The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: Brian T. Smith, NBA Return Speculation, Fantasy 5

Episode Date: May 1, 2020

Fantasy 5: restaurant appetizers edition. Brian T. Smith joins the show to talk NBA, Rockets and the possibility of basketball's return.

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1203 in H-town. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Apparently they can work today. Now, granted, not in the club atmosphere, but apparently some restaurant,

excuse me, some adult entertainment facilities are opening up as restaurants. Oh, yeah, that's true. Thus the 25% rule. Get a little steak buffet. How are you going to social distance during a lap dance? Yeah. Do you social distance in the champagne room, or is that just the opposite of the social distancing?

Yeah, not a whole lot of social distancing going on in the campaign room. Yeah. So. I would imagine. I've never been. Yeah, I was going to say. Number of times Joe George has been at, well, where is Joe? Garrett's here.

He's back there somewhere. Garrett the cowboy fans with us here. Good afternoon. Cowboy Garrett. Is that we're going to call him on the show? You know what? You're a cowboy. Garrett. Is that what you want me to change my Twitter?

No, no, no. You're going to stay true. Don't let us Gibronis influence how you change your Twitter account. So we'll just, we'll get it there. I hope you guys are in a fantastic mood this morning and this afternoon. We're with you till 3 o'clock today. We're today coming up at 2 o'clock. We will have our good weekly visit with Brian T. Smith in The Chronicle. 2.30 is the Fantasy 5.

Category this week will be in honor of restaurants. Opening. Opening up, at least to 25%. today is Best Restaurant Appetizer Slash starters

Hmm So anything you would get Before the main course I'm trying to I'm trying to figure out Why you change No because I'm because Chips and salsa you don't

Typically pay for Oh okay But now you're saying That's on the table Oh it always was on the table No you said I asked you have chips and sauces on the table No I said

You know no You don't let me let me No I said you have to have to have specific restaurant chips and salsa. A couple of days ago. No, I asked you of chips and salsa and you said no. No,

I said chips and salsa are fine as long as you pick the restaurant. For instance, there's five different Mexican restaurants. Yeah. Like, for instance, I'm such a salsa fan that it's hard for me to say one is just, like, is there an atrocious salsa out there?

I've had some bad salsa, yes. I don't think I've ever had, now some are too hot. Some I wouldn't prefer, I would prefer over others, but I'm never going, God, this is awful. so thus anything is a starter because like you order a meal and you get a salad when there are going to be some salads are going to be better than other places oh so you're calling a salad a starter as well now yeah yeah geez well let me say hey i got news for you when you want to start a fantasy five category then you can make the rules for it ross is the typical oh boy i don't come up with the idea but i'm going to crush it as soon as i hear it i'm not crushing it i'm talking about the rules being changed the rules are being changed i'm just

So can I get a soup? Because I asked you. Absolutely. Because a couple of days ago, I asked about soup and chips and salsa, and you said no. I don't remember that at all. Of course you don't. No, I mean, I'm not saying, I mean, literally no. That's what I'm saying.

No, absolutely soup's involved. I'm not being somebody that's crushing things. I'm talking about you springing rules on me. The day of the draft. Yeah, but let me, I got news for you. There's no chance you put together a list. There's a thousand percent chance I put together a list. It's right here.

All right. Oh, you did. Look at that little show prep. in advance. All right, we have people sending me audio.

Not that Timmy B have a great crab I can't read that one. No crab dip. Well, especially where he was talking from. The men's club.

So if I want to say, if I want to take a soup now, this changes things. Well, I'm still giving you two hours and 24 minutes. I didn't bring this on you five minutes ago.

Fine. Or five minutes and total. I'm going to stare into the void for at least 90 minutes of it. All right. So be true to your board. Oh, boy. All right.

Since there isn't a number one sports topic, I do want to tell you something that happened for me this morning. I did go have breakfast at Denny's in Kingwood. Mm-hmm. Because our power... Did you wear a mask? No. Oh. Okay.

That's not Harris County, right? No, it is Harris County. Oh, that's right. Annex. But you can't go into a restaurant wear the mask and then take it off and then you eat it back. You eat it back? Do you do? I haven't thought of it that way.

I'm not anti-mask. I have two masks. Okay. And I would wear them if I can, if you want to go to HEP, you have to wear a mask. I'm zero problem. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not anti-mask guy. Okay. I'm not going to go out and make it a concerted effort to make sure I'm everywhere I go.

I have it on, but I'm not going to, if I need to put a mask on, I'll put it on. Not necessarily for me, but for people to think, oh, this guy's going to be, you know, spreading disease out there. So I went to have breakfast today at the day because we had the power out in our house. What did you get? Moons over my hammie or? No, I actually went, I actually went big time. I went steak and eggs. I was really hungry.

Oh, okay. Okay. Fancy Matt. Steak of Deniz is not considered fancy. If you get the fanciest thing at a not fancy place, are you still fancy? That's the question. It wasn't the most expensive thing. What's more expensive than steak?

There were other like chicken fried steak. There were bigger omelets. I just got just to general, whenever it was. Okay. So I thought I would be, you know, because I wasn't going to go out to dinner tonight because I figured tonight would be just crazy with people going everywhere. So I thought I'd go to breakfast. It was by myself.

You walk in, first of all, the people there were super excited to see you. I mean, these are people that have not waited tables in months. Or not months, but a month, right? I sat down. There were three other couples in the restaurant. We were each separated by a couple of tables. That's good. Okay.

So that was interesting thing, number one. Number two, all the waitresses were wearing masks, as you would expect. Interesting. And again, this is just Denny's in Kingwood. So this, for each his own on this. She asked me when I wanted to drink, and I said, I'd like coffee. And you know when you get coffee at most places, they bring you a cup of the creamers, right? You know, the little individual ones, or they bring you the one where you pour it in there.

So she asked me after, after I asked what I want a coffee. She goes, how many creams do you want? I said, I'll take two creams and one Splenda. she brought that exact amount to the table in one of those cups. So the whole bowl of creamers is... With everybody touching it? Is gone. Hmm.

Okay. Next. By the way, my table was completely empty when I got there. There was no salt and pepper shakers, no ketchup bottles. There was nothing. The menu came on a piece of paper so they could just throw it away when they were done. Interesting. A limited menu.

You know how, you know, how Danny's menu is. It's like Gary Kubiak's old play calling sheet. Well, it's not quite cheesecake factor level, but it's extensive. It's got four to five payers, changes to it, including the senior section and the dinner and breakfast and all that. So there was on one page back and forth on the front and back. She asked me what I wanted and I did. She goes, do you want ketchup? I said, yes.

How many? I said, two. She goes, do you want steak sauce for your steak? I said, yes, A one. And she says, you don't want her to? I said, I'll take one. Jellies, yes. She says, what kind of?

I mean, it was a breakdown and everything came individually. individually. They brought the ketchup in a little solos, little solo cups. You know, you'd squeeze out at it like a Fuddruckers where you put your ketchup in. There's no more bottles. There's salt and pepper shakers have to come to your tables when you ask for them. They're not just sitting there. And when I got another cup of coffee, you know, I usually just, they bring the pot over and they just poured in there. They brought me a separate cup of coffee and another can another cup of two creamers and one Splenda. So what I deduced out of this was first, it was nice to sit down. in a restaurant. Second of all, the waitresses seem very happy that we were there. And third,

I think waitresses and waiters are going to have to work significantly harder until we start to really relax this. And maybe they'll never change, but they're going to have to work a lot harder than they ever had before. Because I just ordered steak and eggs. Usually the ketchup's on there. The packets of butter are on there. The jellies are there. The cream and the sweeteners are. they're having to each individually do that. Every little thing you want. Every little thing has to be on there. So I gave her like a 35% tip. That's good. Because I figured 20 is not, I mean, she's working harder than that. And they were appreciative. So that's just my little story for the day, is that if you guys are going to go eat, it's going to probably be a little more tedious. Maybe a few minutes longer. Certainly could be longer, especially if you don't have reservations for a place and they're only seating a quarter of the place for the next couple of weeks. But it was good. And it was just nice to sit in a restaurant again. I never thought it would be as enjoyable as I did.

But I was kind of intrigued by the amount of separation. And by the way, they were constantly cleaning chairs. They were constantly cleaning the floor. I mean, and this is a chain. So maybe Denny says this national, here's how you're going to do it. I don't know how individual family restaurants. But it was certainly an interesting experience for sure. Hmm.

I'm going to avoid staying, going in sitting in a restaurant for still a little bit while longer, I think. Well, the problem with me, is I feel like every time I go out and get takeout, that somebody screws part of my order up, and I just going to hold me pissed. Yeah. I really have, I mean, I've been takeout king the last couple of months. As if I.

And I haven't really had major issues. I'm batting about 500, and I really feel like you should bat 975. I've been doing pretty well. Yeah. Luckily. So, I've been doing a lot of Uber Eats as well.

But the problem with Uber Eats is that I feel like that somebody's taking a bite out of your sandwich or eating some of your fries. It's been happening. These days they've been putting the seal on them. They put a seal on. Oh, that's even better. Remember, we got pepper pizza. Yeah.

A couple days ago. It had like a seal thing on it. Okay. All right. So that's Matt's story time for today. So nobody's ripped the pepperoni off of our pizza. No. And those pepperoni rolls are delicious, by them.

Yes, they were. All right. All right. Today can be a heavy food day on the show. I feel like Garrett to welcome you to the 790 family. You should buy us lunch. We'll do. I hear that?

Good kid. he's going to make it after all. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Also on the radio show today, I'm going to put Joe George and Ross' feet to the fire. I'm going to have them put their name on it. We're going to talk about the futures,

the immediate futures of the MLB, NBA, NFL, and college football. We're going to see if they know, if they can look in their crystal ball, how many games are playing, are we playing, and when a champion will be crowned. It's 1214. It isn't anything goes Friday.

713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Next time, tell Alexa. Playing 790 on I-Heart Radio. Wherever you are, so is Matt Thomas. One more thing I forgot. They didn't let me open the door to walk into the restaurant. They came to the waitresses came and opened up the door to the restaurant.

That's less hands on the handle. They ran up to the door as they saw you approaching or what? I think so, because I think there was another couple that came in after I got there and they did the exact same thing. Okay. Interesting. Okay. So, you're going to go out this weekend sometime? No.

Okay. Well, I'm going to say, if anybody wants to go out, let me know how it goes. Yeah, I don't need to see you people. I'll be fine with it. I'll be dining it. I'll be taking out. I'm going to Big City Wings on Saturday. Good call.

I'll wait for the Bonesless Special on Sunday. Why don't you come over on lunch on Saturday? Actually, can we have lunch together? We're not related. You should tell them you're my dad. No. They wouldn't be that they would say maybe an older brother. I don't know if they'd say that.

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Ooh, that might be a moosa, Matt. How do we know? Wouldn't there be like some sort of fruit on the top of it to solidify it as an alcoholic drink? I don't know. Okay. It looks more juicy to me. Excuse me. I didn't mean to say that.

I didn't mean to say that. Are we still talking about her glass? Yes, a glass of orange juice. Juicy. Live radio. 7-1-7-1-3-212. She's got a great personality. 5-7.

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Yeah, of course. I don't know. I think I kind of prefer Francesca. Francesco or Evan at 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-90. Let's go to Gary in Spring. Anna, anything goes Friday. Hi, Gary. Hey, Matt, how you doing today?

Good friend. What's going on? Hey, I just wanted to tell you, by far, not even anyone closest. to you, you have by far on Friday the best opening intro into a show on all radio. Well, thank you. Thank you. I wish we may have to do it more if more and more places open up, but I feel like it's just kind of like a Friday staple.

What else are going on today? That's good. Hey, as far as appetizers, beginning food at a restaurant, I've been in Houston all my life, born in 1951, a mountain spring, as you can see. There's two restaurants in the woodlands. The food in that restaurant, the appetizers, they have nothing bad that's not delicious on their menu. It is called the Republic Grill. Their appetizers are so good.

Anything on there as well as their entrees. Their menu is not large, which is good, like the cheesecake factory. Smaller menu, but it's a quaint restaurant. There's two of them in the woodlands. They're fixing to open up another one at 99 and Rayford when this stuff lives off. Oh, that's not too far from worrying my daughter plays volleyball, so I'll have to check that place out. Hey, Gary, have a great weekend. Thanks for calling, and we appreciate the kind of words.

Thank you, yourself. Yeah, everybody's going to have their own local places. We're going to have to kind of go to the big picture on this because I think I've got a three-game losing streak here on the old fantasy five. I think you lost like four to last five. Yeah, it's not been a great percentage. Well, we'll get you on today, Matt, since you want to spring new rules on me. Oh, no, no, no. All right, let's go to a couple things here on the headlines.

we start putting you. Did somebody say put your name on it? Yeah, that was, Herm Edwards, because they were getting asked about reports of him, his job, or him being on the hot seat, sources, sources,

sources, put your name on it. So, Garrett, it's now your responsibility to find that sound by it. We're just going to play that a bunch in the next segment of the show.

Put your name. We may even have it, right? I have, I have, you play to win the game. I don't think I have. Put your name on it.

All right, things I want to get to that it's just kind of of making news. Major League Baseball says if they're going to play this year that spring training

Ross will be in the cities in which the teams play. Explain. The Astros would have their spring training at Minutemate Park. But you can play who? Nobody. Okay.

Inter squad. Okay. Did you get the 40 man? There's because, well, Jeff Passon said there might still be minor leagues. Okay. That's right.

but here's what we're thinking about. If they sent everybody to, this is the thing is every day there's a new story. You know what I mean? Every day. The latest is if they sent everybody to Florida, guess what they got to do? Pay for them to stay there. Per diem. Hotel.

Yeah. You do it in Houston. And costs go up. Your costs are going to go down. Now, the negative is there's only one field. You know how when you go to spring training facilities, there's like five or six baseball fields. Yeah. There's, you know, umpting cages.

There's lots of different areas. That wouldn't be the case. You're going to be doing long toss in the concourse or something? Well, I don't know. That's a great question. You know what would be funny is if they conducted drills just outside a Minutemate Park. On Hamilton. Yeah. There's a little bit of grass out there.

A small patch of grass. Those giant baseballs. No, what you do is. And homeless people. Yeah. Well, what you do is you practice bunting there for the one game that you bunt in the course of the year. Oh, you know they have that let the kids play thing out there? There's a little, there's a little...

Oh, the minute-made park, the minute-made drink thing. The juice box or whatever they have out there? Run the bases. Yeah, they can run the bases out there. Like the kids. Every base is three feet apart, but it needs to get your reps-it. So, yeah, they're saving on per diem. Plus, they're trying to keep as much of a normal life for these players as possible

by being able to go home to their homes every night. It's compared to going back to a hotel or a condo they're staying. And not having to pay for that. And saying some money, lots of money. So that's the latest. And again, the negative is you don't play anybody. Yeah. You only play inter-squad, and you'd only have one field to go to.

It's interesting. It's kind of like NFL training camp. You just go against your own people. That's exactly right. No reason. And at this point, here we are in May, every stadium in America could have their spring training. Because, let's face it, we're not getting started for several weeks. So by the time that spring training may kick to get started, it might be June 1st.

Well, that Minneapolis won't be an issue. Cleveland will be an issue. What if, like, stay at home order, how does that work? That's, again, you have to be able to... California still stay home. Correct. So California may have to go to Arizona. New York may have to go down to Florida.

I mean, it's not a perfect scenario. But if 20 to 30 major league baseball teams can stay in their cities, that saves them serious cash. Something to think about. Interesting. But that's to the greater point, is that I feel like every day, we hear a new story. Like for a while in the NBA,

it was Vegas. It's perfect. Yeah. And then the story came out last week that some of the older players in the NBA were not feeling so good about the younger players behaving themselves in Las Vegas.

Because remember when Eric Gordon on? Eric Gordon said he's like, we'll go to the game, we'll go to the hotel, back and forth, and we'll do this. Eric Gordon's also been in the league in 10, 11 years. He has sewed his. wild oats. He knows how to go about his business. He's a pro. He's a pro. 19 year old first year

in the NBA guy. I say Hartinstein. Well, I don't know if I say it would be really invited there, but that's a different issue. Oh, you're telling me a casino's open. Let's go. So that's the reason why that's that's what it is. James likes to party. Yeah, but you can party in Orlando too. With goofy. Rossi. Ask any Astro when they practiced, when they had spring training in Kissimmee what it was like to have spring training in Kissimmee. They were more than okay with it. Because at 7.30.8 o'clock, there were plenty of places to go. Not named to Dismet amusement park. It's not like Vegas, though. No, but if you're looking for, you know, adult entertainment at night, you could probably find it. Is Orlando famous for its strip clubs? There's quite a few. There's one really close to the Orlando airport. That's pretty legendary. Orlando strip clubs. You do this during the break.

You can't look at it now. Is it called the dollhouse? I'm not going to tell. There's a Rachel's Orlando. Well, we know about Rachel's in West Palm Beach. Yes, you do. Don't throw me out of the bus. It's true.

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Sports Talk 790, Real Texas. Talk here. He's got a tweet asking why would the Astros be able to take advantage of playing at Sam, at Rice, U of H having baseball fields like that. My guess is that Major League Baseball, this is just pure speculation of my part, is that they would say, if you're going to practice in your home stadiums, that you in Houston can't have a competitive advantage over, say, Detroit. playing, you can't have five parks to go to where the tigers can only play in one. So if they go to the home ballparks for spring training, it's not because there's not availability of other places is because they want it to be consistent with other teams around Major League Baseball.

That's my guess. Make sense? I think so. Look, they're not doing this because they want, I mean, they may say publicly that they're wanting the guys to sleep in our own bed tonight, but they're going to save per diem per diem cost would be in the million saved. Big time. I would imagine, yeah.

Would the individual teams have to dole that out or the league somehow? No, it's league. It's league mandated. If you're in spring training, you get this per day. Interesting. And the money that you would save would be because you would be giving per diem because people were at home. So they're just trying to save money. Yeah, this isn't because it's in the spirit of, we want Justin Verlander to be able to go home to his baby every night and kiss Kate and all that kind of thing.

No, it's because you have to pay him $1408 a day. Yeah. Okay Per diem First of all these NFL athletes I mean these professional athletes get crazy money And then they get crazy per diem Do they get per diem

Normally on the road? Yeah but I don't get crazy per diem I get regular per diegian Well what is that I don't know what that is Do you get pretty em? No you don't travel When he travels with the rocket

He gets a certain amount I know So you get fancy Matt PrettyM It's comfortable Matt Per diem Okay So the rest of you is fancy map

But the per diem is I'll put it to you this way. Comptuant. In Sacramento, in Atlanta, and in Charlotte and Houston, I mean, in Dallas, it's really nice. New York, Boston, Chicago, it ain't so good. L.A. Oh, my God. Early in my Rockets, you don't know this, Joe, but early in my Rockets career, I would take photos of what I would have for breakfast and have people guess what it cost. $57 for breakfast.

For yourself? Just for myself. And I'm not talking about extravagant. I'm talking about an omelet with some toes. No potatoes. You had like a pancake and like a fruit cup or something. Yeah. I'm not kidding. And again, I love the life. Trust me. I wouldn't have any other way. But there are going to be a lot of other places. Like in the, like you go to Oklahoma City, you get room service, it's $21. That's nothing.

You get that same meal in New York City. It's $121. So yeah. I'm just telling you, per diem is yet another amazing thing that athletes get, the full one. All right, gentlemen, let's put our names on this. Put her names on it. We could have put our name on it. We could do it. Put your name on it. Put your name on it right now. Just put your name on it.

Hey, okay, we're getting there. All right. Just fired off random. We don't care when you do it. That doesn't really matter. I'm going to write these down. And then how about we revisit this and say another week from now? Okay.

And see if our opinions change. I feel like I was telling this to Ross in the last segment that everything changes. Like this new thing about Major League Baseball having the spring training in the home cities. Who thought of that four days ago? And apparently four or five different executives around Major League Baseball confirmed that. So this is not just one person's batting off. And oh, by the way, that Disney World stuff is gaining some traction in the NBA. Is it because it's Disney and they're going to cut a deal to the NBA?

or is it because Orlando and Disney World is the best place to do to finish out of season? What would be the benefit of Disney paying them to play that? Because Disney is a partner with the SPN? I mean, with the NBA. Well, the NBA should pay them to use their facilities. But they will, but they just won't be nearly as bad as say Vegas. Cut them a deal. Like, you know, that room at the, what's the nicest hotel in Disney World,

Grand Bohemian or something like that? Best Western. I don't know. There's done. I'm sure there is. Like, let's just call it the... Fancy Matt doesn't stay there. The Grand Mighty Mouse.

There's a lot of time shares over there, right? Yeah. You're saying the World Swan? The World Swan is probably going to be $59 a night. Are they going to make these, like the teams pay for all these hotels or just... Why wouldn't they? lease them out. I don't know.

I mean, the league's going to buy it. Nobody's going to be at these hotels anyways, right? In theory, right. I mean, you can't stay at a hotel. I mean, well, Disney World's on open. You can't stay at the Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge right now, can you? No, my guess is that it's completely empty right now. Yeah, I assume there's no one there.

I guess you could stay there, but why would you stay there? There's nowhere to go. Part of the staying of those places is because you can jump on the monorail and go right to the park. I don't know. The Seven Doors still stay in there? I don't know. I remember I paid one time when my kids were young to have breakfast with all the characters. Yeah, I did that once.

And they just scream and yell the whole time. Yeah. Oh, God. Piss me on. Grumpy punch somebody in the face. I had a bottle of jacket his hand, too. It was really awkward. Okay, here we go.

We're going to start with the NBA first. I'm going to write these down, and then we're going to see how close we are a week from now, and we'll see how this goes on. Oh, I'm scared. We'll start with Joe. Will we see a completed NBA season? Just a simple yes or no? No. What?

I hate you right now. Wait a minute. You burned this one already? You didn't burn. completed NBA season. Do you mean all the regular season games that are left? I'm talking about a champion. Are we going to crown a champion?

Oh, yes. Those are different questions. I understand. Yes. Are we all yes on this because we're just sports fans? I think they will crown a champion. Okay. I truly believe that in my heart.

Okay. Next, Ross. One location or will they go to a pod system where they will play in maybe two or three places because to send the Western teams, just like Major League Baseball. NBA? Yeah, NBA.

Pod or bubble system? One or multiple cities? Or ready for this? Or finish out in your home arenas. You know, play in front of no fans. We can change these things out. I will say pod system and multiple cities. All right.

Right now, I will say pod system, Orlando. And that's it. Everybody goes to Orlando. Okay. I'll say pause system. I still think it's Vegas. Why Vegas? Just because they do the Summer League there,

so they already have the infrastructure and know how to put on multiple games at one time in that city. That's fair. Because Vegas, I mean, Vegas, they do love going. I mean, it is the epicenter of the NBA world in the summertime. Yeah. Not only do the rookies go there, but the coaches go there. There's lots of deals being made.

I mean, it's a very comfortable place for them to go. but it is interesting. The one thing I brought up with Ross last week is will everybody be able to behave themselves? It's a little easier to frankly behave in Orlando at Walt Disney World when it's closed than it would be when Vegas restaurants and maybe clubs will be opening up the next 60 days.

Yeah. That's the reason why I'm kind of leaning more towards Orlando. How many regular season games will there be played before the playoffs? I'm setting the over under at six and I will go under on that six. Jogo. Under.

That's a good number. I think it'll be right around. I think it'll be different for different teams because I think they'll try to get everybody to the same amount of games. Okay, so I guess we'll sit this way. Then maybe we should rephrase. Where are the rockets right now?

40 and 24 right? Yeah, 64 games for them. Okay, so I say total games played. Mavericks have played 67. What if I said 72? the NBA regular season comes to a completion at the get 72 I'll go under I'd say under yeah I'm gonna go under too I just think I think the biggest problem guys is the

counter is gonna start to get in their way I think we're going straight to the playoffs really I really do because I understand the rockets can move up to like the two seed but the nine seeds in the east and the west they're four they're like four games back each the pelicans I don't think have a realistic shot they're gonna have to go on a four or five game win streak out of five games and expect the grizzies to lose five straight. So to me, it's exhibition games and then

the playoffs start. Okay. I can see that. Because the only thing you're doing at this point is that I don't think you're worried about the eight seats. You're worried about what could happen between, say, three and six. I think there's some shuffling in both conferences at this point. All right. And over under, or in this case, before or after, and I'll go first, the day we crown an NBA champion, The date I've put on the counter is September the 15th. I believe there will be a champion crowned after September 15th. I will say, how long did playoffs normally last? They started in April and you're crowning a champion in mid-June.

Mid-June, two months. I think I have to go over as well. It's a good number, though. And here's the reason why I went over. I think there's going to be short in playoff games series, at least the first, maybe even the second round. The difference is I just think they're just going to be super, super cautious as to when to get things going. Because the last thing any of these leagues won't, no matter what the sport we're talking about,

they don't want to start and then have to stop again because they weren't in the other decks in order. A virus broke out where several players got. Okay, I'm going to say before, and it's because my hunch is that the first NFL game will be September 13th. so I think they would want to have their championship crowned before the NFL season starts. That's logically reason, but I don't think they're thinking so much about the NFL. I mean,

they want to stay out of the way of the NFL for sure. We know there won't be a game that Sunday. But my point is, as much as they would like to do that, I think the calendar's going to have to dictate it more than what else is going on in sports. Yeah, that's fair. And again, if you're Nate Silver,

you're just like Adam Silver, I should say, If you're Adam Silver, you're like, man, we're just happy to have games back again. If we have to be playing a game for the NBA finals on a night where the NFL's on, okay, so be it. It's just kind of, that's how it is. The NBA's fighting the calendar more than any other sport. Yeah. All right. Next up, Major League Baseball.

Over under, on the number of games regular season that are played this year, Ross, you'll go first. I got it 117. And here's how I figured it out. I'm assuming the 10 team three divisions of 10 teams and you play everybody 13 times for total of 117. I'll go under. Okay.

I'll say under as well, but not by much. I think it's close. Just because I think they're going to play 12 games. So it's 12 times. That would be 108. So it's 108. Yeah. That's it.

I think that's how close it is. It could be 12 or 13. Because here's the thing. Guys, in reality, they're only doing the number of games for the purposes of television games. They're not doing it for tickets. I don't envision a major league baseball game. No, they're not going to be making any money off that. So if you played 150 games, you'd be just still 150 without anybody in the stands.

How many games of that, let's just say they play 108? How many will the Astros play in Arizona? Let's give you the scenario. Texas and Colorado would be legit road games. L.A., San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, L.A. Angels, Seattle, Arizona would be in Arizona, at least for a while. The Astros would play 54 home games. So basically, of the 54 road games, how many would be in that state of Arizona? 40? 42, some of that range?

Possibly. Yeah, I think 40 is a minimum number. Because, I mean, I guess I just don't envision the state of California opening up even for just this. Yeah, I don't know. I don't either. unless they really get some terrific results. But I feel like California, Washington State, New York, New Jersey. I feel like the four states to me that are just screaming,

let's not worry about sports right now. Yeah, I think that's really fair. And I think all those teams playing in Arizona makes a ton of sense. Okay. Season start date, Ross, before or after June 16th? Major League Baseball? June... I'll say after.

I'll say after. we got saying like July 1st something beginning of July okay two more quick World Series is crowned before after December the first oh gosh if you're starting after July

100 games um December 1st you said December 1st before I think that's a good number as well I'll say before I'll say after

because they're going to expand the playoffs I think. Yeah, they haven't even talking about the playoff format yet. Like Bob Nightingale's piece hinted at expanded playoffs

because of this three pod. But you also don't know how many games each one of those sure. So it could be the same amount of games total.

All right, two last ones. Rosters, numbers 32, above or below that? Over under? Over. Because of no minor leagues.

I think full 40-man roster. Yeah. If not 50. Okay. Real, the chances we have a neutral site World Series. Would you envision a World Series game being in a neutral site?

If we're talking December 1st, it has to be. Yankees play the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. How are either one of those cities going to have a world series? It'll be neutral with no fans. It's pretty crazy. And when we think I'll play that game? I guess it only doesn't matter. Minimate.

Could we have the World Series in Houston regardless of the opponent? No. Why wouldn't you throw that out there as a possibility? I think it'll be L.A. All right. We'll talk about NFL and college football next. 1245 is the time. It is the Matt. Thomas Show. We take you to three. like today. Brian T. with us at two. Fantasy 5 is restaurant starters slash appetizers. That's what we're talking about. But first, we're going to tell you about getting great deals on your home policy,

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This is the Matt Thomas show. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. All right, it is the Matt Thomas show. And I was thinking we have our Fantasy 5 at 2.30. If there's restaurants out there that want to help us, maybe, you know, we can influence them in a certain direction. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to bring a sample over. You know what I'm saying, Joe?

Getting bought. You're going to get bought out? Oh, yeah. The Fantasy 5 can be bought. bought out, right? We can be absolutely influenced. Has the Fantasy 5 and bought out before? Not that I know of. No.

Not that you know of. Not that I know. So what you're saying Ross is you're not sure of Matt sometimes you know. We've done some hot women things and none of them come to the office but that way and said vote for me. Yeah, that's true. I mean, Sophia Vergara. You know, Sophia Vergara has been on probably 80% of our women's list. She's drafted for hottest foreign women. Hotest Cougars. Worst voice.

Hottest, uh, worst voice. Hottest sitcom characters. Just plain hot. Over 40. Hot as Colombians. No.

Over 40. Remember that? Yeah. That's what I said Cougars. Okay. You get over 50 list. Yeah. You took Tori spelling and took an L on that list.

Yeah. It's always just one pick. It seems like it's, like it's one pick. Just. What you can. Matt shoots himself in the foot and then blames the judges. Look, look.

Okay. We've done our version of the Yeah, because everybody steals bits around here. That's fine. Okay, on the 18, we've done six of them. I've won zero. Wow. Wex and Clinton, I've split it 3-3.

I've won zero. And one of the times I got 7% of the vote on Twitter, it was rough. So I understand your- Well, I've seen some of your picks, though. I don't think my picks are bad. You picked Trubisky on, like, biggest draft bust? He was drafted second overall. Hey, man, we're not ready to say that yet.

Come on. No. See? That's why you lost. No. Why? I mean, among the all-time draft bus in the history of the NFL, not even close. I think when, because part of the reason why Ryan Leaf is such a bus is because he's in

the class of pay, man, Trubisky, you know, because they... But you're bearing Trubisky yet. I mean, how long has he been the starting quarterback? Three years? Two and a half years. Okay. Well, why don't we wait until 2020 here? I don't think he'll be in the NFL next year.

Well, then then you would have an absolutely valid one. So I jumped on it early. Is he not the starting quarterback of the Chicago Bears? No, Nick Foleses. For sure. No. Okay, see? Okay, I'm just going to say, if you know for sure, then I might give you a little more crediting.

I don't. Okay. I wish I did. Do you think the Chicago Bears are giving up on Mitchell Trudebisky? Yes. Well, that's terrible management on their part. Yeah, they traded a Foles for, what, a fourth? Yeah.

A fourth four? Do you know their GM didn't meet with Deshawn Watson? He didn't even talk to him. Like, that's malpractice. for a franchise. I feel like we hear stories like that all the time. I know we do, which is crazy, but like, how do you not meet with, if you know you're going to take a quarterback, how do you not meet with all the quarterbacks?

Did anybody believe Deshaun was the second, well, who was picked first that year? Trubisky. He was the first quarterback taken. Yeah. And then Mahomes at 10 when the chiefs traded up and then the Texans traded up to 12 to take Watson. So I guess, and again, my memory is sketchy on this. Was anybody ever thinking that Deshaun could have been the first quarterback taken? I think a lot of people

I thought he was going to be the first quarterback taking I thought he was the only option Trubisky did shoot up boards like way late for whatever reason because I mean I'm ready to place blame on the Bears for doing that if other teams are like yeah Deshawn could be in the mix but if Deshawn was never

considered the number one guy thought I can kind of live with that which I just don't understand how he wasn't like when you look back at it well the thing he did is all he did was win yeah and big games and play he had like a thousand yards total in his two games against Alabama. That alone is

this guy is going to be a superstar in the NFL. Okay. So you know, you're right. Well, I'm not ready to bury Trubisky's career yet, but you might be a season away from it. But when you think a bust, there are some doozies. Yeah, I think the... Wester's had Jamarcus Russell and Akely Smith and another one I can't.

Charles Rogers, he had. Charles Rogers Rogers is a sneaky good pick. That's all good right there. I had Ryan Leaf, Trubisky and I think I went it's because of my bias I screwed up

I think I went Brady Quinn See This is why you love Seriously we gotta get you Out of that The central time zone Brady We're still in the central time zone

All right like the upper Midwest Okay Brady Quinn Probably just shouldn't have been drafted What was he drafted Like 10th or something Or in the teens 20 to the Browns

Oh And somebody had But you know like Well Klan took Manzel And I don't think he was Yeah 22nd I think Manzell was 22nd as well. If Brady Quinn's not a bus, then Manzell's not a bust.

Manzell is an absolute bus. Any first-run, but he's not one of the biggest ever. Yeah. I think Manzell's one of the biggest ever. Klan just, I think Klan won because he, he knows how to get his audience.

So you're saying, I don't know how to get my audience. No, he knows how to get his Twitter audience. Okay. He does have more followers in you. He does, a lot more. Really? There are a lot of bots. Adam Klan.

I look, there are a lot of bots. They're not bots. Have you ever done that like the Twitter authentication thing? Oh yeah. I'm at like 98%. Nice. Co-workers are like an 81. Are you saying clans at 81%?

I'm not saying. Sounds like you spent way too much time on this. I'm bored. I'm bored. What else have stood in the last 45 days? You know, last night I didn't watch a single thing on television. There was nothing on television worth internet. I could have gone on Netflix and that kind of thing, but it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

I watched Michigan versus Ohio State last night. That was on. It came was awful. Oh, Longhorn Network. know what was on? Not lying. The game of the century, 69. Good. Arkansas, Texas. Yeah, it's boring.

Seven, I think, at the half. Yeah, the final day game is like 14 to 7 or something. I'm getting caught up in so many wrestling YouTube rabbit holes. They're so good, though. For those of you a little older, way old past year, Mid-South wrestling in the early 80s was awesome. And I just, I remember the Midnight Express going against a rock and roll express over and over and over again going, man, this is I remember these vividly like when I was a kid. It brought back so many happy memories.

And then I go to, and I send emails to Jim Cornett about questions about old school wrestling and never responds back to them. Makes me sad. 1258. Now, let's answer some questions about the NFL and the future of college football for the upcoming season. We'll do that next. It is the Matt Thomas show. We take you today until 3 o'clock. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Thomas Show. 103 on the Matt Thomas show. By the way, congratulations to Club Onix. They're going to be opening up as a restaurant tonight. Oh, really? Wonderful. All right. Well, you know what? Maybe I will go out tonight.

Is that the one that the police shut it down and the guy said I'll get arrested or I'll go to jail if they come back? There was some strip club in Houston. I'm not sure. He's defiant. Club Onix is quite Houston famous and quite popular with one Indie Kalu.

Andy Calugo's a clubonics? No, I'm just kidding. You should have just said, no, I'm not kidding. We'd have totally believed you. He might have mentioned the name once or twice. Have you gone there off? Where is it located? It's kind of like chimney rock.

It's, you know. Oh, in that area. Chimney Rock West Hamerish. Everybody knows who that is. Right near where the, I mean, there's centerfolds and treasures. Caligula used to be there way back in the day. It's the Vivid Live now. Pull cats, which used to be scores.

Dreams is a little further down. I think that's the one where James Harden got his jersey retired. So I think we know what Ross does on the weekends now. No, I actually don't live far from those. I just got a Caligula. I was 17. I can't afford to go there. I was 17 years old.

I went to Caligula. The things you learn as a young, impressionable young man. Yes. Now it makes me wiser for today. Dreams has got a good fried shrimp joint in the back. Does it? Yeah. I've heard.

Okay. All right. 713, 2.1,2, 5, 790. I'd like to join in. I'd like to draft one of those appetizers. Can either, now you're a judge, right? Unless you're the, okay.

He's a seventh and deciding vote. Would you give them a necessary? It's never, it hasn't been necessary in a long time, unfortunately. So you would you, would you draft a shrimp cocktail from a strip joint? No, it's fried shrimp. Oh, it was fried shrimp. It's good. I've heard.

Okay. All right, let's move on to sports. You'll get my vote if he does that. Yeah. NFL, let's put your name on it. You ready? Put your name on it. Here we go.

Let's see. Oh, how about this one? What day will fans be allowed in the stadiums? Partial or full? For what sport? Football, the NFL. I'll say not this entire season. You think it'll go season without fans?

Yes. Week one. What? Yeah. 70,000 people in NRG Stadium, week one. Full stadium or just fans at all? Any fans at all? Oh, okay, 25% full?

I think week one, if like the Texans have a home game, you could see fans there. Will they be in L.A.? No. Could they be in Vegas? So every NFL team in your mind will have the state to rely on whether or not they're going to have people in? Yeah, I don't think it's going to be an NFL league-wide decision. Even if they do, like, I think the same thing for baseball. Like if at some point Governor Abbott says 10% of stadiums can be filled, people should be allowed to go to Astros games.

Okay, so that is the case. How crazy are the tickets going to be? Will there be a mad rush to get those tickets? Or do you think it'll be, well, if you are, because if you're afraid to go out in public, there's still a lot of people that are. There are still, guys, I hate to give you breaking news on this. There's a lot of people that do not like this 25% rule that's out there. Yeah. And there's going to be very few people that are going to like any percent rule until there's a full vaccination.

which means you're probably not going on to eat for a long period of time where you're doing takeout. But 25% a minute made park would be, what, 8,000? 8, 16. No, it'll be more than that. 10,000, it's 40,000 seats stadium. Do you just get four people a row? Do you get eight people a row and separate them by four seats?

I think it's just... What if you're, I mean, a family of five? So my thought would be like they could buy... Like, you could buy a pack of five tickets. but like they would only come in you couldn't buy like individual like a cluster or something like you'd have to buy clusters

Mike will it be the will it be the place to be or will it be just people that are just so are so terrible with cabin fever they gotta get out and I was like we'll see their beloved baseball time I would have no desire to go personally you don't no

yeah I've been to I went to like one of those spring training games when the Cubs were here so like four years ago when they played at Minutemate and it was a pretty empty stadium I know it's spring training but honestly

I'd rather just watch at home. Baseball is not the same without a full crowd. It's kind of boring. So you'll go back when everybody's alive. It's a regular old place to go. I guess, yeah, I have to play by year. I wouldn't, I mean, first of all, are the tickets going to cost four times a price if there's only 25%? I don't know.

How does Major League Baseball and the NFL stage that? Are they going to, is there going to be huge demand for the tickets? That's the question. What's the market going to be? If we pulled 100 people or who normally go to a couple games a year or season ticket holders, whatever. Say, hey, we're going to make you pay X amount more. Are you willing to do so? I can get 15,000 people at Energy Stadium for a Texans football game. Comfortably.

So if I'm in the ticket office of the Texans or the Astros, I'm not going to discount them, but I'm, I mean, I'm not going to raise the price because that would seem really greedy. Yeah, they would be greedy. They'd be really, really greedy. They might just take care of their season ticket holders first, too. I mean, are there 10,000 Astros season ticket holders? Yes. So then I don't, maybe they won't sell. tickets. Like the only way to go would be the secondary market. To be a season ticket holder.

Like you'd have to be a season ticket holder. And also my guess is maybe a day game tickets are going to be very difficult to get a hold of. It would probably be crazy bad for an opening weekend, but then after that, what would happen? Crazy bad, I mean, is it a crazy high, crazy expensive? So what if we all, what if we did this? What if we social distance

six feet? And we all wore a mask. You get more than 10,000 people at Minutemate Park for that. Sure. Well, you take your mask off when you're eating your dog and your seeds and your peanuts. You're going to have to. Peanuts. Yeah. And your beer and your Cracker Jack?

And you probably, the urinals are probably separated by every other urinal. I saw some places they're going to do that with this restaurant thing. Yeah. Well, like, that's what the malls are doing. And then you have to stand back. And when you're in, what if there's, you know, between innings, there's a long line out the door or whatever. I think there won't be lines. The only lines for the bathroom.

I think the concessions will be closed. It'll only be, uh. No concessions? No, I think it'll be only, uh, like the beer guys. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He's not going to be touching 30 beers. But if he has gloves on and stuff Gloves and a mask

Guess Because then there's no line So they're coming to you The popcorn and Like Cracker Jack guy But that's the demand is going to outweigh the I mean the demand is going to drive people crazy Because that's going to take a lot longer

And do they still do it Where like those guys have to like buy the case of beer And then I don't know how everyone does it But that's how the beermen have to buy the beer And then sell it? That's how they used to do it At least before I

When I worked at literally for a summer And we had to buy We had to buy The hot dogs I think they do it now Where We didn't sell them

No they They're You're serious? No no You'd go home with like 100 hot dogs No I just would stop At some point No I don't think they'd basically say

We're gonna We're giving you out 30 beers You're gonna bring us back 675 times 30 Yeah So there's nobody taking money from you And then anybody left over It's for the tip

Yeah Because typically if you're If you're if you're buying a 6. 75 beer. At the very minimum, you're not asking for the quarterback, right? Oh, always. Yeah, probably not. All right. See, that's why, guys, as much as it's going to be fun to be in and work for a sports team,

these are things that you, when you went to business school to learn how to run a sports franchise, you never thought about this. Social distancing. No, never. Concessionaires, how to sell tickets, how to price the tickets. All right, a few more things on the NFL. Will there be a 16-game season? Yes.

You think they will play it, no matter how long it goes, 16 games. I mean, they said October 15th is their dropped that date. Honestly, if we're not ready to play football by October 15th, I'd be shocked. At least without fans, yeah. Yeah, I would say 16 is going to happen. They're doing it. They're making the calendar like normal. Yeah, they are.

Matter of fact, next weekend, the NFL schedule is supposed to be released. And they have said that if college football does not play, they may move some of the Sunday games over to Saturday games. I got news for you all. For those of you that love watching television or football on television more than going, which is I think most of us, I don't like going to NFL games at all

because I don't get to check my fantasy. I don't want to continue to see the scores of other games. If there's a commercial break in between games, we flip the other station, or if you have the direct TV, you could send a ticket. Red zone. I'm a red zone guy. There could be Saturday night games, Thursday night games,

Monday night games. We might be able to see 10 games a week. Cool. I'm like I'm complaining. I mean, I know it'd be devastating for those of you not to be able to see the Cleveland versus Chicago game. I know for you in particular.

I'll go to pluckers. Okay. But you know what I'm saying? You and 25% of your friends. Because that's going to make Saturday night football, no college football's on. Okay, Jacksonville is playing Buffalo. I'll watch. Yeah.

Right? Of course. This could be in a very, very small case, a win-win for all of us in sports because we're going to have more national TV games to watch and less regionalization of games. As long as I'm not knee-deep into NASCAR by then. Oh, Ross, I hope you are.

Let me tell you. I'll start chewing. See that rice this weekend, mine? If you're not in NASCAR now, you're not going to change. No, I'm not going to watch. I'm bringing back races. That's fine, but... I'm not going to start gambling on them. I'm not going to sit there for four hours. I have a friend of mine in Austin. He sits there for four...

He'll watch, like, the race starts at noon or whatever. He cracks a beer and watches four hours of the race. he's up there yelling and screaming and all that stuff. Does he regularly touch a woman? He's married with two kids. So the answer is no. At one point he did.

Yeah, at least twice. Super Bowl date, February 22nd, before or after? February 22nd. I'll say before. I think NFL is going to be on schedule. I'll say before. If they're after February 22nd, there's a pretty significant delay, guys.

I think the October 15th date, was where's this year Super Bowl February 28th Tampa okay yeah I think it was

if they did the October 15th start date it was the Super Bowl would be on yeah February 28th so you so you actually say after February no I think it'll be before

okay like the late oh the ladies you're saying at the season sorry yeah okay I got you all right college football is the biggest

conundrum of them all although I found out yesterday my son's school Texas Tech they're going to have the schools back opening up as it was A&M and I

We'll leave Texas to in the fall. That's a good sign, correct? We'll talk more about that in a moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90 if you want to get in. It isn't anything goes Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with a message here for hoops, basketball goals, and sporting equipment. Today would be a fantastic day to be shooting baskets.

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It was a little weird. But nevertheless, some restaurants are at 20. 25% and hopefully just sign of more positive things to come. I mentioned this before the break. Texas Tech, A&M. Has Texas officially said they're going to be back for the fall? I don't know if Texas has. I only heard of A&M and Tech.

Yeah. Oklahoma as well. Oh, okay. I know like Purdue has. There's a good amount of schools that are saying like, we're going to be back and our students are going to be back on campus in the fall. And they're all saying differently. I think you're going to see spread out.

classes in maybe an hour or two in between classrooms and what and that kind of thing. I think you'll see a mix of viral, not viral, but digital service. Yeah. Like Mondays and Wednesdays will be in class and Fridays will be strictly on the computer. Does it really matter if you're in a lecture class? Now we've all been into college, some more than others. It's a one o'clock lecture. Why do we care if we're there or we can watch it on our television, on our computer screen?

correct? I agree. I don't know. Maybe some people need to be feel like they need to be in the building in order to pay attention. Otherwise, they're just not going to- My son is one of those people. There will be people who struggle because of this, but. Yeah. I would have struggled when I was, I mean, I struggled at 10. You couldn't have paid me to go to a class that was online. I mean, the bottom line is, you do, because it is a college experience. It is having to get up out of your bed and going to class and having a relationship. But I could see it, you know, a 64- of between in material stuff. I mean, like if you're going to medical school or are you obviously going to be in front of labs and that kind of thing. Yeah, there are certain, the college I went to, they're basically,

they're being told they're going back in the fall, but students aren't wanting to go back because it's an art school. Like, the school I went to had radio studios in our classroom. That's really good. Like, we had like, so like where we could broadcast into the class

and teachers could hear us mixing music and stuff. Perfect. So, but like, you can't do that at home. I mean, I love my son. but I'm running for his ass to back to Lovick. I'm sure. Is he eating all your food? He's eating my food.

It was so funny hearing Ian talk about Noah yesterday. Yeah. I enjoyed that part of the interview. So those of it didn't hear it yesterday, I and Eagles is a long-time network broadcaster. His son, Noah is 22 years old. Voice of the LA Clippers. Jealous. Really nice young man, I mean, but he's a baby.

He went home. Because, I mean, let's face it, boys, the Clipper job's not paying $60,000. I mean, it's doing quite well. He's banking serious cash. He went back home to mooch off his... When you mooch, you're supposed to mooch like Cameron Thomas mootes off of me. It's not mooching, bad. He wants to be with his father, bond and coming out.

I think a lot of times... Bees together for us. Sometimes you're right, Ross. This is mooching. Noah Eagle is mooching off his father. I would too. Yeah, it was a problem. I mean, if I was in college right now, like, I would have...

done the same thing. I'd be like, I'm not staying down here. I'm going home. No, if Cameron, if the dorms wouldn't have closed, he would have stayed. Hmm, you think so? Oh, no, we've already discussed it. When are they opening them back up? Not until the fall? Well, he'll get, he's, he's can get an apartment now, but he will not. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow. See, he's, he thinks this can be the greatest thing, but I'm like, son, the dorms, they cooked your food. Nobody cooks your food in the apartment. The part is a good, and this is a big part of life. That's what I'm saying. I wanted to go do that. Can you still get like a meal plan and stuff? I guess. At the apartment? But I don't want to pay for that. No, but some of the schools you can. Oh, you can still get

access to dining. I didn't even get a J-O-B, so you can E-A-T. Hmm. Does he cook? Raman. Raman. Does he ever cook anything? Yeah. Okay. Okay. He can cook. Totinos. Pizzolos. He doesn't mean Jimbo-Li, but let's move forward. Okay. All right. Here's so we were segue into college. Will there be a season? Yes. I don't think you can definitively say yes. I think, I think there will be. I don't think it's going to be in the fall. Okay. I'm the leader, like, I lead that too. Remember we, remember that survey

of all the 80s and said yes, 99% of them would say there would be a season. There was only 15% or 14% wanted it. Yeah, I think they were low, they were low playing that a little bit. I think spring 2021 is a very good possibility. What if you kind of have to get

rid of conferences the way they are right now? And for example, like, A&M and Tech are open. Texas is not. And then you're like, well, I guess Tech is going to play A&M or you only play schools that are open or something like that. I think that's totally on the table. Like UCLA and USC? Let me ask you this.

Why should a football team or any athletic team jump on a plane this year within reason? For instance. Probably shouldn't. And in Houston, you can play 20 schools within four hours of here comfortably. Bring back the Southwest Conference. Well, sure. You can bust everything. Now, if you're University of Washington, that's going to be way more difficult.

Now, there are still the Oregon's, the Northern California schools, there's the Montana's, there's the Idaho's, but there's still going to be some plane rides involved in that. I mean, and there's still bad outbreaks up there, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's going to be, that's where I wonder, like, if they're going to come back, I think this college football season is going to be different than anything we've ever seen before.

So here's the thing. And put yourselves in the 80s hat for a second. if the incident of LA says whatever y'all scheduled in 2020 forget it we're keeping you close to home do then does every athletic director then just start speed-dalling people are in their area I mean how is that going to work with if you can't use any core like you know if you have your conference schedule schedule is set right you have to re you're responsible for your non-conference if they scrap everything and say hey University of Houston you're not going to play this year at Navy. There's no reason to send all those kids up there. But you can bus to LSU. You could bus

to Texas State. You could have TCU come here, nor Texas come here. You can play at Rice. Well, that all makes a lot of sense. You still have to schedule it. Yeah, you have to connect with them, and they have to connect with you. And you have to have no data center to organize all this. Someone would have to, they'd have to set up a committee. Like, they would have to join like a temporary conference or something and then the conference and then that central body would have to make the schedule. Yeah, the committee would have to decide who's going to play who.

Next thing. I'm just throwing things out just for arguments. Okay, how about this? We have 20 schools in this area within four hours here to play Division I football. What if North Texas and in Texas and get together and TCU and Baylor and Houston's like, I'm right here, guys? No, we've already

going with other school. I mean, how are you going to say... How are you leave somebody... How you leave somebody out? How you'll leave somebody out and yet then keep people in. Yeah, that's why it has to start at the very top. Like, the president of the Incidable A is going to have to say, we're going to make this committee like the college football committee. And if you're going to play, send us that you're playing this fall or this spring.

And we will assign. We will schedule you. Like, we will make the schedules. Because they're also going to have to, like, what is, like, if the SEC, if the SEC doesn't exist, what the hell is going to go on the SEC network? That's the least of their work. LSU-based. You know what you know what you do.

You put every LSU game on. Sure. LSU, what's there, Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana, Lafayette. Well, they could just play the Texas teams. Yeah, what if LSU wants to come in here and play Texas and Texas Tech? Well, you can have a U of H, Texas, Texas Tech, Baylor, A&M, LSU. Like, you can make a 10-team conference. But you're making it sound sexy.

Don't forget about North Texas. Don't forget about SMU. Well, they can play. in a smaller conference. Like there can be an A and a B, Texas Texas area. Yeah, there's smaller teams. I think they'll be able to figure it out.

Okay. Does any of this matter, guys, if we don't have fans? Because college football has not hidden the fact that playing state games without fans cripples departments. Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe it is going to be in the spring.

I would rather them wait until the spring of 2021 and keep things as is because what we've just discussed in the last 90 seconds sounds like a complete logistical nightmare. That I agree with. Okay, so I have a question for you, Matt. Yeah. They play in the spring.

My name's Trevor Lawrence. I'm the number one picking the NFL draft. You're not playing in Clemson. Okay. Yeah. No chance, right? No chance. If it's spring ball.

No chance. Like Justin Fields, Trevor Lawrence? Nope. Don't touch the field. Nope. Like I could not imagine playing. You know what you can do. You can go hire one of those quarterback savants.

and work in your game. Yeah. If you are a top 15 pick, you're not playing. Right? Or could go deeper than that? Who knows? There are guys that, like, the season propels them into a top 15 pick. It's just, it's not even worth it.

Even if you think you're a first-round grade. Like, if the NFL, I think, would have to give out- If you're your second round grade, why would you? I mean, guys, let's be honest, this could be, this could go 100 players deep. Oh, yeah. because guess what? Rounds 1 through 3, you do okay. I mean, look, you can make a living comfortable

of the 4th and 5th, but the chances of making an NFL team after, say, the 4th round are not nearly as good as they were before. If your rounds 1 to 4, you've got a pretty damn good shot of getting a multi-year contract, especially in the first round of making millions of dollars. Hell no, am I playing college football. So guess what you're going to get? If you want to wait and be patient, as Ross alluded to,

could be watered down. could all right 129 on the matt thomas show 713 212 5 790 713 212 5 790 if you want to visit with us on twitter you can do that as well at sports mt our buddy jimmy went to lunch today we'll see how that goes after first a word here for my friends at who we're talking to we're going to talk about hoops basketball not either hoops we'll do woodhouse in a couple minutes stay with us it's 130 and 790 by the minute. Stay connected with up to the minute coverage of your home teams on Sports Talk 790 and sports 790.com. Hey, I want to remind you if you did not file a tax return last year and you've got kids under the age of 17, you must act now to get the $500 economic impact payment per child. There's a lot of people who can use this money right now, obviously. Make sure to get it done by Tuesday, May the 5th to get your payment for 2020. Go to IRS.gov and enter your information in the non-filer tool by Tuesday, May the 5th.

From your friends, the IRS, and Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. We're going to get to a preview of the last dance coming up in a couple seconds because apparently it's supposed to make Michael look like complete a-hole, which I believe he is an a-hole, right? Yeah, at the day, the day, he's an a-hole? Of course. I think so. When you're the greatest of all time and something, I don't think you're the greatest of all time in something, I don't think you're a swell fella.

Let's see. We'll hold that conversation. Because I think I can bear that out. Let's go to Jimmy and Tomball. Jimmy, what's going on? Hey, guys. So just real quick before my lunch thing, you probably think I just unbiasedly vote for Ross every week in the Fantasy 5. But this week, I mean, I love food, smoking food.

I watch those Facebook videos and try new things. Matt, I feel like you're well-traveled, and I really feel like if you don't make a weird pick and just three or four solid, I really think you can win this week, and I'll gladly vote for you. I have zero-fellow faith that anything that I choose, someone's going to go, that's disgusting. Well, here's the hard part. If you go in restaurants-specific, like, I feel like there's a definitive number one. It's got to be chips and salsa, but if you go restaurant-specific, someone may be like, well, I don't like. That's right. That's right. Right. Friends, if I say that I love salsa from this place, somebody's going to say, oh, that was a terrible pick. That salsa's gross. I mean, it's all subjective. And it's usually subjective in my dishonor, which is just part of the reason why it's such a scam these days.

Well, I just feel like there's a better shot because there's not a definitive number one. No, there's not. There's not a definitive number one. You've been saying there's a definitive number one. Because I was trying to, I was trying to decoy you a little bit. No, I don't believe you. All right. So you went to lunch today, yes? Correct. So all of my employees are a Hispanic gentleman. So I go to taco stands with them all the time. And they haven't been any different. They've been open this whole time, at least all the ones on my house. And so honestly, nothing was different. Nobody's wearing masks. They're not freaking out. So it was just pretty much same as usual. So for all the taco stand people, they're still up and rolling. Thanks, James. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jimmy, for the taco stand people. update. When was the last time you entered a taco stand?

A couple weeks. Not like a foodie truck. I'm talking about legitimately a taco stand or the guys are to work in construction and they come by, the food trucks come back. Yeah. Oh, like, well, I haven't been in a construction site with one to come by. Okay.

I'm just telling you when... Like a taco truck. I mean, what do you mean? No, when I was growing up and they were building up, and actually it was someone as an adult, when they were building homes, the construction workers would not bring their lunch, so they'd bring, the food trucks would come by.

And you could get, not like the fancy food trucks we're talking about today. Yeah. I'm talking about the taco trucks that are serving like the tacos that are stuffed in plastic and stuff like that. Yeah. You ate one of those two weeks ago. Yeah, there's tacos ogatoes right down the street.

I go there a couple times, maybe like once a month. And it's not fresh. What do you mean? It's not. It's fresh. Are they making the food themselves? Yeah.

Oh, thing about it. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, yeah. When you go to a new development. Okay. And a guy and the truck comes by, they'll have like cheese. Like what you buy on the third floor down here? Burgers in a bag.

Not made fresh right there. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Okay. Well, I'm just telling you that's, okay. That was a big thing when young fat Matt Thomas would go because when I lived in the Katie area, I'd go to lunch at school and then I'd come home and then the construction guy would come by at 3.30 and I'd get a second. lunch there.

You'd go to the construction site and go grab a sandwich. They were building houses by my house. Would you put a hard hat on there? No, no. You heard them coming by and I'd get one of those, I'd get the sandwiches in a triangle thing covered up with chips. So a little like a burritos. A little free box lunch.

Yeah. Just to get those on as a kid. Yeah. I don't know. No, I'm just telling you, the food trucks of today are not nearly as nice as they wore the one, say, 20 or 30 years ago. The original food truck is a taco truck. But they weren't cooked.

Everybody ripped off their ideas. They cooked the food in the truck. No, nobody cooked in these trucks. Okay. It was strictly just like the burritos in the bag. Like, you'd get at a convenience store. That sounds shady as hell. It's not shady.

They were just serving bad-looking burritos. Okay. And I may have had one or two or six. No, yeah. I mean, I've eaten from a taco truck. I don't know what you're talking about. All right. I actually do.

Trucks are fine. The food trucks are fine. I'm okay with it. Are they running around? I don't see many of them around. Yeah, there's a couple around where me. There was a, there was a food truck park on Westheimer and Chimney Rock as well. I've been there.

They have places to sit? Yeah, they have picnic tables. But that's that social distancing. Well, I mean, I haven't been there in a couple of months. And they said they were moving, so I'm not sure if they've moved yet. Okay. So let's get to this last dance. There's a preview out.

And the last chance for romance. I didn't realize how much hatred, Michael Jordan had for Clyde Drexler. That makes sense. Because people tried to compare the two, and obviously he thinks he's better. Now, obviously, that bore out that he is better. The first comparison was because of the fact they played the same position. Drexler was drafted one year earlier.

Yes. That's the reason why Portland didn't take Michael the two, and they took San Buoy instead. They thought it would be redundant. And that's how you built teams back in those days, not best player available. You just... So what you got there is you have Michael Jordan.

What I'm looking forward to seeing this weekend is what exactly made him so angry towards Clyde? Did Clyde smack talk him? Probably. Did Clyde say, I'm just as good as Michael Jordan, but nobody knows who I am because I play in Portland, Oregon as compared to playing in Chicago? What would be the reasons why? Because they only played each other twice a year. It wasn't like they had this brooding rivalry between Portland and the Chicago Bulls. but that's one of the videos

that I think has been out there circulating about what could be interesting about this weekend's last dance is that you're going to see the Uber competitive side of Michael Jordan and his disdain for it we saw a little bit with Isaiah Thomas last week Yeah I think we're going to see a lot of that Was Clyde the last man to let his bald hair grow out

And have a mustache in the NBA Last man for a bald man to grow out He just let the baldness just grow I actually kind of respect that Maybe that's what made Michael Matt because he had to shave his head. So you're telling me that hair was the determining factor why Michael became this crazy guy against a Portland Trailblazers. Because Clyde embraced his baldness.

But see, the funny thing about this thing for me for Michael is that is Michael going to let us really see the A-hole side in him? I think so, absolutely. He doesn't have to. The director was on the A-team said he didn't shy away from any question he was asked. And he already, I mean, you can tell us kind of a competitive A-hole he is. Yeah, but it's his video. His production team. I think so.

There were already quotes from Michael that say he's going to come off looking bad in this thing. So I don't think he's looked too bad yet. No. And again, nothing he would say. There's not a warm, bubbly side to him that I think is going to show, nor am I going to, I think I'm going to be totally surprised on how competitive and how he wanted to crush everybody's soul. Because when you're the girl, we were talking about this before,

greatest, who's the greatest football player of all time? Tom Brady. Jerry Rice is the greatest football player of all time. Okay, Jerry Rice, do you think there was a, I guess Jerry's a pretty decent guy, right? So maybe that doesn't help my cause. I've been the greatest quarterback of all time is Tom Brady. To me, the greatest football player is Jerry Rice, if that makes sense. Okay.

Barry Bonds, maybe the greatest baseball player of all time. A-hole. A-hole. Yeah. Greatest golfer of all time. Mickey Mantle was in a hole. Jack Nicholas? Tiger before he got sideways with his wife.

Tiger was on pace to be the greatest ever. Tiger comes across is an A-Hole. I think it's fully... I guess so. Yeah, I think it's in your DNA. I think if you're the greatest, you're going to have very little compassion for anything or anyone.

Is Muhammad Ali an A-Hole? Don't know. Floyd Mayweather, yes. But he's not the greatest boxer of all time. Probably Sugar Ray Robinson. A-Hole or not? I was a sugar. I don't know.

Do you ever have a meeting with Sugar Ray Robinson? sports radio host of all time. Hmm. Hmm. A-hole? No. Let's see. Who's who's on the list, Matt? Dan Patrick. 713. 713. 212.5-790. 713. 212. I'll let you all figure that out in a minute for yourselves. It's 143. We got Brian T. coming up from the Chronicle of 2 o'clock on 790. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790.

All right, time is so 148. Brian Tees me with us coming up in about 10 minutes from now. And then we've got the Fantasy 5 at 2.30. Is there anything we've not discussed? I feel like I've done a few things here and there. Not a little meaty newsday. Audience seems to be buying into what we're talking about. But is there anything we've missed so far that needs to be discussed?

You're a good judge. That kind of thing. I try to be. I really haven't. You're right. It's been one of the slower news days. I think most of the people are talking about the last. dance and what's coming up there.

Yeah, Monday's always fun. I love, it's the best two hours of the weekend, right? It's must watch TV at this point. Are you bothered at all that Michael does own the commentary, does own the film material? I don't think he's held back at any point, though. Have you ever felt like he hasn't been, okay, actually, you know what, I'll take that back. Did you see his expression when they talked about the migraine game? His first little, man, I think he had a migraine.

kind of had a little bit of a sarcastic smile on his face. Later he went back and said, you know, if he had a migraine, he had a migraine. It is what it is. Tell us how you really felt. It felt like it might have been holding back and like wanted to say, hey, Scott, I needed to butch up in that moment. The only thing I can think of during the first four episodes, and this wasn't really brought, this was brought to attention by a buddy of mine who's been watching it too. Are we absolutely sure the Chicago Bulls were good sports?

during their series against the Detroit Pistons, that the Chicago Bulls didn't do something that pissed the Pistons off to say, if they're going to beat us, they can beat us, but I'm not going to go over there and shake their hand, because that was a huge part of what was an episode four about how there was handshaking between the Celtics and the Bulls.

There was handshaking between the Celtics and the Pistons. One year, the Bulls shook the Pistons hand. It was a major, major storyline of that sweep in which the Bulls finally won the Eastern Conference. Are we absolutely sure that the Chicago Bulls behave themselves and that they did nothing that would have told a team like the Pistons who normally did shake hands to not shake hands with these Chicago Bulls? We don't know.

Possibly. But they did show, I mean, they had literal video of Michael Jordan shaking hands with everybody the two years prior that they lost. So they have that. Is there any video of, I just throw an example. Let's say Michael was asked in that series, what are your thoughts about Isaiah so far? Oh, he's a douche. Or Bill Ambire's an a-hole.

I mean, if someone calls me that in a press conference or on a microphone, I'm not going to go shake their hands because it's hypocritical. Yeah, I get it. You know what I mean? That's all I'm saying. I don't know that to be true or false. It just, it really made the pistons look petty and awful by not shaking their hands. I think if there were something like that, we would have seen it. Because one of the things that's interesting about this is all these things getting brought back up and all these memories.

And I mean, we're seeing like dozens of articles of week of every little thing that happened or remember that this happened or remember that. And so I think if there were something that could be called back to like that, we probably would have seen it recently. So why did they act so horrible? If the peasants had never done that before. Well, apparently the Celtics had done it to them. and Isaiah tried to sell it as that's just what happened, which is not necessarily true. But it just was one of those things.

I mean, we've had, like in recent years, LeBron James getting crushed for not, not shaking hands, Tom Brady not shaking hands after they lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles and people getting upset about that. So, I mean, it's just happens in sport. It's just something that happens. And for whatever reason, that one was made a bigger deal

than some of these other ones. I'm conflicted by the whole shaking hands conversation. Because if I just lost and I'm really devastated, the last thing I want to do, Ross, is it go over and shake your hand and congratulate you. But on the other hand of it, it's just the right thing to do. This isn't war. This isn't life or death. It's a competition. It's a highly competitive competition.

It involves a championship. It involves exposure. But if you beat me, you beat me. I'll shake your hand. Doesn't mean I'm going to have a long conversation with you. It doesn't mean we're going to take pictures and selfies together with each other after. but the least I can do after a knock-down drag-out series, whether it's four games, five games, six games, or seven games,

or a Super Bowl or a World Series, shake the hand, congratulations, and move on. It's always a big deal. Have you noticed in college and pro that when coaches don't shake hands at midfield, it's always a big deal? The coaches are always a newly asked about it, yeah. Or are Jim Harbaugh is doing it way too aggressively? My favorite of all time goes back when Jerry Glanville was coaching

the oilers. And I don't know if the Oilers had gotten their ass beat by the Steelers or they were beating these Steelers badly. But Chuck Knoll, when they went to go shake hands, took his other hand and started an index finger in Jerry Glenville.

Like, he had something he wanted to say. That's the good stuff. We don't see that much anymore. There was, uh, wasn't there two coaches that kind of had a little bit of beef recent? The last couple of years, who am I thinking?

Harbaugh and somebody, right? Was it? It wasn't it a Harbaugh and somebody? They were kind of going after each other. Not Belichick, was it? I can't remember. Which Harbaugh was it, by the way? Exactly.

I don't know. They're both pretty fiery. When in doubt it's a Harbaugh. I can't remember. But yeah, LeBron James didn't shake hands after the, oh, Jim Schwartz. Was that it? Oh, so it had been Jim Harbaugh of Chicago.

Yeah. So I'm just, I'm just, where do you stand on this? Is this the worst? thing ever if you don't, if you don't shake hands? I don't think it's a big deal. No. I think it's a, I think it's over blind. I just think it's one of those things in my opinion. What about the children? Well, okay, it'll be fine. I think you start up media hype for no reason if you don't do it. It's a lot easier just to shake the hand and be done with it as compared to not doing anything

and then having been asked five or six questions after the event. Why didn't you do it? Is it really going to change the course of history if somebody stays back for, stays there? If the piston stayed there for 30 seconds and shook hands, whatever. Well, let me ask you this. Would Isaiah Thomas have been on that Olympic team if he had done that? For 20 years, we've talked about it being that was one of the reasons why. We looked at the roster. You'd have to take off Mullen, I think. Or Baird.

Mullen, Burt, there was one other one that was kind of iffy. Oh, Christian, no. Yeah, Mullen, Burt, Latener were the three. They were going to have a college player. Yeah. But Burt was, see, you keep thinking, Bert had to be on this. If you're going to do a dream team, we're going to have one of the dream all-time players. Is this prime is back to North.

I know. But to have a chance to play with Michael and Irvin on the same basketball team, they were going to do it. All right. Brian T. Smith, the Houston Chronicle, joins to start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. We have a fantasy five today of best starter slash appetizers, but you have to be restaurant specific. We'll have it for you at 2.30 here on Sports Talk 790. Now a message for the Woodhouse Day Spa. What I want you to do is I want you to think about what you've done for your mom or your wife for this Mother's Day.

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Talk 7 out of the final hour of the week that is. And we always enjoy getting 10 good minutes from our friend Brian T. Smith from the Houston Chronicle with us here on the radio program. BTS. I've kind of earmarked May 15th as an

important day for all of our sports teams. I feel like that's the day or give or take plus or minus. We need some decisions about whether or not it would be an NBA season and major league baseball season when it will start. Is that fair or are you the belief that we still don't need a calendar at this point that when these things happen, they'll just happen. No, we need a we need a calendar and I actually had a column earlier this week, Matt, in The Chronicle, which was what's next, right? We had the NFL draft, it felt like all of us were hanging on just saying, hey, if we can get to the NFL draft, that gives us enough material. There's enough to get into. It's a real live sports event, even though it's not an actual game. But what follows that? And NASCAR's coming back.

Mid-May, you'll have the Coca-Cola 600, which could actually be huge. Memorial Day weekend, but that's without fans, and that's NASCAR, and NASCAR's not the NBA. I love me some auto racing. I'm not not good auto racing. Golf will come back, the PGA tour. It'll start in Fort Worth, but that will be without fans. And we know that the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball will initially be without fans. That's 99.99% certain, but those are the sports that are going to swing everything.

That's when people can start getting excited again. And that will mark the largest return to semi-normality, you know, other than being able to go to the restaurant and not having your server wearing mask and gloves. Right. So I fully agree with you. And it's got to happen. It doesn't have an happen tomorrow. It cannot go into July or August because at some point, Adam Silver and Adrian Orrjnornski had an article this morning about this that was very in-depth, as always, because it's woge. at some point Adam Silver is going to have to make a final decision.

We either call the season as is, we cancel the rest of the season, we crown the Lakers the champion by default, or the Milwaukee Bucks, sorry, or we find some way, and I heard you guys talking earlier when I was driving in the grocery store with a mask and gloves, we find some way to have an abbreviated season and get this thing going, but there will be a break date, and I think it's going to be around June 1st, May 15th is not that far away from that. I think I have an answer to this question.

I'm about to ask you. I believe that Adam Silver is probably the, how do I safely say this? The most socially aware, commissioner had a long period of time. So I think he's really wrestling with how do I bring these multimillion dollars players back on the court, restart an industry when there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of people that may not be able to get to mask and test. And, oh, by the way, there's a lot of people that still believe that we should still be sheltered in place. I feel like he wrestles with that much more than he wrestles with the logistics of trying to bring back the NBA.

Yeah, I fully agree with you there too, Matt. I mean, he's always been very aware on every level, socially, economically. Adam Silver, much, much better than Roger Goodell. Roger Goodell took a nice little step forward to his basement last weekend, you know, tip of the cap to the King Commission. But, you know, Rob Manfred has looked lost and overwhelmed during the baseball offseason with the Astros and the Red Sox and the sign stealing, etc. Adam Silver is the best modern pro sports commissioner,

and if he keeps this up, he'll be one of the best of all time. He's got a long way to go. Point being, Adam Silver can balance billionaires and, you know, super cool, flashy NBA stars that basically run teams better than anybody in the world. But he's also having the balance the coronavirus. And having to balance staying at home and masks and PPE and sanitizer, all that stuff. There might be one person in the world that could do that and nail it because, you know, we talked about this before.

If you bring it back and then it has to leave again, I mean, that's going to be so defeating and so demoralizing if there's a second wave and the NBA plays five games, they have to shut it down again. So I fully believe that they are going to do every single thing they can to try to find some way to do this, but it's going to have to happen much sooner than later because at some point, Matt, it starts the back end to the 2020-21 season, and then all of a sudden that's a domino that they're not going to push over, even if they're forced to. At some point, they will cancel the season if they have to. So basically, you're saying, and this kind of goes obvious,

if there's any more problems, if another player gets the virus, like if Rudy Gobert goes to trying to finish and gets it again or any other players, they'd be like, you know what, we try, we just can't finish the season off. You know what? I'm actually not saying that. I think that this is the balance and this is the balance that everyone's having to deal with right now. If you're a small business owner, if you're a restaurant owner, if you're Sylvester Turner, if you're Donald Trump, if you're Gavin Newsom, you know, whoever it is, if you're the head of 790, right?

The head of the Houston Chronicle. This is the balance. How much can we allow to come back live with some consequences and still eventually try to get back to normal? Because, I mean, this is the thing, Matt. You can't shut every – I mean, people have been saying this. for weeks now and once. This is my opinion. You can't shut everything down

and just wait for it to be perfect again. Number one, because things are number perfect. Number two, because, I mean, at some point, we'll have another issue. So the NBA is going to have to make a decision at some point. Can we live with a Rudy Gobert type

getting corona? It's because you get corona. Doesn't mean you die the next day, especially these guys. they're incredibly healthy, they're in their athletic prime, they're in their prime of life. What makes more sense to me and seems to make more sense to others, Matt, is if they get it, they're immediately pulled out. But that's the thing. I mean, who do you have to quarantine?

How long are they out? That affects your team, but that doesn't affect the rocket. That's a bit of an unfair competitive advantage. It's very, very difficult. But I think the simplest way to do it is you keep the minimum people that you have to have in an NBA type of arena and they are whatever, quarantine, they are protected, they are checked, pregame, post game, and you do that. And if it works, that is freaking awesome. And if not, the truth will present itself and you know, you'll know you have to shut it down. But I don't think one player

testing positive for Corona, if the NBA comes back, that's not going to shut it down. And you're, going with the thought of going to a bubble, going to Orlando or Las Vegas, doing it in one location to finish things off. Yeah, I wish we could be normal. I hate the idea of having to play in one or two cities, the baseball Arizona bubble, which that's obviously fallen away that ESPN initially reported, which never seemed to make sense. But I don't know how else you do it in the next couple months, right? They're going to need to start the season. I mean, we're at May 1st. They're going to need to start the season by mid-June, you know, first day of July, just like baseball would, at the latest. And so I don't know how you do that when the country's at 25%, 50% back,

that's the best case scenario, and you're flying all over the country and you're playing, you're doing back-to-back, you know the life. I don't see how that's possible. And I think that's why we continue to see, whether it's Disney World, Vegas, all the things you guys are talking about earlier. Right. That seems to be the only possibility to even pull this off. If you're Charlotte or Sacramento or Detroit, do you convince the league not to bring back those teams saying, look, what was the point?

That has not been discussed enough. And, you know, Steve Kerr had his comments. And I actually, I love what LeBron came out yesterday and said, like, why in the world we talk about canceling things, shut the bleep up? You know, let's try to find a way to finish up this. season. That being said, if they're going to do this, in my opinion, if they're going to do this and you're going to try to be as safe and as efficient as possible and not waste people's time, not get anyone sick that doesn't need to, et cetera, et cetera, if you're five games out of the eight seed and they've only got six games left, whatever the cutoff is, why in the heck would those teams be playing? But I guess if you do that, then, you know, other than maybe having one or two exhibition games just to kind of get your legs under you, I guess maybe you just roll right into the playoffs. I mean, the Rockets would have to theoretically play the rest of their schedule.

But yeah, if you're Detroit, if you're Sacramento, if you're the New York Knicks, you can't make the playoffs. Your season's about to end anyways. Why would you even risk anybody? And that hasn't been discussed enough. Because, again, that would also limit the number of people in the bubble. Because that's the thing is that the bubble's going to get smaller as the teams drop off. And what you could do, and in theory, what you do is you take the 16 teams that are eligible for the playoffs.

Because honestly, you're not worried about the A seed. The only reason I want you to come back and play regularities in games is maybe that a rocket team could win four or five to move up a couple of spots. But at the end of the day, oh, well. You don't take – right. Rick Corona, you'd have to live with it. And as you guys pointed out earlier, the Pelicans would be an incredible story. But if you've only got five or six games, the pelicans aren't going to have enough time to make up ground. Yeah.

I just – the risk is just way too big. So you have 16. you play three or four, which here's what you do. I'll honestly, you play three or four exhibition games against a team from the Eastern Conference, so you're not giving an intelligence to anybody that you play. Give them a chance to play these rounds, and then start the playoffs two weeks after that,

and then go best of three in the first round. That's exactly what I do. And look, you can't go down to three games, go down to five games. They used to do that. Go down to five games in the first round. I don't love five in the semifinals because, you know, that can make a break your season.

But it's Corona. look, if you have to do what you have to do to survive during this thing, if you have to freaking wear a mask everywhere, you have to wear a mask everywhere. And so you can't, you know, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Go down to five games in the first round, five games in the second round. If you're not one through eighth right now, cut it off. You have an accelerated playoff. But here's the thing. You'll have some type of closure and you will bring people back together. And the NBA will make a lot more money than it's all, than it's losing right now. you're on television and, you know, the country gets back going.

And then they have a real season, a full season, and you start it on Christmas Day next year. I actually think that could all work if we can stay healthy enough. All right. Last thing on the Texans. Yesterday, Brandon Cook's met with the media. I've never heard a player speak so glowingly of a vice president of football operations in my life. Like Brandon Cook spoke of Jack Easterby. I mean, that relationship is stronger than perhaps you and your wife and my wife right now. Yeah, they retreat each other.

That was reported at time. Aaron Wilson from The Chronicle reported that at the time that they were very, very close. Look, Bill O'Brien wanted Brandon Cooks here, but Jack East to be with the central part. And that's interesting in itself, right? This is the summer or the all season when they trade DeAndre Hopkins. They pay Larry Hounsel. They let DJ Reader go because obviously they couldn't afford him. They trade for Brandon Cooks.

and while O'Brien GM head coach was obviously the main voice in that, Jack Easterby, who still, I believe calendar-wise, hasn't even been with the organization for a full year yet. Jack Easterby was ultimately the main voice in that because he had their relationship. He had that bond with Brandon Cooks. That's interesting in itself. Yeah. All right, BTS.

Hopefully next week we've got something. We'll have the first days of NBA practices, it sounds like, everybody, I guess. Yeah, I don't know if they're going to have any media. Maybe they do, you know, James Hardin on a Zoom call. We've got to get something. We've been going for 51 days now. I've fostered two puppies.

Dang. Yeah, I've done every household chore. I can't cut the lawn anymore. I'm writing five days a week about sports somehow, but we've got to get something going again. Maybe NASCAR will be our saving. In all honesty, it's got to be the NBA because they're the ones that are on the clock more than anybody else. Yeah. Thank you, BTS.

Have a great weekend. I'll talk to you next week. Have a great weekend. Take care, Matt. Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle, Akron Brian Smith, if you want to join us there. 214 is a time. Ross, what if I told you that Michael Jordan was offering $100 million for something and he said, no thanks? I would tell you I saw that story a couple days ago, and I found it curious and I want more details, Matt.

And we'll hear those details for you next on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas now. On Sports Talk 790. 19 of the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show. We need judges for the Fantasy 5, so be ready for that coming up in about 10 minutes. All right, so Michael Jeffrey Jordan Ross is the goat. Correct? Arguably.

Are you LeBron guy or LeBron or Michael? Oh, no, no. If I'm putting anybody over a Joe. I think Kareem gets left out of the conversation too much. Six championships with two different franchises, six MVPs more than anybody else, all-time leading score, 19 or 20-time All-Star. Why is he never discussed? Versatility?

He is a center. That's all he is. That's fine. That's because he's 7-2. He's a versatility of Jordan. He's not guarding 1 through 5 or anything. He could guard one to four. Pippin led on those teams and assists.

But he could do it. LeBron's a better assist and rebound man than, Jordan was. He's the greatest score of all the time. It's just a byproduct of the position. I mean, a swing. He could play two, three. Couldn't play four, but he could run the point if he needed to. Doree, I mean, Kareem was just one of the greatest players of all time because he was just maybe the greatest center of all time. Most MVP's, most points, six championships. I mean, the resume's there. It's there, but nobody does it. I don't know why. He's in the top five. I think if you were to take, and I'm just speaking, this is off the top of

If you took the top five of the top five of the all times, it's Jordan, it's LeBron, it's Kareem, it's Wilt, and then that fifth spot is very much open for conjecture. Charles Barkley put LeBron at seventh behind Kobe. Are you arguing with me any of those top four? Wilk, Kareem, Jordan, Jordan, LeBron? No, I would not argue personally. So then let me give you the candidates for the fifth spot. And I want to get to this Jordan story here too.

Okay. Russell for maybe being the greatest defensive player of all time. And 11-time champion. Okay. Kobe. No. Magic. Yes.

Give me some of any more. I think a lot of people would say Oscar Robertson. Ooh. Triple double. It's hard to put those guys in. never really saw them play. Were you putting Hakeem in there? Were you putting Tim Duncan in there?

Not top five. Top ten, that's a great list. But if those, I think if those are the four, if you were to take a vote, those four would be your top vote for vote getters. And Larry Bird. We didn't say Larry Bird. Larry Bird. Oh, God.

Larry Bird's in that mix for five. The fifth spot. I agree. We can say it for another day, but I just... How we got... I don't know how we got on this. Because we're talking about Michael Jordan. Yeah, you were saying the goat.

He, to me, is the greatest of all time. I think that I wouldn't, I mean... LeBron's making inroads. I think LeBron winning... If everything were normal and he won the championship with the Lakers this year, the way he's been playing, and leading the league in assists. If he can win two more titles,

it's going to be awfully hard not to put him right... I don't even think it needs to be two more. I don't know. He's one MVP behind, right? LeBron has four MVP's Jordan has five. LeBron's, I mean, he's got three finals MVP's, Jordan had six. Great debate, but not for today. All right. David Falk. That's F-A-L-K.

F-A-L-K. Long-time agent for Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Yes. Dealt with his contract and also handled his, the Nike stuff and all the appearances. He goes on a radio station David Falk does in New York a few days ago, and he says the following. I brought him, him being Jordan, a deal three years ago for $100 million. All he has to do was, other than giving his name in lightness, make one two-hour appearance to announce the deal and he turned it down. Falk says, God bless him, he's been so successful. It gives him an opportunity to do whatever the hell he wants.

or not to do things he doesn't want. I really admire that. He's very, very selective in the things he wants to be involved in. Here's my question before going further. Yeah. How many 50-something-year-old men, regardless of industry, get an offer for $100 million to do something, and they say no? What could it be in?

That's why I need to know. I mean, is this for some kind of like Saudi prince that he didn't want anything to do with? is this, I mean, who's going to put up $100 million from Michael Jordan for two hours? Let's think about that. Who's putting that money up? It probably was a two-hour introductory. Hi, I'm Michael Jordan. I'm now here on behalf of Blank.

And you'll see pictures of me with blank. That's the thing. The name and likeness thing is probably it was a hang-up. That's right. It wasn't just, he would have been stupid to say, no, I'm not going to be paying $100 million for two-hour visit. It was probably that was one of the things that was one of the requirements. The name and likeness is everything. Michael Jordan in anything. Jumpman 23

it's going to automatically rise up as in the case with University of Houston basketball. They wear the Jumpman 23 uniforms. Look what they've done. Incidentally tournament. What have they done? They're going to be, they were Sweet 16 last year would have gone to the final four this year. Would have. And probably going to be a finalist for the final four again next year.

Oh, you think so? Yeah. Let's not get crazy. So let's guess what it could have been. There are no Marquette, I guess. You think it was a international business conglomerate. I'm just saying oil money. Yeah, like a Saudi prince was going to give him $100 million and they could, I don't know if it would be affiliated with what product or

or what. He was also invited to play in a one-day golf tournament in Asia. Yeah. The payment on that would have been $7 million just to play the golf. He said no? Said no. That's intriguing. Let me ask you this.

He loves playing golf. How about this? Are any of these gambling sites so cash flush, they could give him $100 million? No, no. No, no. Okay. These things are very, yeah, I wouldn't think so. Because when you think of people that have $100 million in extra marketing, budgeting money,

nobody has that. It's rare. I mean, Coke doesn't have that. Coke spends $100 million on budgeting, but they're not going to spend it on one small Michael Jordan event. No, no. Or just the lightness. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Let me look at it.

So I wonder what, how much does Nike pay, Michael Jordan every year. A lot. How much does... He's a billionaire because of them. How much is he worth? Do you want to take a guess? Michael's worth?

Michael's worth? According to Forbes. At $1.1 billion. $2.1 billion? $2.1 billion? Right. I almost said $1.2. We also got to realize he is basically an owner of an NBA team, right?

Geez. Off of playing basketball in shoes. I tweeted this out actually the other day. I would watch a 10-point series, a 10-part documented series on him and Nike and how this, they are just the overriding dominant brand when it comes to basketball shoes. August 2019, Forbes estimates his non-Nikee earnings at $15 million. A year? Not-n-Nike.

What about Nike? Oh, $100 million a year from Nike. $100 million. Jeez. That's why all these George. are like $300. I guess 15-year-olds still buy them, right? Yeah.

That's the crazy thing. Had been the league in 20 years. You've never seen him play. And they've never, how about this, Matt? They've never seen him miss a shot. Think about that. Yeah, because you just watch a highlight. Every highlight is him making one.

Every shot. Like there are people. Pushing off on Brian Russell. There are 20-year-olds right now who have never seen Michael Jordan miss a basket. That's crazy. That is crazy. You don't know, you don't know even know the Bulls pre-champions. That was a half decade of that.

Yeah. All right, ladies and gentlemen, anxiously awaiting the Fantasy 5. Today's category, starters slash appetizers at a recognized restaurant. Now, you could go with, hey, at Little Mabel's Cafe, they have the best cornbread. That may not work, but you never know it might. Five questions, five lists. We each have a list of five. We need now five judges to help us determine who has the best appetizer stats.

appetizer slash starting list. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 if you'd like to be our judge. One of our judges, the Fantasy 5 with food. We get at a restaurant before the main course. That's next on 790. All right, here we go. 232. Time now for the Fantasy 5.

This week we decide who has the best starters and appetizers in the restaurant bidness. Joe George, you will be acting as our seventh. Judge. Okay. We've got a lot, we have callers lined up,

he said easily. It's been a long week. It's fine. It's Friday. Best of seven wins. Yes. Ross is won, I don't know,

basically three of the last four weeks. Four or five, whatever. Doesn't matter. Ross, you won last week. And so you get to choose whether you get to go first

or you give me the first selection into the snake system. You get picks two and three. Well, Matt, I'm going to go ahead and let you get your number one definitive pick. I will relent Okay

I don't really That was a decoy I don't believe There's a definitive number one Really even when you said You went and told Joe Something he made that He said Joe I'm just kidding

I think there is a definitive one But I don't think The one I gave you is it I don't think it is either It's not my definitive number one would be Yeah Okay My definitive number one to me

It's a very average Seafood restaurant Okay Shrimp size Not particularly large They do have good baked potatoes that are rolled in salt for some reason.

And they have what they like to call lobster fest and shrimp fest. I don't really care about the shrimp once I have 45 or 50 of the cheddar biscuits from Red Lobster. Cheddar Bay Biscuits, okay. Was it on my list because I thought we were doing apps that we had to pay for, but you change the rules on me, but that's okay. I also changed the rules at 1150, so you've had two and a half hours. You're fine.

But that's okay. All right, well, I will go with, I'm going to get two bonafide starts. I'm going to start with, of course, when you think of great appetizers or starters, you think of Mexican food. Yeah. You, of course, get the free chips and salsa. Sure. But sometimes you want to kick it up a notch. A little queso, if you will.

You get a chips and queso, and I'm going to go with Torchise tacos, green chili, chips, and queso. On the list. Good job. Next. I don't think you're going to draft this, but I already had mentioned it as my favorite, so I just can't let it slide past this pick. This is the greatest of all-time appetizer in my mind, I think. I'm not sure everybody's had it. It's from a wing restaurant called Pluckers, Austin-based.

Okay. That's also around. They have this fried mac and cheese with the chutney sauce that will basically bring you into heaven. So I'm going with the Holy Macaroni from Pluckers. So if you're in purgatory, you have the mac and cheese, you get to go to heaven with that. Absolutely. Okay. I'm not a super big mac and cheese guy, but I do enjoy the fried mac and cheese.

Oh, the Holy Mac and Cheese. Holy Mac is so good. Next, I'm going to go to the Mexican food route as well. Okay. Not a huge fan of their entrees. Frankly, I would never eat their entrees. It's basically the tortillas aren't fresh. The fajitas aren't really that good.

I mean, I'm not an enchilada guy, so I didn't know. But when you go to Chewis and you sit and you wait, that jalapeno ranched it, they serve with the chips, is amazing. So I'm going to go with chewy jalapeno ranch dip. That green dip, whatever the hell that is.

I don't know what it is, but it could be made of crack because I'm definitely an addict of it. Okay. Next, I'm going to go with one of my favorite Chinese restaurants. They're found all over the country.

Okay. And when you go in there and you say, hey, let's get an appetizer. For anybody that's ever gone to those places, the first appetizers that always gets brought up is we have to get the lettuce and chicken wraps from P.F. Chang's. Okay. They're solid. You hate the pick. I don't. That's decent. Good pick. So lettuce wraps, P.F. Chanks.

All right. Next, I'm going to go with a national restaurant that everybody knows. They, of course, sing about their baby back ribs. but I like, I believe they're the first place I recall having them, the Southwest Egg Rolls from Chili's. Sounds like Joe likes, Joe's getting hungry over there. That's a good call. Joe's getting hungry over there. You're not supposed to be influencing people, Judge.

That's not on my list. Next. So since we are going with starters. Yeah. And you went with cheddar bay biscuits, good pick. I'm going to go with the best yeast rolls in the biz with the little cinnamon butter. I'm going with Texas Roadhouse rolls. Didn't we go with that on our previous bit?

Didn't we do breast breads? Oh, we think we were talking about it before. Yeah. I think we did a bit. Texas Roadhouse rolls. Delicious. With the cinnamon butter. Of course.

I'm going to stay in the bread category. I wouldn't go there for their pasta, per se, although you can get a lot of it. I wouldn't go for the lasagnas. It is what it is. Chicken params, okay. But you get the salad, which is delicious. Okay. But you cannot get enough of the breadsticks from Olive Garden.

Okay. So breadsticks, Olive Garden. Last choice. When you think of the OGs of appetizers, you think of a place that I think probably talks about endless apps. This would not be an endless app, but it's still delicious. I think the OG of potato skins can be found at T. GI Fridays.

Oh, okay. Potato skins were on my list. I actually didn't even have a restaurant. I was thinking maybe Benigans had good potato skins. They're not in business anymore. Yeah, it's just saying. I didn't want to draft them. If they were in business, that'd be a pick.

Yeah. So I'm going to go with TGI Fridays, potato skins in my final round selection. My last one, I'm going to go with speaking of OGs. They started in Florida. They're the OG of restaurants that have heavy chest

wasted waitresses. Oh, yeah. They have breaded wings and whatnot. Right. And my favorite appetizer there would be the crunchy, crispy, fried pickles with the spicy range. Very nice. Very good selection.

I mean, honestly, we can flip these lists and we're all fan-haping. Mine's way better. All right. I think this is a good draft. Let me tell you what didn't make the five that are on my list. I had the salad from Olive Garden, which is delicious. Chana Gardens egg rolls over their next tootas center are amazing. My's Vietnamese egg rolls, I have.

on my list, but I took Southwest. And then just the salsa from Papacitos. The warm salsa from Papacitos is delicious, too. Strong. I had Diablo shrimp from Papacitos on mine. So here we go. Here is our list, and we just had a judge drops. If you want to get in, we've got one spot open at 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Ross has the Torchy tacos green chili queso, the Pluckers fried mac and cheese. Southwest egg rolls from chilies, the rolls. from Texas Roadhouse and the fried pickles from Hooters. I'm hungry. A lot of... I'm going to have to get something eating the way home. I'm literally starving.

Mine are the cheddar bay biscuits from red lobster, the chewy jalapeno ranch dip, the lettuce wraps and P.F. Changs, the breadsticks from Olive Garden, and the potato skins from TGI Fridays. Time for us to determine who wins the Fantasy 5. Jimmy is first up on the Fantasy 5. Jimmy, Ross, or me, who wins?

So all 10 were very solid, but I have to stay true to my board. And my board said, as long as everything is good, the definitive number one. And I've never even been to Chewis, but if anyone said chips and salsa, that was the automatic winner. So I'll go with you, Matt. He didn't say chips and salsa. He said chips and ranch green salsa. Oh, from Chewis. Ranch Dip.

Halapino Ranch Dip. That's what the vote is in. I have chips and case them. You lose. That's fine, Jimmy. All right, one vote for Jimmy. Jimmy, have a wonderful weekend. It's a vote under false pretenses, but that's fine.

It's a vote for you. Cougar Chris on 790. Cougar Chris, who wins, Ross or me? Well, I don't like pulling for a longhorn over a Cougar, but Ross was better. Why? Sorry. I don't care. All right.

Wow. Isn't it better when you're in here to a lot? I love salty Matt. It's even better sitting right here and drinking it in. All right. Line three. Christian, who wins a Fantasy 5?

Ross or me? Thomas, Ross, Philadelphia. All right. Second of all, you have me with the broad mac and cheese in southwest

there, and I'm sorry, Matt. You have... Okay, I'm done. That's plenty. Two to one. It's close. It's a competition. Chad, who is?

wins a fantasy five, Ross or me? Chad? Uh-oh. Chad is dropped. Chadwick, we have lost me. All right, we're looking for a best of five. Right now, it's Ross 2 and me won. Let's go to Taylor on 790.

Taylor, who wins a fantasy 5? Ross or me? I'm going to have to go with the Chewy's Crack sauce. That puts you over the top there. Max. I'm going, we go up Matt on this one. All right, thank you very much. So we're two to two.

This is the most competitive we've had in a long time, which means, Joe, we may need you for a seventh vote. Let's go to line number one. Line one, who wins Ross or me? To me, guys, the OG of appetizers is going to have to be the shrimp and oyster fondue from Papado. Oh. They bring out the garlic bread. Oh, yes.

Major. I should have... From where? From Papado. Delicious. But I don't think enough people eat it. But you're right, it is an OG appetizer. It is absolutely OG.

So, Matt, I've got to give it to you, man. The cheddar biscuit and the creamy jalapeno. That puts you over the top. That's the reach. Thank you very much. enjoy your weekend, good food, good times with great people. I think I just did a commercial for me. What are you doing?

All right. And then, oh, three to two means we have nobody on the line. So Joe, we got to save you for the seventh vote. Yeah, we got to live for a possible seventh and seven. Do we bring in Garrett? Oh, we could use both of them. All right, Garrett, we'll hold on to you for a minute. You will hold, we'll make you the six vote.

Skip to Matt. This is tough, guys. Let me go with the list again, or do you? You already know the list. I wrote it down. Okay. I felt like today it was going to be closer

than expected. You're supposed to speak. I'm going to make this down to bread, a bread decision. Okay. Okay. We have cheddar bay biscuits

and the breadsticks and the breadstakeshurtigand versus the Texas Roadhouse rolls. I think, I'm just going roadhouse rolls versus Olive Garden. I'm taking the olive garden.

Oh. That's a bad. That's a bad idea. I don't think it is. I can eat those things for way too much. Seriously, how about next week?

So, Matt, you win. I want, first one on your wall. Watch. That's only three weeks. This is my third fantasy five? Yeah.

Good job, Matt. All right. Even though my list was far superior. I will say this. If I could change anything out, I would have taken the Texas Roadhouse rolls. Those with the cinnamon butter, oh my God. I don't really like the cinnamon butter that much. Oh, geez.

You're a dirty whore. I like it, but it's just not the top of the list. But by the cheddar bag biscuits. All of garden breadsticks aren't even that good. I don't think they are. I think they're so good. With garlic salt on them and the buttery, oh. It's just there to fill you up.

And they do it, a wonderful job. And I think part of it is that, is like, I don't think you like the lettuce wraps as much as Matt and I do. So that's what you voted against me? No, I think that that leans over. Oh, okay. The lettuce wraps are good, but I mean, whatever. But when do you go to P.F. Chanks and not get the lettuce raps?

Who does it? When do you go to P.F. Chanks? Not very often. Not the last 45 days. I haven't. That's one of our road hits on the, on the end of the road to me or what? Road hits. Oh. Southwest Eggrolls is a check. I said rode something else.

I didn't have that on my list. No, pickles would have been there. Although you can probably get pickles from a lot of different places, but Hooters has a good pickle. I think you said wrote something else. I didn't have that on my list. No, pickles would have been there. Although you can probably get pickles from a lot of different places,

but Hooters has a good pickle. The actual greatest appetizer of all time, I forgot, is queso flamialo, but I didn't think people would know what that is. But I will say that is the... You know what that is? No. It's like fried Monterey-chease with chorizo on it.

It's so good. I'm not a Triso guy, though. That's the actual best appetizer in the world. But by the way, the fondue that I called in with is an OG appetizer. Just, I don't need enough people get it. I also had Budan balls, I thought about getting it. Oh, not a bad call. Or a gumbo?

We could have gone gumbos, right? I couldn't figure out who has the best cheese sticks. See, I think it's so hard for a cheese stick to be different than other places. You don't make a, like, the best cheese sticks are in a place called Spankies in Lovick, Texas. Excuse me? It's always random places, right? It's a hamburger joint that. serves. You skip the fries. You get the blocks.

There are literally blocks of cheese. All right, 240. Man, he's already screaming. Go to break, break, break, break. Look at you. You already have well with the 790 family. 246 on 790. Thomas continues. On Sports Talk 790. 251. Matt Thomas show for a final signal of the week.

You finally won, Matt. It's just a sense of relief. It's like I'm a three-point shooter that knows I can make the shot. I just have missed like nine of my last 11, but I'm going to come back strong. Is that what it is? Yeah. Well, should I sit here and complain and say it's all your friends calling in and come up with conspiracy theories and get mad and hang up on everybody? No, because I felt like the people that called in really wanted a root for you, but they knew just like most weeks, my list was superlative.

Well, one of the votes said they picked you because of chips and salsa, which you did not pick. Well, but it was chip salsa and the amazing jalapeno ranch did. Well, you get salsa with the queso. That's true. fraud. That's okay. You can have a win. At least you're not better about it. As you said, it's okay. If we were on AT&T, they would have seen you roll your eyes.

Oh, no, I was just looking up at this. If we were in AT&T, we didn't start dressing up better. I have found myself, and I'm not kidding on this. I think I wear the same six shirts and shorts. I mentioned this before. Yeah. I'm just rotating those. This might be the third time I've wore these Adidas sweatpants this week. Like I wear collared shirts, and sometimes I wear two collared shirts in the same day if I got a Rockets event or something.

Yeah. I spend about $100 a month in dry cleaning. Why don't you have your wife clean it up for you? Because these are nice shirts, and it just helps out. She can press them for you? No. For your kid. No, they're lazy.

They don't have time for this. They're always ironing shirts from my dad when I was a kid. No. That's more about the relationship that you and your father have. I like to get them looking nice and their best. Disciplined. So I'm not. spending that money anymore. I mean, I would

like to go to the dry cleaner, but I just, I'm not wearing collared shirts. That's it. I'm done. I think you've got to put these kids that work, these freeloading kids, especially Cameron. Well, I need Cameron to keep his good grades up so he can get his ass back to Lubbock. I'm omissia, son. Trust you.

Oh, I'm going to miss you, by the way, yeah. All he does is eat. Yeah, he's a big boy. But he's, he's respectful to his mother, which makes me happy. He's not fighting with his siblings. That's good. So I'm just, I'm feeling pretty. I mean, actually, you know, everybody asks, are we all killing each other? And it's just the opposite.

I give my kids an A for not wanting to throw Coke cans at each other. They've really, generally speaking, beginning along. And you know what the key to that is? What's the key? It's not feeling like when the five of us are home together, all of us together, to be with each other. Everybody goes to their rooms or areas and just, it's a little distancing. because if you're with somebody every single, like if you and I get together for three hours a day,

that's plenty. That's enough. If we hit a fourth hour, Ross, like the only time we ever are together for a long period of time is if we're going to Vegas or Lake Charles or a Super Bowl or a sports trip. But I can live with that. But if I had to spend more than three hours with you per day, be rough.

I get it. That's why, again, The key to a successful multi-layered family is having under one household Is getting the hell away from each other Is staying at least 10 feet from each other We call it Thomas family distancing It's a large palatial kingwood estate So you guys can eat Beach and B and be in different wings of the mansion

I would love to move in the city I'm not going to lie to you I would move in a smaller place in a heartbeat But my house is too big and too cheap You have my couch Well I might have to If this NBA schedule is going to be strange And we're working some strange hours

Yeah I might have to spend a little bit I got a new blowup, but it's nice. I heard it blow up, and then I thought of something not named a bed right after that. So, thank God I to listen to you. Yeah, you're not going to be able to borrow that. All right, let's go to Chris and pass a get down, Dina. Hi, Chris.

Hey, man, how's it going? Good. Yeah, I mean, I've heard a bunch of different foods. What about, what about talking about soups? Because Chewis has a pretty good tortilla soup compared to anybody else. Tortilla soup? I think he blipped out. Yeah, you're talking about tortilla soup?

Yeah, tortilla soup. I mean, Chewings has one of the better ones. I can't argue that. I've never had it. I thought about putting tortilla soup. Let me tell you what I do at Chewis. And no disrespect to Chewis, but it's going to come across the district.

I go for the dip, the salsa, the chips, and I drink three or four margaritas. That's it. Yeah, that's the thing. They have three things. They've got your chip, like your jalapinos dip. They got the soup, and then they're a super burrito. And that's about the best things. Once you start to have an off into enchilada, it gets more funky with their own with stuff.

Yeah. Thanks for the phone call. Have a good weekend. Teach his own. What's the most overrated appetizer? You know one we did not bring up? The blooming onion from Outback. That's overrated.

I thought you were going to draft. I thought that might be one you'd draft. Not even in my top ten. I've had it before. It's not awful, but it's just a fried onion. Now, the dip, the ranch dip or whatever that is, the Southwest kind of adds to it. By the time you get to that, it's just swimming in Greece in the bottom. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

so unhealthy for you that it just... I think it's like... Isn't it like 5,000 calories or something? You know, and again, all wonton soups are essentially made the same, right? There wasn't... There isn't a wonton time that's particularly better than somebody else's. 3,080 calories for a bloomin onion. Place you used to work

at, the croissants from cheddars are amazing. Dang, I should have... I was thinking about cheddars, but I should have got... Yeah, the honey butter biscuit. The honey butter sauce on the croissons. Mm-hmm. Used to be three for a dollar. I don't know what the kids are selling them for these days.

All right. Hey, y'all be careful this weekend. We're going to go out a little bit, I think. I'm not going anywhere. Okay, you can go to Ross's apartment. He'll get some dining for you, DoorDash and be all good. I'll tip you. All right.

Garrett, you've done a really good job. We've only had one or two bits of dead air on the show so far today. I appreciate it. Yeah. That's a good. And he's been screaming. Go to break, go to break. I mean, guys trying to keep us on the clock here, Ross.

That's good. Somebody's got to keep you on the clock. Give us on the clock. Have a great weekend. Be safe. Don't go crazy this weekend. Listen to Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler next. They're going to entertain you for three hours on 790 as part of the A team.

Ross has the nightcap at six. Sports RV Saturday. 10 o'clock? 10 o'clock, I had to guess. Where he'll probably replay every one of our interviews in this past week. Not true. Or misconnections. Misconnections might become a great big.

Have a great weekend. A team next on 790.