The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: Red Sox Report Reaction, NFL Draft Starts Today, Non Florida Stories

Episode Date: April 23, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. I'm on my way I'm there. Is the Matt Thomas show. What's happening in lunch timers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to NFL draft day.

Sports Talk 790. You're on official home of the NFL draft. Now, we're like the official home of the NFL draft, right? I don't think we're the official home of the NFL draft. Well, we are. There is not another show that's going to have nine people on at one time than Sports Talk 790. We are not NFL affiliated. We do not carry the shield here, Matthew.

We can. So we're not the official home of the NFL draft. Six o'clock tonight. There will be amazing draft coverage. No nightcap. Get off early one day. I get off on Matt Thomas time for once. Frankly, it'll be all LSU coverage as Chris Cordy will be leading the way.

That's true. Unbiased LSU. coverage. Yeah, he's the Fox News of LSU coverage. Unbiased, fair, balanced. It is draft day. We have we, here's the thing, tomorrow, we're really not going to get into the Texans

pick until tomorrow. They've got nothing to do tonight, unless you think they're going to move up, right? It's possible. I could see. I mean, I just don't think it's that likely. I mean, they're going to entertain offers. They would be foolish not to. But, man,

what would they be trading up for, would you think? If I told you the Texans are trading up, what would happen next? There's a defensive lineman, an edge rusher that they just think is the cat's meow. You've been listening in the trenches a little bit too much. Why did I say Cats Meow? I don't think I've ever said in my entire life. That's brutal on my part. He is.

Is that what Bill O'Brien is saying in the draft room? Hey, Jack, man. I think he's just the Cats Meow. Yeah. By the way, thank you to the Texans for sending us over some cookies today. We'll be gnaishing on them as the show moves along. not what were you listening to a different show that's on for me i can listen to npr gnoshing catch me out yeah what other metrosexual phrases can i throw in the next two hours at 54 minutes

hey uh welcome into the show and uh we will get to this i'll be moving up but tomorrow uh joe i'm giving you homework assignment joseph uh i want you to find 10 different draft websites that have the texans pick at number 40 oh as far as uh mock drafts yeah 10 find 10 different mock drafts okay wouldn't no sense doing it today because there's nothing going on. But I do have a poll question up on the WhatsApp. Actually, it's a sports MT Twitter account. Again, ever since I asked you two guys to start promoting the Twitter account, I've lost followers.

I don't know what you all did. It's not my fault. At SportsMT. Yeah. I'll be down to like 12,000 before the end of the show here. But, yeah, the Twitter poll question is up at SportsMT. And the question is, what are you looking forward to most about tonight? And have you seen the four options, by the way?

I have not. I don't even, I've muted you many ages ago. I can live with that. Each team's pick, where Tua goes, will Texans trade up an overall TV production? 254 votes are in so far. I've got a couple hours left. What do you think is the number one answer? Each team's pick. No, it's actually third. It's a very close race, all things considered. In last place, where Tua goes is 18.9%. Really? each team's pick is 19.7%. Will the Texans trade up as at 22.4% and the leader in the clubhouse at this point

is overall TV production at 39%. And that's where I fall. I want to see this all materialize. I want to hear about Zoom and what's going on with these photos and where these guys are and will they put sponsors behind their face and we'll crazy things have.

We're going to have some prop bets about tonight's NFL draft during the show today. But, yeah, for me, because the Texas don't have a pick, I mean, if the Texans had a first round pick, it would be an easy one. Who are they going to choose? Tua, to me, is interesting. Although Tua is, I don't hear anybody him going outside the top 10. So we're going to know within the first hour of the draft, or maybe the first hour 15, where Tua Tago below it goes. Yeah, I mean, in the last month, we've heard a lot of the smoke about him falling.

We've heard about the people trading everybody. It's been, I mean, read the Mike Lombardi report that multiple teams had him red flagged and he's completely off of their. board. I think we're, at this point, this is around the time where the smoke kind of clears a little bit, and it does seem like he is not going to fall as much as people were saying, like, even, even a week ago. Like, I really have not found anybody seeing him going past the charges at six. That's where I've seen it probably just ended at that point. So that's why I think maybe that's not as nearly as interesting as, it's going to be, well, Miami take him at five, will the charges take him at six?

And if they don't take him at six, do the Patriots try to sneak up to go grab him? I think of the three things that are being talked about right now with him. Does that seem about fair? Yeah, I would say so. So we will get into a few of the Texans prop bets coming up, not Texans, draft prop bets throughout the course of the radio show. I hope you don't mind, but we're going to talk baseball for a second.

Uh-oh. Rossi, yesterday at 2 o'clock, we got the punishments. of the Red Sox from Commissioner Manfred. Yes. And you and I remember saying I need to

think about this. Figure it out. Figure it out. Because when it gets dropped on our head, we haven't read the report, we haven't read, we didn't even read

the initial, have time to read the initial Ken Rosenthal and Evangelo. Yeah, we had just had very, very much the first reaction. And we were like,

well, they must not did much. Mm-hmm. We talked about this video dude who is the fall guy. J.T. Watkins. J.T. Watkins. He was in a Confederate Army back in the late 1800s. So this J.T. Watkins. By the way, I'm... Did you know his name before you looked that up right there, or did you memorize him yesterday?

J.T. I memorized it. Okay, that's good. You have a good memory. So J.T. Watkins is the fall guy. So then I get in my car, and I listen to Adam and Adam, and they're talking about it. And I'm starting to get more pissed off. And then you got back in the car to listen to the nightcap. And I was talking about it. Yes. That is accurate. Thanks, Matt. Appreciate the support.

So then I started watching the SPN after that at 7. And I was getting more pissed off. I'm talking to you at 1210 the day after. I am super pissed off. Yeah, that's what happened to me. I read the entire report between three and six. Before I came on at 6, I read the report. And the more I read it, the more it was just,

it's a joke. It's a joke. It's embarrassing. It is, first of all, they got away with it. The Astros did not. The Astros are cheaters. Let me be very clear, Rossi, when I tell you, the Astros cheated.

The 2017 World Series trophy is tainted. So this isn't local radio guy trying to defend his team. I'm telling you the Astros 100% cheated to help them win the World Series championship. But what that crap was yesterday was unacceptable. I don't know if it was, first of all, the timing of it is awful. The day before the NFL draft? Okay, let's drop this on at 3 o'clock Eastern time.

When the whole world's talking about the draft for the next, I don't know, five, six days. It's prime news dump hours. I mean, they should have done it Friday at 1 o'clock. I mean, that would just be just as good. then they talk about how nice and courageous the front office was of the boss in Red Sox. And then they said, well, we interviewed all these people. 34 of them right? Is that right?

44 players when it came to this. 65 people in total, 44 players. And most of them had no idea what was going on. 30 of them stated they had no knowledge regarding whether Watkins used in-game video feeds to revise his advanced sign coding work. So Watkins. A man who's not French kiss a woman ever in his life. We don't know that. He's got really thick bottled glasses.

His hair is starting to fall off at the corners. And he's got limited friends. He's been wet-willed within the last six calendar years. He only told four players, Ross? Pretty ambitious. Pretty much impossible to believe. So I'm not going to believe it. No, it says...

in the report somehow that Watkins operated, quote, without the knowledge of the manager, the coaching staff, and most of the players. First of all, this is the guy who was at the epicenter of the Apple Watch thing in 2017. He was the guy who was texting athletic trainers in the dugout from the Red Sox. He's in the video replay room. In the 2017, what they call in the report, the Apple Watch incident, he's the guy texting the trainers. He is basically the mastermind of the whole thing.

So how is he even still employed by the Red Sox in 2018 is a great question? And then we're supposed to believe that the guy that was at the center of the Apple Watch thing a year ago, the next season, first of all, somehow is still in the video replay room. Second of all, he's some rogue who acted alone without the manager or the players or staff knowing. that doesn't make any sense. How does he relay information to the dugout? That information gets to the runner on second base. That information gets to the batter. That's like four people right there.

And that's if those are the only four people ever involved in it. According to Majority Baseball, that's exactly what happened. And how do you have one guy? Seriously. It doesn't make sense. Listen to me, there are a lot of people that believe the city, Houston, gets a raw deal on a lot of things for one reason and the other. Most of it, it's our responsibility to say that's just coincidental.

This is not coincidental. Rob Manford took care of the boss in Red Sox. He did. And the number one reason why the Red Sox aren't being exposed for the frauds that they are and the cheaters they are is because they didn't have a mic fires in their dugout in their clubhouse. That's a big part of it. Absolutely. That's the reason.

1214, the Matt Thomas show. And I'm pissed off. I'm sorry. I don't mean to yell on the microphone because it doesn't do any good. Because my Astros cheated. And we got to live with that. But those damn Red Sox cheated. They're cheaters.

And they got away with it. And you know what? It's not just Astro fans that are pissed. I think Major League Baseball decent fans would know the same thing. They got away with it. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Frequent hand-washing,

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All right, we got a lot of topics to get to today. And I'm sorry if y'all are into what the Steelers are going to do with their first round pick today. I'm not the show. Now, I'm all about what the Texans should do. This is not Steelers Depot with Matt Thomas? I mean, I don't want to have a mock draft of teams that no one knows about or more importantly cares about. I know there are some Steelers fans out there. What up, guys?

But, I mean, Ross, you're going to have to probably, and I just had a cup of coffee here, which probably isn't going to help. Uh-oh. I'm really pissed off. Yeah, you want me give you a back rub? That was not the statement I was waiting for.

Like, let me be here to calm me down. I was not thinking about a back rub. Okay. I mean, I would take one, but I don't know from you. Don't ask, George. I'm not giving you a backro. Should I get Gordy in here for you? We'll do Vegas style.

We charge a dollar a minute for, for whoever comes in here and you rub your back. You know, we really, that would actually help morale around here. We should have, like, a massage girl roaming the halls. Are massage girls or massage parlors essential business? They will be to Sports Talk 790. I can tell you that for sure. Okay.

I will say yes. I say relaxation is essential. I think that's fair. I would say they're essential. Thank you. When I was in the eighth grade, I went to Indianapolis, Indiana, to visit a buddy in my school kid that had moved from Houston to Indianapolis, and we get to the airport and we start leaving the airport,

and there's a bunch of, you know how airports are usually not in the best parts of town? The Indianapolis run of streets was relaxation locations, relaxation. I'm like, what are you do when you go to these relaxation places? They're like, well, basically women have sex with you. Oh. And that's, and everything after that is to become a dark part of my life. There's one on telephone road and we leave the, uh, is that the moment that changed your life forever? Well, it got me more curious, frankly.

More curious about what? About things. About life? Life. Okay. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So let's get off of the relaxation part of things. I'm tense.

No, I get it. Like I said, Matt, I'm with you that when it dropped it to around 2 o'clock, a little bit before 2 o'clock yesterday, we didn't really know what to think. We didn't really delve into the report. But when you look into it, when you look at the fact that this guy is a repeat offender, you look at the fact that this guy shouldn't have been on the team at all. You look at the fact of the rule that's laid out in the report by Commissioner Manfred. And by the way, a previous offender of this rule. The rules were around this letter was out there to begin with.

Exactly. That's why they should have been reprimanded even further. But anyways, listen. This is the rule that's in the report, Matt. Tell me if the Red Sox broke this rule. I'm listening. Under no circumstance, may electronic equipment or devices be used for the purpose of stealing signs or conveying other information designed to give the club a competitive advantage.

This is bolded in the original memo. To be clear, the use of any equipment in the clubhouse or in a club's replay or video rooms to decode an opposing club sign during the game violates this regulation. Guilty. It's black and white. And that douche Jeff Passons like, well, you know, they lost a second round pick, which is a big deal. You know, because it's 2020 and there's only five rounds. And, you know, this jacket I'm wearing is really tight, but I insist on wearing a suit anyway.

One of my favorite developments of this show in 2020 is your smarmy baseball writer voice. God, smart. Baseball writers are so smarmy. Let me tell you, I've known Brian McTaggers since we were in school together. So, you know, he'll never be smirming to me. You guys get drunk together in school? No, but I've known him for 20 years. So that's never going to change who I think he is.

I would call him sarcastic more than he's not smarmy. But Jeff Passon, well, you know, you got to put things in context. Screw your context. Cheating is cheating. And I'm not only mad at the ruling, but I'm mad about the timing of the ruling. Yes. And I'm mad that there's a fall guy. And I'm mad that there was 30 Red Sox that apparently had no earthly idea what was going on.

That's complete BS. And maybe I'll, you know what? I don't know if I'll ever get over this. I'll tell you what it's going to do, guys, honestly. They're going to be some people that are going to feel sorry for the Astros. Not many, but some, saying, yeah, y'all are taking the woodshed. And the Red Sox, whose bench coach was helping you do it in 2017, who all of a sudden innocently said, well, we were doing nothing wrong in 2018. Rossi, the next year.

The next year. He's got a job somewhere else where apparently the word was everybody was doing it. So why wouldn't the Red Sox be doing it? I just think it's atrocious timing. It's everybody keeping tight-lipped. And frankly, Ross, if I was a member of the Boston Red Sox having seen the public shame the Astros have received during all this, I wouldn't decide a word either. Yep. You want to go prove this?

Guess what? Unless there's a Mike fires in my dugout, you ain't going to find out crap. That's it, gang. we've been able to deuce that none of this from the Astros could have ever been proven unless you had someone inside that was willing to snitch. Be a whistleblower, Matt. Snitch. I didn't stumble.

Snitch. Bravely speak publicly, Matt. Made the game better. Snitch. Yeah, no mic fires, no smoking gun. And you add in the fact that this was going on while the the the

the investigation was going on, while the asteros were in the middle of the firestorm. You kind of understand where this came from. But you also still, even for giving all of that, like we know about the Red Sox and why they did what they did, there seems to be enough evidence in this report to be a little bit more heavy-handed, and especially when you factor in that this is the second time in two years after, according to Rob Manfred the basically the Red Sox Pinky promise not to do anything again after the Apple Watch incident these are the words

from Commissioner Manfred after that I have received absolute assurances from the Red Sox that there will be no future violations of this type you say cut the crap with the memo in 17 because of what they did

they give you, quote, absolute assurances that there will be no future violations of this type. Then they do it with the same guy in the same position. And then you just slap them on the wrist. That doesn't make sense. None of that makes sense. They got away with it. Hope they're happy. Meanwhile, the Astros of 2017 will be permanently tarnished.

But again, they did this. I'm not trying to say, well, the Astros did more or less than the Red Sox. That's the thing, too. I'm with you. We don't want to, we're talking about apples and oranges almost here. Correct. Yeah, it sucks. Are you all mad? Houston, Texas, are you all mad?

Are you like, Matt, it is what it is? I think a lot of people were tweeting me yesterday and saying, you know what, this doesn't shock me. This is the MLB protecting one of their legacy teams and all that type of stuff. Like, I don't know if I want to go that far. I think it's more Rob Manfred just wanting this to go away no matter what, if it were the Milwaukee Brewers or something, it would be the same thing. Just wanting it to go away. after the Astros Firestorm. The negative publicity around the Astros has been dynamic.

And again, I think there was just more evidence that helped Manfred's cause. But Rob Manfred has got to be able to put two and two together and say, it doesn't make sense that only a handful of people were even aware of the situation. And that it imagedly dug out in Clubhouse. And Ross, you know, these guys are together for seven months at least. 7, 8, 9, 10 hours a day. That none of this was brought up at any point in this time. Nobody knew anything.

And that you had a manager who was running this gambit down here in Houston? Are y'all's mad as hell and can't take any more? Because that's where I'm at this point. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. You want to reach out to us via Twitter, you can do that. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Joe-George Radio. I'm going to be mad for quite some time.

I'm going to be mad when the Astros and Red Sox is going to play. Because the mentality is among some is that Red Sox didn't do nearly as much, and that's probably true. But the penalty did not even match what we think they did, and the cover-up was even better. 7-13-213-2-7-90. The Matt Thomas show continues. Sports Talk 790. Hey, it's James Arden. What a pass.

What a finish. Listen to your home of the rockets on your smart speaker. Just as. Hey, Google. Play Sports Talk 790 on iTunes. her radio. That is something else, folks. 1233. In our next segment, guys, we're going to do some prop bets on the NFL

draft. We have no first round pick to discuss. Wonderful. Do you guys want the Texans draft up in the first round? Because, man, he is sending a serious smokescreen that rookies are not valuable this year. No, that's not on the trade back. This is supposed to be like a super deep draft. Not only wide receiver, but

like everything. Everywhere. There was a report. Somebody said, you know, anonymous reports, maybe this is smoke or whatever. Right. Like some general manager had 32 players graded with the first round grade, and that's usually a lot of times, that's rare. It's most ever, I think. Yeah. This is thought of as a very deep draft, so I think it would behoove him to.

So if it's a deeper draft, then maybe you'll get tremendous value later in the rounds, too. Trade down. Right. More picks. Or, I don't know. Trade away your picks for a guy who was not productive last year and had five concussions. By the way, at 1.30 today, we're going to put you guys definitively down for the draft contest. That expires at 6 o'clock tonight.

Final answers only. Yeah, this is the ones you're going to be held to. What draft contest are you talking about, Matthew? Chance for you guys to go to our website at Sports790.com on the What's on Matt's Mind Showpays and enter our contest for terrific dinners. I think we got a specs gift card we're going to give away. Rudy's barbecue and I believe our grand prize is a dinner for two at Shamaka. That is right. And that's one of those places you want to go eat.

So we've got to wait to the restaurants open up a little bit. That's true. Yeah, you can't go and all you can eat buffet. How do you to go and all you can eat buffet? The food comb, the meat comb is right. Yeah, just have them come out, had the gauchos come out there and just start slicing in your car. That's awesome.

Like a sonic drive-in, you have like a little tray outside your window? Innovative ways. That's actually a good idea. I would do that. So you're saying we should open up a Characcaria. Is that what they call? Drive-in-Turaska where we send all of you guys around. We slice the meat into your vehicle.

And you have the green red light, you flip it, it just hangs from your mirror. Headlights on, bring more food, headlights off, we're done. Yeah, but you don't want to waste your battery, Matt, especially if you're sitting there waiting for food the whole time. Yeah, but that's going to be 45 minutes. The battery can handle that. Well, as long as the car is running. Have you seen my jalopy? That's true. Let's say hi to Bill and Port Arthur on the Matt. Tell them a show at 1235.

Hi, Bill. How you doing, Matt? Wonderful. Thank you for calling. What's up? Well, I'm mad as hell and I can't take anymore. Good. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm pissed. Excuse me, my friend.

That's all right. That's all right. I was flabbergasted to hear the punishment that the Red Sox got compared to ours. And I'm curious to see if any of the Dodgers will pop off like they did against us. because that's who the Red Sox beat in the World Series. And I'll just be curious to see if any other teams pop off like they did. Well, it's funny that you mentioned that. Bill Plashky, who's a longtime columnist of Los Angeles Times,

he's a super troll. He's a hack. He's a hack. Okay, troll hack, same difference. He said the last two teams that beat the champion Dodgers were cheaters. So he doesn't represent the Dodgers organization or the players, but as an LA media member, he just said that the Dodgers have been screwed in back-to-back World Series appearances because of cheating teams. So I don't know what that does for you one way or the other, but somebody at least from Los Angeles said that said that out loud on their Twitter account.

Well, it just it just flabbergasted me that this punishment, which if you want to even call. It's not a punishment. It's, you know what, Bill, it's not even a slap on the hand. It's a, don't do this again. you later. That's what it is. That's all it is. Although Carl's Correy did say that they weren't able to decipher the signs

in the World Series, and this report says that they didn't do it in the playoffs because that's in the 2018 playoffs is when they started with their video room monitors that were MLB employees, keeping an eye on people, and they were trained to look out for these types of things. Alex Kora says in a statement yesterday, I am relieved that these

MLB investigators have concluded the commissioner Rob Manford has released his final finding that I did not violate any MLB rules. That's actually what he, what it's written. It should have said, I'm relieved that Mike Fires wasn't a member of the Red Sox. I completely cheated and got away with it. No, no, no, no, no. It's, it's pretty incredible. And then here's the worst, here's the, here's the self-indulgent, I'll try to make, you know, even even sound more like a saint. At the third paragraph of his statement, finally, on a much more serious subject. My thoughts and prayers

go out to all the first responders, healthcare professionals, essential workers, and all the families who have lost the loved one to COVID-19. We all need to help each other during this difficult time. What a fraud.

The Red Sox are... Let me tell you some. The Astros, when we get baseball back again, gang, they're going to be booed everywhere. Just be ready to deal with that. We better boo the hell out of the Red Sox. And let me tell you, there's going to be, when there are Astros games

in Yankee Stadium, or where is, I'm trying to think where it would have big crowds. Anaheim, no, Seattle, no, Oakland, no, Rangers got a new ballpark. Ray, okay, that's right. When the Astros eventually go to Arlington, if that ever happens, they're going to be screaming cheetah, it's just going to happen. We need to do the same thing in Houston, Texas.

When the Red Sox are here? Yeah. You don't want to do? I've made shirts before. Yes. Crush City? City and the 20,000 Twitter party. I'll make them say, hey, Boston, you cheated too.

Welcome to the club. Welcome to the Cheaters Club. I don't think Astros are going to endorse that, but you know what? We can sell them rogue down the street. Okay. By the way, we have some breaking news a little. I wouldn't call it huge breaking news. Go ahead and fire it off.

That's fine. Todd McShay, tweeting out, I'm sorry to tell you I won't be working the NFL draft this year. I'm home recovering from the coronavirus. What? Yes. I miss you all. My teammates in ESPN have been incredibly supportive, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

He'll be watching the draft. Hope you will be too. Everybody's going to do a great job, blah, blah, blah. So Todd McShay, not going to be on ESPN's and slash NFL networks draft coverage because he's recovering from the coronavirus. That sucks. Let me ask you this. Because I really plead ignorance on this.

If either one of the two of you got Corona or I got it, or I got it, would you go to us and say, how did you get it? I mean, you would say, where have you been? Because I'm assuming McShea is working out of his home. Yes. He's not going to NFL camps. He must have got it maybe from the grocery store. I mean, if I got it, if I was to get it, hopefully I don't get it. And hopefully nobody gets it.

But if one of us were to get it or anybody, wouldn't you immediately start retracing your steps? Yeah, I'd probably say, probably this jack in a box right here. That's a good point. I felt like I could. I felt like I was in danger yesterday. Did you really? Well, I mean, you'd be at McDonald's. You'd get your virus in McDonald's.

Oh, it's a Clash factory today. Or Starbucks. Which, by the way, somebody who was listening told me there's like five Starbucks right around here, Matt. And four of them are closed. Okay. Yeah. Oh, there's plenty of Starbucks. I went to the one yesterday in the Greenway Plaza area, got through very quickly.

Shout out to those people over there. I just heard that you have a lot of options around here. Yeah. Maybe they're close. I don't know. Yeah, I feel like you'd want to re-reacher. your steps exactly. Because my life, and I'm not

BSing you on this. My life is here, limited grocery store, drive through to pick up food or whatever for the family and home. I mean, I'm not, I haven't gone to a park. That's what I was doing before this, too. I haven't gone to your

house. I haven't gone to a pool. I mean, I'm not going anywhere. And it's just really weird that he probably hasn't gone a lot of places. Yeah. But I think, yeah, grocery store, I mean, we all have to get food from somewhere. Right. We're not self-sustaining farmers.

So I think that's probably the most dangerous part of it in everybody's lives. Do you think the grocery store is a most dangerous place to get it right now? Not most likely. Maybe not most dangerous. Probably a swingers party is most dangerous. But for like the average person, yes. Not for Ross. Did you see how he just snuck that in?

Oh, yeah. I mean, I was just trying to think of something that would be really dangerous. When was the last time you went to a swingers party? Never been to one. Are you sure? Positive. Because of the three of us, I have been to a swingers convention. Oh, yeah.

I mean, yeah, you live in King. By accident. We know those people who are, no, no, no, no, no, no. The prey people up in Kay Wood are up to. No, no, it's all in the pineapples outside of their houses. Set Santa Plantation. That's on Kingwood. And you know what I'm talking about you seeing a plantation.

You know what I'm saying, saying? Indy. Well, I didn't say Indy. I'm just saying Santa Plantation in general. This show, it really is. All right, let's do some. You were just saying what would be a dangerous place? and I'm just saying. Don't you think that'd be a bad idea?

Yeah, I'm sure the swingers count has dramatically dropped. Yeah, that's unfortunately. Thoughts and prayers out to those folks. 1243 in those keys. 713-212-5-790. Some prop vets on the NFL draft. It's straight ahead. It's the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790.

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They are a conduit to the fans. Sports Talk 790. The Houston Sports Talk continues. All right, 1248, it is the Matt Thomas show. We take you to 3 o'clock today. The return of non-Florida stories at 2.30 this afternoon. Oh. And mine is completely political in nature.

Okay. We don't ever talk about politics in the show, which is good because... Well, all it would do is just piss off half the audience. Well, that's not true. We did talk Lena Cutta Hidalco yesterday. Oh, and that got ugly quick. You got an email within seconds, right? Stick to Spuds.

Screw off. Did Jeff Passon email you? Yeah. Why is everybody sound like Jeff Passing? Play some Jeff Passing when you get a second, Joe George. Just like you can hear how scourriest guys. Him doing anything or saying anything? I had a chance to, I don't want to do any more.

Let's get to the prop bits. These are, I don't know who came up with these. Most of these are pretty lame. So if they're just too lame for you, we'll just pass. Okay. This is from sports betting.ag. Will any team not get their pick-in on time? Now, when we talk about plus and minuses,

Ross, explain the audience what a plus one and a minus would be. It as relates to $100, and the key is the plus or the minus. The minus is the favorite. The plus would be the underdog, and it's related to $100. For example, a minus $200 would mean you have the favorite, So you have to lay $200 to win $100. A plus $200 would mean you have the underdog, so you would get $200 for putting up $100.

Okay. That's it. So a $100 bet on a plus $110 would give you $2.10. Your original bet plus $110 that you would win. Right, but you would win $110. Right. So I'll give you an example here. And we'll dumb it down here a little bit.

Well, any team not get their picking on time. Yes is a plus 110. No is a minus $150. I'm going no. Because they've talked about slowing down the clock and they're going to give everybody as much time as possible. And here's what people tend to forget about, Ross. And this is the reason why no is the pick on this one. They do have phones.

You're telling me that an NFL general manager from his home. Yeah. Has the Wi-Fi go down? Yes. Has his landline go down? Yes. And has his cell phone go down. All at the same time?

Probably not going to happen. it would take one mother of a storm like the ones they had in Arkansas Louisiana last night you know what I was like red for like six hours yes I mean if Buffalo is getting a tornado then the bill's going to be a slightly behind but short of that there's three ways

and other people's cell phones I mean these teams are going to have foolproof there's not going to be any delay of that has it happened since the Mike Tice thing years ago with the Vikings I don't think so And that was so rare. Next.

What year was that? That was 2003. Okay. So we're talking 17 years and technology is even way better. Billion times better than it was back then. Well, any drafts team's draft spot be moved back due to missing a pick? No. It's the same question.

Yeah. Yes is a plus 550. So again, spending 100, you go to Vegas window and you spend $100 on that, you're going to get $650 back. That's amazing. That'd be great. But it ain't happening. It ain't going to happen. minus a thousand.

Geez, they are juicing these up. So you would lay $1,000 to win $100. Yeah. So $1,000 to win $1,100. That's a pretty risky bet. Next, this one's a little more interesting. Will the NFL draft be hacked? That's a good one.

Meet America. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Plus 800. Okay. No, it's got to be like $1,500 or something. $2,500.

They are juicing these out of their minds. Why would you even put that on the board? Who's going to lay 25 to 1 on that? If I was going to bet this, I don't believe it's going to be hacked, but I would put the money. I'd put a small wager on the yes side, just so I could get a nice payoff. I'll throw five clams on it. Okay. Will a Twitter account of a draftee be hacked?

And they're using Laramie Tunsell as the most recent example of that. No, that was like five years ago. I'm just saying that's the example they're using. I bet you they got long odds in that one, too. I will say no. Yes is a plus $5.50. So almost five and a half, it's five and a half to one. No is a minus $1,000.

Aren't they telling all these draft prospects to scrub all their old tweets now? I would. If I was an agent, I've tweeted out what, how many tweets have I ever had in my life? If I needed an agent. $30,000 plus? I would have one of my PR interns, my agent interns who's new in the business. business scrub all the tweets that I thought were halfway controversial. But you know what the problem with that is?

Hmm. Is that I think these scumbags who find those tweets screenshot them. Do it in college. That needs to start at the college level. And even at the high school level. Because I remember Dante DiVincenzo? He wins the final four MVP for Villanova.

Oh, yeah. And as soon as the press conference starts and he's being interviewed, racist tweets pop back up and they were already. deleted but screenshots had been existed. Like that needs to start at the college level, if not high school. I agree. I agree. Next, how many different draft eligible players will be seen?

Now, 58 are technically available. The over under is 38.5. I think I take the under. Because here's the thing. I would take the under too, because I do believe there could be some Skype issues. It's one thing to call a, the pick and hang up the phone or hang up the text or do whatever.

It's another thing to try to conduct a several minute interview and or see a photo of them without some sort of internet connection. I'm not saying that it's going to have it, but 38 and a half seems a little ambitious. The wording of the question again is, will be seen? We'll be seen. It's not an interview, but just will we see? Will we see? 38 and a half.

So if they have a screen where they put up everybody at once just for fun, that's over. That ruins it. Yeah, that's right. What's the odds on that? No odds. Oh, total. Yeah. Yeah.

I think under still. A few more I want to get to. How many draftees will be seen in a tie? Do you put a tie on at the house? On a day like this? Yeah. What's the number? 20 and a half?

20 and a half? Yeah. Unless there's an order from the NFL for these guys to dress up. Yeah, I'm going under. Well, a lot of them have that sponsorship every year. With the suits or whatever? But that's when you show up to the draft. Everybody who stays home for little watch parties with their family, they're not dressed up.

How about this? How about this? Will we see? I bet we'll see a lot of guys wearing their college gear. Yeah. Sweatshirts, collar shirts. Didn't they get told not to have like corporate stuff? Yeah.

Just because you were told something doesn't mean you're not going to do it. Yeah. It's true. All right. Will pizza be seen in any draftees home? Yes. Yes. Plus 100.

No is a minus 140. I feel like that's easy money on a yes. This one, according to this website, is the lock of the year. Will any draftees experience technical difficulties? Any draftee experience technical difficulties? Yes is a minus 500. Yeah. No is a plus 300.

Define technical. If my screen freezes for a couple seconds, that's count. Let's go then. Yes. Yep. That's going to happen for sure, right? Let me give me a couple more here. Total dogs shown during the first round.

I like that. The over under is three and a half. I like these. Ooh. I'm going to go under, but I think it could be closed. Let's make a bet on this, Matt. I'll take the over. Can we make some dollar bets tonight?

Yeah. But you're going to be, you and I are not working the draft. Joe, you can't be a part of this. You're working. You want to zoom each other and we can have some drinks?

Yeah. Here's one. Total cat shown during the first round is it a point five. I mean, zero cats? Zero. Could be.

I mean, if there's going to be four dogs, there's got to be one cat. That's a good point. And that's, And let me try to think If there's any of the other ones That would be interesting I'm going over,

I'm going under on dogs over on cat. Let's go. Point five, you're saying one cat's going to, One cat. One cat? All I need is one cat, Matthew. This is just the first round only.

You don't get seven rounds of this. You get 56 or 58 potential guys. Are they going to be interviewing six round picks? All right. Let's see. Oh, last one. Will ESPN mention that Jake Fromm playing the Little League World Series?

minus 120 is a yes, minus 120 is a no. I can't be bright, right? I don't know. That's what they says with the screen. I'll say yes. Yeah, because ESPN does the LLL League World Series. That's easy video to find, correct?

Yeah, and if he goes day two, then they'll be filling more time. That's exactly right. That's a good point. I like those bets. I think we're going to, you know, I'll do Zoom meeting tonight. Yeah. I'm drinking a light carb beer.

Okay. I'll have some bourbon. Are you? Yeah. On the rocks. I'm off early. It's the first time in a month and a half. Okay. You might as well celebrate the best you can. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to hit in the hooch. I got you. 713-212-5-7-90.

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What's the one thing you're looking forward to most? Options are just the picks, the coverage of the draft, will the Texans move up, and where will two? will be selected. And that goes along with our draft contest, which I'll give you details and that come out up a little bit. But there's a lot of things guys that are being talked about. Is this the new wave for the NFL draft?

I say, oh, hell no, it's not the new wave of the NFL draft. Do you know how much money that Las Vegas was stood to make on the NFL drafting in their town? Did you see how Nashville went crazy? And was it Chicago before that? I think so. The bachelor's parties were not happening. in Nashville. Well, they got past it.

They got their, they got their likes in their IG photos. It would have been the same thing on the Vegas. Right. But you know what I'm saying? Now, these things, this is a, this is a event that every NFL city is going to want to host at some point. They were going to make it. It was going to be, they were literally going to have prospects boating in the Bellagio fountains. It's not going, it's not going, it's not getting smaller. It's only going to get bigger. Going to get bigger. And they're not going to force the general managers and coaches to be in separate rooms. When we all get back to some sort of normalcy, we'll get back to the normal NFL draft.

But yeah, this is intriguing. We'll never, you know, you and I will never forget, our audience will never forget this year, first and foremost. Of course not. But we'll certainly not forget what sports went through this year. I'm so excited about the draft. I don't have to watch any more Celtics-Lakers games. That's all the ESPN's been showing.

It was last night. Tonight is draft coverage. Tomorrow is draft coverage. The day after that is draft. And then on like Monday, it's back to Lakers versus Celtics. It's a classic rivalry, Matt. It's, you know. Met in the finals, like, I don't know, a dozen times.

A dozen times. That's what it's, it's endless material. The ESPN should have its own network called the Celtic Laker Network. It just show old replays of games. No, that's what the Longhorn Network is there for replays old games. I did check it yesterday. They had a women's game on yesterday. It was Stanford versus Texas.

Uh-huh. Oh, from where? This past year. Okay. Basketball team's decent. They just hired that coach from Vic Schaefer from Mississippi. State. Women's basketball's on the uptick, Matt. Well, something is over there.

You know, the legacy of Jody Conrad will reverberate for all times. Yeah. They just haven't found find the proper replacement. Okay. So let's just run through a few things that you're intrigued about. I want to know what Godell's office looks like. He's supposed to be in his basement? Do you think Godell's got, I mean, first of all, do you think it's really in basement? Or do you think it's just like one of his massive dining rooms he's got?

because the guy makes $40 million a year, right? He's one of the highest, he's the highest paid sports executive in the business today, right? I mean, he's doing very, very well for him. He's got to be in a palatial estate, yes. I can't imagine there being like a TV, a picture of the NFL, you know, Joe Montana.

Every little thing that's going to be back there is going to be calculated and pre-planned. Right. So there'll be no preferential treatment towards one of the teams. There won't be a picture of him shaking hands with Jerry Jones. I think they'd be able to have a whole thing. set there?

I bet you the camera they use will be exceptional. You know, because do you watch Colbert? No. Stephen Colbert, and I flip through all of them. I used to watch him when he was on the Colbert Rapporteur. I used to love that show. So, Colbert's camera is a very high-end camera. You

can't tell it's web-based. Okay. Jimmy Kimmel, you can tell is web-based. You can tell that James Cordens is a web-based show. Why can't we get these guys nice for cameras? that's something really for them to discuss but Goodell's going to have

a really nice camera I'm going to assume that Rich Eisen's going to I mean I don't think for the most part we'll think this looks like a high school production

will there be technical issues yeah will there be some scratchy Skypes and things drop out yeah but these guys have been doing these shows for two months now this way

or not in two months but four or five weeks they're going to be ready for anything I would think so So that to me Isn't it going to be a huge concern I just want to see how it moves

And how you have All these different people All over the place now Was McShea supposed to be A part of the coverage tonight? Yes Because I know they're mixing the network people They

I believe he was So they can all Out goes McShay In goes somebody else That doesn't have it Yeah, it'll be fine Yeah You can find enough draft talking heads

Yeah That's the thing about these Draft Knicks Is they spend hours and hours and hours. And hours. I think to exhaustion, frankly. Yeah.

And so they put these boards together and they put them out. Yes. And they get crushed. Most of the time, yeah. And then they're about 15% accurate. Yes. It's almost like being a referee. Unless the money is, why would you want to grow up and be an official?

Because you know you're going to get out there. You're going to try your best. You're going to try to make all the right calls. Yeah. And people hate you. And you're getting berated at a softball field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a guy that had an ankle bracelet on. Yeah, you don't want to mess with that guy.

That's probably enough for me. I'm picking my battles. Yeah. That's why I gave that up. I was the best softball umpire in St. Paul. And by what measure? On my own. Okay.

I mean, but like what qualities makes one the best softball empire in a city? It was my first year of doing it. And I got to work the championship game on the bases. Oh. Yeah. So I thought it did okay. Like, Joe,

did they hand select the, uh, the umpires? Yeah. Wow. You were moving on up, Matt. You could have joined the union. Gone pro.

Union's a stretch. But yeah. The, I don't know why. I don't want to judge somebody else's life for what they get into, right? Right. But I would think like draft expert. Respect.

Put the time in. Yeah. Looking at hundreds, thousands of people. I mean, you're breaking down like, and you know, UV UCF taper

or something like that. Having dinner and watching something on a DVR or looking at a bowling green offensive linemen. I don't know what I mean, I have a pretty good I feel, but again, to each is at his own. Exactly. We all have, I mean, I watch hours of game shows that people are like, what the hell are you doing?

Especially at Todd McShay, it's weird that he remember January last year he got offered a job to join the Jets? He turned it down? You know, a lot of baseball guys are doing that. I know. I just is Tom McShay making more on ESPN than he would

No, no, no. Teams would pay more on ESPN. But it's definitely a way more secure job. That's true. That's absolutely right. But you could always go back to ESPN because fire GMs end up on ESPN all the time. Yeah. Yeah, like it's not like Mike Mayock when John Gordon fires him at some point.

Well, think about this. Remember Doug Collins, a longtime player analyst? He was a coach for several teams. He got fired. He'd go right back to TV? Yeah, exactly. Like Mark Jackson, if you ever gets hired by an NBA, team again. He gets fired. ABC

he'll hire him right back. The SPN. He'll be fine. Yeah. If you're a good broadcaster, they'll always find a spot for you. Hubey Brown, like 115 years old. Hubey Brown's worked for like five NBA teams. I was watching some classic game from like the 80s in Hubey Brown was on it. Yeah. Yeah. You see here. He's like

the Charlie Cash with the NBA. He sounds almost exactly the same as he did in the 80s. Yeah. And he is, he's really old. Yeah. I mean, I give him props. 85 years old traveling on the NBA doing these games. That's props. I think he's 85. It sounds like... Why still do it? He's 86.

Oh, man. 86. At some point you've got to retire. Because the NBA lifestyle, it ain't easy. You're going from city to city. I mean, he's working probably one game a week. You know what I forgot how he went back. He hadn't coached for like 25 years and he coached the Grizzlies for a couple years. I forgot about that. And he retired because he was getting too old. So he said, instead, I'll go bounce around the NBA doing game analysis. Okay. I can get me make millions of dollars. I think he's still good at his job.

Oh, he's really good. Yeah. But the point. The point is, to come full circle, I just, I feel bad for these draft experts because they put in way more time than most of us, Jimokes do. But they're considered successful. They're almost like, you know how baseball headers are like, you hit 275? That's pretty damn good. Yeah. If you hit 28% of your draft picks on a team, that's got to be like winning an Oscar, right? For excellence in draft selection, we predict that we give this person.

Todd McShay. Todd McShay. Bernie the Wolf. Yes, Dane Bruegler. Dane Brugler, if you will. Like, you think Dane right now, if we were to call him? So, we don't want you to go on. Hey, Dane, are you feeling good today?

Or are you like, man, if I don't hit at least seven of these picks, people are not going to trust me. I think he's like a kid before Christmas right now. It's got to be. It's got to make the best day of the year. All right, Jared on the northwest side would like to talk about the NFL Texans draft pick. That's at number 40. Guys, let's be honest. If you're the Texans and this draft is as deep as we hear it is and you don't like rooks,

why wouldn't you trade down? We'll discuss that. Take some phone calls to 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Draft Day, we're pissed off with the Red Sox. And Tom Brady is getting into quite a bit of little trouble down in Tampa. We'll discuss that as well. He's a Florida man now.

He is a Florida man. And now Florida Story is at 2.30. This is Sports Talk 790. Stay calm. Stay informed. We'll let you know when... First pitch is moments away. Your games will be back on. Yeah?

And it looks like we'll be dusting off the Reggie Bush-Vince-Young debate in the meantime. And what should they do with the dome, huh? And is Matt Schaub and elite QB? Just kidding. Just kidding. No, really. We're just kidding. The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 7-night. All right, we're going to take a call here,

and then I want to give you the questions for our draft content. Today you have until 6 o'clock to send me an email for you a chance to win restaurant dinners, including Rudy's, Speck-Skiff, and Shamagoosha for our top three point-getters, our NFL draft contest coming up. I'll give you the questions, and we'll see if Ross and or Joe can help you with your answers in just a couple of seconds. Gerard is with us at 118-9-7-A-N-A-Jarad, what do you got today? Man, what's going on, man? Doing well, friend.

How are you? Doing all right. I'm doing good, man. I'm excited about this draft tonight, man. We finally got some sports to talk about, man. It's been a long drought since they shut everything down due to the coronavirus, man. So it's just excited about tonight, the draft. First of all, this overview of the draft, man.

I think the draft basically starts at the third pick. I think everybody knows pretty much the first two pits going to be Burrow and Chase Young. I think it actually gets started with the third pick with the Detroit lines, which way they go. Some people think they go with the cornerback out of Ohio State. or Cudor. Some people think they might go with the defensive tackle Brown out of Auburn. But that's basically when the draft actually gets started in that third

pick, man. I never remember a draft with this much uncertainty going in where a lot of these players are going to go. It's going to be very interesting to see how it plays out. Now, as far as the Texas draft pick at number 40, there's two guys I'm looking at. I don't know if they're going to be there, but the Texas need a pass rushing.

Outside of JJ White, they really have nobody that can consistently get out to the quarterback. So I think that's what they really need to be looking at. as a pass rusher. A couple of guys that maybe might be there that I'm looking at as Terrell Lewis, the past rest out of Alabama, and Zach Braun, the pass rush out of Wisconsin. Those guys might end up going late in the first round, so they might not be there.

So if they're not there, then maybe they look at that safety out of Minnesota, Antonio Winfield, Jr. I really like him. He kind of remind me of the Honey Badgers that played with the Texans last year and won't football with Kansas City. So maybe look at him. If none of those guys there, I think maybe Texan. maybe trade back and maybe get some draft picks later on in the draft, man. They're kind of lacking as far as quantity of draft picks.

So if those three guys ain't there, I look to trade back, man, then you got a lot of defensive tackles that are going to be there on the draft. It seems to be kind of deep as far as the defensive tackle position. So that's the route I'm going from Bill O'Brien. We'll see how it plays out. One more thing, another thing, two of the target of a lower. Where are he going to go? I think he might slide tonight.

It's going to be interested to see what happens with him. It's a lot of injury concerns going to be going to be. going on with him, so I'm going to be looking at him and see where he ends up at when it's all said and done. So that's what I'm looking forward to, man, the draft, man. What you guys think about it. All right. Thank you very much, Gerard.

Appreciate the phone call. Good to hear you. Right at two minutes on the clock. Oh, wow. Two minutes on the nose. Two minutes. Are they going to keep Kenny Stills? Are they going to move him?

I don't know. Yes. If this receiving draft is so good, why wouldn't you go get somebody down the road? Yeah, and then cut Kenny Stills. You're not, there's no dead money, correct? If they could be cut to Kenny steals. And frankly, if Will Fuller is not healthy and productive, you need to go look for receiver. And Kiki Kootie would probably be on the outs to, I mean, my guess is you.

The star falls so fast for Kiki Kootie. Well, it's because he got injured. But no, in all honesty, the Texans need to focus on their defense. Yes. They need help in the secondary for sure. Yes. They need help on the pass rush. Basically all three levels.

And frankly, as much as we're friends of Dylan Cole, we love the guy, he's hurt a lot. And Zach Cunningham's contract situation is going to need to be resolved down there. I mean, this draft to me, and by no means I'm an expert on this, but it just feels like this is a draft that should be heavily swayed towards defensive players, right? I would think so. But you've got a guy who's obviously, if you're just looking at the moves, the guy who's running the team is pretty preoccupied with the offense right now. And again, if let's say that Brayning and Cook, comes here and can't be successful, you can cut him at the end of this year. He's only going to cost you $1 million, but then it opens up in the receiving spot.

And if you cut him at the end of this year, you wasted a second round pick trading for him. Well, this organization does waste picks on draft. I mean, waste draft picks. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. What do you, I mean, in the running back spot, what if David Johnson is no more than what we thought he would be the last two or three years? He's going to be great.

He's a great player. How many, how many, answer this? How many fourth round draft picks why don't up being 1,100-yard rushers? Not a ton, but you can get good, you can get good guys. Is Duke Johnson a good guy? No, I was thinking more like, so,

I mean, Philip Lindsay is probably once in a lifetime, undrafted to a thousand-yard rusher for the Broncos, but Aryan Foster was undrafted. Yeah, I mean, you can get good running backs in the fourth, the second. seventh round. You know what?

There's a conundrum when it comes to running backs. Because first of all, every team's going to tell you their shelf life is limited. Then the next thing they can tell you is, well,

you shouldn't waste a first round pick on a running back because they can get hurt and their shelf life is limited. But then you go draft somebody in the fourth round and then what do the fans say? This guy is not going to carry

the ball 25 times for you. I think the running back position is the hardest one to judge when it comes to draft. Because if you go too high, then people say you screwed a draft pick because you went with a guy too high. If you go too low, then expectations that player is going to come help you out as limited. That's why, for me, running backs, you should go do what teams do.

Go trade for them. Go sign them and they've been in the league three or four years and go outspend them on that. If you're really going to go outspend in a position, to me it'll be running back more than anything else. Knowing that you know how much shelf life has been on a particular guy. you know if he's been injury prone or not. And you also can better judge what he's done because you've got a foundation to work. If you're a great running back, but you've been playing against, I don't know, Central Florida's the, I don't know, that's a bad example.

Mid-American teams, then you don't know if that guy's going to translate the next level. And you sure is how I'm going to take a high-round draft pick on the guy. I think if you're a lineman, you can protect no matter who. You've got people coming after you no matter who you're playing against. Okay, um, yeah, okay, so Austin Echler was undrafted. Okay. Chris, I'm just going through some of the top. In the top of rushing from last year, there's a lot of guys who were taken high.

Derek Henry's, Nick Chubb, Christian McCaffrey, Zeke Elliott. But there are guys who, Chris Carson was a seventh round pick. Austin Echler was undrafted. Let's see, Dalvin Cook was a high pick. Marlon Mack was a fourth round pick. Aaron Jones is a fifth round pick. Carlos Hyde was a second round pick but you traded him for nothing.

Matter of fact, the 2014 draft was on yesterday on ESPN and Carlos Hyde was on the big one of McShay's big board of players available still. David Montgomery was a third round pick. It's a mix. Aaron Jones is a fifth. Phil Blendsie's on. It's really...

It's hard for me to be able to say that Texans can address his position long term by going with somebody in the fourth round. I think you have to catch lightning in a bottle, don't you? That's probably, fair to. But it can be done.

And you could find, I mean, you could find a Carlos Hide. That's really good scouting, right? That's really good talent evaluation is what that is. That's a savvy general manager who's got a great scouting department who has good cross-checkers that say, so is Bill O'Brien? Oh, no. Jack Easterby's been busy with this. Has he?

No, but I mean, I'm presuming that he's doing something with it. Has he pulled his nose away from Bill O'Brien fast enough to check any of this? Man, oh man. All right, before we get to a break, I want to tell you about our draft contest. Everybody get their pens. No, get their computers out, right? You're close to your phone. Nobody's writing stuff down anymore.

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Yeah, she's lovely. Hashtag web numbers. Kylie Marie. Oh, that was yesterday. Yeah, we did well with her, by the way. All right. Number one, go to your email, type in MT at Sports790.com.

On the subject line, just put draft contest. Here is your 10 point question. Number one for 10 points. Will the Texans draft a tight end at any point during the draft? Joe George, your answer is the final answer. No. Ross, your final answer.

Yes. You've been no all week. Yeah, it's fine. That is your 10-point question. Number two, the 20-point question. Will they make a trade at any point in the next three days? Tonight, Saturday, Friday, and Saturday. Will the Texans during the draft make a trade, 20 points?

Yes. I will say yes, and I'm changing my tight-in answer to know. Smart. By way, we're thinking they're going to go down, right? No, tight-in-in. But I think they will trade down. I don't think they're trading up into the first round, at least. They might make a trade in the third round or something.

They'll just like a small one. Questions get a little more difficult now. I'm scared. 30 points. 30. Where is Tua Taga-Baloa's draft position? 1 to 5? 6 to 10 or 11 and higher?

1 to 5. one to five even if he's getting passed up but somebody will try all it takes is one somebody will at least trade up for him you think Miami would take him at five maybe I'm saying one to five though

yeah I agree one to five you're not going to definitively say Miami's taking him at five hey that's all the question says that's true I'm answering the question that's a 30 point question question number four for 40 points more players drafted from the Texans offensive players

or defensive players this is more hope than anything defense I'm hoping defense too but bill likes offense so I'll take offense yeah Bill's not going to necessarily but Bill has to worry about the depth chart does he not yeah I think so doesn't he need help I mean DJ Reader's gone right

did Tim Dernigan all of a sudden just take every snap the DJ Rader took is that we're saying I don't need you to scream I mean is that what the answer is yes or no he's no he's not going to replace DJ Reader at least is from a production standpoint. Are we sure that JJ Watts can play 16 games this year? Yikes, no.

They need help on the defensive line. All right, that's 40 points. More players drafted offensively or defensively for the Texans. And the fifth question worth 50 points. What position group will the Texans draft with their first pick when it's all said and done? Quarterback, running back, wide receiver slash tight end, offensive line, defensive line slash

linebacker cornerback slash safety. Now by sheer numbers it's defensive line linebacker but it's not an objective pick you're not grabbing their names it's what Bill O'Brien is thinking more than anything else. Not about what you think they should have

or the category has potentially seven, you know, three down linemen and front four linebackers or vice versa. It's what you think they're going to do. Final answer, cornerback safety. Final answer. Ooh, I like that.

It's worth 50 points. I'm going D-A. You have the D-Line and Linebacker as one? D-Line and Linebacker, yeah. Yeah, I'll go with that. It's a casting a wide net. I'm playing the numbers. Playing a numbers game.

Okay. Even though both of you just a minute ago said that the Texans, Bill O'Brien is going to scoff with the defensive situation and go offensive players. I think it's first pick will be. Okay. Yeah, I'm saying more offense, but I think it's first pick will be. Defense? All right.

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Okay, what is first take have to say about this? No, we're not playing those gibbons. Oh, okay. We are going to play the special guest of their show. All right? Well, I think it's just naturally one of the funniest human beings alive right now. He doesn't have to have any material. He's just a funny human being.

This is naturally. naturally funny like Matt Thomas. Yeah, in some respect, sure. Tracy Morgan, I think it's just naturally funny. Here's Tracy Morgan on his beloved New York Giants. You need a defense. Offense with games, defense was championship. We built our defense.

We looked at decent last year. When we built our defense, you're going to be okay. That's our field. We got a quarterback. I think this guy's come along. He's going to be developed. I like it. I like the atmosphere.

I like the coach over there. We are teams. We're a team. You got my man, said Quorn, he's a leader, he's going to run like hell this year. Work like.

We're going to put some value in running backs again. They compared him the, they compared, I compare him the boat. This boy's nice. Just, there you go. Him talking.

Was that Tracy Morgan or somebody impersonating Tracy Morgan? So let me ask you this question. If first take ESPN called and said, we need a celebrity to come talk about their favorite, the Houston Texans. Who is the most famous Houston Texans fan? It's easy, Matt. Clay Walker.

I said famous. I didn't say singing awful song. Country music legend Clay Walker. Could Clay Walker fill the Toyota Center tomorrow? Ooh, I got one. Who? Bun B. You think Bunn's claiming them now?

He's a Texan's fan. But I thought Bun was really pissed. He might even said he was going to be social. Because we had him on after the DeAndre House. He sure did. He said he was going to be social distancing himself from the Texans. I don't want to speak on behalf of Bun, but I'm going to say Bunn would take a no on that. He's a Texan's fan.

I think so. The Channel 2 did a list in like 2018, it looks like. Yeah. A celebrity, the most famous Texans fans. It's kind of a sad list, guys. Go on. Go ahead. Do you want a number one?

What about that guy? Go from how many others? 13. Go from 13 to 1. Okay, 13, Booker T. The wrestler? Yep. The retired, long time retired wrestler.

Yeah. 12. Okay. 12 is slim thug. Okay. 11 is Bunby. Okay, he's now off the list. 10 is Paul Wall.

Okay. Sure. Nine is Altovaeva. 8 is Jim Parsons Yeah I was going to say the Big Bang nerd You think Jim Parsons would go on and eloquently talk about the Texans? No. Big Bang guy. Why don't he loves the rockets? Six and seven are Mark and Scott Kelly, the astronauts.

No idea who they are. Simone Biles of five. Rico. She's famous. Rico Rodriguez. Yeah, but all these people are all fans of all the Houston sports teams. What's wrong with that? Three is George Foreman.

two is Joel Olstein. How is Joel Osteen? More famous than Simone Biles. And then the number one because... This is... Okay. The actor in Houston Native

has reportedly been spotted at Texans games over the years. Reportedly, have we ever seen Dennis Quaid actually at a Texan's game? I don't know. Well, I don't know that for a fact. So that's who number one on their list is.

That's a sad list. Here, look, 2012. Dennis Quaid was a Texan's game. If Dennis Quaid was the number one and he really went to games, that's a good one. I would accept Dennis Quaid as the number one. Sure. We got a Beyonce on Twitter. Here's a video of him at a Texans game in 2012.

So wait a minute. We're not going to count somebody that went to one game. There's got to be a little legs to it. Exactly. There's a story from January 2012. Dennis Quaid jumps on Texans playoff bandwagon. Is Samobiles ever been to a Texan's game when she's not there to be a cheerleader? Is she gone to ticket countdown.com and ball?

bought tickets. Well, maybe not. Or maybe she would have to go to a suite so she doesn't get mobbed. She's kind of tiny. Okay. At Huffer 31.23 says, whoever it is, it's got to be cleared by head coach GM slash dictator Bill O'Brien. That's a great call. That's why it's Clay Walker, then. We know Bill loves Clay. Clay Walker's approved. Next one says, anybody but Clay Walker, please. I'm sticking with Bunby. Beyonce She Serrano Who's Sheerrano

He writes for the ringer Yeah he writes for the ringer Like what Is he his comedic writer? He writes funny stuff He's like a movie He's got some sports stuff A lot of books

Do you like him? I do like Shay actually I've never heard of him Before my life He's not that famous He's got 375,000 followers He doesn't do something right Yeah well

Yeah Okay I don't think She Sarano is gonna be able get on first take and rip the Texans. I have his phone number. You want to get him on, Matt? Shea Serrano? Yeah.

Well, let's call him. What am I? What am I? I got to be damaged by it. You had him on because he was a friend with a former co-host of yours. Oh, he was on when we were together? Yeah, I think so. Shea Serrano? Yeah. Because he goes back to Grantland, I think.

Yeah. He used to write for the Houston Press. He's from San Antonio and lived in Houston. He's active on Twitter right now. He's been tweeting like the last 10 minutes. Yeah, he's been giving. giving away a lot of money on cash. You're telling me if I go to a bar, provided bars are open. No. And I said, hey, you know who Shea Serrano is?

Some people would know, but probably not. One out of ten. I was going to say one out of five, so sure. Okay. I think we've got to go, no disrespect to Shea because Shea's doing very well. Bunby's much more famous. I would have to go Bunby over Shea Serrano. Bunby's got over a million followers, didn't he?

Inspection guy says Kate Upton. Was Kate Upton a Texans fan all of a sudden? No. via Justin Verlander. No, no, no. That's why, like, even Al-Tube. You can't even, he doesn't count. Yeah, how can you put Al-Tubei there?

That's funny. I'm going with Jim Parsons. Parsons is pretty good. Is that show still on? He's definitely a big Rockets fan. I think they're done, right? His other show is on. The Big Bang Theory?

No, the Young Sheldon is on. I have never watched one episode of the Big Bang Theory. It sucks. I've seen, like, clips on Facebook where it makes the show seem appealing, but everyone. It's not. Another one of those shows on CBS That I never watched I never watch

I never watch How I met your mother It's kind of to me I loved how I met Theory kind of feels like friends See you know Sometimes you go on Twitter And you say

One word changes everything If you change how I met your mother To something else It might be a more interesting show Oh boy What'd be no boy What word would you want How I met your brother

That's exactly what I was thinking I figured How I met your mother It's just one of the most Disappointed shows of all time I never watched it The show is called How I Met The ending, right?

Yeah, because the show is how I met your mother And that's not what the show's about in the end. Oh. You know what? Can you give a synopsis of the show within like the next 20 seconds here? Yeah, one guy tries to fall in love. There's other people he lives with and his friends with And eventually the person he's trying to find the whole time dies.

Thank you for that recap. That was very efficient. Now, the only reason why I'd watch the Big Bang theory is, isn't that Kaylee Kuco on there? Oh, yeah. She nice. And if Kaylee Coecoe wants to break down the Texans like a mother, I'd be accepting of that.

Think she's a Texans fan? I don't think so. Do you're a relationship with Jim Parsons? I don't think so. I know Jim Parsons is a big cougar. You of age cougar, obviously. All right. 144 is our time.

Speaking of cougar. Tom Brady, a male cougar? What is a male cougar? I'm just saying, how do you describe Tom Brady? How would women describe Tom Brady? Not some young honk. I wouldn't say that. A dilf?

I didn't want to say with a cue that I don't really come across is awkward. We got a Tom Brady story. He's not behaving himself in Tampa, by the way. We'll explain that in a minute. 144 on the Mad Thomas show. Non-Florida story, speaking of Florida, coming up at 2.30 this afternoon.

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The Houston Sports Talk continues on Sports Talk 7-night. 150 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas show. Top of the hour. Can I just get the Astro Red Sox frustration on my chest one more time? Y'all mind if I do that? I just think it's so bogus how the Astros were treated. They were treated the way they should have been treated. It's the Red Sox that just got away with a lot of crap.

We'll run through again the plethora of reasons why Rob Manfred screwed this up. Yes. And I don't believe them. leave the Red Sox lied or clammed up. Maybe not lie, but clammed up. Yes. Well, some people certainly lied. Oh, for sure.

Think of the 30 of the 44 players said they didn't know anything. Tampa Bay are. Come on. Come on, man. Tom Brady, a handful of days ago, was working outside of a park in Tampa Bay. And he got cited for being outside when he was not supposed to be in a park. Yes. It's going to happen.

But he's Tampa Bay, so he's going to be able to see what he can get away with. Or it's Tom. What is it, Tampa Brady? Tampa Brady or Tampa Bay? Why can't we call it Tomp Brady? I guess you could. Tampa Beatty. They go 12 and 4, they can call it anything he wants.

That's true. What if they go 8 and 8? Hmm. Good question. So, according to TMZ, on April the 7th, Tom Brady, fresh in the Tampa Bay area, was asked by offensive coordinator Byron Lefowitz to come to his house. Tom's like, sure, I'll be there as soon as I can.

he walked into a home without knocking, which is a little odd. But if the door is unlocked, maybe that Byron left, which the offensive coordinator was saying, I'm expecting time to come to the house. So he walks in before he gets face to face with the homeowner. He was in the wrong house. He is. Is he going Seattle already? He was in his 40s.

He was in the house next door. The homeowner's name. is David Kramer. He says, quote, I'm sitting here and I see this big shadow come up on my front door and I hear my doornob turning and I'm like, what the hell? Who's coming in my house? I literally was just sitting here and I watched this tall guy walk into my house. Kramer said he left his front door unlocked because he's selling his home and had multiple people over to see his property. But he wasn't expecting company at the time that Tom Brady walked in the house. Kramer says, he goes, how's it going, man? And sarcastically, I'm like, I don't know. You tell me, dude. Like, who are you?

And then he looked at me with the most confused face. I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. He just goes, am I in the wrong house? The owner says, I said, I think so, but who are you looking for? Were you supposed to be? And he said, is this Byron's house? Tom then immediately apologized before darting out the door. First of all, I don't think Tom's darted since he was in his 20. late 20s. Yeah, we've seen the rim run the 40, the combine. Kramer then, the homeowner, froze for several seconds, trying to comprehend what had just happened.

He then rushed back into outside to get a photo, but Brady was already walking to Left Witch's home. Kramer said his home looks similar to Left Witches. It appears the homeowner has no hard feelings. He says, quote, people make fun of me because I play the lottery, but somebody has to win the lottery. What does that have to do with anything? That was an odd quote.

It's like, and wherever, you go, there you are. Why is that at the end of the story? It feels like to me the guy is not a big sports fan. Because you didn't immediately recognize Tom Brady. I immediately realized that was Tom Brady. Right. Probably not. And also, I mean,

kind of joking, but kind of not. Do you walk into somebody's house in Florida? You might get shot. Yeah, that's not a good idea. And you don't knock? I mean, maybe Byron told him No, Byron probably told him. Doors open. doors open coming in

I'm in my back room or something. Even if it's your first time of someone's house, you still got to knock. No, not unless the instructions were the door is open. I also have to ask,

is Mr. Kramer a white guy? And Tom Brady didn't realize like, hey, this guy's not Byron Left Witch or probably in his family? Is there a video of this dude somewhere? I mean,

I guess we could do a Google search on it. But Tom's got, Now, so the guy comes and realizes shortly realizes what had happened. He goes to take the photo. Why didn't tell him come back and take the photo? He was already in the other guy's house, I guess. Well, he knows where Byron left which he lives. Yeah, this guy's not a sports fan.

He didn't realize. He probably talked to his son or somebody and was like, get a picture. Yeah. Then I would have the stones to say, hey, I'm not mad. I don't blame you. Can we take a photo? Yeah. That's a major misstep on this dude Kramer's part.

Probably. A huge miss. What's funny, though, is then Patrick Mahomes. tweeted that he did this before going to the Kansas City's quarterback coach's house. He just, is this a thing that NFL players do? I haven't walked into a stranger's house ever. Does this, Sean, just like walking to random people houses?

I have never walked into a stranger's house. I have gotten into a complete stranger's car by accident. In the car? In the car. We ordered a town. This is many, many years ago. I want to say it was order Saints preseason. one of the, no, it might have been Texans.

I don't know, but Kim and I were married. I don't think we had any kids at the time. One of the two teams went to New Orleans, and we took a bunch of listeners with us to New Orleans for a game with the Superdome. And we ordered a town car to come pick us up from, I think it was Pat O'Brien's or something to get back. We were going to go to Pat O'Brien's or something.

We get in the car and we're like, we're ready to go. And the guy's like, I'm not a taxi driver. So I've done that. Yeah. And that was very innocent. I didn't mean to jump in your car by accident, but my guess is that if somebody jumps in your car by accident thinking that you're...

I mean, it can happen a lot today because Uber and Lyft are regular drivers. Yeah. That could happen all the time. There wasn't Uber and Lyft back then. Yeah, when I was an Uber driver, people got into my car and they were in the wrong car. But they weren't... But they were looking for a ride.

They were looking for the... Yeah. Okay. It's like when you're at the rodeo or something like that and you're picking up somebody. Well, now you've got to make sure you double-checking because there's been a lot of unfortunate crimes has been associated with that.

So, yeah. I had a can of, I had some mace just in case. Did you really? Yep. I really wish you. My mom bought it for me because she was worried about it. I wish you would start driving again because there is a radio gold segment called Ross's Uber rides that we never got to have any legs on it because it was. Oh, there's legs.

I'm just not telling any of the stories. Yeah, but I mean, I know some of them and we could have needed more. Like, hey, Joe, why don't you pick up an Uber shift? I know you're not that busy. For the good of the For the good of the show. You want him to risk getting the Rona. Yes, I'm absolutely ready for him to do that.

I wish I could, but I can't. Because you could tell stories, and even if they weren't true, like, we were kids, we all looked at penthouse forms. Those were never true. He's happily married, Matthew. But he still looks at penthouse forms. That's fine.

No, I'm saying he's not going to get into any shenanigans that are fun. Oh. They just won't let me be an Uber driver. Because of the felony? No, because I still have Illinois plates. Oh. So you can't be a, Uber driver in Texas?

What if I buy your, what if I buy your Texas place? Would you do an Uber driver? Oh, yeah, sure. What's that? Like $75 bucks or something? Yeah. It's not about,

it's because my car is in my parents' name. That's why it's a show investment right there's what I like to call that. Gotcha. I would like to do it. I promise I don't like to drive. So that wouldn't do me any good. Yeah. But the stories,

I mean, you did it for a very short time and your stories are amazing. So Ross, start driving again. I could. How about once this blows over? How about this? Glass paint up.

Can we do a podcast of Ross, Uber stories, and you have to tell the truth all in the third. Really? I would have to change. It would know. Oh, well. Protect the innocent. All right.

I'm still mad at Major League Baseball, and I don't know if I'll get past it. We start the final hour the Matt Thomas show next on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5. 790. We'll also see if there's any new celebrities you guys have thought of. That would be good to go on a show like first take to brag about what the Texans are going to do with their second round pick, provided they haven't, or at least at number 40, 158 on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show.

Time is 202, the final hour of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. If you are out and about on this Thursday afternoon and would like to come in on what the Texans should do, what position group would be the most important. Tomorrow, I've already given Joe an assignment. We're going to look up 10 different mock drafts. Are there people doing seven round mock drafts? I mean, the first round's easy. I think probably.

We can find 10 different people with 10 different thoughts on who the Texans should get at 40, but probably they stay at 40, right? I think a lot of people even will do the first couple rounds if they're not going to do the whole seven. Seven, that's a lot of damn rounds. Who will the Texans take at 40? What position? We have our draft contests available until 6 o'clock tonight, and you can get the questions available through our website at Sports790.com and the what's on Matt's Mine show page under NFL draft.

contest. So we've got that. We have the first pick. By the way, Chris Gordy sent me a photo of Goodell's basement. It looks like a regular old basement. I don't know if you guys, well, you know, Joe, you grew up with a basement, right? Yeah. We had basements in Minneapolis and in Salt Lake City.

I've never been in a basement in my life. It's just an extra room underneath the ground floor of the home. Quite frankly, I'm scared. Is it because of flooding that people have the soil? Yeah. Okay. Plus most cities in the north are above, well above sea level and we're at 32 feet. Yeah, so that makes sense.

Yeah. So southern homes in the south don't have it. We had in Utah, we had a really, really big basement. We had it finished out. Most of when you buy a new home, they come what they call unfinished basements, but basically everything is around except the infrastructure, the rooms, the doors, all that kinds of. So you have to finish out the basement yourself. What does that mean?

Put walls up? Put walls up, put carpeting in. What's down there? Just posts and dirt. Yeah, not dirt, but just concrete level. Slab? Yeah. Interesting.

You can make it a man cave, right? You absolutely could. We had a huge man cave in my house in Salt Lake City. Huge. I'm sad I never got to see your man cave, Matt. We had a nice house there. They also had a room called cold storage. And cold storage was a room where you put your dead bodies.

No, it's not, but that's not a bad try. it's where people of the LDS faith believe at some point the Angel Moronai is going to chew his horn The what? Angel Moronai? I thought I think out something saying it right. And that's basically the end of the world. And that if there is an end of the world,

you have all the, you go down to the cold storage area and you have all this food you can stay alive with. My wife and I not being Mormon, we turned into a wine cellar. Cold stories. Yeah, look it up. So, I don't know how we got into this, but point being is that...

They're directed to... Mormons are directed to store a year of food? Yes. For the reckoning or the rapture. Right, and I believe that's when Angel Moroni toots his horn. Angel Moronai. Yeah. Are you sure? That's not like a...

It sounds like a reliever for the Reds in the 70s or something. No, no, I think it's what is. And here comes Angel Moronai. I've not lived in Utah over decades. Maybe I'm missing the name, but I apologize. You're right. Joseph Smith, he visited him on numerous occasions, beginning in 1823. So for non-Mormons, it's a wine cellar.

For Mormons, it's a food storage place. I used to, you ready for this? And this is in every home in Utah? Well, every home has a basement. Okay. But it was up to you whether or not you had a cold storage area. So, like, if you're getting a home built, you say, hey, make sure you make a cold storage. Yes.

if that's part of your unfinished basement. Yeah. You can design it a certain area. This is, I am fascinated right now. Yeah. I'll tell you this is strange thing. I've done some strange endorsons in my life, but a lot of the endorsements I did in Salt Lake City was for freezer food that was freeze dried. Okay, because you can use it for a year.

Correct. Like beef stew, like chop suey oatmeal, freeze dried. Condense, a powdered milk. Yeah, and all you do is pour water. I would talk about these commercials. It was a strangest endorsement I ever did in my entire life. Are you ready for the rapture?

Hi, Matt Thomas here. That's how it kind of worked. So the reason we're coming full circles of this is because I just looked at Roger Goodell's basement. Yeah. It looks very ordinary. It's got a couch. It's got a TV.

It's got a desk. I don't see a pool table down there. That's what usually ping pong table, kind of kind of thing. It looks like a very ordinary, not a man that makes $40 million. You would think if you'd think, you are a $40 million a year job, you would have the best-looking basement in America.

Yeah. Maybe his stocks took a big hit, though. No, I think they're trying to sell it as he's a common man. He's a normal guy. When he's far from it. Yeah, this does look like a basement from like the 1970s in the Midwest. It's almost like it's Goodell's basement when he was a teenager. Yeah.

So that's apparently where he's going to be tonight. I don't necessarily believe that, Ross. Well, that's going to be, is it going to look like that? Or are they going to church it up? I mean, they could certainly do some things to really make it jazzed you if they wanted to. Is he going to be in a half-zip sweater like this? I was really hoping he was going to have like his suspension letters framed. Like this is when I got Pac-Man Jones.

Yeah. This is what I got all the skin's on the wall? Like his accomplishments? Instead of jerseys from other players. Okay, let me ask you this. Where is that Ray Rice two games suspension? I'm going to go. Oh.

He made it more. He might to hide that one. Once the video came out, he made it more of a suspension. Which one? Was he the one that took the meeting with Bob McNair about when Brian Cushing was pregnant? I... Or was that? I think it was Goodell.

Refraise that when Brian Cushing was pregnant? Yes. You weren't here, were you? When he had a human godotropin? He had some things in his system that would be indicative of that you're pregnant. HGT or whatever it was. H-T-G-G. So Bob McName.

Because I'm sure Cushing came to him and said, hey, can you have my back? And Bob's like, whatever, you're a great player. I loved you. Whatever. Go to New York and tell the commissioner that what was in my system was, art was normal. Yeah, he's been in the, he's been in the office since 06. Yeah. So yeah. So McNair goes up to New York and says, Comish, Brian Cushing is the first male pregnant person ever. And he's not what he said. He didn't say that. He overtrained. Oh, that's right. Overtrained athlete syndrome. I got you. Okay. I just want to make sure to get the facts right. So, yeah, that's what you got to put up here. If you're going to go do this, you've got to go all the way. Anything he's ever ruled on? Like when all those ex-NFL player sued and there should be a lawsuit up there in the upper left-hand corner for all the concussion problems in the NFL in the 60s and 70s and 80s. It was HCG human chorionic gonadotropin. Does he still have it? It's a hormone produced by the placenta after implantation. And that was when Cushing's body? Yeah. Gross.

What do you buy that? I think it's a, it's a masking agent or something? Okay, I'm going to ask the question. Where would you buy something like that? I don't know. Ask Brian Cushing. Is he available to the media? He was over-trained, Matthew.

Yeah, well, you know, he's not okay for himself. He's now with the assistant strength coach of the team. Okay. I mean, even though he got popped twice? Yeah. Yes, correct? That's like having, it's like somebody that just got finished with the AA serving beer at your party. Eesh.

All right. So what is Goodell's going to look like? What is his, are they going to try to superimpose things? Are they going to try to show a just a normal everyday leader, the most powerful leader in sports today, kind of background? I think they're just going to try to make them look like a normal person. They're not going to put him on a throne with like a robe and a crown. No.

That'd be cool. That'd be great, though. And then he can have this sign that says, you can't boo me tonight. Vince McMahon would do it. Yeah, how can we How are we gonna be able to boo Goodell? Is he on Twitter? The Bud Light is recording people's booze

And they're gonna play him during commercials And he even And Goodell endorsed it Well, of course he did Because if he didn't endorse it He would come across as this Well, they're donating to the year Because tonight is also a fundraiser

The next four days They're doing like a telethon during the draft So Bud Light's donating up to $500,000 For every, it's like every boo video They get up to 500,000 of them. They're donating that to the... That's a really smart idea.

Yeah, it's a great idea. First of all, it's going to be funny. Second of all, it's going to go towards a good cause. That's why everybody's bitch and moan about this Tiger versus Phil thing again. And I guess Brady and Peyton Manning are involved in it too. They're going to raise an obscene amount of cash for people, for food banks, for testing, for supplies, for anything going to wrong this virus. Look, if I could do something to make fun of myself and it raised some money, I'll do it. Maybe I shouldn't have said that like that out loud.

But you know what? Sure, why not? Like if we had painted a longhorn helmet on your head or something like that? I've already done that once. That's plenty. It was great. The low porn of my professional career. Are there?

Is that somewhere? Hopefully not. Remember there was a cute girl that helped paint your head? She's with their boyfriend, though. Yeah, where is she now? Still listen to the show? Maybe they're married with kids. I don't know.

Those years ago. Maybe I helped them bridge their relationship even closer. Yes. They bonded over painting. like your bald head. Guys like, I'm not letting you paint a bald man's head ever again. Yeah, you were sweating and the paint was coming off. Because I was in a bar. It was hot. It was a summertime. 212 on the Matt Thomas show. How do we just kill a segment right there? You know what? That's what I love about this show. I mean, I feel like people are entertained. Line one, are you entertained?

Okay, let's check line. Line two, are you entertained? Must be some technical issues. People are listening, Matt. Okay. Bottom of the hour, non-flora stories. Up, next for you. Can I just take the next time we just to bitch about the a asteros? Oh, let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, I want to do it. It's going to be a flat out bitch session about how MLB totally screwed the, well, they didn't screw the Red Sox. They screwed America for having

fair and justice. We didn't get any of that. 212 on Sports Talk 790. Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk

790. 18 on the Matt Thomas show where we're pissed off at Major League Baseball and the Red Sox. Now, you know, why are we going to be a piss of the Red Sox where else they got away with it? They clammed up, didn't have to say anything. Alex Corr said all the devious things I ever did in my life was a member of the Houston Astros. I did nothing wrong. I was pure as a driven snow in Boston, Massachusetts. Only suspended for a year because of his actions with the 2017 Astros.

And the guy that did the video. J.T. Parsons or whatever the hell's name is. J.T. Watkins. Doesn't really matter. He acted on his own because he's a derelict in his board. He was a lone gunman on the grassy or in the book

suppository, depository, suppository. Book depository. I can go for suppository right now. This sucks. It really does. That they got away with it. Whatever that is. Because we don't even know what it is because they, you know,

that clubhouse, J.D. Martinez is like, Mookie Betz like, no, don't talk. Plead ignorance. If they keep asking you questions about this guy, just say, I don't know, I don't remember. That's how you get away with it. Rossi, the difference between the two, first of all, the Asteros actions probably were way more severe. I don't think we could possibly argue that. Yes, absolutely.

But the biggest difference besides that is that there was not an insider in that clubhouse, ready to chirp, ready to say what was going on. Yeah. And by the way, Mookiee Bats is going to do none of that because Mookie Bats is going to be a free agent after this year. There's just a lot of vagaries in this that don't really all make sense. For him to come out and say

that Watkins' communication of sign information was episodic and done without the knowledge of the manager, the coaching staff, and most of the players, it's just impossible. It's impossible for him to relay all this information. Like we've talked about it. Everybody, there has to be,

there's no way there's like two people or three people or even four or five people involved. There has to be a bunch of people involved. It's one large, well, actually, it's not a large clubhouse. Fenway parks this old stadium. So a little dugout. With a very small dugout and a very small locker room, clubhouse. And you have to have, somebody has to tell the players

that the stuff's being relayed. Somebody has to tell the guy on second base, but apparently it was body movements. I don't know if it was, you know, he grabs his helmet or pulls his ear or does the Charleston. We don't know what it was. But it was some kind of body movement. So somebody has to communicate from the dugout, the pitch, so they have to know what body movement for him to make. And then the batter needs to know what body movement he's making.

So they all have to be on the same page. Everybody has to be on the same page, multiple people. and that's just two in the lineup, and it's probably way more than that. So how can you say that the managers and staff and most of the players didn't know it's impossible? It's impossible. And even if you don't commit a, if you're not the leader of it, Alex Cora saw what it was like to see the mannerisms of players in the past that were actively involved in cheating. There's no way that he's watching a baseball game and doesn't see these things being done. Doesn't see the movement between the video room, which is close to the dugout and what's happened.

I mean, for instance, if you stop smoking weed, but you're around people that did smoke, well, you would know they were on weed. I get what you're saying. Yeah. Maybe that's a great example. But my point is, just because you're not doing anymore doesn't mean you're not aware of it going on. Or what it looks like. Or what it looks like.

That's right. Yeah. Absolutely. It just doesn't make sense. There's not a lot of common sense in here, is what I'm saying. And you know what? From saying, well, we can't prove it. Rob Manfred wasn't interested in it because, you know what?

He's probably tired of investigating cheating. And so he already got what he wanted. He got a team to take the super fall. The knife is deeply in the wounds of the Astros. Yeah, the deterrent is there. The deterrent is the 2017 Astros. The example was set with that team. Now he just, it seems like he,

just wants this to be over. And instead of what he said he was going to do and announce the ruling on this when the baseball season started, he thought to himself, self, where's a good place I can news dump this? I think I'll do it the week that Rob Grankowski leaves to go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And I'll do it the day before the start of the NFL draft when every sports radio show, every TV show in America is talking about the draft. We've been watching ESPN on the corner of our eye for two and a half hours. Has there been one mention at all the Boston Red Sox? Absolutely not.

They win. Major League Baseball did this beautifully. And we have a quote from Rob Manford from when the Astros thing got handed down. He said we'll be done with the Red Sox within a month. That was what? February? Well, as I said before, and people would call us and say... And they were two months past that. I defended that saying if they need their time to do their due diligence, then I'm okay. But it feels like to me, 80% of the people they talked to said,

I don't know. This report was written in hand. It was because we had, we talked about the, the Loss, the DFSS people and the lawsuit against the Astros and the Red Sox. The judge had this report in their hand a month ago. They bided their time. They waited for, for this to be go away as quietly as possible. And it's going to go quietly.

Absolutely. Because there's nobody. There's no other show in America. Another station, I should say another city in the country is talking about this. They, they wrote this. about this in New England. What is Boston talking about today? The fact that will the Patriots make a late grab to go get to Otokavala?

And what's it going to be without Tom Brady and Rob Grankowski? And how dare they both worked together in Cahoots to go play for the same team, not named New England? They're not talking about this. Especially there's not much to talk about. If you're Boston, here's the lead. We got away with it. Second round draft pick? Yeah, it's going to sting a little bit.

but it's nowhere close to what's going on. Yeah, it's a news dump. It's also they want it to be distracted. They don't want people to read this report. Because if you read this report, there's nobody with any semblance of common sense who would buy what Manfred is selling. Manfred is selling us that the guy who is at the heart,

the heart of the Apple Watch incident in 2017, the man who physically sent text messages to trainers in the dugout. was still there and in this instance a year later was just rogue and acting on his own and nobody knew about it. Do you think part of it was

Rob Manfred's like, all right, look, we got all the intimate details of the Red Sox or the Astros. We have so many witnesses and what they did in my mind my being, my being Rob Manfred's mind is so much worse than what the Red Sox were doing. We'll go in and do our

very artificial investigation will look like we've done our due diligence, but when there wasn't a lot of smoke to what the Astros had in terms of a fire, let's just get out of it. Let's just go talk to people, say that we did, but not go through the exhaustive measures that we did with the Astros. I feel like this was half-hazardly done.

It may not have been that way, but certainly the feel of it is. Yeah, he wants us to go away. He didn't want to go and delve into it as deeply. doesn't hold anybody accountable basically except for J.T. Watkins. He's the only person punished. And that's why fans believe that the Astros got screwed. Now, the Astros, in theory, did not get screwed.

Right. We're going to make sure we're very clear in saying that. The Astros, this is tough to say. They deserve the punishment they got. But the Red Sox did not. And do you add in the factor that they're repeat offenders with the same guys? They were the Apple Watch people. After promising, after Pinky promising,

Rob Manfred to not do this anything like this again. Rob Manfred's word, I have received absolute assurances from the Red Sox. There will be no future violations of this type. Well, now everybody in Major League Baseball should feel a lot better about that. To be clear, the use of any equipment in the clubhouse or in a club's replay video rooms to decode an opposing club signs during the game violates this.

regulation. It's exactly what they did. They're repeat offenders and the punishment did not fit the crime. Because maybe in their own mind, they're thinking, well, you know what, you already lost your job. So the Red Sox already did the heavy lifting for me to begin with. It sucks. And my guess is we will take this.

We'll put this aside for a while until the Astros and Red Sox play again in a regular season game, when they do, if they do, and we will crush the Red Sox like they so richly deserve. But even if you want to use the core thing and say, you know, what he's already gone. You don't have to come out in this report and say he did nothing wrong. He's being suspended because of the Asher's thing. He's not culpable at all this. If you don't believe in, Alex Corr had at least some idea of what was going on. You're an idiot. You're an idiot.

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You might have done this before, right? Or no, Joe. We did a bit stealing of this? Oh, it didn't go very well. Why not? Do any of your bit stealers on the show, do it go well? Yeah, yesterday it went well. I heard, believe it or not, it was a train wrecked.

That's because no one told me we were playing, believe it or not. Not my fault. Hashtag communication. Hashtag, blame on other people. Here's how this works. Ross will read a story, Joel will read a story, our read a story, and then three of us will decide who have the best story. Mine is political in nature, which we don't do a lot of politics on the show.

But I just saw this, and I was dumbfounded by it. There is a group of people at the University of Chicago's Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics. Did you know that? No. Well, now you do. they just completed a study called Misinformation during a pandemic Okay

You have any idea what this would be about? You don't ever guess If it's take a wild guess It would be about people disseminating misinformation during a pandemic Okay Not You would think that but it's really not

Okay This involves Fox News Uh oh The study of this report From the University of Chicago says That regular viewers of the show Hannity were more likely to die from the coronavirus

than those who preferred Tucker Carlson tonight. The reason they're saying this is because Tucker Carlson was talking about the pandemic and the potential virus infiltrating America a lot sooner than Sean Hannity was. The study argues that Hannity began shifting his views as the scale of the impending health crisis became clear in late February. By mid-March, areas with high viewership for Hannity were said to have correlated with areas hit hardest by the pandemic,

while those who preferred Tucker Carlson tended to be located in areas impacted less severely. Okay, that's completely ridiculous. But here's the best part of it. So let's say you get the coronavirus and you take a phone call from somebody. Hey, I'm with this University of Chicago Institute. Sorry to hear about your virus. How are you feeling? Well, I got the fever and chills.

Okay, that's all good. What shows do you watch on Fox News? Who would be insane enough to think, I'm going to call people and have people write to our website to tell me what their television viewing habits and are and whether or not it correlates to coronavirus or not? It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in my entire life. that if you watch Tucker Carlson,

you would have had a less of a chance to get the corona than if you were watching Sean Hannity. Sounds like something a Hannity fan would say. Fox says in a statement, the selective cherry-picking clips of Sean Hannity's coverage using the study, I don't knowly reckless and irresponsible, but downright factually wrong. Well, how are the clips factually?

I don't know. I mean, isn't this because one person said they didn't go to the hospital because Hannity said it wasn't a big deal? And that's what made the University of Chicago to do the poll on it. Yeah. Hey, if you have the virus, how did you get it? And what are you watching for television?

That just seems absurd. There had been several stories of people who weren't taking it seriously and posting how it was a hoax and then contracting it in some cases dying. And then saying it was a TV station's fault? Yeah. Well, I don't know about that part. Okay. I just, I found it actually amusing that one show would help you more than the other. Well, there you go.

There's Matt's Chicago story. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to do it to you, Joe. I was trying to find one for you. I was struggling. How do you know about this for four days? Wait, you don't have any story? There's 49 states. No, trying to. Wait, you don't have a story? I got like three.

So I have a story, but I don't know if it applies because we weren't sure. I wasn't sure it has to be in a state. It has to be not in Florida. It could be in Zimbabwe. You could have asked us at some point. I have two stories. One I like more than the other. Give us a good one.

The only rule is it can't be in Florida. Okay. All right. Well, we're going to Columbia. Go ahead. Oh. So, I love Columbia. Once upon a time, Pablo Escobar bought 80 hippos.

That's right. They were called the cocaine hippos. And they were accused of wrecking havoc on the local ecosystem in Colombia. It turns out that Pablo Escobar, post-death, is now saving the ecological functions of Bogota, Columbia. because of what the hippos are doing, and that includes pooping in the water. Ooh. Okay.

They have somehow made the environment better in Columbia. I thought he was from Medellin. Medellin. Bogotaw is the wrong place. Hippo poop helps. Hippo poop helps in Columbia. Wow. That's great.

Yeah, he had a lot of, he had a fetish for like wild animals. I thought it was the women there. They were the big helpers. Well, well, the Colombian women are beautiful. And an expensive, too, right? What? But this included... No, they're very...

Medellin, they're very stuck up in high maintenance. Oh, is that right? Okay. That's what the documentary shows. A.k.a. Narcos. I mean, well, I was in Medellin. That's what they said about the women there.

They're all very beautiful, but also very stuck up and take care of me. You want some of Medellian? Yes, I did. Four? Vacation. My friend was living there. Ross is quite an international traveler. I was like, I didn't know that.

He loves the Southern Hemisphere. It's beautiful. It's inexpensive. It's inexpensive. And it's, Medellin is a party town. Bogota is a party town as well. When they go to Amsterdam? I don't need to go to Amsterdam.

That's dangerous. Let's get Vegas down first. Yeah. One step at a time. I need 4,900 people to get us to Vegas. They have casinos in Medellin. Oh, I'm ready. I played blackjack there.

Legitimate blackjack too? It didn't cheat you in? I got in a fight with a friend over that. You know what? Let's talk about this next second. No, you know what, forget it. It's not a big deal. On the night cap.

Yeah. No night cap tonight. Drive coverage. Anyways. All right. Your Florida story. My story. My story.

Gosh, I got three of them. We got time for all three. All right. I'm going to give you three words and you tell me which one to choose, Matt. Cartel, brothel, or gun? I mean, brothel, of course. Well, a brothel owner named Bella Cummins. I'm out.

It's the proprietor of Bella's Hacienda Ranch brothel in Wells, Nevada. And of course, with the coronavirus, pandemic, she like many others has fallen on rough financial times. Federal authorities have awarded her COVID-19 relief. As a small business? As a small business. How don't I know? Which contains 25% grants. The rest is a small loan.

Unfortunately for her, though, the federal government is withholding her money. She got some $70,000 approved. But unfortunately, the Nevada State Congressional Delegation is holding the funds. And I say free Bella Cummins and her money for the brothel. We need to support small businesses in this time. And the state of Nevada needs to not withhold her funds. How much we're talking about, by the way? 70 Gs.

And what would that go towards? I don't know. The bills? The hookers? I saw like professional gamblers in Vegas were claiming unemployment successfully. Who were?

Professional gamblers? Because they're a place of business. Yeah. Yeah, that's, I think, yeah, if you're a pro for, if you play poker for your money, well, you should be able to file for unemployment. Yeah, but doesn't, don't companies have unemployment insurance to pay for that?

Nobody's not right now. But I mean, in theory, every company that has employees pays for unemployment. insurance. Yeah. Who's paying the poker players unemployment insurance? The casinos? I don't know.

Just the government? I guess. Because, like, my, if my other job's not paying other people's unemployment, that the government is right now. All right. So what are we going to do about this brothel here? Are we going to try to fight for their money? $70,000.

Why $70,000? That's a kind of a strange number. I don't know. I don't know. how many tricks is that, Matt? You saw the menu. I did, but that was also in 1994. Dare I go to the Bella Hacienda Ranch website on company

on company wide-bye? Can you do it next minute here? Bella Hacienda Ranch Wells. If you do that, I give you my vote. You've won anyway. It's a much more interesting story. They have four, there are five stars on Yelp. Okay. Wow.

Temporarily closed. I do not see a a menu. It's called menu of services. Let's not hide this. Bella's Hacienda. They do have a Twitter account. 600 followers. That seems love. I'm clicking on.

Okay. Do you want, well, who do we want? Kitty? Natasha. Natasha. Asia. Natasha looks. Oh, returning soon. She's gone. She's ready to play out. Okay, turn this off. You're going to, you're the IT department for I,

I heart skinner here. Natasha is 30. She's got a 32-inch waist, shoe size of eight. Oh, this is for fetishist. Okay, Ross needs a moment alone. We're going to take a final time out, come back and wrap things up in a moment. 244. And the sport going to break right this second.

244 Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston sports? The Matt Thomas, a show on Sports Talk 790. All right, final segment of the show today,

before we get you to the A team. And a reminder, tomorrow will be on from noon until three to what is, what's a shocking moment of tonight's draft? Is there something that could happen? The only thing I can think of that would absolutely be, would blow my mind, would be that if Joe Burrow wasn't taken number one, then another quarterback was taken first. Another, I mean,

The bingles apparently have gotten offers for the number one overall pick. They traded out. So that would be the shocker. If the bingles trade out of number one, then who wants the number one and for what reason? Because they want Chase Young? Probably Joe Burrell. Do you think a lot of teams want Joe Burrow? Hmm.

Yes. I think so. I don't know. Probably. Do you or, I mean, is it like, okay, well, we kind of have to take Joe Burrow one. Do you think the bingos are resigning themselves to taking Joe Burrow? not necessarily resigning, but saying, you know what, we can't screw up by doing this.

He's an Ohio kid. He's a Heisman winner. He got C-through 60 touchdowns. It feels like it should be just the natural fit for him to go there. And we're just going to take Joe because that's what we're. Nobody's going to crush us for this pick, right? Or do you think they're like super excited? And they're like, Joe Burrell is going to save this franchise.

What if Chase Young's the dominant player this year's track? He probably will be. That's what. Then maybe somebody's like, I want to jump the two spot to go get him at one. Yeah. I mean, every big board I've seen just about has Chase Young won. The problem is, though, if you're the Bengals, you need a quarterback, you can't move from one. Because you're going to get the best one in your mind.

Yeah. So someone would have to convince the Redskins to not draft Chase Young and trade with them. Chase Young's not slipping down past two. No, I can't imagine Ron Rivera passing on them. No. No way. And we mentioned this earlier. Tom McShay is unavailable for the draft because he had the ron.

He's recovering from COVID-19. Yes, Matthew. Okay, whatever. That would be like you're an Olympic skater and you have been in the rink for three years, 365 days at 4 o'clock in the morning. And you've been eating no carbs, proteins, vegetables, exercise. working on your routine, working on your spins, you know, little moves they do, and you are locked and ready to go.

And you break your ankle on the final practice before you go out in your first competition to go to get that gold medal. Or a goon hits you over the legs with a bat or a pipe. Yes, some fat guy hit you with a pipe. My God. Tanya, Nancy Kerrigan is Todd McShay. Yes.

And guess who is the Galilee? Mel Kuiper. Why? No, it was coronavirus? No. Kiper didn't infect him. How do we know? Kiper.

How do we know, Ro? Let me take you. How do you know? How do we know? Hey, Kiper's old. He pushed the virus over there to him. Oh, stop. That's a great.

Is it a hit job? Yeah. Kuiper said, listen here, Corona. Go give McShay this and I'll give you, we will make, we'll make this happen. Make it worth your while. This is McShay's. moment of glory, and he won't be able to do it. It's like a kid on Christmas that doesn't get presents. It would be like me doing the PA for the Rockets in game seven of the NBA finals, and I have

laryngitis and can't speak. Yeah. Wow, that would be terrible. You fight through. He can't fight through this. Why not? Who would take your place? Adam Wexler? Wexed ever done PA before. Oh, you don't use your microphone. I don't work. I have, I think, somewhere along the lines, high school somewhere. Also probably did the play-by-play that night. They probably had nobody else. Something like that. Damn. So you're like the ultimate backup. You used to do comment to play-by-play back in the day, right? Fact. How many games you do? A season's worth. A season, two seasons worth. Do you travel to?

Yes. I actually got called out to travel to a game late. Flew out to L.A. by myself. Did a game at Staples Center. And do you get the room with that furniture dude? Did not? No. No? Craig did. What furniture dude? The one that used to own the comments. Oh, the Hilton guy? Yeah.

It was his team. The guy that was like sawing, uh, he chainsawed his beds and a half. Craig told me they were saving money and they had to get, they had to have room dogs. I had a room with a play by play sitting around somewhere. There you go. Some game time shots. Some give something to listen to on a road trip or something. That's good.

I would like to. Wax on the play by play. We actually said if I, if they want I'm going to Vegas and they need me and I want to get the fever, you'd have to be, you'd have to be to do the game from here. Yeah. Can do. It's not fun, though. It's not fun, though. It's not fun.

No, it is not fun. I did it for a brief moment over the years when a feed has gone out. That's it. At the NBA level. Plenty of play-by-play. Okay, so I said that today the Tanya Harding is the virus, and it hit... Wow. Galooly is the virus.

No, Galilee is Mel Khyper. Galilee is Mel Khyper. And hit Nancy Kerrigan with the lead pipe. Right. I hear you guys talking about this, but I think it's just the opposite. Like, Mel's who he is, sure. But once he and McShea started going at it, both of their profiles went up. It'd be like many, many years ago, Sean and John Clayton.

They needed each other because it was a great duo. They're always at each other's throats. These two guys aren't quite as much animosity, but it's the same thing. Do you think that Mel Kuyper really misses Tom McShay? I don't think he misses him, but I also don't make light of it. I mean, I know he probably will recover. Many, many people will. but many people don't.

I don't think this is, I don't think he did that. Yeah, he's not going. I know what you're saying, but, you know. No, imagine that meeting. Hey, Mel, you've been doing our ESPN draft coverage as our league guru for 25 years. We're going to bring some young whippersnapper on here to challenge you for every one of your selections. Oh, that sounds great. Can't wait.

No, he might not have said that, but don't you think it's been good? It's been very good. Mel Kuiper also does nothing else ever. The best fighting. he does. The best ESPN fighting of all time, and I'm not saying it because he's a co-worker of ours, when John Clayton and Sean would fight on ESPN, that was as intense and as much see television.

These guys fighting today, like Kellerman and Stephen A, they fight every day and it's nothing interesting or normal. When Sean and what called John Clayton the Cripkeeper. That was some good time. That was amazing. What's in your rather large program today? Blumber's visit for the week comes today. So we'll talk a little bit of what's going on.

But he also is going to talk about the NFL. We're going to talk a ton of draft. We're leading into the draft tonight and have a couple of prop bets to go over and think about who will be left on the board after 32 guys get selected tonight for Bill and his people to think about tonight. And will they be drafting in 40 tomorrow or lower? Well, I mean, I could give it away right now, but I'd prefer not to, but it will be addressed. That's a tease. That is a professional radio tease. tomorrow Brian T. Smith is with us.

Ross will go over every draft pick in the history of the Texans organization. Full draft recap. By the way, can you get us some famous number 40s tomorrow? Okay. Like number 40 in the drafts, like the last 10 years. We'll go look at it, sure. And you, Joe George, have an assignment of

10 mock drafts and where 10 different people have the Texans picking you for it. That's giving us homework. Great. Thanks, Teach. Meanwhile, I'll be a little. laying on my couch eating pizza. I'm the only one working until 11 o'clock. You've got to go byline with you, though. At least you'd be working with that.

All right. Hey, for Joe, for Ross, I'm Matt. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Adam Clinton, Adam Wexer. They are known as the A team. And they're up next on Sports Talk 790.