The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - To Bunt Or Not To Bunt, Joe Kelly's Suspension & Non Florida Stories

Episode Date: July 30, 2020

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It is a Matt Thomas show at 12.02 on Sports Talks. with Ross and with Brendan and Matt. Good afternoon, guys. Good afternoon to Houston, Texas. How are we feeling, Maddie? God, I hate doing this, but we're going to just have to knock this out. I generally speaking hate Bunt guy. Uh-oh.

Bunt guy generally speaking is a, you know how there's a no-it-all? What's the opposite of No-It-all? A dumbass? That's it. Kind of douchey. Kind of... Some of them are just old school, and that's fine. But you have to adapt to the world of what you watch today.

For instance, I'll give you an example. I'm not trying to play partisan here. Back to the basket NBA center guy is a little dushy and is a little too old school. How about this? Yeah. Mike Dantone needs to work. have them work the mid-range more. Yeah, mid-range jumper guy guy.

Why, you know, if Lamarcus Alder shoots top of the key jumpers, why can't Capella? So all I would say is you have to adapt to what the generation of the sport you're watching. For instance, college football Ross in the 1970s. You watch one of those OU Texas games from 1971, which is on the Longhorn Network eight times a week. What do you see? percent running. Wishbone all the damn time. But University of Houston, Bill Yohman, created the veer.

Guess what? Jack Pardy's like, bruh, June Jones, Mouse Davis. We've got to open things up. We've got to put five wide receivers out in no tenants. Change things up a little bit. Adapt, if you will. So, but of all those types of people, Bunt Guy is belligerent about Bunt Guy.

About bunting. Very strong about it, yes. So here's my thought. I'm very much anti-bunting. But with that being said, I think the parameters of the sport change. And I absolutely, without a doubt in my mind, believe you could have bunted once, maybe even twice in last night's loss, not innings one through six or seven through nine, but this whole gimmicky putting the runner at second base bit.

And by the way, as you guys, I don't know how much you watch the game, but as you guys watch the game, is it, this thing is just one big gimmick thing after the other. Did you see Major League Baseball is now thinking about going to seven-inning double-header games? I did see that.

I mean, on the player's recommendation, I think. Yeah. Let's just change the rules. I love that this season is just on the fly. whatever. Cancel some games. No big deal.

Look, the season kind of doesn't count anyways. So they can kind of do what they want with it at this point. You know, I want to see more outfield scoring. So let's play two outfielders. I like that. Left center, right center. And you know what? That's just what you got to do.

One less player gets it caught. And then what, two DHS? How about this? You can rotate them in. A tenth batter? Or how about this? Every player must swing from the opposite side of the plate at least one time. And in it back.

So if you are Jose Al-Tube, you are definitely hitting first pitch because if you don't, you've got to flip to the left side. And I'm guessing Jose Al-Tube is about a 040 hitters from the left side. But then the pitcher has to do the same. He has to throw at least one left-handed pitch. Yeah, I mean, what an amazing gimmick this is. And yet we're still involved. And yet they still don't have, this is the season to get robo umpires. The kinks worked out on that.

Yeah. The games don't really matter. Okay. So I want to go back to Bunn Guy for a second. Yes. Okay. Let's talk about that. Bunn Guy's got a point. He does yesterday. Let me give you two cases in point from last night. By the way, we had a real nice time at Big City Wings. Yes. National Chicken Wing Day had a nice audience come out and say hi. It was nice. We had a 12-year-old. I gave him a good morning stripper shirt. His parents love it.

So we're raising the kids right for the future. I don't know if you can wear that on the first day of school when kids are a lot back in school. that's on the here nor there. All right. So let's go to the 10th inning gentleman. Let's go over there. You got Kyle Tucker at second base. And before I get into this deep bunting bit,

the biggest problem with the Astros right now is they just can't hit, period. Do you see the stats? Tucker, 188, Altube, 174. Bregman, 174. Pinch hitter, Springer. 048. That is the big picture problem with the Astros.

Not Dusty Baker's inability to think about calling a bun. I mean, it's cheap, it's stupid. It shows that you're just not a baseball person. If you're blaming the manager for a game like this, well, it means three times more. Everybody's playing 60, okay? The Astros don't play games that are three times more valuable than, say, the San Diego Padres.

It doesn't mean three times more. Yeah, because it just doesn't work that way. And everybody's getting into the playoffs. Yeah, 16 teams. I mean, the Astros would have to go to putting Bud Norris out there every single day in order for them. By the way, so the Astros. Don't speak that into existence. Yeah, right.

It could happen. Astros 3 of 19 from 3 with runners in scoring position. That's how you lose games. Yes. That's how you do it. But I'm going to absolutely give Bunn guy a little run and say that if you're Jose Altube, who, by the way, is a very good bunter. Who, oh, by the way, has a goose egg going into the plate, going to the 10th inning.

And you already got a guy with decent speed with Kyle Tucker at second base. I know he's your multi-hit champion. I know he's your former MVP. Shake things up. Osuna already gave you a perfect 10th, right? So now you're just playing with house money. Go move him over and say, all right, I've got Bregman and I've got Brantley. coming up,

can either one of those two gibbonses give me a fly ball of any kind of depth? Sure, why not? I get it. So as much as I don't like but guy, and as much as I despise,

the manager caused this team grow up. Seriously. The team lost the game yesterday, but everybody can take a little bit of responsibility, and I think Dusty's guys, to start thinking about, especially if you're the home team. If you're the road team, I don't want to if I want to give up and out.

I just don't think I'm going to. And by the way, when you bunt, it doesn't always mean you're successful. Sometimes guys put down lousy bunts. Sometimes guys bunt and have the second strike. I'm just saying that for bunt guy, you get a little bit of leeway on this, not because it's extra innings, not because it's of a 60 game season. It's because you're starting an extra inning with somebody. in theory and scoring position.

And frankly, you're also in a situation where the team is struggling offensively. So if you got to play small ball a little bit, do it. So Altube could have bunted in the 10th. The question would have been in the 11th inning. Could Abraham Toro bunted? Now, you don't have speed at second base of Guerriel. That's another thing is who's at second base?

Could a decent, an average bunt or an above average bunt get the guy over to third base without question. Gurriel, good contact hitter. Gurriel, not a speedster, but he doesn't make many mistakes on the mount, I should say, on the base pass. So, you know, at that point, all right, tell Toro to put the bunt down. So, again, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on Bunt Guy. But Bunk Guy today, I'm not saying beating your chest because the Astor is lost. but I'm kind of coming to your side a little bit,

not an innings one through nine in most cases, but in the extra innings, Ross, when you got a runner at second and you've got a team struggling mightily, maybe a fly ball of medium depth gets, and you got a decent guy at third base with some decent speed, maybe that does make the difference in a ballgame, especially if your pitching staff keeps the game tied in the bottom half of the game. Well, with the same thing with the mid-range,

the same thing with a lot of these things that have had, the passing game in the NFL today, it's a question of math. And I just know, I don't know what the numbers are. I'm kind of trying to look it up. It seems like if there's a runner on second and no-out, they score about 63% of the time, a runner.

And so I don't know how much does that number go up. It goes up to like 70% or 70% of the time if it's a runner on third with no-out. But you have to base that against how successful bunts are and all those types of situations. So it's a simple question of math. And ultimately, let's go back to the 10th inning last night. So let's say you tell Jose to put the butt down.

Kyle Tucker gets the third. What do the Dodgers do? Like they did last night, they intentionally walked Bregman to the hottest astro hitter. This just shows you how crazy the sport of baseball is. And how failure still override success. They intentionally walked Bregman. So they had Tucker at second. They had Bregman at first.

and what does Brantley your hottest hitter do? He hits it in a double play. So even if you had moved to Altoube and had the ground ball to move Tucker to third, it wouldn't have made a difference. Double play ends the inning. Yeah, so I'm on this expected runs blog. It says 60% of the time a run will score from second with no-out. 60%.

It goes up to 65 runner on third no-out. So you gain that extra 5%. You've given up an out, but then you have to weigh how successful the button attempt is going to be. and these guys don't really butt. And I mean, you're telling yourself, I mean, you're going to have, you're not,

you're not going to have Jose Al Tuve laid out a bun. He hits a single, the game's over, or depending on who's on second, and how are he hit? But, I mean, the question is, it's a math question.

Does one of your best hiters, Jose Altube, get a base hit and bring Tucker home? Because most hits that Altubey is going to get there, they're decent-sized hits, and there's a good chance you can get a double, good chance to go home run,

or do you take the bat out of his hands, and then absolutely assume that Tucker can get to third base on a bun. Think nothing about that too. That's the thing. He's never going to knock in the run bunting, ever. Unless there's some crazy error situation. So all I'm saying is we are fair and balance on this show. I usually despise Bunt guy.

I really despise manager cost me the game guy. That guy doesn't know his head from his ass. The bottom line is Dusty's got to start thinking about this. But bottom line is Dusty has to put out his best offensive lineup. And right now that offensive lineup sucks. It just does. 1214 on the Matt Thomas show. 713, 212.790 if you want to jump in.

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we can experience the new Buick. Yo, what's up? This you boy, boy. be the Trilogy with the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in in Sports Talk 790, man. We got a lot of different topics to get to today, but look, oh, we have got to get to Joe Kelly being suspended eight games. And by the way, typical America,

number of Astros suspended zero. Number of times Joe Kelly throws at Astro players two suspended eight. What's wrong with this baseball world? Why do I sound like moopy non-astrophage? Yeah, you need to sound like a smarmy baseball writer. Yeah, my name is Buster Only. Joel Sherman here. Joel Sherman.

And Jeff Passon, I don't know how I have sex, but I somehow do. I don't know. God, the media people just generally speaking are smarmy. Sob's football media social media. entitled. Buster only has gotten entitled for some... And this is not a slam towards Houston. This is just a slam towards all of them. You know what it really is? And I'm not kidding you. It's the electronic media's fault. I count radio and I count television. We put these people on our shows and look, we have

Brian Tion, we have Brian McTaggart on, we have Chandler-Rome is on. We've done. We've on J-Cap on the past, because we appreciate those insiders because they are, all they have to focus on is just their one thing. But electronic media, especially television, Buster, baseball people in 1994, there was one guy on television that you would watch for MLB News. Who's that? Peter Gammon's. Okay.

Name somebody else in 1994 that you'd watch. You just wouldn't. Was Tim Kirching back in the day now? No. A little later? No buster. Maybe a Jason Stark. But this little weasel Jeff Passing, I mean, no.

And so these net, these television networks primarily ESPN, have put these guys on a pedestal. And that's what's happened to them. They have been, I mean, Zach Lowe used to be a regular dude with us. Yes, he did. And now he flat out big times us. That's fine. I'm telling you, Ross, if I ever get it big time. I still love his articles.

Well, they're good. And we like to have mom because I think he's very insightful. Very insightful. Great podcast. I'm not there to boost his eagle. I'm saying because I think he's good. I'd love to pay him if I could. We can't.

But I'm more, if you were listening to me, interview anybody, any written people on a show, we promote their Twitter. We do their website. That's the least I can do for them. And I'm glad to do that.

But this is out of control. And so all of America yesterday, all national media just couldn't get over the fact that Rob Manford told baseball do not go after the Astros. I know you want to, but don't,

or I'm going to lay the heavy hammer down. And he did. Probably Joe Kelly has appealing that suspension. I kept thinking if that game was going to the 14th, 15th inning, would we have seen Joe Kelly pitch yesterday? I was waiting. I can't believe he didn't pitch yesterday.

Well, as I said, I knew from the day that, Dave Roberts, a manager was not going to put this situation. If he's going to lose his appeal eventually, you might as well get

some use out of them, I would figure. Well, under appeal, you'd say, why not? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. But, uh, on, yeah, everybody's upset. Oh, well, the Astros

didn't get suspended one game. Well, Joe Kelly threw it somebody's head. And then Joe Kelly called somebody a little bitch,

and then Joe Kelly made faces and started a bases curling, uh, bench's clearing, disagreement. It wasn't a brawl.

It wasn't a Tiff or a Donnybrook. Whatever you would call it. Disagreement? Yeah. The staring at a staring contest. He caused a benches clearing staring contest. But he threw it somebody's head. He was a bleep starter.

He could have injured Michael Brannley, so he got suspended. And just... And we're warned ahead of time by Ramford. Yes. And if you think critically for one second, the Astros weren't suspended because they had a witness immunity. and because, as Evandrelic wrote, the union would have crushed Rob Manfred if he tried to do anything

because the rules were not properly communicated to the players. Rules are not communicated. And oh, by the way, they said, spill your beans and we'll give you full amnesty, just like any of us would have taken. Yes. That's what I think is funny is that people get mad when people lawyer up.

Yeah. In life. Yes. Let me tell you something. Usually works out. If I have been accused of a crime, which hopefully I will never be. Don't worry, Matt.

I think the statute of limitations it off on that one. You're good. Okay, so in the past, if I have committed something good, I shouldn't have done. I would hire the most expensive, the best attorney.

Who would ever go to price line for an attorney? Because then you'd be able to brag and say, well, you know, I win economical. No. Who's the guy that sits the court side at Rockets games all the time? Travis Scott?

No, the lawyer. Justin Verlander? The lawyer. Oh, Rusty Hart. I was going to say, I was going to say Dusty, but I knew that was wrong.

If I get accused of something, I'm calling Rusty, and I'm going to hope for a Rockets discount. He got Adrian Peterson out of everything. Just saying it works. To the phones, we go at 713-212-5-790. Matt's in Belair on the Matt Thomas show. Matt, good afternoon. Hey, what's up, guys? Hi.

I tweeted out yesterday about McCullors, hoping McCullors would start, which after the Kelly suspension, I'm really glad he didn't. But the bunting thing, I'm not usually bunting guy either, but it's. especially in the 12th, when you haven't been able to move the runner over at all. Yeah. Springer standing on second Tucker up to bat and then out two-bain, Breitman behind him. That seems like the most obvious bunting situation ever. And you would think Dusty being an old-school guy that he would implement old-school stuff like bunning.

But, I mean... Here's what happened yesterday that Dusty made the mistake on. This is a team that's not known for bunting. This is a team... This is his first time managing an American League team. And he's also got a baseball team for the most part, forgetting about what's happened before the first four or five games, that has been one of the most prolific offenses in baseball the last five years.

That doesn't score by bunning. That hits lots of alley doubles and hits lots of home runs. It has great on-base percentages. He put faith into a bunch of guys that, unfortunately, right now, are all collectively slumping together at the same time. It's understandable. But it's just one game, and it wasn't even a game in our division. Well, you know, and again, thank you for the phone calls.

Good stuff, man. I appreciate it. Thank you for tweeting out us at SportsMT. Do not go, well, this cost him three. Please do not be stupid. Please don't be stupid. And it's not 180 game season anyways. No one.

The Astros are not playing 60 and everybody else is playing 115, okay? This one counts for three. God, I hate when people try to be baseball people. Let me be brutally honest with you. Rossi. it is the hardest sport to talk about. I have been doing baseball pre and post game shows in multiple markets, mostly here, for 20 years.

There are things about baseball I still learn about every single day that I didn't know a year ago. I mean that with all honesty. The most nuance, the most players to know, the most nicknames. Tactical decisions. Tactical, exactly. Gut feels.

percentages. Metrics are huge in baseball now. So when I tell you, I try my best, I got 20 years behind this. So just be careful who you listen to. Because blaming Dusty for this team's struggles, it takes you one second to figure out what the struggles are. And I will do that quickly.

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Got to the rim and laid it up and in. Hey, this is Russell Westbrook. Sports Talk, 790 is home for your rockets. All right, so instead of us having a guess what Dusty was thinking, it's just better that we actually let him say what he was thinking. And again, I do believe me being not being bunt guy, believe that in these uncharted times... In these uncertain times, unprecedented?

They're also uncharted, too. Wanting to win a baseball game sooner rather than later, if your team is the home team and you give up a goose, which most of the Astros bullpen did. By the way, the Astros are the lowest bullpen ERA in American League. I don't know how that's possibly happened, but it has. If you throw up one goose egg after the other, and you've got a runner at second base,

and you got a halfway decent speedster at second, at least decent speed, and you have somebody that has the ability, like, Your Honor and Alvarez doesn't know how to bunt and we'll never learn how to bun. In Asia ain't going to happen. You don't want them bending those creaky knees, Matt.

Yeah, the creaky knees could be a definite factor. What was I saying? Oh, you want to go ahead and go for the bun. So you're aware of the website fan graphs. It's basically baseball nerds and math. And dorks. Yes. So there is a blogger, Ben Clemens, who wrote an art.

When all this was being discussed on June 30th, he wrote an article about all the math with this. How when you should you bunt? Should you steal third? People haven't been mentioning. So, and this is basically what he came to the conclusion of. Visiting teams should never bunt to lead off extra innings. And this is key. This is someone who's done the math.

home teams should bunt to lead off extra innings only in a tie game. Okay, good. Perfect. So he's saying they should do it, and he did the math. And I said this year of the break, Matt, and I mean, if Jeff Luno and AJ Hinch were still here, I would have 100% confidence that the math was vetted out, and if they were making a decision about bunting or not to bunt, it's the right decision. This new regime, I just don't know yet. I do have full confidence that they're smart and that they know what they're doing.

But they're not the same gentleman. never been here. It's not exactly. It's not the same level. I mean, James Click, hopefully, will be just as good a general manager. But James Click doesn't know that right now. James Click's never been a general manager. No, nor was Jeff. Uh, but Jeff also, when he started, he had to worry about just getting a franchise up and going. He did not inherit a team that's expected to be a contender for the World Series, minus the six to nine pitcher injuries. All right, Dusty Baker. See, here's the thing. Dusty's in the past has been criticized for peculiar managerial moves.

Leaving pitchers in too long, going with gut feelings. Gutfield guy. And I like gut field guy, generally speaking. So it's not like that no one's ever criticize a Dusty Baker decision. But I just don't know after, what is this, game six of the year,

that if you are, I love Dusty Baker guy, that all of a sudden he became trashed Dusty Baker. I love him with the words he had for Joe Kelly. We love Dusty Baker, before that, but that makes him, he's endearing even more. And again, Dusty Baker, to me, I can just talk baseball with him and flowering and be fine. Here's Dusty on some of the events of last night, start us off.

Yeah, I thought about it, but if I, you know, if I bond, then it's up to, you know, it's been up to, you know, to straw, I think, you know, I thought about it. But, you know, with the hitters that we have here, I mean, who's up against Floral? Was it Altuva? No, I'm talking about Toro after Correa tied the game in the 11th. No, but he wasn't up there to, you know, he wasn't up there to butt. If I was going to do anything, I mean, I might have left the, that was in the punt.

But no, I didn't think about that. I mean, you know, they didn't butt, we didn't butt, you know, nobody bun it. And so, you know, I liked the match up, you know, with Toro, you know, up there. up there and that's what he's here for. All right, the 11th inning, regular Jack Mayfield. And by way, he can be super again. I just don't want him striking out.

But I think if you're going to be called super something, it's disingenuous if you're just an average player and somebody who calls you super. It's like calling somebody that's 6-7 tiny, right? Or 6-7 and huge and like a bouncer, and you call him tiny ironically. Maybe he's going to be, maybe you can call him super Jack ironically. I'm okay with calling him.

calling him Super Jack. I just wanted to be super. Well, I'm just going to continue to call him Super Jack just because I know it peeves you. All right. So Mayfield pinch runs open up the 11th. Gurriel singles. Mayfield goes to third. Correa singles, Mayfield scores, so we're backed out of a tie game again. So Toro pinch hits. Could you get Guerriel to third base on a bunt? Answer that question.

is first of all, do we know that Toro can bunt? Because I hate to tell you this, guys, I've lost the ability to bunt, generally speaking. This is in 1986. And even if you let the butt down, knowing what you have at Guriel, does opposing teams take the chance of trying to put him out at third base? Toro then flies out, Miles Grounds, Miles Straw grounds out, and then Springer Kay's in the inning. See, you ever notice there's this trend in this? There's always a superstar hitter during this little stretch, Ross, that records

a major out. Yes. That happened a lot last night. And that's the thing. It's like what Dusty is saying. Like, you're not going to have El Tuvae Bunt. You're not going to have Brantley, Brighman, Correa, any of those guys. I'm actually okay with El Tuba. If Altube is struggling.

Well, he could score. He could reach base on a bun. That's right. So there is that element. He's very fast. Yeah. I just, I don't know of the 2,020 Astros, how many of them are great, great bunters. They don't ask George to bunt because George is going to be just as prone to hit a home run. I mean, this is the guy's slated with, well, not right now. But, I mean, they're going off of legacy.

They're not going off of a five-game stretch. These are the things you're going to have to think about. These are the things that are the new elements of these extra inning games. And I'm sure the Astros will look at this and how they got to the 13th and how many different times they could have changed their approach and the pinch hitting and swapping out pinch runners and all that and the bunting and all of those different things and in the pinch hitting and yeah and all i'm saying is you're listening to a gentleman we thank you for doing this to somebody that doesn't like bunting but in last night's case you do i hate bunting but that's what you got to do you have to adapt again if there was no runner

at second base i'm not taking the bat out of anybody's hand i'm just not but you've got an you know this fluky gimmicky, whatever you want to call it, bit, you might as well play the bit, right? Yes. How much more gimmicky are we going to get? We have them, first of all, we added playoff games when we didn't even realize they were going to start a season with extra playoffs. Yeah.

We've now have got, you ready for this? We've got the potentials of seven-inning double-header games coming up, which nobody, they're not one scheduled right now. And now the Phillies weekend series with, well, I should have written it down. There is a weekend to AF. To Blue Jays. Philly's Blue Jays series has been postponed.

Who the hell is going to play this weekend? It's a light slate. 100% gimmick. And I applaud you NBA and I applaud your MLS, which I don't watch, but I applaud you guys for staying out of the Rona and playing baseball and playing basketball. The gimmick is we need to just make it to the playoffs so we can get playoff money.

I do the same thing, right? I get it. Totally. 1241 on the Matt Thomas show. 713212-579. We'll resume some more your phone calls coming up in a minute. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Coming up at the top of the hour,

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celebrate with Matt. Hey Matt, love your show. Look, what was I talking about? And by the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Astros do have the day off today, and there'll be in Anaheim this weekend for three with the halos. And then the A's? They go west.

They go for a while. Some West Coast team. And they're all going to be eight tens or three tens. Just keep that in mind. It is what it is. I'm working Saturday's Astros on deck in 10th day. Are you? Yeah.

Every Saturday? No. Oh, okay. Just this one. Did we re-up to you? Oh, yeah, I've re-signed a contract. We need to let the Gibroning consultants out there that are fake-ass websites that know that I've been resigned. Oh, we'll send out a press release, Matt.

I would like for you to do that very much. This is your, how many years, in total, in both stents, years doing post-game shows, do you think, for the Astros? Astros. Gotta be like 15 plus or something. Yeah. Okay. Pre-merger, I did them in the mid-90s for probably three or four years.

And then I did them for a good run of about three or four until I moved. So I'm seven, eight. And then I would say all this last day. So I'm probably in the 18-year range. Wow. So I suggest that people should listen to the man

who's been doing these postgame shows for 18 years. Thank you. If they want to listen to somebody after the game. On the OG of Astrospring and Postgame shows. I would say so. Okay. I wonder what my record is. Let's think about this.

It's probably about 500. Since 2010, I was doing them religiously for about five or six years straight. Okay, so you went way in the negative. So there were three straight 100 lost seasons in that mix. The margarita machine was working overtime. Brennan, you know, I don't know if you believe it. or not, but we used to drink heavily on the 10th inning shows. You could hear the machine whirring in the back as Matt was taking calls.

I mean, as bad as those teams were, it's believable. Yeah, nobody blinked an eye. Everybody was like, Matt. No, they're like, we want you to drink. How else would you continue to watch the game? And then we used to do, we stopped doing on post-game shows on the West Coast, but we did them for a while on the West Coast. And I had this smarmy-ass producer like,

you gotta go to 130. I'm like, dude, the Astrolet. just lost the Giants 9 to 1. You got to go to the bottom or the top of the hour. And at that time, they were for many of those years. They were not on TV, so

they were losing 100 games and they were not on TV. So interest level. So you had to listen to 100 lost games to be able to do a post game show? Well, most of them were on television. Okay, it was Comcast Sports Network, so it was carried by Comcast, but only 40% of the city

got it. We have Comcast up here. I had to get an illegal fee to watch them in my house. Some of them, yeah. Yeah, because I have Drake TV. So it was only available to 40% of the people, and they were losing 100 plus games a season. So when I started doing post-game shows, this was in the mid-90s where the team was getting good.

That's good, yeah. Heyday, Abigio and Bagwell. So I would say probably in the first go-around, the first seven or eight-year stretch, probably 50 games over 500? Mm-hmm. And then way south. And then as 2015 started going and they got the wild card and did that. And I started doing less because of rocket stuff.

So I wouldn't say probably this decade. About 500. Yeah. Which I don't think I could ever have gotten based off of the first three years where it was Brian Mueller on the mound today for the Astros starting at shortstop. It's Tommy Manzella and this young bright phenom Matt Dominguez at third base. What? Brandon Barnes, oh for four tonight?

Like what? Robbie Grossman. in the clean-off spot for the cleanup spot for the Astros. Not good times, but again, doing them on KTRH over our sister station 740 were those people were pissed off

that they didn't get to hear their coast to coast. Oh, my God. Oh, what a time. We used to have a segment called Great Moments in the 10th inning show. Yeah. And Matt would just get these drunkards calling them at 1 a.m. asking for their coast to coast. Or talking about Naburu, the secret planet that's floating

behind the moon or something like that. And I had one woman basically flirting with me on air. I mean, a hard-ass flirt. Her name was Angela. Did you ever have anyone have blame you for trying to cover up coast to coast? Oh, I'm sure. Because I've fielded calls from those people before. That would happen.

Do we have Angela's phone call? I used to. It was just basically like, she's like, so Matt, how are you doing? It's like, I'm fine. Can I help you? She's like, so you have a wife and kids. kids, right? And he's like, yeah. And she's like, well, you know, yeah, I have a husband and kids. And that's like, okay. Congratulations. I bet you're a good dad and a good husband. I'm like,

she's like, do you ever feel neglected? She was like, do you ever feel neglected or something like that? And now let me clarify. He's like, no, I'm good. I have a great marriage. This would never happen in a post game show today, correct? No, because we're not doing West Coast. That's true. And the fact is probably Angel is not doing this at 930 at night as compared to doing it at 1244. And then she's like, if she wants to call him and catch me up on her life, I'm all for that. But I just don't think that's going to happen. And so she was like, so yeah, I was just calling to see what's up. So what's up?

Yeah. That's like, uh, she asked if I had an only fan's account, which I said, which I said I do not. Carl on 790 from the north side. Hi, Carl. Hey, Matt. How you doing? Good friend. What's going on?

Hey, good. Hey, Astros. I mean, you know, I think they're pressuring. You know, they're pressuring from whatever, all the negativity in the off season, you know, guys saying and people saying, well, let's see if they can hit without the cheating scandal. And, you know, I think that they'll settle down from that. Now, Springer, I think he's getting it from two fronts. This is his walk year.

And I think he's doing the same thing. He's done in the past. And I don't know who calms him down. I don't know it was AJ or the hitting coach. of whomever, but, you know, he's just trying to do it all at one time. He's trying to hit it out or he's trying to pull everything. When he gets it, when he's at his best is when he starts hitting the ball the other way. And you're getting the pitching, you know, despite all the injuries that we've had.

And that's a positive. I think everybody needs to look at that. And I think once we get healthy, look, let's win the division, which I think we can. And then let's get in the playoffs with a healthy team. And I think we're as good as anybody out there. And as far as the bunt the other night, I totally agree with you guys. I mean, the temple of that game as a manager, the tempo of the game is going to tell you what your team's doing and what your team needs. I mean, we weren't hitting.

We wasn't getting timely hits. And I'm not questioning Dusty Baker. I mean, you know, love him or like him or whatever. But I think you have to bunt there. I really do. I think you've got to change, you know, a two of a good bunner. I know he's a great hitter. but he's not hitting.

And he's got speed. Let's put some pressure on. Let's see what happens. Thank you very much of the phone call. I appreciate it. Yeah. The strange thing is, did you see George against Kansas City

in those two little warm-up games? Those were real games. They weren't like they were throwing up Ephus pitches. He was tearing the cover off the ball. I mean, he was smacking the Royals around for two straight days, and it's not like Seattle's got a much better pitching group that line up than Kansas City does.

I feel like we say this every year, though. George is Mr. I mean, go to 2017. Remember everybody wanted him off of the bump down in the lineup? I wonder him in his World Series MVP. Yeah, I wonder him hitting in the knee in the outfield. There has been talk about that. I mean, he walked that right off. I was surprised.

The way that he ran into that wall, I was surprised he stayed in the game. And he was limping off. And so that is definitely possibly bothering him. And he's been, even with. healthy, he's Mr. streak hitter. He's always going he has these over 48 and then the next thing you know it within a week he's hit four

home runs and he's hitting 500 for a week. Now, this isn't fair to do this, but it was brought up last night at our big city wings we'll get together. Who you sign in long term? 31 year old George Springer or how old's Carlos, 25?

25, I believe. Now, Carlos is having a much better start of the season. This is a marathon even though it's a 60-game marathon. It's a shorter marathon. But body of work. It's a 10-K. George Springer's at a better Major League career than Carlos Correa has.

But just because you've done something better in the past doesn't forecast future success, especially when you're about to put a lot of money, probably in just one of their piggy banks and not both. Somebody at our party, I will not mention what her name is. It rhymes with Riffney, was just yelling at the top of her lungs.

You got to sign Corrie and tell George, Springer goodbye. It was the booze talking? Or it was the fact that George has struggled the way that he has so far? This is, and during that discussion, I will say, I'll give you my answer by asking you this question. Ooh, I love this. Who's more talented? Potential, or do you think it's-

Who's more talented? More raw talent. Raw? Mm-hmm. Carlos Correa. There's my answer. And he's five years younger. Okay.

I can't believe we're saying this. Certainly, for one year from now. I'm a huge George guy. And that's, I want George here for the rest. I want Georgia retires and a huge disaster. Absolutely. I just have a gut feel. There's not room for both of them, money-wise.

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713, 212 5790. Ross, I'm going to give, I want to have Brendan play a song during this next part of the segment. It's an old song, but it's a classic movie from the 80s. Okay. That reminds me of something that Joe Kelly is doing right now. Now, technically it's a suspension. Old song from the 80s that, oh, well, I heard you now, so. I was going to try to guess.

Well, first of all, let's get, so Joe Kelly suspended for eight games. He's going to appeal. I was hoping just for some reason it would have been entertaining to me. If he was able to enter the game last night, he did not. Dusty Baker's thoughts on Joe Kelly's suspension. You know, I didn't think nothing about it, actually. You know, I mean, this is, you know, the game is first and foremost. I mean, they're going to do what they're going to do, you know,

regardless of, you know, what my opinions are. So, you know, I think that, you know, the punishment. were fair. So he says he thinks the punishments were fair. We didn't really talk about this too much, Matt. Did you feel like eight games was harsh or just right? Perfect. The porridge was just right?

Set the example. Yeah. I think that's one of the things. You had to send a message to everybody else about this. Right. My first reaction was it was a little harsh, especially in a 60 game season. Don't be soft. No, exactly, though.

He threw at somebody's head. When he factor in the fact that he threw at somebody's head, he kept starting stuff with Carlos. Correa, they were worn beforehand. Eight games? I'm not going to shed a tear for Joe Kelly. Please tell me you've seen vacation. I've seen Christmas vacation.

Great movie, too. I've seen European vacation. Sucked. I don't think I saw the original. The original. Chevy Chase, Beverly DeAngelo, a younger Randy Quaid, and of course,

Christy Brinkley, an all-time goat. in the red sports car, right? Oh, yes. And imaging Koka as the really nerdy, soon-to-be-deadant. Don't mean to give away any secrets, but the movie's 40 years old. Spoilers, Maddie.

I know, I know. Spoiler! All right, so we need to help out Joe Kelly with his suspension break. Where should he go, Ross? He's gone for at least another seven days. I guess he's appealing his suspension, so he could pitch again for the Dodgers.

when they're up in action again. But, you know, what's one day among friends? How about he visits beautiful Tulsa, Oklahoma? Tulsa's a sneaky nice town. Okay. Well, I thought you were going to say, what is he doing? The first thing I was going to say is he's going to get his truck nuts installed. Okay, so what is he doing during his...

He's already got the lift kit. What is he doing during the suspension break? Getting his truck nuts installed. That's what I have. Okay. What else could you do when you have seven additional days? Target practice so he can actually hit somebody next time. Oh, there you go.

Good call. Yeah, and when you get him in the bully? He's printing up T-shirts? Like, apparently the Dodgers are printing up T-shirts to honor Joe Kelly, and now he's a number one most popular player on the team. So where are we going to? What else are we going to do during a Joe? Kelly's suspension break.

I thought you had like five good ideas, Matt. I don't. That's what I'm saying I'm getting the audience is better than this than I am. But what does a man do during a suspension break? What is he really going to do? Yeah. Probably sit with and play with his kids. He's got a quarantine in all right?

I mean, he's a... How much social distancing is he doing? You can't go to Vegas because Vegas isn't the same Vegas. Yes. You can't go anywhere on a vacation because the guys be like, wait a minute, you can't go run off to Hawaii while we're sitting here, Brandon? What is?

So if you leave the ball. You have to be tested the whole time, the NBA bubble. You have to be tested the whole time. You don't have to be, but the shorter time that you're gone. Your quarantine time is shorter if you get tested while you're gone. What are the protocols in baseball, where we've already had one major outbreak in Miami, and now there was a coaching staff member and a building staff member, I guess ballpark staff member, testing positive for COVID-19.

Maybe he could do some PSAs about wearing a mask. Hmm. Hi, this is Joe Kelly. While I'm not pitching for the Dodgers, I want you to wear a mask. Don't let this one get away from you. Put on your mask. Hey, are you could do commercials for tongue suppressors? You know how you go to the doctor's office?

You go, ah, that's a good bid for you. Or like cough drops or any kind of pill. Pharmaceuticals. Hi, I'm here at Walgreens. I'm not afraid to take their medicine watch. Yeah. I'm sorry. This is the last,

I'm going to say this word one time today. And then I'm done. What a bitch move. It really was. And again, I'm not trying to overly defend the Astros. Grown-ass man throws the head of a couple of people. And then he strikes out one of them.

He sticks the tongue out. Bitch-ass move. It's it. Well, first of all, he said, your nice swing little bitch to, okay, we're done.

We're done. B word. We're in B word. And then Carlos was like, what you say? And I'm going to take these elbow pads off. And we're going to come talk about this right now. And he's like, I'm going to scurry off to the bullpen. I'm to the dugout. Mike Understor Cycle says he'll be doing tongue exercises and insta pouty faces.

His pout face was good too. It was fun. I thought it was funny. Big lippy and thing. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't put the tongue there. Did you just lick the microphone? By accident.

Joe Kelly will argue the greatness of radio head with strangers on the internet. I like that. Would Joe Kelly during his suspension break be spending significant amount of time at a coffee house? I was going to say Starbucks. Oh, is he pretentious coffee guy? But you can't go to coffee houses. Like artisanal coffee house where you sit there and you drink and coffee and abuse their Wi-Fi? Are libraries open?

Great question. Does I don't? I've been to the library this decade. So this is just horrible. I've been a library like five years. I still have a book I need to sit back. You know what happened to Seinfeld on that, don't you? I know.

I'm worried about how much money I owe for that book. What is he going to do? Because if you just sit at home, you're not going to improve on your control. You're missing about 13% of the season. Good for him. And again, good for Rob Manfred. He's a lousy commissioner. Terrible, terrible, terrible commissioner.

But he wanted to make sure that everybody knew you attack the Astros like this. You're going to pay for it. I thought it was the right move. Despite every blog boy for in, Major League Baseball being upset about it. I can't imagine what Bill Plasky thinks about this. Hack. I did, dare we wade into the waters of Bill?

I have him muted on Twitter, so. Let me get a phone call. Let's see what he had to say. Oh, Joe Kelly's excessive suspension confirms one thing. This season is a sham. Thanks, Hack. Spencer on 790. Hi, Spencer.

Hey, how are you? Good. Hey, I was wondering if I can ask y'all a question about the Springer Korea topic that y'all had about five minutes ago. Please do. Okay. So as someone that's still learning a lot about baseball and doesn't know too much, I understand that Correa is an amazing defensive player. But I was super disappointed with him in the playoffs last year. And I was just wondering if y'all could fill me in a little bit more why y'all would pick. Springer over Korea, even with Springer being five years older? Because typically, and again, I'm just, this is just throwing things off the top of my head at this point. Yeah. I think six years of age difference does play a huge factor. George Springer right now as we speak is probably the number one most sought after free agent.

So you're going to have to probably pay more to him that if there was a four or five other guys in front end, like Mookie Bet signing with the Dodgers probably didn't help the cause because now there's a bar set and that now it means one less for agent is out there. There is an injury history with him. And ultimately, not that there isn't an injury history with Carlos Gray of two, you're putting all the factors on the table. And you're saying if I can only pay one and I'm thinking about the future and my salary and how I'm going to try to manage that, who am I going to go with? I don't want to have this frankly. I don't want to have this conversation because I'm such a George Springer guy. I like them both.

I really appreciate the 150% effort if it's such a thing that George Springer gives. But if you have to make a decision, somebody's going to lose out. And that's why I waffle on this decision all the time. So please don't take what I say today and like, oh, there's no way that Cardo's Correa is not going to, that both that can't get their money. And there's also no way that George Springer can get re-signed because they both can, those things can happen. But we're just thinking logically that most teams with great free agents or future free agents coming up in the next couple of years are probably not going to both be signed at the same time. Got it. I appreciate the call.

Thank you. Thank you for dialing in. Right. Problem is with Correa, too. Correa is injury prone. Of course. I mean, he's not an age. He's IP.

He does get injured every year. He's fine so far. Six games in. Well, no. It's actually 18 games. If you're tripling it. That's true. with Matt.

This is, I mean, 1A and 1B is what we're talking about here. We love George Springer, but the age factor, the premium defense, both are premium defensive positions, but a shortstop is more so. And frankly, it's easier replace an outfielder than it is a shortstop. Although, if Correa said bye-bye in two years,

Alex Spragman is your new shortstop. Yes, you do have more of a replacement. And then you've got an easier chance to replace a third basement than you wouldn't say a shortstop. I wish, but we've said this before. Jim McRane has surprised us. I want to say surprise. More wait and see.

We don't know what kind of owner he was going to be early on in his tenure as Houston Astros owner. But the guy has been bold. The guy has elected to spend in many cases. Obviously, the pandemic might change the course on some of that. But I wouldn't just say that George Springer is a goner or anything like that. So we'll see. But I'm not encouraged.

He is over 30. Like I wasn't encouraged to any point last year that Garrett-Col. was going to stay. No, no. 713-212-5-790. Paul Chapman on Twitter says that Joe Kelly will be

Snapchatting his lady friends and apparently he's put a photo up there of that. So, I don't know how you feel about dog ears and a grown-ass human man, but... He what?

Yeah, go look at his Twitter. Oh, geez. It's a little freaky. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas show continues after I tell you. at TGS insurance. TGS would like to save you significant cash on your home policy. A lot of our

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Oh, it is a COVID free Friday, which always makes it a better day. We can't talk about what's going on with the Phillies and the Blue Jays. Or half of baseball for that matter. What's the latest on the Blue Jays and where they're playing? You're asking me? They don't even know what city they're in. Can we get Boba Shet on the horn? What's going on?

And then we have the Rockets opener against the Dallas Mavericks tomorrow night in the seating games. Yes. It'll be Rockets on KTRH starting at 7 and then Astros on 790 starting at 7. Correct? Okay. Yeah. So I'll be on KTRH tomorrow as will you? Oh, the Rockets launch pad is going to be a banger as the kids are.

What have you got booked? We've got some Mike Dantone audio. I'm going to do a season recap. Nice. To start a couple of highlights from the season. Recap what we got going. We've got going forward. Of course, injury reports, all that good stuff.

And then in-depth, nuanced analysis. Well, Wex hasn't come out at 7.30. At 7.30. Okay, there you go. So Wex and I will have the call on tomorrow night. 7 o'clock. I'm excited. I'm really excited.

Thank God. Rockets games that count. What is the size of that television right there? That looks like a 50 We have about a We're the next size higher We're at about a 65 inch television In our rocket studios at Toyota Center

Oh really? Yeah Really All things consider one to 10 It's about an 8 in terms of Can I watch the game there? No, actually no We're trying to keep it

As limited as possible I'm recovered, I'm good No, you're not invited Dang it Why would you want to Can I put on like a recovered Air Arm band Because like last night

When we were Put on your forehead We're at Big City Wings And I was talking to the waitress without a mask on and I felt guilty. It's like, I wanted to know that like, I'm recovered, so she should be fine with me talking to her. You didn't say what's up, girl?

No, I didn't. Oh, okay. That's all I got. I wanted to say like two different things. I know you do. I'm shutting up. It's better. It's better that way.

713, two, one, two, five, seven 90. Joe Kelly suspension break. How do you, what do you do? you write a book he's not writing a book he's you know what he's doing he's he's organizing all his uh harry potter books you know what we when i go on vacation and stay home i organize my garage

maybe he's cleaning his garage out yeah he's probably paying somebody to do that multimillionaire let me tell you what he's doing multi-millionaire doing their arranging their garage he's like bra i'm gonna help you out and then he winds up getting a lawn chair drinking beers while the other guy you've hired is doing all the heavy lifting. Ouch. Somebody said yesterday we were talking about things Joe Kelly does.

Right. The one about how he agrees to help you move, but then the day of, he's busy or he gets sick. Oh, for sure. You know, he ghosts you the day you're moving. Joe Kelly 100% does that. Joe Kelly sends you happy birthday text. Doesn't even give you the time to call you and wish you happy birthday. He sends it four days late.

Yeah, what is the rule about that on Facebook? because here's here's how Facebook rolls. I don't look at it, but maybe once or twice a week tops. But I'm really, not that I'm really bored, but I've just, I don't have time. I've just got all the things going on. I probably go twice a month. Okay. And usually every time I end up muting like five people.

So are you on Facebook, Brandon? Yeah, I'm on Facebook. Okay. So you guys see the typical thanks for your, thanks everybody for my birthday wishes. It made me feel really warm and special. And then you're like, uh-oh. And then I go, oh, crap, I didn't wish my buddy a happy birthday. I'm going to be honest, the way I treat it.

I don't, if it's somebody that I care enough to say happy birthday to, Facebook might like tell me it's their birthday, but I'm texting them. I'm not posting it on Facebook. But what is the rule? Do you, can you save yourself by going to that person's Facebook account and saying, sorry, bra, missed it. Happy belated. Yeah, happy belated exclamation point, smiley face.

Definitely at least one exclamation point. Brendan is shaking his head. It's insincere as hell. Oh, are you, we new to Facebook? The whole damn website is insincere. You think 130 people knew it was your birthday, or they saw something that was on Facebook. You're like, oh, okay, I guess we'll drop them a happy birthday.

I will say this. Every June 5th was my birthday. Happy birthday? No. Is it too late? Way too late. Oh, crap. You get those, and it make you feel good. I have my birthday hidden, actually,

because I don't even care for people to tell me happy birthday that I've never heard about 20 years. that if somebody forgets, or says happy and belated, I don't get mad at them because I'm that person. I can't. I can't be mad at that. I mean, you're a hypocrite in many senses, Matt, but not this one. Well, yeah. I mean, I am, the show at itself is apocry.

No, we're all hypocrites. All right, let's go to some bones. Let's go to Paige and Lake Jackson. Long time no here. Page, what's going on? Oh, man, nothing but the rent. How are you, friend? Outstanding. What's on your mind today? Okay, so I'll see it.

Joe Kelly needs to During his break, he needs to go get his tongue pierced. You know what? And he needs to put a corporate logo on there. He can make some money with that damn tongue. Well, you know what? I think the little bitch needs to learn how to separate. Firing Brimstone coming from Lake Jackson today.

Well, I'm actually on the road today heading to my girls' weekend, so I'm already fired up. All right. Where are you all going? Burton, Texas. Where? Burton. Burton? That's a lot of 10.

How many girls are going? Oh, that's by Brenham. How many? Ten. Ten for a girls' weekend? Are you all going to all get along, too? Oh, yeah. We all graduated.

We went their high school together and, you know, when we graduated 30 years ago. Yeah. Now, how much crap are you talking about each other's husbands and boyfriends? You know what? That's the one thing. try to steer clear up is family stuff and kids stuff. I do have a very avid rangers fan there that likes to pick at me, and I just kind of smile and nod, and okay.

I mean, my family means you got, friend. Okay. You get your cutting out a little bit. Page, be careful, young lady. We appreciate you, Colin. Enjoy that girl's weekend. He's getting his tongue pierce. That's a good one.

The old tongue piercing. And what about, how about Joe Kelly is getting a new barbed wire bicep tattoo? Yeah. Let's go back to that. If you're a douche like he is, you're doing something really doucher during this time. You are, what else is, what would be a, oh, is he getting a home gym put into place? He's already got one. Oh, he does?

Skips leg day every time. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Joe Kelly seven days left in the suspension. Now, if you've already missed one, do you miss just go and miss the other seven? Because if you're Joe Kelly, don't you think it's better off to miss them now? Well, I think he's trying to drop the appeal. I mean, it's possible he would get a reduction, correct?

And then my guess is yes, that's going to happen. Yeah. And by the way, if y'all get mad when he gets reduced, don't. It's fine. He got suspended. That's the most important thing. And as I told you, really yesterday wasn't a suspension, Ross, because he wasn't going to pitch. nobody from the Dodgers would have been that stupid to put him back out there.

I wanted it purely for an entertainment from an entertainment standpoint. I know you did because you're devious. I like chaos. Yes, you do. 126 on 790. Let's go to Gabriel in Sharpsetown. Hi, Gabe, what's going on? Hey, how's we own?

Well. Yeah, no, I think in Mr. Kelly's off time, judging by, he said that it was his command that made him throw at Correa's head. He should work on his GD curveball, man. Yeah, the old G. Eddie Kerbaw has got to be better. Stop throwing people's heads. I mean, if you're going to sit here and say it was an accident, you know, then I think in his off time, he should definitely do that.

But, I mean, uh, no, clearly he had no command. And a man in the majors to definitely be able to put that in the strikes out or at least make it appealing. So, you know, I'd say he's garbage one way or another. He either threw at Correa and Bregman or he's garbage either way. Nah. Me, that's right. Yeah.

But yeah, he needs to get on the mound, you know, get on the hill and make sure that he puts the time in, you know, if he wants to stay at this level. Not a bad call. Got to fix that G.D. Curball, by the way. Is he the guy that during the seven-day break would go buy a new car and then he says, I'm going to be back in an hour to take care of the financing and then he stiffs the car dealer, the salesman? Like he agrees and then he backs out? Hmm, no. I don't know. Because that happens sometimes

People Maybe he's getting a new Wing installed on his Corolla Oh what about those spike things on the wheels Oh the elbows Yeah, that's a Houston thing It's H-town Slabs Matt So you're telling me

They don't have slabs in L.A They're a slab-free city Yeah, well as Pimpsey would say In Cali they're Dayton's What? Those are with you've lost me big time Well That's to be expected

You understand what he said, Brendan? I'm going to be honest. I didn't. Good. Well, he's from the Midwest. Good. It's H-town stuff. God, man, oh, man.

All right. Big City wings. We had a good time yesterday. Great time. What flavor did you get? I went with the firehouse, the hottest ones they have. I took one of your firehouses. No, you didn't.

Yeah, I did. You didn't finish your lunch. That's not true. Oh, okay. Well, I took somebody's wings. I ate every one of my one. I gave one away to somebody who wanted to try the firehouse, and then I had five cool ranch as well.

Okay. Bone in. because I will eat both. I'm not a snob. You're an adult. I love that. No matter what kind of wings you want. And I think I counted up yesterday, there's probably...

With blue cheese also like an adult. Yeah. Well, or ranch, either one. There's like 30 different ways to get your wings at Big City Wings. And today is Thursday. And it's boneless day. How about that? Two, let's go.

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Are you ready? Your teams. I love the Astro. The Rock is Take Cool. Your town. Where I got all my buddies with. You're Houston Sports Talk, 790. All right, one of our buddies that was at Big City wanted me to ask you, this is Brad.

Pride of Adobe High School, one of our great educators in our Houston area, says... Brad, who was at the Big City Wings last night? Yeah. Good kid. He says, Ross needs to say, what up to Lena H. Lena H? Mm-hmm. Who's that?

How many Lena H's do you know? L-I-N-A space H period I know the George Springer's sister's name Lena Springer Nope this one is a county judge Oh, Lena Doggo? Yes

Did you just snore on the show? That's funny Can we ask the question I'm sure she's a good kid? If you want to Do you not get in trouble? It's fine, no You shouldn't tweet it, though. Okay.

That's in stone. This audience is very small, so we won't get in trouble. It's smaller than the almost 30,000 people that follow sports. I'm barely over 25,000. What are you talking about? 25 is close to 30. It rounds up, Matt. That's what we did.

Dude, for the 30K, we need to round up. If you get to 37 and a half, we'll just round up. Yeah, 27 and a half. Like, hey, this is as close as, this is my pinnacle. Just come to Vegas with us. So what we'll do is, if we get to that point, we'll go to Vegas. in October of 2021. We're not going to Vegas this year.

It's just, it's not real Vegas. Limits are high. It's still social distancing. What's, is, I know they were talking about having to shut down the city again. Did they do that? I don't know that. I'm just saying that we had some friends that went recently and they just said it's just nothing close to what your normal Vegas is all about.

All right. So let's, let's just get this knocked out very quickly. Lena H. Yeah, Lena Hidalgo, the county judge. sneaky or not sneaky at what Matt I don't think I have to explain myself Brendan

I actually I'm looking who up to that is at the moment L-I-N-A-Hidalgo sure sneaky hot or not sneaky hot or not is what Matt Thomas is asking it depends on the picture I look at I'd go with that she's got a mask in 90% of these

I have a lot of my male friends that don't like her as a politician, but thinks she's adorable. Okay. Are you one of them? I'll say what I said last night. He just looks like your English teacher. What grade? Eighth grade. Your eighth grade English teacher.

Yeah. Okay. Lean H. Your eighth grade English teacher. She's high. I know nothing of her policies on what she's done. I know there are people who criticize her and there are people who love her. so.

Well, I think... Just like any politician. Yeah, I was going to say. Let me... I got one something for you. 50% of Houston loves her and 50% of Houston hates her. Well, more than... Well, Houston leans overall...

Liberal, yeah. In the city, yes. So maybe she's 64. Where people actually live. That's not true. What? I mean, where it's more densely populated in the city. I mean, well, the problem is sugar land is mostly Fort Bend County.

But there's a lot of... There's a lot of suburb... life. You try paying those in city living prices? Very cheap, Matt. You just got to live in, you just tighten those locks on your car. It's got to lock your car. You're fine. Like, I really want to live in the city, but I'm never going to do it. Taxes are bad too out there, right, compared to like Kingwood. Well, I'm just saying I just get more house for my money in the suburbs. Absolutely. But I have to drive 45 minutes each way. It's a give and a take, Matt. We all got to make sacrifices in this life. More giving than taking.

All right, Heber Lanares, under the Kelly's, Joe Kelly's suspension break says that he's getting neon lights instead of his on the bottom of his Mustang 5.0. I like that. That's good. I don't get that a like. Ashley Snyder is not messing around. These women are not messing around. Judging by his bitch levels, I'm going to assume Joe Kelly is spending his time on his knees.

Can I even read this? Well, you started it. I don't think I could read that. Well, it's, I said go finish it up. Go ahead. Okay, I'll say it again. And you hit the delay if you need to do. Judging by his bitch levels, I'm going to assume the Joe level, joke a little.

Joe Kelly is spending his time off of his knees thanking daddy and asking for another. Another bowl of soup or? Cereal? Coke. Refill on his tea. ATX Oval Girl asking if his tongue is long enough for a piercing, hashtag stubby. Hmm. I don't know and I don't particularly want to know.

Do you need a certain tongue length for a piercing? Well, I would think that George, George, Gene Simmons would not have to worry about it. He'll probably be okay. What do you think about the size of my tongue? Look at it. Oh, it's not that bad. My eyes are closed. Look.

I'm not looking at your tongue, Matt. It's uncomfortable. I think it's a very long time. Don't talk like this, the whole rest of the show. Next. How about Stroz's relegation with a really good one? Quick, get her being our girl pays. and Lake Jackson's information.

That could be the prize for, believe it or not, they get to go to a weekend with 10 sports-loving women. Yeah, but do they want you there? No, they don't, no. They want zero-interest in you being. Zero male anatomy there. This is their weekend to bond and to bash men for three days. Like when we go on guy's trips,

we usually go to Vegas once a year. Yes. That's the quote-unquote guy's trip. Uh-huh. We don't bash women. No, I just complain about my wife the whole time. No, that's not you. You're not married.

That's true. I actually thank my wife for letting me go on the road for three or four years. Yeah, no. You know what we do? We talk about sports. And then we rate women who walk by. And figure out if the gummies in Vegas are any good. Not that I would know.

What kind of like melatonin or? Exactly. Vitamin C? Joke, this is helmet at the bush. She says Joe Kelly is the guy that starts dating your ex-girlfriend that you cheated on. And now he's trying to be Captain Save a Ho because deep down she's still obsessed with you. What? That took a lot of layers of that one.

I'm going to treat her with some respect. All right, Joe. Oh, here we go. Joe Kelly is going to get his window fixed during his suspension. Hashtag just a bit outside. Oh, Paige, our girl from Mike Jackson just tweeting in. Yes, Lena H could be considered sneaky hot if you're into door the Explorer. No.

Page. No wonder she's going to bring her to mail bash. It's not nice. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. As promised, an NFL team is not selling season tickets. Do you think that's just one of 30? Or do you think that's a trend coming with other NFL teams?

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What is the category then, Matthew? Fulham versus Cardiff. They're playing today in the English League Championship. Who? How about teams that have had positive tests for COVID with the Phillies with two tests now? And the Marlins are up to 19, correct? Yes, 19 total. And by the way, if you're trying to figure out what this baseball schedule is involving the nationals, the Blue Jays, the Orioles, the Marlins,

Good luck. They are flipping these teams around like their video game pieces. Do you understand that? Rossi, I don't, what's the next thing that makes this even more gimmicky? They're going to add seven inning double headers to make up some of these games. Did they say they wanted to do seven in the second one or second in both? Because I saw both were on the table. I didn't see it.

And I guess you, in the eighth, you go, do you go to the extra innings rule? That's it. Exactly what you do. By the way, let's ask the audience top of the hour about whether we like that or not. The new extra inning rule? Yeah. Okay. How about for gimmicks' sake, we just have ties this season? I like wins and losses.

I'm not a big fan ties. You know what ties are like, right? The tie, um, like everybody goes home because we're tired. Is that what they are? No, ties are like kissing your sister. I've never liked that analogy. My wife didn't even know about it until about a year ago. Oh, really?

I said, you know what ties are like? She goes, no, what are they like? I kiss your sister. Like, what is that? I've heard that for years. Yeah. And if somebody with a sister, it just weirds me out, so I don't like to hear it. Because you like kissing your sister.

No. You don't like kissing your sister. No. So when she comes over the house, knocks your door and you say, hi, hi, sis, what's up? You just give her a hug or a high five or a fist mom. I kiss her on the cheek, maybe. That's what I'm saying. We're not asking for any more than that.

Okay. You do love your sister. Kiss her. Yeah, I do. It's like a tie, though. Dallas Cowboys is the answer to the question. The answer is, oh, Alex. Will not offer season tickets in 2020.

AT&T Stadium in Arlington will have limited capacity. Thus, they're just basically saying if you're a 20, if you're a season ticket holder, sorry, Charlie. They sent an email out there for multiple options. They're going to give them the opportunity to buy single game tickets. And they're going to do what the Texans have done too. Ross, Brennan, you can jump on on this. What is the, what is, if I gave you the over,

Not the over under. If I gave you the biggest crowd at an NFL regular season game, what's that number going to be? Point five? No, no, no, that number of people. Yeah, point either zero. Oh, you know what I'm saying? Over Under.

No, if I said this. Oh, okay. I thought you said over under. Will there be, we'll play the range game. Okay. You tell me if you want in on this. Will there be 40,000 people at any NFL game, single, NFL game this year. Because there's some big stadiums.

No. FedEx seats 100. Jerry World's 100. I think that new Vegas stadium is huge. I will say no. Brendan, do you want a crowd of 40,000 or more? Oh, God, way less. I was going to say maybe 10. No, I think it'll be bigger than 10. If they have fans. We're assuming here they have fans.

Will there be a crowd of 30,000 at NFL game this year? No. Come on. That means the virus is still spreading like a mudda. We need 30,000. We need something to hope for, right? Mm-hmm. So you're saying no crowd of 30,000 a game this year.

Didn't the W.H.O. just say this is still the first wave. This is not a second wave. Don't. I'm not listening to the Bouchie. Can't throw a strike. So, Brendan, you're out on 30,000. Well, he doesn't, he's, you can't strike out COVID. What's COVID's on base? It's pretty good right now. All right. You might get me to 20, but I don't.

Here it is. All right, here we go. Over under. 19,999. You taking the over or the under? Largest single game regular season for any NFL team. I'm going to the under two. I have not heard anybody speak of any stadium.

Like, what was it? Miami was the first one. They said, we'll put 14,000. I think Reliance is taking the same thing. I'm certainly thinking probably the Dallas Cowboys in that same spot. Would you pay? NFL prices to be socially distanced with you and potentially 14,000 of your friends. I think that'll be such a boring environment.

It would be very odd. I would not. I would not. You have no interest in going to a game at all this year? Well, I am recovered, so I am safe. Doesn't mean you just doesn't mean you don't want to go to the heart. It's going to be a piece. It's going to be paying to go to these games.

Temperature checks. limited, masks the entire time. Mass the entire time. Limited concessions, social distancing, cost. What's the line going to be like to get in?

You all have to stay six feet apart when you get in line to get in a stadium. I told you at the main park when I was there a couple weeks ago that one of the urinals was closed because of social distancing. They don't want you peeing within six feet of each other. They just mark it off with caution tape or?

Yeah. This is unavailable. Isn't that weird? It is weird. What do you do in like an older stadium where they just have the troughs? How do you mark off part of the trough? I bet you could. Like at the cotton bowl.

Yeah. They got those old school troughs. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of college football, you can talk about the cotton bowl. So Notre Dame is going to play an ACC schedule. They're not in the conference, but they're going to play an ACC schedule. I mean, they're in ACC and every other sport, correct? That's true.

But let's grow up, Notre Dame. Let's end this independent thing and just join their conference. They like being independent because they get the NBC deal older themselves. But they have to put themselves in this particular situation. And on top of that, they don't have an automatic affiliation into a power into a playoff game unless they run the gamut of a perfect 12 and 0 season or perhaps an 111 campaign. But yeah, but that's just shows you Notre Dame is just that kind of person. Ross, help me out with this example.

What would be Notre Dame? I mean, Notre Dame is like, oh, we're going to welcome you into the Thomas family. We want to, we love your kids. We want to invite you over to our house for Christmas and Thanksgiving. But Notre Dame is like, yeah, that sounds good. But do I have to buy everybody presents? They're that kind of. Selfish.

They are self. Notre Dame is selfish. Yeah. Most colleges and universities and, well, people in. general are. But Alabama, say what you will about them being selfish, they still boast being in the SEC. They could go independent. Remember there was talk of Texas going independent

when they were huge. None of that. Nobody's going independent ever again. Look at BYU. Pretty prestigious school. Terrible, terrible problems trying to figure out what their seasons are like. The only reason why Notre Dame doesn't worry about it's because Notre Dame's got the backing of NBC. BYU doesn't

and they're out there looking for opponents. They want to play Fresnel State four times in a season. Yeah. So this scheduling stuff, by the way, we've spent months thinking about it. We're going to know something in the next seven days. We're supposed to. We're supposed to know something in June.

We're supposed to know something in July. But they're getting close. They're literally running out of time on this. You know what they ought to do? They ought to do at baseball. Why don't we start a season and then make up the rules halfway along, halfway through? So next week, the college football world is going to announce everybody's going to play a 10 game schedule. And then you're going to find half the team's playing.

Well, we'll play it. we'll play 11. And some will say, we'll only play conference. And then some will say, we'll only take games we can drive to. That's how baseball is doing it. Baseball is making up rules on the run.

And oh, by the way, we have zero teams that would outbreak, which we will get an outbreak. In college football? Yeah. Yeah, it's going to happen. It's a thousand percent going to happen. Name the school.

You want to have an outbreak. I want to have an outbreak. Yeah, of course. Oh, you. Well, I don't think you'd be your hated rival A&M. 713. They don't play. 713.

713, 212, 5, 790. Name the school you want to have an outbreak. Then no one gets obviously sick, but... Well, nobody has... We don't want anybody dying. We don't know. Zero deaths, but maybe... A young 19-year-old, healthy, athletic young men.

But maybe skipping a season of college football wouldn't be the worst thing. Yeah, if OU has an outbreak and they have to cancel the season, it wouldn't hurt my, break my heart. By somebody who was for the Longhorns. Congratulations to Lincoln, Ronnie, getting a new six-year extension. Oh, he did? Yeah.

Good job. He's the hottest coaching... Not hottest as in... sexy. I'm talking how does this is in. Yeah. How does it's Cliff, of course? Yeah, but he's in the NFL now. Who's the best looking college coach now? Could be Lincoln. I thought we're spending a lot of time thinking

about it. Not in Sabin. No. Not Gundy. No. No. I don't know. You know what, Paige? Page, we got a topic for you for your Lake Jackson girls trip in Dr. Brenham. Who's the hottest coach

like is an attractiveness in college football? Huh. This says Cliff, well, Cliff is on this is an old list. Jim Harbaugh is on this list. Dots? A handsome man. Bronco Mendenhall? Yeah, but very happy to be married. Will must champ. Let's move on. Where do we go from this?

Yeah. You started this. All right. Charlie Strong is on this list. Charlie Strong is an attractive man? He's not coaching anybody. I'll let you figure that out. All right, 157 on the matthom.

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and whether or not we like the rule of the runner at second base at starting up extra frames. 157, Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. All right, 202 Sports Talk 790. It is the final hour. We have NBA basketball tonight. Utah, New Orleans, or Zion Williamson, by the way,

is still questionable for tonight's game. Then the Lakers and the Clippers play, where I believe Lou Williams is out. Pat Beverly is out Montrez Harold are all outs That's losing a little bit of his Lester And by the way

The Lou Williams wing bet Is never going to go away I love it There are people that's like man We respect the fact that you love the wings You just can't go By the way Pat Beverly has been Upgraded to questionable for tonight

Harold Williams are out Beverly is questionable So Lou, he just can't, I mean, he can get the wings delivered. He just can't go there. At the end of the day, it didn't help the cause that he went to the club. Where do you want to drop off some cash just some of his favorite employees there? Like he owed him money? COVID relief.

Okay. So we got an NBA tonight. And then the Rockets get started tomorrow. And we'll talk more about this on the show tomorrow. What is your general interest level in the eight seating games? And we should say they're calling them seating games. But there really eight more regular season games. Yes, they count.

And the reason why, yeah, everything counts, except for any votes you may have for rookie the year, MVP, defensive players. Yeah. The reason why they're calling them that is because at the end of the day, that there are going to be some teams that have played 72 games, somebody that have played 71, maybe a couple have played less than that. So that's why they're just saying these are the eight games we put together and we know that everybody in Orlando before the start of the playoffs

is playing the same eight games. and I'm excited about it. I am too. I feel like in a way there, I mean, especially with Eric Gordon out and not mattering much without playoff seating. As far as home court advantage on the line for these NBA teams, I don't want to say it's like preseason.

It's like a preseason plus, I feel like. I'm more worried that James Hardin is playing well as in its shape, that Russell Westbrook is looking sharp, and that Daniel House Jr. can step up and play some good perimeter defense and get flowed within the office. offense. It's almost like these are games where the results do matter, but they're not very, very important, certainly for the Rockets, who can float between, I mean, they could possibly

get to seventh, but I would expect them to move up more than anything else because they're a really good team. Yeah. All right. So we got that going on. Astros have the day off today. Yesterday lost an extra inning affair. Really crisply play a game. Honestly, for a game that went 13 things about how long it went last. night. Yes. We were out of the year four hours and 45 minutes. It did start at, yeah, it started at 6, which is helpful. Good thing that wasn't one of those 8, 810

starts. Yeah, 610 and 10 45, so three hours and 45 minutes. No, 435. Not horrible for 13 innings of baseball. The one thing we, okay, there are two things. We've spent a lot of time on the show so far talking about bunting and as if you didn't hear this earlier, you know

if you listened to the show before, I hate Bunt guy. But in a 10th inning, extra inning with a runner already second. I can see some arguments for it, especially when your lineup, your ferocious, heavy-hitting lineup hasn't done Jack's squad.

And here is Dusty Baker on that. A number of opportunities to bunt last night, and what if it, on if he thought about it? Yeah, I thought about it, but if I bunt, then it's up to, you know, it's been up to, you know, to straw, I think.

You know, I thought about it. But you know, with the hitters that we have here, I mean, who's up against Floro? Was it all too vague? No, I'm talking about Toro after Correa tied the game in the 11th. No, but he wasn't up there to, you know, he wasn't up there. But if I was going to do anything, I mean, I might have left dubs into punt. But no, I didn't think about that. I mean, you know, you know, they didn't butt.

We didn't butt. You know, nobody bun it. And so, you know, I thought I liked the matchup, you know, with Toro, you know, up there, and that's what he's here for. And he does have a lineup. Now, granted, it hasn't been much so far in the first six games of the year. He does have a lineup that has great contact people that can hit a sack fly, hit a deep fly ball, necessary, hit home runs, get on base. This is one of the best on-base percentage teams in baseball the last half decade. So it's not like this team all of a sudden has a bunch of new components on the offensive side like they're doing their pitching staff.

I'm saying with these funky-ass rules, which they are, second base, let's go, especially with a bunch of guys that are struggling, modeling modeling like they have. I mean, look at these numbers. Kyle Tucker is 18080. He went 1 for 6 yesterday with four strikeouts. Four strikeouts for your leadoff guy, Rossi? Golden Sambrero.

Yikes. Jose Al-Tube with two strikeouts. He's batting 1 to 74 after an 0 for 5 yesterday. Bregman is 0 for 5. batting 174. Michael Brantley is still crushing and two more hits in a walk. He made three played appearances on base three times. Did him to one double-headed.

That kind of suck, but he's off to a really good start. Yuleiguriel. Okay. No, no, 238's not great. Two for five, so it was really woeful going in. Carl's Cray has been really good, batting over 400. Josh Reddick has not been good. And George Springer, your normal leadoff guy batting 048.

It's basically in Correa and Brantley and not a whole lot. And a little bit of Maldonado for a while. Machete week or Machete series is kind of, it might be over. Yeah. But if you're at second base and you've got a good decent bunter, which you had in the 10th inning with Altoube and you've got decent speed at second base, can I say this without being critical for Dusty? I think he would do it over, if he redid it over again,

knowing who we knew and knowing the night the guys were having, with such difficulty against the Dodgers that he probably would try to butt Al-Aubei over. Because Jose will bump when necessary. Yeah, and he can bun for a hit. He's very fast. Do you really think you go to Jose Altovae and say, Jose, listen to me. You're O for four.

And we need you to bunt the runner over to third base. Do you think Jose would say, F you? I'm Jose freaking Altovae. That's the thing, too. You just need to slap a single down the line somewhere or something, and it's a game over. So it's tough. It's tough.

hindsight's always 20-20 on this. We can come here and say they should have bun it. If he hits a single and it's a walk-off, they were saying, well, that was a genius master's stroke by them, not bunting. What if I tell you this? This is the last time we discuss in an extra inning home game, dusty not at least trying to punt once. Would you buy into that?

As in, he will continue, he will start doing it. He will start doing it. It may not be every time. I think it's situational. No, I'm giving it to you. Do you think we will come back, as a radio host the next day after a game and go, why didn't Dusty bunt somebody over in a tie ball game?

Now, if you're on the road, where they will be for the next 10 games, I think it's different. I think if you are, if you've done your job, like Osuna did in the top of the 10th, it's a tie game. You've already got somebody in scoring position.

Again, I think managing and home in this situation is much different than it is managing on the road. Very much so. I would never want to see them. I shouldn't say never. I would less likely see them bunt in this situation. situation if the game was in Los Angeles yesterday as compared to the game being in Houston. So I'm going to say that you and I will not discuss this again this year.

I'm ready to make that assumption. I bet we do. I bet we do. We'll see. Now, to win the bet for me, I'm saying, doesn't mean that he's going to do it every time he's supposed to. I'm saying there will not be another extra inning game at home this year where we don't see somebody put the bun down. I'm ready to make that proclamation right now. Well, yeah, that's okay.

I'll say we will. We will. Okay. But these games, 13 innings is not normally going to happen. That was crazy last night. You had the back and forth. You had the Dodgers scoring in the 11th and the Ashro was answering back. And then it just went, kept on going and going and going.

Most of the, that was the long, that's the longest game of the season, correct? Yeah. So we're probably not going to see that again. But Taylor, Osuna, Sneed obviously gives up the home run. Abreu comes in, does this job. this Astro Bullpen with a bunch of people that I literally don't know who they are. Pretty good. Lowest ERA in the American League bullpen belongs to the Houston Astros.

Who would have ever thunk it? 211. Matt Talman's show Sports Talk 790. We are 20 minutes away from non-Florida stories. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? Coming up at 250? Well, what's trending on Twitter? What's trending on Twitter? Oh, God.

Let's see. What did Donald Trump say? Let's check out. Michelle Obama podcast. John Lewis, Herman Kane. How about this? Why don't we do this person as a podcast? You want to do John Lewis as memorialists today? Yeah, I didn't think so.

I'm judging on your face. Nikki Minaj is trending. The Lakers. Bill Clinton. How about something about the NBA opening? Yeah, can you do that? We've got four teams playing tonight. How about play?

If well, something about each team? Something about players on those teams? I like it. Dante wants to talk about Zion. We'll come back and do that, too. The NBA is returning. Rockets return tomorrow. 713-212-5-790.

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It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rod in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. So guys, we've been trying to figure out where to get our non-Florida stories from because Florida always provides a great information. I find my next state to go to. Louisiana. I think I have found the go-to state. Louisiana's a good one. Mississippi. Ohio. Georgia. There's always some crazy stuff going down in Ohio. So my story today, comes from Ashland, Louisiana.

That'll be the non-Flority Story of the Week for me. So what did the alligators do? Does it involve... No, it doesn't involve any sort of animal. It involves a man, a girl, police, and money. In fornication at some point. Well, I'm assuming the two of them, yes, did do that, but it's not for the purposes of our story. Okay.

Non-Flority story coming up in a... Mine is from England. Really? And it involves the government. yours oh brennan's looking at me i'm actually no no i'm doubling up on a state from last week i'm actually going to michigan for mine you can see the michigan ones they can get pretty wild i don't think so i don't think it traditionally is a state i would think of but i'm telling you back to back to back michigan last week well the woman had went to

ira hitman dot com i think michigan's in the lower third in terms of freakiness that's okay matt there's still crazy people everywhere you know the weirdest thing about michigan i can say that I'm from here. What's up? From there is some of the food choices. What do you mean? Pat, do you ever had a Patsy? Detroit pizza is delicious.

No, the pizza is. I don't even know what a Patsy is. Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They're basically meat on. Oh, that doesn't count. What I mean? It's still part of the state. No.

That's basically Canada. It's like saying Lubbick's not a part of Texas. Well, I know. I pay it. Trust me, it's part of Texas. It's a meat pie that they put ketchup on. It's gross. That sounds disgusting.

I'm upset the way you're representing Michigan food at the moment. A pasty? Pasty. Yeah. Not the pasty you get to clubs. This is basically a meat pie and very popular in the upper half of the northern part of Michigan. And they bring you the pasty and they want you to like it. And then they want you to put ketchup all over it.

It looks like an empanada. I've had empanadas. Way more delicious. Okay. All right, let's get some phone calls in. Let's go to Dante, North. Northeast side on 790 at 219. Dante, what's a good word?

So, man, I'm a darned heart-pillic this fan. I know y'all probably ever hear that, but with Zion, here's a scenario. Okay, two weeks ago, they said he's in the greatest shape of his life, ready to go. I understand he has a family situation going on. And now he's in the game time decision because he's not in basketball playing shape. I don't know what's going on with this guy. I don't know they're trying to preserve him or he don't want to play. I just want to see the new one of his basketball making a little statement.

And without this guy, we ain't going to do it. And I just want to see if y'all heard anything, and if y'all stops on that. Well, first of all, Dante, you're the first Pelicans fan that's ever called my show, ever. Yeah. Well, I'm from New Orleans, you know, but I've moved down here and you should start listening to our show.

So I thought I'll give it a little flavor in there. You know what? Let me tell you some. The Pelicans are not going to mind if you become a Rockets fan. They're just. They don't care. They're not going to notice. Yeah, I know. I know. We're all about the saints, but, you know, I try to hold it down for the Pelicans, too, you know?

Well, here's the reality of it, Dante. Zion Williamson is a spectacular basketball skilled player. I just don't know if his body's going to be able to hold up long-term in the NBA. And I said this the day he was drafted, if you wanted to go get my old sound tapes on my show, I could tell you this. He's exciting. But what they want him to do and what the NBA ask of their big players, that carry that much weight, it's going to be a work in progress. And so I wish you nothing but the very best because he's an exciting player, but you can't be stunned that he's not ready to go for the start of this receding games.

Yeah, I understand that, but I mean, I know it's kind of weird too. I'm a Yankee fan, too. I know different areas, but it reminds me a Chaba Chamberlain where they just baby them, you know. And every time he gets something bad, they pull them or, you know, just, I mean, let this young man go out there and play, you know. Now, as a Yankees fan, I'm surprised you wouldn't have gone with a C.C. Sabathia, if you will. Yeah, too, yeah. All right, let me take some.

Yeah. You're the first Pelicans fan ever to call, and you're also the first person but Jabba Chamberlain and Zion Williamson in the same conversation. I applaud you on many, many levels. Hey, I had my own favorite, man. Yeah, you do. Do not be a strange of the show, my friend, all right? I'll enjoy the show, guys. I'll see you later.

That's a call right there. I would want with David Wells personally. well can you give us a bizarre cross-reference to make an analogy I want you to make an analogy like he did okay I'll tell you what I was going to give earlier but I just didn't we were talking about George Springer how he's hitting 048

very streaky and he's always been the street guy for the for the Houston Astros and he's been hurt here and there injury he's an injury history George Springer is to the Astros as Eric Gordon is to the Rockets He always goes like one or 12 from three or then the next game he's going

like seven for 10 and he's white hot has some injury history and he's just always a street guy you just can't set your watch to what's going to happen with Eric Gordon he's just going to keep on chucking up the threes and he's just going to either go two of 12 or seven of 12

rarely anything in between and that's kind of George Springer and he misses time every year I would like to attack your analogy I may not. And I will not. Thank you.

You've put me on the spot because I was ill-prepared for a cross-analogy. So let's do a Houston Texans one. Oh, we got a tweet in from Chris Gordy. Let that man root for his Nola teams and the Yankees. He is Gordy. Was the guy's named Vante? Dante. Is Dante Chris Gordy just changing his voice?

I don't know. Yeah, I mean, seriously, I don't know more than one Pelican fan. And that was the guy that called the show. Like New Orleans Arena, where they called the Smoothie King Center. I did a game with, oh, I didn't do it. I was there for you when you called. Yeah. With you when you called me.

What did you think of the place? It's nice. It's okay. It's like a small box. But they're just not overly interested in the games. Wasn't much of a crowd there from whatever I recall. They're not calling Pelican talk and saying, Drew holidays out of control these days. There's much many more better things to do in New Orleans and head to a smoothie king center for a game.

Well, let me ask you this. Is that why Anthony Davis is? is like, I don't want to be here long term. We're really not going to be the, we're never going to be on the top of the, of the basketball world. I mean, if Zon, well, you can be on top of the basketball world. If it happened in Oklahoma City, Zion's too heavy. Zion's too heavy.

Zion's too heavy. Okay. And I would like, and, well, part of me wants to be wrong because that's just, you know, that means we got a superstar on the verge of the NBA. Part of me wants to be right because he plays the Rockets four times. He's just a little thick, Matt. what is it what is he listed as 284

how tall 6 6 6 but you look at his I mean I haven't seen him with his shirt I don't think he's I don't think he's got he's he's very muscular he doesn't have female breast and yeah that's what I'm saying he doesn't have man boobs

and his stomach I don't think I was going to say be something else but that would have been really inappropriate for the show that's what you used to call him back in the day you know what I know exactly what you're saying It's, yeah, they said it many times in Fight Club. So he's got, I don't think he's got man boobs. Okay.

I don't, I bet there's a little bit of baby fat, but I don't think he's gross. He's really muscular, though. But Rossi's 6-6-284. That's a terrible combination. He's already had multiple. If you're a defensive, like you're in, like if you're a J. Davian Clownie, you love 6-284. If you're going to run up and down the floor for 33 minutes a night, no, thank you. it ain't going to work.

And you know I'm right. He's really gifted, though, and fun to watch. He can shoot the three. He can put his ass to the basket. He's got a little jump hook. He can rebound. He's sneaky quick, defensively. I don't know enough about him defensively.

He's decent. You're not going to move him off the block very well. But he's, again, there's, it's not, he's not a tub. He's one of the best, he's already one of the best post players. But how do you, but behind Joel M.B. But six, six players are usually, at the very most, 240. At the very most.

Like PJ is 6.5-245 listed. Some people, we just, but there are times in sports where we see people who are just freaks of nature. Like Kevin Durant in a different way. I mean, the fact that he's nearly seven foot and he can move the way that he can and he's rail thin, but his body type, we literally have the Colin Coward audio of when he couldn't bench 200 or,

185 or whatever and Colin's going, that's a curl for me. This guy's not going to be able to stand up to the league. There's too many strong guys. Well, he was wrong because Kevin Durant's one of the most gifted scores of all time. So I'm not a physiologist. I'm not a, whatever,

what's a bone doctor? What do you call them? I'm not one of them. Okay, so I don't know how his bones are going to hold up and I haven't seen his medical reports, but there are guys who are freak athletes and just have, are different. Okay, so give me different. Like Shaq.

Yeah, Shaq did it. Yao didn't. Yow did not. Anybody that 7-4 had problems, Ralph was in that mix, too, Ralph Sanchez. Yes, yes. A new bold, George Mears on, Sean Bradley. Who carries his weight really well in the NBA? Charles did for sure.

Charles Berkeley is the first one that comes in mind for me. Sean Kemp carried his weight well. That's true. Anybody else come to mind? of NBA players that carried the extra 15 well. I'm sure there are plenty. But Zion had injury issues at Duke, and he certainly had injury issues in his rookie NBA season.

And he might have, yeah, it might be injury prone. If there's something wrong, for example, Yao being injury prone because of the size of his body and the structure of his bone. So I don't know. Okay. Again, part of me wants to be wrong because it means he's a great NBA player. Pardon me wants me to be right because then the Rock is don't have to worry about the Pelicans. And maybe the Pelicans moved to Las Vegas or Seattle or Kansas City.

Oh, Los Vegas. Well, they'd have to change for Pelicans. What's their NBA name? What's their NBA name? The 21s. You wanted the 21s. Yeah. I don't like that name.

Okay. It's all right. Didn't ask you. Seattle has to go back to the Sonics. Oh, yes. Can we please get the Seattle Supersonics back? It would be amazing. Yeah, not Seattle Sonics.

Super Sonic. Yes. Like Super Jack Mayfield. Or like the San Diego Superchargers. They went over the Superchargers. There's regular old charges. San Diego Super Chargers. What do you do entertainment in Kansas City?

Do you do a barbecue reference? You do something else? The Kansas City ribs? No, the coyotes. Okay. The coyotes? They used to have the Kings. Back in the day?

Yeah. We'll think of this. Come up with the definitive Kansas City name for me from them to show. I'm sticking with ribs. All right. We're going to do non-Florida stories next. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7. I use that number to play.

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We're just doing it just to spread some. stories of intrigue, entertainment, something you can talk about with your buddies of the water cooler. Well, you would lose every week and get mad, so then we just kind of cut the competition part on. That's not true at all. That's not true. I know.

All right, here we go. Dateline Ashland in Louisiana. A woman from Louisiana was going to bail out her boyfriend. And the bail on the boyfriend was $5,000. I mean, good for her that she was able to find that kind of cash, right, gentlemen? Well, authorities began to investigate this woman. Her name is Stormy Lynn Parfay. Stormy Parfay sounds like a strip club or a treat at your local Dairy Queen.

Stormy Parfay. Yeah. And my guess is she doesn't go by Stormy Lynn. She just goes by Stormy Parfay. I would not be purchasing a Stormy Parfay. She's 33 years old. She showed up at the Ashland Jail to pay the bond fee for an inmate being held there on drug charges. Well, she had the $5,000.

She hands up with the 5,000, and the authorities in Ashland are a little caught off guard by this because they look at it. Then they smell it. Oh, geez. And it smells like marijuana. So after catching whiff of the cash, a detective searched Miss Parfay's car while she was still at the jail and found nearly $40,000 more inside, along with about 100 clonopen pills. Clonopin. Clonopin and a food stamp card that wasn't registered to her. Investigators then found hundreds of additional pills and cash as well as marijuana, cocaine, and paraphernalia during a search of Parfay's home later.

The sad part, unfortunately, where four unintended children were then turned over to a relative. Parfay was charged with multiple counts of possession with intent to distribute drugs, four counts of illegal use of controlled drug and the presence of a person. people under 17, taking contraband to or into a correctional institution and other related charges. So the key is if you're going to bail somebody out, make sure your cash, gentlemen, smells like cash. You spray it with some febrees before you had in or something? I mean, if you're, if your cash smells like a marijuana, one squirt of fibrils will take care of that. How strong is? What did she, I don't understand how she got this marijuana smell onto the

money. Well, you could put perfume. If I, If I put a bunch of money around perfume for an hour, I can get the perfume sent on the money. It wouldn't be that hard. That's what I'm saying. Is she keeping the cash inside of a weed bag? I'd like to ask her, but Ms. Parfay is currently unavailable. Maybe we can try to call her in the jail. We could.

I mean, we can do a Facebook search. Yeah, okay. Stormy Parfay can't be that hard to find. Maybe she's on IG. And no, we're not going to only fans of find her either. Ross, what he got? Well, Matt, let me take you to a little place called England, where the United Kingdom's government has started something called the Future Fund.

It's designed to help startup survive the coronavirus pandemic. It's a very noble government program, I would imagine. Well, the British government is investing 170,000 pounds into a startup company. That's about $220,000. The organization is called Killing Kittens. Killing Kittins was founded in 2005 by organizing members-only mass parties and exclusive venues with a focus on, quote,

the pursuit of female pleasure. And now, in 2020, Killing Kittens organizes women-led sex parties in London and New York. So congratulations to Killing Kittens. They're getting $220,000 from the United Kingdom government for their startup sex party website.

It needs to be asked. Do they have a website? Yeah, it's called killing kittens. Dot com or dot UK? Yes. Oh. The guttural. Oh, it just came out of Matt's mouth.

Go ahead and click on it. They are sexual. I'm not going to sign up to sex kittens or killing kittens.com. It says it's a platform where women come first. Well, I would certainly hope so. And that's my story. Brendan?

Well, okay. The mine's from Kalamazoo, Michigan. West Michigan Sheriff sent two detectives to a man's house after receiving a Facebook message. That Facebook message, you're a fat ass who needs to go on a diet. Ouch. Stop us from living. Wow. Come get me if you want me tubby ass fat B.

That was the entire message. Okay. And he sent out to two detectives to investigate. They found nothing to be a threat, which is, I guess, supposedly the concern they had. When they got there, the man said he didn't send that message. His Facebook was hacked. Naturally. Aren't you guys tired of hearing about everybody being hacked when something happens?

That's the default thing to happen. Picks get out. You say something. Anything that is salacious, every athlete, celebrity, everybody says, I get hacked. Just make it a tough password.

He finished his message with come get me if you want me. This is a man who thought he was confident and he was puffing out his chest and then detective shut up, which, I mean, detectives shouldn't have showed up for that message. But they got bigger fish to fry, right? Which basically It was a slow Wednesday, maybe.

Was the decision that was made. They said a waste of resources. But he was saying, come and get me. And they showed up and he backed down real quick. So he was basically Facebook keyboard warrior. I mostly enjoyed his message. You're a fat ass who needs to go on a diet.

Stop us from living. Come get me if you want me. Tubby ass fat B. Ouch. And those are the Florida stories. I liked all of them today. They had a little bit of different things to it. Thank you, Matt.

Mine had marijuana, not flavored, but marijuana smoked cash, scented cash. Yours had the United Kingdom government giving money to a porn site. Sex parties. Oh, okay, I guess there's a difference. Like, how big are the sex parties? They have 180,000 members. I don't know how big these parties get. So you're not going to subscribe?

No. A simple email will do. Tell me, you want a media pass. Can I get... You want to press credentials. I would like to cover this event as an objective observer. Yes. And I'll do a blog on the What's on Match My Show page.

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All right. Players who are playing tonight. Players who are playing tonight. We'll join us. Not those guys are playing tonight, but the guys that are playing tonight as we've got two NBA games. You've got Utah and New Orleans first. Zion Williamson still questionable. Pat Beverly, questionable tonight for the Clippers against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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We did non-all-stars. Oh, we did, didn't we? I won that. Yeah, I did one. I'm still upset about it. Brandon, I'm going to put you on a sign. We need a good Fantasy 5 tomorrow. You should text me like three or four things because when I always try to text Ross a new idea for the fantasy

If I mean, we've done it like three times. Well, I either say we've done it or I don't know if that has a lot of cachet. Isn't that a side effect of doing a show for a long time, though? Like, you're just going to, you can redo them occasionally. We've made some adjustments. The ones that we could update. We did hottest sportscasters again because it's literally been like eight years later and there's a number of very attractive women on television.

How about this? Could we create our all NBA sets? players of those that are in the bubble. The problem is that they're all going to be, we're going to choose 14 amazing players, right? See, that's hard to even really argue that. Food's always good. Why don't you just pick your top five teams in the bubble?

Yeah, but that doesn't necessarily inspire anybody to go, oh, plus we don't, I don't like anybody else. I'm a rocket guy. I've been a rocket gas since I was seven years old. Let's go, Rockets. We'll figure something out. So tomorrow we won't. No, we're going to.

Okay. We've done the Fantasy 5 since the pandemic's going. Exactly. Well, the sports are back now, so we can talk about actual sports that are going on. Should we take a week off of the Fantasy 5? Well, if we can't come up with something. And tweet us at SportsMT and at SportsRV if you have a good idea. Yeah, if you got a good idea, let us know.

Again, it's got be something we've never done before. And it's got to be something that is argumentative where somebody would clearly have a better list. Something that is going to spur people to call in. We haven't done a music one. a while. Worst Beatles songs? Do you know I'm still pissed at Joe George

for having all of his buddies from Chicago calling in? Have we done Elton John? We skipped me for the seventh vote, if you recall. And I was going to vote for you. We've done Elton John. We've done Elton John. We did Beatles.

We've done Prince. I think so. We did Michael Jackson 100%. Is there any legendary... I got robbed on the Michael Jackson. in fantasy five. Are you a big enough Rolling Stone fan to do a fantasy fan? I can do Rolling Stone, yeah.

Why not? Okay. Zeppelin? I'm not a big enough Zeppelin fan. Okay. Olivia Newton John? I mean, I can come up with five. I don't know if you could.

I'll start with physical. Go ahead. Oh. One of the greatest videos of all time. A hot Olivia Newton John with a bunch of fat white men. We did worst. We did worst number ones of 80s, 90s and 2000s. We have not done 2010s.

Okay. What were we just talking about? I don't think either of us are going to know any of those songs. I couldn't name any I couldn't name a song in this decade. Well, but was the Thunder?

Was that, was that a number one hit? What's the name of the Magic and Dragons? Yes. That's got to be the goat number one pick, right? For you? Oh, for anybody. That song doesn't mind.

I don't mind that song that much. All right. We'll do a Fantasy 5. We'll get you some NBA preview and we'll look forward to the Astros and Angels all on a part of Friday show. Right now, five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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We got our second winner. And we're good. It worked out perfectly. So I saw Wex's prep sheet for their show today. Who? Wex, Adam Wexer, part of the 18th. It says, I'm going to call for Dusty to be fired today. I just think that's overreactionary.

I really do, Wex. It's one game. It's not three games, as some people are saying, it's one game of 60. Yeah, so you should bunt like you guys on this show would promote. Let's bunt more? You guys love bunting on this show, don't you? We love bunting. We hate bunting.

It's the worst. 13 innings means you had all those opportunities to bun. You just to shoot each and every one of them. I believe in the bottom half of innings with runners at second. Once in a while, bunn wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But generally speaking, bunning blows. And bun guy, it really sucks.

Yes. Matt, I'm with you 100% on that. All right. Wex Clinton. The team will be entertaining you between now and 6 o'clock. A reminder, tomorrow. busy day with the resumption of the NBA schedule. Wex and I will have the Rockets and Mavericks for you.

We're going to do our shows first. And I'll talk to you guys for anything goes Friday. We'll wake the strippers up tomorrow at noon. For Brendan and for Ross, I'm Matt. Have a great day. Talk to you all tomorrow at noon here on 790.