The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The #MondayNightMeeting

Episode Date: May 12, 2020

#COVID_19 slows down the talk? Nope! We're hovering around #sports topics new and classic as well as other topics related to #Houston living amid #coronavirus #quarantine.

All right. What is a normal sleep time for you? In quarantine, it's been like between nine and ten. No non-quarantine, you know that with baseball. It's way later. Okay. Let's go next to Gordy. Gordy, when is your normal bedtime? With quarantine, it's been midnight. Without quarantine, later than that? 10 p.m. Okay.

Seems flip, but that's fine. Wex, you never sleep, so that's a really, mood conversation for you. Pretty much. Been going to bed a little earlier during the quarantine, but don't worry, that'll all end soon. So like 4 a.m.? I feel like if there's anybody in this group,

I can text at 8 a.m., 8 p.m., 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., it's probably Adam Wexer because I don't think he ever sleeps. I still have a video somewhere, by the way, of Wexler in New Orleans in that house we rented for the Super Bowl, and he is sitting straight up with his laptop in his lap, and he is snoring like a madman. Yeah, see, I mix in a nap when I'm not supposed to every now and then. But that was like, what, 10 years ago?

12 years ago. There's a video out there of Matt Jackson elbowing me from the top rope of a couch onto my bed. Also on that trip, Greg Cook got mad that we were all on our cell phones when we arrived and went, hey, everybody put out your phones. Ross, do you ever envision Greg Cook being mad at anything? No, he's such a nice fella, never snaps or anything. Yeah. And your bedtime, you're in the 2 to 3 o'clock range, correct?

Well, if it's an early night, yeah. It depends. Yeah. All right. Let's get started with the Monday night meeting. Oh, did I ask you, Joe George, when you're going to sleep? No, you didn't. Thanks, Matt.

It's like midnight to 2 in that range. And 9 to 2. All right. That's a time slot of our new show on Sports Talk 790, midnight to 2. No, no, no, no. What's it called? It's called the, it's like one, Well, you have the nightcap.

Last call. Last call with Joe George. Yeah, last call with Joe George, midnight to two. Press Row with Joe George. How about the, how that works. How about in the clubhouse? How about it's a five, but it looks like a seven. All right, here we go.

Hope all of your mothers had a nice, happy Mother's Day, all of you listening and watching us tonight. We will start with Joe George. Joe, greatest TV or movie mom of all time. Now, the parameters are as follows. She can raise you or she can just be a milf, your call. Hey, who's the mom from Friday Night Lights? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Connie Britton? Yeah, yeah. Because it's movie and TV. She's great in both, but better in TV. Ross, I know we're going with this answer. This is a layup for you. Sophia Vigara? Correct.

Wenting down and answered Sophia Vigara. Chris Gordy, the greatest TV or movie mom of all time. God. I mean, like, if you just want wholesome, Seaver, what's her name, from Growing Pace. Carol Seaver, yeah. Carol Severe. No, that's Carol's the mother.

Maggie. Maggie. Oh, Maggie. Maggie Malone, the TV star. Yeah, that, but also I was a big fan of step-by-step. So Suzanne Summers on step by step. That's a great call. I'm going to go with sneaky rated Peggy Bundy.

I don't think she particularly cared about raising her children. She wanted to smoke once in a while. And I think way back in the day she was halfway attractive. So I'll go Peg Bundy. Michael Conard, greatest television or movie mom of all time. Ross took the layup, of course. See, this is terrible for me. I'm going to go Estelle Seinfeld.

or not Seinfeld, Costanza. Just because what's his face died today? How about that? Just because she yells a lot. She was a great thing. She was. Wex, you feel like you're totally out of sorts here. Why are you mad with Estelle Costanza?

I just thought that was very clever of Michael to punt that one and go with Estelle. Good move on his part. That's a pretty big category. You should never allow us to go movies. It's just stuck with TV. But I'll take a modern reference. I'll go modern family also. I'll take Phil Donfie's wife.

I'll take Claire. Super hot in Happy Gilmore. She was heavy. Good. Very nice lady, of course. Wasn't she on a show called Ed, too, when the guy who ran a bowling alley or something? Yes, I think that's correct. How do I pull that one?

I don't even know. Next up, gentlemen, we found out during the Matt Thomas show, noon to three on 790, that the Major League Baseball owners said, you know what, we're going to ratify this deal. We love this 80 game schedule. We love the DH. We love the divisions. We love the expanded playoffs. One small thing we got to fix or at least get past the union is how we're going to pay you, whatever that is. There are already some stories out. I saw one for the New York Post that is painting a rather gloomy picture of how that call is going to go tomorrow. Michael Connor, how is that union phone call going to go with the owners about this reduced schedule and obviously reduced salaries? This is the money, right? This is all about the money. And I think that the players, to me, they have to be ready to take the haircut now if they don't want to.

to get crushed in free agency after this year and crushed and all that stuff. Like we were talking about this morning, what happens to George Springer this winter when he gets to free agency and suddenly instead of being a guy that if he matched last season was maybe going to get like 150 to 175 million from somebody? What happens when his biggest offers 100 million? Like I take the haircut now in, you know, handshake good faith agreement with owners that, okay, we're not going to crush you when it comes to free agency because they're about to, players are about to just not make the money that they think they're going to make.

Joe, George, the article I was reading today is feeling that these owners have a long window to make this money back, that today's players don't have that sort of long opportunity to do so, and that's why there could be some apprehension. Do you buy that, or do you say players sack up, let's go or think about the fact that they may have to be a season next year? Yeah, I think they just need to sack up and figure it out and play, and I know they're going to cut, but if there's going to be baseball, the owners are, are going to spend this that it's the players fault if there's no season now. So the owners have,

to me, back the players into a corner that they don't really have much of a choice of to do anything besides take what's offered and play baseball if they want to happen. Wex, on our show today, we ran some rather difficult quotes from Tony Clark, who's their Players Association leader. He's like, we already made some concessions we're not doing again. Do you think he's going to go in with somewhat of an open eye on this, a good thought of, you know what, we need to play this thing out, or do you think he's going to put a drawn line in the sand and be difficult during this time?

I think he wants to be difficult, but I think he's also going to have to realize there's got to be a little bit of room for movement, but he goes in knowing that, the owner's going, knowing that. So it's a tough spot to be in. I think Michael hit on a pretty good point. We don't really truly ever want to believe in collusion, but the owners just got together that came up with a package

to put this season on the table to figure out a way to do things, to split revenues, why do we really think that someone owners are going to be willing to pay guys, $150, $200 million, because certainty will not be there at the end of this season. They might end up playing a season, but they're not going to be certain about what the future holds. So I think that's a difficult place to be. So I think Tony Clark is going to talk publicly, very tough today. I think maybe things will be softened up just a little bit over the next couple of days. So, Gordy, the players feel like this could be the sign of,

future times, and they're not happy about that. Can we buy that? Maybe it's just a one-year thing because of this and that we'll resume with all the salaries being high and everybody making plenty of money, or do you think the players are going in apprehensive about there could be a monumental shift in how these athletes are being paid? Yeah, it's really interesting. I mean, I honestly have no idea how this is going to play out. I mean, currently the current contract you're under, I assume all these contracts include force majeure and act of God that we can, you know, We don't have to pay you everything that's guaranteed, quote, unquote, but the issue is moving forward into this season. Let's say they do play the 80 games.

Okay, half the season. So do I automatically as an owner now, okay, I pay you half for the season? Okay, well, on top of it, we're not, you know, normally we would get at least, you know, half home games of revenue. Well, now you're getting no foot traffic because no tickets because no fans. So you take that away. Billboard sold inside MinuteMade Park. Those were sold for, you know, 80-something games to be seen by fans. Now you're talking maybe they're not seeing.

What if you're a team that goes to a spring training complex? There's just so many dynamics here involved with the revenue. And I think that I think the players need to be open-minded, right? They need to keep it. Because the other option is we cancel the whole damn season. Not only do you not get paid, but you pay us back for all the games you didn't play. So the players absolutely need to keep an open mind. And look, Tony Clark's job is to negotiate what's best for the players.

but my God, if they're not willing to come to the table with at least some, you know, an open mind and say, look, we're willing to take a cut this season because we get it. They've got to. All right, Ross, if this is a negotiation, what do the owners have to negotiate? If they're saying we're playing a half a season with significantly fewer revenue streams, meaning the gate and the concessions and everything involved there, why do you think they feel like they need to negotiate? This feels like to me, whether it's right or wrong, that if you don't accept basically most of what we're bringing to the table today, we might not even have a season. Well, because what Tony Clark said is they're basically feeling like what happens when you take a percentage of revenues, that's a salary cap. When the NBA says we make this much, we're going to give you 50%, or we're going to give you 50% or the NFL does that, that's a salary cap.

And Major League Baseball doesn't want a salary cap. And they also want to say if revenues went up, if revenues go up, But if you guys are selling out stadiums and you make 20% more, we don't make 20% more of our contracts. So why do we need to take a dip when something bad happens when revenues go down? Why do we have to pay the price? And we're the ones putting ourselves at risks. We're putting our families at risk. And we need to have these assurances that everything's going to be safe.

So they're the ones putting their safety and putting themselves in danger. And they don't get bumps when revenues go up. So why should we take a cut when revenues go down? Final thought, Joe George. But the simplistic thing is there's not. going to be 162 games. There's going to be massive medical expenses about testing and testing and testing. I don't know if the players are going to take part of that in terms of overall expenses. I don't know. It just seems like to me, and maybe I'm missing something, guys,

and any of you guys can chime in, but we'll go to Joe Forrest first. You just can't make the kind of money when you're thinking about 40 home games of which you might have a max crowd of 10 or 15,000 at one game. Yeah, but I mean, we see teams operate with no fans all the time. We know what the White Sox do. We know what the Rays do. We know what the Orioles do. Like people don't go to their games. And they still figure it out.

They still figure out how to pay their players. So I don't see why this is any different. I know they're only playing 40 games, but they're going to have TV revenue. And frankly, if they're the only thing on television, to me, it feels like their ad revenue should be up even more than ever before and it should balance out. If they're the only game in town, their ratings should be through the roof. and people are going to want baseball. So part of me thinks it's going to balance out

and they're not going to feel the fact as much as they're concerned. But I don't know, I think it's going to work itself out and they're going to play baseball. People are going to have to make concessions and just deal with it on both sides. All right. This is the Monday night meeting here on Sports Talk 790. If you've got any comments,

Wex and Ross are checking it. So if you want to ever chime in with a comment, just type something in. We'll be happy to address anything. Wex, why is the NBA so slow on this? Or because I feel either that or MLB. being more progressive. It has been awkwardly, largely silent from the NBA. Why do you think that is? Would you mind if I break from a format and deliver some breaking news from the sports world?

Please. Everybody's favorite, Rassler, Becky Lynch, the man. She's pregnant, Joe. Can you believe it? Who? I saw that. Seth Rollins is having a baby. Who are these people? I know, Michael. You don't know. Here's the thing. Wes doesn't even know who these people are, so he's just trying to be in touch. Somebody said it on Facebook, that's what I'd say. Oh, okay.

Let's not belittle wrestling, guys. Come on. Yeah. Okay, so why is basketball so slow, Matt? Yeah. I don't think they're being that. Nobody's come back. Major League Baseball hasn't come back.

That's still a June hope for Major League Baseball to hope to play. NBA teams have players at their facility starting last week. There's another one with the Jazz opening today. The Rockets and many others will be open over the next 10 days. And as long as if they don't have a setback, I think they can be very well working on a very, very similar timetable. Their issue is trying to finish the season and recognize that there's a lot of teams that really,

from a practical standpoint, so little to gain from playing these meaningless eight to 15 games to end the season. So they're trying to come up with a way that's a little more complicated to make it worth their while. Maybe there is some sort of tournament, some sort of playing for the postseason. And then they've got to get everybody on board for that.

But I don't really think that they're going so far behind. I think they'll end up having the easiest road if they decide to take it because there's just so many fewer people involved. And I think they truly can bubble themselves much more simply in Orlando or wherever. Ross, we read some quotes on the show today from Shaq. He doesn't want the guys coming back. Why do you think he's against it? I don't know.

How much deep research is Shaq doing? We've talked about this before. It seems like the practical thing is just make everything awash and let's wait for a year. But obviously, there are people livelihoods at stake. There are people, I mean, everyone as far as staff and workers at the arenas and the owners, of course, and the players, that's why this is getting done is because of money. If we were saying money doesn't matter and where some fantasy world, this wouldn't be happening. So I understand that side of it and both, of course, we need to get this done.

We need to make our money. Michael Connor, are you encouraged that Major League Baseball could be the starter that everybody else picks up and goes? That could be more golf tournaments. I think the NBA is going to be watching clearly what the MLB is doing. I never would have thought that Major League Baseball would have been on the out in front of anything, but it feels like they are, especially with the NBA, kind of still, I think, being very patient in making sure they don't ruffle any feathers. I mean, I thought baseball would end up being the one that drove it outside of golf

and what would get golf back next month, which it'll be nice to have. But, you know, if baseball goes through the issue, though, with this agreement stuff, I don't know the differences in terms of the agreements of basketball. Like it feels like the money side of it might be easier with the basketball to take care of it because most of those guys have been paid majority of their seasons, obviously, already. You know, if baseball gets it done, though, yeah, I think it's going to get basketball back sooner rather than later, obviously. But it is a little bit weird to me that we're not hearing a ton, or at least as much

details were getting at times from baseball, you know, because part of me does wonder, like, if there is one league, it's going to say, no, we're just, you know, we're not going to do this or something. It's the NBA. That's the clear choice. I hope I'm wrong that they would even consider that, but I think that they're the most likely to do that. Gordy, do we see the UFC this weekend? They tested everybody. They found one fighter that was symptomatic. He left. They had their bouts. They were in arena. I mean, if I'm the NBA, do you not see what UFC did and said, okay, to a much smaller extent, they were able to put on a show. Why can't we? Yeah, that's the way it's got to operate. I mean, you know, we can't throw our hands in the air and go, shut down everything.

Every time somebody tests positive, again, you know, I get the concern. I get there are people dying of the illness, but we got to look at facts. And the facts are majority 99.9% of young people who are healthy, like these athletes, are fine. You know, even if they get sick, they survive this thing. And so that's where I think. I think, ultimately, if the NBA comes back, we've got to accept that somebody could get sick. The word I heard today was we need to learn to live with the virus, not wait until the all clear and the virus is dedicated because that's not going to happen anytime soon. You know, so there's got to be a way to coexist, get back to some bit of normalcy of life, all while being safe, taking all the precautions, testing, masks, all of that. but also if the NBA starts up, we can't throw our hands up in the air if another Rudy

Gobert happens and goes, shut it all down. It's got to be all right. That guy comes out. But here's the issue. Let's say you, you know, you play two weeks to regular season games and then we start the playoffs. I don't want to be morbid, but could there be some people who might say, oh, let's, let's put COVID in the drink of James Harden and that'll take him out for two weeks because he'll be

quarantined. I mean, I know it sounds stupid, but there might be some people thinking that way. David Stern's not around anymore. Don't worry. They're not rigging the league like that anymore. All right, Mr. NHL, Joe George, did you hear? There is a thought from Gary Bettman about a 2014 tournament? Yeah, I saw that early on as like a proposal.

I think it's a really interesting idea. That's how you shorten the league and you do a different playoff format. I think it makes a lot of sense for the NHL because that's just more eyeballs on them. They're doing something different. Personally, I would love it. I'm biased. I'm a Chicago Blackhawks fan. That means they make the playoffs this year, and maybe they get hot at the right time, and they do something for the first time in like five years.

But I think it'd be fun. It'd be different. And if it's just one year, like, yeah, we look at the champion differently, but at the end of the day, you still would have a champion that had to beat multiple teams. So I'm all for that. I think that'd be fun. And if the NBA did the same thing, I'd be cool with it. I'm not for round robin play tournament.

I want them to finish the season. in fact, as long as they don't gimmick the playoffs, as Ross and I have talked about, there should be no asterisk. Although Ross, I feel like half of America, especially for the team that doesn't win, their fan base is like, oh, that wasn't a real championship. And I think it also depend on the team. If it's like the Bucks or the Lakers or something, nobody's going to talk about an asterisk. If it's probably literally any other team, then that might come more into play,

certainly if it were the Houston Rockets or whoever. But I think, I mean, if you're the fan, you don't care, right? Especially if it's all seven-game series, I think there should be no asteris. for anybody. Everybody's on the slain playing field. Everybody has to deal with no fans. Everybody has to deal with the testing. And it's made the best man win. Honestly, I think you could almost argue it's more of a, it matters more because all the factors being equal. And it means you can win not to worry about, well, we just had home court advantage where that was a difference maker for sure. All right. Adam Wexler, we saw a lot of in the last dance last night,

Michael Jordan's baseball career. I'd like for you to tell me, is there an athlete currently in sports today that could play a second sport and not embarrass themselves. And I'll give you an example. I'm not saying Bo Jackson because I think the hip really hurt him. But Dionne Sanders was an ordinary but yet competent major leaker and obviously one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time. Is there a Dion Sanders somewhere else in sports today? And the answer is no, that's okay too. But is there anybody that comes to mind when you think of a two sport player in 2020? Well, it's funny that you mentioned that because I think the first player that comes to mine, I'm trying to remember other guys that were even allowed to do it at the college level,

which we just don't see enough of. And the first name that comes to mind is the new backup quarterback in New Orleans. James Winston was a pitcher at Florida State. And had he not been able to earn millions of dollars at the top of the draft in the NFL, I don't have any. I don't see why he would not have been able to rise up the ranks and put everything into his baseball career. He had a great arm. and obviously he's pretty imposing on the mound.

I mean, I haven't researched the background of his career, but this goes back to not letting guys play multiple sports. There's a name 50 guys. I bet you they could probably play multiple sports, but just nobody does it anymore. Nobody allows for it, and the coaches at the college level certainly aren't looking to open that door again. I'm sure there's nobody ever talks about Brian Jordan,

another brave who played both sports. Dion was a pretty good Major League Baseball player. It gets looked at even less because he was, such a good football player. Guys, anybody else come to mind with a name of a two-sporter? The guy who was just taking the first round recently in both sports, Kyler Murray. Yep, that was going to be mine.

And honestly, I feel like LeBron, if LeBron wanted to, he could play in the NFL. Like, I think he could play wide receiver or tight-end. I don't know if he could block anyone, but I definitely think LeBron could go out there and catch some passes in school. You probably could block. He just wouldn't try. Oh, that's a good point. They don't play defense.

If he would be great. Yeah, but I think LeBron's a lot. I mean, even if you just put him in the game to go into the corner and catch a touchdown pass, he definitely could do that. But Kyler Murray and then maybe Russell Wilson, like, I don't know if that's just the gimmick when they bring him to Rangers camp and Yankees camp. He was not good in the minor league. So, yeah.

How about Gordy Carlos Carrick? Could you envision him playing a second sport? I mean, getting a massage isn't sport, but he's not very good at that. No, two guys who stand out to me, though, I would have loved to have seen their careers had they gone a different path. One is Marcus Spears, who came, played football at LSU, obviously, played the NFL for the Cowboys. And now he was a premier basketball player.

Like, he was a big man down the pain. He was going to play basketball at LSU until Nick Sabin said, no, you're going to play football and only football. Another guy that would have been really intriguing is Joe Mauer. Everybody knows Joe Mauer. He was one of the top quarterbacks in the country and was set to think, go to Florida state. That would have been interesting to see Joe Maurer's career had it gone that path. How about another baseball one, though, a local one, Adam Dunn. He was, I think,

going to go to Texas to be quarterback and went and played baseball. Tias Bowser was a Houston Cougar football player, obviously, in the NFL. Wasn't Tom Brady drafted too to baseball? Yeah, by the Expos. Yeah. Damn, that's a long time ago when you got drafted by the Expos. Yeah, I was to say Tyos Bauer played for James Dickey for one year, and then he wanted to play with Calvin Samson. He said, that's not going to happen. Arizona Cardinals wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins, played basketball at Clemson.

Ooh. Played. All right, one more thing about last night. I do not buy that Michael Jordan would have been a serious long-term major leaguer. We talked about this on the show today. September call-up maybe, but a guy that has OPS of less than 575 at AA,

I don't envision it. Would Michael Connor, would Michael Jordan have had? a 150 plate appearances ever in the big leagues, if not for the strike and not for his return. I believe what Terry Francona said. I really do, because if that guy went out there and didn't play baseball between the ages of 17 and 31, and then threw himself into it and had that one season, if you give that 1,500 of bats and just because he's Michael Jordan and the work ethic that you know he's going to put in, I believe that he would eventually have gotten there. Would it part of it probably be a publicity stunt? Yeah, he'd have to do a lot better to get, you know, the major league level, but just because of his work ethic and who he is, I would never doubt that

he'd get there if he had the right amount of time to go through the system. Ross, what do you think? I think I agree with that because if he'd had the time and if he'd had put in the work and if he'd had a couple of years to do it, he could eventually get to that level. But it's impressive that he hit 202 and then also apparently he hit 255 in the Arizona Fall League that year as well. But it didn't really look like a major league swing, so maybe I don't know if he would have been, you know, It's not going to be like a power hitter or something like that. But somebody who can go out there, play good defense and hit 275, he probably could have been something like that.

All right, Joe, you said already you're on the record. You're saying if there was not a lockout, he would have been on the team. Yeah, I think he would eventually would have played out partially gimmick, but also no matter how much money you gave me, I would never bet against Michael Jordan in anything. So if Michael thought he was going to be there, I think he probably would have figured it out. But most likely it just be a Rinesdorf gimmick that he would have brought him up

and played for the socks. All right, two more topics here on the Monday night meeting. Ross and I kind of joked about where we would have put Scotty Pippin in the NBA all 50, like he was between 46 and 50. I cannot characterize Pippin's inability to go in the game like it was talked about last time except calling it a bitch move. Is there any other phrase any of you would like to add besides bitch move? Adam Wexler.

Well, for one thing, I know that'll be on the hotkeys pretty soon. when somebody says, what do you think about Scotty Pippen? And then we'll just use the Horace Grant drop. Straight up bitches. There's no question about that. I don't know. That's a pretty good way to put it. I'm surprised how easily his teammates got over it.

I guess they really didn't have any choice because they weren't going to win without him. They didn't win with him either. They lost in seven games. But that's pretty unbelievable at that level for a player to be a that. That is this all-time selfish move. Gordy. get it more than once. Yeah.

Gordy, when you make Bill Cartwright cry, it's a bitch move, isn't it? Yeah, I would almost put one of your favorite words, diva. I mean, it's being a diva. Oh, I'm not getting the shot. Well, I'm not playing. I mean, that's what it is. And ultimately, yeah, I think,

like you guys all kind of hit on it on your shows today, but it's funny how Michael Jordan said going into this documentary that, man, I might look bad after this. And ultimately, the takeaway is no, Scotty Pippen came back. looking away bad from this. Ross, Hal Greer or Scotty Pippen? Who is higher on the NBA 50?

Still got to go Scotty Pippin. Yes, he had a couple of bad moments, but I mean, one of the greatest perimeter defenders of all time could drop 27 and 7. Gotta go with Scott. Now, Joe, as a Chicago fan through and through, you completely understand the frustration that Scotty had and you completely justified his decision to sit out.

No, and I think now that I've learned more about this, I officially have him as the fourth-grade of Chicago Bull of all time. He's getting dumped because of this. He's got to move for the back of the past. Who's ahead of him? Coo Coach? No, no, no, no.

Joe Kimmel. Will Purdue? Kirk Finrich. Artist Gilmore, Michael, Derek, Scotty. Zach Levine's on his way. No, he's not. He's terrible. Michael Connor, why have we seen Jack Haley so far

in these last dance videos? I don't know. Who? Jack Haley. Wasn't he Robin's bitch? there in Chicago. Was that San Antonio? You guys know who Jack Haley is?

No idea. I actually saw him last night. He was in the Space Jam pickup games. Well, then he definitely had to have been in the Robin video. Yeah. All right. Go look up Jack Haley, not in the top 50 NBA players of all time. All right.

Lastly, RIP to Jerry Stiller guys passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Many, many great lines. most recently on the Seinfeld, what the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for? Is there a line in a TV or a movie that you recite more than others? And you just happen to do it every day, once a week, to your friends. Ross, you're smiling. What you got for yourself?

Surrending now is definitely one. And then when he wants to get in a fight with Elaine, and he goes, you want a piece of me? You got it! And then they run out of each other? Great, great, great moment. So do you use that today in 2020? Serenity now.

Yeah, I do say, you want a piece of me? I do say that. I will go with a couple of great ones. Actually, a great one from the Brady Bunch movie from said Mike Brady. Wherever you go, there you are. Michael Connor, what TV or movie lines do you reference often? We are a home of big shit talking here. So we like to go at each other and say, show your mouth.

Show your mouth. You're coming off stupid from Stead Brothers. Chris Gordy? The dude abides definitely say that probably once a week from Big Lebowski. Also, I like to randomly drop a chlorophyll more like borofil.

Conditioner is better. Joe George. I'm guessing Ferris Bueller's Day Off references. No, no, no. Winter is coming, and if I'm in a bad mood and someone's pissing me off to today Jr. Like a slide. And we got thrown on me earlier today, actually. Oh, really? Yes. All right, Wex, your last but not least. I don't do that. I recite movie lines when they fit.

I don't have anything from any movie or show that I have in my everyday vocabulary. I would like to, I'm going to go back and listen to the movie airplane and recite 20 lines between now and tomorrow's show because I want to start memorizing more of those. Blue zone. Really, you can't be serious. Red sun. I'm counting on you. Stop sniffing glue.

Yeah. Shirley must be kidding. No, I'm not kidding. You know, that's where I'm going to go. And that just shows you my humor, I guess. Tomorrow morning, six o'clock, Michael Connor, you're going to entertain a lot of people. Is that accurate?

Duh. I'll be there until noon with Gordy. Chris Gordy in the trenches with Michael Connor? Yes. What LSU guess will you have on the show tomorrow? The gymnastics coach is finally coming on, so look out. No LSU guest, but we'll have Jim Nagy, executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl,

to come on and talk about Jonathan Grenard and Charlie Heck to the new Texans players who are part of the Senior Bowl festivities. Before I go, I got to say shout out to Adam Wexler. Congrats for the April book being number one among sports stations and afternoon drive. The Adams. Number one. Wex, your thoughts about being number one.

Let's try to do it again and again and again. Those are my thoughts. Ross, tomorrow on the Noond of 3 show, we are going to pray and hope that the Players Association goes along with what the owners want to do for an 80 game schedule, right? Don't hold your breath on that, Matt Teo. We'll see. Owners will cave.

They will cave. So what are they going to cave to? They're going to cave and give the players their money. They got the future CBA to worry about, too. They're all terrified of it. That's my guess. They're going to put. One of them is going to puck or it's going to be the owners.

All right, and Joe, George, what bit stealing will the afternoon do show do? That's really the reason why y'all won because you take other material from other shows. I mean, that's pretty much. You're asking me what bid I'm stealing on Wednesday? It's only Monday. No, the show that for the afternoon show. What bid are you going to steal? Yeah, I know.

We bit steal on Wednesday. Wednesday is BS. Come on, Matt. I know you listen every day. What is Tuesdays? Tomorrow is the irresponsible hot take of the week. I don't know. Joe, here's a question.

Why are you bringing the Adams to the number one slot? But you run Matt Thomas' show too. What's the deal? Matt's show actually had a pretty good uptick since I took over. It did. It did. It did. The Adams is because they like me.

I don't know about Matt. He makes fun of me a lot. Yeah, but I wasn't invited your wedding. That's the main reason. That's not fair. That's still holding a grudge. I mean, I won't your brides three months.

Lex, were you invited to his wedding? Yes. I was invited. Oh. The Lakers were playing the rockets at night. But I was working. Yeah, you couldn't go, Matt.

LeBron was here. Exactly. Then that makes sense. I'll never mention it again then. Lines. Thank you. Because I was working. It'll be a mention tomorrow by tour.

Thank you for partaking in this. Look forward to Sean and Michael and Adam to say it tomorrow morning at 6th, Ross and I at noon, Gordy with the trenches with Connor at 10, and of course, the A team at 3 o'clock. Thanks, everyone for watching, and we say goodbye, and thank you for being a part of another Monday night meeting on Sports Talk 790.