The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Mike D'Antoni, Fantasy Five

Episode Date: March 13, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show with @SportsMT, @SportsRV and @ProNickLow 3/13/20James Click and Dusty Baker Address MLB Postponement (0:00)New Sports Network (23:01)The Mike D'Antoni Show (40:25)Brian T. Smith (1:17:56)

It's larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-2-H-town. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. With our producer, Nick Lowe. My co-host, Rossville, Aray, and I'm Matt Thomas.

It is very nice to have you with us. on what will be not only in anything goes Friday, but probably anything goes month, as we work our way towards hopefully the resumption of sports activities. If you have not heard, the Masters has canceled.

The XFL is done. And NASCAR within the last hour, much of the chagrin of... What? Soon-to-be gambler, Chris Gordy on NASCAR, has postponed their events as well. Dang it. So let's...

lay this out and we're going to probably do this a handful of times over the next couple of weeks. We, and I'm going to handle that, and I told us to Ross off air, we're going to handle this responsibility of trying to keep things as light as humanly possible. Get to the relevant news of the day. Get to obviously concerns that the sports leagues have with this coronavirus. But the show must go on. This will be the biggest challenge. of my professional career.

It just will. I worked in Salt Lake City, Ross, with no NFL team, no baseball team, and a very bad NBA team when I was there with the Utah Jazz. That was a challenge. But at least we had games to sink our teeth into. We do not. But that doesn't mean that we're not going to be here to talk about sports. We're going to mix a few other things in.

We've got the return to the Fantasy 5 today. There may be a few things here and there that may peak our interest. but we're going to keep going because these sports are going to resume. And when they do, it's going to be maybe the craziest sports calendar time in the history of my broadcast career, maybe us as sports fans. Because hopefully, when this virus is somewhat contained or the technology and the and the medicines and the bill or the test will be a lot better, say, in 30 days from now than it is at this exact moment, we're going to hopefully have a lot of things.

going on at one time that's going to be super exciting. Like the start of a baseball season, like the continuation of the NBA season, the masters will probably get back in action. Now, we won't have an NCAA tournament. There'll be no spring sports, but in theory, I don't know if most of collective

America is going to miss the College World Series. Feel terrible for the people of Omaha because, my man, that is how they make their money. That is a two-week event with eight teams and all the fans that come into a city that doesn't, I'm going to assume, have a large vacation destination. Yeah, touristy council.

Not a lot of tourist money in the Omaha. It's really a nice city. It's just what you wouldn't vacation there. And people want to get their stakes. Well, you can still get the stakes just 10% here. But we're going to talk sports. Granted, it may not be the X's and O's that you catch the game last night because there are no games, but we're going to get to it.

I decided we're going to have some people on that you normally don't get to hear. I have the feeling that athletes are going to be pretty much out of the side of the mind. We're going to attempt to get some people on. I have so far been unsuccessful in some of that, although Mike Dan Tony is going to join us today for a segment at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Very excited about that. Brian T. Smith will be with us as he normally is on Friday.

Yes. But there'll be some people that, frankly, are not working right now that I'm going to ask, come and hang out with us for 10, 50 minutes on the show. Craig Ackerman's not doing anything. Craig. He's got a lot of free time. Steve Sparks. Our friend, Julian Morales,

Kaylee Griffin, a lot of you've asked about our new silent reporter on the Rockets broadcast. We're going to have her. We're going to get some different media people on. We're going to keep the sports conversation flowing because this is what you guys come for, right? Yes. I don't think people come to our show to hear about how sucky the coronavirus is. So we're going to get into sports. It's just going to be a little bit different and a little bit more of a change.

challenge. So please bear with us. And please, by all means, feel like you two guys can be a part of the show, especially on Fridays. We're going to be a little loosy and goosier like we are when we wake the strippers up. And by the way, I don't know. Have the strip clubs been affected by all of this? I don't know. I saw an Onion article that said that James Hardin had pledged $10 million to $10 million bills to strippers, but the onion is satire. Yeah. But it's probably not that far off. I would like to get James to come on the show, but that's never going to happen. So We can't. Oh, why not?

Not a big media person. Won't you have your people get with his people? I have. He talked to Rachel Nichols? Why can't he talk to you? I wouldn't agree with you more. I'd rather talk to you, Matt. I would have rather talk to me, too.

Okay, she's rather annoying. Whoa. She's attracted, but annoying. I don't find her annoying. I do. Well, she kind of, yeah, sometimes when she's doing her little monologues on the jump, it's a little forced. Yeah, and I can just tell you from seeing her in firsthand,

she walks around a locker room like, do you know that I'm in your locker room? Do you know the value of me, ESPN's Rachel Nichols, in your locker room? Okay. But a lot of media, like John Heyman. I'll give you a great example. You know that douche that writes for the...

Ross and I watched him. Who does he even write for? MLB.com, I want to say. Okay. And something else. Remember that story he wrote a few weeks ago about how sad the Astros were? He wouldn't know.

Do you know why he wouldn't know? Why wouldn't he know, Matt? Because he was afraid to talk to them. He was presuming that they were sad because when we went in the clubhouse, there wasn't a lot of conversation. There wasn't a lot of media interviewing other people. The guys kind of kept to themselves. But you can't presume that someone is sad unless you walk up to a player and said, hello, ex-player, are you sad?

They weren't sad. they were very business-like. They're not going to be uber chatty because the entire world of baseball hates them. Sports hates them. Everybody's making fun of them. But I wouldn't clarify them as sad, and I certainly wouldn't put it out there on social media

or put my name to it if I don't have the stones to talk to those people. So just take it with a grain of salt when John Heyman says the aster's are sad. Frankly, the whole sports world is sad right now. But we're going to get past it. All right, James Click, the Astros General Manager, just spoke in a conference call, where it was announced officially that the Astero Spring Training facility is closed to the general public. That includes media. That includes any fans, because obviously spring training has been canceled.

And let's let you hear a little bit about first and foremost keeping the team here down there in Florida. And, of course, someone goes to my speaker in Lexer. Well, it happens. Let me try one more time here. It's not working. Do do, do, do. You know up there, Matt. Do, do.

Yeah, I do. I don't know why it's not playing. Do, do, do. There's a multi-billion-dollar company here, and I hit the same button I've hit every year for 20 years. I'm calling user error. Okay. Where would you like to start? Number one, keeping the team in Florida.

Guidance that we have been given from Major League Baseball right now is to keep the players here in Florida. So we're planning on doing that for the foreseeable future. right now we've been told that we should have a lot more information in a couple days so we have closed the facility to the public and to the press we'll have optional not even optional it'll be open if guys want to come in and get medical treatment from trainers or if they want to work out but by and large we're following the lead guidelines and the medical guidelines to avoid gathering in large groups. We anticipate knowing a lot more, hopefully by Sunday later.

All right, that is James Click about keeping the team in Florida. Also today, there was a team get-together. Here's what James Click said happened during that meeting. Everyone was there, yeah, players and staff. There was obviously a lot of questions, concern about, you know, not even just baseball, but about what, you know, the country in the world is, is dealing with right now. That's where the focus was.

Obviously, the guys are anxious. We're all anxious, players, staff, myself, to try to get this behind us and try to figure out the best thing to do. But we had a good session, lots of questions. We could answer some of them, but as you'd expect, there are a lot of questions that we don't have answers to right now, and I think everybody has been very understanding with regards to that, and we're trying to track down those answers as quickly as we're.

can. How is the new manager, Dusty Baker, handling this entire situation? Well, you know, like I've been through this before, it's not very pleasant situation, but it's a very needed and necessary, you know, situation. I mean, this is on a national scale now, not just a, you know, a team scale. And so, you know, we'll do whatever it takes to, you know, to try to secure the health and wellness of our, of our players and their families. Dusty was asked today about the tone right now in that clubhouse. Well, you know, the tone appeared good, but, you know, under the circumstances, it's just a matter of, you know, none of us have never been through this before. And this is, and the uncertainty of the entire situation is what we've never been to before.

So, you know, we'll just stick together and try to do this all, you know, do this, you know, as a group and do it as a, you know, as a unit. And, you know, we're being led by the Players Association and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, we'll, you know, do whatever we're asked to do, you know, under the guidelines that we've been asked to do it. We did not add the cough sound effect in the middle of that. What the heck? Who was that? Seriously. That's all we need is during a conference call about this to have someone have their cough go off. Oh, is it communicable via conference call?

Is everybody okay? Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. It's an anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. We'll mix in more sound throughout the day. I'm James Cleck and Dusty Baker. We'll hear from Mike Dan Tony, Brian T. Smith. And the Fantasy Five returns.

We'll tell you about the topic and get to your phone calls and get to everything. as we try to keep it as sports-limited as possible because we need it. We need this three-hour little get-together we get to keep ourselves sane and avoid the problems that are your local grocery story. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Anything goes Friday on 790. It is a Matt Thomas show.

Where anything goes. Yeah. If you want to explain the essence of anything goes Friday, please? Well, Matthew. Monday through Thursday on the phone lines at 713, 2,1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. We could probably change that to every day, but that's, at least for now.

You have the longest leash in the biz. I like it. On a Friday, it gets even longer. We haven't really had a good meaty off-topic, anything goes-Friday type of situation recently on the phones. Yeah, and we're here for everything, because I'm a man of the world. Okay.

I'm a father. I'm a husband. I'm a man about town, a man about country. Okay. When you think of cosmopolitan man, You think, frankly, at sports. When you think of Barnacle on the on the

private jet that the Houston Rockets run, you think of Matt Thomas? Yeah. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Your way to welcome yourself into it. Anything goes Friday. The Fantasy 5 today. Fantasy 5 is back?

It is back, and my feeling is we will be having a fantasy 5 every Friday until we start getting games again. I'm pretty sure I lost the last one. You did. So I get to go first. And this is a topic this week. There are no wrong answers. It's just who has the best list of the group.

Okay. The category is this. Ross has a DVR. I have a DVR. And we'll only allow it to have five games on it. Which five games are you keeping on your DVR? So if you were quarantined per se, it's terrible to use that word.

But if you were, let's say that you were stuck at home, Or maybe you just didn't want to leave the house for some particular reason. You would say quarantine. It's fine, man. Okay. I just want to make sure I don't mind putting a scare in the people. It's fine. Five games on your DVR.

And you can only watch those five games over and over and over and over and over again. Okay. Which five games are they going to be? Okay. My list, and I'm just started, I'm already six deep. I'm going to probably put together 12. Really? Yeah.

Okay. You're going to have some older school stuff than I am. Yeah. And again, it's going to be who calls in. Who has a better memory of such things? And again, there's not going to be one that's like, you would keep that getting that's just impossible because everything's going to be great, right?

Probably. For instance, I'm not, I can tell you what's not on my DVR. 1980. North Carolina State 83 versus Houston. That thing is being erased quickly. Well, what if the people on hold? What if the judges are into pain? Because that's all we know is Houston sports fans.

Or they're all North Carolina State graduates. Yeah. Because my guess is Raleigh List is significantly different than Houston List when it comes to that. So it is five things on the DVR, sports game related,

that you have to watch over and over and over again. So any sport, anywhere counts? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mine are going to be obviously more Houston-centric because those are the ones that will be the most favorite to me. And since some Dallas, since you're from Dallas. No, I spent 10 months in Dallas.

I can tell you that any Dallas's Super Bowl victories are not going to be on my DVR. Okay. And Nick, you will occupy. Nor will any of the Texans' Super Bowl victories. Oh, yeah. Nor will any of the Texans

divisional playoff appearances. Hmm. Right? Unless you're just a sicko that wants to watch 24-0 over and over again. Nick, you are the seventh judge, by the way, in that as we've expanded

our list of the best of seven. So you are judge number seven if we get to a three-three tie. I will do it honorably. All right. Beyond the things that are being canceled in sports, sports television is being canceled. What do you mean?

Yesterday, I was, I put FS1 on, just, I think I had it on for, because I was watching basketball the night before, and they were replaying, uh, the game between, it was a big East, uh, tournament tournament game. Okay. Normally the Nick Wright show is on. Okay. It wasn't on. And I thought that was really peculiar. FS1 announced this today that all of their production of all their TV shows have been postponed until the 20th. Really? meaning they're going to take the rest this week and all of next week off. So your Skip and Shannon's, your Colin Cowards, and the Nick Wright, whatever that show is called, they've ceased production.

So not only is it happening to sports, but it's happening in television productions. The Price is Right has ceased production. And that's also a live studio audience. Here's the reality of all this, before we start taking some phone calls here and anything goes Friday, anything with a large group is slowly being taken away for a while, which I would then think out loud when our movie theater is going to be shut down, because those are theaters that could have 100 people. That's with a large audience that turns over in chairs. I mean, maybe you separate the movies a little bit by a couple of hours, so you can de-cleans

them. I was thinking yesterday we were talking about it on the nightcap on Sports Talk 790, which will be every night basically at 6 o'clock on Sports Talk 790. Finally. Yeah, they should be. limit ticket sales, like to like maybe 40 and put everybody in a different corner of the theater?

Or like, do you only sell every other seat? I could see limiting of theater seats for sure. Yeah. Because you buy assigned seats now in 2020. Well, I don't know if there's a movie theater I go to now that doesn't have a signed seat. Right. It feels like everyone in around our neighborhood does. So what

you do is you limit the seats. And I also think you're going to have greater time in between. I don't think you can have a 1215 than a 2.15. movie. I think movie theaters will be told if they already haven't been to space the movie theaters out so every seat can be wiped down and clean. I mean, I'm being all serious on that. I think gone of the days of 1215, 215, 215, 415. My feeling is if you want to go see a movie, which, you know, whatever it is, it's going to be 1215, 4 o'clock.

I think there's going to be our cleanups of every movie theater to make sure every morsel of popcorn is picked up and in every seat is lysol and or, you know, cleansed. going to do that. The employees. They don't do that now. They're going to have to. Oh, I guarantee, let me tell you, boys, I guarantee you movie theaters are next on the list on the watchout lookout list. I would say it's just going to close them.

I don't go to the movie theater. I go to the movies like twice a year anyways, so I'll be fine. Well, I don't think the general audience is like, I hope Ross is okay during this. I'll be all right. They should be. But a lot of people still go to the movies. My 17-year-old, my middle son loves the movie. He can't, they went and saw Invisible Man the other day. Are you going to allow him to go to the movies again?

Yeah, I'll let him go. But I'm not going to see that scary-ass movie. Just pirate of now. No, I believe in, I believe in, I believe in following laws and rules and not cheating the system. Oh, please. By the way, I will tell you this.

I told you we were at the grocery store the other day. Yeah. How many Cokes did you steal? Well, I saw the Coke thing. I'm thinking, man, you're making me wait 40 minutes in line. The least you can do is let me have one of those generic coldos of 49 cents, right? But I didn't do it.

but you wanted to. Of course I did. There's a lot of things I wanted to, but I don't do. You only didn't because we shamed you on the show. Yeah. Otherwise, you would have. Yeah, but let me tell you something. You're not stealing grapes anymore because you don't know where those grapes been washed or not.

Yeah, that's true. You're done snacking in the produce section. I can tell you that for sure. I mean, I haven't stolen grapes until as a kid. Yeah, okay, whatever. 713-212-5-7-9. Manual at 1226 on 7-0-0-Emanuel. Good afternoon.

Good to hear you. I'm glad you're back. I've been missing you guys for the last week or so, the spring training games. Well, I'll tell you why. Not a worry about that. Unfortunately, yeah. But I wanted to talk about the rockets. And I actually think this coronavirus is not good that we're having a pandemic,

but there's actually can help them. First of all, we have a lot of banged-up guys that are finally getting healthy, like Hardin's wrist. Gordon's knee, Tucker's shoulder, stinger still. So this time, they can actually take this time and get treatment and get really healthy. And the good thing also is that this is almost like a reset. It's so long. It's like a reset of starting the season.

And if you look at Hardin's numbers at the beginning of the season, like October, November, December, those are some of his biggest games. He goes out for like 40, 50 plus points games. just because everybody says he's tired at the end of the season and the playoffs, he can use this as a reboot and he can come back like mentally fresh, and then I think he can go out there and just go kill it with Westbrook and just have like a killer's mentality, fresh body, fresh mind, ready to attack and destroy.

Well, you know what, unfortunately, I mean, fortunately you're correct, but manual, like, could also be said for every other aging player. LeBron James is going to feel that way. Chris Paul's going to feel that way. Anybody that has been in the NBA for any length of time is going to have the same amount of rest. So it's not like he's going to have a competitive advantage of the others. But James obviously is fresher in October and November than he is in the months of March and April.

And his downfall of his career has been largely attributed to what he doesn't do in May. So, yeah, I mean, I can't discount what you're saying. But I'm not all of a sudden think, I don't think America thinks the Rockets are now I prohibited favor to win this thing because James has 30 days off. That's true. You know, the other guys will have days off, too, but they don't have that negative connotation of how sports America sees Hardin in the playoffs. I don't.

I believe Hardin is awesome in the players, especially the last two years. He has done great. But the problem is everybody wants to point to the Spurs game and a couple other games where he didn't have a day game. He didn't bring it. Something happened and wasn't ready there mentally. But, you know, I mean, he can really change the whole narrative this summer now, basically because they'll probably be like June or July in the finals.

If we can get moving and work together as a team, everybody gets all those rebounds and fights for what they can get, we can move or we can beat a couple of teams. And you never know. We can find us in the Western Conference finals or the finals, and nobody else wants us to be there. but, you know, they can use this time to get healthy and get their mind right and get their shot right. Because, you know, threes are important to us, get that shot right. Man, I can just see us in there.

And it'll be a fun team that nobody wants there, and we can upset the whole upper part. Well, from your mouth to the basketball God's ears, thank you, thank you, Manuel, for the phone call. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. It is, and anything goes Friday. We support Houston. He's real Texan. Thank God you got 790. She's a real Texan.

Real Texans talk here. Sports Talk 790. We mentioned that Mike Dan Tony is on this radio program in 25 minutes. He'll join us live. This will be the final Mike Dan Tony show for a little while until games resume. Not going to have weekly updates on... How he's doing? Eric Gordon's health.

The latest wines he's drinking. Mike's a... Let me tell you, I've had dinner with Mike a couple times. Yeah. Great dinner. inner guy. Good storyteller. And I'm not a wine drinker, but I think he knows what he's talking about. He always picks the right ones. We can have like Dan Tony's

Wine of the Week. You mean like the brand, not like what he's complaining about. True, exactly. Well, he could do that too. The wine, that would be W. HIA. You could give us pairings. Yeah. I don't know if Dusty Baker's a good wine connoisseur, but he was asked today about... He is, I think. Yeah, I'm guessing that when you're 70 plus, you man to travel the world. Yeah. Yeah. He probably is a good wine drinker.

Well, when he was pruning his graves, he meant that literally, right? That's true. Do you think Bill O'Brien's a good wine drinker? No, he's Coors Light. Yeah, he's Coors Light all the way. Here's Dusty out of whether or not he's going to be around and have any team organized workouts. No, I mean, you know, we don't have any organized workouts. You know, we're simply, you know, here to help monitor and do what the, you know, what the players,

you don't want to do. And, you know, they're not required to come in. But if they want to come in, you know, we're here and available for them. Those guys are going to show up because they need to get ready for the season. They know that if they go to the Astros facility, there's going to be no media asking questions or not trying to talk to them. They're going to have the best facilities available to them in terms of weights and showers and baseball fields where they can run and throw and pitch off a hill and whatnot.

I mean, private workouts are going to only do you so much. If you get to go there under no pressure at all, I'm not saying it's a great world, but it's not the worst world in terms of them getting ready. I wonder how this is going to play. Because, again, Jeff Passon today on ESPN's Get Up show said he doesn't anticipate majorly baseball getting games going to as early as say May. So let's say this 30-day period comes and goes,

Well, actually, Major League Baseball is not officially 30 days. It's the first two weeks of the season has been canceled. So you add that plus the two weeks of the spring training. That's about four weeks. You've got to get these guys worked up again. I wonder if they're going to have any more exhibition games between now and the start of the regular season. My guess is the answer to that is no. My guess is you'll have a lot of simulated games, intrasquot, if you will.

But the next time the Astros or any Major League baseball team takes to a diamond, it'll be for a real baseball game. Because they're not going to keep the guys in West Palm Beach four or five. five days just to play a couple of games. Maybe if you have a team close to you, like the Washington Nationals and the Astros share, maybe they play. I don't know. I don't think they know. But they're going to show up. These guys are, I mean, you just can't tell Jose Altuve and George Springer and company, this is a month vacation. When we get started again, I'll be ready to go. My guess is those guys will stay down there and try to stay in the best baseball shape they can. Because there's a very beneficial season coming up, hopefully, in the next 45 or so days.

So at this point, nothing that Dusty can do can be official, but he can welcome them open arms. If they've got a question, they can talk shop, that's all good. But I think right now for the next probably 72, maybe as much as four or five days, there's a lot of, should we go in? Should we take a couple days away? And I think that's the big uncertainty right now. Maybe they should get some Sandlock games going, where like they pick two captains with the Astros and the Nationals, and then you pick your own team, and then it's all call your own from there?

like no umpire safe out ball strike you should have hit that strike like we used to do back in the day it'll just be less broken glass out there in the field than when we used to play well if they're gonna really do it less back like in the back of the day they're not going to have nine players it's going to have five

a piece you have ghost ghost man on second well you have two outfielders one left side infielder one right there's no catcher the back stops your catcher right right and if you try to throw something out of the plate that's not going to happen unless the ball beats the runner to home plate.

That's the only way and then he's considered automatically out. Ghostman automatically advances. Those are the rules. Yeah. I think in the NFL, if you were to do this, you have all-time quarterback. Of course.

Because there's no need for Tom Brady or for Donovan for Deshaun Watson to run. Just throw. Just get the mechanics going. Receivers play cornerbacks and vice versa. There are no line.

You know, you go one, 1,000. We're doing two-hand touch on the grass. Oh, two-hand touch on the concrete, full tackle on the grass. No tackle at all. Oh, no tackle. Yeah, it's probably smart.

Pro athletes. We don't need these guys. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, could you imagine the headline? In a game of all-time quarterback, Tom Brady gets tackled on the street and his sideline three weeks with massive concrete burns.

And just set up a couple cameras. I'd watch. Now, basketball, call your own is going to be tough with James Hardin on your squad. Or you don't want them against your squad. Well, it would just lengthen the game. It's going to be a lot of call your own from James Harden. A lot of call your owns and a lot of arguing about, now, come on now.

And you don't want to play against Chris Paul and call your own either. He's going to be calling everything. And you know what? Who's sneaky about calling everything on call your own? Eric Gordon. Eric Gordon will call every foul as well. Exactly. PJ's not calling anything.

Russ will foul you and then we'll never acknowledge it. Oh, you're shooting for every against Russ. You know, you have to shoot for the foul. Like if you disagree, like, all right, shoot for it. You got to shoot a three. Russ is going to miss a lot of those. But Russ is never going to claim a foul. Exactly.

You want to argue everyone with Russ. You probably don't want to argue everyone with James. If you're shooting for all those, you're going to miss some. He's going to make some. PJ Tucker's never calling a foul the entire time. Pat Bev never calling a foul. Well, maybe against him. He's a flopper.

Yeah, PJ is going to get hammered. Yes. and say play on, he is also going to try to bump him multiple times. He's going to pound his chest and say give me some more. Yeah, you can't, you're calling that a foul. And then he's going to say, biotch. Can he shoot for his from the corner? Because usually when you shoot for it, you know, it's top of the key.

That's true. Let me tell you something. This is a new network we can create. Yes. We need to think of a definitive name for it. But it's a network of adult professional athletes playing at kids level games. Like, would you like to play a game of 500? Remember you used to play a game of 500 where the guy would throw the ball up in the air.

If you caught it's 100 points, you catch it on a bounce, it's worth 50. No, we never played that. Yeah. Three guys down in the field, one guy throwing it up in the air. If you catch it in the air, it's worth 100. Yeah. If you catch it in a bounce, it's worth 50. You can pass in it if you're the hell out of each other because essentially there's three of you fighting for this one, you know, football thrown up in the air.

I know. We never played that back in the day. That's good. So you can get NHL players to play some roller hockey at the cul-de-sac? On concrete, duh. Yeah. Ice, concrete, same thing. Yeah, we used to play Smear the

Person with the ball. Yeah, you can't use that game. Person with the ball. Yeah. Yeah, this is, you know, 2020 is not allowed that game to be playing anymore. Well, it's going to have a different name. So can we get cable carriage on this pretty quick?

I would hope so. You just said FS1 suspending all programming. Yeah, we could replace the FS1 programming with adult professional athletes playing kids games. So you're going to get professional boxers to go just have bum fights in the street. Ooh, yeah. Well, they wouldn't be fighting homeless people.

And by the way, with the WWE suspends, we'll do our own wrestling in our front yards. With razor wire and stuff? Or on our beds? Go to people's houses and try to elbow somebody on somebody's bed. Okay. Yeah, this has got little legs to it. I think so. 713-212-5-790.

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Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. We are hitting interesting time. in our industry, especially this genre. All right? I went to the bathroom, not the den of the doom part, just the regular urinal part. And one of our coworkers who will rename Nameless said, so what are y'all going to do for the next month and a half?

I'm like, well, we're going to do a radio show. It'll be a little bit different. We're going to grind it out, man. Yeah, that's okay. I mean, look, let me tell you something. There are a lot of you that are driving around this town that have 25,000 times more difficult jobs than we do. Now, this is going to be a challenge for the,

and again, like I've been very blessed to be in this business for almost 30 years. This will be the biggest challenge for me. But it's okay. So we get compensated pretty well for, and we get the opportunity to talk to you all for three hours on a daily basis. I'm ready. This show's going to be just fine. We are going to, starting next Monday.

Now, we always, now, during the leanest times of the sports year, we've always played summer of fun. Yes. We're going to rename it, suspension of fun. Okay. I like that. So, play one of the, Nick, can you play one of the summer of fun opens? And let's see if we can mouth in suspension of fun.

Okay. We'll do it once a day, just for like a little 10-minute segment, just to kind of change things up. We'll have some prize to give away. We've got to keep things as light as possible because, again, there's too much doom and gloom in our society with all this. So let's play one of the summer of fun opens and see if we can just put the word suspension of fun in. Sports facts are fun. If you know them all, get Matt's questions right, and you'll have a ball. On.

Suspension. Fun! Oh, yeah. Here's your host, Matt Thomas. This is going to work. Was I not around for this? I think I was out of town. Yeah.

It's called high production value right there. This is very high production value. I'm impressed. Thank you. Play it. So starting Monday, We will have one little segment And we'll move it around

Okay We'll do it before 2 o'clock Because you always have our Believe it or not at 252 Of course So we'll do it before 2 o'clock We'll have suspension of fun Wonderful

Where it'll be Sometimes it'll be Do you know more than Ross There could be I want to go against people in trivia The problem with that is Is that I'm going to beat all their asses

Is that you have a computer In front of you I can put it away I know I trust you Because I see you I will not be able to see The contestant So that's why

we would put them against me. The first one to answer correctly wins. Oh, okay. I just don't want people running to Google. That ruins the essence of the father. Right, but it would be like a stump the Schwab situation where they have to beat me. Okay. So we'll have...

I'm going to have suspension of fun starting Monday here on sports time. I never thought I would have suspension of fun. But we're going to do it anyway. It would ruin my day, though, if I lost to somebody. I know. All right. So the NBA Players Association sent out an email to its membership. and said, hey, I want to give you guys the heads up.

There is a provision in our collective bargaining agreement that says if the season is canceled, not postponed as it currently is, that the season is canceled, they're going to take, they're going to prorate your salary. Now, that's not... As in, you get the rest of your money?

As in no, is what if you've... Oh, as you don't get... They've played 60 games. You get 60 games. You get the pay base of a 60 games. Well, how do they get paid, by the way? Do they get every... I don't know.

Because I know in NFL, you get a game. check every week. My guess is they get paid every two weeks. I don't know if it's over 12 months or not. Yeah. Is it the first and the 15th or is it like every other Friday? Every other Friday plan like us or what? I know some NBA players.

I mean, I can certainly text and find out. Ask them. But the point is that they're preparing. Not trying to scare them. They're just saying, hey, I know you're thinking about these kind of things. James Hardin's going to be okay. Somebody like a Chris Clemens might need a little. Well, I mean, I would hope at Chris Clemens, you know, as a, that borderline, what's the word?

Two-way, G-Way, G-League, two-way player? Two-way G-League lower compensated on the lower compensation side of thing. He's not spending as frivolously as, say, a James Hardin would spend. I would hope not. We go on these trips. I would hope all of us that don't spend as frivolously as James Harder's those. Well, I mean, if I was, if you guys were on a plane with us, you'd see that some guys bring lots of bags with them when they go. shopping.

Yes. And some don't. Right. You would definitely know the who's who in terms of money based on the number of bags. Okay. Like PJs always buying shoes. Secure the bag, as the kids say. James and Russ are always buying clothes.

Okay. Well, they're fashionistas. They are fashionistas. Do you think Rush and James were the same clothes ever in the same week, same month? No, they probably wear an outfit and then that's it. Some of them they get for free from the designers just because they show up pregame and then people like, oh, what is that? And then Google it and they get free ones.

So a lot of the stuff, they get gifted. I'm glad you said that. Number of outfits you've purchased that you've seen Russ and James where you thought that would look good on me. Zero. None of them that even thought was. But I have Google some of their shirt because one time James Hardin came to the game with like a plain white shirt. But it was a designer shirt. It was like a $300 plain white shirt.

That's nothing to him. Right. But I also would never, ever, ever spend $300 on a plain white shirt. It was just plain wine. Are you sure? It might have had like one little word on it or something. The fabric must have been obviously amazing. It must have been.

Like what is $300 fabric? What would that be made of? Fine Egyptian cotton? I don't know. Mixed with some kind of silk hybrid. I don't know. I'm going to ask next time I talk to it. Which will be probably at least 30 to 45 days.

But point being is that the NBA has said, look, y'all be on the lookout. If we close the season off, there is a provision for epidemics, wars, I think there's a couple of things that would force a cancellation of the season. You know, catastrophe is that kind of thing. That the players might, and again, my guess is the league is not ready to do that. My guess is the players will fight tooth and nail to get the season going in. Because once this thing hopefully gets cleansed and we get better information, they'll be able to put some provisions in play that we can have live games again.

because I look, as I said on the show yesterday, if we got to do this for 30 or 45 days, I was a talk show host talking about no sports events, we can do that. We're a big, grown ass man, we can do that. But there's going to be a large segment of the population that's going to miss out on a lot of amazing things. We love baseball. We love football. We love basketball. We, sports is such a huge part of our society, even for people that wouldn't consider themselves, quote-unquote, sports fans.

And we're missing out on this. I'm looking at my Facebook page, even with people that I don't even consider to be super big sports fans are like, what are we going to do? What are we going to watch? People are setting up a list of books they want to read and movies they have not seen and television shows they want to catch up. And I'm all for that. That's what we were thinking, Matt. We could do like the Matt Thomas show homework where you have to go home and watch something and then we'll all talk about it the next day. Okay.

Like, for example, you have to watch the Godfather. We would put you on homework assignment and you'd have to go watch the Godfather. and the next day we would spend a segment talking about it. You know what? I will accept that. Now, I'm not going to do it this weekend. No, that's fine. Very busy.

But let me do this. Let me give me, can you give me something in a week? Yeah. Why don't you figure it out today after we talk to Mike Dan Tony? You want me to watch The Godfather. No, good fellas. That's more violent, though, and you don't like violence.

And here's the thing. I'll let you and Nick decide it because I don't, you know what. And then I'll come back and you can quiz me on things and whether or not. But if it's good fellas and it's super violent, I'm going to wind up turning it off. I try to give Game of Thrones a chance. There was too many characters and too hard to figure out. There's violence and boobies. What's not to like? I should go back.

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Home of your Rockets. And this will be one of our outer visits, I would have to say, 101 on Sports Talk 790. it is our pleasure to have the coach with us for the first time in a couple of weeks and probably for the last time until games get underway. Coach, I would say how are things, but I have a pretty good feel of that. How are things? Well, I was trying to adjust and get through this period. I think everybody is, so we're all in the same boat. Let me ask you this. What has the league told its coaches, its players? I mean, how much communication are you in contact with the coaches' association, the league in general? What kind of updates? do you plan on getting over the next handful of weeks?

Well, mostly will come from obviously the league. Adam Silver and his group will brief us as soon as they, you know, talk to everybody. They have talked to their players association and owners and everybody else and trying to get a feel of where this, you know, the virus is gone and then try to make best decisions you can make and whatever. And so I would imagine every week or so, or not every week or so, but when they have information that's pertinent to what's happened,

they will definitely get it out and we'll try to adjust and do what we need to do. I want to get back to the team in a little bit, but I first want to get to a country that you know very well in Italy and the devastation that obviously the Ryan versus had there. Tell me about friends, coaches, acquaintances, who do you talk to? And what's the scene back there from what the people that you associate with are going through right now? Well, I mean, I have a bunch of friends, obviously, and teammates and coach. And so far, so good for everyone.

They are, you know, self-quaranty or whatever. They're staying at home and following the regulations that the government has put into place. And it's tough. It's scary. And it's been going on now, I think, two weeks that they've been kind of housebound. And they've got to April 3rd at the earlier. that they have to do this, and then they'll see it, but there's no guarantees. And, you know, it's a tough time right now for them.

How much will you communicate with the individual players? I know you've got a staff, you've got trainers, you've got assisted coaches. Have you guys put together a little system of just kind of checking on each other to see what the plan is and what you want them doing during this downtime? Yeah, yeah, we met today and trying to go over some plans and just how to individually. Right now, we're under the orders of they can individually work out. no more than one at a time or, you know, one coach or, you know, everybody's 60, whatever it is, that's your following.

That is going to last until we get another update, which will be next week sometimes. So for right now, individually, they have to kind of do it on their own, and they know what they have to do anyway, and they do have, you know, one trainer that they could see or whatever. So trying to keep it to a minimum. and just the individuals will have to take care of their own bodies and stay tuned. I'm assuming majorly baseball players who have been kind of told to stick close to home. I'm assuming the NBA is kind of in the same spot. Yeah, they said that for now.

Then we'll see. But, yeah, I think everybody is supposed to be in their home base until the next update. Have you been through anything like this before ever? I know for most of us, none of us. The answer is that is no, but is there anything? Well, I wasn't around when it was a black plague if that's what you're saying. Well, I mean, I know that you're among the elderly. I'm just teasing.

But you know what I mean. Anything is because, I mean, we've had hurricanes that have stopped things. We've had 9-11. We've had, I mean, we've had a few things in life that the world of sports has taken a back seat. But anything close to this in your life, no matter of view of as a player, coach, growing up as a kid, anything close to this at all? No, not at all because most of the things that happen, you see an ending day, you know, whatever. ever disrupts and what's going on, you know. So this you don't know.

And it's also not like a strike where, okay, you just get through whatever, but this is changing lives and how you live and how you interact with people. And so, yeah, this is so much different. And it's kind of, you know, there's a serious stuff. And you've got to do what the doctors and medical experts are telling you to do. you better do it. It's serious. It's not like somebody's trying to overplay it, downplay, or whatever.

It's time for the community and people to react in the right way, take responsibility as a person in the community that can help stop the spread and not participate in any kind of activity that will help, you know, spread it. So, yeah, it's a serious stuff. I've never been through it, but we'll get through it. We'll just have to do what they say to do. What was your initial reaction when the conference basketball tournaments in the March of Madness was canceled?

That it was inevitable. I mean, the NBA probably led the way of canceling, and they're on top of things, and if they came to that conclusion, then it was, in my mind, it was like everybody else was going to follow to because you can't, you know, they had the information, and they acted upon it, and everybody else acted upon it to it. But it didn't surprise me. Were you mentally preparing before this situation with Rudy and the league of suspending operations?

Were you mentally preparing yourself and your squad to be in games with no crowds? And that's something that's been talked about amongst you as a team? Not really. No, I mean, there's nothing to be a little of preparing that you can do. Yes, once you do it and you react to it, maybe for the second game, you try to get yourself psyched up. But, you know, since you're going to an unknown, and I've never played a game without any fans.

So it's, you know, how do you prepare for that? If you don't know what, and the individual guys are individuals, they would have been professional, and they would have done the best they could have done. But obviously didn't come to that. Yeah, Mike Dan, Tony, with us a couple more minutes here on the Matt Thomas show. Do you feel like when we all get together again and games resumed

that there'll be some noticeable changes? You know, I feel like, and again, I don't spend a lot of time in your locker rooms, but I don't feel like that there's areas of danger. I think that all NBA arenas do a really good job of making sure everything as clean as possible. But do you envision things permanent being changed once we all get back together again? You know, I really don't know. I don't know what the data will show or the, you know, whether they're not, I don't know that. That's a good question, and then we will see.

But as always, I'm sure there will be things that they probably pick up on that, yeah, we can do a better job here, maybe it does change it. So, yeah, I would think some things change permanently. Obviously, the victory against Minnesota was well needed before this break. Where is the squad collectively mentally? I mean, not that there's anything good out of this, and I want to make sure I'm very careful of this, but a little time away. Will that give some of the guys a chance to reflect on what's gone right and what's gone wrong and what has to happen when you guys get back to together? No, I don't think so. I don't think it's a factor one way or the other. We know that we had a little period there where we just, we messed up. We got, you know, like we said,

it was out in time. One game we came out, we didn't have the energy. The other game we came out and they busted us because they were a really good team and we didn't play very well. And then we got shook a little bit and went up against two teams that were playing pretty good. We had to play great. We did. But they understand what we have to do. And I think mentally they're ready to start back up when we can and get after it. But we're not in a bad place. It's just, you know, it's too bad we stumbled a little bit, but so be it. How long does it take?

And maybe you don't know the answer to this. If Adam Silver says in 45 days we're playing basketball games again, I mean, do you need a little mini-camp? Do you need just a couple days of practices? What ultimately, just as a pure guess on your part, you would need for your guys to kind of pick up where they left off and finish the season off and figure out where things are going to go come playoff time. I have no idea.

That's something that I'm sure the NBA will try to make a good estimate or a good guess and give you enough time to do us and whatever time they give us. That's what we'll do. But, you know, I'll have had a gap in a couple weeks, you know, at least. You get ready. But, you know, that'll depend on each individual guy as he is by himself right now, you know, how hard they work at it. You know, it's one thing about working out.

The other thing is, how hard do you work out? You know, I can work out every day and not do anything. Or I can work out every day and do a lot. So that'll each individual player will just have to get mentally and get his body ready. And then as a team, you know, we're doing the same concepts. We're doing, we're not teaching anything. We're not teaching. They're not going to forget the plays.

So it's just a matter of a little bit of timing, and that timing comes back pretty quick. All right, I have to ask this. My wife has got a list of honeydews for me to do since I'm going to be home for a while. Has Laurel asked you the same sort of list? You know, I'm sure. We will get into that. But, you know, I'm definitely hanging out at the house, that's for sure. So whenever we need to be done, we'll get done.

All right. Well, tell Laurel, we send our best into you as well, and we look forward to resume with these shows in the next few weeks once everything gets the dust settle and we get ourselves back in the spot we can start playing some basketball again. That's all right. Thank you, Mike. Mike, Dave, Tony, with us here on Sports Talk 7-90. That's the one rough thing about this, Ross, is a man who likes to travel like I do. I can always push the honey-do list off.

That ain't going there anywhere for a while. I'm sorry, Matt. What kind of things are on your list? What do you need to be doing? We're cleaning out the laundry room this weekend. Oh, okay. then we're working on closets Oh, it's spring cleaning for you.

Yeah. That's good. Get you roll your sleeves up. Get your elbows a little dirty, fancy old Matt. I'd rather go on a five-game road. Like the rest of us. Five-game Rudy. Now that is,

and then there's pampering at five-diamond hotels. Fancy shrimp cocktails. Speaking of hotels, there's a story about Rudy Gobert and the hotel needs to be discussed when we return. That is, of course, Mike Daytona, at 112 on the bat. Did he lick out of the bat? lick every water fountain or like a doorknob in the entire.

I don't want you to guess. But it does involve Rudy Gober in a hotel room. Oh, geez. Back to the Mad Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. For the corner and let's go! Home of your Astros. What's the name of this song? You just heard it.

Thanks to Mike Dan Tony for joining us. Are we going to play songs that are related to staying close to each other, No. Or being locked down. I will survive. I will. That's gory Gator, not bad. As long as I know how to love. I know I'll stay alive. Okay.

Staying alive by the Bee Gees? I like that one. Oh, this opens up a whole new Pandora's Box, if you will. I like this a lot. One-19 on Sports Talk Seminary. Brian T. Smith is going to join us at 2 o'clock. The Fantasy 5 today is at 2.30. Nick, you're going to love this.

We're going to make it with some audio clips in it. Ross and I are going to pre-draft here in a few minutes and bring you the list. If you did not, If you did not catch it, Ross and I have a DVR. In this fantasy scenario. Fantasy scenario. Are we on a desert island or are we just quarantined? I think we're quarantined.

It fits what's going on today. And we're allowed to watch five events, sports events. That's it. That's it. Five games. Okay. That is it. Hmm.

My list is eight deep. Do I need to go to 10? Probably not. Okay. I think you're going to have some on there that I'm not even going to take. Okay. Because you're a little bit older than me. Yeah.

So we will pre-draft that and then we'll play some of the sound bites from those, provided that Nick confines us. We're going to add some extra work to Nick. Nick's like, oh, this is going to be great. All right, I mentioned the hotel situation with Rudy Gobert. Mm-hmm. As you know, sports RV, professional sports teams stay in really nice hotels. Yeah, they're not going to be at the Motel 6.

That includes baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. Rudy Gobert. Was it, excuse me. Hey, hey, hey, hey. This man from Pirel. Was in Detroit. Yes. And.

Are there nice hotels in Detroit? There are. Okay. It's really far away from downtown Detroit, but there are. Well, apparently, the next night, the Carolina Hurricanes were in that same hotel. Yes. Carolina Hurricanes play-by-play broadcaster, John Forsland, is self-quiv. quarantining himself after he was in the same room that Rudy Gobert was in the night before.

He was in the same exact room? Here's how it works. This is according to John Forsland as he tells the Raleigh News and Observer newspaper. Farsland was sitting on one of the team buses just after 2 p.m. Thursday as the hurricanes prepared to come home from New Jersey after the suspension of the NHL season. Mike Sunheim, who manages the team's travel, came aboard and asked the other people, passengers to exit. Sudheim told him that the Jazz had stayed at the hotel before their game against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday, and the hurricanes checked in about 8 o'clock on Sunday.

After Gobert tested positive for the COVID-19 disease on Wednesday, the hotel told Sunheim that Forsland and a team videographer had potentially been exposed as well. The two were isolated at the front of the team playing on the flight home from Newark on Thursday. Foresland says, quote, that felt like a cross-country flight. He was briefed by the team physician on what to do next. Upon arriving home, Foresland was moved in the basement of his home for the next 10 days where he will wait to see if he developed symptoms, but only then he would be tested. Forreland says, I can't get tested. That's the thing.

I'm like everybody else. That probably right now as a country we are all going through. Forzland's wife, Natalie, is leaving his meals at the basement. door. What? Leaving his meals at the basement door? Like he's some kind of captive? He has 10 more days of quarantine and he's not sure how he's going to pass the time.

Quote, it's difficult. It's a long time. Today it doesn't seem like much. As the days march on, you're just hoping nothing happens. That's different. Every time I sneeze or I cough, you wonder, where's this going? I'll go as day to day as I can. I can't do much.

There's nothing professionally for me to stay connected with. I'm not a big TV guy. In the season, I'm honestly just watching hockey and paying attention to the news. That's all I do. I'm not a binge watcher, not a big movie guy. I don't want to think about what to do because there isn't much to do. Well, John, I don't know you. You're going to have to open up the horizons a little bit.

It's time to start or read a book. Okay. Well, I'm not a binge watcher. I don't watch TV. Okay, well, you're quarantined for 14 days. Time to pick it up. Time to pick some of that up. Yeah.

You're going to have to. Yeah. And I would, I would, if I had a. email address and say, go binge watch this or this or this, because you're going to have to. Maybe you should email him, Matt, or tweet him and support. I bet he's got a Twitter account, right? Probably. He's, uh, yeah, he's been the voice of the Carolina Hurricanes for 25 years.

Who even knew the Carolina Hurricanes around for 25 years? They've been there for 25 years. I have no idea. 25 years. That's an expansion team, I think. Good for them. What's his name? John F-O-R-S-L-U-N-D. Forzland. Long time.

He does some NBC hockey, too, on the side. Play-by-play broadcaster? Yes, he has 19,000 followers. He has not tweeted since about four days ago. Go ahead and tweet him, Matt. Tweet him a list of things to watch. He should call the show next week. He's not doing much, as long as he's keeping his phone charged.

Yeah. Could you imagine... First of all, the answer is the answer is yes, you could imagine this. Having your wife cook your meals for you and leaving them at the door so you can open it up, grab the food, and shut the door. Yeah. We should start a live from quarantine series. He should just go on Facebook live.

I mean, on the show, like have guests throughout the week that have been quarantined. Charles Barkley? Well, he hasn't quarantined. He actually has quarantined himself, but he's doing it because he's waiting the results of a test. Did he get a hold of a coronavirus test? Who's that? Charles Barkley. I don't know.

Supposedly he did. Somehow. Did he? and famous seem to be having a lot easier time getting to these tests rather than the rest of us. Yeah. Tom Hanks had no issue. There's like 700 tests in America. And Charles Barkley got one of them?

Yeah. And like 58 employees of the Utah Jazz? I saw somewhere that Denver had a like mobile place you could go to get tested that was free to the public. Oh, really? Which I think is a terrible idea because you're just going to spread the disease when a ton of people stand there with the coronavirus. In all seriousness, there is a twilight. In all seriousness, there is a tweet that was put out by a TV station in Los Angeles yesterday that says the University of Tennessee thinks they've got something that if it's further tested and further proven to help, well, they could potentially be a cure for this. Which is a wonderful news.

That's great news. Because all I think about the University of Tennessee is 100,000 seats stadium watching teams that win four football games a year. Is the FDA going to let them move forward with human trials? I don't know. That's a good question. We need you at the at the coronavirus. Let me tell you. If the University of Tennessee finds the cure for this or some sort of, you know, vaccination tort, Ross, they're the real UT. Sorry.

Well, they formed like a, like a hundred years before regular UT. So people think of them as the real UT anyways. I don't know. I disagree with you on that. Because we're in Texas. No, no, no. I think if we went to, if we went to San Diego and said, you know, you. UT. What would be the first thing people come to mind?

I think Texas would be surprised. You'd be surprised. Really? Yeah. Because it used to make me angry. Oh, so then you've had personal experience of this. Okay. I was unaware of these things. But no, I think if I sit, let me, you know what, next time I go on a road trip. Okay. I'm going to be, well, when the NBA resumes, if it does, I'll say, I'll fake it. And I'll say, people say, where'd you go to college? I went to UT.

And people say, yeah, it's happened to me like in Vegas and stuff. The problem is if I have something Texas on, you know, like rockets or something, they'll think I was... Yeah, we'll put on a, I don't know, Minnesota Timberwolves jacket. That's true. Indy said he asked everybody on the Philadelphia Eagles squad, and they all referred to UT as the University of Tennessee. See? Nationally, it's in Texas, we're in our little bubble. We think it's only U.T.

Wow. I guess we are in the bubble. This bubble is getting smaller and smaller, especially if we can't leave the house. Thank you, I thought he's got a basement. I hope you're healthy, Matt. I'm a little worried. Well, if I'm not healthy, nor are you at this point. We're very close.

Because we're, how far are we from each other right now? About four feet. Yeah. Nick? I'm sealed behind this bulletproof glass. Yeah, but I came back. I'm scooting back. Do you stay? Don't be ridiculous.

How's this? This is better? It's awful. I can't see my laptop now. 128 of the Matt Tava's showed. It isn't anything goes Friday, Ross. The essence of anything goes Friday, please. Well, apparently we're talking a lot about the coronavirus,

but also anything else you want to get into, 2713, 212-790. If you need, I don't know, tips of what to go shopping for, Matt Thomas can help you with that. Ideas of what to watch if you're quarantined. Matt Thomas can help you with that. Just basically any life advice in general, we're available to you,

or anything goes from it. Yeah, I would say anything except medical advice. I'm not great on medical, and I would say I'm probably below average on legal advice. Okay. The most awkward nooner you'll ever be a part of. This is the Matt Thomas show. on this show.

And the BG's the level of play is funny. This song, I'm putting this on when I get in the car. I love you, A-Team, you know that, but I'm putting this on at 3 o'clock. Okay. Saturday Night Fever, one of the greatest movies of all time. You haven't seen The Godfather or Goodfellas. You're not allowed to make that statement. Shut up.

What is your favorite movie of all time? Airplane. What's number two? This song is also an airplane. It is. Number two? I don't know. Cars 2 or something.

No, stop. I'm just trying to think of movies you've seen. By the way, all UT fans are coming into the defense of their school. Sorry. Because Tennessee's getting the run for this vaccination, right? Well, apparently it was UT Austin. Because ATX Hobo Girl sent us a link that the University of Texas at Austin are trying to do make a virus vaccine as well.

So you got a UT versus UT. Who's the first one to get the vaccination out? And by the way, OU is Ohio University in the Northeast? Well, that's let me tell you something. I get 50 fans around this country and I ask OU, 48 of them are going to say Oklahoma. I don't know. Maybe we're in our bubble map.

Not on that one. They're not going to say that in Ohio. Ohio State. OSU is Ohio State. Even in Texas. It's not Oklahoma State. Yeah, I guess so. In UT, Tennessee. I I may lose on that one. I fully admit on that, but come on.

OU is not Ohio University. Sorry, wrong. Okay, Matt. People in Seattle are like, OU, I wonder what Ohio Bobcats footballs do it. No, hell no. I guess Oregon would be U of O. Oklahoma is also the University of Oklahoma,

but they just call OU. I don't think they call it UO in Eugene. I don't call it OU. What do they just say, Oregon? They just say the O. Okay. I don't know. I'm just making it.

And by the way, you know what Ohio State is? You know how arrogant they are? The. The. You don't get the. They put it on there. They tried to trademark, and then trademarks folks said, no. You can't.

You can't trademark the word the. Yeah, you cannot trademark the. 713-212-5-790. It isn't anything goes Friday. Brian Tees with us at 2 o'clock, Fantasy 5 at 2.30. Cameron and Richmond on the Matt Thomas show. Cameron, what's going on? How's it going, gentlemen?

Good. Yeah, I figured since it's a lull today, you know, really exciting sport today, I needed some help and suggestions, either from you guys there or from the listeners. I need a good price on crawfish by the sack. Y'all got any idea? I don't need crawfish, so I don't know. Well, I know HV sells them by the sack. I don't know by how much. Yeah, it's going for 350 there.

Man, I've heard of other places. $350? Mm-mm. Yeah, I know. It's insane. How much is in a sack? 20 pounds or something? Might as well.

Yeah, that's what it should be. About 20,000. 20 pounds? Yeah, for the sack they got there, it's 35 pounds. So $3.50 or, yeah, 50. There's a lot cheaper everywhere. So I just was wondering if other people knew. Well, here's what we'll do it.

Cameron. I'll have people on Twitter if they can help me out with that. He's trying to have a crawfish boil. I've just found the Crawfish Price Index. Oh, nice. National updated. Oh, sorry. Actually, this is all away from 2018.

Sorry, it is not accurate. We're helpful. Thank you. Get your work on that, Nick. I'm looking. There is the crawfish app. Apparently. You know what I'll do?

I will eat crawfish when someone peels it for me and puts it on a salad or fries it up for me. But I'm not sitting there pulling apart all that crap. Yeah, I had some friends in town who want to crawfish because it's whatever. I mean, I'll eat it, but you will never ever hear me say, you know what I got a hankering for? Let's go eat a bunch of crawfish. We'll buy by the pound and they stick a bunch of corn and potatoes in there. You got to pay for that. Yeah, let me tell you some crawfish lovers.

You're getting scammed. Yes. You are getting robbed of your love of crawfish because they're going to throw a bunch of corn, potatoes, and sausage. nice and heavy and charge you $6 a pound. And then you're barely getting any meat and you got to scoop the goop off. Yeah, that goop. Whatever that goop is? No, I don't want it.

I'm not a big fan. Found a wholesale seafood place on Bissinette. People have given high reviews too. Okay. And that is? Thank you, Nick. B&D wholesale seafood. Okay.

Wholesale, what if I need a whole bunch of carp? You know what I'm going to do? Yeah, they might be able to help you with that too. Snow crabs, shrimp, crofish. Oh, wow. You want to have a shrimp boil? I've been trying to find new businesses. You know, Remote for You.com.

Oh, gosh. Is it? Yeah. How are the stocks holding on the stock? They're not trading, are they? We are going to be contributors to Leon from Kirby Enthusiasm's Got to go. Okay. You know, do you hear about got to go?

Remote for you.com. It's going out of business. No, it's doing great. You've got no sports programming to switch to for the next six weeks. But we're still, all right, Mike, but we've still got an opportunity to change channels for people. Okay. All right. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to open up a business where we'll come to your crawfish wall and pull it for your guest. Hmm. Chris Gordy is tweeting in the crawfish app is legit and it also figures that fancy Matt would not peel his own crawfish.

Yeah. I'll peel my own crawfish. I'm just like I said, it's not something I'm huge into. I'll peel it too. I just don't want to do it. It's not worth it. Yeah. I'm not a big crawfish guy. So here's the here's the company. We'll come to your crawfish bowl and you pick five or six people that are hesitant or don't want to have the time and we'll peel it for you peel for you. Biz. Terrible. And it's a seasonal business, so we'll take a lot of money. That's true. Yeah, you're not going to make a lot of money. But no, people are croffet. I mean, how much are you charging? We do by the hour. Five bucks a pound? Yeah. By the hour. Yeah. I'm going to be eating crawfis for a straight hour.

If there's 30 people, okay. You just get there early and peel it. They get down the table. We're not going to wait for you to peel and their coffers are going to get cold. Well, you know, we'll bring a, we'll bring a mass team in. This is terrible. I think it's great. You have not thought about through the logistics on this. It's called peel it and feel it. Feel what? The crawfish.

In your mouth? Peel it and feel it. Yeah. That's my next business. So we got got to go. We got got to go, which is the Leon from a Kirby enthusiasm. Go and cancel me for the next investors meeting. There's a problem with your idea because if you're not peeling your own crawfish,

you don't get to suck the head. That's necessary. Back to Matt. Thomas. This is Sports Talk 790. Home of Astros baseball. Get up and on you down with the sickness. Get up and come on get down with the sickness.

All right. Coming up in 15 minutes, Brian T. Smith is with us at 2.30. We go through our fantasy five. Yes. We're going through it right now. Yeah. My list is so far better. But yours is strong.

What? Your back. your backhanded compliments are awful. It just is. It's a signature of mine, Matt. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, by way, some good news coming out of NCAA, it sounds like.

They're going to grant relief on eligibility for spring sports due to the coronavirus, which means softball, tennis, baseball, what are the swimming, those kind of things. Winter sports are in the works. Football basketball. Would football be considered? No. Football, yeah, football's not good. Basketball hockey probably. I guess is that a fall sport? I don't know. Yeah, that's got to be right. So it sounds like that if you are a student athlete that's

finishing up your senior year in any of the winter sports, which would be basketball. Track maybe? Track spring for sure. So yeah. If everything's cut off, yeah. Anything that's competing at this point through the rest of the year is got to be considered a spring sport. So. I wonder, I mean, that's going to be an interesting because, like we, as we know, People who are tennis players or whatever, they're not necessarily going to go into the professional ranks. So you have a question, I guess you have a decision to make.

Am I going to stick around for another year of eligibility or I'm going to go into the workforce if I'm ready to graduate or something like that? Right. Like if you're a graduated tennis player or track runner or whatever and you're not going to, you're not Olympic level or professional level, you say, am I going to stay at school another year to play another year of tennis? You'll have an interesting decision to make, I guess. But what percentage of people do that? I don't know. I guess the easy question would be what percentage,

and we'll get Chris Pesman on the athletic director from U of H next week. We should, yes. What percentage of athletes that are in the, they call non-REV sports, Olympic sports, are ready to graduate as soon as they're done? Because I would say the number in football and basketball is so tiny. In their fourth year? I think a lot of people graduate early as well and stick around for the eligibility.

I'll find out. We'll get Chris on next week to discuss that. Just thinking out loud. Yeah, I would say, Yeah, there's a used to be game called play the percentages We had to guess. My guess is Olympic sports graduation rate is going to be, first of all, way higher than the other sports.

But are they done in four years? 50% of the time? Do they want a fifth year? I don't know. Well, I would think if you had classes to finish up or you were thinking about graduate school. Yeah, what if you got into graduate? What if you got into graduate school like somewhere else?

Yeah. Well, then that's a decision you have to make. Yeah. Do you want your baseball season halted because of this, or do you want to have a chance to play one more year? Because if you're not going to be a professional baseball player, which most of them are not. You'd want as many colleges you'd get. You'd want one more year. You'd hate for it to be a final year.

One more year of drinking, partying, playing baseball, and groupies. Do like tennis players have groupies? Probably not. Baseball, I would say yes. Baseball's got groupies, sure. basketball course football absolutely. And especially if you're a really good college baseball team, Omaha is, I mean, that's a great trip. What if you're like on the fencing team?

Is the fencing squad getting groupies? Well, fencing squad might get groupies, but fencing squad also is probably not getting full scholarships either. Yeah. You know, they're splitting scholarships like baseball does. That's unfortunate. All right, 713212-750. Lee's in Bel Air on the Matt Thomas show. Lee, what's going on?

Not a lot. just sad about sports. But, okay, so I think that y'all should, as part of your program now, you should pick a movie that you'll have to watch, both of you. First of all, you've got to see Godfather, Matt. You're right. And then you'll break it down the next day. Yes.

And let us comment. And give everybody a piece of homework so we can all call in. That's what I've been saying. And know what you're doing. The Matt Thomas Show homework assignment. Yes. He's got to. You've got to give us something.

You're right. You're right. You're right. You're absolutely right. Because we're going to fight through this together. And we're going to have to change all to the shows a little bit. You're absolutely right. Thank you, Lee. So let's do this. What's this week's assignment? We've got to find stuff that's what usually. Honestly, I've got to do it this weekend. I've got nothing going on. On Netflix or something widely available. Because if it's on like, I don't know, most people, do you think more people have Netflix than anything else, right, as opposed to Hulu or Amazon Prime or whatever? Um, yeah, I've got all three. That's... Plus cable, plus the sports package? Woo! I don't know the sports package. Okay.

All right. Let me look at Netflix on online real quick here. Matt's going to find something right now? Yeah, I mean, just just one second. It won't take us very long. It's going to take a while, actually. That's fine. Here's it, Ross.

You've known me for a decade. Find me something that you think I would at least watch one episode of and go, okay. Now, you know I like Ozark. You know I like comedies. You've always wanted me to watch. It's always sunny and Philadelphia is something you need to watch. It's on Hulu.

But there needs to be something that we've all seen, that we all need to see. We all need to give ourselves homework. Everybody needs to see that. But yeah, I think we should pick movies. I think that's easier because you don't have to commit as much time. You can do it in one night. Find us a Netflix movie between now and the other show. And Nick, do you have Netflix?

Of course I have Netflix. Okay. We're going to give ourselves after the Fantasy 5. today. We're going to give ourselves a Netflix movie assignment for the weekend. I've already seen everything, though. But, okay. Well, then just watch it again. You've seen everything? Let's go to Brian on 7. Hi, Brian.

Hey, what's up, Matt? Yeah, that gentleman before me just kind of brought up what I was thinking about. We got to come up with listeners and you guys as host and producers and stuff, boy, we've got to come up with some content. Like, we're going to do you guys. Well, maybe you could do some longer, believe it or not,

or like, Uncle Greg, you should have that 20 questions. You know, come with some fun game things to do. Well, I don't know. We're going to do all that. Next week, Brian, you weren't listening. We're going to do suspension of fun. That sounds good.

But yeah, you guys are going to, it's going to be a challenge. I mean, you guys are going to have to keep on your toes, but I look forward to it. We're going to have to keep ourselves busy. We'll be all right. We're going to be your little hideaway for three hours at least every day. You got it. You got it. We'll have some fun, play some games, play some music, play whatever.

Who cares? Let's just do it. All right, Brian. Thank you for the answer. We'll play some music. Staying alive. We're going to play more. You wanted to do Matt's disco hour.

So I'm working the Rockets broadcast about 10 days ago, and they had a contest in the arena. For, it was like a throwback night for the Charlotte Hornets. And this group came. Matter of fact, don't listen to me right now. I'm going to, you know, we'll do this. We'll do this at 220. There was a song. You can prepare the songs.

That was a play. that the guy in the arena butchered and I thought you're not going to believe this Adam I was there I mean I was talking to Adam I would have I know Dancing Queen and Abba Well no thank you for ruining it now

Well I was gonna ask me and I would know I was gonna play to the audience too Oh they would have known They the guy in the arena thought Dancing Queen was sung by the police So I said Adam can you believe that Adam didn't even know the answer the question Oh my gosh

Yeah I know who did he say Blondie Come on Adam Adam Clanton. Come on, Adam Clanton. Stop changing diapers and put some music on. Everybody knows Dancing Queen. Great song.

Is the Matt Thomas show. Time is 2 o'clock. Let's spend our Friday visits with our good friend, Brian T. Smith, from the Houston Chronicle. And BTS, thanks for the visit, as always. I'm going to ask you a serious question because it's a question that is being asked to us. How does a sports radio station fill? 13 hours of live programming a day with no live sports, I would ask the same thing about your industry,

not just the Houston Chronicle of the industry. What are people in your industry saying about how to fill the time and the space? I have a feeling on Monday I'm going to go to Toyota Center not to interview James Hardin and Mike Danton and Russell Westbrook and Darrell Mori and Tony and Fat Brown. Eric Gordon, I have a feeling I'm going to get a clutch. I was feeling I'm going to go to TWAZER Monday to interview the kids, playing pickup ball across the street, across from Toyota Center,

and start doing stories on those guys. I mean, you know, honestly, it's a very serious question, but not to be too serious, but the economy, human beings, people's jobs, small businesses, restaurants, people in the service industry, that's who I and everyone should be, you know, worried about. The Houston Chronicle made it through Hurricane Harvey. Right. Just fine.

Did a hell of a job. The Houston Chronicle has been doing this at a very high national level for a long time. So we will figure it out. But it's going to be very interesting and challenging, Matt, especially if this lasts for 30 days, 45 days, two months, and it's not just a two-week aberration. Let me ask you this question. I could have thrown to the audience,

but since I just thought of it, I'll throw it to you first. Sure. If Rudy Gobert doesn't come down with the coronavirus, we've got sporting events. We just probably have an empty arenas, right? Was this the first dominole of fall, do you think? And then everybody took the lead off of the NBA suspending its season? I really do it.

And it's such a fine line. And I've tried to navigate it as much as I can't imprint. I've written about it several times. I'll be right now on Sunday's Chronicle. I mean, we are in a world that has much, like I just said, has much bigger issues. But at the same time, sports partly drive our world. I mean, anymore, right?

I mean, it's especially with conversation, especially with what we do in our free time. And it's not sports nerd. It's not fantasy geeks. It's not people obsessed or just who live through betting. I mean, you know, and it's not even about going. in a bar or a restaurant. I mean, what do you do at night when you get home? I mean, what, 50, 60, 70 percent of people? They're obviously outliers that sit around watching super artsy European movies, which is what I used to do in my free time. But most people will put on

the game. What do you talk about with your dad, your brother, the family member that you don't really get along with, but you both like the University of Texas or, you know, A&M, or high school baseball, whatever it is. I mean, it sounds so cheesy, Matt, but sports brings us together. You take all that away, and it's amazing. It's amazing the vacuum that we have in our crazy modern society.

So on top of that, to get back to your original question, no, I don't think this happens. I don't think this happens without the NBA deciding to spend the season. And it did it in such a dramatic, sudden, seemingly spur of the moment way. I mean, you had the best reporter in the country, Adrian Orange-Nowski saying they are heavily leaning toward just emptying out arenas.

And then, bam, Gobert gets it. They don't even play the game. Donovan Mitchell gets it the next morning. And the rapid fire domino effect in pro sports was just staggering. But I wrote this in the Chronicle. If the worst thing that happened is that they cancel the NCAA tournament, or at the time they were going to play tournament with without fans and the answer. That's the worst thing that happened and that's an

overreaction. We'll look back in a month and be like, you know what, human kind prevailed. I mean, that's going to be the worst thing. So on some level, they had to do it, but I agree with you. I don't think that this all happens that we're canceling the masters, that we're canceling this inter-a tournament if the NBA doesn't knock down that first domino, which unfortunately was Rudy go bear. Yeah, and as I said before, and I'm sitting as and I'll say this over the next month, if this takes 30 days for us to get a better handle on it,

we're all grown adults. We understand this. This is about... We'll be just fine. We're going to make it. It's going to be an inconvenience, and it's going to be a challenge for those of us that call our sports, our industry, but, you know, we're grown. We can figure this out. What I do understand to be, what could be exciting

yet difficult, we'll be trying to smush a bunch of sporting events in a short period of time. That means basically if the NBA comes back, BTS, you've got concerts, you've got other things scheduled in these arenas that are multi-purpose. You've got hockey that's going to try to get going. We could see some very, very weird travel days and dates and game times. I think it'll be blessed because we'll have sports again, but it could be logistically quite a bit of a work for especially the hockey and basketball teams in our country. Yeah, and you mentioned at concerts.

I mean, I dealt with it personally. Ahead of the curve, Burlesham canceled a concert tour, which shattered my world, you know, for a couple hours. How, you know, it's not just the NBA. It's college sports at some point will return. It's concerts. It's Disney on ice. It's the NFL. You know, yeah, what if we get into like May or June?

Right. And you have the NBA rolling and college sports have come back. And you have golf and mass car and, you know, on and on and on. So, but again, those will be best case scenarios for a lot of this. I think for everybody, two weeks a month, if the world, if America semi stops, especially in the sports world, we'll get through it. The last thing anybody can even imagine is being in an Italy-type situation to where everything is just on lockdown.

And so I have no power. you have, you know, as much power as you have that, you have no power. Hopefully, our leaders on every side of the aisle locally and regionally and nationally can be smart enough to maybe start to figure this thing out sooner than later. Well, here's another question, is that if we don't have a better handle on this, but there is a feeling among the organizations, and I'm talking most notably about the NHL and the NBA because they're the ones that are in these arenas, they're the ones of the two revenue producing. and baseball obviously will be kicked in and two.

Do we see an NBA season, an NHL season, and a start of a Major League Baseball season with stadiums that are empty? And how long would that go? Because even though, obviously, organizations are going to lose a lot of money from parkings and revenues and beers and whatnot, there are massive television deals in place that are going to be ultimately you can't cash in on unless you have games.

So I wonder if that is the next step before we fully throttle see fans in facilities again. Yeah, I think everything, and I've stayed up on it while trying to not panic. My normal reaction, everyone has their own reaction. My reaction for a lot of this stuff is to, you know, just try to put your head down, persevere, ignore it. A lot of it is, I don't say anything bad with the media. A lot of its media created. And I think more and more, a lot of it is social media created, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. But this is obviously very, very real.

It's unprecedented. It's still not insane yet. We're not China, we're not Italy, but everyone can kind of see where it's going. So I think that's the big thing. If it can be contained, if the stock market can be a little more normal, if everyone can, you know, go about the day-to-day within reason, sports comes back. But, you know, Adam Silver said it perfectly last night, Matt. It's been minute by minute. You know, they had no intention of suspending the NBA season.

72 hours ago. They had no intention of canceling the incident of the tournament. 48 hours ago, 24 hours ago. Major League Baseball, I mean, you had ESPN sitting there saying, you know, Major League Baseball plans to proceed as normal. And 12 hours later, there's no opening day. You know, opening days on pause and spring training is pause.

And if anything, usually makes it through. It's baseball. So I think everything with this, it's just wait and see. And the much bigger thing, for the first time, you know, look at 9-11, right? It was all sports and it brings us together and, you know, it would be so great to play the game. It's not like that right now.

And it's not for panic. It's not for fear. It's not to scare people. It's just a reality of situation. This thing has to get contained. Real life has to return. Real life is much, much, much more important than sports. And so it feels like for the first time in our sports obsessed society,

sports have taken a backseat and we're not. going to know what the NBA is going to do, what Major League Baseball is going to do, until they figure out what's really happening with this virus. I just got a text, or I should say a tweet from somebody that says that the Vice President of Basketball for the NCAA named Dan Gavitt told CBS that despite the fact there will be no March madness this year, the NCAA has not completely killed the idea of building and releasing a 68-team 2020 NCAA tournament bracket. Now, I've not read this story, but I'm highly confused. Yeah, and that's the thing.

I mean, I wrote in The Chronicle, you know, do whatever you have to do, pausing a season. There are much bigger things at stake. It is a shame from a sporting perspective, but really from a human perspective, because, I mean, Matt, you know it. You love U of H. Yes. The fans love it, whether it's Texas or the action. And it's about those kids, man. And, you know, it's about Calvin Samson, but it's about those kids.

And that's their dream from the age of, you know, six years old now, eight years old, they watch it, they live through it, they love it. And to not have that is really rough. So if this thing can get contained and normal life can return and things become more stable, if they could find some way to do it, and it's within the bounds of health and protecting human beings. I am all for it, whether it's, you know, the extended senior year, whether it's playing this tournament, that would be optimism. We need a little optimism right now. Yeah, there is none at this point. I can't, I mean, we had the XFL canceled today, the Masters got canceled today. I would love to have a Bill O'Brien press conference right now.

Like, there'd be nothing more exciting at this point in time than having the normal, rude, you know, arrogant. crappy, but interesting Bill O'Brien press conference. Like, you could give me that on the silver platter right now and I would write the hell out of it and you could break it down and Ross could make fun of it. And it would be the Texans and they're going to go 10 and 6 and losing the

playoffs. I would love to have that right now. I'd love to have, and we all would. Well, how about the... That's right. And how about free agency now? It's still open. It's going to be open. But my guess is Skype and video teleconferencing and texting. There will not be that face-to-face

conversation that sometimes coaches can sell. Everything will be like, if you ever bought a house in the last part of the year, everything will be docuicide, right? I mean, everything's being done electronically and maybe we'll interview, I'm making this up, but Chris Harris, yeah, via Skype. I mean, maybe that's what it's going to come down to. And the NFL, that's another interesting thing. It would be, wouldn't it be so NFL, if all this, you know, life's okay, we don't

turn into zombies and disappear? and then the NFL doesn't really have to change anything, and they just by the schedule, because they're not playing games, and the XFL is already suspended, the NFL becomes even more powerful because of this. That would be the ultimate irony and all this in the sports world.

It's crazy. BTS, have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next week. All right, you guys, take care. The Matt Thomas Show. All right, we got the Fantasy 5 coming up in about 10 minutes. We need six judges. Actually, we need five.

How many lines can we fill up? Five or six? Five at once. And then you'll be the six judge, Nick, if we need it. Well, somebody will, because more people, more people call in as, that's true. So if y'all can judge, be ready because we got our five DVR game moments. And this is not a list that can't go wrong either way. just have to pick your favorite of the group.

My list is better. There's not one, again, don't listen to him. There's not one event that I go, oh, my God, I wouldn't watch it over and over and over again. It's got to be the best of the group. It's the sum of the parts. All right, 713, 21, 2, 5, 7.9, if you want to get in, let's let you hear today from James Click, who had a conference call with the media, just to let you know, there ain't

nothing happening down in Florida right now. is to keep the players here in Florida. So we're planning on doing that for the foreseeable future. Right now, we've been told that we should have a lot more information in a couple days. So we have closed the facility for the public and to the press. We'll have optional, not even optional. It'll be open if guys want to come in and get medical treatment from trainers or if they want to work out. But by and large, we're following the league guidelines and the medical guidelines to avoid gathering in large groups.

We anticipate knowing a lot more, hopefully by Sunday to later. All right. What about these workouts? Yeah, it's a little bit of a tricky balance there. But part of Major League Baseball's memo has been to stagger the workout times. Stagger. That means you don't work out with a bunch of them. A couple of guys here and there.

What about whether or not the players are allowed to go home? We're taking that mainly for Major League Baseball, who's asked the players to remain at the spring training site and not to travel absent exceptional circumstances and without express authorization from the commissioner's office. I know that the commissioner's office and the Players Association are working together on providing additional information, but as of right now, the information that we've been given from the league

is to ask the players not to travel absent those exceptional circumstances. James Click, the general manager of the Astros, also asked about how long it would take for everybody to get ready to go once you got the OK from Major League Baseball. It's a good question. I think it depends on how long the hiatus is.

I would assume that the longer that it goes, the longer that we're going to need to ramp back up, that said, my understanding is that part of the reason for keeping everybody nearby for the near future is so that if we get clearance from higher authorities, that we are going to start ramping back up, that we can do that in an accelerated time frame. Obviously, the last thing that we want is for this to drag out longer than necessary, but we will do whatever is required of us from Major League Baseball and other medical authorities

to make sure that we do this as responsibly as possible. And now we have some new breaking news on just this thought about the Astros and other major league baseball players. this coming from John Heyman the douche I was talking about earlier he says in a change players are being sent home from spring training camps now after an agreement between the MLB and the union possible done could remain but formal workouts will be will not be held players are concerned hmm okay so the thought of these individual workouts now in

spring training apparently have changed within the last hour. This is again John Heyman a couple minutes ago. I'll repeat it. Players are being sent home from spring camps now after an agreement between the MLB and Union. Possible some could remain, but there will be no formal workouts players are concerned. What are they concerned about? I mean, contracting the virus?

It must be. Apparently the Pirate Spring Training facility has been completely fumigated. Okay. That's good. I guess. So that's the very latest. staying on my Twitter feed. Let me see if I can get this right.

This comes from Ramona Sherburn. Rockets owner Tillman Fertita suggested a three-to-four-week pause while expressing frustration over the financial hit he'd already been taken with empty restaurants and early season issues in China. This coming from ESPN. A handful of NBGGA owners, including the Warriors, Joe Lekob, had pushed for a temporary postponement.

Thunder owner Clay Bennett told his peers they'd be foolish to believe there were no players or personnel without the coronavirus and the Rockets again, Timman Fertina is suggesting a three to four week pause. Tellman's like, let's go. Let's get after it. Losing money of these restaurants and money in these arenas. And the China hit obviously hurt too.

Yeah, didn't help. Well, here's the reality of all this. You can't get how many players? There's 15 players on NBA team times 32 teams, so that's 4 and 60. Okay. 4. No,

30 teams. 30 teams times 15 is 400. 450. You've got 26 man rosters times 30. So that's 720. 762. Okay. Or thereabouts.

Give or take. Give or take. It's you of age math on the fly here. And then you have 30, you have 60 ridiculously rich owners. Yes. Who all have different financial agendas on what they should. do during this time. There's no way that you're going to come into a common agreement on this. I bet there are some owners that are saying, we got to wait, we got to wait until everybody gets tested.

There are other owners that are going to say, after this 30 days, and we've got no other cases, we need to start playing basketball again. It'll be interesting. But yeah, I fully expect more stories like this to come out of different players, different teams and different organizations having different responses to this. that's what's going to happen when you are not actively playing sports. No one's going to completely grant everything. That's why you have to have strong commissioners.

You have to have strong leadership councils, and you have to have people that are going to be willing to make tough calls, but also be flexible enough to say, all right, we've gone through this, we've tested everybody. It's time for us to play sports again. What is time for us to do right now is to have the fantasy vibe. And we're going to have audio to this. We are.

We're going to have production value to this bad boy. Wonderful. And the fantasy five is Ross and I have a DVR that only is able to keep five games on it. It's a weak-ass DVR. That's okay. It's a 1983 DVR.

The rest of it is filled up with Golden Girls reruns or something. Or things on Cinemax after 1 a.m. Well, okay. If you're in self-quarantined. If you would like to judge our fantasy five, the category is, which five sporting events are we going to watch on our DVR over and over and over again?

quarantined if we are. If you'd like to be a judge, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show. We're looking for judges on our Fantasy 5. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790, where Rockets and Astros play and Real Texans Talk. 232. It is time for the Fantasy 5 when you have spots,

if you'd like to be one of our judges. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Ross and I have a DVR with five sports games on it. Who has the best DVR? 7-13-212-5-7-90. Ross, you won the last Fantasy 5, which was... Naturally.

The worst number-one songs of the 1980s. So next week, our Fantasy 5 will go back to the music card, will be the worst number one songs of the 1990s. Ooh, I like that. Okay. Early 90s was a little dicey. We make fun of the 80s as far as music. The 90s may be just on par with awful music.

Early 90s were kind of bad. They rallied, though, I think. All right. Well, let's start it off. We start this off, Maddie? Yeah, go ahead. Since it is my first choice, there was a clear, number one. I made sure that we vetted out that I won the last one so that I could take it.

There's just no contest for me. It would be the greatest game in the history of Houston sports. of the 2017 World Series. Gregman would like to get him to scamper home. Two on, two out. Ten minute. That's his Fisher.

I mean, get down for nothing to Kirshaw. You have the big Yule home run, then the Altuve home run, the back and forth. DeVincki gives it up in the ninth. And then Breggman knocks home Fisher, the greatest sporting event in the history of Houston

sports. The drama, the back and fourth the highest of stakes game five world series not bad not bad not bad okay go ahead make your picks where's our music yeah where's our me what our fantasy five music go next like come on i can't do one thing at a time here there it is um i'm going to go back to the yester year where championships rossi were first one yes and we didn't have one until the year 1994 i don't count the orders in the afl sorry we weren't weren't born, okay? Oh, you're not counting AFL championships? I'm not counting AFL

championships. I'm counting Akema Aalajuan, Game 6, Knicks with a chance to tire, beat the Rockets, to win the championship on the Rockets' home floor at the summit. Akima, Elishan would have no part of that. Eliza won't want to file.

It goes through game 7, Rockets win it. Game 6, 94 NBA Finals is the number one thing on my DVR. Beautiful. Wonderful list. Next, we're going to fast forward of the year 2019. All right.

It was the last win by the Astros at Minutemade Park. And damn, it was dramatic. Driven, deep to left center field. Gardner is going back. Looking out, Ciarcos headed back to the World Series. Jose Altovaio

walk off to Ron Homer. And the Astros beat the Yankees six to four. with the AOCS four games to two. Damn, that was dramatic sports RV. It was nice.

And there was no buzzer. No, there was not. No buzzer whatsoever. So Al-Tubei beats Chapman on the home run to send the Astros of the Fall Classic for the second time. Beautiful. It's a good one.

It was up on my list. I can't say any word about that one, Matthew. But let's go ahead and go on to my picks. You had a classic game. of the 94 finals. I went back to the second year of that after the Rockets got down 3-1 to the Phoenix Suns.

Game 7, it was time for Mario Ellie to kiss the Suns. Goodbye. They double up Kenny Smith. He gets it across to Robert Ory. Ory across the line, long past the Ellie in the corner. Ellie's got a three-pointer.

Yes. Yes. Seven seconds to go. Time off in it. Mario, my God. Who were those guys rooting for? That was Gene and Jim

Very, very impartial Yeah Modest Under control Oh the 1995 Mario Ellie Kiss of Death game

Definitely on my DVR list You could watch that one In perpetuity, Matt All right We need two more judges A couple just dropped off If you have liked this list And want to help us judge

713 212-2-5-790 7-1-3 2125-790 Ross You've got round three To get to Yes

This next one is on on personal lists, but I think we can all agree. It's one of the greatest college football games of all time, if not the greatest college football game of all time talking about. It was held in January 4th, 2006, the Rose Bowl for the 2005 season in the National Championship. All the dreams, all the hopes for the national championship come down to this play. Young from the shotgun, back to throw.

Vince looks, under pressure. He'll tuck it in to run. Vince to the five. Young, touchdown, Texas. Touchdown Vince Young. He's done it again. Vince Young has given the Lord of Horns to lead with 19 seconds to play in the game. Just a great game.

I don't care who you are. I don't care who you root for. You're right. I'm the greatest football games of all time. Vince Young. Sometimes your greatest sports memories are that of a kid. Yes. I've talked about this before.

I was in the eighth grade. I skipped school. I got in trouble. It was worth getting in trouble. Were you throwing jalapinos at this time or no? No, that was a different game. Okay. I was down the first base line.

line. I was in the outfield when I was flinging jalapinos. 86 in September, the Giants were in town. Will Clark, Dangliding Company, Jeffrey Leonard against Mike Scott and the Astros. Two outs. Nobody on. Top of the night. Houston, two to nothing. Scott has not given up a hit. Will Clark. There it is.

And ultimately, that call cost Gene Elston his job as the Astros announcer. He was doing the TV version. Milo's radio call was much more demonstrative. Bouncer, Doren. I think, I don't know what he's. He didn't say Bouncer, Goody. It was, I think he said a bouncer to Dorn over to Glenn Davis on the bag. Astros of the Champions of the West.

It was a fantastic call. It wasn't just a, there it is. Yeah, Gene's call was the last regular season game he ever did. All right, so Mike Scott's no-hitter in 86 and the eighth grade, a great shot of memory. We're going to stay with eighth grade. my friend, if you're okay with that. Before there were the 94-95 Rocket Champions, there was an 86 team, the Twin Towers. Rossi, it was late night. I mean super late night on CBS.

I think they delayed a 930 game to 1030. That's how late it was. After the local news, Rockets game five at the form in Los Angeles, Inglewood, to be precise, in bounds with Ralph Samson grabbing the shot and sending the rockets to the championship. McCray will inbound one second on the clock for the NBA. That also was Gene and Jim. They also lost their minds, as Gene and Jim would do for much of their rocket career during the best times. So I went to 86 for Mike Scott's no-hitter. I went to Ralph Samson for the shot to win the 86 West, and I have one left pick, but you have the final two to go to.

All right. Well, Matthew, let's go. You know what? We're having a lot of classic Astros and Rockets on this, and we're going to keep it going. 95 Western Conference Finals, David Robinson got the MVP trophy awarded to him by Commissioner David Stern. Akim Ilylajuwon did not take too kindly to that. Takam Alajuan scored 41 points.

Hakeem Olajuwon grabbed 16 rebounds, and he just utterly eviscerated David Robinson in route to a game two victory as Robinson got the trophy, but, Elijah one got the win and he basically just destroyed him for up and down the four for four straight quarters. I would love to watch that game on a loop on my DVR, my quarantine DVR. The quarantine DVR

is doing very well on both ends. You have one more selection. Next, Matt, I don't understand how you let this one fall to me. It just doesn't make sense. I got game five of the World Series with the number one over-Paul pick. I thought you would be right there next to me with game two of that same series.

Trying to give the Dodgers a chance. I need a base runner and here's a high fly ball into left. Bav into six. And Culberson celebrates but it's a one run game. I kind of feel like he thinks he tied the game. I don't know exactly what point of the game that was. That was almost the end.

The Astros went on to strike out the next batter and win. Okay. Well, Marlon Gonzalez hit a home run off Kinley Jansen and the ninth to send it to the 10th, where each team scored two runs and then the 11th, I believe George Springer, plated the winning run. And it was a classic game two of the 2017 World Series. All 17 was amazing.

But I like dramatic walk-off home runs. And the Astros, back in the day in the early 2000s, had one team they could never beat. Those pesky, wide-strike zone Atlanta Braves, until Chris Burke did it. And the pitch. Swinging. Lining at turn.

left. It's gone. It's gone. Press Bark! Holy Toledo! What a way to finish! Cress Bark just purchased the ticket to St. Louis. Look at the mom at home plate. Line drive home run, Landridge Crawford Boxes. And the scene is on, and there's your confetti you wanted. You know, this one tops the one with the Mets,

86. Oh. And there you have it. The Chris Burke home run to take the Astros on to the same 18 innings in 2005 ALDS. Good green. Great game. And they would go on to beat the Cardinals. And my favorite Milo call of all time. Bouncer and Goody. It's gone. It's gone. That's gone. That's, that's mean. That's my number one. And I think Alan Ashby had to say Chris Burke. I think he'd forgotten it was Chris Burke. But that's on the hearing of it. That's fine. All right. So here we go with a recap. Ross has game five of the World Series. Kiss of Death, Mario Eli, 2005 Rose Bowl, World Series Game 2 of 17, and the Western Conference Finals where Elijah won dominates Robinson the night that Robinson wins the MVP. Mine is 94.

Elijah won tips the shot off of John Starks. Altube beats Chapman to game six, the ALCS, the last Astro victory at men have made. Mike Scott's No, 1086. Ralph Samson, it's a game winner 86 for the Rockets and Chris Burke walkoff home run in 2005 to beat the Atlantic Braves. Here we go with the Fantasy 5 judging. Trey on 790, Trey who wins a fantasy 5. Ross or me. Oh, man, both are the number one.

I'd watch them over and over and over, but not being a huge college football fan. I watched that 05 game and I'd watch it again. So I'm sorry, Matt. I've got to go with Ross. Understood. Thank you very much. Have a good weekend.

Thank you. Well, I've said it's the greatest college football game ever watched, so I can't crush him on that. Thank you. Mark on 790 who wins a fantasy five. Oh, I was disappointed. There was nothing about our. girls' four championships

WNBA. But anyway, moving on, I have to go with Ross because even though I'm an Aggie, that was a great game. Thank you. I did not have any of the Comments Championships on my list. You know, Comments Championships were a little bit down the list, Matt.

Patrick on 790, who wins a Fantasy 5? Yeah, I was definitely disappointed. There was no dynamo action in there at all. But I've got to go with, since Brett Dolan just butchered that called me. I got to go with Ross. Brett Dolan wasn't on the call, so that...

That's okay. He went with Ross, though, so that's my... Oh, you just lost major IQ points. Matt is fuming right now. This is great. Brian on 7.90 who wins a Fantasy 5? Man, as much as being on Aggie, I hated that longhorn

game. Matt, you lost it just barely with the 80-no hitter. I thought Nolan Ryan was a little bit better. Also surprised nobody had the game one of the 95 final but we came back from 22 down

in the first half but Ross barely barely. It's barely. I'm not feel bad at all. Four to nothing. That's fine. You had one of them that's kind of, you know. You want to hear my vote anyway? No.

He might vote for you. I might. But you're not. Yeah, I do want to hear it. Well, I was kind of disappointed that Ross didn't pick anything outside of the local and considering UT local for him and, you know, give us like a boxing match or something like that. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. But I'm actually going to give it to Matt because his audio cuts were a lot easier to find.

Yeah, I like it. I like it. Now, if you'd have made that on the actual seven vote, I would have came in there and gave you coronavirus. I got you. All right, there it is. That's the Fantasy Five. Your list is better, actually, this week. It is. Not that mine was bad. It's just the greatest college basketball game in Game 5 World. So you had the first pick, so I couldn't even get to that if I wanted to. Yeah, it was a little top-heavy. We maybe even should have barred that one. And by the way, I did have game one of the Orlando series

with Nick Anderson's free throws. Oh, it was on your list. It was on the list. The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by head coach Bill O'Brien. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston. Of sorts.

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Mark, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. The 1995 preseason game between the olders and the Chargers at the The Astrodome were canceled, believe it, or not? Hell yeah. Hell yeah! That's right, the turf was unsafe. Statement number two for the win.

The 2018 World Surf League Championships were canceled due to the California Wildfires. Hell yeah or not? What championships? 2018 World Surf League Championships canceled due to California Wildfires. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, they weren't. They went on.

Ross, who won them? Some guy who told us to hang ten. Very nice. Line two, Mark on 790. Mark, you're ready to play? Hell yeah or not? Not. You're not ready?

Okay. Bye. That's it. We got nobody else that wants to play. Let Wex play. Wex, you ready to play? Hell yeah. Wex, here we go.

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You're on all five days. 1904 World Series Business disagreements between the American League and the National League. Hell yeah or not? I wasn't listening. I'm going to say hell yeah. He's good. You're three for three. Here we go. Last one. The 2016 web.com tour championship because of Hurricane Matthew.

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