The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show: Sam Amick, Fantasy Five, David Johnson Speaks To The Media

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Hello to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. With Joe George, Rossville, or Yale. I'm Matt Thomas. Hope you guys are in a good mood today.

It is Friday. It is a time to celebrate the hard work week we've all gone through. or basically just getting out of the house for a couple of hours. Hopefully the governor's got some good news for us here in the next handful of minutes. Although my guess is he's going to be very, very conservative, as is the president about letting us go back to some of them. Conservative. I see what you did there.

Yeah, somewhat of a normal life. Sports Harvey, what's the good word today? Hi, Matt. The word of the day is versatility. Really? Not a bad word at all. Okay. optimism?

No, it's versatility. Because that's what Bill O'Brien is looking for in all his players. Well, he's looking for versatility. He's asking for you to give him a chance. All we are saying is give Bill O'Brien the general manager a chance. Yeah, let things play out for three years, he says. Would you make it a total of nine? Yeah.

No, thanks. Maybe we haven't got no choice. Because Bill O'Brien will be, in all reality, probably has a lifetime contract. He's the emperor. He's a king. As long as he continues to win the AFC South, the dilapidated AFC South, he will continue to be okay and can sell people that they're moving in the right direction. It can sell Cal more importantly than anybody. The first take show had a graphic on the top center of their screen. It said, the O'Brien King. Okay. So they destroyed that. They destroyed the hell out of it. I mean, there's just, you can ask for a week,

you can ask for six months, you can ask for a year. we're not going to get past the DeAndre Hopkins straight. The only way we do is if DeAndre Hopkins cracks an ankle and is done for the year and David Johnson and the rest of the cohorts here, Brandon Cook's become what they were when they were originally drafted. David Johnson seems to think that he will be back to the form that he was in 2016 or maybe even a level above that, Matthew. And the reason for that is rest, health.

Not a heavy workload. He doesn't have pesky Chase Edmund. in front of them in the death chart anymore? I don't think Chase Edmonds in the word pesky's ever been using the same sentence, but you know what, you just did it, so congratulations. I'm sure the folks in Arizona are like, I should think we should use it for our show. Yeah, David Johnson spoke to the media today.

We'll play some of those soundbites free coming up in the second segment of the radio program. I just can't open up the show of David Johnson. I mean, I'm sure he's fine. And apparently from what everyone has said, he's a salt-of-the-earth guy. And that's great. But the Texans have got plenty of salt to the earth guys. this organization's been littered with Salt of the Earth guys

as in guys who agree with Bill O'Brien and don't butt heads with him well like you know work hard playwright good teammates coach on the field first in the locker room first in the film room last one out yeah all that kind of stuff that's where you're going to find the epicenter of the Houston Texan's locker room

good guys Who's been the, in the history of the franchise? Who's been the biggest... Who's acted up the most? Who's been the biggest son bitch? Dante Robinson. What did he do that was so salacious? He wrote Pay Me Rick on his shoes.

I'm talking about... Getting into trouble. Jalen Strong got busted for weed in Arizona. Wasn't somebody selling a bunch of weed to? Or right, which maybe it was Jalen. But I mean... He sells weed now in CBD. That was what...

That was his, it turns out, Matt, what everybody got upset about him, it turned out that was his passion. The man's passion was marijuana. Yeah. Apparently he sells it now. And he's doing quite well. Legally, yeah. Yeah, as long as he's doing it legally, sure.

But I'm just trying to think, is there anybody that in the history of the franchise has been like, man, I'm, like, how is Sue's Sue's? Andamacong. D.combe. Yeah. Andy Sue. That's Indie Kalu, Matt. Indie Kalu. 10 to 12 on the interview show.

They had quite a few interviews today. Did they not? Yeah. It was funny. They had an interview inside of an interview. Yeah, that's right. They had somebody that were interviewing, interview somebody. And they stopped it.

It was like inception. It was like interview inception. Yeah. Yeah. So what we're going with this? Oh, there just hasn't been a lot of badasses. I mean, in terms of we're criminally afraid of them, which I guess is a good thing. I mean, you don't want to have a team literally.

You don't want to be the bingles of the writers. Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah. Who has been the worst, the most. The most scoffal. Even when I was in Minnesota covering the Vikings, Adrian Peterson, I think went 95 and a 20 or something like that in a car. I mean, that was...

Well, he had that incident here a few years back where he had to get Rusty Hardin and there was at a bar, bluefish or whatever downtown. Over there by the Verizon Wireless Center and all that. Just telling you, there's just, everybody's behaving themselves here. So the Texans get another one. And let me, in all seriousness, it's better. No, wait, we shouldn't be promoting and hoping. that the Texans get somebody with a checkered pass.

That means they've done something wrong in their past. But other organizations have gone on and take risk with people. Dallas does it all the time, it feels like. I mean, every NFL team feels like it except the Texans. And that's just their kind of their philosophy. And that's what they're going to go with. And again, I'm not endorsing. Well, if somebody's had, you know,

let's get a bunch of criminals on the team. Yeah, spousal abuse charges. Now, let's try to sign him anyway. No, I'm not saying that. It's just, there is one characteristic about the history of the franchise. is there just haven't been anybody that you've gone, wow, this is a pretty risky pickup. And probably if you were to take the 10 most risky pickups in the recent NFL history, and I don't know who they would be and how severe the penalties would be,

but most of them probably don't pan out. How many true, like the only player I can think of, I'm sure there have been plenty. But when I was in Minnesota, Jared Allen was a guy that had so many DUIs that he got his license taken away for several years. and he couldn't go to anywhere. He couldn't even get in the car. He had to have somebody driving him everywhere. And the Vikings took a chance on him from coming from Kansas City.

And he wanted being one of the best pass rushes in the NFL for four or five years. He beat up your Chicago Bears on a fairly regular basis, Joe George. And he was good for them eventually as well. Yeah. So that's one of those characters. Michael Vick came back and had a decent couple decent years. He did. Really good years.

His first full year when he took over for Kevin Cobb after week one or in that first game, he was a monster. beat the Texans on a Thursday night, correct? Yeah. That Eagles team was so good. So there's a few that do pan out. But most of them, you know, like, who's our guy with the Steelers? Antonio O'Brien, he's gone from place to place. He's a legitimate, crazy person.

He just needs to be under medical attention. Yeah, he needs to be under 24-hour watch. All right, on the show today at 1 o'clock, our good friend of the show, Sam Amick's going to be a program. Sam Amick from the athletic. One of the probably three or four go-to guys in the NBA for news, You go to a Wode, you go to a sham, Sam ain't far behind from that. Correct.

We'll talk with him about the NBA. Today, the board of governors, meaning like the owners of the team and, like, their top executive are in another conference call today. Now, Commissioner Silver has said they're not going to really say anything until May 1st. That might change because, again, Wodge has people that will slip little tips here and there about what's going on in these conference calls. But it feels like that with the amount of tests that are out. out there, that it feels like that there's going to be a stronger push for a resumption of the NBA season. I saw something, and I wish I should have favored it on Twitter or wherever I saw it. Somebody put out there, and again, it's just one person, that we might see a champion crown in October.

That feels really weird to me because they had, now the NBA want, because the NBA wants something and then something gets done is two different things. but the NBA would hope to get a champion ground by the first of September. Yeah, but I mean, you can hope for a lot of things. They hope the season resumes tomorrow as normal. That's right. So we'll get an update on the NBA Big League perspective from Sam, Emmett from the Athletic, and he'll join us coming up at 12 or at 1 o'clock. Our friend Brian T. Smith with us at 2.

And the return of the fantasy 5 today. Category is? Hottest, female sportscasters. That's got to be one of the first two or three we did. That's why it feels like it's a good day. No, that was like five. What did we start this bit? Like five, six years ago?

So, yeah, we have a chance to update these things. Oh, what's up? Oh, the list is updated. Also today, we have to talk about, we'll do this in the bottom of the hour. The documentary we've all been waiting for. The Chicago Bulls on their sixth championship run. Yes. We got some problems.

Which we are all watching together, tweeting and talking about on Monday. You're getting the memo now, folks. We're treating it like it's basically an NBA finals game that the Rockets are in or something. Yeah. We're collectively coming together and watch it. And we'll give me a play. We're hearing, oh my God, I can't believe that player said this. Yes.

It's all happening. It's going to have all the cuss words, apparently, on ESPN. Now, if you don't believe in cuss words, you can go to the ESPN2. If you're going to watch it with your kids or whatever. My kids are here at all the time, so we're going with the straight. It's educational. Let's get educated. Yeah, I was watching R-rated movies when I was like four.

So, I mean, what's the big deal? Show them the goat and show them the goat bad words. First R-rated movie you ever saw. Pet Cemetery Halloween when I was seven Gladiator I saw Pet Cemetery at the theater with my aunt when I was like five

and it scarred me for life First our movie First our movie you snuck to see Ooh Face off Face off or something like that Well I didn't really sneak My mom dropped me off with the theater

And I went to see it by myself Mine would have to be Porkies Hmm And Bachelor I guess I was 12 when faceoff came out. Have you seen Bachelor Party yet? I still haven't seen Bachelor Party. It's not on Netflix anymore. I tried to find it the other day.

Like a couple months ago. I'm down. I got those two Godfathers out of the way for you. Oh, I'm sorry. Godfather 1 and 2 or The Bachelor Party. Have you seen Bachelor Party, Joe? No. See, there we go. A young Tom Hanks and a very yummy Tony Catane. Okay. And just about as, yeah, you're going to, it's still, of my favorite movies. It's so cheesy, but it's just so good. 1213. It's and anything goes Friday. 713, 212.5. 790. 713, 2125. 790. Your phone calls all throughout the course of the day. Plus, David Johnson speaks. You'll hear it next on 790.

The pandemic continues. The no damn sports pandemic. I'm not leaving my house. Luckily, the most infectious lineup in Houston sports continues. Now. Here's masked, rubber glove, but still G. His sandaled, Matt Thomas, sanitize those toes, would you? You don't know where they've been. A couple of thoughts from David Johnson, the Texans' new running back on what he brings to the organization. I think last season was just rough. Had a little nicks and bruises with some minor injuries, none major.

And, you know, Cliff told me that they were going with a hot hand with Chase and then with Kenyon. and it was just tough to bounce back from that. But, you know, it's a new face, our new team, and I'm excited. And I think the biggest thing I want to contribute to the team is just my ability to run the ball and to be able to catch. Like you said, one of my biggest strengths is catching out of the backfield or being put out at wide receiver. But my ability to run the ball is also very strong.

And that's my biggest thing. I just want to be in every downback for Houston and get that momentum going for the offense and continue the success that they already have. You say Nixon bruises? Yes. I feel like it's a little more severe than that. He played in 13 games last year, whatever it was, right?

Maybe that's true then. He did brag about, and he's got the good evidence to back that up, that he's a good receiver out of the backfield, which again means who is the guy that's going to carry the ball 20 times? Right? Because Duke Johnson already handles that responsibility of being the receiver out of the backfield. I mean, David Johnson's done it before. I still think they're going to draft someone.

You know what? I absolutely believe we. If they draft someone, doesn't that invalidate Bill O'Brien saying he thinks that David Johnson is healthy and will be one of the best backs in the league? And you're paying him $20 million over the next two years. Doesn't that just fly in the face of everything he's been saying? Duh. You're absolutely what you said. Say what you said.

Record what he just said. Because you're going to want to hear that over and over and over again. There was a pro football focus started. They have a mock draft simulator on there. I was playing around with the last night. And I got like J.K. Dobbins in the fourth for the Texans. And I'm like, that's where I thought. Is Dobbins thought of is that low?

I don't know. I thought the Texans might take him at 40. That's like a night of a please don't do this bill. But like it wouldn't shock me if they drafted him at 40. But if he was there like at 90. I for sure would take him in a heartbeat to put in that backfield

but it just feels like they're going to draft a running back not in the second round though right no not at 40 but at 90 in the 4th if someone that good was still there plus you do any I mean who's the third running back on this team you got to have more in two not for blue no

we're not doing 2016 Texas he's getting back he's not doing anything where's the guy with the dreads yeah I can't remember the one guy that made the huge catch is I'm not with the team anymore in the playoffs right who was the cat oh yeah yeah I can't remember his name either

I mean he had one significant play buddy howl and Karen Higgden I'm thinking about buddy hall I'm telling you who's listed as third and fourth on the on the death chart according to ESPN I'm having a blank who was the running back that caught the ball in the over in the playoff game

that got the ball down to the five yard line for fair earned to kick the field goal to win it. That guy is gone. He was the third running back last year. So yeah, I think, I'll tell you what, let's put, yeah, they're going to pick a running back in the fourth round. Taiwan Jones.

Taiwan Jones. That's what I was thinking about. Hmm. Where is he now? In America? I want to say Buffalo. That'd be kind of weird. Yeah, he's at Buffalo.

That's correct. So the team he helped beat, he's now on that team. Yeah, sounds like Kevin Durant, but flipped. Or it sounds like, Will Harris. But flipped.

But flipped. Because Will Harris lost. Yeah. Taiwan Jones, won. Taiwan Jones. One significant play as a Texan. Helped him win a wildcard game. Good for him.

All right. 713, 2.125. 790. We'll mix in more of David Johnson throughout the show. Let's go to on anything goes Friday. Mike and Angleton on 790. Mike, good afternoon. Great.

Hey, you know, you were talking about the first R movie. where snowed in and Breckenridge, Minnesota, during spring break and I did say, four, my dad took my brother out of the original longest yard. That was your first one. Yeah.

And then I took a date to the first Halloween movie when I was 16. Yeah. I well, thank you for the phone call. I appreciate you giving us a little bit of that. 16, you're old at that point. Yeah, I was seven when I saw Halloween and my babysitter took us

and my mother found out that night where we went to go, I lived when I lived in Detroit, we lived the next to a movie theater. And she lost her mind. How could you take a bunch of seven-year-olds to go see Halloween? Well, yeah, I went to Pet Cemetery. It was at the Greens Crossing Dollar Theater. That movie came out in 89.

So I was either four or five years old. Yeah, what? Thanks, Aunt Shelley. That's why I don't think, like, why I don't like scary movies? Because I was traumatized as a youth. And look how I turned out. Totally fine. Yeah, I guess.

you do have that going for you. Yeah. Halloween. Totally normally adjusted. Yeah, so here's the thing. When I was a kid, I would go to HBO at like 12, 31 o'clock in a morning for a variety of things. Busty Cops 3. Half the time it was Insatiable Lovers won.

Half the time it was these horrible gore movies. A little red shoe diaries. Or Emmanuel with that brunette girl that was really hot back in the day. That was on Cinemax, though, I think. What are we talking about the other day? Howard Stern. Oh, late night Howard Stern. Oh, that was my one two punch.

It was Brooke Burke on, what was it, World on E? And then Howard Stern. That was a nice little one two punch in late night and E. And when was after that? I don't remember. It was what? Girls Gone Wild. Oh, a lot of times it was Girls Gone Wild infomercials, yes.

Young Joseph George knows. My first radar movie I stuck into was Freddie versus Jason. Okay. Big mistake. Yeah, that movie sucked. It sucked, but I was so scared. Oh, I remember, I saw, there was a movie called Screamers in 1995. I saw that movie in the theater.

That was a rated-d-R movie. That movie freaked me out. There was some nudity in that one, too. I'm Googling Emmanuel in space on Wikipedia. I'm Googling Screamers. I totally forgot that movie even existed. Krista Allen was on that show, and I have no idea what the plot was. No, nobody particularly care.

They only had seven episodes of, Emmanuel in space Hmm Krista Allen would then go on to play on a character on Days of Our Lives which I found she was amazing on that Okay I've just kind of followed Krista Allen's career

How old is she now? Calm down. All right, Matt is in a rabbit hole that he can't I get out of. I can't. Matt. What? Oh, let's talk to David Johnson.

I'm not going from Krista Allen to Emmanuel to Manuel Johnson. to David Johnson. I just can't do that. All right. Where are we going from here? Where are you going from here? I'm trying to focus. Are you okay? Yeah, the screen is off. I've turned it off. 713. Yeah, a phone call about help. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. I'll call in. Yeah, exactly. 713, 212, 5, 790. We've got Sam Mick and a half an hour. Do you see this Jalen Green young man, a high school phenom that's like, you know, I think I'm going to skip. Yes, this is a huge deal. The college game.

And he's going to sign a deal with a new G league team. It's going to pay him a half million dollars for one year. And then he'll be eligible to be drafted where he'll be able to make millions. I got no problem with this. In fact, you know who's got a problem with this? Duke and Kentucky and North Carolina and all the other schools that live and thrive on one and done players. Yes. And they also just got another guy, Isaiah Todd, who is thought of as the number 13 recruit,

at least according to ESPN, he's going to go as well. So they're going to start landing people. This is the way they should go. This is wonderful. Yeah, this is way better than, and I would like to get rid of the one and done so then, like never talk about it again. Just have it over two to three years in college. Go right to the G League or go two or three years in college. Like they're doing college baseball.

Yeah. I like that. Way better. College basketball becomes more entertaining. You get to know the teams better. You're invested in them. Yep. And it's just, I think it would be better quality basketball.

the top talent would spread out. They wouldn't all be at Kentucky. This is going to be a win-win for everybody. I absolutely 100% agree with you. I think they should do it exactly how college baseball does because here's the thing about college basketball. And maybe it'll never get to a position where people will be vested in. But I had not like to do that when I was a kid car,

but I knew I would watch Georgetown play as a kid, even though I didn't like them, because I knew Patrick Ewing and other guys on the team. McLean and Ed Pickney. He was a Villanova. but I would watch Big East basketball because I knew who they were. St. John's would be on. Or I knew Reggie Miller was at UCLA and whatnot.

Actually, he was USC. No, Reggie Miller. Cheryl was a USC. Yeah, that's right. Point being is this, you can't get invested with any. Like, Kentucky's had a boatload of college players go to the pros. But 80% of them are won and done. How do you really get invested in Kentucky basketball if you can't get behind these players for a length of time?

That's where the new, if you're, were to do this, or you have got to commit to two years at least, or go right to the G-League, makes a tremendous amount of sense. I wonder, the only thing I don't understand, though, is you have 28 teams. The Pelicans are adding the 28th affiliated G-League team. These guys are not playing for an affiliated team. Are they going to eventually just end up with like 31 teams? 32 G-League teams?

Is that their goal? There will be teams that will be non-affiliated, because all those teams that are affiliated have been signed by these teams. Yeah. In theory, you're not supposed to sign any players until you've been out of the year. So, like, you would have 30 affiliated teams and then one or two, not affiliated teams.

That would be there probably long-term... Because realistically, you're not going to have more than about four or five players a year to do this. That really can... That the NBA is willing to spend money on these guys. So, but how do you feel the rest of the roster? There's a guy... I mean, you can find guys who will play in the G-League.

But I have a question about... If, let's say, the NBA is doing this G-League thing, they're playing these young players before they can enter their league, and then they institute a rule like you guys are talking about, an age limit or an age floor, doesn't the NCAA, I mean, that cripples in both ways in some way, because some top-level recruit is never going to go to Kentucky to say if I have to commit to two to three years.

So, I mean, what in the NCAA, what I'm saying is, it seems like the NCAA is going to sue over this. Or do they have legal recourse? Over what grounds? When you're in the courtroom, what is the NCAA said? I don't know. Like, you're, you're monopolizing our talent pool or something like that? Because you're taking away top recruits because if you're forcing them to stay for two to three,

if I'm a number one recruit and I'm trying to decide between college and it's one and done, or I can go to G League. That's more of a decision than if it's, I have to commit to two or three years. I'm definitely going to the G League. And so they're going to funnel all the top-level talent to the NBA and the NCAA. I don't know. Are they just going to take that lying down? Well, how do they allow it in baseball then?

I don't know. Was there a collaborative agreement? Must be. Because you have two decisions to make when you leave high school. Go to the draft or wait two years. Does the NCAA have any say in this? Or they just say, you know what, hey, I mean, when the first rule, when the rules first put in, the one and done rule, was that bargain with the NCAA? Did they have anything to say?

Because they don't think so. But they're going to be pissed, right? Well, but I mean, they didn't miss. No. They didn't miss Kobe. The sports Congress did not put this together. The NBA said you have to sit out of year. If I'm the NCAA, I'm not going to be happy with this.

With this happening right now, you're already not happy. But it cleans up your sport. Most likely. But it keeps you from the top level talent, too, though. But it stops your schools from pain talent? Yeah, that's true. Jalen Greets probably taking a paycheck. Let me ask you this.

Okay, if he was going to go to Kentucky, the Kentucky fans not going to watch their team. anymore because he's not there? No. They're going to love Kentucky any matter who puts the uniform on. Yeah. That's a diehard, yeah. But I mean, you're trying to get me to watch it too. I think you're trying to get me to watch it too. I'd be more my apt to watch a Kentucky game if I know it's a bunch of top level talent rather than

than some Joe's with Kentucky on their jersey. No, but like when like when JJ Reddick was tearing it up at Duke, he would never would have been one of these G League guys, but people were invested in Duke. When LeBron James is coming out of the high school around the same time, it didn't kill Ohio State just because LeBron didn't go there. Ohio State was there, they would have made it, they would have generated so much more income. Sure. And money.

Yeah. I'm just telling you that if you're a, if you're a general college basketball fan, and you know that Kentucky's playing Ohio State in a non-conference game and it's number three versus number five, if you're a sports fan, you don't really care who's what the name on the jersey in the back is. I think it matters to have NBA level talent on the floor for the casual. I don't know. Again, I think it's all about matchups. I think, and again, how many players are we really talking about this being a big, I don't know. It'll be interesting. 713.

212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 on Twitter at SportsMT, at Pro. Nick Flood, who's not with us today. Joe George is with us, Joe George Radio, and at SportsRV. More with about David Johnson, more about the move for the G-League to go grab players and more R-rated movie moments as kids. It's all straight ahead between now and 3 o'clock. It's a Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

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1236. More from David Johnson today on what people think about whether or not he's got anything left in the tank. I say that, you know, you can't really, I think that is a big misconception, substance because especially in this league, I mean, it's football. Guys get nicked up, get injuries all the time. And so you can't really predict what's going to happen. I know that I'm going to do everything that I can to be ready and keep my body as

healthy as possible. And I think the biggest thing that I'm going to really focus on is doing overtime as far as keeping my body healthy, maybe doing a cold tip a little longer, doing treatment a little longer, even if I don't need to. Maybe I got a little bruise. Just making sure I make sure that's healthy as possible before I even go step on the practice field or in a game. I think that's the biggest thing. It's just like I was telling my wife, just going back to my rookie year of doing everything that I can to make sure my body is healthy and starting a clean slate for sure with the new team. Saying all the right things. Hug works out.

That's what we have right now, Matt. We have to wait and see. We have to wait and see. We have to give him at least three years, according to Bill O'Brien. I was listening to ND coming in this morning. He believes... Was it Indy or is one of the guests? No, no, they had a few, but this is Indy clue. That he believes that those that are so angry about this are the vocal minority.

Meaning that if you just hate what the Texans have done, bringing in David Johnson, that he believed, and I don't want to put words in his mouth. Yeah. We should call him. You know what? Yeah, just... Just how I'm getting to get it. So he thinks... So like the theory that Twitter is not a representation of real life.

I think that's true for the most part. He was saying, and I don't want to paraphrase here, but he was some of the belief that there were more people that are willing to give Bill O'Brien the opportunity... And the benefit of the doubt. And the benefit of doubt. What he's asking is compared to what normal Twitterverse has to say. I think there's some of that because, I mean, first of all, Twitter does trend younger than most other social mediums and stuff like that.

It also, now it's not like TikTok young, but it's younger than say like a Facebook or something like that. And I think there are some things that are conventional wisdom on Twitter that don't necessarily bear out in real life. So maybe there is something to that. But I mean, just the way that it's like 99 to 1, the ratio of positive to negative things with anything that the Texans do, especially on their Twitter account.

It's like everything is about firing Bill O'Brien, 99% of the time. Yeah. So I don't know that there's a... Are there really people who are out there saying, you know what, let's wait and see about this DeAndre Hopkins trade? I don't think anybody can be too happy about it. Did I successfully dial Indy?

There is. Okay, here we go. CB answers. Come on. have reached Nd. Kalu. Enterprises. Enterprises. Come on, don't be that guy.

Are you that guy that doesn't answer the phone unless you recognize the number? No, I usually answer. I usually don't answer. A lot, you know why I don't answer anymore? It's because. Nope. Okay. I'm going to leave a message, so wait until the number shows. Yeah, pot it down when the number.

Put like three numbers out so people can guess. 7-13. We ready? Oh, 281, 3308. mailbox is full. Oh, come on, Andy. We have two people on our staff that have full mailboxes all the time. Sal's?

Gordy is one of them and Kalu's the other one. Gordy has a full mailbox? He's, he's, Gordy's worked here for like five years. I've never left him a voicemail message ever. You've never left me one. Oh, yeah, you have actually. But I could at least do it. Yeah, my mailbox is not full.

I mean, I know Chris. How does one get their mailbox even full? Like, how many messages does it take? How many messages would it take to fill a mailbox? And I guess it depends on how long the messages are. I answer my phone majority of the time. I don't ever get voice messages. The reason why my guess is Gordy's is full is because he has probably a full-length LSU broadcast on there.

Seriously, clean your mailbox up. That's ridiculous. All right, I'm going to have to text him now. Ross, I just text him. Oh, did you? Okay. Yeah, come to call the show. I think I gave the right number.

Well. I used to do... Is that him there right now? Yeah, he's, yeah, he's texting me now. What do he say? He said, when do you want me to call? I said, right now. Right now.

This is exactly second. We're trying to dispel what he was talking about in the trenches. If you'd like to join us besides Indy, 713, 212, 7190, 5-790. He should be calling any second. 790. Good. At SportsMT, at Sports RV, and at Joe George Radio. Sam Emmett coming up at 1 o'clock.

Brian T. Smith, the 2. And now you've got, on our Fantasy 5, you've got Best, female sportscasters. Best? Or most attractive? Is that chauvinist? If we say most attractive?

That's what I was afraid of. I don't want to be Mr. Insensitive. Okay. So we'll just say Best overall, the entire package, so to speak. All right, Andy, it's Matt and Ross.

We're the show after you. How are you today? What's going on? Hey, I know you had a few guests on a show today, but you had one second where we actually talked. I got to ask you, you had said, and I didn't want to paraphrase you, that you believe... You said we had one that what? You actually had a second where you actually talked as compared to having one guest after another guest after another gas.

Oh, got you. Gotcha, got you. Did you say that you believe that most Texans fans are going to give Bill O'Brien and all the moves that he has made a good long chance? No, I didn't say that, and one of our loyal listeners called me out on it. So I'm glad you called. I want to get your take. It wasn't a hot take or anything. I said that I believe the unsilent minority, even if it's 49%, are the ones that are just upset with everything going on with the Texas.

And the majority of the fans, which is why they sell out every week, are, you know, have to be being Texan fans. Well, here's what I'll say. The 99% of the people, Andy, that call. call our show that say I'm done with the team and I'm not buying the tickets anymore. Of that percentage, almost every one of them will be their opening day or will or go to least two or three games. So I can't argue that. I just don't believe in the history of me talking about this team, this go-around, this

is 10 years now plus, I have never seen in theory a fan base, which is Twitter and phone calls. Doesn't mean it's everybody. But Texans Karen doesn't call the show because she doesn't care what they do. She just loves them regardless. But we've had more people, more upset, more disillusion than any point in the franchise's history, even after a two and 14 season. But you know what? You kind of, and here's the thing.

When I said this, this wasn't, you know, like I said, and I don't want to keep saying it, but this wasn't like one of my guy Big Sarge and one of his horrible takes, you know, just for the sake of discussing. I truly believe there are more Texan Cairns and not even in a bad way, Matt, like who are like, you know what, this is my team. I'm going to ride or die with them. And even if I don't agree with the move, I'm going to support them. So, you know, and I could be wrong.

And that's one thing I wanted to emphasize because I do believe the people that actually call a show, they don't represent the majority because every time I'm out and about, and you go through this. Yeah. And you love the show, love the show. Can't wait for the Texan game. I'm like, oh, you know, it just seems more of a positive vibe except for the people that call in.

Like, for instance, of 72,000 people that go to NRG Stadium, what percentage of those go to boo? They just don't. There's a very small group. That's my big. Exactly. And there's no way to, you know, there's, what, 4 million people in this very city, and out of that 4 million, maybe, what, a million or into football, if I had to guess, you know, 25%, which is probably pretty high.

You know, it's just hard for me to believe that over 50% of them are just done. with the team or on. Now, here's the thing. Don't mistake, question a move. I question the DeAndre Hopkins move, but guess what? I'm still consider myself a Texan fan and still looking for it and enthused to the upcoming season. Well, thank you for that insight. I just want to make sure I didn't misspeak on your behalf, so I don't want to get your clarification on that. What are you doing the rest of the day? A friend of the show called, called me out via Twitter, and you know when they say the come on, man, you know they're upset and he ended his tweet with, come on.

Oh, no. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I may have lost somebody, Matt. I may have lost him. Well, you still got millions of people that adore you. Thank you, Andy. We'll see you later.

All right, brother. Keep us entertained. Andy Kalu with us here on the In the Trenches Show featuring Gordy and a plethora of interesting people to join the show. I have been asked through somebody on Twitter if I'm willing to accept a part-time job. I'll tell you what that job is next, 1245 on Sports Talk 7-Eye. with a message here for the Shell Federal Credit Union. If you are in a spot where you would like to be thinking about getting a new vehicle

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Gordy's been with us for eight-plus years. He just texted. At least you're, I mean, Gordy is 8-plus on text returns. Voice-mails can't get to him. Ross on text returns? D-minus. D-minus? D-minus?

least a C. Except when it's food. Then it's an A. Joe, George, grade yourself as a text returner. I'm like a, I'm an A. I'm a B plus. I'm actually almost. I think you're a solid.

I'm on my phone too much, so sometimes it's too fast of a return. Reason why I brought up Gordy, he texted in it in there. And he also, yeah, this weekend's best of 790 programming, which is awesome. Friday, tonight's game will be Rockets, Jazz. game, what game of the place? Game three. That means I was on the call for that. Oh, great. So if you love me, you're going to get two more hours of me. If you hate me, well, too damn bad. Two and in at seven o'clock. Yeah. Rockets win that game to go up three on the thing in a series. Spoilers. I know. But best of Rockets tonight, seven-night. Wonderful.

Tomorrow at six. I'll do a launch pad on the nightcap for that. Tomorrow at six, it's the Astros and A's as Justin Verlender picks up his 200th career win. Sunday at noon, it's Marwin. Gonzalez with a three-run homer in 2018, Astros in Giants, and I believe that was in San Francisco as Roberto Osuna makes his Astros debut. Hmm. Without incident. And really, with no incident period since he's been here, right? Right. All right. So rockets tonight, Astros on Saturday and Sunday. So, a friend of the show at B. Cozell 80 said Matt related to Greg Cozell? No, this is K-O-C-C-E-L. Oh. Not COSO, Cozell. Says, Matt, you can use this to supplement what you aren't getting paid from your basketball gig. You're saying, what is this? What is this, Matt?

Darren Rebell puts out this morning, in fact, a porn site says it will pay Joe Buck one million dollars to announce its cam shows live. the site says it will also accept applications from other national and local sports commentator Matt give me it from downtown Mike Breen as the comments say Mike Breen would pretty good at this so my two catchphrases Mike Breen's catchphrase is his is from downtown as is Marv

no oh bang this feels like a Mike Breen Speaking of Mike Ring real quick, Matt, he was on the latest low post with Zach Lowe. You should listen to that. Very good stuff. Trying to get him on the show sometimes. Oh, really? Yeah. A lot of inside basketball stuff talking about like his favorite calls, things he wish you would have done.

I think you would find it interesting. Thank you very much for that. I will do that. Okay. My two calls are nothing but nylon. Yes. Sets, fires, hits. Delivers?

Do you ever say deliver or no? Is that somebody else? Don't know who that is. No, I think sets, fires, and hits. and nothing but nylon. Okay. How do you weave those in there? Sets Fires hits probably could be done.

Well, she had on some nylon undergarments. You just say nothing. So the question is... Sets, fires, and delivers could also work. Guys. Or sets fires and hits. It's a million dollars. They're not going to pay you a million, Matt.

Okay, so let's say if bucks worth a million, yes. What's me calling play-by-play worth? whatever you say, it's going to be a lot of money. A grant? Oh, that's not nice. I'm worth only 1% of... Well, I just want it based on Joe Buck probably makes $10 million a year.

Yeah, what do you... How much do you make a year, Matt? You probably hit it right on the head then. Oh, I didn't need to say it like that. Sorry. Sorry, I'm going to do that. Yeah, Matt, I don't know if they're giving it. you a lot of money to watch. Here's the deal. If we're playing the range game, if they said Matt

will give you $1,000, you're going to have to go higher. Okay. Because basically I'm going to ruin my career over this. You're not going to ruin your career. You're going to enhance your career. Do you think there's anybody... Who is this Matt Thomas? Do you think there's any mainstream broadcaster working a college or professional team that would take this offer up? Whether you... Because nobody's as brave as you, Matthew. Like, I'm trying to see if there's anybody that would like, hey, call me kind of thing. What porn site is this? I didn't even say. Here's the thing. I'm looking at the replies. Most of them are Mike Breen with Bang, and also there's a large amount of Marv Albert references.

Yeah. And I can't read half of these. So meanwhile, what people are doing now is they're tweeting at their favorite broadcasters. Yes. For instance, Jeff Blum has already been asked by somebody, and he said he's not interested. Here's a good one. Somebody put Kevin Harlan in. It says, with no regard for human life.

Suck the gravity right out of the building. Keep those to yourself. This is a family radio show. We have kids at home. Hi, kids. So let's say that you're the voice of the Nevada Wolf Pack. Low-end Division I school. The basketball program is pretty decent, right?

Football is not so much. do you do it for $10,000? Because you're going to lose you... I mean, in all seriousness, if you're a broadcaster... No, nobody's going to do this. No one is going to do this. Joe Buck is not doing this.

They're doing this for publicity, even though Darren Revelle did not reveal the site. Put it this way. Ross, what if they offer me a million bucks? I mean, I would never work again. Yeah, a million, Millie? You got to do it for Millie. They wouldn't fire you from here

if you did that for a million dollars, would they? So you think I should call the Rockets and say, there's a porn site wants me to do a pubby. No, the Rockets you might not be you'll be done with, but this show, you should be fine. If you got a million, are you okay? How long are you good for? Put it this way. If I got a million dollars.

Millie? Could you make it work forever? Four to five weeks. I'd clear all my debts. Okay. And I could live a... How long can you live comfortably? I would say...

Yeah. I don't think... I don't know if I'll ever make a million dollars, so I'm going to say for me to be my entire life. You would... You would... You would think... I don't know. I don't think you could do...

Because here's the thing, that money's going to sit in your... account and you're going to be like, oh, man. You don't want to spend it. I don't want to spend it. Oh, let's go to Vegas anyway. Or let's go to Hawaii. You know what you need to do is you should move to South America. Millie will last you two lifetimes in Mexico or Costa Rica or Columbia or something. But then I have to worry about drug lords. No, you don't. The cartel.

No, that's fine. You sure? Yeah. So you're saying, here's the deal. Take the million. Yes. Does my family get to go with me to Mexico? Oh, well, you probably want to leave them.

I don't know if I want to do that then. Million dollars, which again, for most of the million dollars, which again, for most of Most people, if you're a husband-wife, like for instance, a million dollars would not be able, you as Joe George, by your soul, you're newly married. That would do, that would do you a lot of good. Oh, yeah. But a million dollars for an average home buyer, a couple of kids, cars, college, that's not going to last very long. So unfortunately.

If you're frugal, yeah. You have the penny pinch. But that would mean you're never, I mean, I can. If I did this, I would never get a job again in the league, probably. And I don't want to do that. You're not going to make a million dollars in the league. Well, if you do it for long enough, you probably could. Okay.

I'm not nowhere close to that at this point. Just throwing it out there. But yeah, apparently, Brent Musburger apparently would love to do it. Yeah, what's he doing? Well, he's working that Vegas sportsbook. He's doing his Vegas website. And he also, he's the voice of the loss.

I think Brett Muskerberger might actually do this and it'd be creepy. He's the voice of the Las Vegas writers. Is he? Yeah, he's done it for a couple of years now. I had no clue. Other people that are being considered, Gus Johnson By way

Gus Johnson is not doing it a romantic porn scene It's straight up It's what? What does that mean? Straight up what? It's hardcore. Booker McFallon

Oh God! Here's Maloney Head it Off the bitch! By the way, somebody took a picture of Vin's Skulling. Vin's not doing it.

I like that. Yeah, the two on the leader list would be Marv Albert and Mike Bram. Or as Tom Downtown just tweeted, Uncle Greg did do Thunderberry games with you so he has experience. Let's talk with. Exactly. Sam Amick from The Athletic next on 790. Is the Matt Thomas Show. 103 on the Matt Thomas show before we go to our next guest.

Thoughts and prayers to all the mothers out there. School has been closed for the rest of the year. So enjoy that homeschooling. My wife, Kimberly, listening, you're doing a great job with our kids. Kids, stop being lazy. Go and finish that school workout. So that's it. My thoughts and prayers are those of you that are seniors in high school.

Do you have to have a virtual graduation, I guess? Is that how you would do it? We'll discuss things in a couple of minutes. Right now, our good friend of the program, Sam Amick, a major star. We talk about the heavy hitters in NBA journalism, and Sam is at the top of the list. He joins us from, you still live it in Sacramento, correct? I am indeed, Matt.

Thanks for having me. We live in the suburbs of Sacramento, about 20 minutes out. All right. So before we get to basketball, Northern California has been hit hard. Obviously, Bay Area, perhaps more than just anywhere else except New York. What's it like a little bit further inland? What's going on with the city of Sacramento in terms of getting around and whatnot?

We're doing okay. Sacramento County has got a pretty fair number of cases. they've been hit, again, like you alluded to, not like the Bay Area, not like L.A., but certainly not nothing. Either a couple of hotspots, one church in particular that had a really bad situation about a month ago with quite a few deaths. And so the farther out you get in our town, which is called Elk Grove, you know, it's been pretty mild.

But certainly we are following through on the stay-at-home policy that is statewide. You know, we work at home. We have two sons that are 13 and 11. So we get out for bike rides to get some fresh air. And if you come close to people, you grab the mask out of your pocket and throw that puppy on. So a new way of life, but we're holding up okay. Sam Amick, the great basketball writer from the athletic with us here on the program. Okay, Sam, so I've gone, I've had an incredible cabin fever.

This is the time of the year where I guess Wednesday would have been the regular season finale. I'd be on the road right now going to some playoff game or maybe the Rockets would be home. So I try to find optimism and pessimism and trying to find. somewhere in between. I found great hope in your column on the athletic, and we want obviously people to come check that out. I guess you've got a 90-day trial on the website. Take us as much as you can into your column, and what are you hearing? And more importantly, anybody going to give you guys any update on what the board of governors talked about today or going to talk about? Yeah, I appreciate it, Matt. As far as the column goes, just to be honest with you, I was somewhat

surprised in the end with the tone that I ended up taking in terms of where my head was at before I made a bunch of phone calls and then how my viewpoint was changed by the people with whom I spoke and combination of owners, players, and agents and league officials where I kind of kept making the rounds and saying, okay, this person's optimistic, that person's optimistic. well, this person's really optimistic. And I was waiting to run into somebody who just said, nah, this season's dead.

It's not going to happen. And again, like I made it clear in the column. I don't want to misrepresent the sample size. You know, I wasn't talking to every player, every owner, every agent, and not even close. But I still definitely think that even with the small sample size, it was very telling. And more importantly, and this wasn't made abundantly clear in the column,

But, you know, a story like this, you're going to eventually take that pulse from the league itself. And that may be more than anything else is what got my attention is that nobody from the league was talking me off this cliff to say, now, you're striking the wrong cord. They essentially confirmed, you know, what I had been hearing. Adam Silverhead said, I guess within the last week or 10 days, that the NBA as a league was not going to say anything publicly around until about May 1st. What should we expect if indeed he holds of that date? What kind of news do you think he will present to its fan base and the rest of the teams? To be honest with you, I don't think that this is something I have to keep quiet.

It's not necessarily out there, but I would anticipate that you're going to hear some stuff actually later today. Because Adam is, unless things change, Adam is on track to hold a conference call with reporters around 5 o'clock Eastern. So I think it's not going to have probably a ton of substance. It'll be a status update. And I think he's probably still going to kind of kick that can down to May 1st. Because even in talking to these different people that I talk to, they all came with the caveat of you obviously can't know right now because you just got to be patient, let time go by and see what happens with the curve,

so to speak, all over the country, all over the world. And that's where we are, is that the NBA, like a lot of other, like every other sports league, is going to have to reassess next month. You know, it seems like there's some hope within NBA circles that maybe players would start training on June 1st and spend a couple of weeks on their own, you know, then get into training camps and then be on your way. And then from there, you have so many questions that you can do an entire show on. Where might they play? You know, what do you do about testing? what do you do about, you know, even the length of the schedule. Do you scrap the rest of the regular season?

Do you try to, I think there's about 17 games left on average for teams. So do you cut that in half? You know, do you shorten the first round playoff series? There's a lot of, you know, wiggle room here that is going to be debated for sure. There's no such thing as the all clear. We may not ever get that within the next couple three years. But if I was to give you the commissioner's title and say, all right, You've been given the clearance from the CDC and from the president and the different sports leagues.

We're going to resume play because you are so vested in the NBA. Sam is not only a fan but a great journalist. Give me your quick one minute how we're finishing this bad boy in terms of what you would do for games or you would play them. How would you handle the playoffs? And more importantly, what about the following season? Oh, man. That's a tough question, Matt. It's hard to answer that without knowing all of the books, all of the finances, all of the

pressures from these respective owners. And I think that's a major factor right now. And just to call a spade a spade in your neck of the woods, you know, around the league, there's a lot of focus on Tillman Furtita. Sure. And him being somebody who is widely seen as kind of a poster boy for, and I know things are relative, but for financial, you know, kind of challenges that it might impact the way he sees this situation.

You hear other owners in that same boat, you know, the Utah Jazz had a bunch of layoffs recently, their businesses have been hit really hard. They're non-NBA businesses. So it's hard to answer that from a human standpoint, and Adam Silver, I do believe is a very good human, is I would be first and foremost identifying the most vulnerable people within whatever community might be involved in a playoff setting. And again, to keep it Houston-centric, a guy who I think I might call soon to check in on and who's been on my mind.

is Mike DeAntony because it's one thing to assume, which is not, you shouldn't do this, but okay, you look at NBA players, you say they're young, they're healthy. The science tells you that they would likely be okay even if they got infected. Mike D. Antonio and coaches like him are a completely different age bracket. I believe Mike's around 68. And, you know, other coaches, Steve Clifford in Orlando, they would be in the playoffs. He's had previous health situations. That is what makes me nervous from the NBA standpoint

is just make sure that you truly think about everybody who could be in harm's way here because it sounds great to finish the season up until somebody gets gravely ill and then that's going to be on the league's hands. When you hear Las Vegas as an epicenter in terms of putting a bubble around these players, what do you think? First blush. What do you think?

It's funny because even since the column came out, this happens every time, like you wish that, you had that one phone call before you hit publish. We'll see what Adam says, but actually yesterday started hearing some chatter that the league might have already kind of moved on to other options. I don't know what they are, but that Vegas is, you know, at least the way it was put to me is kind of pushing it towards unofficially out for whatever reason. And I don't know that to be 100% true.

And again, I'm curious to see what Adam says. But the reason that Vegas was the leader in the clubhouse makes a ton of sense because It's a combination of facilities. You need multiple arenas where you can play basketball. And in Vegas, you can do that at Manila Bay. You can do that at UNLV. You know, there are venues all over the place. You can do that at the impact basketball academy, which I don't even know if they'd be willing to offer their property, but that's another gym in Vegas.

You need a bunch of gyms and you need hotels. And it doesn't hurt in Vegas that you had relationship history in terms of the infrastructure, sure it because they have Summer League out there. They're incredibly familiar with Vegas. Today, Keith Smith wrote for Yahoo Sports about the Walt Disney World possibility. Now, I haven't heard that within NBA circles, but you get a sense of, you know, the types of ideas that might be floating around. Literally, as you and I said, you're talking, the board of governors meeting is still going on virtually, I believe. So, yeah, I don't know what that looks like, but you kind of see the components that are most important. Well, I had heard as well that the, the

rumors of Las Vegas were not far-fetched, but there just wasn't a whole lot of substance to it. But I do want to go, and we wrap this up with this, about do you put everybody in the same place? You know, baseball is thought about Arizona. Baseball is also thought about Arizona and Florida. The NBA has got one advantage of a baseball is that they are down to their home stretch of regular season games. You're not talking about as many players. And as every team gets eliminated, you're going to be losing players in that particular city. So I guess the question is, will there ever be games this season in the Toyota Center with zero people in it?

Will there be any thought of doing that? Or do you feel like at the end of the day if there is a resumption that it will be done in one century-located place? No, I think it could possibly wind up being in a lot of NBA cities, but then you might have to fill in gaps in between. and to be honest, in my neck of the woods being just California, the California teams are likely going to have the most challenges in terms of getting the green light from the government because Gavin Newsom out here who I think has done a wonderful job the state governor in protecting people.

You know, he's, it's one thing, I mean, it's going to be the question of what the new definition is of a mass gathering. So if the Lakers, clippers, warriors, and kings want to use their arenas and they want to have 500 people involved, can they get the green light from the government? I don't know. And if they can't, it was supposed to me that, okay, now if it's the Lakers or whoever's still in the playoffs and the Clippers,

you've got to go, you know, practice. Go ahead, go to Vegas with your team or just relocate if you can't get your job done within your state. So I wouldn't be shocked to see the Rockets playing in Houston and, you know, the Lakers playing out of, you know, New Mexico for all I know. You know what I mean? Like, I think they're going to...

Matt, I'll cap it with this on that topic. The league's willingness to bend here is definitely something to pay attention to. I underestimated the degree to which they really do appear to be considering any and all solutions and be pretty determined to utilize those to get this thing done. And also, by the way, Brooklyn's not going to play a game in that state. So that's one example on these side of things. Sam again, always appreciate it. You're one of the reasons why I subscribe to the athletic

is your stuff so good. I wish you and your family very safe and happy times and hopefully some really good news, whether it be today, May 1st, June 15th, we get a resolution because I had Eric Gordon on the show last week, and he said, look, I'll go anywhere. The overriding factor is these guys, these multimillionaires want to make their money,

and they're getting their money right now, but they want a season finish. They want to cry on a champion, and I think they're very flexible, maybe not LeBron so much, but everybody else seems to be like, you know what, whatever we got to do, let's crown a champion. And for that, we appreciate you spending some time with us today, and we look forward to reading your stuff online very soon. You got it.

Thank you, Matt. You got it. Sam Amick with us from The Athletic on the Matt Thomas Show. 115 is our time. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The one thing we can definitely say is, wherever these guys play the NBA games, it probably won't be done in front of the public, which television readings will be. skyrocketing good, but, you know, how much revenue will it ultimately cost the teams?

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This is Carlos Correa. Back to Matt Thomas. My sports talk Saturday. It's your home. It's your home. Spaceball. It's a Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790. Again, thanks to Sam Amec for joining the show. I appreciate you, Sam. That board of governor's calls going on, as he said, right away. I don't want to butt in and ruin you guys' friendship. No, that's all right. Have you booked Hoops Credit for next week, Joe George? I'll talk to that idiot. Just kidding. want to talk to him. Yeah, he's, he put some information out that just wasn't accurate.

Oh, Hoops Critic? Yeah. That's a shame. Okay. Speaking of Hoops, Rossi, we've got a documentary that we would normally be interested in, period. Yes. Because we love behind the scene stuff. But now we're all in.

But because there's nothing else in terms of live game action at this point, the name of it is, what is the name of the documentary? Final something? The last dance. The last dance. It's the last chance for romance tonight. And it's also a Donna Summer Song. I prefer the Selena remake.

What? What? Well, all right. She made a medley. She put it in her, uh, yeah. It is the goat. It is the goat. Last, no, no, it's Donna SummerSong.

Okay. Okay, well, the Selena remake is amazing. So there are two versions again. the mainstream with the swear words on ESPN. Yes. And then there is the familyized version on ESPN2. Familyized? I just thought of that.

Okay. Now, our friends in, who are these people again? This is the same guys that's in the website out. This is a different group. No, this is a bet online. That age is the same people. Man, they're really bored, aren't they? They're going to get me to make an account there.

They're doing a great job of PR. All right. So we've got some prop bets on this. we should actually write these down and we'll see how many of we would actually have hit on if we were to make such a bet. Okay. So go ahead. The last dance.

You're going to run through them. Oh, I'm going to run through them. I thought we were going to play the song. No, yeah, I guess we could. Joe, you want to play The Last Dance by Donna Summer? Give us 30 seconds of it. Well, I want the Salina version. And then we'll give 30 seconds of Selena.

It's fine. Here we go. First one. So as soon as you find it started playing it. We can stop it. The Last Dance documentary, will it win? an Emmy Award in 2020. Nobody cares.

No is minus 500. Okay. This is for the first episode. Will Michael Jordan cry? In the first episode? Yes is minus 120? No is minus 1. This is only in the yes only, right?

Yeah, because we have confirmation that he cries anyways. Well, the promos, they show him crying. I'll say no. First episode, minus 120, yes or no? We got three noes across the board of now. I'm going to go to no as well. Okay. We're all going no.

Will Kobe Bryant be seen in the first episode? Yes, minus 300, no, plus 200. I'll say no. How old was he at the time? Kobe? Yeah. Of 98? He was even, he was a rookie, right?

He was either a rookie or was about to be drafted. Yeah, I think he was in the 98 draft, so that would have been after, right? No, no, he was in the 96th draft. So the first episode is going to be, is probably going to focus on Jerry Crumbs Krauss. Yeah. Telling Michael Jordan. This is it. That no matter what you do, you go 82 and O, we're firing Phil Jackson and Michael telling him,

I'm not playing for another coach. I'll retire then. I feel like that's the start. That's why the last dance exists is because of Krause. First episode is going to be retrospective. high school North Carolina game winning shot or I think there will be

retro, you can't do 10 episodes on one season. I think that it's about the last dance. There's going to be some retro, exactly. That's going to be the focus. For example, like the OJ made in America thing. Like the first whole episode was on L.A. and the riots and all that type of stuff.

And you have, what else? I like the, the Lakers Celtics one with Larry Bird and Magic. That was all in their college career at the beginning. You always start off to build the story. and I think that's what it's going to be. Then I will, using that as a good foundation,

I will say no, you will see no Kobe Bryant. Yeah, because, but see, it's weird, because my understanding, because I know for a fact

they did not interview the person that broke Michael Jordan coming back to basketball. So, like, that's where I'm not sure where they're even starting this documentary because that seems like such a huge miss.

Sure. I feel like they're just... Didn't he just, like the two-word... No, at least I'm back? No, it was broken in Chicago before. Sam Smith that did it?

No, her name was a... I guess Sam, Cheryl Ristow broke it. Okay. So I'm saying no. What do you say, guys? I say no.

Kobe, I will say, mine is 300. A lot to lay. I think they will be talking a little bit about his influence on basketball and retrospective, so I'll say yes. Okay. Next up. Next up,

Will gambling be said? Now, this is just for the first episode, right? I'm trying to make sure. Yeah, for the, okay, for the first episode. episode. Yeah, this is for the first episode only. Will gambling be said? Yes is minus 200, no, plus 150.

I will say yes. I'll say yes. Yeah, I'll say yes as well. Yeah, so we've got three yeses. And the reason why is there's going to say word around the league said that Michael was having, you know, was having a drift for a call time and that David Stern told him stay away from the sport for a couple of years. Kind of that kind of thing. Well, and Steve Curr.

And he just loved to gamble. Yeah, Steve Kerr and Scotty Pippen just were on the jump. and they told the story about how Michael used to gamble with one of the security guards about the ball and cup game that would appear on the Jumbotron. It's not even a gambling. You know what's going to happen.

Michael Jordan, grifting these poor security guards out of their money. But anyways, will Space Jam be said or a clip be shown? Yes, minus 120? No, minus 120. Space Jam. Are you going to play the Salinas?

We can evaluate here? Will they say Space Jam or will a clip of the movie be shown? I will say yes First episode though Yes Yeah because they're going to try to push the brand Look what he's done beyond basketball There'll be a Nike commercial

A little vignette of that Yeah I'll go with yes on space cam I'll say yes Okay All right This is a good one You'll like this one Matt Will Sirius be heard

The song It's gonna start the documentary Yes You think so Yes is a minus 500 So you gotta lay big time money To do this one Yeah, I will go yes as well.

By the way, that is. And look, everybody knows the Rocket's song in the mid-90s. You know, dun, dun, dun, dun. That's the number two greatest all-time introduction music. Sirius is the number one. Alan Parsons? Yeah. What about?

This is the grace. A little known fact about this song, we used it in 1994. We didn't have a song in 1994. I will go with Van Halen right now over the Rockets one. Well, I'm a rock. Very biased. Very, oh. That song, I mean, it's kind of a, you're a,

European dance club cocaine-induced song. The rest of America, nobody cared about. But that's what I'm saying. I'm a rocket guy. Okay. That was, I was a PA during that. I was a rocket fan. Yeah, that song is going to be number two.

See, I am unbiased, man, and I bring you the uncut truth. Well, that's why I am Fox and you are MSNBC. No, I am. And Joe, you're seeing it over there. No, I'm more of like the BBC or something. Okay. They stay out of it. This is, we can agree this.

This is going to be the greatest of all time. This is amazing. Yeah, I feel like this has to lead off. Although, after this intro, the song kind of of sucks. Yeah, you get a minute and a half in, you're like, okay, move on. Right. And then it goes, And the high of the sky. Yeah, it's terrible. After this amazing, it's one of the greatest drop-offs in music history. All right. Will the Air Jordan logo be seen? Duh. Over under 10 minutes. So is Michael Jordan in the documentary first episode more than 10 minutes?

No, no, the Air Jordan logo. No, I know, but he's going to be wearing it the entire time. Oh, you think so? It's going to be on his polo. That's a very, it's a very dicey question. I mean, I would say I'll take the over because I think it'll be on his jacket the entire time. You mean under, under 10 minutes. No, it'll be over. It'll be on there over 10 minutes. No, no, no.

Over under 10 minutes in to the episode. Oh, yeah, under then. Oh, way under. First minute. Okay. Yeah, okay. I'll buy with that. I'll say under as well.

What am I looking for? Selina Last Dance. Yeah, you know why you can't find it? Selina did. Oh, man. It's not on YouTube. Look for, look for Celina. a disco medley, dude.

Look for terrible remakes. Oh, man, you are such, you are blaspheming hard right now. Sorry, Bianca, you know, I love you, but come on now. The Hispanic community is not happy with you right now. That's fine, because the song, the first one was the goat. You've never heard it. How can you say it sucks? I want to hear it, and then I'll tell you it's going to suck.

Oh, my God. He can't even find it. People don't even recognize the song. Oh, my God. Any other props? Are we done? Yeah, there was a couple more. All right.

Will the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton be shown or mentioned, yes minus one I will say no. No plus 120? No? I mean it was 98, right? Why is that relevant to the documentary? Because there's one. Will Jordan's game winning national champion shot be shown?

This is a lock of the century for me. Yes, minus 300, no plus 200. Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah, I'll take a yes as well. A couple of more. Will Barack Obama tweet about the documentary? Yes plus 200?

Ooh, yes is a plus 200. No is a minus 200. He's going to live tweet it. Okay. Yep. We're all watching this. Nothing else is going on. And then Yankees World Series mentioned or shown their championship of that year.

No. No minus 140, yes, plus 100. I'll say yes. I guess if they want to give the context of 1998, which they probably will. Who won the Super Bowl that year? Was the Niners won the Super Bowl? That was the Broncos won in 97 and 98. Oh, that's right.

Back to back for Elway. Okay. All right, wrapping up this segment quickly, do we have the Selena brutal attempt to sing over the master? There's just like a medley, and I don't know. which song there is. It starts with last we'll do it when we come back. All right. We'll play it as our... You know what? We'll rush it or flush it is what we should do. Okay, well, rush or flush,

Selena singing one of the great disco songs of all time. Okay. After the goat of disco music, one missed Donna Summer. May both of them rest in peace. 133 on the Matt Thomas show, Brian T. Smith in 25 minutes on 790. Sports talk. He leaves, can't get it, hits off the wall.

Seven 90. Al-Tube scores. Kare around third. Hets it inside the park. Run, home run. Home of your Astros. This is a great remake. Yeah. Welcome back to the Maddama show here on SportsCic. I thought we were going to hear the song.

No? Well, you know what? It's a whole long medley. I think Joe's probably having difficulty picking out the last dance part. That's okay. Who's at the livestock show and rodeo? The Astrodome. Salina is an iconic moment, Matthew. Iconic, I tell you.

Did you go? No, I wasn't there. Why was it so iconic if you weren't there? What do you mean? You weren't there at the Gettysburg Address. It was its iconic. Yeah, but you didn't have, you could have gotten tickets. You weren't there at Live Aid with Queen and it was iconic.

It was iconic. I got me. I got you. All right, 713. Oh, here we go. Oh, here we go. Oh, get them, Selena. It's a lot better when you see her sparkly outfit in her, in her booty.

That's why you like it more. What? No, Joe. I'm about the music. I'm a man of taste, Joe. Not even close. This is like a karaoke version. I know that she's great.

Oh, my God. But compared to Donna's summer that's not even close. You just don't know how hard you're blaspheming. No, I'm telling you the truth. Okay. You just can't handle the truth. Okay.

They both suck. Oh, I bought you lunch today. Sorry. I feel sorry for myself that I bought this. spent money on you. All right. Thanks for lunch, man.

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Radio. We got to Brian T. Smith coming up at 2 o'clock. Excuse me. I'm a little for clempt here. I'm doing great. All right. Don't cough too close to me, Matt.

Isn't it crazy? I think we're within six feet at this point. Well, here's the thing. Anytime anybody coughs. Oh, you're on high-kite. You go to DefCon 1 immediately. It's like I coughed two times in the middle of night just because I had just, you know, just need to cough, clam my throat. Yeah. And I'm like, is my wife okay?

Is everybody okay? Yeah. It's the worst thing ever. It's not fair. It's not fair to us that normally just cough a couple of times. Okay. Like we were, I was talking to my wife today about the story about the, the, you know, There's a story about the Las Vegas casino is trying to reopen soon because they're getting destroyed.

The whole state of Nevada is that's the economy, right? Nothing else. And that if you go with a bunch of friends and you have a low-grade fever, typically when you get a low-grade fever, you take some aspirin, and most times you recover from that and you're fine. They're going to not let you in the casino if you have a low-green fever, which I guess is the right thing to do. Yeah. But life's also not fair, that more times than not, a, let's say you had 99.2. because it was hot outside

or you were exercising or whatever usually you're exercising and you head to the blackjack table I'm just using an example is that there's going to be a lot of family events group gatherings are going to be cut off cabashed over somebody having a low fever. Maybe you can getterade and then you make it come back

at 15 minutes and you'll be okay. I got you. All right 713-212-5-7-8. You're not faring very well on Twitter right now. Oh, like it's ever going to change. Let's take a look here. The widest man in America. SportsMT is oblivious to this blasphemy. This is foolishness of the highest order.

This blasphemy sports M.T. Selina is to us Latinos what Beatles are to the white people. I would say even more sacred. I don't necessarily disagree with that. I'm just telling you the two versions, Donna Summers is way better. And I'm not taking an instant ball. You said it's bad.

You said it's trash. Or what did you say? Do you say trash or garbage? I forget. It's not good. Oh, geez. And Selena had a lot of great songs. Please get this man. help, Ross.

Matt, you're right. Don't let these people troll you. Nobody said that. From what account was that? SportsMT. Burner. Selina is to Latinos where the Beatles are to white people? I'm not questioning that.

No, see, it's probably even more sacred. You might as well be like saying something bad. You might as well talk about the Virgin Mary before you talk about Selena. Okay. So I will hold my comments in because you sure.

You guys can't handle the truth. Oh, my gosh. The woman is a beautiful talent. Well, and she died too young. Yeah. Both of them died too young. The Virgin Mary? Well, three of them.

Think about it. Virgin Mary and Selena and Donna Summer. You can't handle the truth. Wait, Donna Summer's dead? Oh, yeah. Oh. May she rest in peace. She had a lot.

She didn't die of a drug overdose. She actually died, I think, in her 40s, yes. Do you know anything about anyone who's alive or dead or? He bats about 250, doesn't me? I don't know. Did you know what the summer was dead? No, but you don't know. Oh, see?

You didn't know either. You don't know any of them. He didn't even know who Donna Summer is. No, I know who Donna Summer is. Who did you say that today you thought was alive that was dead? Dick Inberg. Dick and Burke. Okay, he died two years ago.

Give me a break. Yesterday? Tommy's father from Tommy. Oh, no, I said that today. I wasn't sure. Brian Denny here. If you'd ask me if he's alive or dead, I would have probably guessed alive, but I wasn't sure.

I'm sorry. last time you heard from Brian Denahey. Who's getting check up from him? What's saying, Ross, you're bad at like 100. Well, you know, it's because they still live on in my dreams, and that's what's important. The next time we do it or not will have to be just to you.

Does Ross believe if they're alive or not? Well, I know that... Does Ross know. I know that Mike Douglas is dead now at this point. Okay. We're moving along a little bit. All right, batting one fancy now. Wait, not Mike Douglas. Who's the other guy? Kurt Douglas. And my Mike is also dead, too.

You're doing yourself no favors. Hello, Tim. You're doing yourself no favors. Hi, Tim. Good. Hey, so I feel like I'm a, I would be a good, impartial, neutral judge for this little few going on. I grew up in Alaska.

I'm white. And I started speaking Spanish until I was about 19. And my wife is Hispanic. I studied Latin American history. I'm a singer. in the Houston symphony chorus by no music. And I 100% agree with Roth on this one. Matt, you were wrong.

Selena is a treasure, and her performance was iconic beyond belief. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, well, what did the Billboard top 100 say? Oh, my God. It was a medley performance at the rodeo. I don't know if it was on the billboard. So you're going to tell me a song, Last Dance, which was a former number one overall hit, right?

Last Chance. is garbage compared to somebody that uses it as part of a mentally? Nobody called anything garbage except you. Y'all are wrong on this. And sometimes I have to straighten y'all out. Okay, well, there you go. Again, Salina's got a plethora of great songs. What was my guy's name?

Tim. Tim. Tim just said he's an impartial observer, and you're wrong. I don't think he's impartial. Opinions don't need to be partial or not. He's a white guy from Alaska. I have no, I don't even know. You know what?

It's not that you're wrong. you're just ignorant. You're uneducated on the matter. I just heard the song. Okay. Donna Summer's last dance is significantly better than Salinas. It just is. Okay.

Because you know what it is? You know what the problem is? Is that y'all don't, your passion for her is way more than being honest about with the song. You could say, you could say that she would do the Pledge of Allegiance better than anybody else. She might be able to. Anything that she did was better than anything anybody else did.

Nobody said how it was. said that either. But the interpretation is there and you know what it is. You're calling her trash and that's just not right now. I didn't call her trash. I said that version is trash. Last dance by Donna Summer is five million times better than that little medley. Well, you're wrong and you're getting crushed rightfully so for it. So let's move on. Let's go to the book. I know who I am. I know I'm very competent. And you know what? There are a lot of people in this world. I won't mention names, Ross, that go, well, I don't know about it. I'm telling you the gospel on this. Hear me now. Believe me later. You're wrong. I'm right. Last dance, Donna Summer, number one hit. Selena, I'll throw it into a rodeo piece.

A little bit different. A little bit different. 145. It's a Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Craig Ackerman here. When I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm following at SportsRV on Twitter. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. How you doing, Matt? I'm good. Garth Brooks, one of his most famous. songs as friends in low places. Selena sang it too.

Selena must have done it. Selena would have crushed it over our books. No doubt in my mind, actually. Selena could have done the ABC song and you would have had it over anybody else. Crushed it, I'm sure. The woman is a treasure. She has a treasure.

Just not on that song. Say that's one again. People always want to hear what they only want to hear. And I'm telling you that that just did. As I just put on Twitter, just a moment ago. Last Dance, Golden Globe for Best. original song, Grammy War for Best Female Female R&B vocal performance, number three on the

top billboard, hot 100 in 1979. Well, good for her. Good for Donna Summer. May she rest in peace. May she rest? All right, Brian T. Smith, joining us at the top of the hour. This is why anything goes Friday's all about. I love it. I mean, we could be breaking down Texans draft

at number 40 if you wanted to. That's next week on the draft show. Seriously, we're going to get to the draft. Which would include everybody but us, Matt. God. Yeah, we have we have a draft show next weekend. Ross and I were not asked to be a part of it. Even Joe George is on it. I'm on both nights.

There we go. Is that because you're cheap or you really wanted to do it? 50-50. Are you all going to be up here? Somebody going to provide you all some food or something? First of all, that's a great question. How are you going to social distance that for the six of you in one room? Well, it's not going to be, no, it's going to be three at a time.

Yeah. The first, from 6 to 8.30, it's the Salisbury crew. And then from 830 to the end of the first round, it's Wex. Gordia, myself, and Friday, Wex. No, wait a minute. When did the Chicago Bears pick? What number are they in? I don't know, 50.

They don't get a first round pick this year? No, it's still Cleo Macbred. I was going to say, because I want to hear, I mean, honestly, I'll only want to hear it when the Bears make their first selection because you're probably going to crush it. Just like everybody, every team crushes their first round pick. We'll see. Like, there are even people in Cincinnati that don't want Joe Burrell. Seriously? It's the draft.

What? Remember when, who was it? Porzingis got booed out. They booed Porzinger. Everybody boos everybody. Isn't that just the right of passage you have to boo? Jay J.J. Y got booed?

Yeah. People don't want Joe Burrow in Cincinnati? I think there's some hesitation. Yeah. You know why? Because they're spending a lot of time watching these NFL draft shows going, well, you know, his hands size isn't big enough. That's true.

You know, he two years ago was a terrible quarterback and couldn't even make the starting lineup in the Ohio state. I mean, I think it's going to be really bad this year, though, because I don't if you saw what Ian Rappport reported earlier. that the mock drafts are way off this year. Yeah, he did say that. He said that they're way off and that the GMs think the media is just totally wrong about the draft because they don't have as much information.

Okay, so let's do this. First of all, how often are they accurate? A good mock draft gets five picks right of the 32? Yeah. So I think this year that because we know so little and the fans are going to know even less, people are going to be upset with every pick. Okay, so with that being said, what's going to be the big shock, that Tua Tugavaloa drops? That's the drama. That's storyline number one.

Where will he go? Will he drop? Will he begin to drop? And I'll see this. I'm not a huge NFL draft fan, so I was not bothered at all by us not being invited to it. Me. I was invited, but I said, no. So I was literally the only one that wasn't invited? I don't know if Andy was invited. No, they asked me if I want, because I'm on at 6. Oh, okay. So they're like, hey, I think it was a courtesy.

ask. Okay. So for me, especially with the tech that's not having a first round pick, I would even care less about it. But the only reason why I care more about this year's drafted than in previous years is because nothing else is on. Yeah. So I'm going to watch. But I'm not just, you know, talking to, you know, using a Bill O'Brien technology, wait, let's be patient to wait three years to see how these draft picks turn out. So with under that auspice of there's something surprising, what's going to be the surprise? Two of drops? I think it's just, it's, it's, It has to do with Tua. It has to be.

I think there is still a chance Tua goes number two because the Redskins feel the way the Cardinals felt about Josh Rosen when they drafted Kyler Murray. Maybe they don't want Dwayne Haskins, Ron Rivera's against that. They go Tua.

Tua could be traded to a team like the Jags or the Patriots. The dolphins could take them. The chargers could take him or it could have a huge slide. Like to me, all those options are on the table. So no matter what happens, it's going to be, if he just goes to Miami, that's me, be my biggest shock. Because then it just goes as planned.

You got Herbert the quarterback, right? Yep. You have loved the quarterback out of Utah State. Yep. Jacob Eason could slide into the back end of the first time. So that's what he's talking about, because at this point, if you take the top offensive tackle, you take the top offensive tackle. If your team needs line help, you take it.

When somebody tells me that there are people that are, that can't, that don't understand the draft, that means that the position that we care about most, which this year happens to be the quarterback with four guys in theory being taken in the first round, that's where the shuffle comes in, right? That there are people in the NFL that have different grades on these quarterbacks than the so-called draft experts. And probably the wide receiver position too this year, because it's so deep that someone like maybe like Ruggs goes in front of Jerry Judy would be a big shock.

You know who doesn't believe the NFL's receiving core drafts can be this good in this draft? This is your Bill O'Brien. Bobby O'Brien. Bobby O'Brien. Well, it could take a long time for a rookie to have an impact, is what Bill O'Brien said. But couldn't you say that for every position? Yes. Like what position, we mentioned us a little bit yesterday, but it's worth a minute here.

What position steps on the field and makes the most immediate impact? You think it's cornerback? Running back. See, I think it's... No, we were saying easiest to learn is probably cornerback. But most highest impact, probably going to be running back, running back. Because we've seen a million great running backs that are awesome than rookie and one of, you know, floundering in year four or five. Marshall and Lattimore was really good his rookie year in recent years.

David Johnson was awesome as rookie year, right? Oh, no, I think it was the second year. Okay, but early on. That you don't have to be, that patience doesn't have to necessarily come with the running back. I mean, yeah, was Sequon pretty good his first year? I can't remember. I think Melvin Gordon was pretty good his rookie year. When people say it's easiest to learn quarterback, remember how bad Kareem Jackson won is his rookie year?

Yeah, that's true. And he won't being very good in his position. Yeah, Sequan Barclay had 1,300 yards rushing. and 15 total touchdowns is his rookie year. He's also, he's right, he's a generational talent as well. Yeah. For me, then Zeke probably had a pretty good rookie year too, right? Honestly, my viewpoint of this year's draft,

especially because the Texans don't have a first round pick is, how is this going to look on television? Zeke, 1600 yards. Will there be good communication between the league office in people's houses and phones and video? What will the videos look like? And oh, by the way, did you see the story? I don't know if it was on in 4.

are one of those, but there's a story that's going to give these players an opportunity to put things behind where they are. Like, if you're at Jordan Love's house and Love's truck stop wants to sponsor you, why can you put a bunch of Love's truck stop

behind you? Put the spot, you know, like, you know, I have sponsored. That's a great idea. I have a bunch of Coca-Cola. Yeah, like Bill O'Brien has BMW behind all his. Yeah, they absolutely. Why can't these guys do that? They thousand percent need to do that. That's brilliant. So what, okay, so here's the conundrum. Okay, NFL draft players, don't do this.

Who are you being? I think I'm being mean, writer, D'L. You're a mean one. Don't put corporate logos behind you. The guy says, well, okay, then you're not going to get me on the video camera. What are you going to do about that? What's the difference between that and when they're all hawking J.C. Penny suits? J.C. Penny has suits?

Isn't that what they... J.C. Penny does they even open anymore? Isn't that who they promote every year? I would hope not. It's a lot of polyester. Hugo boss. But point being is, don't you, if you were at home and you get on video because they damn now, they need you badly because they're trying to fill material for the three-hour

show, wouldn't you say, all right, who wants, who wants put a Nike swoosh behind me? Think about it. Even if you're wearing a Nike swoosh, isn't that the same thing? Yeah, it is J.C. Penny. Jaycee Penny makes suits? Yeah, Michael Srayhan has a collection, and every year of the draft guys. There's a large group of them that all are J.C. Penny suits. When was the last time you were in a J.C. Penny?

No idea. It's probably been four or five years. Like there's two stars I've not been to in forever. Palais Royal and JCPenny. Does Palai Royal even exist? I didn't stay on a business now. That's a shame. But yeah, Taco Bell wants to put behind Tua to Taco Voloa.

Pay him $100,000 just to have that as a backdrop when he gets interviewed when he's, because you know Tua's got to be on the NFL draft coverage, right? This is the thing. This is what, me, Roger Goodell's got to figure out. Tell them thanks, but nothing. I mean, can TV networks blur? it out. I guess they could, right? These are things we'll discuss

as we get ready for the draft on Thursday. Coverage. Not involving Ross and myself begins Thursday at 6 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 790. Brian T is with us next. 158 on 790. Here we go. The final hour of the Matt Thomas show

on Sports Talk 790. If you want to jump in, 713-212 5-790. 9713-23-212-5-790. Bottom of the hour, Ross and I will have the Fantasy 5. The category is hottest. Are we going to be sexist about this? We're going to go ahead and do this.

Hottest female sportscasters? Yeah. We're being honest and true. It is what it is. We're pigs. Fine. Calls pigs. Yeah, call Ross at Sports RV at pig.

That's fine. Most attractive, talented, nice female sportscasters. You talented? What'd you do with your hands right there? Well, like big, you know, talented. Okay, fair enough. Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle, you read his stuff multiple times per week on the radio, on the Chronicle website, which, by the way, I just signed up for digital access today. I hope you're proud of me.

That's actually awesome. I appreciate that, Matt. Thank you very much. Yeah. Hey, so you were a part of the Zoom meeting with the head coach yesterday. Give the audience a few thoughts of what you heard and what you thought about and some takeaways from there. The Texans aren't going to get years to evaluate this. I mean, Bill O'Brien's been doing this in 2014.

They'll have this season if there is an NFL season. I think it's going to be very interesting where the organization goes from here. There's been so much on the line, Matt, for O'Brien and the Texans for years now. I mean, it seems like every year going into his season, there's some type of huge decision, whether it's quarterback, whether it's a draft pick, whether it's trading D'Andrey Hopkins, and it feels like everything's on the line again, and they've doubled down on themselves again, and going into 2020, after trading Hopkins, the year after trading Clowny, I mean, you couldn't have a larger spotlight on the organization, on Cal McNair, on Bill O'Brien,

on Jack Easterby, on everything, all. combined together. So I continue to hope we find a way to get through this. And I think, you know, one of the most fascinating things to be positive is to see what the Texans do this year, how good it gets, how bad it gets. We have no idea. But there's so much at stake for this team, this coach, this coach GM, this organization, once this season starts. So how often and how much we're going to be reminded about the fact we've got to give this team and all these changes a chance? I mean, what's the overrinder on that?

Three weeks, four weeks, maybe, tops? Yeah, I mean, the thing is, and I've written this so many times in the Chronicle, I've said this so many times. I understand where they're coming from. I feel like probably as well as anybody. I'm going to have a piece in Sundays Chronicle explaining this. And Bill O'Brien, the key word that he kept mentioning yesterday during the Zoom conference was levels. I mean, every year there's also a code word.

I mean, it's alignment, it's philosophy, whatever it is. This year, it's levels. And so last year, Cal, I think the one time he spoke to 610, he talked about the sub-programs within sub-programs. Well, that's another reference to levels. So you look at this roster, and I am not saying that I agree with this at all. From the Texan's perspective, they traded the way DeAndre Hopkins, and they brought in Brandon Cooks. They brought in David Johnson.

They gave Deshawn Watson more options. I'm not saying I agree with it. That is their perspective. The thing is, though, as I just said, this isn't their second year. This isn't O'Brien's second year. He is the only coach in the NFL outside of Bill Belichick, who's the head coach and general manager. You just traded away one of the best receivers in the NFL on and on. And it didn't end well last year, and it hasn't ended well any year.

Honestly, they've always fallen short. They know that. They know that ultimately as much as they want to explain it, they want to talk about it, they want to talk about levels or depth or any things. They have to win, and they have to win like they never had before or everyone will want, O'Brien fired again. But the difference is that all of us will want. and I'm fired again, but only one person can do that.

And it felt like after hearing Cal last week in that get together with the fans, that not only is he all in, but he is like, man, I think I've made the right decision. And that's why, I don't know if you saw the report from somebody on ESPN that said that maybe Bill's in the hot seat, I saw that. I was like, and I was like, that's just quite the opposite. That's not reading the situation at all properly, I don't think. Well, that somebody has no idea what they're talking about. Let's just be honest.

If the team, if there's an NFL season, and let's say the team goes six and ten, you can move on, right? But if they go seven and nine, it's the nine and seven, what, bar and grill, right? If they go eight and eight, nine and seven, how would really have to step up to make that, to make that decision, because it goes against the grain of everything that we've been told that we've been shown. and for everything that I continue to hear in depth and detail, Cal has fully bought in to O'Brien and Easterby, and ultimately who granted him this power? Bill O'Brien didn't grant himself this power.

Bill O'Brien received this power from Cal McNair. Cal McNair is involved. He's invested. He's not absentee just because he doesn't speak to us, doesn't speak to the media, doesn't speak to the fans. It doesn't mean that he's not involved, But this is the Bill O'Brien show. This is the Jack Easterby show.

And it would take something very disappointing. I believe 6 and 10 are – maybe 7 and 9 get you there. 6 and 10 or worse for them to conceivably make a move. And even that would be surprising simply because Cal McNair has bought in so heavily to O'Brien and Easterby. All right. You and I will not talk until next Friday when the draft first round was completed. are you on the interest level of this draft if it wasn't for the fact there's no sports around? To me, I'm 500 times more invested because I need some live sports and this is the

close thing we're going to get to it. It's the only thing we're going to get. I mean, honestly, right? Until Major League Baseball or the NBA finds some way to start potentially playing games again, and that's increasingly likely without fans in the stance. So even that, I really, I mean, the more I think about it, the more I write about it, talk about it, hear about it. Games without fans in the stands, obviously, it's something is better than nothing. But after the second or third game, it's just going to be so weird and cold and different compared to what we're used to. The only thing that's going to be remotely normal on is the NFL draft. And so, yeah, because it's just time, because everything is going on, because nothing's

going on the world, nothing is going on in the sports world. The NFL draft, even if it's Adela's basement, even if there are glitches, even if much of it's done virtually and via Zoom and video conferences, at least it's something. I mean, I'm excited about it, and the Texas has a 40th pick. Normally, I wouldn't even care. And it's going to be something live to watch, but I will say I'm much more excited about the last fans to Michael Jordan Bulls documentary that I am actually about the NFL draft. I think that's going to be the must watch sports TV in April is going to be the last dance. And did you see the story that was a Rappapboard that said that NFL media draft experts have no clue what's going on, all the changes.

I'm paraphrasing here. We were just discussing that before you join us. It feels like to me that maybe the evaluation of the quarterback position, because that's the one that's getting the most conversation, is where maybe these so-called draft experts are probably missing out on it. according if that report is accurate. Yeah, and it's interesting, I think it's a great point. It's interesting, too, last year, if memory serves, the mock drafts were horrendous. Last year, there was almost a freeze out of all the internet, mock blogger, you know,

you have a real job, and in your free time, you evaluate YouTube video. The mock drafts were horrendous, and this year, I mean, it's going to be completely all over the place because coaches, general managers, scouts, since the college, football season ended since, you know, really since February, March, they haven't been able to see any of these players, since the Combine, they haven't been able to see any of these players in person, any good scout GM will say the Combine is one-tenth, one-twentyth of your final factor in drafting somebody. So that's going to be the other interesting part. I also think trades, you know, there are going to be, there should be a lot of trades. We've seen that

recently. You have trades shaking it up. It's going to kind of be like the early 1970s. 80s with the NFL draft, you know, thrown back three or four decades, and all the mock drafts are going to be completely wrong this year. It should be really interesting. All right. You are watching the events of resumption of play, if it, when it happens, where it happens. What are your general thoughts about? Let's go to baseball, because my trial a couple days ago, we basically said, I don't know if I want to do this. It feels like to me that baseball players are showing greater resistance towards this epicenter of a place

to play baseball as compared to basketball. My guess is a lot of that is because the basketball season is going to come to an end at some point. They just don't know how long the baseball players might be stuck in Florida and or Arizona. I 1,000 percent agree with you on that one. Think about this. The NBA was at Game 70,

basically. They had 12-breaths season games. If you're an NBA team and your team sucks, you're done in two weeks. Right? So if the NBA tried to defend regular season, then they play the playoffs. I mean, you're down to eight teams in a conference, and then it's four, and then it's two. So it affects the players, but not nearly, not nearly Matt, as much as Major League Baseball, where it's 162 games.

If you're all in the same area, you're, you know, you're quarantined a hotel. It's so science fiction. It's so disaster movie. If you're a baseball nerd and you're desperate to have sports, it sounds good to you just because baseball will be back. But it's so unthinkable to actually live, participate in that type of scenario. You don't have fans in the stand. It's going to be such a dead environment. It's going to be like playing baseball at the doctor's office, basically.

I still don't see how it works. That being said, I want it back as much as anybody. The second they can come back, find a way to. do it, and maybe this just be the aberration. It'll be like sports during wartime. You know, you always look back and there's some type of asterisk where that was there in World War II that type of situation. It may end up being like that to where it was just basically a lost year and all the major

sports leagues had to do anything they could to find a way to eventually return in some fashion, but it really was never normal the entire time. All right. You are going to be in front of your television for The Last Dance, correct? I cannot wait. VR and I'm ready to go. Who's saying Last Dance better? Selina or Donna Summer?

Yeah, I'm going to defer to your Twitter account because I recently saw a tweet that Matt Thomas had referencing Donna Summer. So I'm going to guess hard that Donna Summer was much better. I don't really, I'm going to go with Donna Summer. Hear that, Ross? Ross was selling that Selena was the better version of it. See, I didn't even sell that. I sold that it wasn't trash.

what you called it. Just people. Wasn't there like some cheesy Garthbrook song? Oh, that was the dance, not the last one. I mean, Selena, to me, like, when Elvis passed, no matter whatever Elvis did, it was the greatest version ever. And people have that fan base of that guy, right? I think there are people that will choose to love people even more so on their dead

than when they're alive. Oh, 100%. For most of those entertainers, I mean, out of all due respect, at some point, you're better off just passing because then you become a hundred times more famous and respected and everyone forgets all your fault. That's really how it goes. Like when I pass, they'll be like, God, that Matt Thomas was a hell of a sports talk host. I've been saying that for years, Matt. What?

You want me dead for years? That's not nice. All right. BTS, have a good weekend. We'll talk to you next week. All right. Thank you, man. How about that?

He wanted me dead for a long period of time. That guy took a turn. I did. I wasn't not expecting that. 215 is a type. We've got some NBA news about money. We'll discuss that next. 215 on the Matt Thomas show.

This is Sports Talk 790. So when there's no sports, what do we talk about? Hmm. Maybe Netflix binge talk. No, no, no. Kids driving us crazy talk. Yeah, that works. Hand-wash talk.

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Yeah, I've had to filter out for our fantasy five, a few things for old sports RV. He's going with some people that might have been in sports, but currently do not have a job in sports. I say, if you're a sportscaster, you're a sportscaster. You know, Matt, if the rockets lay you off or something, I'm not a play by a play guy Let's see And then we fire you here I feel like

Until you accept a job In another business It's still your job though Or it's still your profession Let's see Vince Gully If I was doing favorite sportscasters I could

Couldn't I draft Vince Gully No he's retired Why couldn't I draft him though Because he's not doing it But he's a sportscaster But he was a retired sportscaster See like Kristen Leahy's the name that we're debating

That's we're debating Christine Leah because she is a smoke show. So she is a sportscaster. She's just currently out of work. She does a YouTube. No, she does a YouTube show. Yeah, but everybody does YouTube.

So what? Everybody does Twitch and YouTube. Not everybody. People who think they can use Twitch as a career is stupid. Her Twitter profile says host and producer. Of what? There you go. All right, so Christine Leah is eligible.

Oh, geez. Because she nice. She was very nice. She was on the Sun Salisbury show when. Was she? Super Bowl in Atlanta. She was like three feet away from me. And you introduced yourself?

I did. I asked her a question. I can't remember what. You should have said, I was like, you want to touch my long mane of hair? I didn't say that. I thought it, Matt.

There's difference. All right. It's called personal restraint. Brent McHenry, do you consider her a sportscaster? No, because she has a Fox job, right? She's chosen another profession. Okay.

She's a newscaster. Hmm. She also might be out of work. Is she, does she work right now? Actually, she's going through, she's got, oh, she had cancer, right? Yeah, very bad, yeah. Oh, well, so actually I think she still is working right now through that.

Okay, I don't watch Foxx-in-Muts, I don't know, so. Okay, so Christine Leahy is now on my list. You want to take her off? No, if you're under your rules, she's, she's applicable. I mean, if you're really going to fight for it, we can take her off. I got like 14 people on the list. Say, I don't have enough. She would make eight.

Eight? Yeah. man, let me help you out. Yeah, you might need to leave her on there, Matt, just because you might be in trouble with this. Hey, I'm telling you, if I'm really in a bad spot, you have to whisper some names to them. No, that's not legal?

Wait, was I supposed to come over the list? No, you're going to, you are the seventh vote in the event of a three-three tie. So I need to get your preferences during the next break. Bron, Bernad, tall, short. Definitely not blonde. Yeah, what's your type? Well, like, never did it.

I was talking with Matt when we were kind of, you know, you're talking about a list. There's a lot of blondes on these, these lists. Way more than any other type. Yeah. Of course. That's the expectation for a lot of TV. Yeah, it's weird. I feel like what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through the silent reporters

on ESPN during the break and the silent reporters on the NFL coverage. And I feel like I've got to be missing two or three people. I just feel like in life I'm more of a brunette guy. I've got a name in mind of the winning team already. Okay. There's one sports cast. There's always

get votes and they just go by one. That puts it over the edge. That if it's really close, one will, no matter what, top the list. I don't want to hear who puts you over the edge, Joe. That's just stopped. Yeah, really. You're in Newlywood. Does your wife know about these urges still?

No comment. Isn't that how Bill O'Brien does it? We doesn't want to answer something. Yeah, we're not going to comment on that. Speaking, I segue to the NBA. I didn't mean to do this to you, but here we go. Woj's reporting that players are going to take a 25% pay cut effective May 15. Okay.

That's not necessarily going to make anybody in the general public feel better, but at least that the player association is like, look, I know you don't want to keep paying us because our owners are losing huge, huge, huge amounts of money by no games being played. You know, I don't know if anybody's thought of this. You know how the NBA, in these sports leagues, they get a certain percentage of what the overall revenues are, whether it's 46 or 49 or whatever.

I don't know what the NBA is. I think it's the highest thing. Or is the highest in the email. Let's assume it's 49% just for the sake of your argument. Well, league receipts this year guys are going to be way, way, way lower. How do you adjust that? For a salary cap? For a salary cap purposes.

I think you would just give some kind of exemption year. You say this year doesn't even matter. They're going to have to. Yeah. Or maybe, or it's going to be a gradual drop. It's just not going to happen overnight. Because if that's the case, every single team in the NBA would be able to, over the luxury tax. We'll be over the Saturday cap threshold, whatever they call it.

Yeah. And then free agents, like, won't get signed. It's 50-50 for NBA. NFL's going to go up to 48. How could anyone sign if the cap drops? Which is going to. Based on everything that's happened. I mean, the NBA has multiple reasons. It's not like baseball's cap could drop because of this. NBA has the China stuff. It has the rating stuff. And then now it has this. Apparently the China stuff hasn't bothered them as much as they thought it was going to.

Sure, but they have three different factors. This kills it. Yeah. No gate receipts. I don't know. Are the TV networks still paying the league? You have to assume they're not. They're not airing anything.

Well, they're going to eventually pay once those games get resumed. Sure. Now, if they don't get any more games and they cancel the season, then that would make more sense than, you know, to say, you're not getting a check from us. But they were giving money back to advertisers. So when these advertisers are coming back, you've got to think that even, you know, like a Ford or whatever, a Chevy, that they're going to sell their advertisements for way less value than before because those companies don't have money either. Yeah, because, again, because TNT and ABC can't go back to them and say, hey, Ford, okay, you're ready to spend that $60 million you're spending with us. No, it's going to be 20. Now I've got only, you know, 40 cents on the dollar for that.

This is we're a good economist. We had an official economist of the show could help us out. How do you effectively navigate the luxury salary cap wars when your league proceeds are going to be way less this year than they were in years past? Well, when you've seen it talks in baseball about how because there's no fans coming to games, potentially that that's also going to cause a salary reduction. But they're going to have to reduce salaries because there's no fans. And how about college football coaches when there's no football fans in the stadiums this year? I think they're going to start getting furloughed. Nick Sabin furloughed. Think about that for a minute.

Isn't it on the table? Why not? Why not? If there, at some point, the NCAA says, we're not, we're shutting down recruiting, we're halting everything. Would you furlough all your coaches for at least a month, two months? Because they're not bringing in any revenue at all.

No chance. Yeah. Nick Saban could go from $9 million out of six and be okay. He'll be fine. I know they're going to take big pay cuts, probably first. We need to. We need five judges. Yes.

I don't know if anybody's listening. We've had a good show. We've got tons of listeners, Matt, because they're all crushing you about Selena. That's fine. Selena, one of the greatest voices in the history of America. Now you're mending fences now. No, I'm just, have I changed my thought about who sang better or last dance? Nope.

Just call me Mr. Consistency. All right. So we need five of you that like me and just tolerate Ross to call 713-213-5-790. 713-212-5-790. Category today, most attractive female sportscasters. It's going to be tough. Fantasy 5 next, 228 on 790. Here in H-town, we're social distancing experts. We've been socially distancing ourselves from Dallas since 1836, which is one of the reasons why we've never had an STD. The Houston Sports Talk continues.

Talk 790. All right, here we go. Fantasy 5, the Sexist Pig Edition. It is what it is. Yeah. We haven't changed since 2013. Let me taste some. Girls are the same thing with dudes.

Yes. I do not feel overly bad about this. I'm just not picking people that I know or are friends with. Their draft class, though, if there was a guy version of this, would probably not be very good. Just factual. Why not? Come on, guys. No, for the guys, wouldn't Kirk Herbst.

be the number one pick? Sure. Woody? I don't know. He's a handsome guy. Should I Google most handsome sportsmen? Do it real fast. Should we get to it?

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9. We needed one more judge. The line just folded. Filled up. Oh, no. It automatically gave me women. Here's how the fantasy five works. I'll draft a list of five.

Ross will draft a list of five of what we like to call hottest female sports reporters. Yes. It can be on the TV news. Do we have any female judges yet? We have no female judges. If you're a lesbian or just like women? Gabe Kapler is on here?

Former baseball player? I guess. Like who's the most handsome? Jesse Palmer is on here? Yeah, Palmer's good-looking guy. Okay. Yeah, I mean, we can, we're not comfortable in our sexuality. Sure.

For most of us are, at least. I am. All right, Ross, you won the last fantasy five-year-the-the-selection going first or going second. You know, this is kind of a struggle for me. I didn't know. I mean, I think I got a top-heavy list of, like, a top-heavy list of, like, a top-heavy. Top-heavy. That's nicely.

I want to grab two. the top three, I think. So I'm going to let you have the first one, Matt. I just don't think I want to win this this week, because I just don't have the depth like I thought I'd do. Really? This one has been on network television for about 10 or 15 years. She's blonde, ironically enough. Yes. She recently sent out some nudes to her boyfriend.

Okay. And she's on one of the rare pregame shows that I do watch. All right. I speak of Clarissa Thompson of Fox Sports. Carissa Thompson is very, is, she was in the top

of my list, near the tops of my list. She's good pick. Really talented. She's quite, she's quite attractive. And apparently he sends picks. In videos.

And videos. All right. Well, I won't go next. Are we going to hell for this? No. Well, this is the one that we argued over.

This woman, I remember when she was first paired with Colin Cowherd, and I was, at a sports bar and I was like, who is that? She is stunning. Didn't listen to a word she said. Then saw her in person at Super Bowl. She is just as amazing in person as you would imagine. Also, quite a pleasant person, which counts Matt. Currently not working. Christine Leahy. You can catch her sports interviews on her YouTube channel daily.

So, so she is working in sports. Christine Lehi. I'm going to go with Christine Lehi. Next. I'm going to guess this one was at the top of the list or near the top of list over the years. She's still got game. She's been one of the best sideline reporters as well. She's also had some unclothed pictures or videos come out. Now that she wanted them.

But it was, you know, it is what it is. I'm just going with a classic. Aaron Andrews, still quite attractive after all these years. Yeah, she's done well. She does sports and non-stuff. By the way, we had our fifth caller drop off. You want to jump in and do this. 713-21, 2, 5, 790.

next two for me one there is a highlight show called is it fast pitch first pitch I don't know what it's called I do you don't even know what it's called it doesn't really matter quick pitch quick pitch

it's a half hour show that has nothing but smoke shows on there the lead of that smoke show from the MLB network is Heidi Whiteley she's quite attractive was on my list She is, I mean, ridiculously sexy.

Very nice. Next, somebody that wouldn't have made our list six or seven years ago. She is on a show that I generally despise. She navigates between two mega blowhards. One I kind of like and one I think is completely horrific. She's a newlywed, having married a member of the ESPN staff, a former athlete. but it's one of the only reasons of why I watch first take

I speak of the lovely and talented Molly Karen How did she I meant to put her on my list but she's not on my list Yeah good pick Jalen Rose is Very happy with my decision With her And

Scene Next You know what I'm gonna go with somebody who's been a guest on this show What A sideline reporter She's worked with TNT. She's quite attractive.

She is. And quite talented and good at her job. Okay. And she's got a little basketball game. I'm going on Kristen Ledlo. She was on the third deck. Excuse me? Well, that's a poor choice of words.

The third what? Deck. You did it. Third, third wrong. Okay. I'm a big fan of Kristen Ledlo. I'm a 10 to 15. She's got great personality as well.

well, which counts. Okay. She's a lovely young lady. And again, I know her a little bit, so that was very difficult for me to put her on the top. Next, I'm going to go with somebody who got their national start on the great Longhorn Network. And then she graduated to ESPN, and she's been on there for years. She married a crappy quarterback that went to FSU and played for the Vikings. I'm going with Sam Ponder, formerly Samantha Stevens.

I believe she was Samantha Steele the first time we drafted her seven years ago. Yes, and apparently she and Adam Clinton got sideways at some point. Oh, God. Does Adam Clinton get sideways with everybody? Well, no, I'm just saying, but like to Adam's credit, he does make amends with 60% of those people. Oh, man, there's so many good ones left. My next two are probably going to cost me, but that's okay. Again, I just, I didn't have the depth chart that I thought I would have for this.

I ask this to Ross every time we watch a show at 2 o'clock And I always say, would you? And you go, Of course. Of course I would. You don't have to tell those secrets, Matt. Sorry. But I found her externally annoying when she would put her hair on one side of her shoulder and not the other.

Okay. But she is getting sneaky and sneakier sexier every time I see her on television. I speak of Rachel Nichols. Interesting. Okay. Okay. Last, she's very, she's way too political for sports. She is on the, occasionally as a commentator on that show around the horn.

Okay. She does a radio show, I think. She's also, she's been on ESPN for quite a while. You just need to go take a look at her from top to bottom, and you'll see why I chose Sarah Spain is my fifth. Spain. Fifth round draft pick. That's you're drafting people that sell

themselves for Super Bowl tickets. And yeah, then she's not even... Do me a fit. Just go take a pick. Go, go. Go. Go. I've seen what she looks like. Do you? Do you know Sarah? I don't like Sarah. It's the bad thing. But this is because of politics, right? That's the way often.

No, she's a total of B to me. Oh, really? Yeah. That's a bad pick. All right. Well, you know what? I can't believe that this woman made it to the last pick, but I just didn't think you're going to take it. And honestly, she's tier one, but I felt like she was going to slip in the draft, and as any good

drafter does, you let them slip. I'm going to go with, I believe, does she still work in sports? I don't know. It doesn't matter. She's a sportscaster. Carry champion. One of my faves. I don't even know who that is. You don't know who carry champion is? Oh, okay. I'm sure she's on ESPN for years. What on the Sunday morning sports centers? No. Afternoon, carry champion. You've got to know who Kerry Champion is. C-A-R-I. Do you know who C-A-R-I? Joe, okay.

She a B-2? I don't think so. She's quite a sweetheart. Oh, nope. You don't know who Cary Champion is? Matt, you just out of touch. I'm going to carry-champion.

Oh, she's distracted for sure. She left ESPN. She's currently out of work. So you've got, of your five people, you've got two people that aren't working for a sport. Carrie Champions work at somewhere, I'm sure. No, no. She's over nowhere.

Yeah, whatever. She's 44, by the way. They're probably the oldest in our group. I don't care how old she is. She's amazing. All right, so here we go. Mine, Carissa Thompson, Heidi Watley, Molly. Wattney.

Watney, whatever. You don't know what show she's on or her name. Man. You let the details get in the way. Molly Karam, Rachel Nichols, Sarah Spain. Ross has Christine Lehi, Aaron Andrews, Kristen Ledlow, Samantha Ponder, and Kerry, Chim. Your last two picks just ruin the list for you.

in the category of I don't care if I win this one this is about the top of list Laura Rutledge and Katie Nolan Laura Rutledge is good Katie Nolan is on my list further down Yeah I missed on that Cassidy Hubrith was on my list as well

Good call I like a little Ross Golden Uwee on Wudey as well What? I've had dinner with her before Lovely woman She's attractive correct Very very attractive

She fills in for Molly on First take Replaces, fills in whatever you want to go with All right. Brian on 790. Brian, who wins a fantasy 5? Ross or me? Two of them you all forgot real quick.

Casey Smith used to be on SEC Network and did a lot of AM games. Now she's with Barstool Sports and Maria Taylor from our... Marie Taylor's a good one. But overall, yeah, Matt,

you lost it with Sarah Spain, so I got to go with Ross. But Casey... We don't care anymore. All right. Well, point being is this, If you saw Sarah Spain in person, you'd stop what you were doing. I'm just telling you.

Matt, you can't believe you just hung up on that young man. That's fine. He's over it. Let's go to Ryan on 790. Ryan, who wins a Fantasy 5? Ross for me. Just to make things interesting, I'm going to say, Matt. I'm rooting for you.

You're the best. What? You got a pity vote? This used to be stricken from the record. Wait a minute. You have two people on your list that aren't even in sports right now. I don't get out of here. So get out of you.

Line three, Luke on 790. Luke, who wins a Fantasy 5, Ross or me? Matt, you started up so wrong, but then you ended it with Nichols in Spain. Ross wins. Thank you. Okay. Two to one, your lead. Line four, Chad, who wins, Ross or me?

Guys, in the mid-90s, the host of Scholastic Sports America, and then moved on to Monday Night Football for three years. Currently, NFL Network, Melissa Stark. That's a good pick. Yeah, tier one. And then, Matt, I got to agree, man. You were carrying the load until the Spain pick, so I've got to go with Roth almost. Yeah, you know, y'all are against her because of the politics, and I get it.

Sometimes you... It's not sure. No, it's a bad pick. No. I don't care what her politics. I don't even really know what her politics are. Go look at Sarah Spain. I know what she looks like.

Three to one. That's fine. Line 5, manual, roster me. Manuel. You were rolling, but I got to go with Ross. The last two and carry champion. Okay. Thank you.

Carry Champion, great pick. That's a 4 to 1. 4 to 1. And one pity vote. One, let's make it. I like how the guy knew you were going to lose and said, let's make it interesting. Again, I will say, in my defense, my five are all working. Ross, can you say that about yours?

Yes. No, you can't. Carry champion's not working. Christine Leahy. Your first pick of your draft. YouTube.com slash Christine Lehi. They'll be like saying, I'll take Michael Jordan in my fantasy draft. Hold on.

He's not playing anymore. He could play, but he's not working. He's still basketball. He's still an athlete. Isn't he? Dick Inberg, still a sportscaster. He's dead. No, it makes him no longer a sportscaster.

It's fine. So, you know what, guys, I lost in a match where three of the five people, two of the five were not eligible. You blew it. Christine Leahy's eligible. Carrie Champion's probably doing something. Here's what I understand, Matt, is you wanted Kristen Leahy to be eligible. And then you didn't draft her. I didn't say one.

I said, should we make her eligible? I was totally, did not say we could. I'm a huge Carissa Thompson fan. Yeah, that's a good thing. I mean, that's just... I had, you know what? Truth be told, she was third on my list. Okay.

Yeah, I just didn't have the depth chart. I just didn't, so I had to go with... I just went to a list. So it is what it is. Okay. Congratulations. No, Ali LaForce. No, no chance on that.

How do you feel about, I already said Cassidy and Ross. I'm a big fan of them, too. There's a lot of other people that you guys. Like, one of my all-time favorites is Jamie Maggio, but you guys don't know who she is. Well, see, I think you also lost on the Wattney is. smoke show, but I think my lot of people don't know who she is. I think a lot of people really don't know Sarah either.

She's like a late night ESPN radio host now. Yeah. She's not on TV. She's only on PTI or around the horn. Adam Clanton has weighed in on Twitter. I'm sure he has. Before anyone votes, Sports RV just destroyed SportsMT in this competition and it isn't even close.

That's because he hates Sarah Smith. Yeah. Again, so you get your number one defender is a guy who got in a fight with Sarah Spray. How about the four people who voted for me and only won the vote for you? Because they don't even know who these people are. No, they don't. all said because you voted for Spain. It was a terrible pick, regardless of, of politics.

I'm going to look at Sarah Spain during the break. All right. Let me get six feet away from you. 246 on Sports Talk, Cepiddy. When I listen to the Matt Thomas show, I don't even understand the eclectic nature of the show, the dichotomy, the ostentatiousness, the perfunctory that sounds about as smart as LeVar Ball. Back to the Matt Thomas show, whoever he is. You're looking at some Italian soccer updates here in the Not too distant future.

My God. Deletta Leota? I have no idea who... Oh. Girl next door? Not next door in any neighborhood I lived in. Clearly not. My bad.

Not a girl next door. How much time you got to kill? Four minutes? Hey, Lex, you want to start early? Oof. We're looking at... Deletta Leota. Wouldn't be the worst thing.

Okay. She... Good job. Me PanXo. who tweeted us her name. I don't know who she is, but she seems very talented. Okay.

And by the way, Adam thinks, Clatin thinks we destroyed Alan Parsons Project. I love Alan Parsons. No, we said the song, well,

the song sucks after the start of the start. Yeah. Well, and Alan Parsons project isn't a great band. I like Alan Parsons. What are their three best songs? Your Wildest Dreams? What is that?

No, that's pretty glue. I'm getting that mixed out. Forget it. You have a name. one of their best songs you can't even date one. No, they have no other great songs. What's their own?

No. If Wex can't remember and you can't remember and it's bad 80s music, it couldn't have been that great. What are you shaving your beard, by the way? When are we turning his microphone on? Yeah, well, that's...

Or just get on the second one. Yeah, the one over there. The one that doesn't work either. That one doesn't work either? You've got that Dan Fouts really thick beard going. Oh, he doesn't. look foutsian. I mean,

Fouts gets bounced on off of CBS and now his facial hairs on you. I'd be working with your best friend if I got his gig. I know. Ian Eagle will be on the show next week. Can't wait.

Charles Davis, who was one of the nine guests on the Chris Gordy indie collusion show today. Apparently he's supposed to be in that spot. Did they even ask him about that if he's officially taking the job at CBS? I don't know. He hasn't.

I mean, nothing is official yet. Yeah. But I think that would be a good choice. Yeah, he's really good. But Charles Davis and I, he worked one row in front of me in an arena football game back in the late 90s when he first started. What addition of the team were you? I was a Thunder Bears.

We were in Nashville. He was doing TV for Fox Sports South on the Nashville Cats. Spelled K-A-T-S. Well, of course. Because, you know, the Sam Houston Bear Cats are with a K, right? A new logo. They released yesterday. Sam Houston did?

They did. Is it as dumb as the Indianapolis Colts logo? Well, it wasn't stolen. That's true. Not saying that the same Houston's dumb. I'm just saying that the Colts was dumb for sure. Because it's a C. But it's like the shape in the state of Indiana.

Yeah, they ripped off a high school there. Exactly. All right. What's on the rather large program today? One of the former Texans general managers will join us today at 315. Rick Smith, wow. That's a good get. Brian Gain.

The one at Ryan Gain on the show. You see here. It is. You see here. here. Charlie Cassaroo will join us. We got Jeff Blum for his weekly visit at 4 o'clock, and at 5.30, we're talking about the last dance with the director of the last dance. Great stuff from him. I know you guys are fired up and ready to pat down at 8 o'clock Sunday night. Big, big, big time. We are live tweeting. And that'll be one of our questions as part of the

Monday night meeting next Monday about the last dance. Looking forward to it. If invited. I was going to say, you've been on two for two. I've got to bump you off. No problem. Yeah, you're out. He was the center square the last couple of times. exposure. All right. And we'll talk about it. He lost four to one and the only vote he got was a guy that wanted to make it interesting. And two of his five don't even work.

Oh, please. That's not true. That's true. Christine Lee. They're not working. That's not true. She works by a network. She just, she works for YouTube.

She just, she just interviewed Arash Marquesie or whatever his name is. Who? For what? Her YouTube channel. Anybody. He'll interview with anybody. And you don't like me because Sarah Spain blocked you and called you names. Because she's an issue.

idiot. I didn't block her if she blocked me. Look, I had, she didn't like that I disagreed with her about something and then it immediately went to... Okay, you would name calling. And then you saw a picture of her in her bikini. Okay, hang on. Let's do this. Which is nice. You can't, I didn't just like, hey, this is what I'm

going to do. She said you're like a small time local radio guy. Oh. And I'm like, oh, well, you're going to go there. Okay, well, let's see how you got your gig, which was, you know, with what? Showing the, you know, the goods. The hoo-haz. And then you parlayed that into a job. And Joe back me up

on this, you know. He called her. He called her a beer earlier. She is. She's worse than that, actually. Well, how about next time in the Super Bowl Radio Roll, let's all get together to make amends? Because you do that once per year. Pass. Yeah, but the thing about Middlecough, we didn't like make amends. We were just like cordial because we were doing a segment.

Did you unblock him on Twitter? I never blocked him. Oh, okay. I'm not a coward like Sarah Spain. And others. The block list is lengthy. The block list is lengthy. Have a great. weekend, everybody. We'll talk to you all Monday at 12 noon here on Sports Talk 790. A team is next.