The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Tiger King, What's D-Hop Worth?

Episode Date: March 24, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show with @SportsMT, @SportsRV and @ProNickLow 3/24/20G.O.A.T.s that switched teams and were still G.O.A.T.s (11:08)Matt Finished Tiger King (33:05)People We Miss Hearing From : Bill Brown (41:27)Vegas Win Totals, What Was D Hop Worth? (1:27:07)

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-2-H-town. What's happening in lunchtimers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7.9.

our producer is Nick Lowe, my cohort, co-host, General affable fellow sports RV, Rossville, a reality's here as well. Not that you're not all those things as well, Nick, but I just... He's only some of those things. I was just adding a few extra adjectives to you. I'm Matt Thomas.

It is nice to have you guys with us. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm definitely not affable. No, you're not. You disturb. You rip the Beatles, and for that, I just can't like you that much. Well, the latest news of the world.

Makes us all of you come to us. We don't want to get into that too much. We just don't. Okay. We got to get to the positive things of sports, meaning there will be no Olympics this year, which is the right decision. Dick Pound has finally weighed in? No, I think it was other people pounding.

I mean, other people getting involved in this as well. Okay. I think Japan said, yeah, this is not a good idea. USA said this is the worst. Yeah, this is just all of its bad. And look, 2021 will be the right year. Give everybody a chance. It's been training, blood, sweat, and tears, an opportunity.

I know they don't want to hear this, but one more year to be perfectly safe or at least safer than we are now is absolutely the right decision. Other things going on in terms of sports-related things. We have our series that we started last week, people we miss hearing from. Yes. We will have Astro Broadcaster Emeritus. Is that the right word? Okay. Bill Brown will be with us at 1 o'clock today.

Brownie's going to be interesting because, you know, Bill broadcast games during multiple strikes and lockouts. So he'll know what it's going to take for baseball to get revamped and how long it's going to take for the guys once we get the all clear to go down to spring training or practice here in their respective cities and get them set up for a start of a baseball season, which I guess would be at the very earliest mid-May, probably right very earliest I don't know I don't know I mean if NBA is saying they can't go till June

then why is the MLB going to start out even before that yeah I don't know that's a great question that's a really great question again everybody's just talking

excuse my friend talking out of their ass right now we don't know but it is interesting that you continue to see lots of reports from national NBA writers

the woges the shams to a much for lesser extent, Ramona Sherbourne, saying that the NBA wants the crown of champion, Ross. They absolutely do not want to put up the, we're done, you know, out of business kind of thing, sign up on their league.

And that NBA owners are preparing for June, July, August, and maybe even into September to declare an NBA champion. So what that does for me is, makes me encourage because, first of all, I love basketball. Secondly, I think there is still a lot of money to be made, clearly. Third, I think the NBA knows when their games get back on television. They're going to see a ratings push that is unbelievable. Ross, I don't mean to oversell this,

but we could see some of the biggest ratings in NBA history for a, if they play a nondescript regular season game, if LeBron James, I don't know if the clip, you know, LeBron and the Rockets, the Rockets and Lakers are still scheduled to play one more time. It was supposed to be in Los Angeles. Could you imagine, even with an empty arena, whether it be at the Lakers practice gym

or a Pauley Pavilion where UCLA is, I'm doubting the Staples Center will be the venue for it, the ratings for a Rockets, Lakers, to welcome everybody back in the NBA? It'd be huge. It'd be astronomical. It's funny because Scott Van Pelt will saying last night. It was like, how much would you kill right now just to have even, not even

Rockets Lakers? Like, Nick's Cavaliers would have, would be the highest rated thing on television if that happened tonight. I would die for Charlotte Hornets Atlanta Hawks game. Exactly. And I don't know why, but I just would. That's the thing. We're so star for anything sports related. Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to see when they come back, especially if they're the only game in town. If they started back up and the MLB hadn't gone or anything like that, the ratings, I mean, for the first couple of games, the ratings are going to be gangbusters.

They're going to be really good. How much will it sustain? How much of it will be regular season? How much it will be playoffs? We were talking about it yesterday. Are there going to be three game series, a five game series? I don't know. Again, I want to, I want the NBA,

whenever this happens, to play five games in the first two rounds. I just don't know if the calendar is going to allow that to happen, especially if we're talking about even just a handful of regular season games in June. Yeah, we need some regular season games, so James Harden can play himself back into shape.

All of them, frankly, right? And James Hardden. He's the one I'm concerned about the most. What do you think James are doing right now? Can't go to the strip club. Can't go to the club club. By the way, what you're speaking to is also 80% of the NBA. That's true.

So I don't want to point out just James. Well, I'm just saying, well, okay, well, not 80% of the NBA doesn't have their jersey retired at a strip club. James Hardin does. Yeah, but that's very out of full. It's official. Yeah.

It's official to the ladies there, Matt. That's true. And their college funds. They're the ones that kiss it when they walk in every day. He's paying their ways through medical school. It's fine. All right. So, yeah.

Yeah. The strip club factor is huge in the NBA. Yeah. I saw a story somewhere where strippers are now doing food delivery. So they can be because they're out of work. Okay. Let me just pause on that for a second. So you have strippers.

Yes. That are going to your house and dropping off food. Mm-hmm. And that's all they're doing? Yes, topless. You know what it's called? Are you being serious on this? Yeah.

Well, it's in Oregon. It's not in Houston. Oh. But it could come to Houston. It's called what? Boober eats. I felt like there was a rim shot that it should have been right after you said. I'm calling it.

I didn't name it. So women, okay. Yeah, turn the computer on. I want to see this. Okay. So, okay. What? 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790.

That's funny. She's got pasties on. It's fine. So women that are topless are bringing food to your home. Yes. What if the wife answers the door? It's probably going to be an awkward conversation for everybody. Probably.

You say, I thought I ordered Uber Eats, but I accidentally got the other one. Yeah. Now, I would assume, what if you're, what if you are, do you also, I have, I've only gotten Uber Eats one time of my life. Really? Yeah. All big time Uber Eats. I think I'm way in the minority. But the point is, do you grade them like you do on Uber?

Yeah. You give them five stars or four stars or whatever. I grade the food, grade their delivery. Do you grade their breast? Well, if you ordered one. I'm talking about boober eats. Oh, Booboers. I don't know what the rating system on boober eats is.

Yeah. And what's the, can you tip them in ones? I mean, they're kind of acclimated to that, right? Accuss them to it. When they pick up the food from wherever you ordered it from, do they flash those people, too? Is that part of the deal? I don't know. They're wearing surgical masks in some of these pictures as well.

What? That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. All right. So today Tom Brady spoke. We'll hear that coming up in the next segment of the show. He is officially a Buccaneer. They had a, and I'll just peel the curtain back a little bit on the show.

By the way, the curtain is cleansed. It's been sanitized with Lysol. We can peel it. We can actually touch it. They had a teleconference today where normally only the media. we don't ever play teleconferences on radio or television because a lot of it is this reporter from this. It's very, it doesn't have a good rhythm to it. Yeah, somebody forgot to put themselves on mute and they're coughing in the background.

You can hear people hitting their computer keys. And it's gotten better as the years have gone on because they always say, please mute yourself. But I remember back in the day, 10, 15 years ago, trying to get audio off of a teleconference was the worst thing ever. Yeah, John McLean snoring in the background or something. It's always something. Well, I mean, he works hard. He's probably napping occasionally. It happens.

So ESPN starved for programming, put the teleconference on. And it was just kind of weird. Ross and I were getting ready for the show today. Hearing what we'd normally when you would never hear on over-the-air, on radio or television, they're taking 20 minutes, putting up highlights at Tom Brady with this audio of Tom Brady speaking and Bruce Ariens' new coach in Tampa Bay. By the way, a Hall of Fame quarterback.

Not a huge fan of Tom Brady going to Tampa Bay. Joe Namath? It could be. There's a lot of Hall of Fame quarterbacks that are still alive, so you can guess all you want. Fran Tarkton? All live. All not the ones that said anything.

So we're going to let you hear from Tom Brady today. We're going to also give you on the show this afternoon the latest Houston Texans win total. It's startling where it was and where it is now. Uh-oh. And what it does is it shows. is it shows you the value of DeAndre Hopkins

or maybe does it not show you the value of DeAndre Hopkins? Plus Bill Brown and our twice weekly that's what is it that's not bi-weekly, that's every other week. That would be semi-weekly. We're doing this twice a week.

People we miss hearing from. Semi-annual sales twice a year, so semi. Semi-weekly segment called People We Miss Hearing from. And today it's Bill Brown, the longtime Astros broadcaster. He is out to, he's a big photographer now. Is that right?

He's out shooting flowers. Like Kenny Rogers. We learned that on the show yesterday. He's in the International Photography Hall of Fame. So Brownie said, look, I'm out shooting flowers because tomorrow I can't. Okay. So I'm going to go shoot flowers today. So we said, can I call you at 1 o'clock?

Sure, why not? 12.12, it's a Matt Thomas show. And of course, on a day like this and many others coming up, you are welcome to join our radio program because as much as I can provide and as little as Ross and Nick can provide, we do need you as well. It was still a compliment in your range. We've been carrying a show for a decade. 713.

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Bottom of the hour, Ross and I have a grocery store stories to tell. Antigotes? anecdotes because we're all going through this 1250 today a really quick and I don't want to give out much information on it because a lot of you have not seen it yet you have got to go see Tiger King

Nick where are you on the list how far are you into it? I have completed three episodes now okay Ross you are into episode two yet well I just saw like 90% of episode one okay I finished it so basically one episode I was up until about one o'clock this morning finishing it off it is i saw you tweeting like crazy about it and i figured

it was going to be a show topic so i i that's what i had to watch a little bit of yeah so 1250 we'll get into that again if if you've not seen it we're not going to give away much of the storyline it's just one of the most inc is there is incredulous more than incredible or the exact same thing incredulous is like if you're in disbelief yeah i'm in total disbelief of what I watch. Unwilling or unable to believe something. Yeah. Of a person or their manner.

That show was incredulous. You've watched two more. You agree with me. It's incredulous, right? Well, you're incredulous to it because you can't believe it. I mean, it's basically about a group of some of the worst human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. Perfect. More on that coming up at about a half an hour from now. All right. So Tom Brady made an opening statement. Ooh. Ah, you know what?

He is the goat. Yeah. So the goat should get 80 seconds. I mean, we are literally witnessing history. We're going to talk about this in 20 years from now. Right. We'll be like, remember that time Tom Brady became a Tampa Bay Buccaneer and then did this? Okay.

I'm going to play this opening statement. Then I'm going to give you all a question if you listen to this. Name somebody who was a goat or goat like that went to the next place and was just as good. Okay. I got a couple. Because here's the thing. it's really easy to give you the opposite. Goat, goat-like, go somewhere, and sucks.

That's easy. All right, I got a few for you. So put your thinking caps on for the next 80 seconds. Y'all can think of some at SportsMT, at Sports RV at Pro NICLO. You can call us 7132125790. Here is Tom Brady's opening statement earlier today. You know, this is an exciting moment for me in my life. You know, this entering something that's obviously very unique to me is it's the first time it's happened in 20 years.

So I'm kind of taking it day by day. And, you know, the expectation for me is to come in and do it. You know, I feel right for, you know, the organization. That's to be a great team player. And I'm going to try to do everything I can to get up to speed with all the things that I need to do. what my responsibilities are. I obviously have a ton of trust and respect for Coach Ariens, you know,

for what Jason and what he's done to build the team and organization as is now. And, you know, I'm thankful to the Blazer family to give me an opportunity. And as I said the other day, I look forward to meeting all my teammates and just doing everything I can to, you know, for us to achieve what we set out.

And there's a lot of things that go into it. And, you know, as soon as we can get those things going, you know, the greater would be for everybody. But understanding the circumstance of what we're dealing with, that we're in a little different approach and we have to adjust, as is that's what happens in football and in life. And that's what my plan is. He sounds so excited, very intrigued. And, you know, we want to meet my teammates, you know. I love you all. And I miss my time in New England.

the Kraft family and I can't wait to work with Coach Ariens and help Tampa Bay get to winning football gets the playoffs the first time in over a decade. They haven't been to playoffs in a decade? 2007, right? Oof. Come on, Buccaneers, what's going on over there?

You know why? They need to go back to their, their creamsical uniforms. Is that why? You go back, you put the swash buckler back on the helmet. Things are going to change. And they won a Super Bowl with the,

what would you call that, pewter in red? Yeah, but look at the Rams. They went back and look where they are. Not grand last year to make the playoffs, but before that, they went Super Bowl. Okay. Good for them. I'm a uniform karma guy.

You are. Why don't the Rockets go back to their, where they'll throwback. The Flashback Fridays wear them every day. Duh. Yeah. We always heard that they didn't wear them because they, you know, they're trying to go with China. Now China hates them, so who cares? You know what the thing is, the rules, I can pull aside the marketing guy from the Rockets,

Kent Shear, and he would just like, Matt, you wouldn't believe the hurdles that we have to go through to put uniforms out there. Yeah, I mean, it's because who are they, they're Nike now, not Adidas. It used to be Adidas, and now they're back to Nike, right? I don't know. Or they're back. Yeah, no, they're back to Nike. Yeah. So, I mean, Nike is going to be like, hey, we got 10,000 of these that we need to sell,

or a million of these or whatever, they printed up that they need to sell. I do like the new uniforms. I was never a true fan of the script of the last decade or so, you know, the Yal Ming, Tracy McGready stuff. I like the new ones I like them. Yeah, it's simple. They're okay. There's nothing that goes, it never stands out.

The Hightown uniforms I like a lot better. than I thought I would. Same. I thought, to me, when I first saw the design, I was like, well, but when I saw them in action, I like them. The uniforms are causing the uniform numbers and those are causing referee mistakes. Oh, really? They keep calling PJ Tucker 77, and he's actually 17.

Okay, so I threw this out at you. Let me give you the easy ones of players that were never as good when they went somewhere else. Willie Mays left the Mets and played for the Giants. The Giants went to the Mets and was never the same player. Johnny, you left the Colts that go to the Chargers. Hakeem. Akeem is a Toronto Rappor. Emmett Smith as an Arizona Cardinal.

There's a lot. There's a lot. We could go, I don't, I don't know, I don't. Right. So what came to mind

to you immediately of guys that were just as good wearing somebody else's uniform? Now, here's the preface. If they left at 27, then clearly a lot of their career side. Oh, so that doesn't count.

Yeah, I'm thinking more like... So LeBron James becoming a heat doesn't count. No, I would say LeBron James as a Laker absolutely counts. Okay. What about... What about Peyton Manning's a Bronco

when he threw for 55 touchdowns his second year there? That counts. Okay? Kurt Warner as a Cardinal. That counts. He made it to a Super Bowl. But did he go from the Cardinals

into the Giants, right? Yeah, the Giants, he was terrible. That's when Eli Manning replaced him. Well, the first movie was too good. Well, same thing with Brett Farv. He was a jet, he was terrible. And then he went to the Vikings. And he was good.

So Brett Farb would work as a guy that... I was there the first year, Brett Farrv came to Minnesota, and they went to the NFC championship game that year. He almost won that game. And that was when he, didn't they put out a picture of his leg and it was just all mauled? It looked like he was dying.

Like Rig of Mortis was setting in? Yeah, but he was fine. That's the one pick that was acceptable. The other previous pick, not so much. With the Crocs? There's Wayne Gretzky. He was still good. Wayne Grisky was good as Illinois.

He wasn't on as good a team, but he was still good. Wayne Grisky was good. I was going to go. I'll assume this one. I'm going to assume Pete Rose of Philadelphia, Philly was still pretty good. Help them to the 80 World Series. I got one for you. Justin Verlander, Houston Astro.

Yep. It fits. Yeah, Verlander. I'm picking guys 33, 34, 35 that go somewhere else. I mean, it's kind of crazy still to say Justin Verlander Houston Astro because he was a tiger through and through. That's right. He had as much tiger blood as Joe Exotic. Joe Exotic.

I can't wait for 25 minutes. That's all I've lived for in the last 24 hours. But Verlander, yeah, I think is one. So there are examples. Oh, yeah. It's not nearly as easy to come up with them, especially for guys mid-30s that all of a sudden become... Well, because every star fades.

So we can point to basically every star fades at some point. Yeah. Trying to think. Carmelone is a Laker doesn't do it for me. Gary Payton is a Laker. Pippin as a rocket But when Pippin came to the rockets He was terrible

But then he went to the Blazers and was fine Yeah How would you describe Charles Barkley's time As a Houston rocket? Oh geez hurt Got hit by a like a scissor knee By Sean Bradley and went out for a while one time Then he threw somebody through a

Yeah, threw a guy through a playglass window In Orlando It was a rocket when he did that And all the rockets stars were like nearly 40 So they would blow teams out in the first half And then just loose team So it does happen It does happen

but oh i got you shack is a celtic as a heat or a championship you did win the championship as a heat person a heater as a heater as a jewel people in a soda you know what they call heaters cigarettes yeah i just love that i like grit i'm a fire up a grit you want to smoke or do you want to because a smoke can now mean pot too yeah but heater is a good one heater is midwest cigarettes it's a good one all right It's 713, 212, 5, 7190. 713, 212, 5, 719. I think we've gone through a pretty good list, and there's obviously some others.

Yeah. But we're thinking about people. Now, Tom would be probably on that list the biggest risk, because he's 43, right? TBD, yeah. 43. To be determined, not Tom Brady. Dog. TBD, to be determined.

Okay. He said TBD for sure. TB and TB is TBD. Okay, we'll make a prediction. How successful is he? going to be as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. We'll do it after I tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. How about that? Is that fair?

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We, meaning Ross and I, and I'm throwing Nick under the bus too, we missed the all-time greatest 35-plus guy leaving to kick ass somewhere else. Nolan Ryan with the Texas Rangers. How do we goof that one? Thanks, Tom and downtown. Didn't he go throw like two more, two or three more

no-hitters as a ranger? He wanted a boatload of games with the Texas Rangers and sold out every one of those games at Arlington Stadium. That's a shame. Then he comes back to the Astros and then him and Jim Crane go sideways and now he's gone again. But he's still got all natural beef. Yeah, I'm still selling there.

condition units and siding standards aiding in there yeah he's got he found a foundation repair so that's the problem is you bring up no one ryan you want up to trying to talk like no one ryan it's not good yeah all right's me doing the mirror for hours at a time yeah so no one ryan is our guy is is the goad of the moving on and being just as good somewhere especially as as as as old as he was so thank you to those of you that had no one ryan on the list 713 212 570 790 713 212-790 if you want to get in on Twitter at SportsMT at SportsRV and at ProNet Law. I know a lot of you are working from home and even more of you will be doing that obviously with the new shelter in place put into Harris County. IHeart Radio app does a great

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Now, I find it frightening. Sometimes people find it to be, like, she'll randomly start talking to us in the middle of dinner, which is, it is a lot. But for the most part, Alexa does us good. So if you are now at home or stuck at home, the foreseeable future. Do not put the, put the, we're going to be here every day. We are considered essential employees, which means Ross, I and Nick, will be here. Wonderful.

In studio. Because we're here to disseminate information to the people. Well, we might have to. I didn't think we get to this point. That's true. So what are we going to do? Stay home, stay safe right now. And washing our hands a lot.

And eating a lot of takeout. Sounds good to me. Too much takeout. Chris Cordy had a good tweet. I need to flatten the curve on what I'm spending on takeout. I do too. I'm still really. confused by this order because I don't understand who's non-essential. When you look at this list of industries that are deemed essential, it almost seems like everyone that's currently working today. So let me try to guess. There are 16 groups, right? I think is what I saw. So let me try to guess them real quick. Media.

They say communication. I believe that entails media. We're communicating. Communicating. Grocery store employees. Very essential. Yep. Physicians? Medical, yeah. Police officers?

Yeah, they're in the list. Trash men? Sanitation. That's five. Am I running those categories? Five? Who else would be essential? People that are going to

go into restaurants, I guess, to run the restaurants? What would those be called? I mean, I don't know with that category. it would be. There's a one, it's like a general food. Yeah, general food. Food and hospitality or something. Yeah, something like that.

Okay. Give me someone that I'm missing. Chemical. Oh, like oil and gas. Oil industry. You got to keep running. You got that right. Got to keep plutin.

Let's see. What else did we not say? Commercial? Which, that's the one that confuses me? What does that even mean? I would say that's, like a truck driver? Truck drivers. Yeah, we need them. Moving supplies.

Yeah. Yeah. Commercial. Logistics. What would be my guess? That's logistic. Yeah. Yeah, we need them.

Yep. They got to work. Let me find the other list. I don't have the list. I guess it would be easier to figure out who doesn't have to work. If you work in an insurance agency, you can stay home and do your stuff there. Right. Public works.

Yeah. What does that mean? Like the guy that's mowing the lawn at the park? No, that's probably people that are fixing roads. Right. Maybe there's a sewage leak of some sort like we had a few weeks ago. Oh. Let me tell you some.

2020, you suck. 2020 has not been the greatest. We lost a great athlete. We've had a terrible astro situation. We've had sewage on the east on the east loop. We got this. DeAndre Hopkins is gone. DeAndre Hopkins is gone.

We've got no Olympics. We can't go to our favorite restaurants. We're betting having to bet on cornhole games. We're not even betting. It's a shame. You know when you always watch, I don't know if you watch this, but you ever see the New Year's Rock and Eve or, you know, They go, hey, everybody, looking forward to a great 2021.

Yes. 2020 is in the rear of you mirror. I'm like, it is going to be in a rear of you mirror in a millisecond. I think all the networks should be able to say, FU 2020. Just change the calendar? I mean, what's going to, what's the difference? What if we all just change our calendars to 2021 right now? Yeah.

I'm good for that. I'm just going to notice. It's all made up anyways. Well, we've got to have some sort of chronological timeline. Yeah, we skip one. we've got a leap day. Why don't we have a leap year? Well, but if tomorrow becomes January 1st, 2021, you mean to tell you all this coronavirus and stuff is gone?

No. No. Let's just let 2020 be a year we totally forget. A decontamination. Yeah, and then we rec cleanse ourselves and get back and purify ourselves in 2021. In the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Yeah. 2020 NFL wind totals, by the way. Uh-oh. Can I guess?

I just want to guess. I haven't seen them. Okay, guess what the Houston Texans win total was. when they opened up the wind total lines earlier this year. Every year it's about 8.8.5. So I'll go 8.5. The win total was 8.5. It's every year for the Texans. No matter if Gary Kubiak is the coach or Bill O'Brien, it's usually about 8.5. Which, to their credit, they've gone over for the last 5 years.

The 2019 opening win total was 8.5. We were weak of 8.5. That's what I'm saying. Now, if you took the 8.5, you're feeling great. Excuse me. You got laid any juice on that or is it even? It doesn't say. What is now the regular season win total for 2020 as of today?

Now fresh off of the DeAndre Hopkins trade. Well, DeAndre Hopkins was traded. Philly Rivers went to the Colts. The Titans re-up Tannahill. I'll say eight. Okay, you're stealing. So let me ask you this, because you're smarter when it comes to this than I am. You may to tell me that Deandre Hopkins is only.

worth a half game. You think he's worth a full game? Yeah, I would say at least. You may tell me that DeAndre Hopkins, by making some incredible catch or scoring a touchdown or gaining a first down, hasn't helped the Texans at least in a game and a half per year?

Over a replacement guy, no. It startles me he's only worth a half game. They only make, I mean, the only things they really move, they move those tops and lines for it that's going to move huge is going to be a quarterback. Outside of that, I mean, you can look at from game to game, How about let's do this.

Within an actual spread. Say DeAndre Hopkins is questionable a week and the Texans are favored by seven. If he doesn't play, that line is usually going to hold steady. It's not going to move more than a point. So if it's only about a point of game, that makes, I mean, a point a week, if that. Can I just argue that logic in general? Okay. I'm not saying.

I just think that we weigh undervalue superstar players. I mean, how many catches did DeAndrey Hopkins make in the last years that his replacement, Randall Cobb, could not make. I mean, Kenny Stills came in and made a bunch of plays. I mean, with Will Fuller plays, he can make plays. We've seen Kiki Kootie make plays. Now, of course, not to the level of DeAndre Hopkins. But, and also, I think it's a factor of football.

If James Hardin is out, he's 105 on the court, that's going to move a line a couple of points. You're saying, just based on the sport itself. First of all, if it's a game where you're running, and passing, your running back is still there. You're only losing one. If you have five pass catchers, if you have four receivers and a tight end, you're missing one of those.

You're still got four out of the five. You do, but look where he is as compared to everybody else in the NFL. He's always among the leaders in catches. He's always among the leaders in yards. He gets to the end zone. He extends play. It just seems to me, again, this is always my own personal. I'm not arguing the logic behind.

I'm just saying for me, it feels like that he's more than a half game, that the Texans are not just a half game worse because DeAndre is not wearing Texas. So they went 10 and 6 last year. If DeAndre Hopkins didn't play at all, you think they go 8 and 8? You think they go worse? Based on the logic I just presented to you, yes. That DeAndre Hopkins is worth at least two games of this team. Okay, I think it's oversold.

And if you disagree, that's the beauty of betting. If you don't like the line, you don't like the way it moved, you can just bet on it. If we were in Vegas was open today, and the overender right now is at 8. would you take the over or the under? Because here's the thing. If you've gone under the last couple of years, you're a loser. Four and the last five years you've lost. Yeah.

Save it. Actually, I'll do it real quick because I want to get into this amazing show. Joe Exotic. I will say, gosh, eight is a great number. I really like that number for that time. You get five seconds. It was eight and a half I'd go under. I'll go, I guess.

Over? Okay. Because you know what? History shows that Vegas is typically underwhelmed, serving, showing that they're underperforming when they overperforming. I mean, we went through this before.

They have the, they have the first place schedule. But they had the first place. They're also in the AFC North with the Ravens and the, and the Steelers. But the, but the Bengals are atrocious and the Browns have shown no signs of being a playoff team.

That's true. But as far as divisions go, I mean, they have two good teams. Not every division can support that. Who else is in there? And in the NFC North. Packers, Vikings, lions, and bears. And maybe the Lions on Thanksgiving Day again. Could be.

All right. 1243 is the time. The over under and the Texans is eight. If Vegas was open today or you went to a online service, which obviously you can still do that now. Whether or not you like the Texans is a different story. We're talking about betting this thing, Rossi. we're betting on Cameron Thomas's junior year at Texas Tech University.

If I had that bundle to spend on that right now, you do, which I do, I don't know for much longer, but I do. Would I go the over or the under on 8? 713-212-5-790. Don't leave Matt Thomas in your car. Take him with you. Download the free IHeartRadio app for your phone at Sports790.com. Just remember you'll have to feed him.

All right. A lot of you make fun of me on my TV watching habits. And I've tried to be a little more diverse. As you guys know, I've finished off Godfather 1 and 2. I'm just going to give you a quick recommend. If you have Netflix or you have somebody that has Netflix, do yourself a favor. And please watch Tiger King.

You'll get to meet Joe Exotic. A bizarre. one of the most bizarre individuals I think man ever created This is one of his songs. It never made the top 40, by the way, just to let you know. It also, he also,

and I don't want to give away too many secrets, but I'll give away a little bit. He ran for public office on two different occasions. He's got my. vote. No, he doesn't. After you find out what he's done later on, you don't have your vote. Oh, okay, he doesn't? No. I'm in episode one. Yeah. You probably shouldn't have your vote even in just episode one. Yeah. If you think he's a likable fella, you've still got to keep going. I think he's going to get stuff done. Oh, he gets stuff done

all right. Well, maybe not all the way. But every character on the show is completely flawed. Every character probably should serve some sort of prison time. I think the one that actually already served prison time is probably the most likable of all of them, if you know which one I'm referring to. And we'll leave it at that. We don't want to give any more out. But please take my recommendation. Do not buy this CD.

Do not support Joe Exotic under any circumstance. But he is a man that is quite diverse. His look, his relationships, and the animals. And we'll leave it at that. Let's go to Bruce and Clear Lake, 1250 in the Matt Thomas show. Bruce, how are you, friend? Oh, doing well today.

Being a season ticket holding to the Texans, I've got a protest for the people that actually go to the games. That would be where you gozy inside out unless you have a Hopkins jersey. And that maybe shows some of those people what we think, because I know with petitions, basically they throw them in the trash. Okay, you're going to have to kind of refresh me. He wants everybody except people with Hopkins jerseys to wear their jerseys inside out.

Inside out jersey guy? Yes. I mean, it's better than a bag over your head. Have you sent this idea to other people? A couple people around work. And what's their general feeling about it? Go for it. Inside Out Jersey. Well, I got news for you, Bruce.

If you really want to be mad about something, and you really want Cal McNair to basically know how you feel, you just don't go to the games anymore? Yes, that would require the whole 600 section to not go. Or the 500 to the 300 to the 300. And what about the 100? Well, they don't go any. A lot of the half of them don't go anyway.

It's true. I didn't think of it that way. So the true fans are way up high. Well, I mean, I've been in the lower sections. There's also fans there, too. Not that I don't value you the 600 people, but, yeah, Bruce, you know, it might be interesting for a half a game, but I don't think that's going to push. I think I'll tell you what you want to do if you want to go to the games and you love your text.

When Bill O'Brien gets announced, you boo the hell out of him. When Cal McNair is on the screen, you boo the hell out of him. short of that, there's something really you can do, I mean, except not go. But there are people that are just people too many. Thank you, Bruce, for the phone call, that just can't fathom not going. Like our buddy Larry and Stafford,

do you think Larry's really not going to go any more Texans games? Is Texans Karen not going to go to Texans games? She's still going to go. Everybody's still going to go. You're going to be mad. But something's going to inspire you, whether it's JJ Watson, we're going to be bigger and better than ever,

Whether it's Deshaun, let me tell you, what is the tenor of the community? How much will it change, Rossi, if Deshaun Watson gets a brand new six-year extension and puts him either the number one and number two quarterback in the NFL in terms of compensation? Is that going to make people feel better? No. You will see the Texans PR campaign put out there. He's our guy. Texans PR campaigns are not going so hot right now.

Well, again, serious question. if Deshawn Watson signs tomorrow, they're still getting ratioed on every tweet. But it wouldn't be nearly as bad as what they'd done before. Yeah, that's true. You got to remember, think of the lowest common denominator of Texan fan. The one that does tailgate, the one that says, I hate the team in the months of, say, January to August,

but come September, they are there for that first game because that's what they do. I think that's going to be most everybody. upset and firing off these tweets, they're all going to be watching or doing, I would put it this way. They're going to be doing what they normally do. If you're normally a season ticket holder and you tailgate, you're going to be doing that. If you normally just sit and watch at home with your buddies with some queso and wings, you're going to be doing that. Whatever you normally your baseline is, that's probably what you're going to be doing come week one.

Because here's what's going to happen. Those people that are eating the casso in their front of their couches, they're not running and calling the Texan season ticket office. It's the question of how many of those that are going to call that Texan season ticket office that are season ticket holders and say, yeah, and they're yours. I don't think as many as maybe some. Not as many as we think. We'll never know. They're not going to announce it. Hey, we did

this move and a thousand people canceled their season tickets. I'll tell you this. The only thing they would announce is if they said we have renewal rate at X percentage if it's a good number. If the renewal is at 71%, that's a terrible percentage. If the renewal rates at 98%, the Texans will brag about that.

We still have a long wait list, too. I wonder how many of those people will just be ready to snatch them up. Now, waitless guy might drop off. It's like, yeah, you know what? This isn't worth it. It's not worth the exclusive waitlist details or emails. Yeah, because all the do is just teasing you at that point. 713-212-5-7-90.

We've got a special guest coming up in a few minutes. People we miss hearing from. We miss hearing from Bill Brown. The former television voice of the Astros still does some games on radio occasionally. There's a fill-in for those guys. but he is a historian now. He is a very good photographer, and he is a very, very goodwill ambassador for the Houston Astros.

And I do want to ask him about what it's like to call games and watch baseball seasons with shorter schedules because he has done that many times over his broadcast career. So Bill Brown, the longtime television voice of the Astros, and has also done some radio here and there, will be with us. And then after that, Mark Cuban appeared on a Dallas television station yesterday, Ross,

with some optimism about the NBA. I'm intrigued. So I'm going to tell you this next half hour is going to make you feel good. Good baseball chatter with Bill Brown and Mark Cuban telling us that, you know what, we're going to fight for an NBA season. That's all coming up.

In the final hour, the second hour, the Matt Thomas show, you guys are welcome to join us as well. 713-212-5-790. People we miss hearing from. Okay, and remember, you can't call my show for six months. We miss hearing from as we continue our life without sports for a while. And one of the voices we miss is one of my favorite people both on and off the air,

the longtime television and radio voice of the Houston Astros, Bill Brown, who's now becoming champion photographer. Brian, first of all, thanks for joining me. Tell me where you are right now and what you're shooting. I walk around to a place where I can get a better signal in Chapel Hill, Matt. Great sausage in Chapel Hill. Yeah, great sausage. Unfortunately, a lot of closures out here, as you know.

Yeah. And the blue bonnets are coming out, though, Matt. Well, I'm glad you're out there today because tomorrow the brown camera's got to stay at home and taking pictures of your lovely wife, I think. That's exactly why this is happening today. yes and unfortunately the sun duck behind the cloud so it's not the best but still a beach sitting around the house watching reruns right absolutely let's get to 2020 first and then i want to peel back some of your history about the work stoppages and whatnot there is a lot of conjecture about how long it would take for guys once a season resumes to get ready the common thought is four weeks do you buy that notion or can guys get better faster because maybe athletes are a little more prepared for this and they were saying you know 20 or 30 years ago. That's a good way to put it, man.

I think that is true. And I think, oh, I'm going to be optimistic and say two and a half weeks. I know it would be rushing to do that, but assuming players are staying in shape, which they do these days, as you indicated, I think that's doable. That might be a little soon, but, you know, three weeks, I think, would be doable. And what I would like to see Major League Baseball do is maybe open up the rosters to maybe 30 players for a while and maybe those extra spots go to pitchers. Because if anybody's going to be potentially taxed, because the arms aren't built up,

it would be guys in the pitching stuff, especially bullpins and starters. Yeah, I think you nailed it. Steve Sparks and was on a podcast with Todd Callis that I heard, and they were talking about that very thing. And Sparky said, well, in 95, you know, he was pitching then when the season started a little bit late. And that's what they did. They had extra pitchers to open the season. So that would make a lot of sense.

Bill Brown joining us here. People we miss hearing from here on the radio program. Now, Brownie, you broadcast it over parts of four or five decades. I forget the number. But point being is this. You have seen your share of work stoppages, albeit this is obviously a lot different. How did baseball handle strikes and lockouts and how everybody got ready? Do you have any vivid memories of, let's go back to 1995 in that time?

What was it like seeing the guys kind of rushed to get to 100 and whatever 100 games it was? Yeah, that was a bad situation because they had gone out on strike in August of 94. And then we went to spring training in 95 with replacement players and played, you know, I think a full spring training with these replacement players, which was the owner's response to the players walking out the previous year by telling them, hey, we can find other guys who can do your jobs. And it was a failure, but the players, even though they did come back, you know, had a difficult situation. They had been working out on their own as they are now.

But unlike this year, they didn't start and get well into spring training and then stop and then resume. That's why I think it could be quicker for them this year. The process should be a little bit easier for them to adjust. but I think as you have already really put it out there with the pitchers, that's what the difficulty would be, getting the pitchers built up to where they can make the appearances and put in the innings that has been the case of the past.

I don't think we can expect that until maybe about a month into the regular season. How much different, because you've dealt with hundreds of baseball players over your career as a broadcaster. Tell me what they've told you about team workouts as compared to working out with their buddies and their home gym. Now, you can't even really go to a, you can't congregate. So the types of preparation must be even more difficult for today's athletes than say guys that are just normally working out during the offseason. Agreed.

The intensity is not there. The competition with teammates is not there. Being surrounded by other hardworking people is not happening. I saw a little video the other day of Alex Bregman and Yuleiguriel playing catch in the street somewhere. So that's kind of what you get in these situations. Bill Brown, long-time television and radio voice of the Houston Astros with us here on people we miss hearing from on the Matt Thomas show at 106. So you have to be doing some of the same stuff I'm doing. Are you catching some of this MLB network, classic games, ESPN, classic games?

Has there been one that you were near or around that you've seen on television the last month or last two weeks or so? Honestly, I just saw a clip of about two innings of the 95 playoff game between the Seattle Mariners and the Yankees. That's all I've really seen. I just have not been all that interested, to be honest. I think it's a good opportunity, though, to rekindle some old memories. And in fact, the Astros are looking at a list of, they wanted me to contribute some games from Astros history. I think that they're considering replaying on radio, depending on how long the situation goes. And that could be fun.

You know, I was looking at the list of no-hitters and things of that nature, people hitting for the cycle. And you had those final season games in 2004 and 2005 when the Astros had to win their final regular season game to go to the playoffs. Those were good games and et cetera. But there's a long list. I think I wound up with 43 games that I guess. gave them. I don't expect them to pursue that many, but for somebody who's really an Astros fan or hasn't had a chance to listen to something for 30 years ago, I think it would be interesting. It's hard to ask this to a play-by-play guy, because I could ask this occasionally

myself, but your career is much longer in this than at mine. Is there a Bill Brown definitive game that if I said, I want to go find either on television or radio, and of course, you work from the Astros from most of your career, but you also did some games for the Reds went back. Is there a definitive Bill Brown call or game that you go, I get asked about that game and that call more than any others? Probably not.

I think what I get asked about is, okay, now, what did you do in your career? Stop it. That's ridiculous. But no, I don't think there is one. You know, people would remember the Vigio-3-000 hit game, which in addition to

him getting five hits, that was a tremendous game. It was an extra inning game and Vigio got on and Carlos Lee had a game winning home run. So that was a very memorable game in addition to what he did individually. But no, I don't know. You know, and we've talked about this before, but I'm always jealous of the guys, Robert Ford and Steve Sparks and Milo and Alan Ashby and whoever it was doing radio because they get to do the postseason games.

Those are the big ones. I want to ask you about that. watching some of the old stuff on MLB Network, and you got to help me who started this and when did it end? But they would put team broadcasters on the national call. I was watching the 70, and this just shows you how bored I am. I was watching the 74 World Series between the A's and the Dodgers. It was Kurt Gowdy was calling the play-by-play. Tony Kupak was doing the commentary on NBC.

And Vince Scully was in the booth with them, too. When did that start up, and how long did that last? Well, that was going on. I know in the 70s, because I remember when those regs teams went to the World Series in 75 and 76, what they would do, the network would pick the play-by-play broadcaster of the home team. And then so when they'd go, you know, when Cincinnati was playing Boston, it would be Marty Brennamen would be on with them in Cincinnati. And Boston, it would be whoever their play-by-play guy was.

I don't remember now. And that was typical. and I know we're probably running up against a time here, but I've got a quick story if you have a minute. For you, I got plenty of time for you. All right. Well, I happen to be fortunate enough to work around Bob Prince in Pittsburgh for one year in the 80s. And he told me a story about when he was the home broadcaster in 1960,

Game 7, Yankees and Pirates, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh. So he was in the booth and the NBC producers sent him down to the podcast. locker room after the sixth inning because the pirates were leading, and it was his job to do the post-game interviews for the winning team. He got down there, and he was told, no, now the Yankees are leading, so you need to go back upstairs to the booth. And this continued for three innings, Matt. He was up and down on that elevator, and he did not see any of the last three-ennings of the game. So now the game's over, and he's in the clubhouse, and they're bringing him out. Maserowski to him and he asked him how it feels to be a world champion and all that,

didn't even know he had won the game with a home run. I was in a similar situation. I was working the clubhouse for the Minnesota Twins, and the game went like 15 innings, and I would go up going upstairs downstairs because a new inning would start up. So to a much more smaller extent, I'd certainly empathize with that. But that's not the way you're supposed to as a team broadcaster, find out your team is winning by being in the elevator not catching a single thing.

But I just think it's great. People do miss, and I don't know if you notice this or not, but, you know, Turner has those hometown broadcast on during the final four where you get, I would love for be able for when you and DeShay's were working games that the Astros were in, say, the 2005 World Series, to have you two on a separate broadcast. I don't know if Major League Baseball would ever do that, because obviously they want eyeballs on Fox, but it would make perfect sense to kind of have a homeristic or at least a recognizable viewpoint. So Todd and Blum could do a television version for the audience that's acclimated to having them call the games. Right. Why couldn't they be on a Facebook live broadcast or something like that? Right. That's absolutely right.

That's right. All right. Well, I thank you for spending some time. Again, you better take as many pictures as possible because you're going to be taking pictures of your house for the next foreseeable future, it sounds like. I hope you and the family are doing well. I see your Facebook mentions all the time, and I know that you guys are enjoying retirement. you are so still a huge part of our community. It's great to hear your voice,

and please keep in touch and hope to see you at Minutemay Park a lot sooner rather than later, that's for sure. I look forward to it, Matt. Thank you for the time. Thank you, Brown. Bill Brown, long-time television voice, and one of the nicest people in our industry. Past, present, and I can tell you that for future.

Bill Brown joining us here on the Matt Thomas show. 112.1.12.000 is our time. 713-1-2-1-2-7-9. Wouldn't you like that to have, wouldn't Todd and Jeff who have been there all year long give you a perspective from the Houston side of things? Again, put it on FS1. Nobody's watching FS1 anyway.

Put it on something. FS2. Do you have people even get FS2? I think you get FS2. But, I mean, put it on a smaller subchannel. Let Houston fans who are acclimated to those guys hear their call. Because that's the one thing that hurts. It happens to us in the NBA side of things.

when the second round of the playoffs start, typically in most seasons, Craig, Bill O'Rell and Matt Bullard, their seasons are done on television, and it only goes to us on radio for the Houston perspective of things. I'd like it to see it go a little bit deeper, but I know they want those eyeballs on those particular TV networks. Speaking of the NBA, Mark Cuban with some optimism. The Dallas Maverick owner spoke yesterday.

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The Cuban thing? Yeah. Well, I haven't heard. You were going to play it. I wanted it to be organic, so I didn't even look at what he said. All right. Mark Cuban understands that the NBA can bring all of us. that are starving for sports back to a little bit of normalcy.

That there's one thing that's going to bring the country back to some level of normalcy and get people's blood going again in a positive way and get people excited. It's going to be sports. And the NBA is incredibly well positioned to be the sport that drives the recovery. You know, the commissioner is looking for us to lead and to set an example and to be that league that gets people excited again. It gets people rallying around their teams. Okay. So when?

Hold on. So when? Is there a drop-dead date? No. No, everything's on the table. There are no rules. You know, the bad news is there are no rules. The good news is there are no rules. Everything's on the table. I'm positive. I think things are going to turn out better than we think, sooner than we think. Obviously, it was still a lot of disruption. We'll have to look and see what happens with television. Television viewing is way up. For obvious reasons, we don't want to read.

Ross, we don't want to talk to our families. Let's just talk to us. Terrible. Let's just watch television. Keep things quiet. Yeah, I think he's right. And the NBA said, he was asked about how long it would take for everybody to get going. We get this playoff thing going.

I think we can play five games to get guys back in the groove and then go into the playoffs and maybe make the first round five games instead of seven. Play it out from there, depending on when we start, obviously. Obviously, he's listening to the show. I don't think Mark Cuban's listening to the Matt Thomas show. He should. Tellman listens. Okay. I mean, if I can get one owner to listen.

Tell them and listen to the things I say about U of H. Well, he, that's why you're not welcome to Toyota Center anymore, ever, even when the coronavirus is gone. I was wondering why they didn't let me on my credential last week. That credential has been revoked. Denied, denied. Whoops. What do you think? Five games is what I said yesterday.

Yeah. Well, you said three at some point. I got you to back. Yes, you did. Check the tape. No, no, no. I said, maybe check tape on that. You got to get to an even number.

baseball with the same number of games. Oh, you mean regular season? I'm talking about the first round of the playoffs. You wanted Best of Three in the playoffs. I don't know. I didn't want it. I'm saying the calendar may dictate that. I'd rather not.

At all cost, Best of Three, I'm out on. Yeah, I think Best of Three is terrible, but I'm just saying the reality is. And they make the most money off the playoff games, so I would figure they would still want Best of Seven. The reason they went to Best of Seven was really for money. So, I mean, be hard for them to back off of that. But obviously, the schedule will dictate them. Yeah.

How many games the Rockets played again this year so far? Is it 64, I think? Let me look it up again. I know they've got nine road games left. I think the... I'm looking. Yeah, they're 40 and 24, so 64. So they have 18 games left.

Yes. 40 and 64. So I would think they would play six more games to get everybody to 70. Does that make sense? Let's see. The Lakers have played 63. I'm trying to see if anybody's played more than that. It doesn't look 65 by the Nuggets.

The Mavericks have played 67 games. Yeah, so 70. And what you do is you look at the schedule and you say, who's got, if there's a discrepancy with somebody that's played way more home games, you give them more home games. If somebody's played more road games, you give them the road games. And maybe the math will work out that somebody's going to get screwed on that, but we'll see.

It just can't be 100% fair. Or would it always be zero sum? I don't know. I don't know. Because then you've got to match up. I would think you would take... Yeah, there could be people who've played way more home games or way more road games. So I don't think it would be a zero sum.

Point being is this, you would take who you're having left in your schedule. Do you keep it within conference? Do you just forget the interconference matchups? Maybe even try to keep it within conference and maybe even try to keep it within division. Well, here's the division. The Rockets have two games in Dallas, still to be played. One game in San Antonio. That would be three.

They're done in New Orleans. and they're done in Memphis. Memphis would have to come here one more time. So there's your fourth. They're done walking in Memphis. Would that be the, if you were in charge of masterminding this, would you try to keep it in division? Or would you spend more time?

You have to do as best you can. I'm sure there would have to be some exceptions. Yeah, because again, you don't want something that's had four more home games to play four of the five remaining games on the home, you know? Yeah, I mean, you have 15 and 15. So you can't match them all up against each other, number times, right? There would be stray. It's kind of like interleague play. Yeah,

yeah, it's not going to be, it will not be a fair balance. It's just the question is, I think the number one thing would be to make sure you get as close to a number of home games and number of road games. And I think you've got to give every team at least one home game and at least one road game, just to get the feel of

you know, that no one's being overly favored. Like it wouldn't be fair to give New Orleans four home games and one road game if they're trying to make the playoffs and then send Portland on the road for four or five. There's a lot of massaging in the schedule that's going to have to happen. Because again, I don't anticipate them playing the full 18 to finish ticket to 82. No, I wouldn't think so.

But at least, you know what, Ross, at least he's not going on Channel 8 in Dallas and saying, yeah, I don't think this is going to happen. Yeah. Because if Mark Cuban says that, then we're all in professional depression. And maybe he knows that too, though. Sure. Yeah, he couldn't, under any circumstance, go out and say, I don't think we're doing this. because I don't think the

even though there may be some skepticism in the NBA League offices they basically have said and I'm not talking about every individual owner we've got to play games we've got to finish the season of unless the president

comes on a press conference tomorrow and says do not leave your homes until Christmas I'm declaring martial law or something like that crazy like that right even then you can get the games together with no crowds right playing the Rockets practice facility get some cameras set up there. It'd be like watching the

Summer League, just with less Danadus Monti Unis. Oh, I think you would be probably... And Nick Johnson. You could see you know, like in Houston, you could see the Merrill Center maybe being a home for it. You could see you know, the Fritia, I mean, smaller, you know, rice, you know, over at Autry Court. They call it Tudor

Fieldhouse. Yes. You'd have to go to... Atry Court back in my day. Yeah, you'd have to go to places that have had television cameras before. So at least they know this is where we put our cameras. I don't know if you're doing it at a high school gym. Well, again, you could, in theory, do it. It'd be easier if everybody knew that, okay, I'm doing a game at the Fortita Center. I know that these cameras go in these particular spots. That just to me sounds like that would be the

most practical thing to do. I don't think, I don't know if practice, practice courts are going to give them enough space to be able to, because I think they're going to want to do is they're going to want to show some angles and viewpoints of these games that you don't normally see. They're going to have more room to do this kind of stuff because they're not going to be fighting with fans in space. So again, the NBA is always, I think, a step ahead of things. Maybe they'll be in this spot too. But, you know, again, I'm more encouraged having Mark Cuban said this compared to having

Wode to go on his Twitter and say, they're thinking about cutting the season and they're going to cut salaries and they're thinking about not paying the players. That kind of stuff just depresses me. So I feel a little bit of optimism, at least at this point. 128 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 212. 5790 if you want to get in. 713-212-5-7-90. Via tweets, you can get us at

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Sports Talk 790 is your home? Yes. For Houston Rockets of Basketball. This is the Matt Thomas show. Today, your last day of somewhat freedom. Well, that's actually not true, but either. What are they calling it? Stay home, stay safe or something like that? Stay home, stay safe. Shelter and place, right?

I think they didn't want to use those terms because those are usually for, like, if we're on lockdown from some kind of disaster. Oh, okay. Shelter in places and vote. I believe the official one is stay home, work safe. Stay home work safe. And we're at 2000 West Loop South. Yep. I can't not be around you guys.

Well, you got until midnight, anyway. Yeah, just stay at home, Matt. You want me to stay home tomorrow? I don't know. Should we? I can't. I think this shows better if I can see you. That's why I'm here.

I need to see that. I don't mind. I don't mind when I'm on the road with the rockets, it gives me a flavor of being with the team and whatnot. But if I'm here, I'm here, you know. Let me just be honest. If I'm staying at home, focusing for me is a problem in general. I see the focus problem at 12 to 3 here in the studio.

That's what I'm saying. It's got to be worse at home. By the way, some people are in sweatpants anyways. Yeah, I've been emailing me about what my former boss said yesterday on Fox. Oh. Your boy that wants to die for our stock portfolios? I didn't realize he's turning 70 next week. Yeah, would you get him?

I didn't know he's going to turn 70. What's the last interpersonal contact you two have had? We were on a plane together about four or five years ago. Coincidentally? Coincidentally. Okay. Great visit. Cool.

And yeah, it was, we were going to, we were going, I was going to Tulsa to do a basketball game and he was going to Dallas and I was changing planes. And he was on my Houston Dallas flight. Hmm. You know he has a bodyguard? That makes sense. I think all elected officials at that level. But I mean, so every time he goes somewhere, our government has to pay for an extra ticket. I know it's, I know it's a secret service for the president.

What's it called for a lieutenant governor? I don't know. The Texas Rangers or something? But he, his security guy was sitting next to him on the flight. And his security guy and I both flip spots. So we could sit. So Dan and I talked about it. Wow.

So you could have assassinated him. No, I was inside an airport. I had nothing to kill him with. Not that I was going to, but, you know. You could have killed him with kindness. As I've done daily. Or a spork. No, sporks don't do a due damage.

That's going to take some work. Bodyguards not let you get that one off. It was a flight to Dallas. They weren't serving us a full. meal. Put it that way. Get some peanuts. Is he allergic to peanuts? That would work. Oh, geez. You're off this segment.

Trying to hurt our lieutenant governor. If you didn't catch it, I don't want to paraphrase, but I'm going to anyway. Basically, he went on Fox yesterday and said that, how do I phrase this properly? That he, he would be willing to sacrifice his life. his life in order for people to feel better about what's ahead of us. He wants old people to die to save the economy, basically. And there's a lot of people with that feeling, but... There is?

Yeah. I have parents in their 70s. I don't want them to die. My mom is 60 or nearly 60, and I want her to live. Yeah. I'm not willing to sacrifice anything. We're all going to get through this together. And my dad.

It's a difficult road. We'll not be easy, but I, yeah, he's not listening. But yeah, I'm not willing to sacrifice members of my family, or for that, matter your family. I'm with you on that, Matt. I want everybody to stay alive as healthy and wealthy and wise as long as possible. Now, Nick, how old are you, Nick? Me? I'm 36. If we sacrifice you, this is not very nice.

That would be a lot faster than sacrificing a 70-year-old. He'd be worth two because he's half as young. Yeah. The die is cast. You're a great sacrifice. You're young. or member of the military? He's got young children.

I'm a father. He's got children, Matt. You know, you know, your kids need their dad. Forget what I said. You know, you get to stick around. I don't have a good life insurance policy. Yeah, what do you bring? I don't have really bring much to the table.

Not a whole lot. Just joy and laughter. Again, who? Beards are supposed to make it more likely for you to catch it. I read that somewhere. All right. You know, we're going to end this conversation by saying no one's worthy of being sacrificed. Well, there's some that I would never mention their names.

on air. I do have a list. Trust me. I would love to get hold of that list. I'll tell you after the show. Next road trip. Oh, yeah. Next road trip. Here, let's go to Brian Anito at 136 on 7-90. Brian, how are you, sir? Guys, that sounds like a good fantasy five on Friday. People who are

sacrifice? All right. That's a great idea. Harvey Weinstein's got the coronavirus. Let's sacrifice him. He's got the Rona. Get him out of here. I mean, number one is Harvey what is Harvey Weinstein two is Ornthal or Bill Kauza? I mean, I don't know.

I mean, I think there could be a... Ted Kaczynski's still kicking it, right? I don't know, possibly. I think he is. He might be. He can get him out of here. You guys are running out of topic after a while. I mean, after a while. Hey, guys, great interview with Bill Brown.

I miss hearing his voice. I know we hear it on the radio from time to time as a fill-in and I love hearing him when he's on there. Matt, have you ever thought? I don't know if he would even come on and do it, but I tell you who I miss, and I see him, I see his partner at Toyota Center every now. I see Mr. Foley every now and again.

I'd love to have you, since you're, you know, in with the, with the Rockets organization, I'd love to get an interview with Gene Peterson, just to see what he's doing now, some of his memories if he didn't be up to it. you know, I miss hearing those guys on the radio, not that you guys, you and Craig aren't right at night. Yeah, I get it.

Yeah, he's one of the voices of our childhood. I have zero problem in saying that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And so I'd love to, I'd love to know what he's doing these days. I mean, I'm sure he's enjoying retirement, but if he still follows the game or anything like that,

I'd love to hear a segment with him. And then I don't know if you're aware if there's any type of clause in the CBA agreement in the NBA, if they do wind up pushing the season back and ultimately the draft back from end of June, if there's an X number of days that the NBA has to take off before the presumed start of the 2021 year. So you could go five or seven games series

or if you'd have to go WMBA light and go maybe three, five, seven, you know, three in the first round, five in the second, seven in the conference finals and the NBA finals in order not to have it. dragging into September or so and then turn around a month later and start the season back up. You know, I don't know. They don't have an answer for that. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call and the good words.

And I will, I'll try to find what I can do with, I know Gene is in retirement in the Kingwood area, but really kind of really very much out of sight of mind. He is, once he said farewell to the Rockets, has not done a lot of public things. I've not seen him in a Rockets game boy, long, long, long, long time. So that I can't speak to. But I've not seen him in the Kingwood community. I can do a little checkup on that.

To the bigger question, if this thing is extended long, and let's say that we crown an NBA champion, Ross, let's go really, really deep into this. September 30th. Okay. Could you pick up training camp December 1st and that'd be enough time? I think under these extraordinarily circumstances we're in, yes.

Yes, the answer would be yes to that. Normally you go, I mean, most teams aren't going to, first of all, half the teams aren't going to make the playoffs. So they're going to be done. If you're done September, they're done August. It's going to be a little bit pressed up. You're going to be up against it for teams that make the finals, but that's every. I mean, that's June. You usually go from June to win.

Oh, you start the playoffs. Four months? You're talking about the playoffs in general? Yeah, if you're, the finals normally end in June. Yeah, you're talking about June 25th, maybe at the very end. And then you'd kick back on when training camp probably about the 10th of October. So that's- It's four months.

Almost three and a half, four months. Yeah, you would be cutting. Well, September to December 3. But you're saying end of September. September 25th, let's say we crown an NBA champion. Dang. That's off for three months, right? In November.

All of October, all in November. Yeah. I think you're going to see, I don't think there's, if they're hell bent on starting an NBA, finishing out this NBA season, provided that we don't go into, what did you call it before, Marshall Law? Yes. Short of that, there's no way we're starting a new NBA season in October, which I think is going to be to the positive of the NBA.

I really do believe this will push the NBA calendar from a December to August. August starting this year. I think you have to do it this way. I think you have to say, look, guys, go get your 45 days. Because think about this, they're getting a long rest right now as it is. That's true. And worry some long rest for some of them. And 14 of the 30 teams are going to get another little long rest because when the season comes to an end,

when these four or five games are done, they're going to be done. So you're really talking about 16 teams who are going to, at that point, probably play a shorter first round series, maybe a shorter second round series. I can't envision the conference championships of the NBA finals going less than seven, but I can envision the first two going five. Suck it up. You're making crazy money. Still getting 45 days off.

Maybe training camps a week. Maybe exhibition games are down to three or four. Because let's be honest. If you go look at a box score of an NBA preseason game, Ross, how many minutes is James Harden really playing? Some of those that he does play deep. like later in the you'd be surprised

you'd be surprised Janice is in Dentecupa how many minutes is he playing an average in Milwaukee buck preseason games

25 I think Tony like tries to play him into shape in some of those preseason games but yeah

I'll let you ask him that just a theory Janus Preya they're probably playing you 15 20 minutes I don't know we can look it up I'm sure

yeah so I would say you crown a champion by September 30th you open up training camps December 1st you play your first regular season game December 20th. You practice for three or four days.

You play two or three exhibition games. And then you start up your season December 20th. You shorten up your All-Star break next year for sure, because I don't think you want to get into Labor Day. So that's a two-month delay from normal. So you would be ending in August in theory there. Yeah, I think if you can finish for the future, if you can finish the NBA season before Labor Day,

that's a win. this year. No, I'm talking about in general. Whatever, in the future calendars, if you say the game seven, potentially of the NBA finals, is August 31st, typically with the first weekend of college football. That's a good weekend. That's where you finish. That's a nice little sweet spot.

I like that. You finish it right there. So then whatever that schedule is, back time it. And again, you don't give the NBA eight days off of the All-Star break. You do four like the All-Star break in baseball does. And then you don't do all, you know, maybe. Maybe you don't have, as the celebrity, maybe everything like the futures game and the slam dunk,

all that's done on one night is compared to stretching it over three or four days. I don't know. They've got a lot at work ahead of them. But I do believe you give me a December to August and being a calendar, and I think the ratings will be better. I think we'll have a lot more things to talk about come summertime. And I think it'll be the best thing for the league. 144 on the Matt Thomas show, 713, 2.3.

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But Nick, I want you go and let the people know the breaking news? According to the Houston Chronicle, Houston rapper Slim Thug says he tested positive for the coronavirus. Oh no. This is getting serious. You know, when it happened to Tom Hanks, it became real.

When it happened to Rudy Gobert, it became real. And now it has happened, Matt, to our beloved Slim Thug. It might be time to panic. By the way, I was gone from it because they were... Yeah, our building people are wiping down everything in this, which is great. thank you very much appreciate you uh yeah so my my desk area is now looking

clean and smelling smells delicious yeah it's okay no worries keep us clean it's the most important thing uh so slim is that what the kids call him thugger i don't feel good doing that why not hmm stone sht boss hog outlaw is what it was also what he calls himself he and ESG are the boss hog outlaws. So where do you put him on the famous list? Okay, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are one in one A on the most famous coronavirus people. If Tom Hanks is a 10, Slim Thug is a five? Don't go lower.

Don't go lower. He is not a three. He had a mega hit with still tipping. Do I have that phone? Do I have that song on my phone? No. Okay. Then he had a couple other.

secondary hits like that I Run song and what is it oh he was on that Beyonce song check on it that was a big hit is is he today's edition of believe it or not is that what we're going to do from here on is every time we find out every time someone has corona yeah is that what the kids are called the rona I don't know I'm not going to call it that I'm calling the COVID the COVID-19 all right so slim thug will be today's edition of believe it or not as we how old is he I'm gonna guess he's about 35 or 40 I bet he's older than that 39

or is he maybe believe it or not coming up in an hour or so sorry I have to sneeze because there's chemicals in the air and you went to your elbow yes I did Matt

see here's the thing about sneezing and you all probably find the same situation allergies this is the height of allergy yeah I think mold is really bad right now we didn't get the allergy report from local news that's the least thing they're worried about So I sneeze because of that, but I feel fine and have been fun.

But some of the people that have contacted this, they don't have any symptoms of it. So how do you know? Tree pollen is heavy right now. Weed pollen is medium as is grass pollen and mold spores. That's from our meteorologist, sports RV in the 790 weather center. Should I have done it more like a... All right, Dad. Well, Dree pollen is real heavy out there, folks.

You're going to want to take your clareton. Also, medium is the weed, grass, and mold spores. So be safe out there, folks. And if you do sneeze, sneeze into your elbow. Back to you, Matt. Boy, you just did a horrible, horrible stereotype of news anchor guy. But it was probably not that inaccurate. That's true.

I've been watching more local news and more President Trump press conferences that I have in the last two weeks. And I've been watching the last two years. I've went from about zero minutes a week to like four minutes a week. So I have gone up significantly. Yeah, but I think I'm more in the norm on this. I think you are too. I think television network ratings, our local news programs are doing very, very well. ESPN?

If you're ESPN, how do you program it? Because do you just take the L and go, let's just put a bunch of old games on it night? I mean, that's what they've been doing? What else are they going to do? What other choice do they have? Well, I mean, I guess... You want wall to wall. I mean, they were doing...

When it first came out, they were in 24-hour sports. And that wasn't last to go. Yeah. But I'm curious if you could do something to really spice it up, little bit. You know, you can't do reunion shows. They're still doing their NFL lives and stuff like because they're talking, the draft is gone. The one that's most normal right now is NFL.

And they still do a couple hours of sports center every night. Yes. But they're really very, they want to make sure the number of people that are working those productions are very small. Like if you see all the morning TV shows, they're all doing it from their house. But somebody's got to be in the master control room. And by the way, their internet string must be incredible. because the video that I've seen from watching like Stephen A at his house is pretty damn good. Stephen A better have some quality of the internet.

But I'm saying, but when you FaceTime somebody, what would you, what would be the quality of the FaceTime video? Would you say it's a 10, a 7? It depends. But I just think what we're seeing on television is even way better than what you would normally get on your phone. That's 2020. You can get HD quality from your home. By the way, tonight, I'm going to. to do a Facebook live.

Oh, you are? On our Sports Talk 7-90 account. On Facebook? Yes. Right after the nightcap. Who's that squeaking? Is that me? It's my chair, I think.

7 o'clock tonight. Just kind of catch up with people. Say hi, what's up. Okay, that's great. I'll chime in. I'll make a few comments. Can you join my face? We can, but we, there you have some of you need a special type of technology for

that that we don't have. We don't have that. We don't believe. Sorry. So tonight, 7 o'clock, I'll be doing a special Facebook live. Just saying what's up. Okay. There's really no agenda to it.

But I just feel like if you're bored like I'm, you want to talk sports or just talk life. Okay. Just say hello. How's it going? And by the way, if you guys want to talk about Tiger King with me, I'm all in for that. You should do a Tiger King reaction special. You should do a Tiger King podcast, what you should do.

I want people to ask, here's the thing. If tonight on the Facebook Live thing, I'm going to say this one question. And I don't want to be too much of a spoiler, but here it comes. Don't give too much. I'm only on episode two. Close your ears for one second. Do it our best. You too, Nick.

Here it is. Did Carol do it? Okay, back in. Are we done? Okay, good. I didn't hear it at all. If anybody's not watched the show, you know exactly what I asked. And that's why I want the answer.

I heard it too. I'm far enough to know what you mean. I didn't hear it. Okay, you didn't. So don't give an explanation. I did not. Do you think, is the answer yes or no to the question I asked? Oh, it's Peyton.

Yeah, absolutely. Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't give the tails. I'm going to Ross. I'm mad at me. Peyton Manning's 44 today, by the way. Greatest moment of Peyton Manning not in football, the easy answer. SNL?

Absolutely. Oh, or when he was talking about Budwisers after winning the Super Bowl? That seemed a little forced. Him doing the United Way commercials when he's antagonizing a kid. Yes, and then he's hitting him in the head with the ball. It's so good. That's one of the greatest, not only just like athletes, lead SNL. It's one of the greatest S&L sketches

overall ever. And they're like trying to steal the car and all that stuff. That's got to be in there. And you know a personal favorite of mine is Debbie Downer at Walt Disney World. I still to this day with Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sands laughing in that segment

with what's her face? We did SNL sketches Fantasy 5 once, right? Yeah, I probably lost. I'm pretty sure you did. Although I won laughed at last Friday's effort. That's good. We're going to go back to girls this week. We're going to go back to girls this week. Some kind of hot women. Some kind of hot women category.

I think we've done, I mean, we've done basically everything, but then we've drafted these years. Have we done a hottest villain contest? Like a movie villain? Yeah. Like, I give you an example. What's her name? Or what's her name in Basic Instinct?

Sharon Stone. Yeah. Have we done that? I want to say yes. Damn. Maybe not, though. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. We'll come back with the headlines, which includes.

Oh, I got one. Best quotes from the Godfather's one and two series. We can do that now. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. It's a good one. Number one's got to be, got to make him an offer. He can't refuse, right?

Right. And then sleeping with the fishes. Yes, that's a great. Luca Bratzi sleeps with fishes. Yeah. Take the gun and leave the canoly. That's a great one. Maybe we should do that.

We just, we did a Game Boy of them. This is the Matt Thomas show. Here we go. The final hour of the Matt Thomas show coming up in 49 minutes. We're going to play, believe it or not, all things, Slim Thug. Slim Thug. Excuse me.

Slim Thugger. Now, Slim Thug and Slim Thug are the same person. Yeah. He's got nicknames, Matt. Like you, your Maddie T, your Maddie Ball Game, your Peach Basket. Nobody. See, that never moved. Your fancy Matt.

No, people love the Peach Basket nickname. No, they don't. They don't recognize it. T-bone, I think, as we've also called you. Maddie T-Mone. That's crazy. You've got, you're the, you're the Babe Ruth of nicknames. Yeah, I'll get you.

I'm going to tweet it right now. Hashtag Peach Basket. I'm going to tell you right now. Let's see how many likes I get on it. My guess is you'll get 25 because people, there's, there's, the bots will be out there. Hashtag Peach Basket. 713-212-5-790. If you are out and about, because today may be less than there was yesterday.

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And you know, you don't like to in sports radio open up a, well, we're here for you. We want to give you something to chew on. We're having to just decipher what kind of meets available. Let's chew on us disagreeing on. Oh, yeah. Okay. So the wind totals are out for the various NFL teams. And nobody cares of the Bengals or, well, maybe been since any fans.

do. But the Texans before the start of the season were eight and a half, which it feels like that's, is everything in medium, just the Texans? Anything is the average, eight, middle of the road, it's Texan. Yeah, they are the Chili's of the NFL.

I would drop them down to Bennett to Applebee's. Oh, really? I like Chili's. I do. Great value. The two for ten thing? Yeah, the Chili's not won in the Super Bowl, though. But Chili's is going to be better. Chili's is more like the Kansas City Chiefs

except for this year. Really, really good, but can't get over the final home. Oh, like the Niners? Yeah. Niners the last 10 years? Although they've had some down times, though, too, as well. Applebee's is the Texans. And then Cal McNair's decision to give Bill O'Brien is, you know,

convenience store? Although they can cook the convenience store, too. You know how I feel about Laredo Taco. Let's get back to this. Okay, so eight and a half is the over-under. Convenience for tacos. Oh, delicious. It's been dropped to eight.

And I need you to explain to me why again, DeAndre Hopkins, the number two, number three receiver in the NFL is only worthy of a half-game drop. Well, first of all, Matt, you have to remember that you got back a great front-line running back in David Johnson. So that helps some of that. Well, like I said, no, I mean, this is what I said. if you take if you look at the in the balance of a season it's tough okay let me put it to you this way Matt how many wins do you think j j wad is worth see the thing is i think we're working off a different different levels here because that that to me is an opening question to say if the evidence says not much if you take off four players and you go i mean you think they're

eachworth's two wins you're down to zero i don't think if you take off any four point even concluding to sean watson i don't think you take off any four players i don't think you go down to zero wins. That's my point. J.J. Watt plays less. Replacement player steps in. Chances that replacement player makes a difference in a ballgame compared to what J.J. Watt does is minimal. I think the drop-off from a healthy J.J. Watt to his replacement player is significant. So I don't know what the number is. I can't give any answer to that. But I would say that there's a reason why replacement player,

doesn't play over JJ Watt who elevates the Houston Texans. And that's not the answer that you want for me, but that's just what I'm saying. I want to do so I want to place a premium and say, these guys win football games.

Let me ask you this. If Deshawn Watson was traded and not DeAndre Hopkins and AJ McCarran was a starting quarterback, what would be over under total? Would it be dramatically different because the quarterback spot? Probably go to like six maybe?

Well, the Jaguars are currently at, what, five, I think, five and a half maybe. I think it would be somewhere around there, Gardner-Minchie right now, I guess. Yeah. You'd probably be about me. Yeah, probably five. Let's do this. Let's look at the New England Patriots. They just go ahead of Tom Brady.

New England Patriots, preth before the season, or I should say right after the season, their win total average over under was 10.5. Right now it's nine and a half. So Tom Brady's only worth a game. But that's also not the same Tom Brady. that we saw five or six years ago. Still, you think he's, I mean, you want DeAndre Hopkins to give you two wins. He's not worth more than a quarterback who was at the time above average to average,

to going from him to Jared Stidham. Okay. I got one for, here's. Here's, let me give me one. Tom Brady, 43-year-old Tom Brady. Okay, what do you think, what do you think of 43-year-old Tom Brady right now? He's average, above average. Okay, here's to more my point.

The Buccaneers win total started at 7.5. Okay. It's now at 9. So a game and a half. An average 43-year-old quarterback is worth a game and a half for the Buccaneers. I said above average. You're going from average and James Westons above average. And quarterback means way more than DeAndre Hopkins does.

That's just a fact. Well, who else has lost somebody? Okay. Well, where did the Colts move? Give me the Colts on the Chargers. The Los, the Indianapolis Colts went from 7.5 to 8. Half game for Philly Rivers. So Philip Rivers is worth as much as DeAndre Hopkins.

That's crazy. I mean, I know where you're going with this. I do. I'm not trying to pick an argument just for the sake of argument. But it feels like that, man, if DeAndre Hopkins is not a part of the 2019 Houston Texans, they're not winning double-digit games. Because here's the reasons why. Couldn't rely on Kootie.

Couldn't rely on Fuller. tight ends would get exposed and would be more heavily covered and Kenny Stills is not going to be the downfilled threat as often as Deionre Hopkins is. Kenny Stills hands are not as good as DeAndre Hopkins. Kenny Stills doesn't win the 50-50 ball. Who's that a receiver?

Don Ray Carter? I mean, these are all just guys out there. Yeah, but those are guys that are going to be playing as well, even if DeAndre Hopkins is there. You only can have some, I mean, let's think if you have 60 to what is an average snap count on a on an NFL in an NFL game 60 to 70 somewhere in that neighborhood I don't know I don't have it in front of me so DeAndre Hopkins is going to play the majority of those he's going to catch I mean how many of those are going to be run plays right

some of those are going to be sacks some of those are going to be in completions in completions so how many of those is he impacting and how many of those and how many of the is he being, and how many of those is a regular receiver getting open because of, say, against his own scheme? And how much of it is it, DeAndre Hopkins being special and he's the one beating man coverage? All I'll say is this, eight and a half is a weird number because, again, you don't win half games in the NFL. All I'm saying is that you're telling me that the Las Vegas believes that this team instead of being an eight and a half and seven a half team is now an eight and eight team. that feels like that that's not that big of a hit to an organization. I think it's going to be a big hit.

I think that DeAndre, that Deshaun Watson is going to be sitting there over the course of the year going, man, I miss my guy who catches every 50-50 ball. I miss my guy who can make that first that grabs that XDR to get the first down. And I'm not saying the guys that aren't on this team can't do that occasionally, but then I can do it as often as DeAndreux has. You just have to think of it and there's much more to that, right?

I mean, what's factored into their win total is also defense, offensive line, defensive line, secondary, linebackers, running backs, Deshaun Watson, the other receivers, the tight ends, and DeAndre Hopkins. So, I mean, he's one element of a multitude of elements. So that's why the number doesn't get his impact as much. And the head coach is still the same. I know you don't believe in him. So, I mean, no, not to win a, not as a great coach. But no, that's what I'm saying. You can have all the talent in the world if the head coach isn't great.

What does a coach do to that number? That's a great question. What if it were Bill Belichick swapping with Bill O'Brien? I bet you it goes up. Well, have we seen a coach, we have not seen a coach change. I bet you it would go up. I bet you they'd go from eight and a half to nine and a half. Because the initial win totals came out on February the 7th.

Were the Cowboys under a different, was Jason Garrett technically the coach? When did Jason Garrett get fired? Because the Dallas Cowboys have gone from nine to nine and a half. I guess I can find that date. Yeah. Whatever it is, it's not that big of a difference. I think I speak in the majority of people that we're really going to miss them. I think if Bill Belichick were the coach, you'd see them in the line go from like eight to nine and a half.

Maybe about a game and a half. Okay. 2.13 is at time. Tom Brady, speaking of Tom, spoke today in Tampa. well, not literally in Tampa, but on a phone, two people in Tampa. He now can boast of his love for the Buccaneers. You'll hear from him next. 213 is a time.

It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross and Nick along the way, you guys are certainly welcome. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson here. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. We know this is something we have not brought up in a couple weeks, Ross. And I know that every major sports organization is going through its own coronavirus bit.

Understandable. Is Major League Baseball just going to tell the Boston Red Sox, y'all are cool? No. Are you sure? Yes. Do they think it's not the appropriate time to lay a punishment down on the rentsics? I think so. I think so.

Apparently, there was a story from Ken Rosenthal. a couple of weeks ago. So, and it's because, you know how people don't want to go to court because everything comes out in court? Apparently, there are some DFS people, related people. I don't know if it's a company or players or whatever, daily fantasy, who are suing the Astros and suing the Red Sox for cheating and altering games, and they want compensation to say, they're saying, the Astros, you cheated, so you cost me money in these daily fantasy games, and I want restitution.

So they're in the middle of a trial because of this. And in this trial, apparently the judge and the lawyers have a commissioner's report. On the Red Sox. On the Red Sox. Okay. And so they can talk about it in court, but apparently a lot of the stuff isn't getting out. And it's like sealed documents. They can't talk about it or release it or anything like that.

It's just only being used for information in this court case of the commissioners finding. So there's a handful of people that know what the, commissioner's going to do about this. What he's found? Punishment? We don't know, but we know that there is some people who have the commissioner's findings. And apparently there is some culpability from the Red Sox because the judge asked the Red Sox lawyer if this is true in the report that you broke the rules. And the lawyer said, we don't think we broke the rules. So there's going to be some disagreement there. Because what the Red Sox had to be thinking is you didn't tell us, we couldn't put our video room so close to the dugout. You didn't tell us that we couldn't go back and forth

between the video room. And, I mean, again, I'm just presuming things. And it wasn't, I mean, technically they didn't break the rules because it's not the rulebook as far as the, the memo that Manfred put out. Yeah. So it's also, it's lawyering semantics. So what we have to do is, I would like to know what they exactly did. Yes. I think, I think that's, to me, it looks like it's just based off of that report from, from Ken Rosenthal. that they already have at least a general outline of what they think that the Red Sox did. Why wouldn't Alex Coram mirror what the Astros did? If he was one of the masterminds behind what happened here in Houston,

why wouldn't he take what he did in Houston and sent it to Boston? Maybe he thought that... With some kind of alteration, maybe the trash can banging thing was done. Other teams caught up on it. You couldn't do it that way. And Ward had traveled fast. Right. So, I mean, they did it some other way.

You couldn't do Apple Watches because that had been caught as well. So I don't know. if there was some other way with electronic device that they used it. Yeah, my disappear guess is that there was a fast speed between video room and dugout that probably what Major League Baseball would say that's not what you're supposed to do. Yeah, I don't know, whistling or clapping or flashlight with Morse code. Something with a very quick, you know, pitch is 2-1. By the time that 2-1 pitch is thrown, you'll know what you think is coming.

It has to be a sound or a signal or something. I mean, that's what the trash can banging was. Not exactly the highest of tech. They put the massage gun in the trash can. When I hang out with friends a little bit, and they ask about, they say, what do you hear about the Red Sox? I said, it's been very quiet. I don't know if it's the coronavirus and the stoppage of these sports, how much of a fact of this has played into that. But people have called us for a better part of two months before all this stoppage and said,

when are the Red Soxing at their day? And that's where I think Astro fans probably are more concerned about is if the Red Sox did this, they want to be put in the same category. Because before all this, before we stopped having sports events, the Astros were being ranked over the Coles by every sports network, every sports journalist, and then the Today Show. It was a new story every day. The spring training, the pitchers that were being, the batters were being hit during spring training games. They made a national story out of that. Jeez. And then it was, you know, this day, Cody Bellinger says this. Then Carl's Corrie responds. And Chris Bryant says this. And Kurt Suzuki says this.

and their Aaron Judge says that they're going to, it was like a new quote every single day. The Astros were just getting, like you said, raked over the coals is, I think, the perfect way to put it. Yeah. So in retrospect, it doesn't seem nearly as important. But once we resume real life, the first thing that Major League Baseball has got to do is schedule up the season.

Number two needs to be, would the Red Sox do? And what's their punishment? Well, I don't know why they wouldn't do it now. To make it not as a big sensational story. To make it not as much of a black eye. People are worried about it. Almost, you know, like to do a Friday news dump? The perfect time, they didn't really do that for the Astros, I guess.

But the perfect time to do a news dump now would be... What day was that out on? Was that on Monday or Tuesday when the Astros did their thing? I can't remember. I remember seeing Jeff Passon, somebody tweeting Jeff Passing, because I don't follow him. He wants us to follow him, but he wasn't... Oh, I follow him. Well, that's because y'all are besties now.

And we're not besties. He started a podcast, by the way. I think because he saw how awesome our show was. Is that right? Yeah. he's like, are these idiots? I can do this. He saw him, you and I talking.

He's like, I'm smarter than these guys. I wear a suit. He did wear a suit every day to spring training. He was the only one. Diva. Well, you made a comment about it or did I? I can't remember. He was like, you gotta look the part.

Okay, Jeff. Let me tell you something. Jeff passing going to a clubhouse in a suit is not going to gain him any more access if he wore a t-shirt and thong. Actually, he'd probably get more run if he wore a t-shirt and thong. he'd be like, I won't leave until you tell me what, and tell me a story. And they're like, all right, what do you want to know?

They get the hell out. Yeah. Well, I always got a podcast, so good for him. Yeah. You know how much money podcasts are making for people? Not a whole lot. Well, it depends. Some people are making a lot.

Barstools doing all right. I think, yeah, the part of my take guys, I think are making a ton of money off each podcast. Everybody else is like. Yeah, they've got millions of downloads. Yeah, I've had so many people say, oh, I'm going to go and do a podcast. I don't make a lot of money. No, you're not.

Well, what happened to do? It's just 15 minutes. Didn't make any money. I had to quit it. I think you should do it. I think you should do it's just 15 minutes about Joe Exotic. But I got to talk to somebody about Joe Exotic. How about this?

I'll finish in the next couple days. I make this solemn promise to you. Ross, Nick and I, after the show one day early next week, let's do a fifth. Let's do a podcast on Joe Exotic. But I need all three, I need two of you to finish up. I'll finish it in the next two days. I'll have it done Thursday. Yeah.

Because I'm telling you, Ross, once you watch one episode, it does a great job of pushing you the next one. I was mesmerized. I was really tired, so I almost didn't finish the first episode. I was tired when I started. It was very intriguing. Ross, I mean, it was just, there's a jaw-dropping moment like every five minutes. You know, every 30

seconds, it almost like. Carol. In episode four. You know, when we were asking the question that Ross is another question, too. Yeah, don't. Don't. That was so, I was like, yes, yes, yes. Look, look, look. Absolutely.

100%. I'm uncomfortable with these spoilers. I know. I'm going to watch it tonight. All right. I'm going to do a Facebook live tonight at 7 o'clock. Okay. On our Sports Talk 790 address.

If you want to talk some... Facebook.com slash Sports Talk 7-9. Yeah. We will talk some Tiger King. Not a whole lot because I don't want to be a spoiler. But damn, is it good? You should be proud of me, Ross. I've watched more stuff that I would not.

And by the way, we were three days away from season three of Ozark. Ooh, I'm still on season one. Get after it. I can't watch. Everybody says get after this show and that show. I can't watch 30 shows. Let me tell you some, Villarreal. You shame me for a decade, not knowing Godfather one and two.

One of the greatest movies of all time. And that's seven hours of television, a movie right there. The least you can do. Do you remember the movie you've been trying to get me to watch the whole run of this show? Still Magnolias? No, Bachelor Party. Oh, Bachelor Party. I looked for it on Netflix the other day. It's not.

It was on Netflix and then it wasn't. Let me see if it's on Netflix now. A young Tom Hanks. You know what? Support somebody that's got Covita. I mean, you know what I'm saying? It's not Covita. Why do you keep calling it? Corona. Covina, Corona? It's not Covita Blue. It's not pitching for the A's.

How about I just say call it the V? It's the COVID. Why, did you notice that President Trump calls it? President Trump calls it the China virus? Yes, he does. He is not willing to get off of that under any circumstance. Well, you know. Did you see the Kung flu?

That one's a good one. Oh, no. Somebody asked him last week during a press conference if Chinese food was an irresponsible way to describe a food. Oh, because people, well, it's not necessarily racist. It's just unfairly trying to stigmatize the people, in my opinion. And most Chinese food that we get here in the U.S. is actually not at all Chinese food. Like, for instance, if you had, the three of us went to China, which that's never going to happen.

And food's going to be very different than what we're used to. I can't walk up to a restaurant, the Chinese version of Denny's and say, can I get some general soes? No, you can't. Could you imagine going to get some Mugu Guy band? What's the biggest city in China? Beijing, Beijing. Shanghai? Shanghai.

We're in downtown Shanghai. Ross, Nick, man, this place is beautiful. It's crazy. Let's go get some general so's. Yeah, I don't think you can do that. Can we get some Mongolian beef? I don't know if they're going to laugh you out of there. Egg drop soup, anyone?

Kung-pow chicken. Yeah, Kung-pow chicken. Just, they say, spicy chicken with a bunch of peanuts on top of it. Okay, we can make that for you. It's Shanghai. Is it Shanghai? Okay, number one. It's bigger than Beijing.

You need to start working on Believe it or not, Slim Thug. Let's go. Oh, no. 230 on Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. The most awkward nooner, nooner. you'll ever be a part of This is the Matt Thomas show

This is your new favorite country artist, Matt? Favor is a strong term You know what was a crazy thing about the show And again, I don't mean to go on and on the show But it's the it's the hottest show on Netflix right now So I feel like I can speak to this Aren't you astonished by all the stuff that was videotaped? Yeah, I don't know why they keep

kept letting this documentary crew see everything they did. Everything, even in his worst times, even when there was things going on that he never should have been going on, there was videotape of it. Well, he himself put a lot of this

content up on places like YouTube and this is how they generated extra money by creating their own little media network. And the fact that he tried to to, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Yeah, forget it. All right. Everything about the show is just hard to impossible to believe. We saw a wedding. We saw a funeral. We saw relationships. We've seen. Yeah, it's got everything. It's just one of the most bizarre, couldn't turn it off shows. I've had it in a long period of time. Randy, on a mobile line on 790 and 234. Randy, how are you? Hey, I'm good, guys. I just want to tell him, like, Ross, I'm not going to get a spoiler. I have never logged into Netflix in my whole life. Me and my brother were drinking a little bit last night, and he logged in.

I didn't even know I had Netflix on my TV, Smart TV, and we logged in. I stayed up until 3.30 in the morning watching every episode of that show last night. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my whole life. I could not believe that whole show. Ross, you have to like binge watch it tonight. Yeah, he's going to. He'll do it. And here's the thing is that I had an episode and a quarter left.

And it was like 12.40 in the morning. I'm like, I'll go to bed, get up at like 8.15 and finish it off. And I had a meeting here this morning, so I didn't have a chance to. I finally finished it before. I even stayed up drinking water to like sober up for the whole deal. And because I had to watch every episode, I mean. That just shows you how. When you're drinking water.

Of the actors of that show, like the people, there's no way that that's acting or doing all that, because there's too many people in that show that just are off the wall, just falls out crazy. And the fact that all those TV stations in Oklahoma City and Tampa were doing stories about this. Why didn't we know about Joe Exotic five years ago? And I'm guessing, the answer is people in Oklahoma did, but we never knew about him. No, I mean, he ran for president for crying out loud. Well, don't get away any more spoilers. All right, man.

Hey, thanks guys. Safe travel, my friend. Thanks for calling. So, yeah, I, it was a binge watchable event. And that's the thing about Netflix. I mean, if Netflix decides to just close down shop, we're done as a society. Yeah, we got Ozark coming up. Ozark's going to be on Friday.

You know what? I'm going to probably skip Godfather 3 and just watch Ozark this weekend and get that done with. It's a good move. Because, man, no one's giving me any good remarks about Godfather Part 3. This is what we're doing I'm not watching North Carolina State of Houston anymore. I'm done with that. Can I put a filter on my television that when that

game shows up because it shows up five, ten times a year? I want to make sure you know how you have somebody in Twitter you don't like? You block them? Yeah. I want to block that game. I want it never to be available at my house ever again. It shouldn't be that hard to avoid.

Well, it is because, but the problem is you put on ESPN Classic. You get it. You put it on it. ESPN 2 is putting on you 30 for 30. ESPNU shows final four games of yesterday. They get that version. Channel 11 showed it last week. That's why you just keep documentaries about people with mullets on your TV at all times. And earrings.

In earrings in early strange places. And how about the tattoos on his boyfriend? Oh, my God. Which one? Well, the first one. There are multiple if you're asking those of you at home. There are more of them than they have teeth. Yeah.

The one dude that was the one boyfriend that was talked about that what made him think that you know what going in front of a A documentary series with no shirt on was the right thing to do I'm not sure he owns shirts well no my guess is they said what how do you feel your most comfortable and he's like you know what a Without teeth and B without a shirt on It's like oh Tom Hanks his son went on Twitter to talk about his mom and dad He didn't have a shirt on He had a bunch of tats too. Yeah what what is it with God? that have tats all over their body thinking,

I need to be on a screen showing off my tats. You want to be tatt. You want to be sleeved up all over your body. That's your own business. Put a damn shirt on. And oh, by the way, mixing a dentist. Because watching him talk with four teeth in his mouth was the most interesting thing in the world.

Actually, it was the most interesting thing in the world. You know, it's funny. Yeah, it's right. It was. How do you think Florida felt about this? Because Florida, you would think that story, was straight out of like Gainesville. I mean, it was definitely a Florida story, that's for sure.

Well, there was a Florida angle to it for sure. Yeah. But it was more, Oklahoma, more than anything else. Well, it jumped. It was Florida, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, I think, that were all involved in this. Florida has crazy stories. Oklahoma says, hold my beer on that one, right? I mean, I don't think it made Oklahoma look very good at all.

Not granted, it was some small-ass town. I didn't know where it was, but, mm-hmm. You, few, man, got out just so, again, I know ever stay up until 12, 45 in the morning, but I did to try to get 90% of it done. I finished it up early this morning, too, but that's a watch. And then we got Ozark, and then what's after that? What's our next show after that? We're going to have to do this.

We're going to have to do this collectively as a group, because when we get our NFL and we get our NBA and our major league baseball, we're going 100% full throttle sports 100%. But now we can't do that, so we're going to have to figure out plan B. because apparently the Texans have no interest in doing anything free agency-wise, right? We have what's his face from the Cleveland Browns, spent a lot of money on him. And that's about it. There has not been, in that offensive lineman that nobody can't even pronounce his name,

Kuval, Kuval, whatever his name is. I mean, you talk about the most uninteresting off-season for free agency, and the Texans had money. They better be just saving this, ultimately. for the biggest payday that Laramie Tunsell's ever going to get, he's the highest paid left tackled, if that's the endgame. And they better be, at some point, be thinking about trying to lock up to Sean Watson

before his final year of his contract, because things are really going to get contentious if there's a potential of them put and slapping the franchise tag on them. I like franchise tags. It means you're going to get paid. The grant's only for one year, but players apparently hate it. Because I don't see Dak Prescott holding any celebration

for him getting a franchise tag. and that's going to put them in the top five in salaries for at least a season, or at least the average of. So the Texans have not done much, we're waiting on baseball to determine when they're going to send everybody back to spring training, although that sounds like nothing anytime soon. And by the way, what if the other 49 states are behaving themselves? New York sounds like it's the worst one of all of us, right?

New York, California, Washington state have been hit most, and I think New York's way above the other two. New York's going to turn out like Italy. How are you going to put 40,000 people at city field in New York for the Yankees and the Mets? Or the Mets. How are you going to put 50,000 people at Yankee Stadium anytime soon? You're not. Because if New York is Italy in terms of the percentage, how do the Mets play a home game this year?

How do the Mets play a game in front of a single fan this year? Because I could definitely see, and again, I don't play a politician or a doctor. on the radio, but I could see a situation where individual states are going to relax some things once the, not necessarily the coast is clear, but things are under control. And then you see another flare up. But if New York is saying at least 40 percent as many as 80 percent of the state can get this, they're going to lock down the state. And sports are going to be the last thing on their mind.

Well, if that's the case, would you then think the better strategy is just to let it open and let it burn itself out, let everybody get it? No, I can't imagine that. That doesn't become the better strategy at some point? I don't know. I don't think so. Well, since it has a very fairly low mortality rate. But how in the world did New York get so bad

and everybody else is kind of just working the way up the ladder a little bit here? Yeah, I don't know. I'm just saying that once you're at 80%, it seems like you might just want to push through it. Well, again, no one's been able to prove that. That's just what Governor Cuomo thought would be a possibility. but man it feels like every if you flip on any of the news channels even the ones that have biased that New York is it gets more than anything else. All right.

Let's go talk to much more positive things. Oh, Slim Thug's got the corona. Well, maybe not. At least we'll honor him. And by the way, we have no prizes to give away because we can't get away prizes because our offices are closed. But we're doing the shoutouts. The shoutouts I think, Nick, are as popular sometimes as our B-list prizes, right? Well, yeah, I mean, depending on the prize, it might be best.

better. That's true. So shoutouts are you can say how to your wife, your kids, uh, your friends, maybe a place to go get some takeout tonight, whatever the case may be. We're playing for shoutouts or plan for Slim Thug as he gets past the Corona himself. 713-212-790. Believe it or not, his next 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Is the Matt Thomas show. We're not doing an extra hour, are we? This is the Matt Thomas show. I mean, nothing is. It is. It really is a bump. Yeah. Unfortunately.

something happened in our clock and I had to default to this one real quick. Were you looking to play another Joe Exotic song? Is that what you were trying to do? No, I could. I think he's got some more. We're good. He released at least two albums.

And, I'm doing things that I would not want somebody to do. So just watch it. We'll talk about it on Facebook Live the 9 and 7 o'clock. So do that. It's such a good show. I want to thank our friends again at Ruth's Chris

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No, what? No breaking news. I wish we needed some breaking news. Anything breaking? Yeah, Slim Thun's got the COVID. Can we break something else? I don't know. Are you surprised that Jadavia and Clinton doesn't have a job yet?

A little bit. He wanted $20 million a year. The NFL said, no. You'll not get it and like it. He'd be better serve staying in Seattle, to tell you the truth. I know that Pittsburgh has shown some interest. I don't know what his value is, but he was, good last year for Seattle, but

he, in a year that he knew his contract status would be up and he'd be a real true street free agent, the $20 million was very, very, very high to attain, and I don't think the NFL teams are willing to do it. Because again, he doesn't have the production stat-wise, and there have been

some injury concerned in the past. You know a team who could use an edge rusher? Houston Texans? Correct. Came back for a discount? I think he and Bill O'Brien got sideway so bad that that wouldn't even be a possibility. Bring Duky back. Duky. Yeah, Jadavian Clowny.

You call him Duky? That's his name. That's his nickname. I've never heard that. And I bet I'm wrong. I get that. It's a check pro football. First of all, it was on a, believe it or not, that's how I found it out.

His nickname is Duky because one time when he was a kid, he went in the pool. Like in Caddyshack? Yeah, but for real. But for real. Oh, no, I'm sorry. His name is Doodoo. Is it Doodoo or Dooky? It's Doodoo.

Oh, I was going to say, that's why I say, Dooky doesn't make any sense. We could do a fantasy five of worst nicknames. Doodoo's got me on the list. That was it to believe it or not, and it's true. I mean, the all-time worst for me, there was a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, who I forgot his real name. But he was nickname was Boof. Bozzer, yeah.

And Boof legally changed his name to Boof. Doodoo's worse than that. His name was John Paul Bonzer, according to the Google. But what would make you think? What's worse than doo-doo? Do-do is the absolute worst. But by the grown-ass men do not call them doo-doo. Right?

That's what his nickname is, according to pro football reference. And I vetted the story, and apparently he went in the pool one time. Well, maybe Bill O'Brien would say his attitude sometimes And work ethic was DoDoo. I'd want to change that. And again, I would never, if I had a terrible nickname, which I don't. Yeah. I certainly wouldn't go to the name-changing office and have my name legally changed to it.

And that was his nickname in it, and it stuck. It did? I don't think it did. Like this whole ridiculous thing about you call me a peach basket. It's not going to stick. Didn't stick. Do-Doo doesn't stick in order to peach basket. Wait a minute. Now I'm reading that it was from a rap song.

I thought I read that he went in the pool. You can't sell this to the audience. I'm not selling it. It's what I'm not. Nobody believes it. Five minutes left to go on the show. Fox Sports.com. You do-do to the swimming pool.

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what's the prize? It's a shout-out. If you would like to shout out your family members or the show or, I don't know, your own Twitter can. Somebody did their own podcast last time, so anything you want to shout out, you can shout out here on the Matt Thomas show. And again, shout-outs, depending on what they are, offer you a better value, frankly. Let's play,

Believe it or not. Scott on 7-90. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Scott, good luck to you. you, my friend, and as my computer freezes, here is the question. Slim Thug's most recent album was released in 2019. It's called the Thug Chronicles, Volume 3.

Believe it or not? Not. He just made that up, huh? Yeah. Statement number two for the win. Slim Thug went to Eisenhower High School in the Aldine School District. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Oh, this is fine.

Scott, your shout-out, please. All right. I want to. I want to shout out, first of all, Maddie T. Great show. I love the show. But I want to shout out to my restaurant, the Texas Steamboat House. It's on the Beltway 8 and Gesner and, you know, it's a locally owned business. And, you know, we got prime stakes as well. We got a really good steak. So Texas Steamboat House. Thank you very much. Scotty, when you guys are open back up, we're going to come eat at your place, all right?

Please do. See you. Name it again real fast. Texas Steamboat House. Texas Steamboat House. There's a giant statue. There's a giant statue of Sam Houston outside. It's right by the racetrack. Oh, I've seen that one.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know who you are. All right. We're going to come to see you, Scottie. Please. All right. We'll see you later. All right.

That's what we call a shout-out right now. Hey, Seuss on 7-90. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2014, February 25th was declared slim thug day in the Houston area and has been celebrated every year since. Believe it or not. Not.

Believe it. How do you not know February 25th? Slim thug day. It's marked on your calendar. My kids take the day off from school, actually. Jeff on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it, Mr. Matt.

All right, here we go. In 2012, Slim Thug released a financial advice book entitled How to Survive a Recession. Believe it or not. Dale now, no, not. Believe it. He did. How did it sell? I don't know, but it'd probably be very helpful right now.

I might want to read it in the way home. Maybe get the e-book? You think he reads it? And he rhymes it? That wouldn't be the worst thing. Jay on 790. Jay, you're ready to play? play believe it or not.

Believe it. In 2009, Slim Thug was arrested in Los Angeles for possession of a controlled substance. The case was later dismissed. Believe it or not. Not. Statement number two for the win. A few years ago, Slim Thug transitioned to a vegan diet because of high blood pressure. Believe it or not.

Believe it. Believe it. All right. This man knows the Slim Thug. Man, you do know you're Slim. Jay, what's your shout out? Hey, man, I want to give a shout out to that, DHS coworkers that went on strike this morning and settle for a damn dollar

with everybody else got to. And, uh, acting with Donkey Podcast, I called yesterday, active Dunkin' Podcast. Check it out. All right, you got it, friend. Good luck to you on that strike. Jeez, that's tough, man. Brutal, brutal, brutal. Line 5, Tyler on 790. Tyler, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

A Slim Thug is part owner of the Third Coast Customs Auto Shop on the north side of Houston. Believe it or not. No. And that's, it? Oh, the last question is the best one. All right, Nick, you... Nick's had the answers. Let's see. If one of the Adams are ready for their show.

Joe to try it. Get somebody in here quick. Joe, Joe, Joe, come in here here real quick. Joe George, come on. We've got one question left on, believe it or not. Here we go, Joe, good luck to you. Slim Thug is an attendee of the Lakewood Church and even recorded a rap song with Joel Osteen. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it is right. You get a shout out.

What do you want a shout out? How about Space City Saturday? Yep, Space City Saturday, new show, 12 to see after Ross on Saturdays, me and Adam Sager. They got a great lead-in. Is it better or worse than Sports RV Saturday? It depends. Is it better or worse than the Space City Sunday show? It's Clutch City Sunday, but it's better.

Wait a minute. You should probably all stand together on one show. Clutch City Saturday, Clutch City Sunday. Well, that's why it's Space City Saturday. It's uniform. It's very confusing. Except for Ross. Yeah.

Why don't you be vain to name the show after yourself? Yes. Thanks for listening to Matt Thomas show. Sports RV show on Saturday. How does Ross feel about being on the Matt Thomas show as an equal to you? I'm not equal. It's the Matt Thomas show.

Featuring Ross. That's not on any. That's not on the website. If we were to do like a bracket of the hosts here, would you be a one seat and he would be a two? I would put more Ross as a three. We're making a run, baby. Wow.

He's right there. But threes can beat ones. That's true. Six Seeds win sometimes in 95. They certainly do. You were there. I was there. That's the voice of my childhood.

You always do that. You are the worst. It's so easy. All right. A team, amazing guest. Grand Analysis. Lisa Ann makes her debut on the show today. Four o'clock.

She's coming in studio. Are you going to wait? I'm okay. She's not. She's calling in. All right, A team is up next. Talk to you all tomorrow at noon on 790.