The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Tunsil Fires Agency, Red Sox Punishment

Episode Date: March 3, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 3/3/20Rockets Were Not In A NY State of Mind (0:00)Laremy Tunsil Fires His Agency (10:27)What is Taking So Long With the Red Sox Punishment? (52:02)Tyler Bauer is a Chode (1:03:19)

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 at H-Town. What's happening in lunchtiders? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show

on Sports Talk 790, alongside our producer, our colleague, our friend, our cynic. Pro Nick Lowe, my co-hosts is Sports RV, Rossville, Real. I'm Matt Thomas. happy. A little fatigued, but here... Well, you look like hell, man. I do look like hell. Yesterday was on a good flying day. We had a terrible, terrible headwind. It took us

almost four hours to fly from New York City to Houston. And we were dodging weather, and apparently part of the weather we were dodging was the terrible tornadoes in the Nashville area yesterday. Did you see that? I did. I did. And I know you get nervous in turbulence, as nervous as an alleycat, some would say. So were you okay? Yeah, I did okay. I tried to sleep, but then every once, you know, if you fly as much as I do, you try to get into that.

I'm going to try to get a little snooze in, close the eyes, and then you get that little turbulent bump that just wakes you up, and now you're flustered for like 40 straight minutes. I was flustered at the Rockets game last night. The Rockets were flustered as well. The Knicks are terrible. I mean, they've got some pieces. Julius Randall's okay. RJ Barrett, the rookie out of Duke's okay.

Tage Gibson's been a serviceable 4-slash-5 for a large part of his NBA career. They've got Frank. Nila Kina? Tini-Linky? No, no. Don't pronounce... No, don't do that.

Nila Kina. Oh, I'm sorry. Nila Kina? Yes. Okay. I tried. Did you really? know how to say his name.

Nila Kila. Nila Kina. Nila Kina. That's it. I didn't, I had to do, when was I doing the, I don't remember what I was doing. It was on air. It was on Sunday or Saturday on my show and I had to read the name and I just didn't work. There's nothing worse than seeing a name that you're ill prepared for.

I had no preparation. And you have to say it. Thus as a play by play guy, you better be ready to do it. So there should be no names that should cause problems. Now there have been names in the past that have given me a lot of trouble. Neelikina is not one. Not one of them. Nila Kina.

Yeah. Okay. Nealakina. Think of N-E-E-E-E-E-E-K-E-N-A. You spend a lot of time saying this in the bathroom, I could tell. Well, yeah, because he actually played, I think, the entire fourth quarter last night. So how do you equate, if you can do such a thing, the really awesome wins the rockets have? Let me just run through with that, and I'll probably forget a couple.

They've beaten the Lakers in L.A. They've beaten the Clippers in L.A. They have beaten the Utah jazz twice. They have, in Utah, they have beaten Toronto. Swept the Celtics. I mean, Philadelphia came in here, and the Rockets put the beat down on them. Yes. There have been some really, really, really impressive wins.

And then there's Sacramento, Detroit. San Antonio. Not a horrible loss. They're not good. Golden State of Christmas Day. What was it? 34 to the Sons. Phoenix.

And then yesterday. So where is, if you were to have a balance game, Ross, where, tell me if you're in a teeter-totter. Is it something called the, when one person's up and the other person's down, where they call it? Teeter-totter. Am I right on that? What's that called? Why is that? You know the little, when you're in the school yard.

Help me out. I, why? I, no, you're making me blank on it, too. Nick, what's that thing called? Seesaw. Yes. Seesaw, not teeter-totter. Teeter totter is like a teeter-totter-tod's covered cheese.

Gosh, why can I think of it? This is all your fault. Yeah, a seesaw. Isn't that the same thing as a teeter-totter? Maybe it is. Maybe I didn't make teeter-totter up. Those are synonyms, I believe. Oh, I feel better. I don't know.

I've never called it a teeter-totter. I don't know where you're from. Yeah. So the seesaw that is the Rockets, where do you put them? Who's got the higher balance? The awesome wins or the sucky losses? Well, if you look at the end of the day, they're, what, 39 and 21? So they're one of the better teams in the NBA overall.

They're fourth in the west. So, I mean, I would say the good is outweighing the bad. And especially looking at the record of teams above 500, I think is pretty good. Really good. Really good. And you can fix all this. And again, you have to balance it was one of those nights. So sometimes you just don't do a good job to you're going to have an off night to or a, you know,

you just didn't give two craps about the game. I don't think that's what the Rockets were. The Knicks shot well beyond what they were supposed to. The rebounding numbers were so Rockets are not going to win a lot of battles, but it was really bad last night. And they just didn't have the intensity in the first half that they brought in the second half when they were down, like I fell behind him by as much as 21 with a chance to tie the game on the Westbrook missed free throw jumper.

I don't know. That was a play was an abortion, by the way. You know the final play? No. Russell Westbrook losing the ball. and then just having to put up a mid-range shot to tie. I like going for the three for the win there every time. Well, if that's the case that I don't want Russell having the ball on his hands.

Yeah, I didn't like to play, like I said. Oh, okay. But at least if that shot goes down, which he's been pretty good to the mid-range, under 50 percent. But it's still- And then you might lose an overtime. So that's why I like going for the win. No, it's the Knicks.

You would have. You would have? Yeah, after you just lost. Yeah, it was bad. And then the head, and then the tail headwhip. wind's going back here. It's just like, oh. And there's nothing worse than landing in the middle of the night and then having to make that 45 minute drive after that. Oh, you have to drive.

Well, from where... You hire an Uber. You hire a driver. You're fancy Matt. Would you come pick me up? And drive you to Kingwood? Yeah. I'll take you to my place. That's unsugitive. We get the couch. Oh, that's true. I forgot about that. I have two blow-up beds.

One for, yeah, you get the Texas mattress makers, batchers, and then the blow- Yeah, you're not touching that thing. You know what you are? You're like a, you're like a, you're like a, you're like a, you're like a, Airbnb. Stay off my Euro top California King. It's only room for me on that. I got you. By the rocket's 15 and 10 against teams above 500 for

comparison. Lakers are 14 and 10 Clippers are 15 and 10. So against teams above 500, they're one of the class. So maybe every team goes through this. Maybe every team goes to this group of what it could have shut a loss. Well, the Lakers are 32 and 3 against teams below 5th.

I don't use them. That's a bad example. The nuggets are 27 and 9. 26 and 9 for the Clippers and 24 and 11 for the Rockets. Okay, well, a chance to add that impressive win total when they take on the LA Clippers on Thursday night. So amongst teams in the top seven there have the worst record against teams

for a full of 500. This is not a great way Oh, it's a fact. Just laying out the facts, Matt. I hate when you lay out facts. By the way. Box are 38 and one against teams under 500. They're just the class of the east. They're good. They lost last night to the heat though. What? They're 52 and 9 now.

So they're pacing for 70, right? right? Or pretty close to? As of last yesterday, they were pacing for 71. Now that they lost, I'm not sure. Wow. All right. So, yeah, the Rockets had a bad loss yesterday. I don't think anybody could hide that. They can make up for Thursday against the clips.

And then they get Charlotte. The schedule the rest of the way isn't really overly difficult. There's a five-game road trip we've got coming up at the end of the March. That's going to just be taxing, but not necessarily in terms of great competition. But you know what? That's the thing about this Rocket team is you don't know, you know, when, if they turn it off, how bad they turn it off, and how much can they overcome that?

And clearly last night with New York, I mean, when Wayne Allington is dropping bombs, Ross, it wasn't meant to be. R.J. Barrett tied his career high with 27 points last night. A lot of that's due to bad defense, though. Open looks and getting multiple second chance, third chance, opportunities.

Lots of offensive rebounds last night. I mean, yeah, the Knicks suck, but they're NBA players. And they're not going to shoot 40% from, three every night, but I mean, it's not like 40% it's some ungodly percentage. Don't you think that Mike, Dan Tony, should walk in the room every night and say, do you realize they're NBA

players over there? That's the modus operandi when you're going against these subpar teams because, again, you beat this Boston team on their home floor in overtime. You overcome a 17-point deficit. You're like, man, this is pretty damn good. We're going to New York now, wipe the floor with the Knicks, come back home, maybe you have a chance

to have the number three seat all to ourselves, and now it's going to take a little bit of work now because you lost the game yesterday. Yeah, but they've been taking care business against bad teams recently. I mean, Memphis and the Knicks themselves, they beat at home and that one of the Warriors where they just obliterated the Warriors.

It's very up and it's been a schizophrenic team and that's what teams who are trying to be championship contenders but not getting over the hump are. They're inconsistent. All right. So the biggest story, not involving the game yesterday at Madison Square Garden. By the

way, that's my second home. I've been there. I was there back to back that you saw hockey on Sunday and then Rockets last night. Do you know what the number one story involving the game was, not the game? But it was Spike Lee. And we'll discuss

why Spike Lee was a headline and why it's the most ridiculous headline of it all. It's very Nix. It's very celebrity entitled is what it is. And look, the NICs have a terrible reputation. I get that. But rules are rules.

And they have fired back. And they have gone. on after him. It's almost like can you read Spike, can you read the MSG statement? We'll do it in the coming up. Yes, we can. You want to read it in a terse New York voice? A little impromptu sports empty theater. Sure, I can try. We're going to a little

impromptu sports empty theater. Spike Lee versus the Knicks because God knows they're not talking about their win. They're talking about how one of their season ticket holders doesn't get entitled treatment. Craig Bizjo here, the heart of the order is up right now.

Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences. here on Sports Talk 790. So I checked the sports headlines today on ESPN. That's probably the number one sports website, right? Next to, of course, sports 790.com where you need to meet today's afternoon delight. Oh, my God. He's got a great personality.

Is that what you call those things? I mean, if you're a heterosexual man, sports 790.com. Or I think a heterosexual woman can appreciate beauty in many forms, Matt. That's true. Really, frankly, if you're bisexual, asexual, or just whatever. It doesn't really matter. I'm not sure what non-binary means, but that as well.

Yeah, any sexual. We'll Google it. Go check out our, what is her friend, our friend's name today? Does it matter? It doesn't matter what her name is. We'll forget. Lily something. Yeah, go check out Lily at sports.

Bethany, Lily, April. Which totally sounds made up, but that's okay. Yeah, her probably name is, Norma Jean Miller. You go check her out and you'll be glad that you did. All right. So headlines of the day today, which shows you that,

you know, sometimes it's not a piping hot day of sports topics. That's what we have to take. What do they take? You get a bunch of crap and you make something out of it, like lemonade out of lemons. Okay. Chicken bleepin the chicken salad.

There you go. Sheriff, eight deputies took Kobe crash scene photos. That's disgusting. Not even talking about it. Okay? Olympic flame lighting to proceed despite virus. Okay, great.

That'll be a hard pass. Yanks GM. Judge feels better. Having more test. Well, good. Yon. Red Sox A-Sail getting MRI for sore elbow. Look, the Red Sox are going to maybe win any games this year, so they're out of side of mind.

Ray's Whitley has facial fractures after being hit by a ball. That's tough. Feel bad for the Whitley family. The number one under the category Rossi of top headlines. Wait, nobody's talking about how he got hit intentionally in the face and people are throwing at him and this is not going viral or anything? Not yet. Oh, you mean people get hit in baseball games? Even in spring training.

And it's not national news? Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. The top headline on ESPN, and this is maybe the part of the reason why you probably should find an alternative site for your sports news. Spike Lee done watching Nix and MSG this year. So apparently, as I'm calling him. call the game yesterday, there was some controversy about Spike going through an entrance where he normally goes through, the employee entrance, to enter the game. It's less congested. He can sneak

in, sneak out, blah, blah, blah, you know, and look, when you're an employee at MSG and, you know, Spike Lee walks to your area, nine times out of ten, that security person's like, Spike, I know who you are, go to your seat, have a good time. Well, that 10th person was following the rules and said, Spike, you cannot enter through this entrance. You have to go through the VIP ticket section, which I would think it would be more exclusive than the employee section, right? You would think in theory. Maybe, but maybe Spike Lee feels like he's family. Salt of the Earth. He's one of them. Yes. He's a Nick. So they denied him access and it created a little bit of a kerfuffle, if you will. They were screaming in the tunnel. And so Spike Lee's like,

the hell with this, but Spike Lee was in his seat in the second half. I saw him. And then, oh, he was? Because apparently he went on ESPN talking about how he's done going to the Knicks games. Well, now he's done. NICs games. So the NICs beat the Rockets, and now he's done going to the games. Well, the NICS, they have PR issues.

This is where Nicholas, we need to have the music for the SportsMT Theater ready to go. Whatever you're ready. He's training somebody in the background there today, so we're kind of sharing Nick with some other folks. but so Spike Lee goes on his first take and takes shots at the Knicks

about the way he's being treated I didn't watch it I have I honestly Rossi I don't care what Spike Lee thinks about the Knicks I don't even think the Knicks care about I don't think Nick fans care what Spike Lee thinks I think they do I feel like he's an iconic Nick fan or

I would rather care when Walt Frazier would tell him about the Knicks than Spike Lee yeah but he wears funky suits and gives bad analysis that's true ladies and gentlemen I present the response I don't present it Ross does the response You have to introduce it like this Matt

I gotta set it up Oh I'm sorry Yeah you don't get to talk like that right now So MSG puts out a response To Spike Lee being all grumpy And that's when we present to you Spaltz MT theater

Playing the role of MSGPR Flack Ross Virreal Statement from the New York Knicks. The idea that Spike Lee is a victim because we have repeatedly asked him not to use our employee entrance, instead use a dedicated VIP entrance, which is used by every other celebrity who enters the garden, by the way, is laughable. It's disappointing that Spike would create this false controversy to perpetuate drama.

He is welcome to come to the garden anytime via the VIP or general entrance, just not through our employee entrance, which is what he and Jim agreed to last night when they shook hands. Get out of here! I got you, Spike Lee, right here. Get out of here. Get them out of here. And that was SportsMT Theater,

performed by Ross Fedoriel with the latest sister from SportsMT. We don't stereotype here on the show. Never. We never. So I had to get out of character. Yeah, let me tell you something. New York guy talking about the Astros. They're talking like,

man, there, now, Houston, Texas. Oh, yeah. So we're allowed to do it, too. I don't feel bad about it at all. Nor should you, Matthew. All right, so the celebrities at the game last night, they sent us a list of the celebrities. Yes.

Basically, the Knicks don't have to do anything. It's Chris Rock, and then you can be a lot of B-listers. It was Chris Rock and then a bunch of other people. Let's run through the list of last night's celebrities. You tell me, A, B, or C list. All right. I'll try to guess who they are. All right.

Jim Jones. Oh, he's a rapper. I actually know who that is. A, B, C. He's a very not good rapper. Okay. B minus C. Okay.

The joke about Jim Jones was, I thought he was dead of the cooling. Right, with the Kool-A-N. Next. Cameron, C-A-M-A-P-R-O-N. No, that's Cam-R-R-A. Now, Cam-on had some hits. He's at least B-list. Cam, apostrophe.

Ron. That's Cam Ron, Maddie. All right, go ahead. Yeah, B list. B list. Tim Parker. He sounds like a state farm agent. Plays for the New York Red Bulls.

Okay. D. Okay. Rami Yousef. Golden Globe Award winning actor. Never eight of them. So I'll go F. Nick, look up what Rami Yusef does, if you can,

and see if he's anything famous we've ever. watched. I said Robert Yusuf? No, Rami. Rami M-A-M-Y. Oh, Rami Yusuf. Yeah, he was

the queen movie. Oh, was he doing what? That's way too much called. That's Rami Malick. Oh. No, yeah. Now you got me suckered in. He pulled the Ross.

I always do that. You did pull a Ross. He did pull a Ross. All right. Next. Grand Mama, Larry Johnson, former New York. Oh, B.

B. Heidi. Heidi Gardner. Uh, Instagram model. What does she do? S-N-L. Oh, okay. Which one? Don't know.

Heidi Gardner. Okay, well, look her up. If you're on S&L, you're at least a C. Ramiusuf's just a stand-up comedian. I don't see much. Oh, I recognize her. Oh, she's okay. Okay, she looks like a...

Young Goldie Hawn, if you will. I don't know what she looks like, but... Okay. Pete Davidson was of the game last night. Oh, he's a solid... Is he an A? Because he dated... What's her name?

Ariana Grande. He's up to A. He's A. He's an A-List because he just dates women that are 500 times more attractive than he is. Because then he was with Kate Beckinsale after that, right? Well, yeah, he's like pasty white and not funny. Yeah.

And yet goes out with the hottest women alive. Yeah, when he was one of the openers when Dave Chappelle came to and no one left. He was bad and it was uncomfortable. And I even said, I was like, that guy's going to kill himself. And then he was posting very suicidal things like a couple days later. He's like, he's on S&L. He gets like one sketch a week.

Yeah, I'm a little worried for him. Speaking of S&L, Keenan Thompson was there. Okay. Ooh, we, what up with that? Right. Family feud. He plays Steve Harvey. He's from All That and Good Burger.

He plays 50 roles. He's been an SNL longer than I think the show's been on. Okay, we'll give him a grade. He's one of those guys who's just A. Oh, for sure. He's not an A-lister. Brad Pitt is an A-lister. Ooh, he is not an A-Lister.

What up with that. Stop. What up with that. If Brad Pitt's on the A-List, Keenan Thompson is not on the A-List. Judd Hirsch, Uncut Jems and Taxi. Uh, he sounds familiar. Oh, he's very famous. Been around a long time.

He was an... Oh, yeah, yeah. I know, Judge, I heard from taxi, but Uncount James is his most recent thing. Okay, where are we putting him? B? Yeah. Lucas Hedges. Never heard of him.

Never heard of him. He's apparently a Screen Actors Guild Award winner of some sort. And congratulations to him. Three athletes, Jamal Adams. Oh, the safety for the Jets. Jets. That's who they took instead of Deshawn Watson. That's true.

Right? And we may note of that on the show yesterday. Sterling Shepard and Daniel Jones of the New York Giants. Sterling Shepard? I mean, yeah. Daniel Jones, the quarterback? Yeah. Oh, good for it.

I mean, if you're a quarterback in New York, you're at least a B, right? Right. And then Chris Rock, which was A and nobody else. Yeah, that's A. See, if Chris walks in A, Kiann Thompson is not an A, Matt. So the question I have is, should the Rockets do the same thing? Give the media as a celebrity list. Well, it's either going to be Travis Scott or some various Astro.

It's true. Or Vernon Maxwell Or Paul Wall I think we have pound for pound Decent celebrities that come to our game Yeah I mean Grading the list again It's a speed of the C

You know it was so weird for me When I was doing the PA The very first time in the mid-90s You know who sat over my left shoulder Mattress Mac No Zizi top Oh really

Yeah That's when they were like still All of them or just dusty Or Billy or whatever Just the two of the guys The two ones with the long beards Okay But they would rotate

And it was just really odd to be, you know, calling out Basket by Otis Thorpe or Akimilin, and you look, man, there's sharp-dressed men behind me. Isn't it weird that the one person without a beard in Zizi Top is named Frank Beard? That is weird. I'd go see them play today. I'm sure.

They'll probably be there at the rodeo or something, right? They haven't had a hit in year forever. They're at the rodeo like every year. Yeah, but you still want to go see him. Legs? Who wants to hear the deep, intricate lyricisms of legs? Yeah, I would do. 1230 on the Matt Thomas shows.

So that's what the next do. Instead of giving you, and by way, Red Panda was there last night, too. Oh, okay. Well, I think most... Do you think the light person knows Red Panda? I know who Red Panda is. Red Panda, by the way, has lost some of her...

Her fastball. Yeah, she's dropping more cups than she's ever had before. She dropped two sets of cups. I don't know. If you, Ross, if you could create your own career and just run around the country doing a halftime axe, what would you do? The two acts that I see more than anywhere else is I see Red Panda everywhere, and the Simon says dude is always there.

I don't know that one. What about the guy that just... does paintings or whatever. He's cool. He's pretty good. In my next life, Ross, besides becoming the host of Price is right and doing weather, I'm going to come up with some bit for halftime. Yeah, you could be Rubber Boy.

Excuse me? You know, Rubber Boy, that guy that puts himself in a box and all that type of stuff, he's a contortionist. But I don't have any kind of sort of flexibility. We'd stretch out. We stretch you. Five, four, three, at two. Dave, Joe Green. The Matt Thomas show continues.

Three-order, nothing but. on Sports Talk 7-9. Melo! On your Rockins. 1235. How are y'all doing today? Our jobs are to keep you entertained, even on days where there's not spectacular sports headlines.

You guys can contribute to. This gives you a little bit more of an open form of, hey, Matt, would you mind bringing this up? Or, Ross, can you argue with Matt about this? By the way, your Photoshop yesterday of me? Yes. I don't want to give you props that often because it just, I know you don't.

It swells your head. But as soon as I get to 25, I'm almost really openly rooting to get to 25,000 on Twitter. Because if it happens, I'm going to change my avatar for one whole week. And it might be so good. I might keep it for longer than that. If you don't know what we're talking about, Damari Carroll is one of the new fashionistas for the Rockets. He wore some leopard pants when we got in from Boston late, late Saturday night. And I was telling Ross about them, and we found a photo of them.

And Ross, through the beauty of photoshopping, how did you, did you take a photoshopping class? I did not. I'm self-taught. Whatever it is. Some of your stuff's not great. This is spectacular. Well, sometimes you have to have the right lightings and angles in it and just matches up perfectly. And that was one where it just, it just all really came together.

All right. So right now I'm at 24,958. When I get to 25,000, I'll keep it up. for one week, the SportsMT and Damari Carraware. And it is an all-timer on the Photoshop. So if you know 42 of your friends that have yet to follow the main account, do it and we'll get the photo up there. And you guys can make fun of me for a better part of a week.

At SportsMT. Yeah, that's right. At SportsMTMT. All right. So Laramie tonsill Rossi fires his agent today over in the last 24 hours. And he is looking for a new representation. He might even probably may even try to negotiate his own deal with the Houston Texans. Really?

It's got one year left. They could franchise tag him for a couple of years, which will put him in the, you know, rarefied air of super left tackles. He wants to be, I think he wants to be the highest paid left tackle in the NFL. And my guess is he will get that way. Whatever number that is, Ross, we're not going to care. Don't you by default have to make sure he's really happy because you have spent two first rounds and a second round on this guy to come in and be that left tackle that you've spent

five or six years trying to find to begin with? Doesn't he hold all the cards? Give me a scenario where the Texans have the advantage in this. You have a general manager who's your coach who doesn't, now he's got underlings and negotiate contracts. But since Bill's a general manager, the buck stops with him. you have a novice front office with a left tackle

who granted is good for three or four false starts per game he's like a tiered he's not I don't tell you he's not like a tier one guy he's tier two left tackle to me well I'm one of the best of the best but he's good he's solid you can tear him any way you want to

he's going to become the highest paid offensive line in the NFL this whenever he signs his deal okay so what makes me question the situation is, how in the world, and this bears repeating five million times, how in the world do the Texans make the move for the dolphins to get him here and not lock him up so they have the leverage?

Because Laramie Tunsell, I don't know if he hated Miami, loved Miami. Obviously his teammates loved him. They were just really upset when he left. But he went from a team that wasn't going to make the playoffs to a team that went to a divisional playoff game. Granted again, lost, you know, terribly to Kansas. city. They were up 24 to nothing. But he went from a better team. From Miami to Houston

was a team upgrade. So he's getting out of a bad situation. He knows he's going to get paid. How do the Texans make the move without getting him locked up? So he doesn't hold the cards. I mean, I wonder what the, I mean, what are even negotiating at this point?

Well, what you're negotiating is Laramie Tunsell walks into the Texans office, the Bill O'Brien or Jack Easterby or whoever he goes to and says, hey, I've fired my agent. I think his name is Tom Condon. Okay. He's gone. You're going to make me the highest paid left tackle in the NFL. Let's get going. There isn't much to argue about, is there?

No, that's what I'm saying. Let's go. Or, I mean, is Bill O'Brien hardlining him? Like, how involved is Bill O'Brien in these conversations? Well, in reality, you can hardline him for three more years. We know that the buck stops there. As in like he's got one year and two franchises? Two franchises. Okay. So if you're the Texans, Ross, do you even, if Laramie Tensel fires his agent and Laramie calls the Texan and says, I'm looking for new representation, do you think they're going, well, that's good.

We can now get something done. Or do you think, you know what? You're under our watch for three more years at least. Why do I need to hurry about it? So I guess the question is who does have the leverage? A guy who wants to get paid, who feels like he should be paid the most money for a left tackle in the NFL versus a team. that holds his rights, in theory, for three more seasons. I don't know what's going to happen.

I don't know. I don't understand what the Texans are doing. It feels like, I mean, I'm just confused. This feels like the J.D. Clowny. Remember J.D. Clowney, didn't he fire Bus Cook deep into those negotiations? You know what there is? There's nothing fluid about Texans' contract negotiations. Is there?

No, I don't know. The only player I can think of in the last five years that has had a easy, breezy contract is JJ Watt? Yes. I mean, Jonathan Joseph gets new contracts to extend year after year after year. Well,

it'll be here till he's like 50. He's got a guaranteed deal until he's 50. But they don't break the bank with him. DeAndre Hopkins had his brief holdout situation. But yeah, I think who else?

It's just been JJ Watt. Hey, let's re-up J.J. Watt. Andre Johnson was far from having a fluid contract situation. A lot of that was because he hired his uncle to do his negotiating, which was a bad mistake. Which, by the way,

re-uped J.J. Watt is a no brain. and he was the three-time defensive player of the year. That's, you know. But it's interesting how the Texans have no problem signing guys and overvaluing them for guys that are just just guys. I mean, like Nick Martin got a really, really good deal for a guy's been hurt basically half of his career. Whitney Merciless's deal was a little bit early,

and it paid off for a little bit there, but he hasn't been great the last couple years. So it's just, I'm anxious to see how this goes. Now, again, people are not going to be calling our show, arguing about whether Laramie Tunsell's worth $19 million a year. They're going to be worried about just getting him in and they don't want him to be unhappy and they don't want him to be holding out.

They don't want him to be late. You know, what you don't want is you don't want to exactly what JD Clonnie was this year. Didn't show for OTAs. Didn't show for minicamp. He's firing his agent. And then Jady's like, you're not sending me to Miami. I'll tell you where I'm going to go.

That's what I'm just wondering. It's, I mean, the negotiations just have to be, make me the highest paid tackle. No. Make me the highest paid tackle. No. Make me the highest paid tackle. Okay. I mean, is there like a signing bonus thing or some kind of, you want personal services

contract? I mean, I don't know what's going on. It goes into this. Yeah. I think about who does have the power, because again, the Texans can hold him for three more years if he, if they so choose. But when you double, when you double franchise tax somebody, it's going to, that last year is really going to be painful to them.

and ultimately Larry Tunsell wants longer security than the one year left in his current deal which he signed with Miami and the two franchise tags. Again, franchise tags to me are awesome, but players hate them because they don't give you that long-term security. 1243 in the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790. It's how you reach our show today. 7-1-3-2125-790. You want to reach out on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Pro Nick Lowe. For those of you that would like to know, the Yankees and the Red Soxie,

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Taking it one day at a time. All right. Sometimes I debate with you on things and I know I'm right. And then sometimes I give you the chance to. sell your side of things. Okay. Well, you and Adam Clayton... I am undefeated in debate.

You and Adam Clinton are having a small, very small Twitter beef. And that it's not a beef. What is it then? How would you describe it? I just like messing with Adam. Yeah, that's such a thing is, at the end of the day, that's why you have no friends. So you just mess with people way too much. That's the way I like it, too. We're going to call Adam.

Part of the 8-Team Sports Talk 790. I know he's there. Come on now. It's probably changing Carson's diaper. I thought they were nannied up now. They are. She's ugly, apparently. I was kidding.

Yes. Hey, Adam, it's Matt and Ross. Is it true that Teresa wouldn't let you hire a hot nanny? That's quite the opening question. I saw Teresa today. I said, how's Carson? She goes great. I said, how's the nanny?

She said, she's fantastic. And don't worry, she's not super hot. I'm like, Well, that's disappointing. Well, and so not so many words. But you made that last part up. Maybe. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Okay. So you and Ross are having this Twitter conversation, and we won't call it a beef about the definition of a must win. Now, I never have Twitter beef with coworkers, by the way. That's been established. Yeah, you just have a million years. The rest of America. How are you and Ryan Residdle getting along today? You'll fight.

Very, very busy. Very, very busy. He hasn't responded. What's a story behind that? I actually, and still, like, it's what, like, one o'clock? I still have not heard the segment, but apparently he kind of, like, verbally sub-tweeted me, if that makes sense. Like, he said something on the podcast with Bill Simmons about aggressive Houston media

members that he wants to fight, and, like, the leaders in the clubhouse were me or Ben DeBose. so I don't even know if it was technically I don't know if it was me or not but you know I'm going to go ahead and take yeah I would put the two of you right at the top of that list for sure but for different reasons you know all right so the reason we're calling you is that I am a huge proponent of using the term

must win every time I use it Ross says Matt it's not a must win the season can't end but I'm a huge believer in it I would under no circumstance however Mr. Clinton ever consider a game against the New York Knicks in early March, a must win. So I'm going to give you a chance to explain yourself right now. Well, because the reason you wouldn't is because you're assuming that they wouldn't mess around

and lose a game like that. Yeah, but they did. No, but see, every NBA team does this, though. Right, but, like, you would have to agree. Both of you would have to agree with me that this particular season, the Rockets have lost far too many of those type of games. So the fact that they have lost that many of those type of games Makes a game like last night where you absolutely 100% have no excuse to lose that game

More of a must-win type of game Because you're already behind the eight ball because you've lost those games earlier in the year Go ahead Ross Yeah, that's fine It's just a semantics argument must-win important vital It's all just semantics Well here's the reason why I don't go on your side on this one.

Because if the Rockets beat the Clippers on Thursday night, we're not going to care about the next loss, which is not. Yeah, but you're also not going to hear about how you have a lead over the Clippers because you lost that Knicks game, where you would have if you hadn't. Yeah, but you're also assuming that every time the Rockets play a less than 500 opponent they're supposed to win, that just simply doesn't happen. No, it doesn't always happen, but it has happened far too many times this year where it's just been, like that Phoenix game, they lose the jazz game at the buzzer,

and then the Phoenix loss was the very next time they played, correct? Yes, I believe. So if you hadn't lost those two games, you're talking about a double-digit winning streak, and probably you've already leapfrog the Clippers. Whereas, you know, you lose that game last night, and you would have gone into the Clippers game. I don't know how many times they play between now and Thursday, but, you know, technically you probably could have had a chance to leapfrog them or you're tied going into that game, depending on what happens.

But I mean, there's not that many games left. That's the biggest reason why last night is just a must win because you're supposed to win it. And there's not many games left. So if you lose a game like that and you still have difficult games like the Clippers, like the Lakers, it just makes it so much more, you know, the onus on you to win those games. Now it's a lot more pressure. That's all I'm saying. So it sounds like every game is a must-win game.

From here on out, yes, Ross, it is. Okay. So you want the Rockies to go 25 and O the rest of the way? I mean, is it wrong to ask if they go, where they have 25 left, you said? Give or take, yeah. They've got 22. 22, so there's more take than give. They should get 17 or 18 wins from here on out.

And they might. That's not too much to ask. And they might do that. But it may not be the 17 or 18 that you think is going to happen. They might win. Here's the thing, Rock, here's the thing, Adam. They might beat Philadelphia in Philadelphia. They might beat Indiana and Indiana.

They might beat the Clippers. They might beat the Lakers on a Thursday night. And they might also spit the bid and lose to in Detroit. We just, the NBA is weird that way. We just can't. That's why I said it's a seesaw for the Rockets. What do you balance the amazing wins they've had this year? Golden's, they've beaten the Lakers in Los Angeles.

They beat Toronto. They'd be Boston. They've beaten Utah. twice. I mean, these things tend to balance out, and that's why, as much as I believe in the must win category, and as much as last night sucked, to me it was not a must win. Well, and my problem with last night is that you were, like, not even competitive for basically the majority of three-quarters plus. I felt like the whole time they were like, ah, yeah, yeah, and then they're like, I felt like the whole time they were like, ah, we'll turn it on when we need

to, and then they did, and it just wasn't enough. But I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, and I mean, I mean, think about last year, and this is why I tweeted to Ross, very last game of the season, you've got a double-digit lead at Oklahoma City. You've got the two-seat effectively sewn up if you win that game. You lose that game. You fall all the way to four. You have to play the Warriors in the second round instead of the conference finals, where you wouldn't have had Kevin Durant waiting on you potentially.

But you would have known that ahead of time. You would have had an easier opponent before you got to the conference finals. That's why I just, I have problems with them losing games like last night. That's my biggest takeaway. That was just a crap loss, and nobody's going to spend it positively for me. 11 of their 21 losses against teams under 500. That's brutal. That's terrible.

Oh, I didn't mean to make you angry. Now you've poked it to the line here. Yeah, now he's going to tweet at Ryan Rusillo. If you fancy yourself a championship contender, you can't do that. You just can't. You think the Bucks would do that? Correct. No, they've lost one game against teams under 500.

They should have lost to the Rockets on opening night, and the rockets crapped the bed that night, too. The 2019-2020 rockets crap in the bed. I mean, it's not bad. If you want to go with the hashtag. All right.

So who are you going to fight with today on Twitter? I don't think I've really gotten into anything today. There was that teacher that did the poem. That was brutal. Did you see that? Yes, I did. My five-year-old.

Oh, your fifth grade class wrote a poem about the Astros. You're a loser. What? This is what I, you know what I wanted to say, Adam? And I'll just tell it to you, and you probably would have told me to send it, but I didn't want to. I was going to say, teach your dumb-ass kids how witness immunity and collective bargaining works. Teach them how the real world works. Hey, do we have these poems somewhere we can read them? Yeah. Yeah, it's in my Twitter feed. Just go to look it up. We're going to go read them and come out on the next break here.

You've given me a segment topic for the show, and for that. I thank you. Hey, there you go, man. That's what I do. All right. I'm going to tweet now. I'm not going to say dumb-ass kids, but... Well, I mean, are they super smart? No, you can say it, Rod. I'm not going to say it.

See, Adam's a bad influence on me. He is a bad influence. Adam Clant will talk to you at 3 o'clock, my friend. Okay, bye. Adam Clanton, three to six. So we have teachers now writing poems about the air. Their kids are writing poems about the Astros? This is out of control.

Let's read some of them coming back. Oh, it's only one poem. Can we read it out loud? Uh, yeah. It's a fifth graders. Well, let me tell you some. Fifth grade FCC violations. Let me tell you.

In fifth grade, we were using swear words on Madlips. It's not like, she's not teaching in all the year. I think it's fine. Please tell me that everybody that's in the sound on my voice, when you were a fifth grader, you would use swear words in your madlips. And you laughed your ass off because

it was so funny. Right. We should play some madlip. How could we find some sports madlips? We need to write some or put them on our website or something. I'll have you work on that. All right. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show starts in a matter of moment. 713, 212. 5-7-90. Terrible news from spring training.

That's an over-embellishment of a headline. I'll give you what's going on with the strohs next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. We go the hour number two of three. You guys are welcome. Ladies, too, at 7-1-3-2125-79. So I looked at 7-13-1-2-5-790. So I looked at this woman's Twitter account.

And it's Ross's, and it's Ross's fault, and it's Adam. He brought it up. How did Clinton find this woman? She's all over Twitter. There's, you know, I mean, anytime somebody tweets something like this, it's on Astros' Twitter within seconds. I mean, here's what happened. This is a fifth grade teacher. Her name is Jeannie Spiro, oh, Lord.

Spiridopolis. She's obviously Greek. Nothing wrong of being Greek. Or she married a Greek. Or she married a Greek. She is a fifth grade. teacher. She has a Dodger logo or Dodger Stadium kind of little, what do they call this thing?

Wait a second. Oh my, which, which, she's, is that Donald Trump at Dodger Stadium? I don't know who that is, but it's some dude. She has eight hundred, she has four hundred and nineteen followers. How does somebody at four hundred nineteen followers have eight hundred and fifteen likes, 149 retweets and 349 comments. Oh, she's a Dodgers fan. I don't even know this.

Yeah. This explains a lot. So here's what she does. First of all, these dumb-ass kids don't even know where Houston is. Yeah, they're dumb-ass kids. They're getting a terrible California education. I think California's ahead of Texas as far as state schooling, but that's okay. I don't believe it to be accurate.

I bet you Texas schools are pound-for-pound better than California. I'm just saying. I don't know that for a fact, but I'm hoping. All right. So she says, we had a class meeting about accountability and the Houston Astros were brought up. Oh, you're right, actually. What? Texas is 36.

California is 37. Yeah. Suck it, California. We're 36. Yikes. In what? In public school education. Ooh, that's tough.

36 out of 50. Is that bad? I don't think it's great. All right. We can't read good. This is what Jeannie Spiropolis says. Spiridopoulos. Whatever.

We had a class meeting about accountability and the Houston Astros were brought up. Oh my gosh. My students were angry and disgusted. My students were angry and disgusted. You know what this is? This is Dodger Jeannie. Yes, it is. One wrote this poem.

Fifth graders know right from wrong. Come on at MLB commissioner. Show the kids that there is accountability. Do we need some music behind this? We need some... Do you want for this poem? We don't want sports empty theater music. We want like...

Good poetry music. Play breezing. That's always a classic, Nick. Is that something I should know? Yeah, he plays it all the time, and I just think it's a nice smooth jam. All right, so get Breeze and we're going to read the name of the poem. It's called Cheaters Never Win by some fifth grade dork. Ah, yes.

Cheaters never win. By some fifth grade dumbass in California. By Jeannie, associate producer Jeannie Spiropoulos or Sparopoulos or whatever the hell her name is. Got to wait for the beat to hit. Dodger Honk. Terrible, Dodger Jeannie. My favorite game is slipping away. After what the Astros, Houston Astros have to say,

No punishment. Well, that's so lame. When will we play the game? It will never be the same. But if the commissioner doesn't say anything, then it will still be shamed. After all these years, the game has remained the same, but it will never be as shamed.

underscore. Written by unknown kid. Written by dumbass kid. And they have Texas with some county that is not Harris County highlighted in red, plus a trash can, I don't know, clip art. And it equals Houston Astros on there. So as... No punishment?

How is $5 million fine, multiple draft picks, losing your general manager, and losing your, your manager, not punishment? So what we'd like to do here on the Matt Thomas show? Explain that to me, Jeannie! Jeannie, we're going to read your responses. At B.M.H. 820. Maybe you should teach your kids about the MLBPA. How about you teach them about the angels who help kill their own player?

You're doing great. Next. You failed geography, teacher. Next. No punishment. Get the fact straight. From Brittany B. I hope whoever he is you're trying to get attention from on a fake baseball post Bones you

TR3 Zizzle what a sorry excuse for an educator had Joshua McGee it's a giff of it's Jeopardy it says I'll take things that didn't happen for $800 Alex and the clue is most or all of this user's post by the way the photo you should go look at this woman's Twitter account there's a photo of the city of Texas in there in Houston and it's wrong Yes. So they're really getting mad at her for not knowing geography.

And there's a giff of Pinocchio with his nose growing. I'm just telling you this. If you're coming with fire and brimstone about something, you better have all your facts straight or you're going to get ratioed. She got ratioed hard. And if you're a fifth grade teacher, you're not immune from being ratioed. And that is today's ratio lesson today. Punish your student for using the wrong county on their map if you really want to teach accountability.

Oh, my God. That from S.F. Reagan. Why did you lie to them and say there was no punishment? That from M. Deska, T.T.U. Next. Maybe teach them some geography. That's not Houston City. That's the county. Calm down. Oh, here's one.

Teets them about known cheater Manning Ramirez, a popular member of the Dodgers of these team stood by. And how about Eric Gagne, Dodgers? He was a PED user as well, right? Here's one. You're a hooker? Matt, that's you. Oh, I did not write that. Oh, here she's responding to somebody. It was a heated, passionate conversation.

They were up in arms regarding the lack of consequences. MLB is sending the wrong message to our children. No, no, the message that are being sent to today's children can be found on video games. Yakes. We just need more George Benson on the show. This is Yacht Rock, by the way. For someone that rips on Yacht Rock, this is Yacht Rock, this is Yacht Rock. This is Yacht Rock.

I don't know what this is. I just know it's a jam. Yeah, I could be out on the boat With my boat shoes I'm wearing my boat shoes today My pastel polo My khaki shirt Yeah, you're in the uniform today

Yeah, I'm in the uniform You know what When you hear this song I didn't even notice you had all that on When I was just Spitballing You hear this song No matter what horrible topic

You want to talk about in sports It makes it for better For instance, watch this Yeah Bill O'Brien You know what AFC South Champions liked by his guys in the locker room.

Got a great support staff. Laramie Tunsel negotiations are going great. He's a smart guy. He went to Brown. He can handle more than one responsibility. He decided to promote from within. He's giving up play call duties. He hired a new defensive coordinator.

Ross, it's almost like this is the, this song changes anything bad in sports into something much more pleasant. Yeah. Watch this. I'm sad that... Watch this. Texas basketball. Hey, big game.

Big game gets owe you tonight. Massive winning streak. Shaka's turning things around. She should get a big old top six seed. A five-year contract extension. He needs to win out in the Big 12. Then maybe he's in. Oklahoma tonight.

Oklahoma State on the weekend. Big games coming up, Matt. Kind of dominate the state of Oklahoma. Give me one more nasty. topic and I can change it into something positive. Democratic National Convention. Oh, man, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden. Mono, Amano.

Is Elizabeth Warren in there? Elizabeth Warren doesn't seem newly as cranky as she lets on to be. I just like saying Amy Klobushar. Klobuchar. She's from Minnesota. Oh. Does she know how to make a good, what's that? Lutifisk? That's not. That's the worst fish ever known to man.

I almost got a divorce over that. Kim said, go get some fish at the store. So I got Lutafisk. It was the cheapest fish. Okay. It started to bubble over in our oven. Oh. And she's like, you're going to eat a bite of this.

I'm like, I'm not going to eat this. I'm not going to eat this. She's like, you spend $15 in his fish. You will take a bite of it. I said, I'll be dandah bite him. And it is Lutafisk. And I won. Thus, we're married 22 years.

That's beautiful. Usually the cheapest in the supermarket is the tilapia. Dirt fish. Let me take you taste Lutifisk, you'll never eat fish again. Okay. It's the grossest fish I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm more like shellfish guy over fish fish. Yeah.

A mahi-mi-hi. Although when we were in Boca Raton, I did have a red snapper, which was delicious. Excuse me? Sheesh! It was a tasty snapper. Y'all can chime anytime you want to now. It's time for a break. We always break on time here.

Yeah, we break on time on the matth time. Thomas shows. 713-212-5-7-90. What is your... No, don't ask what your favorite fish is. I don't care. Rockets with a bad loss, but it was not a must-win game. I will defend Ross on this one.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Do you see what Tyler Bauer has done now with the Reds? We'll explain that next. Oh, and I didn't notice. Adam Clanton wrote a poem in response to this woman's poem. Can we read it on there? Yeah. Let's do it.

When we come back or now? We'll do it next. 112 on Sports Talk 7-9. Let us a tweet from someone that has a new poem for the Dodger fans, and it goes like this, Ross. Roses are red, violence are blue, the Dodgers lost the title because of some guy named Boo. You.

They have a big ballpark and plenty of fans except the people whose houses were stolen for land. They had an old owner who didn't pay debts, and they can't stand a cheater except Mookie Betts. They have an MVP. Who loves to strike out. Now, please like my poem. That's definitely not for clout.

Who wrote that one? Some person on Twitter. Okay. They deserve their proper credit. That's pretty good. I don't follow me, so they don't get it. Very simple. You're so rude, Matthew.

It's rude or die. There's millions of Twitter accounts. They don't all have to follow you. I mean, I'm looking for five more thousand. At SportsMT. There you go. You said you'd be fine after 10,000. No, I'll be fine after 30.

And then you said you'd be fine after 20. You just thirst for. more, Matt. At 30, I'm definitively done. Okay. We're going to Vegas. I want to go to Vegas. Is Adam Clinton at 30 yet? Oh, he's well past 30. He's got a lot of... Yeah, you get a lot of beefs and a lot of bots. Yeah, okay. Several thousand porn stars follow. At least million.

Does Adam have a poem, too? Yes. Go ahead. My favorite app is slipping away after another tweet of faux outrage. No common sense. And it's so lame. Every day we log on, it's always the same. when at jack doesn't say anything it will be insane because adults are fifth graders hashtag on here and have the same mind frame still champs didn't flow easily as mine did okay i like this one rose is red bottles of blue you're a hooker ouch right that's what you want to say don't need to rhyme with any of this stuff here's the thing and i and i have i can i continue to

to tell myself, Matt, don't be this person. The Astros cheated. They deserved every bit of the penalty. They deserve all the shame that they're going to receive this year. But false narratives, Ross, to me, are completely unacceptable. Completely. And that's what I'm finding now almost on a daily basis. And by the way, Rob Manfred, I know you listen to the show on IHeartRadio and thanks for listening on the app. Aren't you do for little Red Sox punishment here? What is taking so long? I was listening to it was like Buster Only and Carl Ravits or somewhere.

We were talking somewhere. And they were talking about how they're hearing that there will be punishment, but it's not anywhere going to be close to what happened to Red Sox because the infractions were not as severe. And if that's the case, that's fine. I don't think you should punish the Red Sox the same if the punishments weren't the same. I wouldn't want that. So let's figure out what exactly.

They've been found guilty of. And let's let the punishment fit the crime. So what did they, what do you think they did that the Astros didn't do? I mean, if you broke the rules, you broke the rules, right? Right. If you use electronics to steal signs or electronic or whatever they're calling it, electronic equipment, I don't know what the specific wording is, then you broke the rule. That's what I want to know.

What did, if what you're saying is accurate, what Buster-only and those folks were saying, What did they do that wasn't nearly as egregious as what the Astros did? They're both vague and they're like, how I'm hearing it. I think it was a podcast or something. Yeah, that's why you don't listen to a podcast. Yeah, I know. Podcast is a bunch of speculation. That's true.

You get the truth, you get the facts right here on Sports Talk 790. And you can find the Matt Thomas Show podcast at Sports Talk 790.com. You can. If you hit it, it'd be nice. And we're going to do the post-show show today. Oh, we are? Yeah. It's back?

We're going to do it. We're going to celebrate our big pool tournament coming up a week from Friday. I need a week from Friday. I need to practice. You know what? Why need to practice? What do you mean? Let's go.

We'll go to, we'll go to Billy and in fact like an hour ahead of time. No, I've got to get some reps. You don't want to be embarrassed, do you? Exactly. Because here's our tournament next, which is a week from Friday. This is what I need. I need a couple of beers in me. That's when I play my best pool.

Like, I think playing better pool is good with beer, and I think... Bowling? Bowling is better with beer. Darts. Two beers in. Two beers in, my dart game is on point. Is it? After that, it's a little.

It's a little shaky. So we're going to have a 10-person tournament. You and I make one and two. We're going to draw six names. It makes eight. Then we're going to have two wild card spots available the day of the event on the 13th. Wonderful. And that's, we have a 10-person tournament.

Winner takes the big grand prize was either a foosball table or an air hockey table. Yeah, if you play a little pool. First of all, me and Matt, I'm terrible. How would you rate your skills out of 10? Terrible. I'm probably like a five. I'm a three and a half. Now, when I was playing back in the day when I was hitting people in the back of their head, I was a seven.

Yeah. I mean... Is slick Willie still around, by the way? Yes. We used to, when I was pre-21, we would go to Slick Willys and have beers and play pool. Yeah. That's what we would do to the place on Westheimer. I mean, Alden Westfield in 1960.

It was called Bogies. We went to the one Sick Willies on Westheimer, like near Hillcroft in all that area. I think Bogies is still out there. I don't think Slick Willys is still there, though. Then we went to a Caligula and stuff like that, too. Oh, and there was another one called Crazy 8 that was right there, too. Yeah. We'd go to Crazy 8.

We're going to Billiard Factor. We're going to the real place now. We're grown-ass adult men. Oh, then there was another one in Greenspoint. Why are the pool hall is the place where you go get served as a youngling? Oh, yeah. Didn't even check me out. There was one in Greenspoint.

Yeah, it was a bunch of Asian people there. And then how you would just show up and then they would service beer. Ah, today's use. I mean, I heard. I would never do. Yeah, Mom does listen to the show. Forget what I said. Sorry, Mom and Dad.

I was never there pre-21. Me either. Let's go to Cindy in the Woodlands at 123 on 790. Hi, Cindy. Hi, Matt. Hi. Thanks for having me on your show. Sure.

I just wanted to address something he just brought up, and that's about the Boston Red Sox and their, you know, cheating scandals, so to speak. This is their second offense since 2017, possibly, and I would think that their punishment would be more than the Astros. I just don't think they're going to say. speak up because they saw the writing on the wall and what has happened to our team and how it's been devastated. And I just want your opinion on this matter.

Well, here's the thing. I don't think Buster-only Cindy would have said what he said in the podcast if he didn't have some sort of evidence to show the world that maybe that whatever they did is not nearly as egregious what the Astros did. I don't think they're going to take what the Apple Watch situation was, add it to what they've done in 2008. 18 and say, well, since we slapped you twice, we're going to give you a super big penalty. I think they're going to treat these things as separate instances. And I think that's the reason why there may be not nearly as harsh from a penalty on the Red Sox sign. But cheating is cheating.

I mean, there's just some things about this that are so broken down. Here's the thing. The Red Sox Apple Watch thing is not even a story anymore. The story about the Apple Watch thing is after it happened, the commissioner said, From here on out, stop using electronics. Anybody else post this message I'm sending out, I'm going to get you. And they got them. They got them.

Because supposedly Luno didn't pass along the memo to Hinch to pass along to the players. Yeah, but you know what? I'm not going to let the memo stand away. They knew that using video technology was not the thing to do, especially adding additional cameras or whatnot. So I'm not giving the aster's a free pass on that. Okay, well, I'm not trying to either. Yeah, I know. I just like I said, if there's second offense for Boston,

and I realize what you said makes sense to me too, but also, damn it. Thank you. Hey, Cindy, you're a lot of swear on our show. Just make sure it's FCC friendly. Do you think, Ross, I would think the longer this thing goes, that they're either doing an extra layer of investigation or they're going, man, what are we supposed to do here? Because if we really dinged the Astros and we thought the Red Sox were right,

there with them, we have to give them the same appropriate punishment. Do you think that players would be less worth coming because of seeing all this blowback that the Astros are getting and the punishment and losing their manager and losing all this type of stuff? That's right. I agree. 100% yeah. That's a layer to this.

It'll be interesting to see. Because here's the thing. These players, if they get the same sort of immunity that the Astros got, then nobody from the Red Sox can bitch and moan about the Astros anymore. again because they took the same deal. And that was my whole point since day one of this, Ross, is that every one of these players in Major League Baseball, anybody, Coney Bellinger, or Trevor Bauer, Tyler Bauer, whatever you want to call them, if they had done something wrong and they were given the free out like

the Astros would, they would have taken it just like the Astros. They would have taken it, but I'm thinking, I'm just thinking after seeing what happened to the Astros and all this that's going down, maybe they would clam up. I mean, don't you think there are people who are on the Astros team right now who wish they didn't say anything? Well, here's the thing. Who is the Mike Fires of the Boston Red Sox? Who's giving up the information? Maybe they don't have that. That's why this investigation is going longer than he is, because they don't have a guy in the inside that said, yeah, I was there. I saw it firsthand. Let's get a short time out. We'll talk to Lee in the Museum District. The rest of you come on in and say hello at 713-212-5-790. Trevor Bauer was typically. pitching pitches intentionally in spring training. Cool.

Why? Because he wants to make it about himself, like I said. He came out with a whole Players Tribune article saying, I wish I were wrong, talking about the Astros cheating, somehow relating it to his thing with Brent Strom and Coca-Cola and Pintar, which had nothing to do with any of this investigation. And now Brent Strom is in the defense of saying, I'm not telling my guy's putting sort of substance on their hand. Yeah.

So, I mean, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor. Bauer Tyler Tyler Bowers just wants to make everything about himself when the buzzer thing came out with John Boy he quote tweeted him and said you know I've heard something too okay sure when Mike there was a Mike Trout unsubstantiated report about him being taking HGH without um with an exception or whatever like oh I heard it was somebody's son somebody a former player's son put on Instagram like talking about Mike Trout taking HGH Mike Trout I mean Tyler Bauer immediately said he heard the same thing. And then he had to walk back those comments. He wants to, in general, he wants to get

his hands all over everything. He's cloud chasing. He's nasty, nasty, nasty rumor pusher. Yes. Tyler White here. Back to Matt Thomas. And it is gone. And sports talk, 790. Home of Astros baseball.

So Trevor, don't call me Tyler Bauer, is now, or at least yesterday in his red spring training performance is tipping the pitches because he's just being a chode is what he is. That's what he is. He's a chode. Right? Yes.

He's trying to make himself the story. I mean, this is very predictable behavior for me. A very average pitcher trying to make him a part of the headlines. No one should be applauding what this cat is trying to do. I'd say he's above average. He's a good pitcher. Okay. But I mean,

is he... He's on hinge. Remember he's When he was, who was taking the ball from? It was Terry Francona was taking the ball from him or something. And he threw it to the center field. He took it through it to the center field wall. Yeah. Chode. Yeah.

Unhinged. Crazy person. A little weird. We did a believe it or not on him. He's very into drones and like building drones. What would he be like as a teammate? Loner, right? Kind of a weird.

Oh, yeah. I mean, every team's got one. The Astros of Joe Biagini. Yeah, that's true. If Joe B. Eugenie wants to be the seventh inning guy for the Astro struck a lot of people I get out, so we don't care how quirky he is. If he gives up three runs a game, we're done with him. Set him back. We had Ken Giles previously to that.

Ken Giles, who said he would give his ring back, by the way. What do you think about that? Don't care. It's metaphorical. Dallas Keikl said he'd never give his ring back. But would you see what Dallas Keikel did yesterday? They had a team dinner. He picked up the tab.

20 Gs? 25,000. $25,000? $25,000. Now, the first thing I crossed my mind was, were broadcasters invited? Selfishly, you thought that, yes? Because I'm thinking, what if James and or Russ said, team dinner? Yeah.

Like we were in New York. Okay. New York's expensive. Very expensive. I have no prettier left. And would we have been invited? You probably would not have. My guess is when they say team dinner, it's the team.

the equipment managers, the trainers, the coaches, maybe the strength coaches. I mean, have you ever massage Russell's calves or anything? Excuse me? No, I have not. No. Okay. Well, then, yeah, you're not... You're telling me all it would take for me to get to a dinner and invite will be to massage his calves. Probably wouldn't hurt. I'm not going to ask him.

Have you asked him if he wants to be called Brody? No. And I haven't asked Robert Coventon if he likes to be called Roco. I like that. Roco. Roco's good. It's like we got RoFlo, Robert Flores, for the MLB Network. Oh, you don't like him? He's okay.

I thought it was a U of H guy Yeah, that's me like every U of H person Oh, okay He's actually nice Yeah, what's wrong What don't you like about him? But I don't like... Just air it out

I don't like self-proclaimed nicknames Oh, that's Probably he's been called for a while Roeflow, you think he glossed himself Or do you think he's been called that Since childhood? I don't know My guess is that he said, you know what?

Well, let me think of a catchy phrase. Yeah, so we should call you Mato. No. Remember, if he gave me to 25,000, the me and Damari Carol gear shows up for a full week. I will be the butt of jokes

for the few followers necessary. Let's get to Lee in the museum district on 790. Hi, Lee. Hey, guys, how you doing? Wonderful, what's up? Well, I, well, nothing. Well, Cindy kind of stole my thunder because I was

going to say the same thing that the Red Sox will have gotten caught twice within a calendar year. But a couple other things. I don't if you all saw, there was an article in the LA Times by Michael Hiltzik about, it's just infuriating because the guy did the Sabre metrics about the Stros and how much they actually didn't it didn't do well on it at all. They would have been better served if they'd never even started this. But I guess my point I really wanted to draw home is that, you know, Manfred and I

guess the commissioner's office in general historically, with the exception of Landis, they just arbitrarily dish out punishment. There should be a standing clause within the rules that said, okay, you do this. This is how much you get you're suspended for or whatever, something along those lines. But it gives them too much latitude when they're dealing with big market teams as opposed to a team like the Astros, which is still a mid-market team. No, that's not true. The Astros are not mid-market.

They're upper market. They're big market. they spend a lot of money. There's no mid-market to sit to Houston, Texas. It's just not true. No, I guess what I'm talking about as far as TV contracts, they're still mid-market. I mean, there's nothing, they're not compared to,

well, then in that case, then the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Dodgers are a supermarket. Correct, but even the Dodgers, think about this, Lee, even the Dodgers aren't seen in 40% of Los Angeles. So I don't care what network or what city they're in. If people can't see them, it doesn't do them much good. Here's the point. Here's what I'm trying to see.

You tell me if you agree or disagree with what I'm... I think you want standard punishments for crimes. Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way. And unfortunately, nor does baseball. You can't... Every judge is going to sentence somebody to some sort of penalty based on the crime they commit. And in baseball, if there is an infraction done, the commissioner, the lead dog in this sport, is going to have a little bit of parameters to punish.

And so what I think you want is black and white rules, and I don't think that's ever going to happen because it doesn't happen in normal society. Well, it's not normal society. They enjoy the autonomy of being a, you know, their entertainment. So the crime should fit, you know, the punishment should fit the crime. But if you have one instance where the Astros did this, and granted, wrong, not cheating really by the letter of the law, then, as it was stated. And if you have a, you know, if you've got coaches saying, hey, you're going to get away with this because it really doesn't stipulate that if we do it, there's not a punishment that,

you know, so, hey, I'm going along with the band. The coach says it's okay to do it. Now I'm going to be held accountable and this guy gets fired and all of a sudden this hate that goes on. My point is that if this happened to the Yankees, you're granted, or Boston, And obviously they're playing shut up, which is what we should have done to begin with. I don't think you would ever see the drastic penalties that the Astros would suffer, although we did get immunity.

Well, thank you for the call. I respectfully disagree. If this was the Yankees that did this, they'd face the same punishment. I do not believe that one team is going to get lesser penalty or more penalty. because of market size or where they are. I'm with you. I don't buy into this. We're being unfairly targeted because of where Houston and I don't know,

there's always this feeling in this town that everybody hates us nationally. And I just never really bought too much into that. You just get more media coverage. You say, well, they all love on Yankees in Boston. And I'm like, well, those are just bigger markets. So they get more coverage. That's just how it is. But there's nobody in the ivory towers of Major League Baseball is going,

well, since the Astros are middle of the pack in television, and they are, you know, top 10 in attendance, we're going to give them this penalty, where if the brewers did this, then there are lower third in television, lower third in attendance, we're going to punish them this way. Yeah, because it's not going to affect the games. Do you know what? If anything, the Astros games are going to be more highly rated now. Well, here's what makes it worse.

Here's what makes it 25 times worse. They investigated a team that won the World Series that year, Ross. And that's the crux of this. The narrative of could the Astros? could the Astros have won the World Series if not for their cheating? Because if the Reds did this, you'd be like, man, y'all went a long way to cheat and it didn't work. They being baseball, they being fans across this country, are saying, you Houston Astros team, you couldn't win it unless you did what you did.

And that's the hard part to overcome. If it's a sucky team that does this, we laugh at them and go, man, y'all, y'all need to get better at cheating. The cheating, I don't know how much it helped. Could be 20%. Well, John Carlos Stanton says he would have hit 80 home runs if he didn't know what was coming, Matt. You see what I'm saying, though? Is that the cheating, a team that cheated won. Yes.

We've seen baseball players get hit for peds all the time that only hit 10 home runs or don't strike out 20 guys in a game. we saw a team get penalized for something over a time in which they were the top of their sport. Yeah, I think that's definitely what made this a huge story and probably made the punishment even more severe. Yeah, that's true. Because they won while doing it. How much did it help? Well, I will never know. We'll never know.

Yeah, I mean, we can guess everybody's opinion. My guess is the folks in Los Angeles and folks in New York and Chicago and other cities would have thought it helped a lot more than maybe we do in Houston. But that's, again, it's very much up for speculation. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 if you want to get in we've got two lines open we're with you today until 3 o'clock ralus what is today's edition of believe we're not coming up in just over an hour from now and hit the crickets nick the most awkward nooner you'll ever be a part of this is the matt thomas show all right so furliner gave up a home run today in spring training oh no and you're on alvarez was scratched today because of sore knees. Oh, no. And... You're not that guy.

And Jose Altovae's quarantine to get us told not to come to the ballpark because he's sick. Is it that? You don't know if that is. COVID-19? By the way, did you see... Why would we send any athletes to the Far East

with all this going on? Isn't the Summer Olympics like three months away? Yeah, Dick Pound was supposed to figure this thing out. I just don't like you saying that. Call him Richard Pound or Mr. Pound. Ricky Pound was supposed to figure this thing out. He is the IOC commissioner. No one is traveling anymore overseas.

No one. No one's going to Italy. No one's going to England. No one's going to France. No one's going to China. No one's going to Japan. No one should be going anywhere. Stay right here in the U.S. of A.

We need Dick Pound to get to the bottom of this, Matt. I don't know. When I was a kid, I loved the Olympics. Now, IOC remains fully committed to 2020 Tokyo games, despite coronavirus concerns. Is that just a good, is that just a good public statement they're putting out there? This is from five hours ago on USA Today. What happened to the Olympics? Are you a big Olympics watcher?

Yeah, I think so. When they come around. I mean, I probably would watch them as much as I would watch, well, I probably would watch more of the more than a world. I like the basketball. I'll watch USA play those. By the way, Kevin Durant thinks he wants to play in this thing. Really? Yeah.

Well, how do the Nets feel about that? I don't know. If I were the Nets, I'd be really mad. Yeah, I don't think they're going to like that. I watch a little bit of the basketball, soccer tennis, badminton. Beach volleyball. Oh, the peach volleyball is a must. There was some kind of beach volleyball on, you ever leave AT&T Sports Net Southwest on too late after a Rockets game or something?

Well, you know what happens when I do? Well, I don't leave it for Rockets, but other things. There's Larry King doing that faking from her. news show that he does. Time life music's not bad. And then, you know, maybe getting a little more regular, but short of that, no, I don't want, is, is, what do you see on there? AT&T Sportsnet Southwest always has on, like, it's very, it's like fighting, it's

moitai. And then last night, it was some kind of beach volleyball with, there was some thickness out there. I'll just leave it at that. Thick beach volleyball? There were some thickness. I don't know if Team Brazil or what's going on. See, this is a sensitive subject for me, because my don't.

daughter is 12 years old. Okay. And she loves playing volleyball, and she played beach for the first time this past summer. They have club beach or what? They do, yeah. Okay. It's very competitive. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of schools that will offer scholarships for beach

volleyball players. Well, they can just wear like regular your leggings or whatever, her pants. But do they? Well, not what I was watching. I found it quite entertaining. And what do they do, Ross, after a team scores a point? Slapp each other on the butt. Anyway, so Summer Olympics.

Yeah, back to that. I do like the beach volleyball. I'll watch a little bit of that. Do you know the one sport? Every year, no matter their skill level, team Brazil is strong every year. I'm a big handball watcher. I like handball too.

Why don't we play handball more often? They have handball courts like in New York. But they don't have them here. Is there a handball association of Houston? I bet you there is. I bet there is too, but it's a very intriguing game. Water polo to me, is another one of those things that...

I find it interesting. It is interesting, and they carry... All those athletes have zero body fat. You notice that you can't... Not only are you trying to score, but you're having to swim at the same time and going from one end of the pool to the other. Houston has a handball team.

Really? What are they called? The Firehawks. Are they any good? I don't know. Apparently they compete in the Texas Cup. Hmm. Let's go see him sometime. You want to go to a Firehawks?

game? What are the crowds like of that? They serve beer? Is it B-Y-O-B? My guess is that a YMCA or something? Can I bring a flask to the Firehawks game? Why can't you go to a sporting event and not have alcohol? Matter of fact, you'd want to watch handball be sober because you'd have to follow the rules of the game.

I would start getting, I would get kicked out of that Fireball game, Firehawks game. What is their fan club called? Like the, like even the Phoenixes? Even the Phoenix. Even the Roughnecks have. Phenices? The roughnecks have this fan group that's just out of their mind. Yeah, one of our guys down the hall, Alex Middleton, he went up to Dallas and tailgated for the game.

Did he really? He's a roughneck. By the way, their television ratings are starting to drop. Oh. As expected. Yeah, that's fine. You know what? I will say this about the XFL.

At least you tried. I'm partly biased to it because my middle son, my Peyton is 17, and he is 100% roughneck fan. He loves them. Matter of fact, I called him. on Sunday when we were out of town and the game was on. And I said, hey, what are you going about this game software? He was dad, I'm watching. I'll talk to you later and hung up.

Wow. Let's go to a game. How many are left? They're 4 and 0, right? Yeah, they play a 10 game season. They played two home games, I think, right? So they're probably three more home games. Oh, that's some good math on your part, Maddie.

That's what you of age. And they play a TD's stadium. The palatial digs. It's very comfortable. Okay. That's why they chose it. I'm probably didn't have a little. other options. I didn't totally stadium was

books. Tully Stadium, you're the worst. You really are. No, it is what it is. I don't, I'm not a huge fan of the competition. I don't think it's great. But the games are competitive. They're fun. And they're fun. And you know what? You don't have

a vested interest in it so you don't walk away being pissed off for six straight days. Now, the them winning hasn't moved the needle like, oh, this is Thunder Nightball, Roughneck Fears. but I think those that go have a wonderful time and that's the most important thing. Roughneck fever sounds like something you don't want to catch. It's like you're out in West Texas and you meet that special someone and she gives you the roughneck fever. You're the roughneck fever.

Yeah, you might want to get that checked out. Is there an ointment that can fix the roughneck fever? So Alex went to Dallas and drove up there? Yeah. Is he traveling roughneck? He went up there with what's her name on the show, the other two people. Tessa. Tessa and the other guy.

I don't know how that guy's name. Of course you know Tessa's name. She's a big fan of the show. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Like, we make fun of traveling Texan fan. Do you think traveling roughneck fan goes to City Hall and bangs a drum? Let's go roughnecks.

Yeah, but I mean. We're on this town. Traveling roughneck fans going to Dallas. Traveling roughneck fan is not going on the road to D.C. Defenders or the Tampa Bay Vipers. Let's go to City Hall and put up a flag and get our ass kick 35 to 7. You really hate traveling Texan I'm not a fan of theirs

They're a bunch of dorks Wow Well those of you listening Who are traveling Texans I love you so please continue to listen Well that's fine You can listen to But you know I'm telling the truth

Sometimes the truth can You know Like traveling Texan went to Kansas City That was a lot of money To spend it your asking It was a good little cool First quarter second quarter But they stayed for all four

Yeah you might have wanted to get out of there After the third Try to catch that in 739 flight Yeah 713212 5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We'll get to the top of the hour. We will recap the rocket set back to the New York Knicks. We will recap Laramie Tunsell's decision to get rid of his agent. Who really does have the leverage? We'll revisit that as well. Plus, we believe it or not, and your phone call, 7-13-212-5-790. All right, one hour left to go here on the Matt Thomas show at 2 o'clock with Ross and Nick. I'm Matt. Nice to have you with us. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to get in on the conversation, here are the topics that we are getting to have done so far today.

If you think we're missing something, you want to add some to the mix. 7-13-212-5-790. First and foremost, Ross, our beloved Houston Rockets fell to the Knicks last night. And they did so by a final score of 125 to 123. The Rockets give up 73. first half points. They were down by as much as 21 in the game, came all the way back, and Russell Westbrook's free throw jumper at the buzzer around the rim and out, and they lose the game to fall to 39 and 21. The Knicks improved in 19 and 42. Disappointing, unfortunate, got down big. It was basically the Knicks had a layup drill early on in that game. They were also knocking down threes. You knew they were going to come back.

The question was, was it going to be enough? And it was. and this is just... If Bobby Portis and Wayne Ellington are making baskets on you, was your knight not meant to be? I mean, maybe you could just chalk it up as one of those nights. But I felt like the effort wasn't really good,

the first half. They finally turned up the intensity there in the second half, but I mean, I know we were joking around with Adam Klan talking about must-win game and semantics of all that, but these are these types of games, you need to win these games. If you're going to keep pace in the Western Conference, and they haven't been

doing that. They've been dropping some games like this, like we said. There are 11 losses against teams under 500, which is the most of anybody in the top seven of the West. Russell Westbrook was good last night, not as normal great February. He'll win the player in the month award. There was no player of the NBA that was better than he was in the month. Finish with 24. James off shooting night again for the second time on this road trip, eight of 22. He did go to the free throw line 16 times, made all 16 finished with 35. House and Cometon did a pretty decent job. Covington was really good from three point range.

Rockets got 11 from EG off the bench and not much else. The dunk that, and I was blown away by the, another follow-up dunk that, another follow-up, but the dunk that Russell had, he's 31 years old, right? Give or take. Yes. He still has 19-year-old body.

He can literally jump out of the gym. But also, don't keep signing him to long-term deals because once that athleticism is gone, it'll be, to me, it'll be a lot like Alan Iverson. Once that elite quickness went away, he just fell off. He went from elite player to off a cliff in a flash. But does everybody, doesn't everybody do that?

Or do you think there's gradual drop? Bron James is 35. He's still doing pretty well. I think he's more skilled than Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook's greatest attribute. Now he's a good passer. He's a good ball handler. He's a good, all those, he plays with intensity, all those types of things.

He can't shoot. If he can't get by anybody, what's he going to do? That's that zero to 60 is what keeps him alive right now. James Hardin can take that step back until he's 40. Russell Westwick's not going to be able to blow by everybody when he's 35. But, man, his blowby right now still is pretty dangerous. Yeah, I'm just saying. I mean, we didn't even bring that up.

The most incredible stat of the night, the rebounding numbers. The Rockets had 34 of them. The Knicks had 65. Here's the problem. So let's put if-then statement. Usually if you have 65 rebounds, Ross, you are not shooting really well, meaning you're probably getting second and third chance opportunities. The Knicks shot 49% for the game.

So they were just frankly grabbing about every loose rebound on the Rockets' offensive side and turned them into defensive rebounds. The Rockets only had eight offensive rebounds last night compared to 20 for the Knicks. Second chance points, the Knicks had 21. The Rockets had 12. And the Knicks also scored the eased inside the paint. They were layup drill after layup drill up to layup drill in the first half, especially at 64 points in the paint compared to 36.

Now, what kept the Rockets alive, frankly, were two things. The Knicks kept turning the ball over, and they weren't making their free throws, and you got guys like House and Covington to give you some scoring punch. I mean, the Rockets got 24 points off their bench. That was it. The rest came from the starters, and that included P.J. Tucker, who didn't even score a single point in the game. The other four guys were able to get to the basket somehow, some way, and get to their points. So the Rockets fall, 39, 291 is a record.

They're off tonight. And as bad as some people would say last night's loss was, you can kind of make up for it with a win Thursday against L.A. By the way, the clipers down. Would it be very rockets of them. Would it shock anybody if you lose to the NICS and then beat L.A. It would be the storyline. Because we've gone through this before. The Rockets have beat Utah twice in Utah. they have beaten Philadelphia at home.

They've swept the season series against Boston. They won in Toronto. They beat the Lakers and the Clippers, both in Los Angeles. How many teams the NBA have gone to L.A. and beating both those teams in the same year? Can't be many. Probably not. A lot.

Can't be many. And then you have the loss in Phoenix. You have the loss last night. You have the loss against Golden State. You know, that's why if a Rocket fan really is trying to figure out who they are, which team is really who they are. When you hear you think, when they beat a team like Boston, all the national pundant yesterday,

I mentioned this on the show are like, you know what? There's a team that's trying to interrupt this all-L.A. Western Conference final. It was, yeah, Stephen A. Smith is talking about it. And Bill Simmons is singing their praises and saying, you know what, I was wrong. Yeah. He did? Yeah, he has.

Bill, I'm all Boston 100, said that? He said in his podcast that he, he, uh, has to say, remember he came out and said this is unwatchable and all that type of stuff. After they beat the Rockets the first time during the All-Star break, he said that Covington was the right move. He backtracked. What is unwatchable about this group? Nothing. They're exceedingly watchable.

Unless you just have that narrative of James dribbles too much. Then no matter what other four guys are on the floor, it wouldn't matter. You just hate James. Well, they're number three in pace. They get like 85% of their shots off with seven seconds left on the clock, which is, is one of the highest numbers in the entire NBA. So, I mean, you can give your little narratives and talk about what you want,

but especially since they've been playing, especially since Russell Westbrook got here, and especially since they've been playing five out, it's been really entertaining. Yeah, I, look, this is the best, this was the best track to go on. Because I think we knew what the team was going to crescendo with Clint at the five.

We just did. Robert Covington provides way more offense than Clint ever did. Especially for a team that's shooting as many three as they are. Just as much defense. And you're losing nothing on the room protection-wise. Do you know that he's had, and I don't know how many blocks he had last night, but he had a streak of three consecutive games of more than three-block shots apiece.

Yeah, at one last night. Okay, so he's got 10-block shots in the last three, four games. Not bad for guys. He is the tallest rocket. You know what? Getting playing time. And I don't, we tease about wingspan guy. He does have it.

No, it matters. It absolutely matters because what it does is it intercepts passing lanes. It deflex. It makes guys going somewhere else because you're afraid Robert's going to tip the basketball. So generally, in regular human population, your wingspan is as tall as you are. If you're 6-2, you have a 6-2 wingspan. What is my wingspan? If you're 6-1 or 1, if you're 6-1, your wingspan is probably 6-1.

Guys who are really lengthy, like a Janus Intentacompo or, well, Joe Chi, but anyways, like for example, Robert Covington, he's 6-9. he's got a 7 foot 2 wingspan. That matters for length and for contesting shots and for getting in passing lanes. It's huge. And Jeff Green does it too. Bruno Caboclo has like a 7 foot 5 wingspan.

And Jeff Green too's got a big wedge span too. Now you're not going to play him as many minutes as Robert Covington, but the rotation is there. The nine guys you're seeing right now are the nine that are going to be playing for the Houston Rocks. PJ Tucker has the wingspan of a 7-footer. James Hardin's wingspan is 611. And I just looked at up.

Jeff Greens is 7-1. So it's like having a seven-foot-one guy out there with a normal wingspan. Right. That's what, Morey knows that. Daryl knows that. And not everybody talks about that, but that's something he obviously looks at. Do you see his quotes today. He was on the first thing's first show.

He was with the team yesterday in New York. And he says that when he watches NBA games, NBA broadcasters don't like calling Rockets games because it is so atypical of what the games used to be like. And that if you really hate, what you see and what you call, he says basically, why are you doing it then? I've never, and look, I've been doing the Rockets for four years now. Yes. I've never sat down and gone, man, I hate the Miami Heat pace of play.

Why am I doing this? Yeah, I think, I'm trying to think, like the last time NBA, I would say around like. There was some NBA basketball when Jordan had officially retired. It was when Philadelphia and Detroit were kind of. like the Monsters of the East. It was when the Spurs were starting to run. That 05 finals between the Spurs and the Detroit Pistons, go look at the final scores of those games.

It's like 74 to 68. That was bad basketball. That's when they let up the hand-checking stuff, and they started calling more tick-attack fouls and stuff like that. They had to loosen up the rules, basically, to make it watchable. Like, let me pull up that 2005 NBA finals. That went seven games. I think somebody scored over 90 like once.

So if you want to argue that... Okay, that's an exaggeration. That's okay. But we haven't had that kind of basketball in the NBA in 15 years. Game seven of that game was 81 to 74. Can you imagine when's a lot? Literally, could you... Has there been an 81 to 74 game in the last like five years probably?

Well, at halftime, maybe. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I've never... And this is four years. I've ever thought to myself, I'm watching the Rockets play XYZ team and this is atrocious. Now, I've had an atrocious games because the game has been blown out one direction or the other, but I've never thought, wow, this is how they do it in the NBA?

This is not my cup of tea. And I think he's seeing a lot of other broadcasters. I don't know if he's naming national folks or the local team announcers. You know, if you don't like it, first of all, you're not, you're not growing up with the times and maybe you don't want to watch NBA. Let me tell you what you don't want to do. If you think the NBA is a drag to watch, watch a just good old-fashioned pedestrian college basketball game.

Five of those seven games in the 05 finals, the Spurs didn't score 90 points. Then maybe I would have felt that way back then. It was nasty. It was nasty. 11 minutes past 2 o'clock. It is the Matt Thomas Show Sports Talk 790. We've got our buddy Howard who wants to get in on the Yankees and the Red Sox. And is he going to talk about the 1958 Red Sox or the 2020.

Probably 2017. I got something for you, too. You know, there's commencement addresses. Yeah. Have you been asked to do one at U of H's School of Broadcasting? I have not. Princeton is having one. Yes.

That you would never in a million years believe. John McLean. Which one? The dead senator? Not John McCain. Oh, McCain, okay. That would be a story. John McLean.

Hologram John McCain? John McLean from the die-haired movies? Absolutely. Love to have Bruce Wellis. That'd be cool. there is their commencement speaker I don't know how this guy got called for it but we're going to have to figure out why

because when you think of the most anti-media-friendly people in the world this guy that's going to speak is we're on the top of the list and apparently people at Princeton at least a student body are like what the hell are you all thinking we'll tell you about who that is and what's going on with them in a minute 2.12 is our time

Darrell Mori here let's go rock this is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. We've got some nice folks that want to talk. We'll get to them in a second here real quick. Marshawn Lynch is going to speak, Ross, on Class Day 2020 at Princeton. Apparently, he's been very philanthropic.

He's given money to Princeton? No, to just a lot of people. Just in general, okay. And they wanted to do something outside the box. Cool. Seems a little weird. I got no problem with it. I hope he takes it seriously.

Because other people that have been a part of such a thing like that would include President Bill Clinton, Senator Cory Booker, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Carell, Marshawn Lynch. I think it's going to be great. Marshall Lynch is actually a sharp dude. Went to Cal. I don't know that, though. Yeah, you know, he went to Cal and he's actually a smart guy. Okay. Well, then this should be fantastic then.

Princeton students don't feel the same way. What do they have to say? They're like, why would we want to put up a guy? that was so arrogant and did not want to speak to the media and use the whole, I'm just up here so I don't get fine kind of bit. That'd be great if he did that. Or if he just told him to get your chicken and then drop the mic? By the way, chicken is money for those of you're playing at home.

I'm glad you informed us, man. But I've heard that before on like songs and stuff. Uh-huh. It was like Barry Manilow was singing about Get Your Chicken. No, I don't know where I was, but I heard a song Chicken. I'm like, I know exactly what that meant. Olivia Newton, John. No.

chicken. You're such a terrible stereotyper. You really are. Matt, I've road trip to you in West Palm. I know what you listened to. Yeah, we did listen to a lot of that. So Marciaul Lynch is going to speak at the 2020 Princeton Class Day. Some not so happy about that. Yes. But I wonder why he would

accept that. For a guy that doesn't like to do a lot of public speaking, that's a pretty big event, especially with the clientele they've done in the past. Well, according to their letter, it's not necessarily because it's Marcia Lynch. It's because they didn't have an essay. This is in the letter. This is from, I'm reading this off of Mr. Aggregator, Mike Florio.

Many of us were disappointed when we saw that this year's speaker was to be Marshawn Lynch, mainly because we did not feel included in the process by which the speaker was nominated and finally selected. I did not go to my college high school or my college graduation. I don't even know who spoke. You didn't? Why not? Would you had a game in Honolulu or something? No, I was in the business, so it was just trying to finish up.

Oh, you like screw you. I'm better than you. I don't need to walk with you guys. No, I would have gladly walked because, man, it was a chore. I took me almost eight years to graduate college. Not because I was failing out. It was just working. It could take a full.

Four victory laps. Shouldn't it be a rule like you do you get like bonus prize if you stay that long? Yeah. Like a discount plan or something? Yeah. The worst was all the guys in my astronomy class who I was calling their football games on a radio were looking at me to cheat. I'm like, I haven't gone on this class once. Don't look at me.

astronomy for radio television media. More improprieties at U of H, education? Well, I already told you about that once. There's a surprise. Stop. Let's get some of those wins vacated. Whatever. I'm calling the incident.

You're telling me that everybody, you know, I say Vince Young and I end it right there. What about it? Did he ever go to class ever? Big 12, all academic. Yeah, because Marcy wrote the class paper for him. No, it was actually a friend of a friend. I mean, we should admit it. It's fine.

It's going to happen everywhere. See, but you're throwing, we weren't bringing up Texas. We were talking about you and your experiences. You have to change the subject. I own my problems. It hasn't affected me much. Anyways, Marshawn Lynch, I think he'll be fine. I think it would be fun.

It'll be entertaining. I hope I could find a stream of it, or at least watch it on YouTube afterwards. I hope he blows it up. It just makes it really entertaining and makes those people think this was the right decision. I mean, guys like Will Ferrell and other people, didn't Will Ferrell do like Harvard or something like that? Well, if the University of Houston wants me to speak at their commencement, I'll be happy to. They don't. I only charge a small fee of like $1,500.

$1,500? Yeah. That's, yeah. Look, I got kids to pay for. Oh, let's see. He did USC and 17. Maybe it was USC. Does anybody remember who...

Oh, I think it was like Ali G or something. Allie, who's that? That's Sasha Baron Cohen when you do the character, Allie G. Oh, okay. Does anybody remember who their college commencement speaker was? I didn't graduate. Well, I didn't ask you. I was more and more about the audience.

In high school, it was our Valley Dictorian. Shout out, Melissa Tan. Vince Fang for us. Okay. Seems to be a common denominator there. 30 years, the high school reunion class of 1990, he made great this summer. Are you going to go?

Yeah. Can I go? Yeah. I don't know how I'd explain you to the audience, but. This is my friend Ross. My friend Ross. He just wanted to hang out. He wanted to.

you want to grab some cougars? Because I've told the story. I slept through my Rams. I was hammered. I was passed out drunk during my 10th year. Right. Because Texas upset OU that year. So you want to go to other people's reunions. Exactly. You know what? This sounds like a great TV show. My 20 will be coming up. Let's go to other people's class reunions. Yes. You know what? You know there's wedding crashers? Yes. Reunion crashes. Reunion crashes. Yeah, there's no way you knew everybody that was in your class. Let me tell you something. I could go to every.

Everybody, let me tell you, I'm 47, so I'm really in the 45 to 50 group. Uh-huh. I could go to anybody's five years, within five years reunion plus or minus. Probably more. And yeah, probably more. And Sell us is, yeah, I was in that class. Remember me? Yeah.

Like, we have a, we have a Facebook page of ours. There are people on the list I don't remember at all. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. You're like, oh, remember Miss Pritchard? She was the worst. Just pick up stuff that they say there. Remember Miss Smith and algebra?

Oh, I hated her. Why aren't you in the yearbook? Oh, I got late that year. They didn't take my picture. Oh, yeah, I was a transfer. Yeah. The classic line is I didn't join you all to my senior year. Yes.

And I didn't make the, I didn't, I missed class picture day. This is a great idea. I think it is. Reunion Crusher. And how long you can go, how long you can BS your way until they say, you weren't class of Dobie, 1989. You could probably pick up some divorce A's there. Not you, Matt, but I mean people in general. I would take you, you and I

will go to, but probably as we look at... Yeah, let's do 37, not 47. Yeah, I'm not a good... Yeah, you're going to have to go to a different reunion time. No, you can pull off 37, I think, Matt. Could I pull off a class of 2000? Let's ask Nick. Nick, could I go to a class of 2000 reunion, 20-year reunion?

Or do I look older than that? Oh, Joe George is tweeting us. He says we can take a $790 trip to my 10-year. I can't pull off 10-year. Joe George went to 10-year? Yeah. Okay. So he's around 28-ish.

That sucks. We can tell everyone you're a, what do you call it, a chaperone? Yeah, you could just be the chaperone? You can get a ruler out and tell everybody to dance away from each other? Oh, you know what I could do. Be a teacher? For the 10-year, I can be one of your teachers. Yes.

What would you teach? Do teachers go to that? Some do. Yeah, what are you going to be really knowledgeable about that we can ask you about, Matt? Oh, speech. Okay. Yeah, listen here, Klein Forrest. I was your speech teacher in 2010.

Yeah, but when you go way younger, and that just sounds creepy. Okay, maybe I'll do the 20-year thing. People's memories aren't nearly as vivid. Exactly. Howard on 790-2.25. Howard, good afternoon. I have two, I have two minor disagreements with you guys.

number one, if this is the Red Sox's second crime of cheating, should they not be punished more heavily, like the ballplayers with their second drug testing going bad, punish more heavily than someone who cheated only once? No, because the rules that Commissioner Manfred put into place, place, we're following the Apple Watch incident with the Red Sox. He put the letter out to all the teams and said, knock it off. So he, I think in his mind, gave every team a clean slate and a quote-unquote warning to say,

look what the Red Sox are doing, or not going to let you do that with anybody. And if we do find you doing it, we're going to punish you severely. And the other thing is, I personally believe, although they won't admit it, that the mavens who run baseball for the money look at, At the media market coming out of the Yankees, 20 million people, give or take. And they're going to regard the Yankees and the money involved more differently than the Houston, which is maybe ninth or tenth in a media market. Maybe I'm wrong.

What way is this punishment of taking draft pick affect ratings? I mean Oh, how are it The first The Yankees Haven't won a championship since 2009 They're still one of the biggest popular Most popular brands

And a big name in baseball When you take away draft picks for the Astros You're castrating them For two years You're not cash trading Then that's a little severe Maybe that's a little strong

Yes it is You are deprived You are prone to hyperbole though Well yes I am prone to hyperbid But you guys have used hyperbole a few times between your ads and your commentary. But be that as it may, I really think that we may all be equal, but some are a hell of a lot more equal than others.

Okay. Well, we'll see, Howard. And a lot of it, we'll see how, I think we'll have to have the commissioner's report and all that stuff. And when everything comes out about the Red Sox, what was being done, how long was it happening, how unful, involved were they, and then what are the punishment's going to be? We're going to see. They already can't,

they already can't suspend their manager because he's already been let go. Yeah, and I really think, I have a sympathetic place in my heart for Luna and Hinch, and I think they took the fall for the players and the fall for the owner,

and that was rather unfortunate. Well, thanks, Howard. There's no evidence that there was a fall for the owner. There's evidence for the player, and that's what the general manager and the manager are gone. All right, let me tell you what's going on. The Astros and Cardinals are playing. What you're talking about?

We're not going to be up at 7 o'clock. But if you wanted to hear it, it's 6-2 in favor of the Cardinals in the top of the eighth inning. And Verlinder pitched today. Went two and two-thirds. Man, that's a long time for a guy in spring training. First spring start. Three hits, three runs, two of which were earned,

one walk, three strikeouts and one home run aloud. It's Justin Verlinder. What are you going to do? Jose Orquitie was the fourth pitcher that pitched today. three innings, two hits, four strikeouts. Zero runs, zero walks. ERA now in the spring of 4.15s. He must have gotten shelled earlier than that.

Forrest Whitley on the mound right now for the Astros. He just recorded his first out, which had dropped his ERA in the spring to 13.50. If there is something that is going to be fluid and moving around this entire spring training, Ross, for the Astros, it's going to be probably three, four, five in the rotation. Because that's not atypical for most baseball teams. Most teams are having to worry about those back-end spots. We haven't had to worry about it around these parts for a couple of years now. In fact, there's been always six guys legitimately fighting for five spots.

This go-around, it may feel like a little bit different because after two, after you get to Verlanner and Granky, I think it's a big mystery at that point. There was a little bit of a question of what was going to happen at the back of the end, back into the rotation last year. A little bit, but comparatively speaking to other teams. Yeah, I mean, that's every year. And I remember because, I mean, the year before, you had the five starters who pitched every game until, like, September or whatever. So it was obviously atypical there in 2019. So you've got five guys, in theory, fighting for three spots.

And I'll maybe throw a six guy in in Forrest Whitley, but I don't know if he's going to open up with the team this year. Foss Whitley Forrest Whitley He's going to gain weight Or added weight He's fluctuated He added 40 pounds He fluctuates

Okay Or Luther Vandross if you will Is he a fluctuate Or two? He did Well he's dead Oh May he rest in peace

Okay Let me give you this And we'll go back to this other topic McCullors Ociti Austin Pruitt Framber Valdez Josh James

Forrest Whitley Six guys Three spots All could you could, look, if McCullors leaves Camp healthy, he's a starter. He's in there, yeah. How much is he going to pitch, though? What do we say?

What we do yesterday? How many times we're going to see him can pitch at least six innings in the game? The overrunner is two and a half. And you and I both took the under on that. Yes, we did. That sucks. It's over six IP. Like, any 6.1, 6.2.

Do you know what that means? That means if that happens, you are going to be using that bullpen a lot more. which means that extra arm, you know, because there's 26-man rotation now, that's going to the bullpen. I think it's no coincidence that McCullors is involved in the rotation and the guys have already strong, and everybody's come out and said Brad Peacock's going to be in the bullpen because of that reason. Because he can give you three innings one night and one the next. All right. So let's go back to the main point. Who are the greatest weight fluctuators of all time?

Oprah's got to be number one. Yes. Luther Vandross, may he rest? Yes. I'm going to go with... Remember when Oprah came out with like a... She had a wagon full of her fat? No.

She had like liposuction or something. Let me give you another one. Who's a big fluctuator and weight? Oh, I had one. Yeah, look. She came out with a... I don't want to look at that. Red rider wagon full of her fat.

No, no, no, no. Kelly Clarkson, would you say she's a rap? She's up and down. Oh, it's Jessica Simpson? Jessica Simpson. Fluctuator? Fluctuator. Me personally?

Fluctuator. Now, when we talk about fluctuating weight, we're talking about plus or minus 15. Oh, I'm way over that. So are you in the high end or low end right now? I'm very high right now. So you can lose 15 more pounds and you'll be in there? I mean 15 more. I lost like 40 pounds last year and I gave it all back.

Yeah, because 30 of us in your head. What does that mean? Your face and all that. It's got a lot of way up in that beard. Exactly. That's why I wear it. Who else is a fluctuator? Jessica Simpson, yes. I don't know.

Vali Bert Nelly would be one, but you don't care about her. I don't know who that is. Send us a tweet at SportsMT. Yeah. Some great fluctuators. How about in sports? Yeah. David Wells, it was just big.

Cesar Bathy just kept getting fatter. It was just big. Basketball players can do that occasion. I think James Hardin's been a fluctuator. Don't you think a little bit? Never been like overly. You know what? LeBron James is kind of fluctuated.

There was that year where he was talking, how he was losing weight, and he's going to play leaner, and then he comes back, and he's gaining weight. And people think he played last year at somewhere like $2.90 or $300. When you saw Alex Brewerp, we were down there a couple weeks ago, did you think he had lost weight? Did he look lesser in his face? He looked the same. He looked the same to me. He said he lost 20 pounds.

It's also a farce that he's listed at 6 foot. Don't, don't go after the man's height. I'm not going after. I'm just saying it's a first. This is in the NBA. It's a fact. Yeah, well, now they have accurate heights in the NBA. Y'all can help with some, who are some other athletes or for that matter, anybody.

Famous people. Famous people that are famous weight fluctuations. Hmm. I think we've got a pretty good list going there. Oprah to me is the all-timer. Yes. Because, I mean, she was, you know, when she first started her TV show way back in the day, and then she got Uber, uber skinny.

and then she's not back to like, now she's running Weight Watchers. In the middle. Oh, is she? Yeah, you know, she owns Weight Watchers now? What? Which I would never do. Because if you own Weight Watchers, you've got to be thin. You can't be Portland-owned Weight Watchers.

She's just watching it. She's not keeping a good watch on it. Oh, another one from our buddy Joel here, Kirstie Allie. That's a good one. She's a massive fluctuator. Yes, that's really bad for your heart, they say, to be fluctuating up and down. That's what they did not help. Luther Vandross.

I think he had heart disease. That makes me feel terrible now. Yeah, I know. It makes me... So you're saying, once you go fat, you stay that way? Is it easier? No, if you lose weight, keep it off. Because he was fluctuating like, you know,

7,500 pounds or something like that. It's really bad for your heart. Okay. And we had a little webmd from the audience. We didn't even realize we're getting it there. I don't know how I know how I know any of this. Probably from writing a believe it or not about Luther Vandross like seven years ago or something. Okay.

Cursie Alley Luthorne has been in alive or dead multiple times Yeah, by the way, we had to rest in peace A member of the Hall of Fame of Fame of Kirk Douglas Yeah, when he finally died at 100-something Yeah Every time I had to check and make sure he was alive still

That's so funny That is funny I mean 103 man But actually we can still put him in and believe it or not And just he'd be dead as compared to a lot He's crossed over to the other side as I tweeted Yeah, because it's too funny Three is a run, though.

You know, there's always a great debate about whether or not you want to be alive at 103. Like, if you're, can you live nicely at 103? Or are you being fed of food out of a blender? Yeah, what's the quality of life is the question? Like, once you get past, once you get in your 80s, then it's, it's all downhill, right? I've seen past 80s. It's not good. I don't want to live in assisted living.

I don't want to live in a hot. I want to live the way that I live now. I'll complete checkers with you, Matt. Canasta? And we're going to play poker. Oh, I'll be taking all them old folks. Here's things. I'll deal blackjack.

I won't be able to count the 21. I'll count for you. Aretha was... Oh, look, you lost there, Matt. There you go. Goes to me. Aretha never was a fluctuator. She was always big.

Well, younger in her... Young, Arita. Okay. But then she just got big. Elizabeth Taylor was a fluctuator. Okay. Aretha Young was thinner. Yeah, but for the last 40 years.

Right. Then she was big. She's just big. Could still sing, though. She could never get over, not being with Sam Cook. Is that what it was? I don't know. She had a big crush on it.

I just hated the fact that when she's seen the national anthem would go four and a half minutes. You can bet that over, Maddie. By the way, that's a terrible bet to make. Because they rehearsed ahead time. Somebody knows the answer to the question. Yeah, that's why they cap the bet. You can't go and bet $100,000 on it. Well, good.

I still think it's bad money spent, though. Well, if you knew the information, you would bet on it. But that's cheating. I don't like that. If the book takes the bet, what's the bet. the problem. I want to win the right way. Hold on.

You're going to tell me if I come to you before the Super Bowl, I say, Matt, I was there for the rehearsal. It's a Super Bowl in Houston. For some reason, I was there. And it was two minutes and 12 seconds. The over under is two minutes. Bet the over. Guaranteed, you're going to win.

It was already rehearsed. It's already recorded. You're going to tell me you wouldn't bet. If you're in Los, and you're in Las Vegas. And I call you. Yeah. Yeah, there we go. I call you.

You're in Las Vegas. But that's, you know what that is? That's insider trading. And that's illegal. I'm going to call you. I'm not going to text you for evidence. Still illegal. FaceTime.

No, we're not FaceTiming. I totally told you that. No, because I'm the same person at the poker table. You wouldn't bet on. I don't want to see you. I don't see your cards. Oh my gosh. I just don't.

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Bob Barker. Do you think Bob Barker's enjoying life in his 90s? I don't know. He's watching Drew Carey, host, the Price is right. He can't be all that happy. 244, believe it or not, is next. This is James Arden. It goes to hard three to shoot.

Jacks up a three hands. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk, 790. Are you kidding? A little bit of Texans news today if you've not heard, Laramie Tunsell. He's going to be looking for. For a new representation, he fired his agent within the last couple of days. Early reports out there have him seeking $19 to $20 million. When you see numbers like that, I don't get mad.

I don't get sad. I don't go, that's crazy. It's all about how you manage a salary cap. And if you want to pay any player, whether it be a quarterback and running back, an offensive lineman and linebacker, crazy money, as long as you're budgeting, what you're supposed to be budgeting, I don't have a problem with it. I just don't know of Laramie Tunsell is so good that he should brag that he is the most well-compensated alignment in the league.

The problem is just because you may not be the best, doesn't mean you're not going to get paid like the best. It's all about what time, what part of the year, when your contract, the timing of it all. And the timing right now says he's a year away from getting a lot of money to become an offense alignment for whomever he wants to go to. Now, the thing of it is, the Texans aren't going to let him leave after next year. they'll get something done this year or something done next year or if they don't do that they'll franchise tag him. He'll make a boatload of money for one year. And then if they still can't

figure something out, they'll franchise tag him. So if you're a Laramie Tunsell fan and you don't mind that Texans give up two first round picks in a second for him, know that he's at least a Houston Texan for three straight years. That's the big point though. They gave up all that because they were intending to make

him the franchise guy. Instead, like you say, when you make that big of a trade for him, you are saying this is our guy for the next decade. That's what you're saying with that draft capital that you gave up. Yeah. And you're saying they need to follow up on. Nobody in the draft would be nearly as good as what we already have. Or we're

about to receive. Certainly not in the second round probably. Don't have a first round pick for a little bit. We have the worst draft city in America. Yes. Rockets don't have a draft pick until like 2050. The Texans give up first round picks left and right. And the Astros had their first and second round. They were docked. Unfortunately.

So what do you do instead of a draft party? You like You have like a draft watch party, what other teams do? For instance, I'll be brutally honest with you, and maybe this is wrong on my part. I don't care what the Cardinals do in the first round. No, I don't. I don't particularly care who's the second quarterback taken. No, there are people that do.

There are a huge draft. But you and I are not one of those people. Correct, correct. But I'll say honestly, I want to know if the Bengals take Joe Burrell first. They will. Despite his hand size, Matt. Concerns about his hand size. But is there anything else in the draft that you're particularly

keen to watching. No. Not a lot of highly thought of longhorns. Cougars are a plenty of representation. Thinking four to five at least in the first round. Oh, you think so? I'll bet the under, let's bet. Why does everything a bet to you?

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The statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believed it. If it's erroneous, following bunk and ban off, you will say this. Two, believe it or not. On all things about Spike Cleveland will win your prize, Ross, what's the prize? Matt, I've got a pair of tickets to see bare naked ladies with gin blossoms and towed the wet sprocket. Saturday, June 6 at the Revention Music Center, information and tickets at LiveNation.com.

Let's play. Line number one. Roger on 790. Roger, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Spike Lee's full name is Shelton Jackson Lee. Believe it or not. Believe it.

Believe it. Early close to Sheila Jackson. That's why I ran with that. Statement number two for the win. Spike Lee's favorite director is Martin Scorsese and his 1976 film Taxi Driver is what inspired Lee to become a filmmaker. Believe it or not. Not.

That is correct. Congratulations. It was deer hunting. It inspired him to become a filmmaker. Steve on 790. Steve, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In addition to being a Knicks fan, Spike Lee is an ardent supporter of the Premier League Team Arsenal.

Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win, Spike Lee's 2014 film De Sweet Blood of Jesus was funded by the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. believe it or not not it was what was rotten tomatoes

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All right here we go Jimmy in addition to film Spike Lee is also directed a number of commercials for brands such as Taco Bell Converseau. shoes and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. If I've said it once at a thousand times, you've got to know where the production credits go to for a variety of household items.

Let's go to line number five. Kirk on 790. Kirk, you're ready to play believe it or not? Believe it. Spike Lee doesn't drive. In fact, he's never learned how to drive. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. I would love to never drive again. I mean, that was sincerity. Statement number two for the win. Since 2000. In 2014, Spike Lee has been a dispute with the Director's Guild of America and has refused to pay dues. He is currently not a member. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, it's Ross made that up.

I don't like that one. Give yourself a pat on the back. And give yourself a high five. Javier on 790. Javier, you ready to play Believe it or not? In 2003, Spike Lee sued Spike TV claiming the network was using his name to make people think he was associated with a channel. Believe it or not. Yeah, that's right. Would you ever associated Spike Lee with Spike TV?

I never once for one second thought that Spike TV had anything to do with Spike Lee. Is Spike's TV still around? No, it became true TV. Really? With like the Imprenable Jokers? I think so, right? I think you're right about that. All right. Let me remind you about Dr. Rorick, his wife, Doting, the incredible team over at at Improve My Erection.com. 281, 496, 3355. is a number 281, 496, 3355. Having erectile dysfunction is tough. It can hurt a relationship, but it is manageable if you get with Dr. Rorick right now for all the different possibilities that he can do to fix your issues in the bedroom.

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She's still sexy as hell. Get away from me? By the way, her weight fluctuates. Her weight fluctuates, too. Okay. We should do a whole show on weight fluctuation. As if. And have women mad at us.

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