right? They would probably have some kind of powwow.

Bill O'Brien's got to call five people. Yeah, I mean, DeAndre Hopkins has said he had no relationship with Bill O'Brien. I would imagine that's not the case with J.J. Watt, for whatever reason. I don't know why. No, but, I mean, if Bill O'Brien's got to go to a list of five people, he's got a call to talk about this deal, J.J. is on that list. J.J. is calling. Sean is calling, getting a call. J.J. is getting a call.

I would have to assume maybe a Whitney Merseys might get a phone call. Maybe. I don't know. Would Will Fuller get a call or something like that? Like, hey, it's time to step up or something like that?

I don't know. Will Fuller might get a call. I don't think Kenny Stills are getting a call. Although, let's face it, if our buddy Aaron Reese is right over in the athletic, he's then thinking that Kenny Stills can be in the football team. Jack Easterby wouldn't get a call

because he's on Bill's lap getting... Yeah, no, Jack used to be... No, Jack's holding Bill's... He's holding the cell phone. Yeah? Because Bill O'Brien's moving his hands around us. He's no time to hold the phone. And you try to put him on the hand...

He's literally standing next to him holding the phone in his here. And Bill has no idea on the hands free works. What is it? GD! I can't hear! If they think I'm selling, I'm in a wind tunnel. What happened, Jack? See, everybody thinks that Jack holds the power? No, Bill holds the power. And Jack just...

It's his lap dog. Yeah. He's like... I was watching Bill Durham was on MLB Networked Undernight. he is the Robert Wohl to the manager of the Durham Bulls. Does his lackey? Yeah. Okay.

Lacky assistant. Whatever you want to call it. Whipping boy. But Robert Woll is comfortable in the job. And so is Jack. I'm sure Jack, I mean, look, for all that we want to make fun of Jack and what he does, to go from team chaplain and character coach in 10 years to a vice president of player personnel or president of player personnel or whatever his title. is football operations yeah that's a meteoric rise good on jack he's

but jack's like yeah if i was still with the patriots i'm not handling the draft i'm not helping with free and signings i'm putting together a bible and verse he's running sunday 1030 a mass because the thing about this if you're in there the guy that just left to go to the uh tennessee titans was a player personnel guy that's true you had a niki casario and nicky casario and then you had a bit of a better check a bit better check it's a name that his name doesn't work as it's out That's true. I had to give it a try. Those three guys were C-blocking.

Jackie's run towards football supremacy. So if you've got to be the lap dog to one person, Houston, warmer weather, better, nicer, good or better food? Sure. He was like character coach over there, though. Yeah, character coach to vice president of football operations. Is that how far down? Bill was like just so dead set on getting somebody within the organization.

They block Nick Casario. They block whatever that guy's name is that went to, the Titans. And he's like, you know what, fine. I'm taking your character coach. Jack Easterby. Yeah, see how you all were last year? You barely made it to the playoffs because you didn't have a character coach. Speaking of a character. Hi, Howard, what's going on? I'm in the unusual position of having to compliment you by the, by what you, the words you put in JJ's mouth that he may have wanted to say, but if he wanted a future in the front of the, in the front of office of a football team or on the coaching side he would never say.

He is going to be a team player and keep his mouth shut and say the politically correct thing regardless of what he's thinking or what he might say to his mother or his wife. He is not going to say anything near any of you guys that could come back and haunt him when he's applying, when he wants a job as a defensive coordinator or in the front office of a football team. Yeah, but to be fair, Howard, if you, if I ask 25 current Houston Texans players, the same question, they're going to give me the very similar response that JJ Watt gave. Would you not agree with that? I agree completely.

Okay. Well, so it has nothing to do about what JJ wants to do. it's the fact that it's a team that he and even though we don't have much respect for Bill O'Brien thank you Howard uh j J J.J. Watt does and J.J. Watt wants to play by the rules as does Whitney merciless as does if we asked Duke Johnson I mean Ross it would we couldn't get a player on the record that would say this sucks we wouldn't be able to find it we haven't been able to find it Anybody that's ever had an opinion about this that ever put a uniform on for the Texans, guess what? Isn't there anymore?

It's easier to say these things. Kareem Jackson. Who else was the one? Jalen Strong. A bit of variety of guys out there. Tyon-on-Matthew. Devere Posey. Devere Posey.

Tyler-on-Matthews is more veiled, but yeah, I understand. But you know what I'm saying? There is not a single player that ran to their Twitter account or their IG and said, what the hell are we doing? because sometimes again, your boss does things you don't like, but you don't go run and crush them in the public stage. That's professional suicide. Just how it goes.

Just how it goes. And that was my point to the caller yesterday is that fans want to hear dirt and stuff. They're not telling you the dirt. They're not giving you the inside stuff. They must all have this generic 101 class of, when you speak in front of on a television interview or radio interview or you do something in a newspaper or a magazine, just stick to the facts. Don't go outside the coloring lines on the coloring page and you'll be fine.

We saw it on, I mean, when there was hard knocks. They literally had like the orientation of rookie orientation or Bill O'Brien. He went up there on the podium in front of the entire team and said, we respect the media. There are a conduit to the fans. But there are certain things that we can't say. just tell him I'm Chavina trying to be a good teammate. We're working hard. We're playing.

Like he ran through the entire Bill O'Brien playbook of cliches that he wants everybody to go through. And if you don't go through the Bill O'Brien book of cliches, or if you get on his wrong side, you're in Seattle or you're in Arizona. Or you're fired if you're Brian game. I mean, this is just the way it's gone. It's his way or the highway. And Crash Davis told us to meet in Bull Durham. Yeah, okay. These cliches have been around since the beginning of a microphone and a sport.

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Okay. Sounds good. Close personal friends of the Matt Thomas show. Well, we're trying to get there. Yeah. I don't think we've got any close friends of anybody these days. I mean, we all have dinner with James. We did.

It was a good time. It was kind of loud. Just the two of us. Okay, maybe that's not true. There's like 15 of us. still good time you know when you when you share an appetizer with a front office player a member member of a sports organization you feel like there's a special bond that's true we had some lobster dip yeah we didn't choose anything up the yard house uh apps menu for our fantasy five last week that's true by the way this week's fantasy five the one that i won yeah uh when this friday will be horrific no wait you won you won four to two i got robbed that one yeah i got robbed uh you threw my bone i appreciate that joe I get it. Joe.

No comment. That's ridiculous. I'm offended by you. I didn't say it. I just said no comment. We do a talk radio show. You have to comment. Well, then I'll say I didn't throw you a phone.

So you thought it was legit? Yeah. Thank you. Great list, Matt. This week's lesson to Fantasy Five is number one songs. Of the 2000s. Of the 2000s decade that were absolutely putrid. It will take us.

five minutes to find him. I will actually say, I went through it a little bit yesterday. There was some more good songs and at least kind of like at least passable jams. Then the 80s was cake. 80s was easy. 90s was free. Not that hard. This is not that hard either, but it's just it took, it was a little more digging for me.

Personally, maybe that's because I mean, in this decade I was more younger and impressionable. Yeah. All right. So that's Friday. I'll be insulted. I guarantee you. No, there's no question. At some point.

Because this is my era. We're going to do this basically not to piss off Joe George is our plan. This is my era of music. Yeah, quick question. Are you a big Britney Spears fan? No. Okay. You should be fine.

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Krista Ocante, former athletic director at Rice, former athletic director at TCU, and now he is on the 40 acres. Yes, that's right, Matt. And we're going to have to stall for like another minute until Joe tells us he's ready. So let's just say that Christo Conte was on a conference call, I believe with Big 12 Media. I thought it was a... Was it? No, it's right, because I think A&M's guy was on a fan side of some sort.

Yeah, okay, go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah, so basically the discussion came up about why wasn't Texas A&M scheduled or when is the rivalry going to come back. And, well, he kind of took a swipe when he mentioned. championship success? You know, I think I had the conversation a year ago, two years ago, when you had an opening. And I asked, hey, we have an opening in 22, 23. And I reached out and asked that they'd be interested in doing that rivalry game at the time. And A&M had said, hey, we have no, we're booked right now. And I went, okay. And I looked at where we were.

And I promptly looked at why we have to create great games at home and add incredible value to our season ticket package, and we promptly went out and scheduled Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Ohio State, and Michigan, and we have one more that we'll be announcing shortly on the back end of this contract. But we're going to always play an incredible team that's won a, and my goal is to play anyone that's won a national championship in the modern era as part of our non-conference schedule. We have LSU that won a national championship of the modern area. You go down Alabama, you go down Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State. University of Texas. These are the brands that we should be playing home and away, and we're going to do that. And that was my scheduling philosophy.

Okay. It's just massive shade. It just is. It is for the dog, not in this fight. It is absolutely atrocious. Your closet Aggie, but that's okay. That he is trying to distance himself from Texas A&M. I mean, come on. What? Where's the lie, Matt? Where is the lie? Hold on. Let me do a Chris Del Conti.

Where is the lie? Why is he fist pumping or slamming the table? That doesn't seem very nice. He started to go in Howard Dean, right? And then we're going to play Alabama. And then we're going to play Michigan. And then we're going to play Georgia and LSU. Yeah.

That's basically what he started doing. I think what I'm most excited, though, about is that he said there's a surprise coming. There's one coming. But I mean, they're going to be. Clemson? No, it's Air Force. He said championship success, Matt. So clear, U of H is not on the list.

No, U of H is won a New York Day 6th bowl game recently. That's not a national championship. They've never won. We could have played in for a national championship we would have. But you didn't. So, yeah, with Clemson or something. But they're going to have to book that in like 2033. I'm looking at the schedule.

They literally are all booked up with at least, I think they want to do one big name, one medium and one small. I think it's basically what it looks like the formula is. Like, so they have Michigan, Georgia, Florida is in 2030. So Arizona State, 2032 and 233. He's about to announce something in 2034 and 2035. That's what they do. 13 years is a little, 15 years is a little excessive.

I don't want to hear about that because I'll probably be a grandfather at that point. I don't want to think about that. You could be a grandfather by the time they're playing Alabama in 2023. I better not be. Why not? That's in two and a half years? No, no, thank you. Bouncing baby boy, Thomas.

Okay, let me ask you all this, and I bring this up every time. If there was a serious, serious sponsor that went to them and said, you play each other in non-conference, and I will give you a $5 million payout to put my name on this A&M Texas game, three-game series, $5 million each school. five might be a little low. Each year? Oh, each year?

Well, five total. Yeah, so it's like, how about four years, five mill apiece, 20 million total? Something like that. Oh, I would take it. They'd probably take it. Okay. Who would have to be like a Texas, like H.E.B. If Scott, whatever is.

The problem is that's not good for him because H.E.B. isn't sold in Nebraska. So you'd have to find a national sponsor. But I mean, it's Texas versus Texas. You would figure it would be some kind of local, more locally. But it's still going to get national run. Yeah. So, again, I wouldn't, if I was a Texas brand. I wouldn't do it.

Mattress Mac could do it. Let me ask you this. Miller Light wants to put their bad boy on that thing. Do they deal with Beers and College? Well, Dosakis is a college football playoff. Ice cold refreshing dos Ekes that invites you to keep it into Rossonte.

So do I think it's easy for the athletic directors of these respective schools and their fans, frankly, to say, you know, we don't want to play you. No, I don't play you either. It's easy. But if you found a corporate sponsor that just said, we're going to make this happen because we know that the run on this is going to be amazing.

If it was the Metal Light Lone Star Showdown, you played three years. You played one time in College Station. You played one time in Austin. And then you came to Jerry Bowl, the Jerry World and played one time. Would that be unprecedented? Is there any other, I mean,

I know there are, like the Advocare Kickoff Bowl and, I mean, kickoff game and all that type of stuff. But, I mean, they kind of bounce around, right? What's the kickoff thing in Atlanta called? And the Chick-fil-A opening kickoff thing? Is George in it every year? No. I mean, that's what I'm saying.

No, Alabama and Duke played this past year. The Advocate kickoff is right here in Houston. Yeah. And it's different teams every year. Yeah. Right. Okay. I'm just telling you, I believe this series will never be done out of the goodness of anybody's heart.

This series will be done because you're about to put a serious amount of money in these particular institutions. And so we can argue it all the time into a blue in the face, Ross, how you don't want it or some people do want it. or some people do want it. I, as a fan, neither one would like it because that's what I grew up with. I love the rivalry to it. Oh, it takes as a paycheck. No, I was more, I didn't want it when Johnny Manzo was winning a bunch of games,

and then, you know, Texas had Garrett Gilbert and Case McCoy. So you don't miss it at all? I guess a little bit, yeah. But I know, I said, I want it now. Sure, let's bring it back. But I was less apt to bring it back when A&M was doing better, and Texas was in toilet. You're not scared of Jimbo Fisher?

Is that what you're saying wrong? Should I be? Well, I mean, he's only got seven years left. He's an eight and five king. He's got a title, though. Yeah. Not there, though. Thanks to James Winston.

They haven't been finished first in the SEC East, West yet, have they? They haven't finished. I think they finished like tied for second once. Were they going to the year three now? Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, Jimbo, has he been there? Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, nine and four and eight and five. Yeah, he finished tied for second his first year there. Okay. They were fourth last year. They're usually about third or fourth in the division. But Ross, if they changed their pattern of scheduling one bad team and two mediocre teams or one good team, they could schedule Clemson or someone else's earliest 2027. You're talking about Texas football?

Yeah. So I'm going to just to wrap it up this way. Anybody that says that these schools don't have space to redo their schedule, if Dr. Pepper came in and gave him $5 million a year for three years. years that figure out a way to play the game. Is Dr. Pepper still played in, I mean, based in Texas? That would make sense, too. I think it's in a Dallas-based, right?

I thought it was Waco or something like that. Well, Waco was where it was found in, I think. I don't know if it's based in Waco. Yeah, nobody wants to be based in Waco in 2020. Fact. Well, except those people that fix houses, they're doing quite well. That's true. Well, I thought they were getting a divorce or is that.

No, no, no, I'm a different couple. Oh, sorry. I can't keep track of my HGDUEE CIP. I think it's Chip and Joanna, right? That's the Waco grew? That's not my wheelhouse. Yeah, me either. Whatever.

You're a newlywed. You're watching all that crap. No, she doesn't watch that stuff. No, she's making him watch Cougar Town. We already finished Cougar Town. We're just pumping out, Grey's Anatomy episodes right now. Oh, geez. We're like six seasons deep.

You are burning through those. I don't even know you. Thank you for inviting me to your wedding. He's not proud, but you know, it is what it is. Ross, we saved ourselves a gift and aggravation by not going to his wedding. It was fun. We wouldn't, we wouldn't know. Did you see the wedding photos?

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, time out. No booze? Yeah, we had no booze. I know. Religious reasons. Yeah. Yeah, pretty happy I didn't go. What if I flashed it?

Would you be an okay with that, Joe? Oh, we had people drinking in the parking lot the whole night. Okay. But not inside the reception hall. No, because there was security there. Wait, me, you had security for a non-boos wedding? The venue made us pay for it. It's included.

All venues do that now. Like trash valet in your apartment complex. This is, I'm saying. Thank God I didn't get married in the 2000s. This is awful. Well, we didn't play the other part, but Chris Delcante does say that he wants the game back. We can play that when we come back. 1245.

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Sports Talk, 790. Yes. That's kind of a random one. Who was that? Carmel Anthony, who was with the Rockets for about, give or take three weeks. Ten games, I think he played. Yeah.

Former Rocket great, Carbello Anthony? Boy, when his career came to a rocket halt, it came down bad. We were in Oklahoma City. He scored one basket. And it didn't even go through the net. It was a goaltending call. He scored two points in his last rocket game.

Hmm. That's a shame. Now he's an okay in Portland. And then remember it was like a long time. It was not with team. He wasn't listed. He wasn't on the injured list. He just wasn't playing.

It's like Carmelo Anthony is out tonight. Oh, okay. What's his injury? Not with team. Well, I can vow for that. I mean, I can tell you that's the truth. He won with us. All right, play the second Delcani cut.

This is about, this is Chris Delcanti, the athletic director at the University of Texas, basically saying screw you A&M. As far as playing A&M and I'll tell you this. I was not here and I don't have the history and the angst. of what transpired, but those type of games that make you visceral hate each other are what makes college football great, great. And I, and I, and I do believe the game should be played. I really do, not because of history, but I know Alabama didn't play Auburn for 40 years. Can you imagine not playing the Iron Bowl? Makes no sense. But it is what it is, right? And you have politics involved,

you have hurt feelings, you have all kinds of things. But just for the state of Texas or for college football. I cannot believe that OU doesn't play Nebraska. I grew up on that game. I grew up on that game. I could not imagine USC not playing UCLA. I could not imagine the backyard brawl, Pittsburgh and West Virginia for those fan bases. Clemson and South Carolina have figured it out.

Florida and Florida and Florida State have figured it out. And I get it. But these games when you're just bubbling over with crazy emotion, that's what makes college great. Okay, enough of the lip service. Either blank or get off the pot. He said he made an offer two years ago, and they turned them down.

What do you want to do? It was supposed to be in 2022 and 2023 was the offer made. Yeah. And instead they got Alabama. Texas is going to be okay. So go look at A&M's 2022-2020 schedule. Is there somebody in that group that is so good that you would not bump the University of Texas for those schools.

Oh, they've got Miami. Where's the game? Well, it's going to be home and home. Okay. That year, this is their non-conference in 2022. It's Sam Houston State, Appalachian State, Miami, UMass.

I'm throwing the bus on the Aggies, under the Aggies then. In 2023. Oh, no. Is it worse than that? It's New Mexico. The University of New Mexico, Mountain West. Yeah. Okay. Go Lobos.

Then it's Miami. Okay. Then it's Louisiana Monroe. Yeah. And Abilene Christian. I believe Abilene Christian's on this year's slate. That is a fact. 2020, they are also playing Abilene Christian, North Texas, Colorado, and Fresno State.

Next year will be Kent State, Colorado, New Mexico. and Prairie View A&M. Of course, a rival of the University of Houston. Seriously, Aggies? How do y'all sleep at night? That's crap. Well, you know, the number one argument's going to be. Well, we play a much...

We play the SEC West. That's true. They can't come out of the SEC West, so why they want to take another hell from Texas. You know, we play a tough conference schedule. Yeah, you do, but you don't win them. They do play in the toughest conference in the toughest conference division in college football. You know what?

I get that. You need a break. You got to go play Abilene Christian. Get a free dub. And Prairie View. In the same year? I know. Well, uh...

Running through the 2020 schedule. If we stay 20-12. It's Abilene-Creschen, North Texas, Colorado, Fresno State. Okay. Nor, I've seen... We play North Texas. You're going to win by four touchdowns. It just is what it is.

And those are all paycheck games, by the way. By the way, those schools need to play you because they're not going to be able to fund their athletic department unless you play them. and you pay them to play. So, I mean, they just have it that they're going to play. I mean, Texas only plays one big brand in their future schedules as well. So, I mean, it's Alabama. Like, for example, the years they're playing Alabama, they play Louisiana Monroe, UTSA. Okay.

Meanwhile, the University of Houston plays Washington State and BYU next year in non-conference action. And who else? Rice. Rivalry game for the Bayou Bucket. North Texas. That's not bad. That's not a bad little non-conference slate. B-Y, I guess.

It's fine. It's not fine. It's amazing. And then they get a cake conference schedule. So, I mean, you have to try to... Cake. Nothing but top 20 teams littered in that conference. Tulsa, Tulane, UCF, or F.A...

Is F.A.U.U. No, that's a different league. That's a conference. I can't keep track of the American conference. And on 790, good afternoon. Hey, I mean, with y'all talking about college sports, I want to ask specifically a roster. Do you think Herman is on the hot state to

win the conference in the next two or three years? I would say absolutely. The seats gotten a little warm after last year. The Sugar Bowl two years ago, I think everybody was thinking turning in the right direction. Now, I didn't think they were a national championship contenders, but a lot of people seem to think they were. Obviously fell well short of that last year. But I think the Sugar Bowl win, bottom, a couple years.

So he can, he can't be pumping out like five and seven and six and seven, like Charlie strong. But they're going to need to see them contending for the conference. in finishing in the top 10 the next couple years, absolutely. And isn't Sam Ellinger, like, in his seventh year there? He's a senior this next year. And how many quarterbacks have been in Oklahoma since he's started there? Two at least?

Yeah, well, it'll be a third one this year. That'll be a third one. Whoever the quarterback is this year. Sam can't. Well, no, Sam did beat Kyler Murray. That's true. Once, and then lost in the rematch. Okay, so let me ask you this.

If they go eight, who's, what's our schedule? have Texas schedule right in front? Yeah, I can pull it up. Hold in. Hold on. I have the non-conference. Go ahead. It's USF at LSU and the UTEP, and then it's the conference league. Okay, it's two and one.

Would you be okay with nine and three this year? I think so. I think so. The losses being LSU, Oklahoma, and then, I don't know, TCU or something. Some of you're not supposed to lose to. I got a surprise. Surprise. Iowa State.

Tom Herman always mix in a surprise loss, doesn't he? Well, usually it's been Maryland the last couple of years. Yeah, it's like, like what? You just lost to. Well, you know how I feel about time. I like time. Okay, here we go. It's South Florida.

Yeah. At LSU. Home for U-TEP. Two and one. At Kansas State. Three and one. Oklahoma. Three and two.

Home for West Virginia. Four and two. At Tech. Five and two. Home for Baylor. Six and two. Ooh, I like that. At Kansas.

Seven and two. Home for TCU. Eight and two. Home for Iowa State. Nine and two. At Stillwater, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State for the day after Thanksgiving game. Nine and three. And get you in the Big 12 championship game.

Ooh. Now you add in that. I'm okay with that. Okay. And then they lose to Oklahoma. There you have it, friends. There you have it. Nine and three.

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the avenue is here for you at 713, 21, 2,5, 790. 713-212-1-2-5-790. We just played some soundbites of Chris Dale Conte, the athletic director at the University of Texas, giving you the proper lip service. To me, it's just about the cash. Find a corporate sponsor that wants to give these schools ridiculous amounts of money they can't say no to, and there'll be a series. Short of that, these are not two grown institutions that have any interest in playing each other unless they can make some serious money off of it. I'm just, I'm tired of the lip service. I've been here about this lip service for 10 years, Ross, honestly.

over it. I want to see it played. America wants to see it played. I deep down on my heart, I believe a lot of Longhorns and Aggies, do they just don't to publicly say it? That's fine. Just don't just go, don't keep telling me we've offered. Now, I'll say this. Del Conte offering the play in 2020 and 22 and 23, and the Aggies saying, no, doesn't help the situation all, especially with a crap schedule that A&M is playing. But at the end of the day, somebody will write them a check and they'll change their minds. Hopefully. I mean, yeah, it's definitely, like I said, I've been consistent.

I didn't want them playing just because I didn't want Texas to lose, like when they were bad. And I think that's actually been somewhat that has been played into this. I think Texas was more like, no, we don't need to play all when the team was bad. I think that's what the, at the time, I think it was Steve Patterson was the athletic director,

and he was just not all about coming back. And I think part of it was you don't want to lose. And I think some of it has been when A&M in the last couple years, and they were having the down years with Kevin Summ, and they're like, okay, well, we don't want to play either because we might. I think it's people being afraid to lose and afraid to, say I was wrong and afraid to come forward and make the first step. So it's been this push and pull, basically, the entire since 2011 when the last game was.

I want to ask you, who won the last game between the two schools? That would be Texas on the last second field, go by one, Justin Tucker. Okay. Great way to end the series. Great drive by Case McCoy, the grit, the determination, the 15-yard penalty, maybe he shouldn't have earned. But that's okay. So do I think less of A&M because of Lowe? lost that last game? Nope.

Yes. No, I don't. I don't. Did the way that game end make me want to want more of it? Absolutely. You should think less of them for losing like 70% of the matchups. Nobody should be afraid to play anybody, especially because they are in my opinion, they're on equal playing fields. They both are in super big, powerful conferences. They both are extremely cash flush. They have both hired extraordinarily high profile coaches. it'd be one thing, Ross, if it was, if the, uh, it would be an example, um, A&M TCU series. Well, let's TCU's got money now too.

I'm trying to think of somebody. That doesn't play? That would be, that would be a non-power five versus a power five that played every year, but they stopped playing each other because the economics have changed. They don't. They're extraordinarily similar. They're state institutions. They have huge fan bases.

big full stadiums, lots of donors. The only difference between them is who their coaches are and what their success level is. There's no reason why they can't be equally as competitive year and year out. A&M doesn't not have an inherent advantage over Texas and anything. And the same can go for Texas over A&M. They just don't, that's my opinion. Texas has more history.

Okay, but 17-year-olds don't care about the history of the Aggies and the Longwoods 1960s. Not in 1964, they don't. No chance. Well, not in 1964. A&M has no championship history. Yeah, but the kids... Of course.

You think kids don't care about one team having a tradition of winning and one not? Of course, they do. I don't think 17-year-olds could give you a great recollection of how Texas did in championships in the last 20 years. But you can at least point it to them. You can point them to it. You can essentially point to probably two games. Now, obviously, it's better to have recent history that they know and they're aware of, like Alabama or Clemson. That's why Alabama and Clemson.

have been one and two in the recruiting rankings basically every year for the last like five, six, seven years. I think what you have to do is you have to sell them on. We're going to win it this year. I don't think if you're in the University of Texas, you're showing a bunch of 2005 Rose Bowl videos. I think you can do, we can just take them to the Hall of Honors and talk about all that type of stuff a lot. If you're a head coach, Matt, and you have a choice, two school, you say you're at a small school and two schools are really coming after you. all things being equal pay recruiting base facilities ever and one has a deep history and one doesn't which one are you going to choose well uh if the money's similar the same well i that's all i'm saying all i'm saying is it matters does it matter to make everything is it in all be on no but it matters

i think history is overrated i think what i think future it's a much better potential it's a much easier way to if i if if if Texas had the national championships but didn't expand their stadium and didn't have the athletic budget and couldn't guarantee the planes that A&M has or the or the dorm rooms, whatever, you know, all the bells and whistles of these coaches,

then I wouldn't take Texas over A&M. But since they're all about the same, they're both equal in terms of they can both be successful. I don't think anything that that Daryl Royal has did is going to help Tom Herman in recruiting at the University of Texas. Now, if they're three years removed from a national

championship, that's a different story, but not a decade plus. Let me get on to something else. I just wanted to say that I think that all of us, even if you don't publicly want to call and say this, want to see the series again. And we will see it again once a corporate sponsor kicks in the dollars. Short of that, we should stop talking about it. But we do because somebody says something about it every six months or so. It seems like one side of the other year. It never lets it die. Do you have a lot of friends that are, that you've had for more than 20 years? 20 years?

I'm going to assume there are people listening in our audience and have friends of over 20 years. I haven't. I don't know. Okay. Because I mean, I was 15. No. Okay. Point being is that there are a fair number of you out there that have lifelong friends.

I have lifelong friends from my college that I've been friends since like, since I was for 15 years. I'm going to use 20 years. a reference at this point. I'm going with 15. I do have a handful. Basically, my only friends are my longtime friends. There is one friend who's really sad that he can't talk to his other friend anymore because that other friend is mad at him. That one friend is Charles Barkley. Sir Charles. It admits on a Chicago radio station yesterday. He's really, really sad about the fact that his longtime friendship with Michael Jordan deteriorated years ago because of critical comments

Barkley made about the way Jordan ran at that point the Charlotte Bobcats. Eight years ago, he goes on the same Chicago radio station and basically criticizes the way that Michael Jordan has run the Bobcats. Now he runs the Hornets. Same franchise is different name. And apparently, Michael got a hold of that. and they have not spoken since. Quote,

the guy was like a brother to me for shoot 20-something years, at least 20-something years, and I do feel sadness. But to me, he's still the greatest basketball player ever. I wish him nothing but the best, but there's nothing I can do about it, brother. When asked about, has Michael Jordan ever reached out to Charles Barkley? Charles says, oh, he got my number.

He can call me. The thing that bothered me the most about that whole thing, I don't think that I said anything that bad, Barclay said. I'm pretty sure I'm said, as much as I love Michael, until he stops hiring them kiss-asses and his best friends, he's never going to be successful as a general manager. And I remember saying pretty much verbatim, I said that. And the thing that really pissed me off about that is later is Phil Jackson said the exact same thing. Michael, to me, and this is even before the last dance, he comes across to somebody that you can't get sideways with him.

Or he's going to hold a grudge for a long period of time. Forever, yeah. You don't slide him in the slightest. He's going to hold the grudge. He's going to be mad. He's going to use it to fuel his fire. That's basically what he's been doing his entire life. You watch this last dance.

The guy has been basically hating people since he got cut from his high school team. Yeah. More, Charles. If you're famous, and Michael at one point was the most famous person in the world, everybody around you is either on the payroll or letting you buy drinks and dinner and flying around on your private jet. Very few of your friends are going to be honest with you. and that's very hard for any celebrity, but especially somebody of his stature.

But I thought that was one of the reasons why we were great friends. Like I can ask Charles anything, and I know he's going to give me a straight answer. But part of my job as an analyst is because I can't go on TV and say another general manager sucks, and then just because Michael's like a brother to me, say he's doing a fantastic job. That would be disingenuous. And Michael hasn't spoken to him since. Here's the fact. Michael Jordan to me

is the greatest basketball player of ever to play. Michael Jordan is a D-minus to an F general manager. Maybe the worst owner in the league. Well, Warnish is somebody that doesn't care. I just think every decision he's made has been a wrong one. Well,

you go back to the last dance, he talked about losing in the very first episode and how it bothers him. I don't understand how he runs this franchise. Because they're so bad. Here's the thing, guys, and I know this because I travel there once a year. Not only are they bad, but nobody cares about them.

If you were to name the most nondescript, uninteresting NBA franchise, it's the Charlotte Hornets. It just is. There's nothing remarkable bottom. There's no deep NBA playoff run. I mean, it was Kimba Walker, a bunch of who the hell else cares. And now he's in Boston because

Kemmel Walker knew that he couldn't get anybody to come with with him and play in Charlotte. That is sad that Michael was as good as he as a basketball player as he is as poor as a front office guy as he is. Does he not care? Because that's to me that makes him a bad owner. But I feel like he's just made

one bad decision after the other. Because how do you become the most competitive person on earth and so laissez-faire of running a basketball team? That's not how people are built, right? It would be like Ross being the best chef in town and then owning your own restaurant and not caring what the menu tastes like.

That's what Michael is. Michael just isn't capable of making good decisions. And that's hard. And that was hard for Charles Barker to say that. And he did, and it cost him a friendship. It's just different skill sets. I mean, running a basketball team and playing basketball are just two different things.

And, I mean, unfortunately, he's been around the business basketball for years. But I mean, was Michael pounding the pavement and scouting and looking at tape from everybody all around the world and, and, uh, and even with the time in, probably not. And traveling and going into, to Europe to look for diamonds in the rough and all that type of stuff. He was a bad general manager, whatever they wanted to call him in Washington, and he's done

the exact same thing in Charlotte. So Charles is like, hey, I love you. You're the best. But your franchise is not very good. And you didn't want to hear that. so they haven't spoken in eight years because of that. Well, hopefully Mitch Cupcheck can turn it around for the Charlotte Hornets. 150 in the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790.

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But much like things that JJ Watts has in the locker room, he cannot say in front of a microphone. Yeah. We should do a pay-per-view of stuff we can't say. on the air and put it out there. I can't. What kind of money can we make on that, Joe George? For what we were just talking about? I don't know what you want to lose from this one.

Yeah, the problem is if I would have said, just what I would have said. If I would have said what I was saying, and it became public? Oh. Anyways. Yeah. Check out the What's on Matt's Mind show page. Much easier. What is her name again today?

It doesn't matter. Yeah. Let me just say, she's heavy-chested. She's got a flat belly and a great personality. Wonderful. Don't know if she can add two and two, but it doesn't matter at this point. What's on Matt's Mind Show page? She is.

Whatever her name is. Kim Cot Tremblay. Sports790.com. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, this was a strong one. Yeah. How are we doing that, by the way? We're doing the hits all right?

She's doing great. She's looking nice. Wow. What a viewpoint? I think I've lost Ross for the rest of the segments of Georgia. Go ahead, man. All right, Manjelig Baseball League and club officials remain confident the sport will return in 2020. Phew, it makes me feel better.

But a number of team executives were fretting yesterday, Ross, over the possibility of outbreaks of the virus in states starting to open up open up, like Florida, Texas, and Arizona. That's a huge problem. You know why? Those are the three states that we're supposed to open up baseball teams and have facilities and ready to go. What's Trevor Plouffe have to say about all this? surges might lead to additional shutdowns, making it difficult for baseball to resume. The league's goal, according to sources, this is Ken Rosenthal in the Athletic,

is to open up as many home cities as possible. We've talked about that last week. A scenario that would be more convenient for the players than out-of-town hubs and also cheaper to Major League Baseball. Playing at home, even without fans, would also be a sign of normality, a normalcy returning in those cities, an ideal that appeals to many politicians as well as league officials. So I feel like if we were to go knock on the door of the commissioner's office, and this is in all the sports, what are you thinking about today? We're going to do this, this, this, this, and this.

We're going to run by a few people and get back with you tomorrow. And then I feel like the next day we go back to that office, knock, knock, knock, knock, it's something completely different. So if that is the mode, at what point, Ross, and the answer is we all know is I don't know. But at some point you're going to knock on that commissioner's door, whether it be baseball, football, or basketball, maybe more so baseball and basketball. You're going to have to knock on the door, and they're going to have to make a decision.

You can't keep going to that, well, we don't know what's going to happen next. Because if that's what you're going to do, then you should just shut the sports down and start all over in the fall. Well, that's probably what they should do. That's probably what should happen. That's probably basically everything that's happening in this country right now is between how many lives do we want to save and how much are we going to put as far as the economy and money, right?

I mean, that's what's happening with opening this up, opening up Texas, and some people are criticizing that. Some people are on board with it. Some people are saying it's happening too soon. You're going to make it worse. And I think that's basically the same thing that baseball is struggling with because in reality, I think they know if money weren't a factor, if there were some ferry that was going to drop the entire revenue

that we were going to make this year with running games and drop it on our heads and we could just have that money, there wouldn't be games this year. There wouldn't be a season. You just wait until as long as possible to this vaccine, till there's testing, till there's antibodies testing, and there wouldn't be 2020 sports in 2020. It probably wouldn't be. Okay, so let's go to the Uber negative point of view on this. Saying what you just said following those lines, then why are we pushing so hard for it? We've lived 50s. days without sports. What's another 150?

What's another 200 days? We could handle it. We could make it, but you're talking about people who are losing their livelihood. Not only the players and the owners and the billions being lost and the TV people, but you're talking about cameramen who run these games, the guys who are just holding parabolic mics, the people who work in the stadiums. Yeah, exactly. It's a whole economy within itself.

Yeah. So you understand why they want to bring everybody back. It's just a tough position. This is what happens in global pandemic. This is what happens when something is wiping out people at rates much higher than the flu as much as people want to ignore that. It's just a fact. So do you understand where I'm going with a point of, well, somebody has to knock on that door

to the commissioner's office. That commissioner is going to have to have a plan and there's going to have to be implementation. Because I feel like every day the leagues are probably wrestling with their latest decision. Let's go to, let's let's have NBA games. in arenas and not have fans. No, let's go to Las Vegas. No, let's go to Orlando. Let's start the playoffs.

No, let's have regular season. Let's start playing, having practices in the facilities May 1st. Oh, nope. There was brush back on that. Now it's May 8th. At this point, only half of the teams in the NBA on May the 8th will be able to have such practices in their facilities. When are we at a point?

point. There's no specific date. But I feel like every day I go to the internet and I look up stories about this because I think people want to know. They want constant updates. I'm one of those people that's dying for the latest news. And so Trevor Ploof puts out this report, the former major leaguer, and it's backed up by a lot of other players, as you mentioned yesterday. And it's obviously not just thrown out there just to catch controversy. It was, hey, we were hearing this. And then you got Ken Rosenzell the next day going to the athletic saying, slow down a little bit here. We're not sure when the official start date's going to be, when the workouts are going to begin, when spring training is going to be, and where they're going to have the spring training. I guess what I'm trying to say in a roundabout way is I'm looking for some definitive answers soon.

I think I'm tired of conjecture. Is that okay? Is that okay to say that? I'm sick of it. Yeah, I was sick of it a weekend. But I mean, this is all we've got. This is what we have to try and figure out because this is. something, this is a fluid situation.

All the factors that they're going to solve this for us, widespread testing, antibody testing, vaccinations, economies being open up, what is President Trump doing with the economy? What is various governors because we are a republic so the states

can govern themselves and so each of them is their own republic and we have teams in every single state, and not every single state, but spread throughout the country. in every single region. So there's just so many things. That's why we have to go to conjecture.

That's why we have to guess because we don't know. There's so many things that are changing not only by the day but by the hour. So the easiest thing to do would be to say we're canceling sports for the rest this year. That would cost the NFL $3 billion if no season. I don't know what the NBA would major league baseball look, but the NFL's already said it's worth $3 billion a year per year business. at least when it comes to the games itself. The television dollars are separate,

the selling of the T-shirts, but the games and the revenue in the facilities are three-billion. So they play a season without fans that cost them $3 billion. They need to be, like the NFL needs to be investing in getting testing and antibody tests or vaccine. Like they need to be fun. NFL needs to just drop a bunch of money.

I don't know who the premier vaccination research. Dr. V. College is. Oh, yeah. Or whoever. Like, what the best research colleges in America? I'm sure University of Houston is one, Matt.

As is just for about everything. But they need to drop them millions of dollars and have them working around the clock or something like that. The NFL needs a vaccine just as bad as anybody. And so the problem is there's not a doctor they can go to. The NBA can't go and say, if this happens, what happens? Because you're going to be sitting there talking to that doctor for months because there's going to be 5 million different scenarios.

And oh, by the way. If one player gets hurt from a team, if one player gets sick from a team? Does that mean the whole team gets shut down? Does it mean the whole league get shut down? Or do you pick that human being up? You take them out and they just resume as you go. And you also can't get, I mean, you could say the same thing. You can get, for example, 10 radio hosts.

They're not all going to agree on something. Ten former NFL players. Not going to agree with it. Ten doctors are not going to all agree on anything. They're all going to have their own research. They're all going to have their own opinions. And so you're like, well, who do we listen to? What's happening?

They're all these, they're like, six or seven, like, prominent projection models as far as what's going to happen with infections and deaths and all this stuff. They're all over the place. So it comes down to... So even the experts don't really know. So ultimately it comes down to Manfred and Sovere to make an ultimate decision. With the help of lawmakers and policymakers

and epidemiologists or experts. And be prepared to take some flack. Yeah, no matter what happens. You can't win. This is... Silver took flag for staying May 1st. That's why you backed it up a week to May 8th. You can't... There's a no win situation, unfortunately.

because we're going through, it's, as every commercial says, unprecedented times. Oh, I hate that. That's a big word. Too many syllables. 131 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79.

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Like, is there a famous music group from Korea that we could play some music? A K-pop is all over the place. These teenage girls love K-pop. They performed, I think, a TOTA set her, for a post-game celebration, I think, of some part. K-pop is a genre. Oh, okay. Well, there was some group that was insane, that there were probably a lot. a thousand people waiting to

see them after a Rockets game. Hmm. Like if we were to do baseball update on this show, we would take me out of the ball game or the ESPN Sunday night baseball theme or something like that. Wait, there is a K-pop band named K-pop, but they have been disbanded since 2004.

I hate to hear that. So how's my team doing, by the way? Well, Matt, the KT. Wizz, which you have thought to support have started the season 0 and 2 after losing 9 to 4 today to Lati. Probably got a lot of very, very, very bad officiating. Very, very small strike zone.

Some of the worst officiating anyone's ever seen. Yeah, according to you. There's a fair ball. That should have been called foul. Got three runs out of that. Yeah. Lead-off man, Sim Wu-Jun at short. He went one for five today. Disappointing.

I mean, nobody got more than, I mean, Park Kiyong Su, second base, had a pretty good game. He went two for four. It all comes down to the top three guys in a batting order, right? Well, the problem is it's William Kuevas, the starting pitcher. he gave up six earned in five. That's not good. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the guys came up and kind of held it together as best they could when Song Dung

Hyun cleaned up in the sixth, but you just can't have your starting pitcher give up six earned in the first five innings, Matt. All right, number of minutes, each one of you have watched Korean Baseball League Baseball. When is it all? Is it on? It starts at midnight, right? Yeah, it goes as late to about 7 o'clock in the morning. See, yeah.

They play at like 430, I think, this morning or 3.30? Yeah, I mean, I'm having, should I start recording them, I guess? No, I watch zero. I will watch zero life. I will tell you this right now. If we're on at 8 p.m., I'd be watching it. I watch it. I put it on.

Are they putting daily odds on this? You keep trying to find them. You can't find anything. So I'm going to throw some things at you that I've seen on television. Action Network, odds and picks today for the KBO. Okay, I'm going to run through things. You guys say yes or no or a little bit, depending on what you've seen. Did you watch any of the simulated Kentucky Derby this past weekend?

Zero. Have you watched any of this video game NBA 2K thing that these video gamers are playing? I watched like five minutes of it, the first Friday, and then maybe like 20 minutes of it a couple of days after. Yeah, very little. It was okay. I mean, it was on during the nightcap, so we both turned it on. It's true. When I left the building, I didn't watch any.

I'm going to give you a get off my lawn statement, okay? Yes. I was told five years ago. that video game watching on television, on YouTube was going to be the next super great thing to sports. Who said that's going to be the next super great thing? Go look. Okay. I remember having an argument with a former colleague about this, that all the kids are doing it,

and that they're going to grow up and they're going to watch, they're going to spend lots and lots of time watching gaming. If that was true, gentlemen, and I didn't believe. it then and I don't believe it to this day. Wouldn't you think this would have been the time for the gaming industry, especially when trying to get eyeballs to it, this would have been the time they would have been thriving. E-sports are doing well right now. Just because it's not well with the mainsts, it's not doing well with men in their 30s or 40s.

Who's doing well with? Younger kids. We have teenagers in 20-year-olds or whatever. There's 3.8 people watching, 3.8 million people watching. watching Twitch right this second. In the world? Yeah. How many United States? I don't know.

I can try to find that. I, look, all I'm saying is, I don't think, again, and this is not in my demographic, I'm, I'm more than happy to admit that. The only time in my life I was ever blown away by watching people playing video games was when I was in Las Vegas one time and they had a big convention. And there were thousands of people on the showroom floor watching people play video games. but I was told five years ago by multiple people

that the e-gaming industry is going to explode and it's going to be just as popular as some of the mainstream sports on television why isn't it if that was the case why isn't it on television's five days a week why isn't there every night

an e-gaming on ESPN because they can only run so many old games they've been doing the irasing thing I think people are watching that I don't know what the viewership is they've been doing they put,

you know what, I'll tell you what, they put some Madden games on like a, on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago. I watched the Madden games for like 30, 45 minutes. But that's because you're a Madden player though, right? I haven't played Madden since Madden 2006. But you're a video game player.

Yeah, that's true. So I guess they... But I think most people who are growing up now are video game players. The Irish and stuff pulled like a... On April 19th, they pulled 1.1.18 million viewers.

That's decent. I mean, I think that they're never going to be great, but they're good. I mean. Yeah, and I'm looking at this website, TwitchTracker.com. Yeah. Viewers gone. So start of the season, January 2020, maximum viewers that they had at any point was 2.4 million. The highest they've ever had in April, it went up to, it doubled 4.4 million.

So it is growing. More people are watching it now. So do we expect that number to stay consistent, or is it going to fall off the map once a live game's return? I would imagine. I think a lot of things, you have kids that aren't at school right now. And these are the young kids who like watching Fortnite and in video games and shooters and stuff like that.

And I think there's this new game called Valerant that is really popular. The reason why I bring this up, again, my three kids are not even a decent sample size. But I have three children. Two of the three love to play video games. None of the three of them watch other people playing video games. Well, that's a sample of two or three. That's what I'm saying.

It's not, but I'm just, I would have thought at least in one of the three would have been like, hey, we should, you should go watch his YouTube channel. It'll be this guy's playing video games. The Twitch platform hit its all-time peak of 4.469 million people watching at once last month. What were they watching? I don't know. They have tournaments and events and I don't know. And there's big name streamers who get thousands of followers and stuff like that. Think we should have a Twitch channel?

I have one. Twitch.com.TV slash sports RV. Oh, that's right. That's what people watch you play video games. Well, let's just say it's not 4.4 million people. Like what's the most people we've ever watched you play at Twitch? Well, the most people I had was when I did a Rockets watch party. I got like 18 people watching.

Just sitting there watching you watch a Rockets game. Yeah, it was fun. I was talking people chatting with them. I need to do that again. I want to do classic fights. I want to do old games and stuff like that. Get you on there, Matt. We can watch an old classic game.

You know what was on NBA TV last night? It was Game 7 of the Sun's Rockets 94. semifinals. I watched the 95. Clutch City. Well, the 95, that was when they came back from 3-1, right? Right. 95 was Mary Wellie.

They got the O-2 hole and then the Kiss of Death. Yeah. Yeah. Or was a 3-1 in the Kiss of Death? Oh, 2-hole was 94. Yes. Okay. It was a choke city.

Yes. O-2 hole was 94, 3-1, and Kiss of Death was 95. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's the game that I watched. And I had, like, the most viewers I ever watched. God, the Rockets be the Sun's in Back-Back series. years. So the sun's...

They got up collectively, 2-0 and then 2-0 coming home and up 3-1 and lost both series back-to-back years. So Charles Barkley wins the West in 93. Yes. In 94, they're up against the world champion's team and lose.

The next year against the eventual world champion team, lose again. Yeah. He got up 2-0 on them and got up 3-1 on them. Can Charles sleep at night thinking about that? I know. Well, he talked about after also about the 93 finals, how after they got blown out in game one

and after that every game was close. Like how he feels like they could have won that series and if John Paxson doesn't hit that shot you know the game seven would be in Phoenix because there's two three two then. Yeah and Michael Jordan said I'm only bringing one suit to wear. That's right and he did. Well, that's all he needed.

It's all he needed. Thanks to John Paxon bailing him out. All right, seven one. Hey, John Paxon, Steve Kerr, same difference, right? Somebody. That's what made Michael better. That's team ball. All right, 713, 2,1. 2.5-790, 7-1-3-212-790, if you'd like to join us. Lines, as they had been for the last 50 days, typically open. What's been the biggest phone call moment in the last 50 days was the DeAndre Hopkins trade? Probably second was Brandon Cooks.

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It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. We got a few your smile about something. Yeah. Well, I'm reading this article while I was during the break. It's from Yahoo Sports, and it's comparing Korean baseball teams to American franchises. Oh, so pick the team that most associates with your squad. Well, you picked the KT. Wizz, and they have zero titles, zero title appearances. But they're a new team.

This says MLB team equivalent, the Seattle Mariners. Man, did you guys put your name on one of those squads? I take the Dyno. I have a friend who lives in Seoul. He hasn't texted me back, and I'm trying to figure out whatever team he roots for. I want to do. Slow delivery. So, yeah, well, you know, it is what it is.

Thousands of miles away. You got to use cacao talk, which is what they use in Asia. Oh, here he goes, Dusan Bears. He did respond. Dusan Bears are the reigning champs. So that's his squad. That's my squad. Let's go, baby.

Hello, I'm Matt. I got a frontrunner in front of me here. It says, look, Dusan Bears. What do you want me to do? Who's that girl that she sent you a picture of? What are you talking about? Oh, that's him and his wife. That was something else.

All right. So you're a Dusan Bear fan. Yes, Dusan Bears. Let's go, baby. I got the NC. Dinos. And how's your squad doing? No, I,

idea. All I know is that their mascot is yoked. It's like a yoked person? No, it's like a dinosaur on steroids. Dusan Bears won five to two today. They are one in one. Guys, the season is young.

I mean, I'm not worried about an 0 and two star. Yeah, that's fine. I think the KT. Wizz are going to, they're going to rally, Matt. How many games do they play 100, you said? They play, let's see. They went 88 and 55, so what's that? 143. Dinos are 2-0 on the season Oh, look at you bragging over there

Stupid dinoes You and I revisit this coming Like mid-July, we'll see where our squads Are this one says the NC Is it Dinos or Dinos? They are They have zero titles, one appearance Their MLB team equivalent is the Minnesota Twins

So we have the Seattle Mariners The Minnesota Twins And what other team is represented? My team, Dusan Bear is the MLB equivalent Is the Washington Nationals. Oh, serious front runners then. By the way, James Cleck's going to be on the show tomorrow at 1230. Lovely.

You're going to ask him to break down some KBO games for us? Do you guys know anyone on your rosters? No. I got to pull up the roster. Actually, I, Aaron Alfair, played for the Phillies and the Mets. Okay. I got a Jose Miguel Fernandez, my DH. Should I know who that is?

I don't know. Mine's got a few recognizable players. And then a lot of Korean guys. Josh Hamilton? Huh, imagine that. No. No, no, he's in jail. No, he's not.

He got in trouble recently. Yeah, but he's not literally in jail right now. Are you sure? Is he in Korea? Are you kidding? You know, it's funny because when I had my shoulders worked on, this is during the hurricane, just before the hurricane, I was going to rehab. Josh Hamilton's been to rehab? Not that rehab.

I'm like physical rehab. And Josh Hamilton was going to the same place I was going. he thought he was going to try to make a comeback in major league baseball now it never obviously happened but man you watched some of these baseball games from earlier this decade josh hamilton crushed as a ranger and as an as an angel i mean there's got to be like a movie made on him right at some point yeah because he was what a top prospect he was the number one number one right wasn't he a number one number one pick and then flame out because of drugs?

Yes. Let me see if I get this timeline right. Number one, number one. Mm-hmm. Had alcohol and drug issues, fought through them. Yes. Had his friend or his dad travel with him

so he wouldn't have the temptation of tasting any of the booze or anything? Remember I right about that? Yes. Then does he go to the, is he go angels then Rangers or Rangers and Angels? Rangers then angels Rangers

Back to Angels Then back to the Rangers Unfortunately the guy Dies while trying to catch his home run ball I think Yeah he tosses in the ball right Something happened where the guy died Unfortunately

That threw him off Which it would have thrown off for any of us Yeah he relapsed multiple times I believe Then got hurt and then Got off the wagon And something with the wife too If I'm not mistaken Something salacious with the wife

Like adultery or something I don't mean to me making things up. I'm just trying to recollect what it was. Well, let's see. He relapsed in 2009. He relapsed in 15 on 12 and 15. And then he was arrested October 30th.

This year. Being accused of physically assaulting his oldest daughter. Yeah. Oh. Wow. Like I was saying, like he's going to jail. It's like 10 years. Didn't something happen with his wife too? Am I making that up? I'm not sure. It's one of those stories that it's hard to keep track of everything. But guys, for about

a five-year stretch, he was, I mean, he was our Mark McGuire. He was our Sammy. I mean, hitting home runs left and right. He was literally, yeah, he was MVP in 2010 and an All-Star every year from 2008 to 2012. Batting champ. But don't you said we got to get a movie written about him? A movie, yeah. Don't you have to at some point have a happy ending of this movie? Redemption usually, yeah. Well, let's hope that that happens. I mean, because Johnny Cash's redemption was he gets clean and sober. Ray Charles got clean and sober.

Who else has done some biopic as of late? James Browns' biopic was, I mean... He died? Yeah, he's... I don't think I want a Josh Hamilton biopic. I don't think it's going to end well.

He started loving PCP and then he died. Yeah. So maybe James Browns wasn't really a happy ending. No. So we need more happy endings. We don't need a Josh Hamilton unhappy ending. I mean, you can get one where it's in. and tragedy. They did a Malcolm X

biopic. He got shot gunned down in Harlem. What's the last biopic? We talked about best biopics. Did we not last? We did a fantasy five. I believe I won that one. I had good fellas. It sounds like Ross wins a lot of them. Well, you know why? Because people feel bad for

the underdog. Yeah. What's your one percentage? I would honestly, I would say it's about 33%. I'm going to... Well, then you're the underdog. So people should be voting for you. Because I clearly have the superior list. No, no, no, no, no, no. Listen to me.

Joe, you've heard these, you've heard these drafts, Joe. I have the charm, the wit, the looks. The, uh... This might be why you lose. The fame and recognition. And I think... I mean, you are on cameo. It's like this.

You know, on a home improvement, why did everybody like Al Borland? Because he wasn't Tim Toole time, whatever his face was. No, that's what it is. So he's my Al Borland over here, and he wins by default. So you're the bumbling idiot who hurts himself. And you're the guy And you're the guy in plaid. Which one got Pamela Anderson

Before she got all the work done? Well, That's their loss on their part then. And who's the other one? Heidi or whatever her name? I don't know what her name was. They ran through some good ones back in the day. All right.

Young Pam Anderson Before all the work got done. So you're saying you wouldn't take current Pam Anderson. Didn't she have? Oh, the. Oh, I know what you're going to say. I thought, well, I mean, I don't want to. Yeah.

Let's move on. Yeah. We don't want to assume that someone's got issues down there that don't have. I thought she had a hepatitis. That's what I was going to say STD, but I don't know. But you don't want you to get the happy. You don't keep it forever, do you? I don't know. Now, once you get the STD, you keep that forever.

Oh, they're now cured because it wasn't curable until 2013. So she's hep free. You know what's? I just remembered. Hmm. We did hepatitis or not. That's awful. That's awesome.

That's terrible. Yeah, because there was a lot like Stephen Tyler was on the list. I'm just remembering this now. If you notice, Joe, Naomi Judd, David Crosby. There isn't a category we won't take. Natalie Cole, Lou Reed, yeah, Greg, Evil Caneval?

Do you find your list? I fully expect, listen to this. I fully expect when we start playing, believe it or not again, when we can open up our studios, we're going to play, does this person have Alzheimer's or not? I fully expect that's going to happen. I don't know at the time. I remember not believing that you cleared me to do hepatitis or not, but we did it.

All right. Let me tell you what JJ Watt had to say about C. Andre Hopkins moving to Arizona. Very, very politically correct. We start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show, not talking about people who have hepatitis, but people that need clear vision. And you can get that with my friends over at Berkeley Eye Center. a favor. If you are tired of glasses and context and I've been thinking to yourself, man, I would

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Is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, here we go, final hour, the Matt Thomas Show. If you would like to join us, you You are welcome to do so to make fun of me, to make fun of Ross, to, I wouldn't say make fun of Joe. He's a sensitive kid. 713-212-5-790s. You've learned today. I learned that there is a cure for hepatitis C. Which is what?

Some kind of antiviral drugs. Okay, very good. So, you know what? We've got some vaccines coming our way. For the habit? Oh, apparently there is a vaccine that is going into human trials. Really? Yes.

I'm all for that. I'm all for a number of tests exploding so we can get these teams on the practice court and on the spring training fields. I was driving to work today and I saw on 16 there was a billboard for a place that has live. I mean, it's a rapid 10 minute testing. It's not bad. Is it basically just a swat, cotton swab kind of thing? I think that's a blood prick. Is that one a blood one?

The 10 minutes? It's either the antibodies or the rapid one. It's a blood prick. One of the two. I would figure the antibodies would be the blood one. Yeah. have any friends that have gotten it? We've had,

we've had co-workers, get it here. Yes. I had a friend try to get it. They tried to do one of the volunteer testing. I'm talking about getting the virus. No, I know. They tried to... What mean try to get the virus?

How do you try to get a virus? No, you could sign up for like a medical trial. Like, they'll give it to you for money? Yeah. What kind of friend is that? An idiot. Who needs money, apparently. I'll take a two-week vacation.

How much are they going to pay? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. It was like 10 grand. Why would you... Wait, what, stop. This is made up. Go get the virus for 10 grand? Yeah.

If you're young and healthy. I think it includes testing if they still had the virus, like when the testing came, like a vaccine, that they would be part of a clinical trial. You get 10 G's? And I believe you also get a gift certificate to Omaha Steaks, which is kind of a nice little afterthought on top of that. I don't think that's my current. That one's not the same. That's something else. Okay, so let me ask you this.

I offer you $10,000 to get the virus, would you take it? Oh, stop at both of you. What are you talking about? Yes. We don't remember I'm making that empty money? Yeah, I think I might. I would do it. 10 Gs?

Sign me up. Wait, man, this is killing people. Well, not of my age. You mean to tell me there are not 35-year-olds dying because of this? Well, there are some. I'm relatively healthy. I don't have pre-existing conditions. Yeah, I mean, it's...

If I die, do they have to payment? I mean, someone's... Oh, my God. Someone's got to take the vaccines to try them out. How about those that have it? But I wouldn't know. I wouldn't intentionally go get it. I bet you donated plasma in college, didn't you?

No, I never did. I would do that like needles. I wanted to. I'm afraid of needles. Yeah, I don't really care for needles either. Did you donate sperm when you were in college? No. I don't want little Joe's running around unless I know of them.

Why not? I just want to know what the little Joe's are. What was the worst thing you did to make money in college? Nothing. Everything was on the up and up. I mean, worked at Cheddar. I probably sold weed that I bought.

Like, that's the perfect answer. Like, for a higher price, just, you know. Oh, you flipped it. As a kid say. But that's probably it. I was a pretty good kid. I just drank a lot.

Okay. So of the 70,000-ish deaths, only 796 in my age bracket, 35 to 44. How many of my age bracket? Yeah, go to our age. 317. How many in between 45 and 54? 45 and 54 is 2062.

That's nothing. 10 G's. I'm going to guess 60 plus is not looking real great. 60, yeah. That's when you get really bad. What do you think about that? We mentioned this very briefly yesterday. what do you think about the NBA

some general manager saying if you're over to the age of a certain age you shouldn't be going if you're over yeah that you can't go to the bubble so it's basically just ruling out Mike Dantone and Greg Popovich. It's Popovich it's John Lucas, it's Mike Dan Tony and it's Lionel Hollins as an assistant coach That's it in the whole NBA?

That was the list I saw on the NBA jump show there were four people that showed a picture. Really? Interesting. It sucks because you don't want it to not be part of the team but I can understand why wouldn't you have them sign a waiver or something yeah that's exactly what they would do but if's okay

worst case scenario here it's something that happened to coach Dantone and he got the virus and it wasn't like when Rudy Goberr got it and it killed him it would ruin your sport if you bring back your sport and it kills someone in your league

how are you going to recover from that? You don't necessarily put it on a PR campaign for the next year Yeah, that's bad. I mean, like, honestly, I don't understand how Dusty is coming back for the Astros. Honestly. How old is he? 72?

Yeah. They've got to be thinking the same thing about him and Joe Madden and all these guys. Guys, baseball does have some older guys running there. And don't forget about those, like, pitching coaches and bench coaches. Brent Strom's like 70. The Astros would be decimated. It would be in big trouble. That's right.

Dusty Baker is 70. Brent Strom is 71. man, I just, you know, how do you tell those guys that have been doing this all their life that the only reason why they're not going to do their job is because of their age? Is that, could you go to the age discrimination card? No, I think that would lose. I think so, too, because you're trying to prevent them from dying. Trying to save your life.

Yeah, maybe it would be a waiver thing, I guess. You'd have to have them have a press conference about it. And it's like, and Dusty, in theory, would still get paid. you're not firing the guy you'd have to pay him you would have to have like Dusty and whoever everybody over a certain age

would have to come out and be in a press conference to say I understand the risks I'm going to do this because I love baseball I think frankly anybody anybody that goes to the bubbles should be writing that

should be doing that regardless of age some kind of waiver I mean I don't even know well it's got cryptic all of a sudden cryptic well I mean sad

old I don't want to think about this stuff I want these guys, you know, again, look, not that I take Mike Dantony's blood pressure every day, but it looks like to me. He seems healthy? Yeah, he seems healthy. You said you've broken bread with him? We have. We try to stay away from bread.

Get away from the carbs. That's true. Is he going low carb too? No, Italians can't go low carb. You can't do that. It's impossible. Pasta's breads, no chances. It's impossible.

Yeah, it's impossible. All right, 713, 212-5-790 is how you reach our show if you want to get in. 7-1-2-790. through Twitter, you can find us at SportsMT, SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. So, JJ Watt spoke to Sports Illustrated about a variety of topics, and the rest of it I didn't particularly care about. I didn't want to get his response to what he thought of the DeAndre Hopkins trade. Here's the quote.

Actually, we'll do this. We'll do the roleplay. Ross, what do you think that JJ Watt would want to say? I was really shocked of the deal. I couldn't believe why he did it. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins is a great teammate. He's been fantastic. He's one of the best wide receivers in the league.

I just don't understand where Bill O'Brien is going with this one. And then he just made a bunch of other moves seem to cover up. I sometimes have to question what Bill O'Brien is doing here. Also, you want to add, you know, this is a great example of you get sideways with your coach. You're gone. I will not get sideways with Bill O'Brien. I like staying in Houston, Texas, even though my... My wife now plays for the Chicago World Soccer League team, whatever the hell they call it.

Here's what he really said. The trade certainly catches your eye. It's always tough to lose a guy like that, no matter what the situation is. It's above my pay grade, and it's something that obviously the team and the organization feels is in the best interest of the team. So as a player on the team, I do my job, and I go to work, and I play the games. And the GM and the owners, they do their job, and they try to do what they feel is best for the team. And so all I can do is show up and go to work. and hope that all the guys that we have are as great contributors to our team.

I mean, right from the scooping of the vanilla ice cream response, right? But I'm going to say this, and I want to make sure I'm very clear when saying this. I understand why I did it. And more importantly, Ross, I don't blame him for saying it. Today's athletes, for that matter, anybody, your boss does something you don't like. If you want to be outspoken about it, go ahead and do that. but you're going to cause problems in your own organization and you might be on the outside looking in that's what j j j wats doing j j j watt wants to finish his career as a text him he doesn't want

to be cut um and he is going to have to know and he knows this that if he was to say something sideways about bill o'brien it would create tremendous chemistry issues in that in that locker room so that's why he didn't that's why an article with s i at the end of the day will be meaningless on how JJ Watt really felt about his favorite wide receiver going to play for the Arizona Cardinals. He's the golden boy. He's Captain America. He's not going to go out and say this and be a troublemaker. And I think not only if I just don't think that's his personality in general to be that type of guy

and try to talk out of school because he really hasn't done that his entire career here, except when they were like losing games and he said he was just pissed off. This sucks. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's fine. You can show emotion there. But he didn't criticize the organization or coach. or anything like that.

He's not going to do that. That's not his personality. So vanilla answers from JJ Watt, we've come to expect. Frankly, in the history of the organization, there's only been a half dozen players have really spoken on anything. Dante Robinson, a little bit of Arian Foster, a little bit of Dwayne Brown, and that's about it.

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713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-2-2-2-790 at Joe George Ready. You can find us there as well. So NBA practices are going to start opening up on Friday. Denver is in. Houston is in. Hopefully we get a lot more teams involved in that. What do you think those practicing are going to be like?

just basically guys shooting? What would be... Can you guard what on one? Can you go five on five? You can only have four people in the building at one time. I mean, five on five is... Oh, yeah, that's right. You can only have four people in the building.

Hell of a game of horse. Five on five is ten. Hell of a game of horse. Are they going to let video cameras in there or anything? I don't know. It would be kind of fun to... That's why you can make a couple of bucks. See James Harden...

You mean to tell me that Rockets.com Wouldn't get a bunch of web hits off of? that? I mean, how long would you really watch them just shoot jumpers? I don't know. I'd rather watch that and watch kids play video games. Yeah. I mean, people, I get it. Yeah. People watch anything at this point. I would watch it, but would, would, would you really sit there and watch it for an hour? No, I'll say this. I bet you they'll shoot their social media team out there. They'll be shooting videos and, and I think they'll get a massive hits. Can the social media team get in there? Well, you get our social distance. You can do it.

I mean, I thought you were only letting a handful of people in at one time. You are just from like 300 feet away. John Lucas, you're out. Social media person, you're in. By the way, somebody asked if Jerry Jones would be allowed if the NFL put age restrictions on people. That's true. How old is he? He's got to be in his late 70s, right?

He's got to be closing in on 80. And by the way, he had a great draft. If you believe draft grades. Yeah, okay. Let me ask you this. If I require you to do something, draft grades, or scheduling predictions. I'd rather do draft grades.

Jerry Jones is 77. At least draft grades you have live, you actually have the people in front of you. Yes. Could you imagine spending hours of a radio show trying to predict the schedule of a particular team? You know what, Matt? I think we should do tomorrow.

What? We should pick, we should predict the 2022 Astro schedule. 2022? Yeah, why not? You mean go two years ahead advance? Yeah, let's just predict it. All right, I'll start off.

They're going to play the Rangers 19 times. I say opening day. Astros host the Mariners. No, tomorrow, you know, we're going to do, this is it. We're going to go out, we're going to do something no one else has done. We're going to predict the NFL Texan schedule tomorrow. There's only going to be with 16 possible combinations, right? There's like a million combinations.

What's easier? Predicting the Texan schedule or giving us a purpose? perfect bracket in the NCAA tournament. Probably the Texan schedule. There are more combinations of predicting a bracket, I would think. Because that's what, 65 outcomes? Could you imagine, gang, in all seriousness, us having an argument tomorrow. I say the Texans open up the year against the Ravens and Ross goes, no, no, no, no, no.

They're going to open up against the Colts. What are you talking about, Thomas? Hey, Ross, in week two, the Texans are playing the Chiefs on Monday night. No, that's the worst take I ever heard. they're going to be home for New Orleans or whoever they're playing this year. Who's there? Oh, no, Chicago. Yeah.

Oh, they're at Chicago this year, but that's okay. Yeah, Matt, you know what you're talking about? They're going to Chicago to play on Monday night. Shut up. Could you imagine two people sitting in a radio studio arguing about who's going to play whom on a particular week? I wouldn't do it, but I mean, hey, it is what it is, to each his own. I'd rather talk about Korean baseball.

my team's 0 and 2 I'm already discouraged about the future of our franchise since your squad is already 2 and O and you're the Washington Nationals You play 100 and what did we determine What was it? 133, 133? 143

Yeah Whatever it was 88 555 143 Yeah Dusan Bears rain champs baby Any idea what the ratings are on these things yet? I don't know What is normally

ESPN normally during that time puts old sports centers on right At 12? Oh, yeah. Do they have, is it the live LA one on? The Van Pell does his, and then they do the West Coast, and then they, I think they replay the West Coast. Now, a few times, if you're like watching it 3 o'clock in the morning, they'll put the replay of the NBA game they had on the night before.

That's after running the sports centers four or five times. Yeah. I mean, think about it from their perspective. It costs them very little money to run these games because their play-by-play guys are in their homes. So you have to put cameras, I don't know if you in this, you know, you put, you shoot out the computer. Yeah.

And whatever the rights fees are. I mean, how many, do we know how many millions they're paying? No. If you're the Korean baseball organization, you let them do it for free, don't you? Well, actually, they tried that and the KBO said no. Yeah. Yeah. So they had to pay them something.

I would figure. I would figure that was very right for the KBO and not to say no on that. I mean, they had to know that ESPN was desperate. it and that they shouldn't take this for free. I can't imagine they're paying a ton of money either. What would you pay? What would be an appropriate rights fee? And by the way, would you pay a dollar of that once regular sports returns?

Well, I think that's why it's on ESPN 2. Oh, is that right? No, I think the reason why it's on ESPN2 is because they don't want to interrupt. They don't want to interrupt the Van Pelt Sports Center, and they don't want to interrupt the first sports center in the morning, and then they have that get-up show with Mike Greenberger. pretty well. So, I mean, I wouldn't put, I wouldn't put Korean baseball on at 7.30 to the morning when people

were trying to get up and go to work. Would you? Again, it would take a special human being to get up and watch a Korean baseball game at 4 o'clock in morning. It's got to be because of betting purposes. Either you're an insomniac. I'm going to try to watch a game at midnight tonight. Will you really?

I'm going to try to flip it on. I'm going to try to see what's on the schedule. Then I'll try to watch one. Yeah. I'm usually up to like two or three anyways. Because the production value looks good. good. The stadiums look good. Having the fans, having those fake fans, that's kind of weird. It is very weird. They have the cheerleaders out there with the masks on. That's weird.

But is there any crowd? They don't pump in crowd noise, correct? I don't think so. And no, ESPN probably isn't. And the ESPN doesn't even really control the feed, do they? They're just basically, Carl Ravich is calling them. Yeah, they're taking the feed of whatever the Korean baseball organization is carrying. My guess is ESPN doesn't have people over there shooting it for them. No. But would you, yeah. You even get to Korea if you can. No, I don't think, I don't think, I think international travel is done for a while.

And that's the reason why I think the NFL yesterday decided, or two days ago decided they were going to cancel the 2000 international, 2020 international series of games. Do you think this will ultimately cost Mexico City and or London an NFL team? Ooh, Dusan Bears at LG Twins 1.30 in the morning. You are going to watch. Will you be tweeting about it, live tweet? a big game, Matt. When do they play the dinoes? The dinoes play at Samsung at 430, 25 in the morning.

When do our teams play, though? Each other? I don't know. I don't know. You want to do a sidebed? I'm thinking, like, maybe that's what we do a live stream. Okay. You're going to get up into a live stream of this?

Should Ross and I just get hammered on Twitch and talk on our KBO teams? We'd have to pay the, we'd have to pay, that's illegal, we'd have to pay for the rights. Well, I'm afraid you're going to say something that's going to get you in some international trouble. No, we'll be okay. No, I know both of your vocabulary. You're in a bad spot. Let's see.

Dusan Bears. Well, first of all, they're wrapping up their series with the LG Twins. They play the KT. Wizz Friday, 4.30 a.m. It's KT. Wiz versus Dusan Bears this weekend, Matt. Weekend Series. Okay. What time? 4.30 a.m. 3 a.m. and midnight.

I'd like to be able to say I will join you for this, but the chance to me to I mean, just Ford of them sleeping and forgetting it are 100%. Yeah, that's fine. They don't play. Oh, they play the dinoes or the dinoes are the dinoes. It's a dinosaur for their mascots. I'm assuming it's the dinoes. Dinos.

They play them Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of two weeks from now. 19th, 20th, and 21st of May, all games at 430 in the morning. And apparently when those two teams meet, you throw the records out. I'm right now that? That's true, man. It's just a rivalry as oldest time itself. Oh, my God. I'm going to

might have to start getting into this. The Baflips are awesome. But don't they, aren't they proponents of the Baflips? They are. Like, I mean, they go all out. It's great. They really, if they're going to entertain us, they should do things that would be atypical of a baseball game,

like running backwards around the bases when you hit a home run. You're in no hurry. Well, they said that this league is, I saw someone tweet about how this league is just like a step below AAA. It's above double A, but it's a step below AAA Quality baseball. So it's okay baseball. No, I don't think it's embarrassing themselves.

No, I don't know. At least it's competitive. That's what I like. Go scos go Dusan Bears. I also like that in their first night they had a delay because their building was on fire. Duh, Bears. Is that because the, well, you can't blame the concessionaires.

There were no concession. No, it was just like the building behind the stadium, the first night they were on ESPN. There was a delay. There was a smoke delay. there's a rain delay and then the next game there was a smoke delay and that's all I know about the league and bat flips

and no have any managers been tossed out of games yet how do you argue not that I know of and the other team's going to hear you arguing about whatever the call is it's wrong right you can't hide you can't let the crowd hide your F bombs you're dropping them Adam that's true Dousan Bears won three the last five championships

I never thought in my life I would speak dynasty, baby. I would speak as much Korean baseball as we have on this show so far. I don't know if I'm proud of it or I'm just completely discouraged and dreaming that we get baseball. Real baseball started up very soon. Go Bears. Go, what am I, what's my name of my team again? The Wiz. The Wiz. KT. Wizz. You can go watch the Wiz this weekend. Catch a little old school, Diana Ross. Okay. I'll see what I can do. All right.

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Sports Talk 790 available everywhere with the iHeard radio app now number one for podcasting What do you know about ESPN's Brady Henderson, Matt? I've never heard of him. Me either.

Well, according to his sources though while jadevi and clownie remains open to resigning with the Seattle Seahawks the Seattle Seahawks are not really opening to signing him. He went from a guy that I need to make $20 million a year to, well, okay, I'll take $16.5 million a year to,

I have no offers at this point. He basically bungled this entire year of terms of trying to hold out for the big deal. Yeah, I guess, I don't know, I guess, are we going to say, by the way, that Bill O'Brien did this right. He made the right move. Trading him for a third round pick, and then he had, what do you have, like four or five sacks this year? And then...

No, because I still believe he would have been a bigger asset to the team playing for the Texans as compared to playing in Seattle. Under the, you would be under the, we don't know they wouldn't hold out, held out. It would be under the franchise tag for... He would have come back. To make the franchise tag, he would have come back. Because they offered it to him, correct?

Three sacks. last year in 13 games. But you know what about JD? To me, he's, it's sometimes the stats will tell you the story and sometimes they won't. I've always been a fairly big fan of his, despite the fact the numbers aren't just outrageous. I think to me, Ross, he's a disruptor. Absolutely. That was, I'm with you on that as far as like, get not, he'd only had nine and a half and nine

taxes last two years as a Texan, but the tackle four losses were there. He's a game wrecker. He's a game changer. and all that type of stuff. He's still young. He's one of the most... How much of the Texans miss him this year? Tremendously.

A lot. So I think there's your answer on that. Would there have been issues with him resigning with the team? I just don't... I know there's a philosophy of go... If a guy doesn't want to stay with you, go trade him so you get some value in return as compared to him walking as a free agent.

We see that all the time in Major League Baseball and in the NBA all the time. I don't know if the NFL has that same trend or not. But look at where J.D. Clowney is right now. Is J.D. Clowney not getting any action because he was a disappointment in Seattle, or is J.D.

Clowney not getting an action because he just has an overestimated view of what he's worth? I think there's some of that, too. And last year, I mean, apparently he's saying that he basically played with a core injury, and he had missed a couple of games because of that. But then that just adds to the fact that he's had the core muscle injury. Early in his

career, he had the label of being injury prone. Which is, you is not anything close to being accurate. He's just IH. Of course, because, I mean, he's played 13 or more games every season since his first season. No, my thought is he would have helped this team because what did the team not have much of last year, Ross? Any pass rush at all. Any pass, no semblance of pass rush.

And just really, I mean, the defensive line was just not good. The secondary was not good. With JJ Watt being gone for most of it, that, you know, that only would have made Gedevian's role even more important. and he was a guy who that was like when it was his time to shine it seemed like jd is kind of maybe a guy who kind of coasts through and when it when the bell is when he has to answer the bell though he does so when a whitney merciless or j j wott will go down that was what seemed to be the situations where he would really thrive do i believe he has the highest i hate using this term motor because it's such a it's an easy simplistic way to describe somebody's drive i understand it just doesn't seem like that i don't know if you but no one would ever be say he left it on the field. He gave it as all every play or in stuff. I was, I'm doing a story. I wrote a little mini story for the Hornets website.

They're talking to all the different Southwest Division broadcast, not Hornets, the Pelicans. Really? And I, uh, you're writing it? Well, it's like 200 words. It was like just a question and answer. Very simple. Can I edit it?

No. It's already done. It's fine. Um, and I talked about PJ Tucker. Yes. about what I know PJ Tucker may not be the best three-point shooter, maybe undersized,

maybe doesn't take a shot when he's supposed to take it. But the guy balls to the wall every single minute of the... You never have to worry about whether or not PJ Tucker is giving it as all. And if there's anything to describe a deficiency

into Clowney's game, it's that there are times where he's just a guy out there. And if you want to make $20 million a year in the NFL, and you want to have that reputation of being a worthwhile number one overall pick. You can't have that. Well, there are sometimes he just is just a guy out there.

I think it's also, I would put Russell Westbrook in that category as well. And there's, it's not like a switch. It's just people are different. They have different personalities. Devin Clowny is a human. Russell Westbrook is a human.

And it might be one of those situations where people can turn around and get motivated and ramp things up, but you just can't teach what Russell Westbrook can't go to James Hardin or Isaiah Hardinsey or whoever and say, hey, play like me, have this energy like me. It's just not possible. It has to be, some of it has to be inborn. And there are some guys in defensive line

like Natamakon Su. Dirty's one of the dirtiest players in the NFL. But when you used to watch him playing, he still plays, right? Yes, he's with the Buccaneers still, and he's mid his mid-30s at this point. You never question he's ready to go. You may question some of his tactics, but when Sue's out there, he's playing. He's looking to ruin people.

J.J. J.J. Watt? I never questioned his motor. Now, sometimes do double teams kind of curtail his progress? Absolutely. Does he have the explosion that he had five or six years ago? No chance. That's the biggest problem with J.D. Claney is that when he wanted to be a disruptor and wanted to make a difference in a game, he did so. He just didn't know enough. and that's the reason why when he was out there in the NFL looking for $20 million a year,

whether he was asking Bill O'Brien or Pete Carroll for it, they laughed in his face, said, you're not worth it. But he's going to make a team better wherever he wants to go. I feel like at this point, he's going to go on one of those, kind of like what Tyrone Matthew was as a Texan, kind of like what Randall Cobb was as a Dallas Cowell.

It's going to be like a one year, prove it type of deal at a certain amount, who knows, $14, $15 million, something like that for one year. and he's going to have to prove it. So one year for Randall Cobb in Dallas, being purely average, got him three really good years salary-wise. He was one year five million in Dallas.

He would have commanded more. He had 800 yards in a few touchdowns. Randall Cobb had a solid season for the Cowboys last year. As a number three. But I think if you were to look, he's going to be way overpaid as compared to most people at his position. I think the Cowboys are ready. This is just me thinking out.

I think the Cowboys are ready to give him more than $5 million a year. And the only way that Bill O'Brien was going to get him over here was to overpay. And that's what he did. And let me say this. Every NFL team does that. Every NFL team, especially if they're deficient in a position, is going to overpay for somebody. Because at that time, this is before you traded for Brandon Cooks. This is before you draft their wide receiver.

At that time, if you didn't have Randall Cobb, it was going to be what? Fuller, Stills, and Couty? Mm-hmm. Yeah. But would you have needed to get both those guys, cooks and Cobb? I wonder if the Cook's trade would have gone first, would they have slow played, trying to bring Randall Cobb here, and if they would have, would they have done it in a lesser dollar amount? I would imagine so, but I think the puzzle pieces fit together.

You got your outside burners, and then you got the guy working the inside and Cobb in the slot. Oh, you know what? We're going to argue about this all season long. The receiving court could be very, very good. it doesn't have the third down and nine go get that 10-yard first down guy you hope that it comes out of that but at this point you don't know of any of the four guys that can do that consistently because of injuries and whatnot or dropping a passage you knew that dionre go get to the first or when you needed it you needed the first down he'd go get it for you 50-50 ball he's going to win it clutch grab to break a route when deshawn's running for his life the Sean could do that or de Andre could do that for you we're not sure these four guys can. We know that Will Fuller can run down the field like nobody's business, but he's also been beset by injuries. We know that Brandon Cooks has had a history of doing that, but he's also been concussion prone. We don't know what's left in the tank in Cobb, although the Texans do,

giving him three years and almost what, $10 million a year? No, three years, 27, yeah. First two years, I think 18 of it's guaranteed. And at this point, I don't, I can't imagine Kootie and Kenny Stills having both those guys on the roster next year. One's going to probably have to go. And it feels like there's more talk of

that if Kenny Stills gets you something back in return via trade, he may be on the blog. He might even make it to the week one whenever that is. Yeah, what is that going to be, by the way? NFL, we didn't predict the day of the season's going to start. That's part of our NFL prediction special tomorrow. 12 to 3. No matter of fact, we'll do it from 6A to 6P tomorrow.

Joe, I'm going to produce this show for you tomorrow for the A team. Just week by week who they're going to play. I think I know who they're playing the first four weeks. Did you go to that website? I told you not to go to. No. John Clayton said it's going to be the inter-conference games. So the NFC North would be the whole first like three or four weeks.

So they could pick those up and plop them somewhere else if they had to. Yeah. So the first four weeks of the Texan schedule would be Bears, Texans, Packers, Vikings. So who was talking yesterday about the schedule being picked up and dropped it towards the end? I wonder who that was. Or maybe it'll be, yeah, I'm the scheduling guru. You are, Matt. Mr. Scheg, yeah, I want to be referred to as a scheduling guru for the rest of the day.

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Ross, you don't watch wrestling, but there's a new show I'm hooked on. It's called Darks. Is it with the hotties on it? No, it's card Dark Side of the Ring. It's on the Vice Channel, I think, is what they called. I don't even know what it is. And my DVR records it. Every week they have a new episode.

This is, I guess their second season of doing this. I've only caught the first few episodes of this year. they basically go into dark stories about what it's happened with wrestlers that have either gone into prison or killed themselves

or have been murdered in the behind the scenes of it and there'll be at least 15 seasons of this I'm guessing well unfortunately for the business there's quite a few episodes they still can get to it is odd though

that have all that that a and we shouldn't say sport because it's not a sport it's entertainment Sports entertainment? Sure. I mean, there's physical activity happening. Yeah.

You cannot be an athlete in professional wrestle. You have to have some mobility move around, be able to lift, jump, kick. I don't know, Andre, the giant could hardly walk by the end of it. That's true. May he rest in peace. But it is amazing that that form of sports entertainment has such horrific deaths. And Frank, a lot of it's probably because of... Drugs in one way or the other.

Yeah, drugs, steroids, alcohol. I mean, honestly, what they had to go through too? It's brutal. What are they doing like 300-something shows a year? Well, they're a professional restaurant. They're on the road probably 80% of the year. Yeah, it's just brutal. Anything in your life, it requires you to work away from home 80% of the year,

you're probably headed for alcohol and booze. I mean, in drugs. There's just no other way around it. High stress. Yeah. Yeah. Just throwing your body around. Mm-hmm.

But it's, it is incredibly sad the number of stories that have been out there. And again, even if you're not a wrestling fan, just the behind the scene stuff is, is incredible. And most of it, again, is frankly, around alcohol and booze and alcohol and drugs. If you have, I mean, you're traveling 300-something days a week. You're going from town to town. You're going a lot of times in those days, right? Where they're just like on bus rides and stuff like that, too. Maybe it wasn't the greatest travel.

You're injuring yourself. You're having to fight through injuries. you're having to perform through injuries. Like, didn't you, they probably at all times need some kind of surgery. Pain killers. So you're on painkillers. Right. You're on drugs.

You're on alcohol to cope with the pain. You're away from your family and stuff like that. It just seems natural. But it is interesting that John Cena went through that and he's okay. That we know. That we know of. But now they've relaxed it, right? Like, there aren't people doing 300 nights a week a year or anything like that anymore, right?

It's a great question. How many nights a year is John seen it? Well, John's not actively wrestling anymore. Okay. But I would say a guy like, well, Roman Reins isn't doing anything because he's fighting in the league. He doesn't want to be in the ring because he's worried about contracting the virus after going through leukemia and all that kind of thing.

Oh, wow. But Daniel Bryan's probably on the road, three, four, no. Well, they're not on the road anymore because there's no arena. But when the arenas were full, they were gone at least four days a week. So it's over 200 days. a year. I thought they had some certain wrestlers on certain shows and not others or something like that. They have house shows

too that they don't televise. Plus there's pay-per-views and which they're always involved in. It's tough. And you know the most horrific thing of it is they're all independent contractors. None of them get benefits from the WWE.

You're just getting 1099s from visiting man. Now grand, they're making a lot of money. But they're having to get their own health coverage and they're having to pay their own medical plans and whatnot. Yeah, that's right. Because this is such a dangerous sport or, you know, whatever you want to call it. But it's just a, for the end of it's a wrestling fan.

It's a great watch, especially if you're a fan of some of the older stuff. Like, I'll say this, the David Benoit stuff, which he passed away probably to what 10 or 15 years ago, he killed his wife and he killed his son. That's got to be like episode one of the series, right? Well, it was like, I think it was like a two-parter. It was intense. So I'm just saying these are, I'm having a harder time as we move through this a little bit, finding fresh, interesting shows to watch. I know, it's always sunny in Philadelphia. I know. You know, you've been telling me that.

By the way, I'm a funny show. I don't know. I try not to spend my free time. Doesn't that seem, don't all those shows bring you down and like depress you? No, I have become a much more bigger, a much bigger fan of documentaries. I like that, but I mean every episode, it's literally, what is it called? The Dark Side of the Ring. Like, every episode's going to be. depressing. I try, I don't know, just my disposition, I guess. I try to watch comedies and stuff like. I was going to say, I was going to say, would you like the episode of behind the scenes of Doink the Clown, but he's also dead. So that doesn't do any good. Well, may he rest in peace. Well, here's what I'm going to do. This week, I'm going to watch the Big Lobosky. Okay. I'm going to knock that off, and then we're going to have a review of that on Monday.

I'm wondering how you're going to like that. I wouldn't come to you and say you have to watch that because I'm not sure if it'll be to your taste. Well, you're batting a thousand. so far. Okay. Loved Godfather one, God and Father two. I'm actually

kicking myself that I didn't see it a lot sooner. It's not me batting a thousand. It's an entirety of America. That makes me feel worse.

History of Cinema Watchers. Thanks, everybody, for being a part of the show today on Twitter, on email. Occasionally a couple of you called. We'll back here tomorrow with James Click,

the Astros general manager. 1230. You'll hear him tomorrow on 790. Oh, I forgot to say that. Clanton, Wexler, the A team. They're next. Yeah.