The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Westbrook Is Back, Anything Goes Friday & Big 10 Reversing Course?

Episode Date: August 28, 2020

Westbrook Is Back, Anything Goes Friday & Big 10 Reversing Course?

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1202 in H-town. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Andy, I needed that. I also needed this, too. I'm picked up by Westbrook.

Does not have numbers. Does not care. If this show hasn't gotten you in a better mood after what's going on this week, Nothing will. Guess who's back? Bruno Caboclo. Well, yeah, he's back. Yeah?

I mean, I guess he is, yeah. Did he ever leave? Michael Frazier? Nope. A Luke Bahmute? He was out. He had a left knee effusion. Do we sure he's ready to go, though?

I don't know. I'm asking. You said, you said, gets who's back? And I said, is it Luke Richard Baumute? I'm going, Russell Westport. Okay. He's back, too. What was the phrasing that U.S.

that Woj said is exploding with, excitement or something. He's explosive in the scrimmage or something like that. Yeah. I was basically reading the Matt Thomas show as I was reading that tweet. I was like our show was explosive with excitement. Don't you think? After like a chilly dinner or something? Well, we're just explosive for the wrong reasons. We're probably off microphone for most of that time. All right, we got a busy show today. Man, is it chock full of hopefully goodness? The Astros are, I believe, going to play tonight. I don't know for sure. I don't think anybody knows.

Because did the Marlins and Mets tell anybody? I guess they told Brody Van Wagoner, the general manager. But we will get to that later on. But they went out and did their thing and then came back and said, we're done. I think a handful of, like six or seven games were canceled yesterday. The A's Rangers game in Arlington yesterday was canceled. The Astros have not been a part of an opportunity to cancel.

But they are supposed to open up a series with the A's, tonight and we will have it for you here on Sports Talk 790 and we will have Dusty Baker joining us in 25 minutes. Wow. It gets better. What a show. Then at 1.30, our weekly visit with Brian T. Smith. Wonderful. At 2 o'clock, we'll be visiting with the Astros, Josh Reddick. The man himself. Are you guys just going to talk wrestling? Should I sit this one out and let you guys talk wrestling the whole time? I mean, we could.

You know what? You need to ask him. About Flair and Orton. About Plinko's and Powerbomb. I don't know if I could get him for like 45 minutes straight You know what you should do I'm going to sit out the interview You guys talk wrestling the whole time And then you just cut it and put it on your podcast And act like that's what the purpose was

I like how you think Then at 2.30 Ross and I We've talked about food We've have songs But on the fantasy five ladies and gentlemen It's about women Don't you think at the end of the day?

Okay Isn't that the best fantasy? is usually talking about how beautiful people are and women are in particular? I think, yeah, the best ones are always music and women. Okay. As far as some reactions that we get. So I want you to stay with me on this brand and make sure you understand what we're doing today because you are the definitive seventh judge, which have we gone to you for a seventh vote lately?

I don't know that you ever had. Yeah, I'm usually four one. There's been a lot of blowouts. Yeah, a lot of four ones on you, Matt. And I had won last time. Did you? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right.

That was the one that was stupid. That one didn't count. But this time around, it doesn't really matter who goes first because we're going to take our names, Matt T, M-A-T-T-T-T-T, 3-T-S-V, and we're going to pick women that either have the first or last name of one of our letters and our names. Okay. Now, I know your V. You do? Well, I mean, who is on the Fantasy Five more than anybody else? Wilford Brindley?

No, Sophia Vagara. Okay. Why can't she be an S? She could be. That's how you're going to play your bingo board. I'm saying, you know what you're talking about, Matt. Okay. So that's the Fantasy 5 hot women that revolve around.

What if I want to go with Victoria Beckham for V? Hmm. See, there's a little intrigue in this, is there not? Yes. 2.30 this afternoon. Can't wait. All right. It isn't anything goes Friday.

Ross explained the essence of the audience what an anything goes Friday is today. Well, Matt, that's what anything that can happen, should happen, and possibly will happen on the Matt Thomas show. You call 713-212-5-790. And if you want to talk any number of topics, will the Astros play tonight? We don't know. How explosive is Russell Westbrook? We can get to that. Don't want to talk, Paul.

Matt's thoughts on the Biden-Trump debates. We'll get those. Apparently they're going to have them, right? I would imagine. You can't go without having them At least one, right? You go back to Lincoln Douglas. Well, I guess that was for a senatorial debate.

But you go way back. They've had debates forever, Matt. I'm looking forward to the first one because what we're going to do, unlike any other sports show in America, we're going to try to have a sports debate with answers provided by both Biden and Trump. Are we? Yes. It's going to take some serious audio work on it.

Okay. What are you going to get on that? I was going to say, you're going to have to get here earlier than 1150. Why would I do that? Because we're going to do this one day when they had this debate. No, we're a sports show. Okay. All right.

So we got that. The Big Ten has damn lost its mind. They, if you've not heard this, college, there was a lawsuit by a handful of moms and dads, right? I think. Yeah, Nebraska parents, I think. Yeah, her name was Karen, clearly. Was it really? Or Debbie.

It went and out of, maybe perhaps a Judy. I don't know. think women even in our 40s are named Judy anymore. Because these are college kids, so I'm assuming moms. And we don't know if their milves or not, but they're in their early 40s, right? Okay. 18, 19-year-old kid? Yeah.

41, 42 in that range. It could be 48. Kind of these sports RV sweet spot, if you will. Is that? I don't know. I'm just trying to boost your ego a little bit. I don't know. I feel like, never mind.

So we got, so the Big Ten wants to play now. They want to push up their spring season. to Thanksgiving. And basically, all these college coaches are like, we don't care what our presidents say we're going to play. And I know that, look, Nick Saban's more important than the president of the University of Alabama. I'm just using this an example.

Oh, I'll give you one. Jim Harbaugh is very powerful as a coach of University of Michigan. And he has tremendous persuasion. But he still has a boss. And if the boss says we're not playing into the spring, no matter how bad Jim Harbaugh says he wants to coach, he can't. can't coach a team until the winter, correct? He can't unilaterally say, I don't care what the president of the University of Michigan

says, we're playing football this year. No, he doesn't have that power. He's an employee of the university. He doesn't believe that, but it's the truth. So we'll get to that coming up on the show this afternoon. And we've got to talk about Bradley Van Wiganer, Rody, excuse me, not Brandy, although I'm probably the cousin name is Brandy. He probably got a sister named Brandy.

So he's the general manager of the New York Mets, and he basically, just blank cussed the commissioner of Major League Baseball over what happened yesterday. Yes, Wagonin. Wagonin? Sounds like you should be in a character on the, what's some of the MTV reality shows? Oh, the Hills or something like that. Don't you think Brody van Vaganin would be? Brady Van Wagonin would be on the hills.

He sounds like he's got a sick lake house and his girlfriend, Katie, is really, she's got four hot friends. They're going to be over this weekend. Yeah. It's going to be nice. And I heard Ashley wants us to go to Vegas this weekend. Should we fly? Should we drive? It'll take us four hours.

Yeah. His dad said we can't use the jet skis. We flipped them last time. He got really mad. But Brody throws his sickest leg parties. And there is this new club at the Cosmopolitan that is so lit. Oh, my God. Me and Brody Van Vaganen are going to be there with Charlie and Blaine and Austin.

I've got my rainbow flip-flops and my purple poles. I'm going to be ready to rock out so hard. Gonna bring a couple of six packs of Trullies? Why are you sound like you're from Australia, too? I don't know. That's not a noif. This is a noif. I didn't realize Brody is from New Zealand.

Yeah. All right. If that's a show you can't listen to, I don't know. Brody Van Wagonin sounds like he throws sick ragers on his parents' lake house. And he's also, he's got, his parents have a really big house in the Hamptons, too. He's like your Adderall. hook up at college. That's what Brody Van Wagon and sounds like. Or he's a general manager of the New York Mets. I'll let you guys aside. 1212 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. The NBA

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Our leash is tight Monday through Thursday. That's not true. The loosest leash in the business gets looser on a Friday. Yeah. Because we like to talk to you. Some people would like to hear themselves talk for three and hours. That's not us. You don't got to call Adam and Adam out like that, man.

That's not very nice. Well, I wasn't bringing them up. But I can. I'm just kidding. Well, that's if they're on. Oh, speaking of that, there he is. That's if they're on for three hours, Matt. Come on in, Wex.

It's a thing goes Friday. Come on in, Wex. Yes. This is perfect. Now, just for the purposes, Wex, uh, Ross says... Why are you still talking? I want to hear myself talk. Ross says you guys don't like taking calls on your show.

Is that true? Only taking calls on a show. That is not true. Okay. We will take calls. Would you rather hear yourself speak? I didn't say that. Oh, okay.

See, I was making what's, called a fun joke. How funny was it, though? One to ten. Funny? Not as funny as you guys doing the Californians from SNL earlier on the show. That was funnier. Seriously, Brody Van Wagoner?

That sounds like a general manner. Of all teams, too. The San Diego Padres maybe. Not the New York Mets. Well, of course, Ross knew to bring up the hills to note that there was a Brody on the show. I had no clue. Well, there's Brody Jenner. Brody Jenner.

Yeah. I didn't. I even knew that. I didn't. I don't know what the, I mean. Brody, Austin, Ashley. Oh, no. Was there a Taylor? Taylor.

Taylor. There really was? I'm pretty sure you're correct again. I have no idea. I never watched. That's a lie. I want to know one day when we have nothing going on in sports, which it was like yesterday. Or the last six months.

Well, we should have done a, let's find out what's on wax's DVR. Ooh, I like that. I feel there's a lot of things that you would never publicly tell us was on the DVR that. that is on there. So let's do this real nice. We've got other things to get to get the NBA returning. What is one show that you are absolutely embarrassed that you watch that you have, and we've asked this before on our Zoom meetings before, but let's do it for the audience here. One television show you watch that you are publicly about to announce that's going to embarrass you. It's been mentioned on our show before, but I'll bring it to your show as well.

It's about some people that are on the high seas, on a yacht. They're below the deck and they're in the Mediterranean. It's called Below Debt. And they just have sex, right? There are usually many hookups, both with the people on the boat or them finding people in their ports of call to hook up with, but mainly it's about the people on the boat hooking up, yes. So I knew about the show. I've never watched it. And it's usually they'll run a full Sunday to get you caught up, and I get caught watching

that again. So I have a friend of mine, and this is not a name drop, but it's just going to have to work out for this. That is a yacht captain in West Palm Beach, Florida. Nice. A couple of years ago we were down in. spring training and we went on the boat that he is the yacht captain of it and i met the crew yep and i said hey there's a show below deck where basically everybody works all day cooks

and then they have sex at night all every day and it is rotate well except for you and i obviously i said is there anything any truth to what they're doing and they said oh absolutely so basically if you're 21 years old and would want to work hard on a boat you're going to make good money eat well and have sex with strangers after the show after the night of work. You're living with them. Yeah. For weeks and weeks and weeks over the summer

in great weather and great places with lots of that usually, something on reality shows. Extra bedrooms on the odds. They like to bring into the show is alcohol. Lots of it. Yeah. So it's all a part of it. All right.

You got lots of good stuff though for today's show, don't? Yeah, we got Dusty's coming up in five. The MBA is back. We store. Everybody's been asking me, when's the start times? We have no idea. I would presume they would just pick up where they left off on the three days and the three games and then just put them in those same spots. But remember, TV networks control the timing more than the else.

Right. And you assume that that would put the rockets again at 530 tomorrow just to guess. But the potential for Monday's game six certainly is a later start time because reasonable to expect both of the other series to end tomorrow. Yeah. How does Portland beat the Lakers without Damien Lillard? They don't. And that's it. All right.

What show is your name of your show? again? I don't like to say it when I'm in your presence because I don't say it as well. It is the team that is better than the B team. Yeah, we're the A team. We got you full show today. Jeff Blum will be in studio with us. Three o'clock. Oh, so it's a mailing show. Corey Brewer, we'll also join us today at 430. So do you even speak during your own show? And you listened, I came in here after you guys had all we like to do is hear ourselves talk, and I've totally turned it around. You bet you have. You filled the show with a multiple guests. That is Adam Wexler. We love him,

and he is part of the A team. Three to six, sports talk, seven and a, followed by you. That's right, the nightcap. Then Astros and A's, we hope, tonight at 810. One can only hope. All right, NBA's back. We don't know the time. And, I mean, yeah, again, they've done a lot of talking.

Adam Silver put out of release today. So I think they've cooler, you know, it's another term cooler heads prevail. I am a big believer in letting things simmer overnight. sometimes I'm getting very charged up about anything in my life and then I'm like I want to say something right away that's how I think the entire NBA did there was no way that they were going to get

every NBA player in that room the night of what all the of the protest and said we're going to come out of here unified it just wasn't going to happen too many different voices too many different opinions yeah so I think everybody calmed down said hey let's get with commissioner let's get with our owners and the owners have been soundly

on the player's side on this which is good because the owners could come up and say, you just cost us a couple more million dollars by you deciding you didn't want to play for a couple days. So it feels like we've gotten some positive resolution. I got a nice little three-day weekend in the middle of the week. And the true sportsman in all of us said, the time off certainly helped Russ.

That's why yesterday during the five-on-five, he was explosive. He was very explosive. Which makes me feel happy because... It's good. Rossi, there's no... If the Rockets can't win two of the next three games without Russell Westbrook on the court, then it wasn't meant to be, correct?

I would say yes, correct. Because look, Lou Darts a nice player, Dennis Schroeder's been doing his thing, Chris Paul has still got a lot of left, a gas left in the tank. There's no way in the world. They're better than the Houston Rockets. No, I don't think they're better than Houston Rockets

even without Russell Westbrook, and then you're adding one of the best players in the world. So let's go. Let's get this thing over with. Rockets and six. Almost said Astros. Rockets and six. Right. Rockets Lakers, round two.

What are you going to say? I don't know, yeah. Let me cross that bridge when we come to it, Matt. Okay, you know, I'm going to... Can we get through the thunder? Could you imagine me as a team broadcaster saying, yeah, I don't think the rocket's going to do anything here. Well, if I think they're going to lose, I will call it that way.

Because I'm honest and true, like sneaky snake Jake. I am honest and true, but I'm just, I'm too big of a fan. Okay. And I can't imagine diehard fan, and you're die hard, but I mean, you have a little bit... We have microphones that kind of separate a little bit of us here. but it's going to be I think it's going to be really you know if ratings have suffered a little bit in the NBA I could think a Rockets Laker series could be just the remedy

the NBA would need. I think it would, it can't hurt. The second round of the play, I don't know what the round one of the ratings playoffs of ratings have been. They've been 1230 Utah Jazz and Denver Nugget games. Which is actually a smart thing to do. Is that really getting the nation going? Well, because here's the thing.

You put Utah and Denver on in prime time and like, no, I'll find something else to watch. Is Raptors Nets on NBA TV? the folks going. Poor NBA TV. You only get the first round sucky Eastern Conference matchups. And it's going to be followed by 1981 All-Star game matchup. Dr. Jay's drops 23 points. And behind the scenes of the Sacramento Kings, a rebuild process yet again. Can't wait.

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How strange was it for you to have two days off in the middle of a season, not named an All-Star Break? Well, that's exactly what I was going to say. I mean, that was similar to an All-Star break. thing is, couldn't be taking. And so, you know, I took care of a lot of business and caught up on emails and made a lot of phone calls that I had made. So, you know, I was productive with it, but I had read it at the ballpark and I was trying to watch games on TV, which a lot of them were canceled or postponed. And so I was going to scout the A's and the, and the, and the, and the,

, uh, and the, uh, Texas Rangers, but, you know, it wasn't so. But the main thing is, I'm just glad that that, you know, we escaped the hurricane and more than anything, but, you know, I hate the fact that, you know, Louisiana, Cameron, Lake Charles, you know, suffered because that's where my, my former wife was from. So that's how, you know, from Cameron, Lake Charles, Pryon Lake. So I'm very familiar with that, you know, with that area. And just the first time I would have been in a, you know, in a hurricane. And, boy, it's certainly something that's, you know, very devastating to, you know, to everybody. question about that. I don't know, Skip, if you have ever written a book before, but I think you could probably write one on this season alone of things that are happening on and off the field.

I have to ask, have you heard from any of your players about any thought of not playing tonight? Has that been even discussed in the last, say, 24 hours or something? No. I haven't spoken to anybody other than, you know, the guys that are on the, you know, the I L, spoken to Brickman, spoken to Devo, I've spoken to all the guys down in Corpus, you know, I spoke to Alvarez, and so I was going to speak to the other guys when I get to the stadium today. You know, the, you know, the leader, you know, the Players Association, the clubhouse is Lance, but he's pitching today. And so I was going to have a brief discussion with him today and talked to Bob Melvin last night,

you know, probably 8, 39 o'clock. And, you know, he told me what happened. in Dallas. So, you know, we'll just see when I get there. And, you know, today is Jackie Robinson Day. I'm preparing for that. So, you know, there's a lot of heavy decisions to make in this world period. You know, it's almost on a daily basis.

This is kind of the strangest year, you know, of all time. And I've been around, you know, this world for 71 years. So certainly not the strangeness isn't over yet. Yeah, so I'm assuming by your voice in what you're saying that you were prepared for anything here tonight, correct, in terms of guys saying when you're playing? Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is the year of preparedness, you know. I mean, this is a year where people are experiencing some things that haven't experienced in a year of, you know, people, you know, choosing sides, you know, people having to make decisions that they probably wouldn't have never, you know, had to make had to have. all this stuff, you know, not gone on in the world.

And, you know, like I was a product of the 60s because I grew up in the 60s and, excuse me, I went to high school in the 60s. And so I was in Berkeley and Haydashbury and, you know, during that time and I'm right to the south, you know, to Streetport and Florida and Atlanta and there's one Hank Aaron and some of the civic leaders of, of, you know, that time and, you know, of the world. And, you know, this is very similar, but it's very devastating and, you know, it hurts my heart. It makes me sick to think that, you know, 52 years ago we were going through the same stuff, except, you know, they had dogs and fire hoses and people were, you know,

we're trying to march peacefully and they're trying to now. But every day somebody's getting shot, you know, and I got a young son, 21 years old. You know, that I think about it, and I can see the hurt and the tears of some of the players on the ESPN, and my heart goes out to, you know, to the families and to those that are, you know, that are hurting. And those are sympathized, you know, sympathizing with the people that, you know, have gone through something similar or, you know, a lot of my players in the past have called me, you know, like, Jake, now we've kind of got a better understanding of what you were, you know, talking about. And so, it's a very,

just a tough time to everybody. I hope someday, Skip, when the season comes to a conclusion, hopefully in late October, we can get you in and have a little more time to talk about a variety of issues.

But since you were trying to balance a bunch of things, I do want to get a little baseball in from you, because I just think you're a great storytelling. Well, that would help. Yeah, there's so many things that I want to ask you about both on and off the field is your career,

and we will certainly do that as we move along. But let's get to some of the things. You mentioned the phone calls you've had. I understand that you're on hand surgery. and expects a full recovery. Give us an update on the arms because I think there are some guys in your pitching staff that are getting hit a little bit,

and some folks would like to know if there's any help coming up fairly soon on that. Well, I mean, we hope so. I mean, you know, Kiti is probably, I don't know, 10 days away, hopefully. You know, that would be a big plus. You know, Devo, DeVinsky is even, you know, even closer, we think.

Probably Verlander's a little further away, you know, than we would like, but he's closer to, you know, reality than it appeared like, you know, when he first went down. And so, you know, we're getting, you know, a few arms ready, you know, Breggman's down in Corpus. You know, I'm getting some of the videos on him. You know, he's running pretty good. Josh James is going again on flat ground, getting videos on him. So, you know, every day we're just hoping and praying that, you know, we get some guys back one of the time. We got a good chance to get Diaz back tomorrow. And it was really pretty good news on Alvarez because, you know, they just shaved off some, you know, some bone.

You know, they had grown up on both his knees. And fortunately, I mean, luckily, it wasn't any cartilage or ligament. You know, like I'd had those already in both my legs, and, you know, really are you the same? So, you know, we expect him to make a full recovery. I don't know if I've covered everybody, but there's a lot of guys, you know, still down. And Skip, let's keep it with the baseball. You've got obviously the big series, we'll assume, going forward with the Oakland A's. You got your guys on the pretty good starting pitching lineup coming up for you.

You got McCullors, Grinky, and Frombair. in this series even huger than normal, right, with 60 games to go, just your thoughts on... It's a huge series. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I mean, like you said, I mean, this is a huge series. I mean, I went to bed last night thinking about it.

You know, this is like, you know, back in the day when, you know, Dodgers, Giants, or Dodgers or, you know, when I was coming up to Cubs and Cincinnati, I mean, you know, these two teams have been battling each other for quite a few years and and both of them have gone to the playoffs for quite a few years. So, you know, we,

we don't need a necessary sweep, but, you know, you don't want to get swept either. You know, like you'd like two out of three or a possible sweep, reverse sweep like they did on us out there. And, you know, they're full forces, you know, their pitchers, they got a good pitcher staff. You know, they don't have any injuries. They don't have any, you know, COVID situations like we had in the past, but nobody is, you know, giving any credit for what, discredit for, you know, for losing people. And so, you know, we certainly got to, you know, battle them tough. You know, the secret to the A's is, you know, they're pitching staff. They got a good bullpen. And you can't walk people because they depend on walks. They don't get a

whole bunch of hits, but they depend on walks and home runs. And so we got to keep them in the ballpark and we can't walk guys, you know, in between, you know, the home runs because they're going to hit some home runs, but he just wanted to be solo. And I'm assuming as we wrap things up that you've got a George Springer, a good report coming up in a few hours when you get to the ballpark? Well, we hope so. You know, I got him in the lineup with a question mark. You know, I said not to line up the night before, but, you know, if not, then, you know, he's tomorrow or probably at the latest the next day. So I'm hoping that, you know, I get to the ballpark

and George says he feels great. That's great. Skip, thank you for the time. Best of luck. Enjoy Jackie Robinson Jr. Day. And hopefully you guys are playing some baseball this weekend. And so do I. All right, man. I'll see you later. Talk to you soon. That is Dusty Baker, the manager of your Houston Astros with us here at 1240 on Sports Talk 790. And I mean, Dusty's got great recollection of this.

He's leading young men that are looking for his advice. As he said, playing baseball in the 1960s growing up in that era. I just had a buddy of mine. My buddy, Ed, who's a diehardt Dodger fan, said, Hey, do you have time to ask, Skip, if he remembers hitting the home run against Bruce Souter in 1980 in 1984 in the playoffs? And I'm like, I guess I can. I'd ask him that, but it really wouldn't do much for our Houston audience.

Yeah, remember that time? That was awesome. That's a Chris Farley moment, right? Right. Who would be your Chris Farley guest of all time? Me? Mine would be McCartney like it was for Chris Farley. Oh. That you just couldn't keep it together.

You already know ahead of time you just couldn't keep it together, that you'd be asking that. Remember that song you sang? Remember that movie you were in that was so good? I don't know. Some of my most, I mean, I've met a chemelage one because, through this job. And that's probably my favorite athlete of all time. I wasn't nervous.

The only time I was kind of nervous is when I met in Yao Ming. He was kind of, just because he's gigantic. I have a huge Roy Jones Jr. fan. Maybe Roy Jones Jr.? Well, we used to have... Mani Pacheo wouldn't understand where I was saying. We used to have Nolan Ryan on weekly,

and I was in the same situation. Remember that time you threw the no-hitter against the Dodgers in 81? And by the way, Dusty Baker was your last out? Yeah. That was cool, because I would have to call him early to make sure he was... Hey, Nolan, you've got...

You're going to be on with Matt in 30, minutes. You good? Yeah, that'd be fine. Okay, thanks, Nolan. Call you in 30. And you get to call him Nolan. Like, you would normally say Mr. Ryan. Yeah, I didn't want to say Mr. Ryan. It seemed a little too formal. It worked. I didn't want to call him Noli. Being on the same bus with Akim Elyzuan when he travels with us during the playoffs is one of those Chris Farley moments. And I've interviewed Earl before on the radio a couple times and I've done a

couple appearances with him. So those are my three our favorite athletes of all time. Oh, you had Ricky Williams on for a little while. But I didn't have that wow moment. Yeah, me either. And I had, I had Judevian Clani for a half of episode. And then we had one and a half episodes of Vince Young. Oh, I'll give you one. Back in the day, when I was on the many moons ago,

when I was on the afternoon edition of the Sean Salisbury show, we had Christine Leakey on during the Super Bowl. That was a wow moment. You just couldn't put your thoughts together. No, I asked her a question. I can't remember what it was. You say, would you like my digits? No, I didn't say that.

She's married or affianced or something. But just, she is just as stunning in person as you would imagine. What is she doing now? I don't know. Whatever she's doing great. She's looking great,

whatever she's doing. I got to get my list together for the Fantasy 5. I got three T's to fill out. Christine Leigh. Can I think her name start with an O? So you are R-O-S-V, first name or last name of a female

in those letters. Christine O'Leahy. Yeah, you don't. Now, if you went Paul, that's your real. first name, you would have some new options. That's true. But nobody knows you as Paul on the show. It's fine. I got Olivia Munford for O. We're good.

So I think it's easier for you to fill out your list than is for mine. You think so? Because O and V are taking care of. You're not not taking Sophia Vigara. I mean, I might. We'll see. 2.30. 1243, Sports Talk 790 with a message for

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Hi, this is former running back of Herschel worker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. All right, so Jordan Alvarez has surgery on both knees. They were both creaky. I'm going to miss saying creaky knees because if his knees are 100% Ross, then

We'll never have to say creaky. I don't think I've ever... Oil them up! When's the last time we talked about a creaky anything with an athlete on this show ever? I don't know. You probably got creaky shoulders. I did. Happy anniversary of me on my three years of creaky shoulders.

As soon as the shoulders, I got out of surgery, and was home for a couple days, I got put into hurricane coverage. Is that right? Yeah. I remember being in the cast during the first day of Hurricane Harvey. I don't remember you walking around in a cast. Oh, it sucked.

That was blocked from my mind. for some reason. Well, that, you know what? I wish I could block that from my mind. There's a lot. I wish I could block 20, 20 from my mind. Do you think we can do a, you know, you know how there's like the GoFundMe's? Oh, no, it was, it's the change.

org. Wouldn't it be great if we could just pretend this year it never happened and just start all over again? Well, 2020. I mean, we kind of made that number up, so. So what year is it really? 4.6 billion-ish? I mean, from the earth, from the universe.

I think it's like 11 billion. Okay. That's kind of long to say though. Oh, yeah, it is. It's 11,600,000, 234,306. Mm-mm-mm. It's a little lengthy. It is a little bit.

So I guess we'll have to stay with 2020. Yeah, that's easier. So he had both knees worked down. One was a cleanup and one was a full fix. Yes. Thus, no more creaky knees. I guess he's just, is he going to be laid up in a hospital bed for a while? You can't walk after.

after double knee surgery, right? And as we said, and I don't want to be negative Nancy. But once and he always a knee, right? No. No, I'm right, though. Chris Paul had any problems. He's been healthy this year. You know why we can say it's different?

Because micro fracture is as serious as you can possibly get. We've seen players recuperate from that. Chenevian Clownie had one, his first or second year. Yeah, I mean, he's been okay. Again, his heart and desire is a little still up for grabs. I mean, the motivation isn't necessarily there, but he's still a freak athlete. he's been fairly healthy yeah and still looking for work

what a misstep on his part yes NFL teams do not want to put insane amounts of cash into a player that has it's not a rumored reputation it's a flat out reputation of only really wanting to show up on game days and in the NFL Ross you can't do that

no matter how insanely talented you are if you don't put the time in getting in getting ready for the opponent that week, you just can't turn it on at 12 noon on a Sunday. Well, certainly not in Bill O'Brien's regime. He doesn't want Sunday players. I.E. 1 is in Arizona. Correct.

Who will catch 1,200 yards this year of passes. And one of the best. And we'll probably have double-digit touchdowns. By the way, the Texans had a scrimmage yesterday. Who won? Texans. Who'd they beat? The Texans.

How'd they look? Great. Could you imagine Bill O'Brien or any NFL coach saying, you had a scrimmage today. Coach, your thoughts. We're wretched. We need some more practice time. We are clearly not ready for the 2020 opener in less than two weeks.

We're going to have a hard time putting up points. I don't even know if we should show up and jump on the plane and go to Kansas City. Things you never hear from a coach. Oh, I guarantee. to you. And I even heard the sound bites because I don't particularly need to hear them. Let me guess, Ross. Oh, were their postgame soundbites? Yeah. He went

on a Zoom. You weren't on it? No, I was busy. Doing what? Playing video games. That's right. During one of the most important speeches in America. Where's Ross? On Twitch. Doing more important stuff

than... What game are you playing? It's a game called Apex Legends. It's Battle Royale. And what's the most number of people that you've seen on Twitch with you at one time. With me at one time? 18? So there are 18 people in America. They're going, I want to watch Ross play video games. Yeah, we hang out,

chat and talk. Of course. Why not? You've heard you dog cuss me many a time on the Twitch? Yes. So that helps you get numbers. Oh, it's not about helping me. It's just about being honest, Matt. Oh, so you're lied during the regular show and then you're honest the rest of the whole day. Okay, good. Okay. I got you.

So do I have to play video games on Twitch or I can just do whatever I want, right? I told you you, you can come on. I got the Atari games for you. We can play Pong and asteroid. Those are your jams. I just had a big video game player. That's fine. You can do regular stuff on Twitch.

You can do in the semifinals on the Rockets Advance, which hopefully they will. Yeah. How about we do some Twitching during a Rockets playoff game? You want to do it? Well, during a Rockets playoff game? Like maybe like one quarter. Hmm. Or people can just sit there and they can just listen to us talk about the game. We can

do that. But we can't broadcast the game. That's illegal. Yeah. So it's kind of tough that way. So people wouldn't spend time staring at our faces. Yeah, a bad idea. Well, you know, we can do reaction videos. You know how you like those kids that they're reacting to Phil Collins? The reaction videos are huge.

It's react to this, react to that. And then we can put it on our TikTok account. Well, I don't have a TikTok. No, do I. That's okay. Brennan, you got TikTok? I have the app, but I don't have an account. So you're just a lurker.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I got respect for that. I did one where I did Game 7 in 1995 semifinals. That was fun. I need to do that again. I'd follow you on TikTok.

Twitch. Twitch. Whatever. Same difference. Twitch. Twitch. There you go. Hashtag revenue.

12. 54. 1 o'clock hour. Brian T's going to be with us at 130. Josh Redick at 2 o'clock. Fantasy 5 at 2.30. And we're still waiting. By the way,

everybody's asking about what time the games are. And I don't think the NBA is announcing anything, right? I keep looking to check Twitter to see if there's any of the game announcement times. And I've seen nothing. At this point. there are there should be three games scheduled but that could all change because everybody's had a few days off

they were doing an every other day motion scheduling where one set of games were played one day they could obviously move that around because they're going to have to do all double headers to make up time well they were playing three and four games a day anyway no I mean like the Rockets and Thunder double header I would say no game five at three o'clock

Game 6 at 830. Here's one intended consequence of what happened is that I believe, and this is just my own personal opinion, that I think the bubble is getting to these kids, these guys, kids. They're still kids, right? No. Well, Brian James is not a kid. Okay, but in general, okay, these young men.

As I'm a young man, so I can say this. Us, we as young men. I believe that the bubble is making them go a little stir crazy. Yeah, well, I mean, you had Paul George coming out a couple days ago talking about how he's been depended. oppressive and anxious. So unfortunately, a byproduct of their thing, and they weren't thinking about this,

nor would anybody, but they're going to wind up being in the bubble three days longer than they probably could have been. Well, some, half of them, yeah. Well, that's right. Half and we're getting the hell out of here. But it is the truth. I mean, we would have,

tonight would have been game six. So you're looking at at least three extra days down there. So, you know, again, in the big picture, it's not that big of a deal. but if I believe that cabin fever has crept into there because they've not been with their families and have not been in their homes. No side pieces, no IG models.

And by the way, seven of your closest friends haven't been able to get close to an IG model. How does the NBA monitor that? Like if some 10 that's on IG says, I want to come spend some time with you. They said they're going to have to prove a previous relationship. I don't know how to do that. Photoshop.

I mean, okay, old text threads. Just put your arm up. and then insert her there. Here we are at Make sure there's a sign. Like Coachella 2019. You know what that is? That's IG profiling.

That's true. If you're hot. Yeah. And that means you possibly don't, you are just there for the hookup and that's it. You're not there to be boyfriend and girlfriend. You're not be there to be confident because maybe there's some guys that don't. Maybe there's some guys Ross that want to have just a friend there and not worry about having sex.

Well, or maybe they do. Yeah. You got to relieve some. pressure, Matt. It's pressure. You mean like a buildup? Yeah. My point is this, you can't tell a hot girl. No, we don't believe you're... Apparently, that's what the NBA is going to try to enforce. What I want is I want to be on that enforcement committee. Oh, you want to be coming through. So exactly. You're going to interview like James Harden. Excuse me, how long have you known this girl? Where did you all meet? Your name again is Destiny. All right. Destiny, who are you here to see? Well, I'm here to see X, Y, Z athlete. How long have you

known. Well, really since the pandemic started. Give me his top three favorite artists. Like, do you ask personal questions? Is there like a newlywed game? No. And you could host it. Let's get it televised. How about it? It's more like security on a computer. You know how the computer asks you what's your favorite ice cream flavor is? Okay. What was your high school and, uh, or what was your first pet's name? If you don't know Gordon Hayward's favorite pizza topping, you can't go see him. Hmm. He seems like a bell pepper guy. You don't think he goes with the meat first? I'm just kidding. 1258. Everyone's answer is pepperoni, right?

Yeah, and cookies and cream. Cookies and cream? That's my favorite. That's a strong one. I like a little chocolate chip cookie dough. As your favorite? We'll discuss further. Yeah, we can.

And the return of the NBA and hopefully the return of Astros baseball. We did do ice cream. Oh, for sure. Way early in the game. 713-1-2-5-790. Our 2 next on 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. Anything goes from.

Friday continues on Sports Talk 790 at 103 on the program. We will have Brian T. Smith join us at the bottom of the hour. Josh Redick from the Stros of 2, Fantasy 5. We're going to take letters in our name and put attractive women attached to them, either first or last names. And we're going to get to the return of the NBA. As soon as the NBA releases its schedule, which I'm assuming they're going to do that before our show's over with.

Because if there are games are going to be played tomorrow as soon as they run lunchtime, then why? I wouldn't you announce them now. I mean, you've got to give some guys some heads up on this. Rockets, by the way, are going to have media availability at, I believe, 2 o'clock today. So, Brandon, we might run and run on that. Just seems there's anything interesting that has been said by anybody, but we'll have it for you coming up.

The Astros are supposed to play with Lance McCullors on the mound tonight in game one of a three-game series with the A's. Dusty Baker is presuming so, but he has not said he told us a little while ago. He's not spoken anybody directly about whether or not that the Astros would plan on a protest. The aides have already done so. Today is Jackie Robinson Day in around majorly baseball. I would think if there was ever a day that you could get out a message, it would be on a night where Jackie Robinson Day is around baseball.

All the gentlemen would be wearing 42s in her uniform. I had a chance to interview Jackie's daughter about 15 years ago. What was her name? Jackie? No. Don't shake her head to me, Brennan. Just wondering. I thought it was funny. I actually don't hate it. You mean you laughed at it when he said it?

You thought that was the funniest thing you've heard all day? He didn't say it was the funniest thing. Anyways. Go ahead, Matt. Sorry, it wasn't Jackie. I think his wife's name is Rachel. Okay. So I don't remember his daughter's name.

I mean, we can Google. We can hit the Google machine. I'm doing this right now. What did you interview her for? She's an author. Oh, okay. Sharon? That's who it is.

A midwife, educator, and director of educational programming for MLB, an author of two books about her father. Yeah. So I interviewed her many moons ago and was just, I did my eighth grade history project on Jackie Robinson. I've been fascinated with his life. I did mine on Dominican baseball players. Did you really? Yeah.

I ripped everything off the internet and just printed it out. Well, unfortunately, I didn't have the internet. I did. Lucky kids. I got to be. I'm pretty sure. If there was an answer to the question of name an athlete who's dead, who you never got to meet, Jackie's on my short list.

I just think he's got so many stories to tell, the branch Ricky relationship, playing in Los Angeles early, playing in Brooklyn late, and being the first half-acomack. Baseball has made it share of mistakes, Ross. Clearly, Rob Manfred just not having the greatest run, but having 42. and this was not, this wasn't on Manfred's watch, this was on Seleague's watch, but have everybody wear 42 one day per year, I think it's just a perfect, perfect tribute. And having no one ever be able to wear 42 again.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. Universally retired number. That's some respect right there. You know who the last player was to wear 42? Yes, I do. See, you're getting good on trivia. I'm okay. Go, of course, other eyes.

Mariano Rivera. Yeah. Do you know the last Astro was to wear 42? I don't even know the question. I did know that. You never should ask questions. You don't know the answers to? It's escaping me right now.

Look it up and I'm going to see if I can figure it out. And the reason why I ask you this is when you find the answer, is it some mundane guy or is it somebody that I should know? I just remembered who I thought Adam Clanton looked like though while we're here. Wade Miller. You remember Wade Miller? Yes. That's who Adam Clanton looks like to me a little bit. Wade Miller of early 2000 Astros.

Yes. Wade Miller a one-time ace of the team? Yeah? He and Tim Redding or something? Those are from dark times. Well, I think when Lima lost it in terms of going to Minutemate Park and being awful and never being able to recover from that again, Wade kind of became the de facto. Him and Shane Reynolds basically were like the one in one eight, right, for a while?

I'm looking up. I'm looking up the last guys to wear number 42. I looked this up before. I have it. I'm trying to remember. Oh, he got. Give me the initials. JL.

The last Astro to wear 42. Oh, yeah. See, I knew that. J.L. J.L. Does it say what years you played? 97 of 2001. Then I should know this. Yes, you should.

John. John Labus. No. John Lovitz. J. L. What position? It's a pitcher. J.L. See, and this is terrible.

It's going to throw. you off because it's a soft J. Oh, Javier? Well, you're in the right ballpark. Jose Lima. Yes. And the last one before him?

Pedro Martinez. As an astro? Yeah. Not the Pedro Martinez. A Pedro Martinez. The other Pedro Martinez. When did he play? He played for the Astros in 95.

There was a Pedro Martinez to play for the Astros in 95. Yeah. He threw. for 20 innings and had a 7.4 ERA. Very memorable. So he's not a candidate for the walk of honor over at the minute. Yeah, he's not going to be in the Astro. He's not going to get an orange blazer for the Astros Hall of Fame.

I think I deserve in the media at wall. What? Yeah. Yeah. What? I would love an orange blazer. Based on what? Based on the fact that I probably have done more post-game shows,

Colin, than any other sportscaster in the history of Houston sports. Yeah, but you think you belong in every Hall of Fame. I mean, You want to be in the U of H Hall of Fame. Yeah. I think you're already in some side of a sort of of Made Creek honor. Yeah, it's true.

Yeah. You want to be in the Rockets Hall of Fame. Sure. You want to be in the Astros Hall of Fame. You want to be in the Toro Hall of Fame. The Texans. The Roberts C. McNair, Texans, no.

I'll never get my jersey retired there. You want to be in the Texans ring of honor right next to Andre Johnson. No. You're out of control. After JJ, then I'll go next. You want to be in the Game Show Hall of Fame. You want to be in the country music singers hall of fame. These are all vicious, vicious,

lies. Not all of them, but some of them are vicious lies. Yeah, not all of them. We are not enshrining you. What are we going to put a bust of you with a headset on? Well, if I get to the Radio Hall of Fame, yeah, of course. Oh, the Texas Radio Hall of Fame? How do we get you in that? That's okay. Why not? Usually people who go in there immediately get laid off in my experience. It's like when you're coach of the year in NBA, you're fired within three years. When you go to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, you get laid.

off within six months. It's, how do I say this politely? It's not that big of a deal? It's slimy? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's, it's just. Worthless?

No, I'm going to say nothing. If you want to talk trash on the, yeah, you don't want to say it because then they won't put you in. I don't know who runs it, but it's not like it's like the, the NAB doesn't run it. It's just kind of a bunch of old sales people

that kind of run it kind of thing. Okay. And they don't know you or something? No, that's fine. I'm going to send in I'm going to try to get you in here, Matt. Would you, I will gladly accept the nomination. Become a voting member.

Boom. How much to cost? There's a cost of the thing. You're not going to do anything. There's a PayPal link. Yeah. See, you know what I'm saying? I don't think you do Hall of Fame with PayPal's.

It's $10. Oh, then you can do it then. I'll become a member. I'm going to vote you in, Matt. As a walk-in? Yeah. A walk-in? Is it a write-in vote?

I like it. I can be a member of the Hall of me I can be a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame voting committee for 10 bucks nice as can the rest of the audience

let's see Adam Kleinton you're in no he's got to wait a few more years why I don't know just feel like he's been on every station in the city that's true Adam if you're listening we love you three to six sports talk 7 outy Jeff Blumman 3

clock hour. And it's time for break. We don't make a lot of friends on the show, do we? I've only trash talked to one show today. That's true. Me too. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. The Astros should play. It's Jackie Robbins. I think they're in all honestly, they should play. Rockets are going to play tomorrow. Well, let's get at this college football thing when we come back. Oh, great. The Big Ten. It's back, baby.

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if you want to get in on anything goes Friday. All right, so Ross, the Big Ten, thought they were bold and being mature and responsible and in the best interest of making sure the kids and feeling good, COVID, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Because we really haven't seen any massive downturn in COVID cases, right? We're kind of holding steady, right? I don't really have to pay much attention. Yeah, since I caught it, I'm not really paying that much attention. You're worried about other people in America in the world.

I've been less concerned. Still wearing my mask and sanitizing, Matt. I don't want to be a super spreader. All right. So a point is this. So the Big 10 of the Pact 12 said, we're gone. We'll see in the spring.

Meanwhile, SEC's carrying the flag of, we play in. We got this. Big 12, we got this. ACC, we got this. Conference USA today announced our television schedule. They're playing.

The American conference, which the Cougars are involved in, we're one another championship in that league. They're in. And the Big 10 players don't like this. The coaches don't like it. and frankly, any draftful players don't like it because they don't think they can play a winter season

and then get themselves ready for the draft. It would ultimately hurt their draft status because if they get hurt during these winter months that they play, then they got a chance of cost themselves multiple rounds or being drafted at all. Spring you mean? Well, I think spring, I think March, April, May. I don't think, I mean, I don't...

Well, I mean, technically this is called, I guess they're calling a fall of winter sports. But in reality, they were talking about January and February. You mean like the fall semester and the spring semester. Yeah, that's right. That's right. It's fine. Semantics. So now you have some Big Ten schools and coaches trying to push their presidents to say,

hey, okay, you don't want to play in September. We get that. You don't want to play in October. Okay, I guess. We want to be playing before the end of the calendar years, so we're not that much further behind our other conferences. They're talking about trying to play and start at their season. around Thanksgiving.

And right now, Ross, while that sounds interesting, it's not universally accepted by all the schools in a Big Ten, and it's certainly not being accepted by all the university presidents who ultimately made this call to begin with. The commissioners can't force these presidents to have their schools play. But there are a bunch of coaches in those Big Ten and in those Pack, I don't want to speak to the Pac-12, but the Big Ten is what we're talking about, that Ross, they are going to miss out

on fans and stands, having their kids play, and more importantly, the college football playoff is on track to be played. And that means serious, serious cash for those institutions and for the conference if a Big Ten or two or three, I shouldn't say three, but maybe two Big Ten schools find themselves playing for national championship in the Final Four.

And this also comes out, Matt, days after Attorney Tom Meyer, Mars, recently filed the public record request of 13 public colleges of the Big Ten. I guess Rutgers is the only private one, maybe? Northwestern. Oh, Northwestern. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

So everybody, I guess Rutgers is a state school. He seeks emails and other, quote, electronic or computer-based information that reflect communications involving university presidents and or athletic directors, including Big Ten, bubble, COVID-19, cardiologist, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So when you're a public school, they're going to have to turn over some of these records. That's called the Freedom of Information Act. So as soon as this happened, they're like,

all right, maybe we need to play. So as soon as this guy, Tom Mars, asks for all these records, Big Ten saying like, maybe we should need to play. And according to Tom Mars, once, if the Big Ten quote reverses course on fall football, I'm going to withdraw the requests. So the do set for the audience then?

There's something bad in these public communications, something maybe in bad faith, because we want to know. That's what the parents want, right? The parents want answers. Why do we do this? What are the experts saying? Why are we stopping this? And why are 50 other schools playing in our 14 or not? Yes.

Maybe, okay, well, just just deal in maybes. Okay. Maybe the Big Ten said, you know what? We probably could go forward with this, but we might get our asses sued off. we're not going to just in case to cover our asses. We don't want to get sued, therefore let's not do this. Is that typed up somewhere? Yes, maybe there's the Michigan president to the Michigan State President or to the group.

Reply all. It's like, we got to cover our asses on this, folks. And if that's in an email, apparently through this request for a public record, that would have to be made public. But why would you do it through that email account? I don't know. Does the University of Iowa's president have a hotmail account? Maybe.

Well, if it's probably a dot edu, whatever. But I mean, if you're going to have... You want to be, you want them back channeling. If I'm in their position and I'm doing something as controversial as this, Ross, don't I back channel? Maybe you're not smart enough to back channel. Wait a minute. The University of Iowa's president's not smart enough to back channel? He's like 70 and probably will hardly work his phone.

I mean, I don't know that, but... Probably. I have been around enough college administrators in my life, Rossi. They all have back channels. They have to. Because the Freedom of Information Act is rarely ever denied. Okay, well, if there's nothing to, I mean, maybe it's coincidence. They put these 13 public record requests, and then the next day, Big Ten's like,

hey, maybe we should play football. Could be a coincidence. Do you think this first time Big Ten Commissioner just screwed the pooch on this in that he had to be, and I forgot the gentleman's name, but this was, guy was given a huge responsibility of trying to collectively find out what 14 different schools want and that these schools thought they were being

so brave and so out there and they were going to be the leaders because they were the first ones to come out and say we're not playing and then only realized that not only are nobody led nobody jumped on board with them except the Pac-12 but other teams are like we're playing, we're going, we're going to reconfigure

our schedule and we're going to scoop up all the cash that you don't get because you didn't play football I sent you guys the story last week, but the Big Ten supposedly thought the ACC was joining them in this too. And we should tell the audience who was the one that helped push that out of the way. Yeah, Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Funny, for Notre Dame being an independent and being, what, would they have been in one national championship game in the last 10 years?

Yeah, Manteo and got a truck ran through them by Alabama. They got destroyed in that game. They still carry incredible weight. Yeah, they do. going to watch out for those Catholics. Well, I'm just saying it is what it is. For a school that basically had to beg their way into playing ACC schools and still, oh, by the way, we're not going to let you share in our NBC TV money,

they're doing just fine. They carry a powerful stick. A shalele, if you will. So basically right now, as one writer described it, it's a circus in a Big Ten. Kevin Warren is the commissioner. The first African American commissioner to lead an Autonomy Five conference. that what they call it that's what this is it feels like powers what does autonomy five even

mean autonomy is a way too big of a word for this show autonomy means you control your own destiny right yes would that would be power i guess it's what they yeah it's what power all right there's whatever and then if you're a part of the commissioner of a conference the other schools won't let you in because they're scared that's the american yeah everybody's scared at temple football the big 12 is scared of the power of american yeah they're just really scared of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane? I would be. You would be?

Sure, why not? How many national championships they ever won? In football, probably zero. Quite a few probably in cross-country. Yeah. Oh, really? I don't know. I'm just guessing that.

I don't know what they're good at. So what do you do? You have coaches now that are banging the front doors of the presidents of these schools, saying you're about to get a lot of unneeded information out there. Oh, by the way, SEC football and the SEC football network in ESPN, they're taking up all over our prime time slots. The Cougars took a prime. time slot away from a power five school today.

Oh, they did? Who'd they take it away from? I don't know. But that was a, that was supposed to be a power five opponent date. Oh, okay. Well, it was like Wake Forest or whatever.

It was a, that Friday night slot was made for, you know, like that would be like North Carolina playing a football game or something like that. You know what I'm saying? But that's now going Houston Memphis. They had the downgrade to Houston Memphis.

No, they said, we understand. You don't want to play. We've got championship quality schools that want to play. That's Houston plays Memphis. We're going to have the Southland Friday night feature, but unfortunately we can't, so we've got to go Houston, Memphis.

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132, 790. You're home for the Rockets. Still have not heard a word about when the game time is going to be. the NBA will resume on Saturday. And honestly, I don't even know that guarantees the Rockers would play on Saturday. Because you were doing every other day, but that's all been goofed up. So they could actually move some things around if they needed to. Maybe they've got, I think, two courts that they use for games.

Do you try to go three games in each day? I don't know. They don't like starting games after 9 o'clock in the Eastern time zone. So I guess you can maybe. you do too. They have to clean. Who knows? The point being is that anybody trying to guess right now would be foolish, but we are going to see NBA basketball resume as soon as

tomorrow. Brian T. Smith, league columnist from the Houston Chronicle with us here as he's every Friday on the show. Well, Brian, we got basketball back. We have some baseball back. And I asked Dusty Baker earlier about whether or not the Astros we're going to play today, and he didn't really

know. I'm going to assume it being Jackie Robinson. This will be a great day for those that are concerned about this to actually go out and play these baseball games. Do you agree? I agree. I also know, Matt, that just the way things are right now, and it's not just sports. It's the country. You know, we don't even talk about the coronavirus pandemic anymore, right? And to me, you know, that doesn't, that's not any way to play down anything else. Everything is important. Everyone has their opinion. and everyone has something that is affecting them, you know, whether it's financially or the coronavirus or work or race, whatever it is.

But that hasn't gone away. And, you know, baseball was, you know, on and off the field constantly for the first 30 games, the first half of the 60 games season. The NBA still hasn't made it through the playoffs, you know, yet. I mean, they're still in the first round. That's the ironic thing about all. this. So everything continues to just be so unpredictable. And so, yeah, it seems like, you know, baseballs are start to be back and the NBA

will be back on Saturday. But it's very telling to me that the NBA, which very much relies on television and its partnerships with ESPN and TNT, that as you just set up, as we speak, the NBA is supposed to return tomorrow. This is the playoffs, Matt. in the bubble, and they still haven't announced what time the games are. So I don't know what to expect or what to think anymore about any of the major sports, other than the fact that it appears that the NFL will start on time.

And a month ago, that would have been the biggest news in sports, and obviously it's not right now. You know, there's 100 NBA employees that are striking. I wonder if any of them are in the scheduling department. I mean, we'd be foolish on the thing at least one person was, right? I mean, here's, and that's the thing. I mean, it's hard because it, it, these are various, very serious issues. And it's unfair to say some people, you know, I mean, you have to have some type of qualifier, but many people. I mean, millions of people, tens of millions of people feel incredibly passionate about that.

And I, and I feel like the country more and more, you know, fully understands that. But at the same time, it is fair to point out that. that the vast majority of people listening to your show, Matt, or reading the Houston Chronicle or living in the fourth-artic city in America still have to go to work and can't take a day off and can't just say, hey, I'm not showing up today because I'm going to, you know, so it's such a complicated, somewhat fascinating, somewhat messy conversation that just continues to go on.

And yeah, I mean, that's, and there's so much irony to all this. I mean, that's one of the things. So it looks cool on ESPN. It sounds great. You know, whatever, there's a press release. It's also responded to it that you have NBA employees protesting. But it's also easy to joke that maybe that's why. We still don't know what time the rockets are playing.

I mean, we have news that Russell Westbrook, it's been reported through a variety of media outlets all day, that Russell Westbrook is going to come back in game five, but we're not even talking. talking about Russell Westbrook coming back in game five or how the rockets are going to match up against the thunder. But once that happens, that will dominate the conversation again. So there's never been anything like this. You know, you would have to go back to the 60s. But in the, look, and to me, that will always be thus far, more volatile, more powerful, you know, that was coming after enduring civil rights. You had the Vietnam War.

I mean, you had, you know, president being assassinated. I mean, that's the most volatile time in American history. But this keeps getting closer to it. And while it is so interesting and fascinating and we are watching history for better and worse, Matt, play out in real time is sports are 100,000 times larger than they were then. And you look at social media and 24-7, 365 cable TV and ESPN feeds all. lot of this, that combination of sports and the politics and all the other issues raise, you know, the economy, if they're in the coronavirus pandemic, it just keeps getting crazier and crazier, and we still don't know what time the rockets are playing tomorrow.

Well, fortunately for us, as we try to be the Tour Department of Life on this show, let's get to the sports angle on this. Let's have fun. Russ, I mean, look, they should be at worst 3-1. You could argue that the Rockets could have already finished it off and four. But you know what? Give Oklahoma City credit, give Lou Dork credit, give Chris and Dennis Schroeder, all the credit in the world.

But if he is what the reports are saying and can help out with minutes and extend that rotation a little bit, the Rockets absolutely are the better basketball team and should absolutely finish this thing off in the next two games. And anything short of that would be a little bit of a disappointment, would you say? Oh, it would be a tremendous disappointment. and I believe that if Tillman Petita's not too busy trying to get all those other businesses back to normal, that, you know, a couple heads, you know, professionally are going to roll inside Toy and a center in a couple weeks.

If the Rockets can't get out of the first round against an Oklahoma City team that wasn't supposed to make the playoff, that's very inexperienced, that doesn't have a true number one player, if you have Russell Westbrook and James Harden, and Russell Westbrook comes back and let's just be honest, Matt, we can say this. it's okay even in 2020, the rockets were helped by the strike, protest, you know, boycott, whatever you want to call it. Russell Westbrook got a couple extra days. If the rockets can't win this series, they have no excuses. And they should be up 3-1 if it's not over already.

Westbrook will come back. The only issue will be, and I'm not talking about personal chemistry, it will be timing and non-court chemistry. Now, Hardin and Westbrook are two of the top players in the NBA. They've been doing this all season. They obviously go way back to Oklahoma City. But it's two, too, and you're in a bubble, and there's no crowd, and you have Chris Paul, and, you know, a very proud, energetic young OKC team just because Westbrook comes back. They should win this series. There's no question about it, but it does not guarantee anything. and we've seen that the last two games for the Rockets.

They've finished horribly those last two games, especially game four. So it should fix everything. But again, the Rockets have been uneven and unpredictable the entire season. All right. On the baseball side, how much stock are you putting into this Astros A series, but how do they do play tonight? I mean, honestly, not a lot. I mean, you could have somebody hit.

you could have a bench's, you know, clearing brawl. It could become national news, but there's right now as we speak. Not a ton. I just haven't felt the buzz for baseball all year. And it's baseball's fault. I mean, it's because they spent so damn long, you know, fighting each other. It's only a 60-game season. We're already more than halfway through the baseball season, Matt.

And it still, to me, does not feel like we're really playing baseball the are a very good team. The Astros are in a very interesting spot. You have the trade deadline coming up, you know, on and on and on. I think the most amazing thing for the Astros this year thus far is that they're even above 500. So it's an important series, but in terms of everything else going on, especially with the NBA, it just doesn't have nearly the buzz that it would. All right. Last question. Two weeks from yesterday is the start of the NFL season involving your Houston Texans. And you, I don't. know how much access you have because I know everybody's been kind of limited what you've seen

so far if you've seen much and I'm just anticipating the first month of the NFL season to be extraordinarily sloppy but somebody's got to win these football games just any impressions you have from the Texans and do you feel it from your readers I don't feel it from my show per se much that when you're out of sight and you're out of mind because of no preseason games it's hard to get revved up but we will be because in two weeks we'll be today we'll be discussing the first NFL game of the season, even though there may be only about 10,000 people watching the game in Kansas City. I fully agree with everything you just said.

I mean, yeah, we are less than two weeks now away from the start of the NFL season. The Texans will be on Thursday night football, NBC prime time season opener. I mean, that's, in a lot of ways, that's a stage they've never had against Patrick Mahomes and the defending champion, Kansas City Chiefs, on the road. and really nobody's talking about it, right? I mean, we're talking about the Rock, it's talking about the Astros and everything else going on in sports. Nobody's talking about it.

I've been out to camp. The Texans have a different feel. They have a different look. I can in no way say that that is good or bad until we watch this team play, and I think the most important thing that you just said out of everything, and it was all valid, is the fact that we're just,

it's going to be so hard, Matt, to get a read on this NFL season, Until we are midway through the season, you know, you get into November. And that's often the case, but you can tell pretty quickly if a team, you know, has a shot to be in, you know, Super Bowl contention, to be, you know, to try to win a division, et cetera. I think it's going to be so week to week, so uneven. None of these teams have played. You're going to have major injuries. You might end up having coronavirus issues.

I could, you know, I mean, the Texans open to Kansas City. they play Baltimore very quickly. Normally we'd be saying, oh, maybe they're going 0 and 2. We haven't seen this team do anything, but Matt, we haven't seen anyone in the NFL do anything. So I think a lot of it will end up ultimately coming down to who's the best quarterback on the field, who's the best healthy quarterback on the field, you know, depth, all that stuff. And some of that week to week might work in the Texans favor. So you ready to predict them going to Kansas City and winning?

I have a weird feeling. And I mean, I will say this right now 13 days away, which is a never, that's usually not a good number. I have a weird feeling they're going to win that game. I mean, they might lose by 40. Well, here's the thing. Yeah. I have a weird feeling, Matt, because it's just, it's going to be, you know, it's basically 10 days before their next game. You know, it's the season opener.

It's not the home opener. It's not like you're playing on Sunday like normal. I just feel like that is a roll the dice type of game. game, and they could be blunt on the building, but do not be surprised if the Texans beat the Chiefs and all of a sudden that the buzz is there because Houston's going crazy because the Texans won the NFL opener in 2020. Well, here's how it goes. Here's the easy narrative for you.

They win. Wow, this really is a different season. Yeah. All the things I wanted to do. And sorry, ain't to see you leave, DeAndre, but it is what it is. They lose after one game. Yep. Same old Texans.

And that's exactly. And here's the one thing I feel very, very safe predicting. It is going to be a season, especially with the stupid national media. It's going to be a season of just weekly, wild overreactions, locally and nationally. And it's going to be the media. It's going to be fans. It's just going to be so much overreaction. And the second you think you have and nationally, and it's going to be the media, it's going to be fans,

it's just going to be so much overreaction. and the second you think you have a team figured out, you don't at all. That's what's going to happen all here across the league. And the Texans would be a perfect team for that because Deshawn Watson can win every game that he plays. But occasionally the Texans screw things up. Have a great weekend, friend. Thank you for the time as always. Thank you, Matt.

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letters of our name, our first name and our first letter of our last name to hot women that either Sherry first or last name with starting with that letter. Case in point I think I know who your V is. Excuse me? Yeah, I can say that.

You know nothing about my V. Because Sophia Vigara has been on every list. ever in the history of the fantasy five involving women. I mean, I guess I got to go with it, right? Unless you want to go with a Veronica of something. Victoria Justice. Ooh. So the question's going to be, will our judges, which will they go for,

is there a certain age limit that gets out of the comfort zone? Yeah. I would say so. What do you think is too old for the list? 75. 75 is not too old. I would say it is. I think it's way too old.

Yeah. So we're in agreement. Yeah. Let me ask you this. Is 40 too old? I don't think so. I don't think so either. I mean, we're almost 50 at this point.

Yeah, but I'm not there. Very close. Back off. You're closing. You're on a downhill track. Don't remind me. 713-212-5-790. like Heather Graham doesn't she's 49 yeah she's still very sexy yeah what's the last thing she's

been in uh was she in um well she was she was in hangover one but was she in the other ones years ago yeah it's too bad so you're saying if you walked in and said tape me ross you'd say no you've only been in a movie in the last 10 years did i say that no i'm just asking you do would you say such a thing would you think i would oh i got to change my m oh you do damn i'm going to do i'm I got three M's. Margaret Thatcher. You keep thinking that. Milakunis.

Make that four M's. Say, I wish, Brandon, I could go to you, but since you're the seventh judge, I can't... Oh, I got Molly Karam. Oh, Molly. You have five M's now. Five, that makes five M's. I'm actually having a difficult time with my third T. I want to get that checked out, Matt.

I have what they would say. low T. You just Matt's, okay, should I do this segment while you just scroll through Hot Girls? I mean, it's,

I'm having a good time. I would piggyback off your conversation with Brian T. Smith, but I wouldn't pay attention. I was scrolling through Hot Girls. Well, it was great. Well, I'm still waiting for a start time in the NBA.

We don't have one yet. Isn't it crazy? Maria Manunos. There's a lot of hot M's. M's is the gift that keeps on giving. That's true. All right. I'm going to go to my audience.

If you're on Twitter. Oh, geez. You're such a pandering. I have two T's. I have to figure... I need a third T. First name or last name begins with a T. Matt's got two T's and he needs a third.

I need a third T. So I'd have regular T as compared to low T. Why don't you just do Matthew T? No, we're only doing a Fantasy 5, not a Fantasy 8. You can get H-E-W-H, Halliberry. Oh, yeah. E, Amelia Clark. There's no problems with most of these letters.

W. Wendy. Like you're always, I think it's a pretty easy one. There's one there's definitive one. Really? Yeah. Olivier Vernon. Okay. Just let me throw it out there. 713-212-579. If you want to get in on the conversation, 713-212-5-790. Josh Redick's going to join us in five minutes from now. I'm just going to give you a little heads up. I'm going to ask him a pro-resting question, open things up. Just going to because that's what the tradition is with Josh Redick being on the show.

You've got to go to Plinko's and Powerbombs on it. Do you get a snippet? Do you think he'd be a guest of my show? Ask him. The problem is, I got to ask him if he's done, if he watches game shows, too. Hmm. You start wrestling. What did you say, Brandon?

If you can get Josh Radick, you don't got to. You can carry the conversation. You're not going to say, if he's like, nah, I'll come on, but I don't really know games shows. You can say, all right, no, thanks. Then I have to get a special because I've only done two episodes of Planko and Powerbombs. Yes. But there have one has more wrestling on it, one has more game shows on it. But they're both going, every episode is my solemn promise to being the only game shows and pro wrestling podcast out there.

You're going to get both in every episode. Oh, that's until I get turnbuckles and that's too much started up. Yeah, I'm waiting for you on that. We're looking at funding right now. Are you? How's it going on that? Yeah, I figured as much. Astros open up a series with the A's.

And we'll ask Josh, you know, you want to win this division. but it's going to pretty much take them, they play with the A7 more times this year. What's the matter? You laughing about something. This is the text we got from the claim. Sorry, go ahead. You got to win six of the seven,

don't you if you're going to overtake them? Because even though the Astros beat up on the second-tier opponents in the American League West, so to the A's. They play a three out of three. Look, if you should get in the playoffs, you're all in a three-game series. It doesn't matter, right?

Everybody's, that's correct. Everybody's in a three-game series. Yeah, and we're hearing about a bubble for the post season, right? Yeah, possible. Jeff Passon's been talking about it for a while. So that would really discount any sort of home field advantage. Only you would get would be perhaps an easier opponent.

Yeah, but I mean, a tough opponent or an easy opponent, a three-game series, to me, it kind of, it's just doesn't matter. Yeah, I don't think the difference between being the last seed and the number four seed is going to be that big of a difference. All right, final hour, Josh Reddick joins us next here on Sports Talk 790. weekly, wild overreactions, locally and nationally. And it's going to be the media, it's going to be fans, it's just going to be so much overreaction. And the second you think you have a team figured out, you don't at all. That's what's going to happen all here across the league.

And the Texans would be a perfect team for that because Sean Watson can win every game that he plays. But occasionally the Texans screw things up. Have a great weekend, friend. Thank you for the time as always. Thank you, Matt. You got it. Brian T.

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It is a Matt Thomas show. Josh joins us at least once or twice a year, and the tradition of having Josh on is we will talk baseball, but we always got to get in some pro wrestling. Josh, why did Randall K. Orton hit our legend, Rick Flair and the Nads? I mean, come on now. That's so unwarranted and so mean to the Hall of Famer. Big heel turn.

Randy's always been a very good heel in this career, so it makes perfect sense why he's going on the front. little rampage and for all we know, they could be building up some kind of evolution match come WrestleMania time because he seems to be running down the, you know, the, the, click, so to speak, with Rick Flair and Sean Michael. So maybe he might go to your cheap shot, you know, Triple Age next and get us a nice little WrestleMania. Oh. One that I will watch in 10.

I feel like you're writing the scripts for the show already. That's nice to work on your part. I could be way better than Dave Greta. say that right now. Way better writing scripts than that guy. I got to be honest with you. And I started watching a lot more wrestling during the pandemic. I'm old school guys compared to the new stuff.

And I tried watching. I just can't get into wrestlers that weigh 150 pounds. And I can't get into every female wrestler that looks the exact same. And again, I may be not preaching the choir on this, but it's just, it's bothering me that there's no, like Charlotte Flair is sexy and different than the other eight or nine that all look the same. Yeah, I can get with that. I've never been the big 205 live guy.

Just kind of one of those things, I can't get into it. I like to see, you know, with you. I'm with you. I'm going to see the big guys, get body slam other big guys and going there and beating the crap out of each other. And that's what the women's matches. It's just not really the same unless you're there for different reasons, which, you know, we can keep PG at this moment.

Yeah, look, you're a father now. We can't be bringing that up at this point. Let's get serious. I will agree with you. Charlotte player is a very talented and sexy woman. Oh, God, I interviewed her at the Super Bowl, and I just fell in love from the moment I saw her. All right. Let's get – she is.

Real serious moment for one second. We've seen a lot of cancellations in your sport. Have you guys addressed it as a group at all? Where are we on playing tonight? Have you had any sort of conversations? I haven't had anything with my teammates yet. I imagine that'll be discussed when we get there. But as of right now, as far as I know, we're playing.

We've had these two days off. And, you know, I don't know what guys are thinking, but the way I look at it, we can't really afford a third day off. One with our pitching and our hitting, you know, that time it wore off if you don't have the right amount of play. So the, we're still out on that. I don't know what we'll see here in about. Yeah, you're heading there shortly. would imagine, then we'll move on to this, that this is a kind of conversation you don't want to

have via text. You guys want to be man to man on this. Would that be safe and saying? Correct. Next to message, you never know you don't really get a good feel for somebody. Like any other situation, talking face-to-face in a text message. You know, we've all had that conversation with our significant other wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever it may be to where you take something the wrong way, and this is a scenario where that just can't happen. Yeah. It's probably wisely done. Josh Reddick with us here on the Matt Thomas show. So what did you do?

I mean, I can't imagine you guys like off days. Who doesn't? You're playing 60 games and 66 days thereabouts. And I talked to Dusty about this a while ago. These two off days, and a lot of it was weather-related, came in kind of an interesting time because your bats were really starting to start to fire off and put up some big production in the last week or so. Yeah, I go back to like you said, off-days for me.

I really look forward to them, especially the older I get. You know, this 33 years probably been my hardest year and, you know, recovering and doing what I need to do to get my body right for the next day. So I think these two days are a great way to reset the body, but, you know, hopefully the swing is still there. And like you said, I think without getting our bats filing out, done, there's just another way to try to get us down in the dumps with the way this season's going for us in particular with the virus and recovering from everything that's going on to spring training. So we've got to go out there and do our job regardless. And it's not going to be easy when you have all days against season when you have guys like the Oakland A's coming in who are probably one of the better teams in baseball this year.

And I think they know that, and we know that as well. But we've got to go about our program and do our routines the same way we would anyway and go out there and kick some butt. Hi, Josh, Ross Villarreal with you. And you mentioned trying not to get down in the dumps and things like that. And we know that the NBA paused. and part of it has been, you know, they're under a lot of mental pressure and stress.

And you mentioned all that. What has that been like for you? What is your experience like as opposed to years past? Just from a mental aspect of day-to-day and getting tested and all that stuff. Draining. Mentally and physically draining for everything, not just, you know, not just saliva testing or whatnot, but the precautions that we take,

getting to the ballpark, we get to the ballpark, say, here at home, we drive into our little garage and, You know, we're getting our temperatures checked twice. We're getting, you know, the car search with the dog is normal. That's every year. I'm not a big fan of carrying around a lanyard with my name on it for like a name tag, so to speak. That's got to be scanned twice when we get to the field. That's something I'm having a tough time adjusting because it's something you can't forget or it's a whole big debacle.

Obviously, spitting into a little tube is zero fun. But doing what we need to do to be able to play is the biggest key right now. think. And for somebody like me, I wanted to play the whole time when we were going to negotiating. I've always wanted to be a part of it because this game has won my life. And then two, like I said earlier, I'm not getting any younger. So I want to play as many seasons as possible. I don't want to go out there and miss the season and come back at 34. And, you know, looking back saying what if, so to speak. Yeah.

The protocols we do take are a little, excuse me, demanding and do a lot of wear and tear on you because when you go on the road, you know, you can't leave your hotel room, and a lot of families can't travel, and if they do, they've got to get tested. And for me, that's also tough because I've got these two boys that are 11-month-old twins at the house, and I really don't like leaving a whole lot. Right. But I would love to have them on the road as much as possible, because that was the plan this year for us to be able to have them on the road

and come see Daddy at the ballpark and hang out with Daddy in the clubhouse. So it's definitely frustrating, I think it would be the most single accurate way. to use in this situation. Two more questions for Josh Redick of the Astros here on the Matt Thomas show. I travel with the Rockets calling their games, not down the bubble, but when we normally do, sometimes you have to a game, you want to go eat, or let's see you go back to the room and you're tired and then you can't sleep. It's 1.30 in the morning.

You're like, man, I can go for an I hop omelet right now, and I can get up and I can go do that. Is that the hardest part of the road? Is that once that you step in that room and you shut the door, essentially, they don't want you leaving until you, it's time for you to go to the ballpark, right? Basically, yeah, we do have a list of restaurants and they give us that we can, they would like this to order from, but also Uber Eats is still is not ruled out for us. They're not saying we can't do it. So for the better part of this year, that's been my go-to for breakfast.

And you actually drop one of my favorites. IHop and Denny's are my two go-teacher breakfast. Just because this is good little chocolate chip pancakes, man. Those things are really good. And if we're after a game where I want to get something, if I want to order, say, a pizza or something like that, then that's, that's, That's still on the table. It's not like they're completely quarantining us to where we can't have anybody or anything come to our room. The only difference is there, I think they have to drop it off at the front desk,

and then the hotel personnel has to bring it up. So it's not like we're interacting with the outsiders. It's just the hotel staff bringing it up. So at least we still have that. It's not a complete quarantine. So we can still get a good amount of food that we might appreciate more than, you know, the late night 1am Club Sando from the room service. Yeah, by the way, that Cub Sando is $38.

dollars it doesn't include a gratuity either so just as you would know that. Well, where we stay it does. It's a $30 $12 service delivery fee and a $10 gratuity fees. At the end of at the end of your club sandwich and prize you're looking at it about a $65 expense.

Yeah, but you're really rich so I'm not really overly concerned about that for you, but we move on. Hey, before I let you run, you have been all over the batting order largely because of injuries. You've seen Jose move up and down just from a baseball perspective and you've been up and down. You've been up and down your entire lineup in your career.

Tell me the difference in batting six or seventh as compared to second and how you approach it and maybe some of some pitch selections you see. The one thing I noticed when I'm hitting second, which is probably one of my favorite spots in the lineup outside of the three hole, is more protection. You know, you're more around better-known hitters are in that middle of that lineup. So when I got stuck in there behind Springer and in front of Bregman and even the Michael Brantley, it reminded me a lot when I hit second for this team in 17 when I had Al-Tubei behind me,

Bregman, and just a bunch of stars hitting behind me. So I was probably one of the guys that got overlooked in that situation. And I just tend

to do better. But hitting down in the six and seven hole, obviously, you don't have as much protection as you would, you know,

have in those situations. And that's not a knack to our guys down there. It's just how the way the lineup works. I think I get a lot more off speed when I'm hitting down in the lineup.

So I think I look for more off speed and maybe not swing as early in the count because they may try to flirt with the strives on with me a little bit more to get me to chase and get myself out to move the line. So I've got to be a little bit more patient, I think, down there as opposed to being more aggressive

early on in the lineup. You're always forthcoming with us. We really appreciate it. I hope you guys are playing tonight and go get those aides because it's time for you to start chipping away at their leading the American League West. Josh, thanks for the time this afternoon. That's right, man. Appreciate you having me.

All right, take care, never. Josh Reddick with us here on the Matt Thomas show. One of my faves. He just got a little bit of everything. Yeah, wrestling, I hop, baseball. Ball, season veteran. The protocols are draining. He's being truthful.

Yeah. Everything would be draining. Great sport. Make lots of money. Happy to do it. I mean, you can't be a little bit draining. Everybody has wonderful jobs, but everybody can't say every part of their job is perfect. And this is what they're going through there.

Well, not everybody has a wonderful job. Well, thankfully, the three of us are very happy in our positions. Very good. No complaints about good. The Matt Thomas Show 12 to 3. I found my third team. by the way. Oh, did you?

I feel pretty, pretty good about my list. Nobody's going to have an ugly girl on their list. No, but it's all going to, now the question is going to be, can 30 plus be okay? I don't know. Because let's face it, 25-year-olds, generally speaking, you're going to look better than 36-year-olds, unless a 36-year-old just looks great for her age. Sometimes you've got to get a seasoned vet in the mix, Matt. Yeah, you can't have a bunch of rookies.

untested, battle tested. That's a battle tested veterans. That's what we got. Who've been through some wars. Thus the Matt Thomas show, Fantasy 5, 2.30. Right now it's 211 on Sports Talk, Subedetti. Back to Matt Thomas.

Drives this date to Lutz Center field. This is Sports Talk 790, home of Astros baseball. All right, we're going to hear from Mike Danton in just a second, not live, but on not tape. Memorex? Is it live or is it live? Well, he is speaking to the media right now

on a conference on a Zoom meeting. These kids don't know the struggles of the cassette tapes back in the day, Matt. I found a cassette tape of some of my earliest work and I want to listen to it to see how awful I was. Can we do it on the air? Well, I got to find a cassette player. I have a cassette player.

Will you please bring it next week and we'll play some early Matt Thomas? I'm sure it's wretched. Well, I believe I have the technology to dub it. I have this thing that I got for my, for my birthday a couple. It's a, it's a record player, CDs, tapes, everything. Oh, nice.

And I think it records. Okay. I want to listen to it first, just in case. No, I want to listen to it first. No, you don't get a choice. Well, I have the tape player. I can find out of people. You're going to come over?

I could. You're going to, we're going on Twitch and listen to it. Okay. All right. A strange yet interesting release today from the Astros. Not about Yoran Alvarez's knees. So have you been missing ballpark food? No.

Well, apparently others have. So Aramark and DoorDash are going to provide Astro fans the opportunity to, quote, bring the ballpark home with them during Astro's home and road games this season. The new ball program will allow fans to order a package of ballpark exclusive food through DoorDash that you would get at. Wow. So I'm looking at the pictures. So, like, $9 nachos, $12 beers. So here's, and I don't, I don't, there's a written release, but there's pictures that also back it up, too. Here's what you could potentially buy from DoorDash.

Tostitos, crispy rounds, grocery store. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're going to put the nasty RICO's nach cheese on it. Cracker Jacks, grocery store. Yeah, they're going to run you $7 for those. Ricos, Halipinos and cheese. See, I said Rico. I told you, Ricos.

You get the big juggericos for like a dollar at H.E.B. Nolan Ryan's All Natural Beef sausage. No one Ryan's All Natural Beef. Grocer store. Yeah, well, I believe it's a Kroger exclusive or it was. I don't know if it is anymore. Okay, whatever, but you can find it. What I'm thinking is there isn't a single thing on here that I can't get at the grocery store.

Where's Sheriff Blaylock's nachos? Can I get that po-boy place down on the left field line? pretty good. Shake-shack, you can get it shake-shack. That's true. Torches, you can get a torches. And it's cheaper. Yeah, I will be passing on this offer. That's just me. Well, I'm here to help because I'm a marketer.

And I do, I want Aramark to be successful, won't the Astros? I mean, we got to help out everybody. Okay. Here's how I think you do it. You do this order and then you have it delivered by an Astro alum. That's what makes it different. You know what you do is if you get peat. the peanut guy throw it at you.

Social distancing, he sanitizes, and he tosses peanuts at you from like 10 feet outside your door. Oh, okay. And then you've got to slip them cash. In addition to the ballpark food, each package will also include a complimentary assortment of Astros merchandise, such as foam fingers, souvenir cups,

and exclusive Astros Gate giveaway items. Okay, now that makes a little more sense. Okay, can I get the helmet full of nachos? Well, let me tell you something. You order a bunch of food, and you get a replica American League Championship brings? That's a win. You can't get the replica ring at Kroger.

I don't want an AL ring. You can't go to H.E.B. and get you a phone finger there. That's a loser's ring. No, it's not. No, it's. They lost a World Series. You want a pennant.

And you lost the World Series. Did people in 2005 go, oh, this is a loser ring, win the National League Penet? No. I don't have one of those replicas either. Yeah, because you were in, like, middle school. That's not true. I had graduated from college for, well, I was graduated from high school in two years. Two years before that.

So again, I'll say it again. in middle school. My intellect was. So, yeah, I'm not going to go buy this stuff unless I get a bunch of extra stuff from them. I would need foam finger. I would need Bob Ford to come to my house and introduce the food items. Ooh, I like that. I would need.

Do you want the guy tossing peanuts at you? I would need Shane Reynolds to stop by and say hello. And a guy, as long as the guy is not going to, you know, do his business next to the snow cones. I don't want delivered snow cones. I, unfortunately. Through no fault of anybody except that one person, no one wants to eat snow cones anymore. I think we're in a snow cone free zone. Yeah.

I want the helmet full of nachos. Now, they do have those big ass chocolate chip cookies, which are delicious. Those are good, too. Or they have the bluebell stations as well. Yeah, but you can get the bluebell, you know? Dang. You can also get all the toppings, but it's a lot easier to have the toppings right in front of you as compared to going to buy 15 different toppings. One time I crushed all entire helmet full of nachos by myself.

I was not proud. What's the best food you've had at the bottom? ballpark. Oh, it wasn't good. It was just that nasty chili cheese with jalapinos all over. I mean, they do burgers are fine. The chicken strips. I do enjoy every year the let come eat at our stadium and try all the new stuff. They, uh, they would, they came around with the tamaleigh factory tamales. Those aren't great. Sorry, tamale factory. They haven't spent money with us yet. No, but they're not, certainly not going to now. Well, if they want to pay me, I think they're fantastic. There you go. You're certainly a radio 101 now.

Yeah, I think the key to this is getting as many alums possible. Jose Cruz, can you handle Katie, Cyprus, Shane Reynolds? You got Kingwood, Umbolitas Caseta. Is Wade Miller going to show up? Wade Miller is very busy. What's Tim Redding up? Now, Craig Bissio and Jeff Bagwell will do it, but you've got to spend a certain amount and they're not leaving outside the loop.

Yeah, I'm more of a Scott Ellerton budget level. Wouldn't that be funny if somebody's delivered food, do you like that? knock knock who's there um this is uh this is this is Craig Reynolds what Craig this is Jose Jose Fiscaino hey Jose how's it going man everything all right this is Ricky Gutierrez I had the lone hit against uh carry Wood in the 20 strikeout game and it really was an error this is Billy Wagner

Billy what are you doing wags oh I've got 14 orders of Nolan Ryan's all beef sausage here for you and a foam finger come let me end Maybe Blummer can get out there. Blum, let me tell you. Blum would be awesome doing this. He would do great. Yeah. That's a, I'll call the Astros out of the show.

We'll get this fixed. All right. And they can all wear Crush City shirts. I talked about Crush City to a salesman the other day. They're like, you dumbass. They were all universally ridiculing me. Ouch. I should have said, you should have trademark.

I said, I was trying to maintain a relationship. They said, screw relationship. It's all about business. Yeah, Matt. You think the Astros give a crap about your relationship? with you. Clearly. I made a major mistake. It's okay. It didn't take off that much. Oh, it just took off.

You were watching AT&T baseball broadcast? Yes. And what are they? What's a little swipe little graphic that we show? Crush City. Methodist Hospital? No, that's a sponsor. Okay. Our buddies at Ram's shirts went off with it. But we love them, so we're okay with that. We love the Astros, too. But it's just money I could have had.

Sorry for bringing it up. So if I would have trademarked it, they would have come to me and said, what is it going to take? I don't know. How does that work? You got to file the trademark and then you have to have it approved. Well, who would approve of the National Trademark Association? There's a Trademark Office. Yeah, there's a trademark office.

And they would have said, well, the Baltimore Orioles used it. I would have said, okay, but Baltimore didn't trademark it either. No one ever trademarked it. No one. Well, then you should have been fine. Yeah, but I kept getting cynical viewpoints from you. Not me. Yeah.

I've never told you. You said, well, Baltimore thought of it first. I said, did they? And I really didn't know that. Yeah, they did. But it worked here. Our guy Bunn said, made up a song, Crush City, mate. That's true.

Shirts were made. The stadium wall. I mean, it made Park for a while. Had it. And then they changed it to something goofy like, what was it? Oh, Hustle. Hustle Town. Nobody ever called it Hustle Town.

It's been Hustle Town for some time. No, this was after Crush City, though. I know this for. a fact. Trust me. I had these memories vivid in my mind. No, I'm saying Hustled Houston's been called Hustletown for years. Okay, but they didn't associate with the asteros until the playoffs. After the second album of one South Park Mexican, Hustledown. I only have his first album, so I don't know. Oh, really? Yeah. What was that?

Hillwood Hustlers? Don't really remember. Oh, yeah? Just give me a minute to look back at my discography. Discography? Discography? Yeah. Yeah, I'll know at that point. Okay. All right, we need five judges that appreciate women. Love women. Well, yeah, women or men. Well, you could love both.

That's fine. We're arguing. But, you know, we're looking for people to just be beauty pageant judges, right? Okay. My letters are M-A-T-T-T. I had to find a woman either with the first name that started with an M or a last name. Ross's letters are R-O-S-S-V. Yes.

Ross v. RV. People still don't know that my name is sports RV because it's my initials. R-O-S-S-V. I am M-A-T-T-T-T. If you like to help us judge our list of hottest women using the letters of our name, 713-212-5-790. We need five judges right this second. 7-13-212-5-790. Fantasy 5-7-9. F-E-5. Women Hot. We need your help. Right now a message for Shaw's at the corner of West Graham Montrose. Those folks have been around since 1966 taken care of all the fine diamond jewelry needs of Southeast Texas. Zero percent financing for 12 months on most purchases. Some exclusions do apply.

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Well, I mean, obviously he's better. He'll go through practice today. And if things are normal, then we expect him to be ready to go. I'm sure a lot of time restraints. We have not talked about that at all. And that won't be discussed until tomorrow I'm planning on it. But you never know. And Russell will be hard to hold down. So I'm sure he's anxious and ready to roll. he's going. Oh, yes. When Woj says he's going, he's going. Let's go, baby.

This three days off has really been a blessing for the Rockets. James Hart was gas at the end of the Fourth. And for America. Well, I'm mostly concerned about the Rockets. And mostly about the Rockets. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we need your votes. 713-212-5. It is time for the weekly edition of the Fantasy Five.

713-2-1-2-5-790 to judge and vote for me remember if you don't call in and judge I leave it up to Brendan and I think he's had some great taste as of late so maybe you know what don't call in today Brendan you want to be the lone voter on this you get one vote and one vote only that sounds awesome so if no one calls I'm okay with that 713 2125790 let's go with a fantasy 5

M-A-T-T-T-T. I have to take an actress, model, swimmer, personality, and either the first name or the last name has to begin with one of the letters of my name, M-A-T-T-T-T. Wonderful. And Ross is R-O-S-S-V. Correct.

I won the Fantasy Five last week. I will technically go first. Because really the only, I mean, we don't have much crossover on this, so it doesn't really mean that big of a difference on this. That's correct. So I'm going to go, I'll, I might just go in order. I'll go with M.

Yeah, why wouldn't you go in order? No, no, this sounds good. Sexy actress, multiple movies. M was the hardest for me. But when she played Tanya Harding, Margot Robbie did something for me that hadn't happened in a long time. What's that? Made me appreciate her fine theatrical skills. and she's luscious.

Wait, why can't, she's on my list for R. She off the board now? She's off the board, absolutely. Well, I don't have any backup. Then you better get working. Because I made my list. You better get working then. You didn't say you were going to draft somebody

and then I was going to have anybody. Well, you can't, that's ridiculous. Yeah. Why can't I take Margo Roe? We've never had the same people on a fantasy five. We've never done any, we usually do something that's off a list, not by letter. I'm calling BS on this. I'm calling BS on you.

Brandon, what do you say? Should I have absolutely. told him that once a name is there it's not available? You never said that. I think you needed to be prepared. You knew she had an M in her name. So what? So do you really need to admit it? It's fine.

No, because I'll do it on my entire list if you want me to. If you need a name. Whatever. Let me start with Oh. Well, there's, I already told you there's Okay, go ahead. This is ridiculous. I'm under protest. Let it be known. I'm going to go with somebody who I know Matt is

big fan of. So let's start with, oh, I'm going to go with Olivia Munn. That was also a potential M for me. Okay. All right. I'll go next. I'll go A. Brazilian model, actress, lovely, loves the NBA, Adriana Lima. Adrian Alima's a good pick. I'll go with an S, one of the greatest of all times, the short list of short lists, Scarlett, Johansson. What is that face you're making?

Just. Nobody's going to have an ugly woman, Matt. No, I just, I'm a huge, Scarlet fan. She's very nice young lady. You know if she's going to get married to, don't you? She's been married like four times. It's fine. You know who her latest Conquest is? Conquest? Well, I mean, I'm sure that

he doesn't mind. Oh, that Joker from the SNL. He's the straight-laced white guy on Saturday Night Live. He's not funny. He's not funny. Colin Jost. Yeah, he and the other guy he's on with was Michael Chey. They're not funny. the only time they're funny is when, like, once in a while, they will read each other's jokes and they don't see them ahead of time.

Right. That's the only time they're never, they're always funny. Most of the time, it's just ridiculously uncomfortable because they're not funny. He is so overmatched. Have we ever done? We've done overmatched couples before, right? Yeah, I think we did like, you know, I love it and Julia Roberts. That's the new number one is Colin Jost to Scarlett Johanson.

Okay. All right. And out of kicking of coverage. Yeah, I'm going to T, model, actress, famous super couple, Chrissy Teigen. Chrissy Teigen? Oh, yeah. That's a terrible pick.

No, I don't believe so. Her face is mutilated and she's not, never been... I would like for her to walk in and say, Ross, do you find my face mutilated and you would say, no, it's not. If you made me, if she asked that, I would have to be honest and say yes. You would not be honest. She's been very open and honest about getting a lot of work done. And it works well for her.

And I'm not looking, frankly, in her face exclusively. That's a bad pity. All right. Next for me, I'm going to go with, man, I actually have two that I want to go with with the S. It's very difficult for me. But I'm going to go with an all-time classic. One of the famous pussycat dolls, Nicole Scherziger. Really?

Yes. Huh. Wasn't, I didn't have an S to play with here, but that's not a bad pick. I wasn't expected to caught me out of off guard a little bit. Scarlett and Schorzinger. I'm happy with it. with my S's. Again,

Livian, I think, I think you're winning byproduct because of your name. Okay. Your picks are just very easy because you have an easy name. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go a little bit on older cars staying with T. Charlis, they're on. Pound for pound year after year, just sexy AF. Never let you down.

Yeah, she looked great monster. That's why, and then she put the makeup on, or took it off, and then we saw her as she was, and like, oh, M.G. Charlize there.

Okay. Okay. Next, I've got a V. And, you know, I tried to go against the clichés. You can't. But at the end of the day, she's just one of the sexiest women on the planet. You've got to go with Sophia Vergara. Last T for me was more difficult than I thought it was going to be.

But I went with sports broadcasting. Oh, really? Yes, I did. And I remember that I remembered that she had some photos out that were meant for one of her friends, F buddies, that got out and, needless to say, was quite impressed with her efforts. Carissa Thompson from Fox Sports. Oh, wow. Okay. That's a good one.

Well. You down to NAR. There's a couple actually that I found Really wanted Margo Roby But nobody told me that people were going to be off the list But that's okay I'm going to go with An actress

That was in the wedding crashers Also of course famously in the notebook I'm going with Rachel McAdams Yeah my list crush is yours I should have changed the rules To different letters in the name Because You had two S's and R and O

I had to worry about three T's and one category. This is your thing. That's because every time I ask you to come up with a list, I get nothing from you. You didn't ask me. I texted you yesterday. What'd you say? This list right here. At 10.30 at night. Yeah, oh, really? Mr. I got to play video games

of 4 in the morning. I only played until midnight. All right. Here's the list. Margot Robi. Adrian Alima. Chrissy Teigen. Charleston. Charley-Steron. Carissa Thompson for me. Ross is Rachel McAdams. Olivia Munn, Scarlet, Johansson. Nicole. I'm always been sure.

Scherzinger and Sophia Vigara. Who wins the Fantasy 5? Let's go to Ben on 790. Ben, you ready to play? And tell me who you believe won the Fantasy 5. Ross or me? Yes, sir. I'm ready to play.

I'm going to have to go with Matt with Adriana Lima pick. That's my girl right there. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for your contributions. She's quite attractive. She's shortless goats. She's almost in the Vergara list of always go-to, you know, number one picks.

Yeah, Lima. has been drafted in this thing six times. Sean on the Fantasy 5. Sean, who wins Ross or me? Wow, Ross has two F's and you got two cheese. Nobody said Tina Turner

or Sharon Sarandon, so I guess I'll go with Ross. Thank you. Neither one of those will be on my list, ever. You're not putting Susan Sarandon on the list? I would actually probably go Tina Turner, but it would have to be like 1968, Tina Turner.

2020 Tina Turner is in her 80s, right? Both Durham, Susan Sarandon had a little Geneseecois. Uh-uh, uh-uh. I have never been attracted. Not even in like Rocky Horror was I attracted to her. I really don't remember Rocky Horror. That's rather forgettable. Although it's available every Friday.

I saw it in Austin, yeah. Jimmy on 790, Jimmy, who wins a Fantasy 5 roster me. So to me, the little stuff about the same. And I'm actually, I didn't really like the way Ross was protesting. to me, that's all part of the strategy. So, Rock knows I love him, but I'm going with Matt today. All right, thank you very much.

So it wasn't about my pick. Well, he said the list about the fact that I got blindsided. He said he was the list for even, so he had to find a determining factor. Okay. And your bitch factor lost. Bill on 790, Bill who wins a Fantasy 5, Ross or me. Man, you guys see anything like any black women on your list? Well, I could, I, I don't.

I mean, age, I don't have an age. B, you know how I feel about Halle Berry. You know how I feel about Beyonce. I mean, what else can I tell you? Wait a minute. Black women matters, Matt. Oh, that's true. Black women do matter.

Oh, they do. I'm going to Ross for Rupal. Thanks. For Rupal. I didn't pick Rupal, but thank you. That canceled out the last boat. Nicole Scherger's dark-skinned. She's not black.

All right. So I have two votes. Ross has two boats. we allow the we allow radio listeners to go two more votes I need 713, 212, 5, 790

Patrick, I'm 790 Patrick who wins the fantasy 5 me or Ross Oh, Ross hands down All those fears you are I don't care All right, that's third What are you hanging up

These people We guess we've got to get this segment done with Okay We need one more listener here If not Well we can't go to the seventh vote Because we just don't We can't

So we need one more call Why can't we go to seven votes Because he's missed or seven vote. We need one more listener to call in. Well, if he, well, I guess we... Well, let's figure this on. All right. All right.

They're calling right now. Just go. Okay, let's go over you go. A line one. Who's this? Stephen. Stephen, who wins Ross for me? Man, I was going to go with you, Ross, because you had to live your mind, but...

I'm still giving it to you. Go with Ross. Thank you. Brendan, we don't need you again. Brendan, who would you're gone with? I actually would have gone with Ross this time. Okay, shut up. All right, back to wrap.

Tegan is one of the worst picks in the history of Fantasy 5. Okay, if she's lying naked here, you're like, no, you're one of the worst picks ever. Well, I would say, where's John Legend? Your husband, who loves you, I'll call it, get him on the horn. So my third vote for T would have been Tiffany and Bertheson, but I feel like that's going to, there's a sum in the population that just doesn't appreciate say by the bell like I do. And by the way, to the guy who voted because I was bitching, that was, I mean, I had Rachel McAdams ready the whole time. I was just giving you.

You're such a fraud. You are such a fraud. That's why people, I tell you, don't vote for him. Don't vote for Ross ever. He's a fraud. I just like messing with you. F-R-A-U-D. Fraud.

That's funny. I also, for an S, though, I wanted to go with Paige Spir-Nak, the golfer. Do you know who she is? Here my other end. She's so hot. Have you seen her, Brendan? Look, Paige Spir-Speer-Nak, you're welcome. I had Olivia Monsonis and.

M. I almost took that from you to just to really be an A-hole. Oh, I would have been stuck with an O then. I wasn't ready for the hat. Minka Kelly was an M for me too. Okay. I love me. I can't believe. I know you're a big Mila Kunis fan. Milakunis on the list, too. All right, before we wrap it up, we got a segment to go here. Oop, Steam cleaning is a company you can call. If you have fraudulent people coming to your house, like sports RV and dumping wine and spaghetti on your carpets, 281, 8220561, is a number you can call. It's 281 822.0561 and the folks at Oops

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Escalated. Home of the Stroes. All right. A couple of announcements to make. My buddy Ken listened to show sent me the life and times of Chrissy Teigen. I'm going to take a rare I was wrong on this. The photos between her of 2010 to where they are now,

yeah, it's not good. I must have been spending, and again, that's that I spent a lot of time looking at Chrissy Tegan photos. So if I was to look up the best of Chrissy Tegan, I'm going to get 2013, 2014 on this. She looked, yeah, way better back in the day. Something has happened to her.

And so if you're saying 2020, which that's the rules of our game, I absolutely deserve to lose. You know how that sometimes athletes will say, you know, I didn't play a good game that day or the other team was a better team? Yes. I, for the first time, in a long time,

are going to say, I deserve to lose that one. Yeah. Because whatever she did to her face didn't work. And now her face doesn't move. I know Adam Klein is a huge Chrissy Teagan fan. Rocks for brains.

Have you shown the audience or knew you? No. Why are you hiding it? Because it's on my time. What do you mean your time? If I want to, I will. If I don't, I won't. So you're saying I can't take a picture of you right now and put it on social media.

Hey, let the man grieve. He was the Michael Jordan of hair for years. Do you generally speaking hate what you look like right now? I look amazing. Well, your modesty hasn't cut back at all. You don't do this if you think you're ugly. Precisely. See?

So we're on the same page. I've had more women tell me how attractive I am without the hair. That's a lie. Okay. Really? I'm just saying Why does he have to sound So surprised, Matt?

See? I'm just saying It's kind of messed up He can say what he says What kind of chips for those? Sour cream and onion? Did I get this right? The Fantasy 5 was not 5

It was based on the letters of your name Yeah, we're trying to Why didn't you read my text on the air? I mean, I guess I could Read it on the air, see what happens Let me see here You're going to have to clean it up Don't read that.

Matt, you won. Ross always has his friends called in. Now he's just lying. Now you're making this up. I cannot read yours on the air. I know. Let's see. Matt,

that's an automatic loss, terrible pick. Single worst pick of all time. How many letters are in each of your names? Five? Well, if you don't count Matthew. M-A-T-T-T. He went R-O-S-S-B. Or Rosamus.

You just did your last initial. Yeah. I thought you're doing the whole name. That'd be way better. By the other, Rial. Guess who are going to be here a minute. More choice. Guess who is a guest?

You know, I forgot to bring up to Josh Reddick was Plankone PowerBomb. You're going to ask him if he could come on your podcast. You're the guest next week. When is the day? I'm like dying to do this. We'll figure it. Well, what's his game show? What are you going to talk about game show?

Here's what we will reveal. Oh. Number one. It's a cold of T's. Number one, we're going to talk about his wrestling main experiences because he's going to a bunch of them. How many are you gone to? Oh, geez.

A lot. Oh, geez. Jeez. He should prune your trees. How many are you gone to? Five at least? At least five. Okay.

Yeah. So we're going to do that. Okay. And then we're going to talk about, and I'll give this away, you were there too. Didn't you go to Price is Right with us? Yes, I did. I'll use that picture too.

So we're going to talk about going to see the live prices right, and what a scan that was. Oh, my gosh. It was so bad. And then he and I are going to each have our three favorite, all-time entrance songs of our favorite wrestlers. Oh, wow. This is like Ross's dream podcast. Yeah, this sounds thrilling.

He's going to have this on repeat. while he works out. He's going to be... He hates... He hates Plankle and Powerbombs. He hates wrestling. He hates America. I don't hate wrestling.

He hates life. I don't... You have to care about wrestling. I just don't care about it. You do care about it. If you didn't care about it, you wouldn't have such demonstrative responses about the subject.

What's to make Matt upset? It's to make me upset too. Yeah, and you. You want to work with this guy? I care about trolling you. I love Ross. If you work with him, he'll piss you off at least three times a day.

I know, but I mean, yeah, but that... Well, thankfully, the show is good, though. Thankfully, you and Wex are right-in-law. Everybody I work with always does that, right? That's Clinton. He'll be joined by Wexler. Jeff Blum is in as well, all part of the A team.

And it's up next on Sports Talk 790. I'll talk with you at some point during Rockets broadcast, Ross. The NECAP at 6 o'clock. The sports RV show tomorrow, 11 to 1. And I have Sports Talk 790. And I have Astros on Saturday. So a lot of us still over the weekend. on Sunday.

What it is, what it is. I'll get a day off at some point. 18 next month. Talk to y'all.