The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Wild ending In The MLB, Skattebo! Do The Astros Do Anything Else?

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Wild ending In The MLB, Skattebo! Do The Astros Do Anything Else?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You're a host at 1003 on Sports Talk 790. Matt, you are my favorite arrogant host. Oh. Earlier than now. All we do is catch strange.

Narcistic. Yes. All the above. The Matt Thomas show. With Ross. Don't forget you. I've learned some of my worst habits I got called an A-hole too or something

Oh my gosh Normally, okay We were on a real talk Friday Yeah first of all We miss Sean He was a great part of our station Our industry is It's tough

It just is And we miss him As a matter of fact The Sean and I've communicated multiple times And he is going to be missed He's very very strong He will be back on his feet

Whatever he does I ain't worried about him He's not worried about himself He will pick up What is it? Pick up your bootstraps Is that what you do? Pick himself up by his bootstraps There you go

And but we are all good And so he sent a nice message out To thank all of you For listening to the station And it took a five or six of you To take an opportunity to say how bad I personally suck And how 790 is going down a hole

That will never come out of Yes That may happens We are the cockroaches of 790 Matt You and I have survived a lot of lineup changes. Yeah. And a lot of, unfortunately, departures. And normally we catch a couple strays.

And, well, it's happening this time. Yeah. I'm getting frankly used to it. It's normally, why are they keeping this guy? Why are they letting this guy go and keeping this guy? I can't believe they let go with Josh Innes and they're letting those idiots Matt and Ross stay. Yeah. Which usually, it happens.

It comes to the territory. It does. And that's why I'm kind of, I don't make a light of it. look, I'm going to miss Sean. I didn't want Sean to lose his job. It was a terrible, terrible part of our business, our terrible part of us. It was strictly financial. Strictly financial. And so we have to, the show must go on. Sean would do the same thing if the rolls reversed.

Yes. And, but man, it's, it's fine. There's some people that are just, man, we're catching some straits. Catch us straight. I'm, man. I'm muting people. That's fine. Oh, I'm going right at him. I, I'm no longer going to just, I'm no longer going to just, I'm no longer going to just let you take shots at me. No more. I'm going to make a nice guy. No more. So just call me Mr. You know, here what she's going to call me? First of all, I'm the

Texans insider. Oh, no. I gave you the Joe Mixing the news before anybody else did. Okay. Number two, I am Mr. Texas. Oh, no. See, I can't back any of these. I can't back any of this. I am Mr. arrogant. Okay. Yeah, that one I can actually back. Err. Exactly. See, Jonathan, you didn't know all these layers of my life, did you? Until you were, until you're part of the show for a while. You know, the only thing I will say you are is a Texas Insider. Everything else is a little

But thank you. You know what? That from you, I'll take that. I'll take that. I hope you guys are in a good mood because Ross and I are and we are here on Anything Goes Friday, which means you get the longest leash in Houston Sports Radio. There are some shows that don't take any calls at all because they like to hear themselves

talk. There are some shows that say I'm not putting this person on. We are going to give you the longest leash in Houston Sports Radio. Oh, this guy blocked me. He was literally following me this morning. Who was it? That's funny. Steven something or other.

That's fine. Oh, it's, you know, it's going to happen. You're going to lose followers. I didn't do, you know, it is what it is. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. The longest lease in Houston Sports Radio happens today on this radio show as it does every Friday.

We've got, I'm sorry, he's coming up at 1130. Ross owes me a huge, I'm sorry, for something that just happened a few minutes ago. Okay. I also am going to apologize to a caller interacted with this week. Really? Yes. Don't tell me any more about it. I don't want to talk about it all fair.

It's called the radio T's, man. It's good. Okay. You got to listen to 1130. We're going to have at 1030, bottom of the hour, if you did not hear the conversation that Chandlerum had with the A team, we're going to play some of that today on the show because it was good because Chandler was really out in front on all this Astro stuff. So for us compared to guessing about the speculation about what was going on,

Chandler was the one on the scene, so we'll play some of that for you at 1030. Love it. I mentioned 1130. We've got I'm sorry's. We've got Dr. Rodo at 1 o'clock. And I am bucking out a little early today to go catch the Cougars flight to Oklahoma State. So I have sent Ross two non-Florida stories. I have sent Jonathan one, and I'm going to send you a second one, Jonathan.

So each of you are going to have two non-Florida stories to get to. Whether you choose to use them is really of your own prerogative. but I thought in the spirit of the non-in-forta stories, these would be stories that I would easily use as my segment of non-forter stories. So whether you choose them or not is up to you. Okay. But they are uncomfortable. Most of them are, as usually the segment is on the radio show.

I don't know if I want to do these. What would you say? The one you don't want to send, send one than Jonathan, would you? Well, yeah, we'll see. Let's see how much research I do between now and that. That's funny. All right. No, believe it or not, right?

I'll be fine. I want to give you guys two stories because... Thank you, Matt. And then I'll listen and see how you... You're so gracious, Matt? Well, I mean, I want to make sure you're taking care of. Humble and gracious. That you should be...

No, no, no, no, no. I am arrogant. I am 100% arrogant. Please don't forget that. That's funny. That's funny. All right, on the radio show today, what a wacky night in sports.

Scataboo. Yes. First of all, I've tried to spell it Without looking at it, that's never going to happen. That's not that bad. It's not as what you think it would be. S-K-A-T-E-B-O? Yeah, but I was way off.

Okay. So I'm just saying that I scat-boot it. He was amazing last night. The Eagles look... His yards per carry weren't amazing, but... I don't care. He scored three touchdown. Yeah, fantasy football.

I lost... I'm playing Adam Clayton. I mean, if... Does he have scatiboo? Yes. Do you understand how embarrassing is to lose at Adam Clayton? It's bad. It's going to happen. I'm getting my ass kicked already, and he's already used two players.

They both went off last night. Oh, you know what? He got up to five yards per carry. Good for Scatibu. I'm still holding a grudge from the Texas game. You should. Guy almost single-handedly beat you. I was overrated.

Not overrated. He's in the Giants, and he's a... And then he goes on the post-game show and's taking his shirt off with Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's a good story. Then you've got Philadelphia and the Dodgers last night going to 11 innings. Yes. And that damn pitcher. Oh, Philadelphia. How are we feeling after last night?

So the young man's name, which I don't have it memorized, because I frankly don't follow Philadelphia and Phillies pitching. But I sent you, matter of fact, I sent you the guy's post-game reaction. Let me make sure I get his name right. This is the relief picture. This is the 11th inning. Orion Kirkering? I've never heard of him.

Not that, again, I know if I should, but I just don't follow middle relievers for the Philadelphia Phillies. Orion's a great name. That's a top three constellation. That's not a, I mean, it's interesting. Yeah. I'm going to go Ursa Major, Orion, and Scorpius. Top three constellations. Would you name your children in that order?

If you had three? Maybe a Cassiopeia in there. Yeah. Orion, O-R-I-O-N, Kirkering. Orion. Orion. O'Ryan. Yeah, he looks like he's going to cry.

So what happened, the bases were loaded, ground ball hit to him. I said it was a one hopper. He would have had to make a pretty interesting twist and turn, but to first but he had a chance of getting the out there. He threw the ball home, and even if the ball was thrown perfectly to the catcher, looking at the instant replay, he would have been saved. I agree. I was going to say the same thing.

So he absolutely erred 100% by throwing home. The worst part of it was not only did he throw home where he would have been, the player running would have been safe, but the ball went, I mean, he had a south-by-southwest curve to it. It went to the backstop, and the Philadelphia Phillies lost the Dodgers and the Phillies were out. So what does Orion Kirkling do? He faces... Curring. Whatever. We're going to forget him out tomorrow. Mr. Kirkering.

Of course, if he wants to be an astromator reliever, I'm sure he's going to work on those PFPs. And when he does, come on over. He'll work with Frumber. Oh, no. No. Robber will teach him the ways. Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't want him anywhere near Frumber on the PFPs. Yeah, everybody's freaking out. I'm like, hey, we see this 15 times a year from

Frumber. So a lot of times people will duck and hide. Yes. And it happens quite a bad, actually, in sports. That's true. Hardens is notorious for Duckin and Hiding after a series eliminating games. I remember after we waited for Ken Giles for like almost an hour one time after a playoff game. So we're going to let you hear what Orion Kirkering said.

There are some swear words. I'm going to have to have Ross edited a little bit. But he stood there and admitted everything. And he gets major props for me for being as honest and forthcoming as he was yesterday. I think we should give him some shine. Terrible decision, bad mistake. Yes. look, it's a one-one game.

Some more offense would have helped for sure. But the reality is, in games that are that close, in extra innings, in game-deciding series, the little things matter. And if he makes the throw it first, it would have been a tough play. Yes. But, yeah, there's a guy named Mike Petriello, Petriello, who works for baseball savant and MLB.

Yeah. He has the tracking. And Kim was 30 feet from home. and basically at a full sprint at that point when he fielded the ball, a Kirkring, and Pius was 55 feet from first base. It was a big difference. Big, it was, yeah, because they've shown the angles,

where should he have gone, and the play was definitely at home plate. Yeah. And sometimes those home plate deals are really tough as it is. Yes, that's true. I kind of feel bad for him. Wow. I mean, you should feel super bad for him.

The problem is, again, that's what professional, You have to make plays in professional sports. Oh, no, it's already a meme. They're putting, like, me as him, Kirkering. First base is a water and then home plate is another beer. Oh, no. Going home.

If you don't mind editing that, because there are some swear words in it. I don't put you on it. You got it. I don't know how to do it. I'll teach you. In the middle of the show? Yeah. It's easy.

I'm going to edit the Channel Rome conversation. Oh, okay. I'll do it then. We're team. Okay. We're team. 713, 212-790. 713-212-5-7-9.

We've got people already in the line. Let's get to you next. It's an anything goes Friday, Rossi, and that means what? It's 7-13-212-5-7-9. Anything goes on the phone lines. It's 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to talk about the playoffs last night, if you want to talk about the big shake-ups, a lot of it happened in the middle of the show.

So it's still an opportunity to talk about all the Astros, fire-ings. Alexintron and Troy Snicker out. Jeremy Randall. Michael Collins, I believe, was his name. catching coach, Jeremiah Randall, the head trainer, and then Andy Bell, or something Bell, the assistant general manager out as well. So some, I don't want to say wholesale changes, because a lot of the big names are still there, Dana Brown, Joe Spada, but a lot of staff changes for the Houston Astros. We can talk about that. Anything you want to get to.

And Cam Scadaboo. And Cam Scadaboo. And Jackson Dart. And the Astros did put a thank you to those gentlemen out there on their socials. I don't know if you have to thank people. Because Man, the responses are, they're like my strays. People are horrible on social media. And you know what, quite frankly, many of you are losers. I'm going to say it. What's up?

Am I wrong? Well, I mean, people can be mean. That's what I'm saying. We can disagree on stuff, but when people start getting personal, it's like you're a loser. Yeah, I mean, we have, I have advertised on the station that are mean to me. Your life is in such a sad place that you have to personally attack somebody to feel better about yourself. Yeah. Yeah, that is what it is.

Anything goes Friday. 10, 15. Talk 790. 1021 on Sports Talk 790. It is Madden Ross. I don't anything goes Friday. So the Phillies are advancing. We got a game five in the Cubs Brewers series.

Dodgers, Edmondson. I'm sorry. Oh, Dodgers advance. Beat the Phillies three games to one. That's right. I'm sorry. You got a game five between the Brewers and the Cubs. A must win game.

And you got a game five between the Tigers and the Mariners in Seattle tonight. I have to say is go tigers. Go tigers. Tarek Scouble on the road, George Kirby at home. How are we feeling? Well, I'm going to ask you this.

Softly is a friend of ours. Yes. He's a long-suffering sports fan. Like we've been long-suffering sports fans. Why are we not rooting for the Mariners? Because they're in division and their fans are off-putting? Yeah.

Arrogent? For no reason. So they're me. And Astro's obsessed. So I'm Seattle fan. Man, it's not, man. It's all right. This is one guy. It's fine. Scoot that guy. Let's move on.

All right. No, I just want to make sure. Okay. Got to keep everything in check. It's all good. Chuck in Baytown on 790 and anything goes Friday. Chuck, what do you got today? Good morning, Matt.

How you doing? Amazing. Hey, I usually listen a little earlier than what I did today, but is Sean gone? Is that what you were saying? Yes, he is. money money reasons yes sir

sadly you know I'm just anything for I'm just going to be honest he was very knowledgeable

I like listening to him it's good when you've got somebody with as much football knowledge as him

but I live I mean do they news taking his place no they do not y'all are a different story y'all

they had better never get rid of I'm not just I call. I called, no, hear me out. They better never get rid of the two of y'all. Well. Because it killed me when Greg and ND left. It really did. And the guy they hired after that was, he was trash. Y'all, y'all absolutely make my day. Y'all aren't just knowledgeable, but y'all are great to listen to. Y'all are absolutely entertaining. Well, thank you.

I drive Uber, I listen to y'all every single day, and I'm waiting for 12 o'clock. so I can hear the scripters get well-up. They'll be ready for you, Chuck. Thank you very much. And by the way, if you ever take me for an Uber drive, I'm going to give you a huge tip and five stars. Wow. Thank you, Chuck, very much.

That's all. And again, appreciate you, Chuck. We don't need affirmation. Thank you for listening. We, we value, we need to give you the affirmation. We need to thank you for being with us for as many years you've been with us. And so, yeah, we've been able to go through some murky waters here and keep on, keeping on.

And we'll be here every day. hopefully for a very long period of time, 10 to 2. Yes. Thank you, Chuck, for your support. Appreciate it. Until I'm grain old. We try to, he said, entertaining and informative, and that's our aim. Yeah.

I mean, there's so much sports radio on, and not every show could be the same. It's just no other way around it. We can't, I wouldn't want the next show to be on after us to be just like us. I wouldn't want the show before us. We should kind of be. Well, it couldn't be, Matt. We are our own selves. We are our own selves.

To the detriment of some, hopefully to delight of many. and thank you very much. Yeah. Again, I once learned a long time ago, if everybody loves you, you're doing something wrong. That's true, actually. So it fires me up.

It gives me cause to say, you know what, I may be doing something right. Good. Yeah. You're doing great, Matt. We're all proud of you. See, and that's where I need.

When in doubt, I got Ross here. Destroyes me before the show begins, for variety of things. I didn't destroy you. You hung me out to dry. I did hang you out to dry, pretty bad.

Unbelievable bad. I mean, I had to go get my breakfast. All right. We'll explain this more to 1130. We will. We will. 1130. You want the inside dirt on behind the scenes.

That person's probably not going to be anywhere around. I hope not. Behind the scenes at IHeart Media coming up at 11.30. Yeah. Exclusive. Exclusive. Exclusive. Mike and Cyprus on 7.

Honey. Mike, good morning to you. Good morning. Happy Friday, guys. Same to you. Same to you. Hey, I saw a post on social media that I thought I wanted to call you on anything goes Friday. Please.

It was pretty interesting. So taking the group of athletic men, you know, in shape athletic men, what do you think is the hardest thing to do? Hit a major league fastball in the upper 90s. Beat, beat, and UFC heavyweight. Hit a hole in one or run a sub four-minute mile, noting that in the history of the world, there's only 1,800 sub-4-minute miles been ran. so do you want to hit a major league fastball in the upper 90s

hardest thing to do beat an UFC heavyweight hit a hole in one or run a sub for a minute a mile do you mean the hardest to do or what we get to accomplish one of those things hardest to do hard to do for the average athletic adult man I would say UFC heavyweight you go heavyweight you got no shot that's what I would say exactly I can maybe hit a hole in one no look Mike I don't know what your frame is I get some I

I mean, I need about 10,000 fastballs. I might contact on one. Well, Mike, how old are you may I ask? I'm 58. I'm 6-2 and 222. Oh, you got no shot. Okay. When you were 26, when you were 26,

could you have, I mean, would you consider yourself a sprinter? No. I mean, I, I, I think. I was a side-in in the division two school in Nebraska. I got you. Oh, you're a D-2 tied-in. You could have done four minutes. So here's my point.

I don't know if it's humanly. I think it's a very few people in the world that can do sub four-minute miles. Yeah. So I would put that is the most difficult thing to do. Yeah, but you're not knocking out a heavyweight. Correct. Those dudes get up to 265. All right.

And they're made of granted. Let's rephrase the question. If you were, if there was a magic genie that gave you those four things and you could do one of them, which one of the four would you want to do? Ooh, that's a good comeback. That to me is a better question. Well, UFC heavyweight champions getting the first. most money out of those

right? True. I think I'd want to be dead because you're a badass. If you can take on UFC Heavyweight champion, I mean, that's physical, that's athletic. I mean, you're basically the baddest man on the planet. You're pretty badass if you're doing that. Okay. These are things we must mull over. Thanks Mike

for the phone call. Anything goes Friday. A perfect anything goes Friday call. Okay, so sub four. Sub four, you're in history books forever though. That's true. Well, so are you if the M's, you know, they come and go. Sub 4. Yeah, but you're in the Whole and one.

Whole and one is done by people, common people all the time. I'm going to discount that one. Knock out a UFC guy or hit a fastball for a home run. I'm not going to any of my five. Does he say home run? I mean, he just said hit one, so I don't know.

I'm going to presume it a home run. I mean, I get a base knot. I'd get a bloop to. I told you when I went with a bat, without batting gloves, when pitches were thrown at 50 at me and I couldn't use my hands for three days. I'm not saying, yeah, I'm not saying it's going to go well.

I'm saying I can get one if you throw me. 10,000 of them. I don't think so. I think if you don't get it in the first 15, you're not going to get in between 16 and 10,000. Okay. This is off a pitching machine, right? Are we talking about movement? I don't think it matters. No, he said upper right. So it's got to be with a pitcher, right? All right. To me, the greatest claim to fame would be knocking out a UFC fighter fighter. Yeah. Or a boxer for that. That one's, that one's to me is the one. All right. Real quick before we get to Channel Rome's conversation yesterday, Jacob, you're on 790. Good morning to you.

Hey, good morning, Matt and Ross. How are you? Well, thank you. Good. Hey, earlier, you're talking a little bit about playoff baseball, and I heard you say, Go Tigers, and I'm not against that now. Uh-oh. Well, let me explain, all right? And I want to explain to you why I am rooting for the Mariners throughout the playoffs and I have been so far.

So, number one, during the season, and for the last, you know, my whole life, I'm just 30 now, but I've been a naturalist fan my whole life. rooting for the Astros, loved it when they kicked their butts a couple years ago, that walk off off of Robbie Ray was, you know, the icing on the cake of we're always going to be better than you kind of thing. This year they had our number. They ate our lunch. They kicked our bus, that final sweep at the end of the season, pass off to them.

So now that we're out of the playoff picture, I then can open up and say, okay, what am I looking for in the playoffs? Who do I want to win? Obviously, you don't want the daughters to win. You don't want the Yankees to win. Couldn't really care less about some of the other teams. the reason, one of the main reasons I'm picking the Mariners is because if they end up winning it all, number one,

it proves that that team being good in the West is the reason we didn't make it in. Now, one of the many reasons, obviously, we've dealt with a lot of stuff this year. But the Mariners winning it all is like, hey, we were in that division, we got swept by them, it was clear that that's why we got swept because they were the best team in baseball this year.

Number two, it does good for baseball, I think, to have a small market team who's not only never made the World Series to then make it and win the World Series. And number three, I think other than the fans are annoying and everything like that, they don't really have any guys on that team other than a Rosa Rana, who I really don't like. They have likable guys up and done the lineup. They have a deep lineup. They have a deep rotation.

Their bullpen is suspect at times. But overall, I don't have any really ill feelings towards the Mariners, as I would a team like the Dodgers or Yankees or Phillies for those reasons. I think we can get behind the Mariners as Astros fans being out of the picture, being out of the playoffs. I think it will do really well not only to build our case to say because they beat us. And look, they're the best team in the world now. And because, again, a small market team that's never been to win the World Series in their first time there. Well, Todd, Jacob, go to the worst thing ever hurt my entire line.

That's terrible. That is terrible. Mariners can suck it. Hope you lose like you've done these in the last four. 40 years of your existence. I want their fans crying. But thank you for your perspective, Jacob. We love you, Jake.

To each his own. We love you, Jacob. Absolutely. But, man, shut you above ass off. We let him say his peace. We did. We were polite up until the very end. Y'all know good.

We are good. He knows. He knows with him. Shut your ball ass up. Seriously. Ain't nobody got time. You know that time for Mariners World Series. Let's have been room for the Mariners,

man. No, hell no. Have you seen their fans? what? We'll come back with the instapole, see how people feel. Oh, okay. You know what? I like that, actually. So Jacob's call says you as Houston should root for the Mariners. Did Jacobs call do enough for you? 713-212-5-790. We'll do the instapole of the music.

Coming back, plus we'll hear from Channel Rome as well. All right. So Jacob wants us to root for the Mariners. He just gave us a nice, compelling argument. Fact-driven. left the emotions out of it. And now it's up for you to decide what should we do? It's time for an instant poll. 713-212-5-790.

Jacob gave you the take. How are we going to say this? You want to rush it or flush Jacob's take? Do that? How about go Mariners or go tigers? Oh, yeah, yeah. That's even better. Go Mariners.

Or go Tigers. And remember, Rossi, the instapole does not lie. No, it doesn't. We got four-oed recently on something, didn't you? What was it? I don't remember. Spingle Banner. Oh, a star, Spingle Banner, or God bless America.

Craig Ackerman came in and backed you up. He did. It was worth it. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Game 5 tonight between the Mariners and the Tigers. Jacob giving me a compelling argument as to why you should root for the Seattle Mariners. Go Tigers.

Go Mariners. Line one on the instapole, go tigers or go Mariners? Go tigers. All right, thank you very much. That's a 1-0. Line 2 on the instapole, go tigers or go mariners? Go tigers. That's two.

Line 3 on the instapole, go tigers or go mariners? Both. No, you can't do both. Make a decision. What? You say Mariners? No, he didn't count. I think he said Mariners, but it was hard to tell.

Line four, go tigers or go Mariners? Go tigers. That's three. Line five on the Instapol. Go Tigers, go Mariners. Go Tigers. Oh. That's four.

Oh, the Instapult's closed. That's it. Close it off. Jacob's like in his car. I was really thoughtful in my house. Yes, he was. I mean, I get it. The players are nice.

It's a good story. They've never made a World Series. Right. Screw those Mariners fans. I don't want their fans to be happy. Because if you think that our buddy soft is boorish now. It could be significantly. Look at those lines.

Oh, you know what? I'm curious, actually. Can you bring the music back up? Yeah, bring the music back. Let's see if we can find one manner. Poring in. Let's see if we get one mariner call. We appreciate y'all, man.

This actually warms my heart. Line three, go Mariners, go tigers. Line three. Go tigers. All right, there we go. Let's continue. Line five, go tigers, go mariners. Go tigers.

Wow. That's six. Line seven, go tigers, go mariners. Hello? Go tigers, go mariners. AJ Hinch all the way. All right. I think is it seven?

Seven. Line one, go tigers, go mariners. Go tigers. All right. It's eight. This is one of those mad instipoles. Line three, go tigers, go Mariners. Go tigers, but also go Blue Jays.

Thank you. Yeah, that's nine. A lot of ladies listen to the show. What is the all-time, will we ever get to go-mariners in this? I don't know. It's nine right now, right? Line one, go tigers, go mariners. Tigers.

That's 10. That's 10. Yeah, we'll leave it. We're done. One more, one more. One more, one more. Line one, go tigers, go Mariners. Go Mariners.

Oh, okay, there we go. It took 10 to 1, 10 to 1. That's great. We got one now, finally. We should put a poll question up on the at SportsM team account? No, that's all right. No, I think we'd be able to figure it out. Man, I'm right, Jacob's like feeling bad.

Jacob, we do love you, know this, right? You know what? You got 10% of the people with here. No, 9%. 9%. Yeah, I mean, it's close. A lot of political candidates would love for 9%. Oh, who?

People that got 4? I mean, let me tell you some. If there was a liberal... Ross Perot? If there was a libertarian candidate, they'd love 9%. Jill Stein? Green Party? Yeah.

What was that weirdo that was the singer that was running for governor? Kinky Friedman? Yeah, Kinky would die for 9%. Well, he's dead now. Well, then he died for it. May he rest. He would have loved 9%. Okay. There you have it.

All right. So we run a little. late on this. We're going to now play channel our next segment for sure, I promise. Uh-huh. Yeah, I, I can't pull the trigger. But I was very happy saying gold blue jays. Yeah. George Springer. That was easy. Vladdy Jr.'s fun. Joey Lopa Fido. Joey Lopifido. Miles Straw. Yes. Astros legend, Miles Straw? Retired Jersey? Yes or no? Yes. You have one centerfielder left and you can put in the Astros Hall of Fame.

Miles Straw? Jake Myers. Come on now. Jake the rake, baby. Do you think they trade Jake Myers in the off season? Why would you say that out loud? I'm just throwing it out there. Don't mean to me rude, but it's just truth. I'm going to tell the truth.

7-1-3-2-1. Now you're mad at me now. That's fine. I owe you for so much already today. You don't owe me for Jack. 7-1-3. I had to go get breakfast. It was obviously yesterday with the shake-ups to the Astros staff.

Troy Snicker and Alexintra on the hitting code. which is gone, some others gone as well. News first broken by Chandler-Rome and some Brian McTaggart mixed in there as well. So Chandler-Rome, a frequent guest of the A-Team. So we want to bring you guys some good conversation and then we can listen and react from there talking about the shake-ups at Astroville and the moves made yesterday. Here is Chandler-Rome talking to the A-Team about those sweeping Astros changes. Well, I think you have to know changes were coming, especially when, you know, they can paint it how they want, but taking a week to decide whether you're going to bring your manager or your GM back, that's the first sign that things are probably there's some uneasiness and some tension and some things that need to be resolved in the organization. So once they made the decision that Dana Brown and Joe's spot were going to continue in their roles, you know, you kind of knew that they couldn't just run it back as it was, both on the personnel side and, you know, on the coaching staff.

and the staff side. So, you know, I've kind of said my piece about the offense and about hitting coaches in general. You know, look, they have a lot of guys on the team that swing a lot. They have a lot of guys on the team that chase outside the strike zone a lot. They have a lot of guys with a similar offensive profile. And when they got hit with a bunch of injuries this year to the guys that are not that profile, you saw what happens. So, you know, is it is bringing in two new hitting coaches going to just completely revitalize the offense? I don't believe so.

I think maybe what I took more from the moves today is, you know, you look at Troy Snicker, Alex Centrone, Michael Collins, and Jeremiah Randall, even the head trainer. You know, they've all been with the team since at least 2018. It's a group that is very much the same. Like not much has changed here other than, you know, a couple managers and the GM office has changed. But the coaching staff and the philosophies and the voices have stayed the same. I wonder, honestly, if they were just looking to shake it up a little bit, like see if a different voice, see if, you know, a different set of eyes, a fresh set of eyes can maybe help them unlock some stuff. But, you know, that's kind of the main thing. I took away from it.

I'm not sitting here saying that they're going to go higher two hitting coaches and they're going to lead the league in OPS. next year. It's more than that. It's not just that bunch of a quick fix. And the other part of it with that, you are who you are, and these are the players that were acquired over the years or developed over the years. How much, I'm very hesitant

to blame hitting coaches, the ones that get fired mid-season, it's even worse. It's usually not on them for the vast majority of the issues that you have, but is it more about, and I talked about this last second, it's just more about situational hitting, decisions made with the bat that even hitters, whoever

a certain profile can adapt to two strike hitting hitting behind runners making more contact things like that i mean sure they can they can implement all these you know new philosophies and new rules and and things like that of doing stuff different when you two strikes doing stuff different when their second third one out but at the end of the day like the hitting coaches aren't going up there and like actually executing they can say all they want like my pushback this whole time has been, do you guys not think that Troy Snicker or Alex Centrone, like, sat Yiner Diaz down at one point, like, hey, you need to stop chasing everything outside the strike zone. Or, like, they've sat people down and, like, they know what these guys as shortcomings are.

It's just, it didn't get fixed. And I don't know how much of that you can put on the player. I don't know how much of that you can put on the coach. I think there's a fair serving of both that deserve blame. But, yeah, I mean, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to get some new sets of eyes in here. and to get some new, you know, just maybe some language and some lingo and some way of doing things that they just haven't been accustomed to. Because like I said, this is a group, a coaching staff group that has been together for a very, very long time. And I'm not going to sit here and say complacency settings.

I don't believe it did at all. Like they are not a complacent group, but when you keep having the same message and when you keep preaching the same thing, you know, sometimes it can get a little bit stale. And I'm not seeing that happened in this situation, but I do think it can be beneficial to just have a different voice and to have maybe a different way of looking at things. What's the line or what's the balance between the department that Jeremiah Randall is running, the athletic training staff and everybody that's under his watch and his day-to-day duties and handling the injuries and then the coming back from injuries and the actual medical staff and the doctors and those doing the imaging and making the diagnosis and things like that because there's more to it than just it's all, by no means is it. all on Jeremiah. Oh, no, it's not. It's not, it's not just all on Jeremiah Randall. This is like a holistic problem that, you know, they've probably made some changes. They probably made some changes in the season that we don't even know about. And we probably will never know about just in terms of like how they do different things and maybe in terms of imaging, in terms of, you know, timelines of

how they, maybe their, you know, their standards of care of how they take care of certain injuries. I'm sure they've made some changes. To put it all. all on the athletic trainer is misguided. But, you know, I do think, again, it's the same. Jeremiah Randall's been with the team for 2015. He spent 10 years as their trainer. Like, I don't think medicine has, I mean, I'm sure medicine has evolved a little bit since then. You know, I'm not a doctor, so I don't want to play one on the radio. But I'm sure, like, methods and ways of doing things that come different within those 10 years. Again, maybe a different set of eyes, a different set of, you know, voice, a different voice would help. But this, this

is not just a fire the trainer and everything's fixed. Like they've, again, and just in the same way, like, like, firing the hitting coaches is not just a fix. Like they've, this is, there's more to it. Like, they've got to evaluate personnel. They've got to evaluate roster instruction. They've got to evaluate processes of return to play, things like that. Maybe the strength staff. You look at the strength of conditioning, kind of what they're giving these guys to do in the offseason. Like, it's a holistic thing here that's not just going to get solved by one or two names departing. All right.

was the channel room yesterday on the A team. Ross, one of the things I was thinking about. And I'm sure John, I know that the channel brought up as well. You got guys on lame duck contracts. Who's going to want to come here for a long term if your manager and general manager are left on one-year deals? Now, there'll be people. But will that be a hindrance? I would say, it may not be a roadblock, but you're going to have to navigate some working waters here a little bit.

I mean, that would depend, I suppose, if certain players who have relationships with Joe Espott that want to come back or something like that, I mean, I think the money would talk more than anything. Especially, I don't know, what are we talking about, them possibly wanting a pitcher? No, no, no, I'm talking. Or are you like signing players? No, no, I'm talking about the coaches. Bringing coaches here for a year. Oh, bringing like hitting coaches, strength and conditioning.

And trainer, I mean, I'm not going to move my family for a one-year deal. Because if the manager and the general manager get replaced, that doesn't mean, I'm not guarantee any sort of success. Yeah, well, I don't know how it happened. How does it happen other places? Because Alex Centron and Choice Knicker were here for Hinch, Dusty Baker, and Alex and Joe Spott. They were here for three different managers.

Now, you can go ahead and extend them for long-term contract. You can give them three or four-year deals. And the trainer, yeah, you can give them long-term deal. I would imagine they would be on contracts. And then the, uh, the train, Jeremiah Randall's been here for 10 years. But let's say you went and got, um, Aaron Boone. I'm not saying that would be but if you want to go get Aaron Boone poked away,

Aaron Boone hosts people, he's had people around him. He's comfortable with trainers and hitting coaches and that kind of thing. Yes, you're going to want to build your own stuff. I don't think a new manager, if again Joe gets replaced after next season, is going to want to inherit the coaching. If he's going to want his people behind him, that's very, very typical. So I guess the question is going to be, can you offer somebody hitting coach, bench coach,

whatever gets changed, if there's more coming, and say, hey, we'll pay you well, but I'd run an apartment. You're a single guy. Yeah, I don't know. I can't really answer that. I think I know. It's the same exact thing you see in college athletics. You can't, if you fire a coach, you know, you fire a coordinator's and you got a head coach who's only got one year left in his contract.

That could hold him back a little bit. I'm not saying it's an end all, but I do think it's a factor. I think Ben, if you had three or four years left, then Joe Spottick could really dig in and say, I want these guys who are going to be fighting for the long haul. These guys are going to be fighting for their jobs next year. So something to think about is that what can you bring, what kind of candidates are going to come here knowing that the general manager and the manager are performing for their future beyond 2026. All right. Second hour of the Matt Thomas showed Ross is coming up in a moment.

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They're great, man. Thank you. I appreciate it. Again, you're lying. Well, somebody else probably sent those to you. No, I did it in my... I did it last time. You did? Yeah. Oh, you know what? That's very sweet. We'll see what happens.

1058 on sports. I try to do nice things and this is what happens. I had the one mess in me. I like the one. See? Yeah, he's, yeah. He likes your story. I'm going to send you one more, too. I love me that much. I'm going to tell you right now about Sethi's fine jewelry May I do that for you?

This first one is just gross. That's not happening. Send to Jonathan. Jonathan, I don't have read it. Okay. All right, Jonathan, you're getting a second story from Ross. Okay. That was meant for Ross, but it's going to get to you.

You can still read it. I can't wait to get in the car and listen to it. I can read it as your story. That's fine. I don't care how you do it. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11033 on Sports Talk 790. Anything goes Friday.

Interesting Sports. Last night, Philadelphia Eagles lose. Philadelphia Phillies win. Oh, Rossi, W-I-P-6-10 and Philly. What does Philly accent sound like? I don't know. I don't know. What the Philly accent is. It's just angry women and women with moles on their faces.

That's generally speaking Philadelphia. Was that rude? Why are you coming after people with moles on their faces? Well, I mean... Okay, big girls with moles on their faces. All right, let's get back to it. You're so arrogant. I am arrogant.

But you know, I apologize to Philly Girl. Philly's lost last night. Thank you. Did you edit that thing? Are we still working on it? Eh, I'm working on it. Well, I couldn't hear it because you were editing something. Oh, we're just Mr.

Editor is here. The young man for the Philadelphia Phillies. You want to say his name? Because I always butcher it. O' Ryan Kirkring. O'Reyn Kirkering. O'Ryan Kirkering. He's a fine lad from Liberick.

And I'm a good friend of one of Ryan McTaggart. O'Ryan Kirkry. It's a great name. Through the ball home. Never should have done it. Should have thrown on the first base. Had a better chance at first and he did at home. Not only does he throw home, but he throws wide.

There was no play at the plate. It wouldn't have been to play. Anyway, this guy would have been safe. How about this? Did the runner decide he didn't want to slide either? He was like, I'm going in standing up. Yeah. I had that kind of foot speed.

He was going to make it easily. Yeah. And, well, they're out of the playoffs. And the Phillies lose the Dodgers win, and it's the Dodgers against either the brewers or the Cubs and I can easily say go breweries, go Cubs. You have no

rooting interest. Zero. I mean, brewers have been a fun story. I'll go with the brewers. By the way. And our Abachi Grill update. Kyle Tucker, home run last night. Wait, are you serious?

Yes, I'm not making that up. I was 4-0 when I stopped paying attention. I didn't know he got a home run. Oh! You see his average in the playoffs? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Go ahead and say it.

Oh, 304, huh? Small sample size. Oh, now is a small sample size. You heard me. When he's in 158, it's a great sample size. Oh, yeah. Look at these post-season numbers. What's he slugging?

He's got 863 OPS. Oh, five walks and seven games. I'm screwed. I think I was screwed before the series started. He had, let's see. I think he had two. walks and two hits yesterday. Can I get a sponsor to pick up the tab on the Sabo? He was on base four times with the

Cubs at home and their backs against the wall. He came up huge. Scored two runs. Two runs, two hits, two walks yesterday for Kyle Tucker. And I think he's still on a bad calf. Ooh, that could be part of the problem. You know what? Hopefully, you know, maybe it needs some time off. Maybe you can't play game five. Yeah, we'll see. Injuries could play a factor in his contract status.

If any of you own Habachi girl Oh my gosh I'll tip well You're looking for Habachi owners now It's not Jonathan I'm the one that'll tip well Oh Hey I said I'm 9% gratitude

Okay Nine Nine It's supposed to be 20 Hey Jonathan What do you want to get What's good here I don't know

I think I'm gonna go Terriaki steak You know Is that a menu here Yeah I think I'm certainly no actually sorry can I agree to the rib eye well ribai's good pick I appreciate it Matt catch a shrimp Matt here comes the shrimp Maddie I'll be choking your shrimp

oh look he's cracking the eggs oh he's spinning it oh look it's an onion volcano for those that don't know we've got we have a habachi lunch on this seven and a half you you're toast I'm toast you are toast I'm again I'm going to try to find somebody to look if you all have a discount card You need like an opt-out deal where he's getting like 50 million in the first year. This is like the only shot you have. You need someone to offer him three years 150 with opt-outs. All right.

Is there anything I can do to add a year to this deal? No. I think even then you're still pretty toast. Can I buy a year from you? For what? Okay. What do you want to open to it to? I think you've got to open it to a nice steakhouse then.

But I'd rather her bachi. It's more fun. It is fun of them. Yeah. Okay, shout out to any of you that own aibachi place. We'll come there. I'll social media post for you. You know what I'm saying?

What? Violating rules. No, oh, no, I never do that. Not me. I'm a, they call the rule follower. Please, please, please go over for four tomorrow. And you went for the under, Matt, is that's correct? Yes.

Well, somebody has to go over. The other person has to go under. I mean, you know. Well, he was, he was feeling. hot after winning his Bregman deal. Yeah, I got, you know what it is? I got cocky. Yeah. I won the Bregman deal. Yeah. Jonathan, exactly what I was. I was arrogant about the deal.

This is the word of the day. I was arrogant about it. Let's talk to Ryan on 790 and 1109. Ryan, good morning. Good morning. How is your arrogant ass feeling today, Matt? And I am ridiculously arrogant and I'm getting blocked by people left and right. I'm blessed. Yeah, I got blocked by people too.

I didn't fire anybody. Like, what are we? Hey, nobody got fired. We don't use the F word. That's your laid off. It is really good. But I laughed at that tweet. I will say I was sad to see Sean Go when I saw that. I was like, wow, Matt is taking strays for no good reason.

But I digress. I've been to Philly. That is some white trash. That's horrible up there, dude. Philly is not great. I mean, obviously you're going to get your baddies wherever you go. But, Matt, you've been a lot of places. Upper East Coast, which white trash has the best, the best women.

And second, I need to advise. My wife wonders why I like drinking beer in the garage, and I told her because it's more fun that way. Our garage beer is better than living room beers. And I'll hang up, and I just want to listen. I have, I, I, I, well, I've never taken ahead of shower beer, but I've had plenty of garage beer. Garage beer is spectacular. You know why? Why?

Because it is in your most chill moment. Really? If you're hanging out in the garage, that means you're probably either working on your car because that's your hobby. Okay. You are. Some people have TVs and stuff instead of they watch games. Yeah, you've got a man cave in the garage. And it's going to be probably a little bit warmer.

That's what I was going to ask. What's the temperature? Than a temperature of your house, which means that beer is going to taste extra really cold and refreshing. All right. What if we throw in a porch beer? I think porch beer trumps both. I would agree with that. I don't sit in my porch, so I can't speak to that.

But I would say porch beer probably is bad. I would say, and again, I need the shower beer. You know what? Can I shower beer in Oklahoma City tonight? I guess I could. I owe you a shower beer. Not in front of you, but. Yeah, no thanks.

We've been on the road together. I've seen enough of you. Garage beer is excellent. It is. Okay. Oh, to the East Coast. Really quick, and I'll do this very fast. Love Toronto.

Love Toronto. one of my favorite places in the world. Expensive. Very expensive. But it's clean. The people are nice. The American dollar value is actually better, so that helps out a little bit. They have Tim Hortons every five feet.

Poutine. And Poonteen. Poutine. And Poonteen, too. Poutine. Poutine. Yeah. And the ladies are nice there.

Are they? If you're into that kind of thing. Interactive? Yeah. They're not big in sweaterware. I mean, there are some Maple Leaf fans there, but they're not like Minnesota girls. They're a little smaller. All right, back to the East Coast.

New York, I mean, it's the world's most incredible city. I wouldn't want to live there. You have to be obnoxious back to them. As long as you're rude back to people in New York, they'll accept you. Okay. You try to be nice. Forget it. They're going to slap you around.

A great place of visit. The dog eat dog world. Yeah. I like Brooklyn. Brooklyn's got a little bit of a, not a little bit. A significantly different vibe than Manhattan does. Okay. But I like it.

Love Washington, D.C. love the Georgetown area of D.C. That's where I was at the campus is. Not a fan of Philadelphia is at all. Although they have a casino downtown, which does help. That's nice. Charlotte, love Charlotte, like Atlanta. How far am I going?

How far west am I going? I don't know. I think I'm done, right? I don't know what's happening. He asked me about East Coast City. Yeah, I zoned out. Yeah, I figured. Yeah, that's it. He started complimenting you and I zoned out.

I noticed that. Please, let me ask you all a huge favor. When you compliment me, and for that I will accept and thank you graciously. Throw a bone to Ross. Thank you. I'd appreciate it. I mean, he's catching my strays off of my strays. Good God.

I've had to meet like 50 people. I just... 50? That's too many. It's probably like five people. But, you know... Oh, I'm scared. Exaggeration.

Same. You know, if I... Well, it turned out of like one of them blocked me already, so we're good. That's fine. Yeah. I much rather... I much prefer traveling well. than I do east.

Love L.A., love Denver, love Portland, love Phoenix. Ooh, good cities. I don't even mind Texas, too. I go to Dallas and San Antonio.

I get the arena, they say, Mr. Texas, you're here to call a Rockets game. Nobody calls you Mr. Texas. Yeah, they do. No. Quite a few people do,

unless they're doing it ironically to make fun of you. I don't think so. All right, we're going to have the audio of the Philadelphia Phillies pitcher coming back. Yeah.

Yeah, we are. I swear to go we are. All right. Well, if I get a guy, here and here. I won't do a war here. I won't do a thing here. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-9. If you won't apologize to people and if you have... I'm sorry. Ross and are catching so many straights. This is people who all have some apologies here.

Matt and Ross with you here on a... Anything Goes Friday. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. 7-7-90. Last night, the Eagles lost again to the New York Giants. That's really two losses now for Philadelphia. Are the Giants a new football team with Jackson Dart. It's a good name, by the way. That's a good football. Jackson Dart and Cam Scatibu! Yeah. Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo should be

starting for Louisiana Lafayette. Jackson Dart, Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, that sounds about right. It's a Cam Scadaboo show here on Lafayette's bowl's leader. Well, he's got a future in broadcasting, but right now he's a pretty good running back for the New York Giants. Yep. All right. So he did his thing, three touchdowns yesterday. My fantasy team is in complete shambles. Dr. Rorto will come to the rescue at what o'clock.

Okay. Looking forward to that. All right. So let's get to what happened last night in Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies lost the series. And it was on a bang, bang, bang play to end the contest. Very sad if you're Philadelphia fan. Very, again, bad day for Philadelphia.

There are Eagles lost in New York to a subpar Giants team. And the Philadelphia Phillies were eliminated as Orion or Orion. Orion. Orion. Or Ryan. Whatever. Orion Kirkling. Kirkering.

That's two. Orion Kirkling. There's no L in there, is it? There's no, Kirkering. On the 11th inning air. That was ruled in air, by the way. Really? Fielder's choice error.

So no hit. Yeah, that's probably fair, I guess. Because he knocked the ball down. I mean, it was coming at him hot. Yeah, I think the air may have been on the throw. The decision. The throw was horrible. but it wouldn't have been in time, but maybe can you make a bad decision?

It's an error, I guess. It's fine, whatever. So, bottom line is this. So our crockering met with the media after the game. Philadelphia media did travel to Los Angeles. Yes. And here's what he had to say. Now, we had to bleep some things out.

Yes. But I give him lots of credit for standing up to all the different microphones. Just out of my foot, just kind of, once that the pressure got to me, I just thought it was a faster throw, the JT, a little quicker throw than trying to spotty at the Bryce. So I'm just in my own throw. Yeah. Did you hear them calling telling you to go to first at all?

Were you just in the moment? It wasn't even... Just in the moment. Yeah. Can you see J.T. pointing in that moment, or is it just kind of looking up? Just kind of looking up. Just be ready to go.

I mean a lot of guys that can't hear you in the first one there. Just go to the guys see you in that way. Did you keep your head up? It's a longest mistake. Just baseball. What happens? Just keep your head up. You really good for her.

long time they come. It's not my fault. Just that opportunity to score. It means a lot. It means a lot. It means a lot. It means they care a lot. It just means everything, for sure. I'm sure a lot of guys in here have had moments earlier in their career that, you know, I think you kind of remember very vividly.

You know, how much do you think you can use this kind of, off-season to, you know, for good. For sure. Yeah, the wall with a tennis wall for sure. But, yeah, just kind of keep going with it. Hopefully it started a long career. Just keep

back in my head of this really sucks right now, but hopefully keep pushing when you get over this home, keep pushing. Well, he's guilty of a potty mouth, but at least he was answering the questions. And he was really pretty decent, decent spirit about it. I mean, well, he looks

like he wanted to cry. But hey, Ross, that's understandable. Sports is cruel. Yes, they are. I mean, these are the moments we watch for is the type of drama that gets created. That's why we keep coming back. Crazy moments, things you haven't seen before,

everything on the line, especially in the playoffs. Unfortunately, this was a bad play made by him, rather than a great play made by someone else. Yeah. It happens. You know, it's funny, we have spent so much time of our life talking about the catch or the swing or the basket or these amazing moments. And then you've got other moments like, you know, our cougars in that last few seconds against Florida and San Antonio. You brought it up, not me.

Well, you know what I meant. Manuel Sharp passing it to himself. he knew he couldn't he was looking to slide step over if Emmanuel Sharp doesn't win a championship of some note in his life whether it be you know in college or pro you can be thinking about that for the rest of his life did you ever see the movie i uh i want to i want to say it was called the best of times i could be wrong about that it's a that's a late 80s movie and starred Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. Okay. I mean, those are two good stars. I haven't seen it though.

It was about a movie, and I'm maybe mixing a little of the details up, but I'm pretty sure it was a movie where it was a high school reunion of a football team. And Kurt Russell was the quarterback. And he throws this perfect ball to Robin Williams. Robin Williams? He's like 5'4. Semantics. He throws a perfect ball and Robin Williams drops it. cost him to state champions and he's had to live with this drop for all of his life so they had a reunion-s type game

same situation comes in a play and I think he makes the grab Matt, spoilers Matt oh please the movie's 35 I don't watch this movie movie's 40 years old back off you know what I'm saying I

it's you know I hope Kirk curing Kirk Hurring never an asteroid I'll be butchering his name for the next 10 years part of me is like, I hope you get a chance to make up for it. But there are going to be another moment that a lot of guys

don't get to. Look at Bill Buckner had to endure for all those decades until the Red Sox won the World Series when the ball went through his legs in 86. Sports Skull. Yeah, Bill Buckner's certainly the first one that comes to mind, I think. What about Jackie Smith? Who's the guy had a big super bowl?

Yeah, the Cowboys, drop the ball. Yeah. Or people missing? Well, you got to not let it define you, Matt. You got to be a bigger man. You've got to move on. You've got to face these things. Have you been to Philadelphia off here?

Have you met their sports fans? Yeah, they suck. By the way, the Fox 26 is putting on that the Red River shootout. It's going to be 90 at halftime. And maybe I'm not going to go. I'm going to make a decision for you that you may not be appreciative of. And your brother will may be mad at me. You're not going.

It's, yeah. Normally it's not that hot. And you're getting blasted by the sun. So people, I mean, people pass out and stuff. You got to get sunscrisc. you got to hydrate. I can't have you do that. Mark in the Heights on 7-90. Hello, Mark. Hey, Matt, falling up on your, you know, you and Ross, sounded like y'all didn't know where Garden Oaks was yesterday. I'm surprised he hadn't been. Well, I'm surprised you hadn't been

to the Flying Saucer Pie Company over there. You know what? I don't travel for pizza. Maybe we should. Oh, it's pie. Oh, as in pie pie. Oh, as in Pie Pie. Oh, really? What's the preferred flavor over there. Sweet potato or pumpkin. Don't go around Thanksgiving or you'll be in a line in 90 degree weather and it sounds like Ross wouldn't do it either. Yeah, well, yeah. You know, he's not a true pie fan.

I'll stand in the heat. I've been in games that have been plus 90 degrees. I've been to the OU game and it's been around 90 degrees. Would you like do it? Would you like me to give you all little secret to success of going to a pie place and getting a great piece of pie in around the holiday season? Go ahead, Matt.

Go to the restaurant and eat. and then order a takeout box an additional pot. Does this place have a have a restaurant? I don't know. I'm just saying that our place, the house of pies.

Oh, wow. I'll say it because I love them. I've been going there for 45 years. Okay. Yeah, you go have a meal there. They used to be 24 hour pre-pandemic. Those are the good times. Order some steak fingers,

cream gravy, of course. Salad, side dish. I always go mashed potatoes. Okay. Have a slice of pie. and say, oh, God, this is so good. Can I get a box? Can I get another pie?

Easy, peasy. Waiting outside, just eat. So go at lunchtime. Knock it out. Get your good meal and an extra piece of pie and an extra pie. Thank you, Matt. That's what I'm here for. We can bake it at home.

You can't bake it. You can't make the house of pies? No. Baker, Thomas? Make them make the pie for you. Okay. I love one of good pie comes right at me. I bet you do.

1129. Brian and Steve, hang tight. We're going to get to your phone calls. And after that, we're going to apologize some people. And you have got a long, long list of apologies. Every week. Well, what you did today at 9.58, you'll be a deep apology. It's Sports Talk 790.

All right, Friday, sorry is coming up in just a moment here on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas show with Ross, with you until 2 o'clock. Let's go ahead and get some quick phone calls, though. You guys have been holding longest waiting is Steve on the east side. What's up, Steve? Oh, Steve. Yes, sir. Hey, what you got?

Okay. Yeah, I was wondering, the Westwood one guy, is that his real voice or is that like a digital contriven? It's like an auto tune. That's him. I think he doesn't walk around speaking like that. He does have a very deep voice. I've actually heard, I don't know how this happened. It's funny you're bringing this up, Steve.

I've heard his, he's got like a reel. If you go to like his website. And yeah, he does a bunch of voices, and he, yeah, he talks like that for the most part. It's not, to my knowledge, is not digital. That's how he sounds. Oh, wow. Okay. Because I've always heard.

It's Westwood One. Yeah. Yeah, Westwood One guy who talks like that. Yeah. Exactly. And I thought, and I heard somebody had mentioned perhaps parades, trading parades for a pitch. And I didn't know if that made sense. I thought because he's under like a team controller.

He's a couple of years before free agency. Yes, he is under team control, I think for next year and the year after. Yeah. And so would that make, what do you guys think? Yeah, you'd have to give to get. And thank you, Steve, for making the call. You'd have to give to get an, look. The bottom line is you have Correa, Pena, Parade,

Walker, four infield spots, and none of those guys are really a good fit at second base. So everybody can be a candid. Walker most likely. Then I would say Paredes, then probably Coray and then Pena least likely. But I would say all of them are on the table depending on what the offers would be if the Astros are going to make an offer. Two things going against Paredes. Lot four, but two things negatively. One, there would be people that would be kicking the tires and why he's been moved.

much to begin with. And number two, his hamstring fell off the bone. Yeah. That's the most, that's a bigger of the two considerations. He's even going to be, we haven't heard anything. Is he going to be ready for the start of next season? I don't know. I'll say this.

You did get brownie points for trying to come back after probably surgery would have been the easy resolution. He did. I mean, the hamstring is supposed to be off his bone and he played. Great job by the Astros' training staff. Well, the Astros' Twitter account said so. Thank you for your service. Get out.

No, you know, it's funny because Channel Rome was last hour. we pled this some of the interview they're like man we just need to change things up no I think they probably weren't highly embarrassed yeah oh you're talking about the the reason why for Jeremiah Randall yeah I think there were some

there were some mishandlings that we will never know but we can logically think there were some things that were mishandled Paratus has not played second base since 2023 how many games 14 I'm not doing that 43 and 22

I'm going to trade I'm going to trade for Oh, yeah, continue on. Yeah, I can't see him playing second base. I don't think so either. But if, I could, I mean, I could see a scenario. He's the most likely candidate of the four, unless you're putting Coray at short and pinion at second, which I don't think you're going to do that.

Or Corre at second? And Parade is at third? But Corre is great at third base. The hot corner is a more premium defensive position than second base. All right. I don't want to connect the dots here. this is probably not even a 10% possibility, but I wouldn't say it's zero. What if they have long?

What if they have serious negotiations about Jeremy Pena in the offseason and they don't go anywhere? Yeah, and they hit roadblocks and they say, you know what? We got a big haul for Kyle Tucker. We'll see what we can get for Jeremy Penae and capitalize on a career year at the plate. And put Paredes back at third, move Cray to shortstop. I'm just saying. I don't think that's even likely because I don't think Corae wants to go to short. No, I think he knows the best way for guys his age with that much experience and how much Tommy's played.

The decision for most guys can go to third base is an easy one. How major league ready do they feel Bryce Matthews is going to be after spring, come spring training? You need Bryce Matthews because you do not want Jose Altuve playing a lot of second base for the foreseeable future. Where is he going to play? He's one of the worst left fielders in baseball. second basement in baseball and your DH spot is taken. These are conundrums.

I know. That's why Dana Brown's making the big bucks. That's why Dana Brown gets to keep his job for one more year. And we'll see how he does. I can't wait for him to see how he carves this up. I don't think Dana's had a bad job. I'm very curious because you could see him going a variety of different directions on this. You really could.

I think they wouldn't mind moving Christian Walker, but what kind of market is there for that? Exactly. who's on his down part of his career? Yeah, it's no coincidence. The order I'd listed in the most likely there to get traded, but also the order of least desirability to other teams. Remember, just because you don't, remember, you don't like him.

Doesn't mean other teams are like, oh, I can't wait to get Christian Walker my line up. 27 home runs, nothing to sneeze at. OPS significantly down, though. Yes. Brian on 790. Brian, what do you got today? Hey, guys. Real quick on the Orion guy for the Phillies.

and one of the reporter questions. So I'm going to ask you guys, do you guys hear where the guy was like, the reporter was struggling to talk and ask this question about how can you turn? How can you use this? Yes. It was a bad question. It was a bad question. And I think halfway through it, Brian, the guy reporter knows, like, this is a dumb question.

I'm about that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm really glad that you guys agree with me because I thought it was a dumb-ass question because I think about it from a baseball perspective. There's one thing to be said about, okay, yeah, you can go work on your PFPs in spring training the offseason throughout the week during the season.

One thing you can't replicate is being in Chavez Ravine with Dodger Stadium, you know, packed and people screaming at you, bottom of the 11th inning, bases loaded, your season on the line, and then you get a ball hit to you. You can't replicate that in practice. So for that reporter to stand there and be like, oh, how are you going to use this in the off season for good? I thought it was as bad as Mark Berman's question. Hey, how does it feel to have your family in the state?

dance tonight. Thank you, Brian. No, not a good stray or no? No. No, not a good stray or what? I mean, it was fine. What are your emotions? What are your feelings?

It was a bad question. Are those questions okay for like coaches that run really successful like 12, 13, 14 year old teams? Hey, I'm just going to let you guys know. We're 17 and 0. We're 17 and 0

11 you. We're 17 and 0 for the fall. Let's go, baby. I'm just saying. We just We just won one of the biggest tournaments of the fall, beat a nationally ranked team because we're also nationally ranked. I'm not, it's not me, though. It's these kids.

These kids are way too good, man. Way too good. And then really, on a serious note, though, I was in that clubhouse after the Astros lost in Game 7 in the World Series at home when Will Harris gave up the home run off the foul pole. He cried. I still have the audio on my phone. He cried to the media because of the emotional.

I feel bad for the Orion kid. I really do. But, man, that was a dumb-ass question. When's y'all shut y'all's bum ass up? I don't really tune into you guys very much. What? Wednesday is 1130. Come on Wednesday, 1130.

You're not that busy. I've seen your bank account. You're not that busy. Hey, hey. Well, you know, just for the record, Matt, I don't think you're a cry baby or whatever the people on Twitter are saying. No, I'm not. He's arrogant, though. He's very arrogant, though.

That's pretty apropos. Thank you, Brian. Good to hear your voice. All right. We're going to do I'm sorry. Right now. Right now. We're not taking any calls into the next segment.

Wait. What? Right now? Right now. years out of the way. Why? You know why. You need to apologize. You're right. 713-212-5-7-90. You guys are coming up after Ross apologizes to me. I'm not apologizing you right now. We'll save it. 7-13-212-5-7-19.

Yesterday we had a caller Cameron and it was for I just don't get it. And he was like, Ross, I don't get why you would spend that money to go with you. And then I was like, hey, are you a fan of a team? And he said, Cougars. And I cut him off and said, You don't know big time football. You know what? That was rude. Wait a minute. Did somebody call you out on that back to you?

No. No, nobody said a word. After the show you thought. Oh, yeah. That was rude. Wait, me. I'm sorry. You crush my cougars all the time in front of me.

And you never apologize to me. But to do it to a call is a different thing. Cameron, I appreciate you listening. Thank you for calling in and participating. And I know you probably took it lighthearted because that's how it was meant. But that was very rude. And I'd like to apologize. Sorry, Cameron.

Oh, sorry. Say you're sorry to me now. Okay, I got another apology. Oh, Jesus. There was a guy on Twitter. Now I put a sarcastic post about Kevin Durant wearing a white socks hat. Because everybody freaked out about C.J. Straught. I don't know.

So everybody's freaking out about C.J. Stroud. So I made a joke post about Kevin Durant wearing a white socks hat. And, oh my God. He did this team beat him in the World Series. It was clearly sarcastic and a reference to something else. And then this guy called me, he said, why are you acting like a woman? He's very... Yeah.

That's not nice. And I was like, okay, well, clearly you don't have the brain power to pick up on sarcasm. I tweeted that at him. Ooh. And you know what? That was rude. I muted him afterwards and I don't know what he said because I like to do the little throw the grenade and leave now on Twitter. That's my go-to move.

I respond to somebody and then I mute him so I never see their response because I'm out. Oh, see what I am. go after people on Twitter like I've done this morning. I wait for their response back to me. It's something I don't need to stress over because there's too much negativity. So I said, you don't have the brain power to pick up sarcasm. It's truly

not your fault, but please stay off our streets as much as possible. And you know what? That was rude. Sarcasm can be hard to pick up over texts. You can be. But also, he didn't have to personally attack me, so maybe I'm not that sorry, but I'm a little sorry. That was Ross. All right, now you got to apologize for something. Let's go.

When we come back? You owe me an apology. I owe you an apology. I want some listeners. You're making me wait too way too long. 713-212-5-790. If you want to apologize to somebody, 7-1-3-21-7-90. 11-44 on Sports Talk, 7-9.

Here we go. Is the coast clear in the office? Don't mention names. Just keep it really, really brief. Well, I think you would want to lay out the scenario. And then I'll apologize. All right. I'll leave it out very briefly.

Sometimes when you have people at work. Okay, everybody has somebody at work. They want to avoid in the hallways. Yes. That you don't want to run into in the hallways because they're going to trip you up with a bunch of small talk and you don't want a small talk. Especially when you're trying to get ready for a show. Yes. And Matt was in a room and you're kind of held captive.

And I noticed this person standing in the doorway talking to Matt. Wearing me out. Oh, I know. Okay. And so rather than want. Normally I walk in, put down my stuff, and then I go make my morning oatmeal. 99 days out of 100. He comes in the office first, drops his stuff off, and then goes and makes his oatmeal.

Today was a different day. Today, I look up and I'm like, oh, I don't want to be a part of that. So I went to go make, I mean, I went to go make my oatmeal. I have a little instant oatmeal as a snack usually started the show before the show. So rather than put my stuff down and getting involved in that mess, and Matt saw me, I didn't know that you saw me, I went to go make my own meal. So then I came back and then I knew you saw me the second time I did it.

I knew you saw me and I was messing with you the second time. So as this conversation was taking place that I was listening and being polite, because that's what I am, Mr. Polite. Yes. I was texting for the love of God, Ross, get in here. Before I could hit send, I saw Ross walking back, ear to ear, smiling. I said, hey, Ross, come in here. What's going on?

That time I was going to come in there. I was just messing with you. And you go, hey, Ross, come on in here. And then the person shoot away. And that person is a really nice person. Yes, but they just talk too much. Yes, that's it. And you hung me out to dry.

I hung you out to dry, Matt. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And I still sent you two non-flora stories yesterday, too. Seriously. I mean... Sorry. Forgive me.

I hung you out to dry, Matt. Sorry. That's actually so funny. Wow. And the thing of is, I am at the office. We have several employees like that, coworkers of ours. I always put my phone up in the air for one of our people. And if I put my phone up.

up and if that person nods at me, I call them to get them out of that conversation. So from now on, if I raise my phone like I'm stretching my arms out, I mean, just call me. Okay. All right. Now I know. I didn't know the signal, Matt. You are such a dirty dog. You went right to go get your oatmeal instead of doing what you normally do every single day of the week.

I mean, I wouldn't have really saved you. I just was going to put my stuff down and come back. You were selfish because you know what to be stuck in that conversation as well. You're right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You should be. I am.

And I'm sorry. Matt, from the bottom of my heart. And thankfully, I will accept your apology. From the bottom of my cold, dead heart. You know, it's cold and dead. I'm sorry. Scott, what are you apologizing for? Matt Ross, what's going on, guys?

All right, I got two apologies. First one is to the Texans. I want to say, I'm sorry. Last week I called, called into you guys and said the key to the game was running the ball and playing field position. So I'm sorry for not giving them the benefit of the doubt. that they'd be able to handle the Ravens the way they did. I mean, them boys went forward on fourth down up 26.

They beat the brakes off the Ravens. Stroud four touchdown, so I'm sorry for not believing in them passing it. Number two, I want to apologize to my bookie. I potentially ended his career last night, taking the Giants Money Live. So I think home underdogs on Thursday night might be the best betting spot in all of sports. All right. Sorry, nice. I don't want to.

Congratulations, Scott. You said Booky, not I. This legally takes us out of the conversation here. Scott, would you like to brag how much money you put down on the game with your bookie that we don't endorse? Yeah, no, okay. I actually didn't put that much money on the game. I only put $100. Oh, okay.

I was going to say. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it was basically the point of the call is a humble brag that I took the Giants money last. Money last. So you're really not apologizing. You don't feel bad for the bookie at all, do you?

Oh, my goodness. Not at all. He doesn't call this show and apologize for your bad mistakes. And he's definitely up on me last time. There's no doubt about that one. All right. Thank you very much, Scott, for that. I got a quick question for you.

You know, I happen to know bookies. It is what it is. I don't bet on sports myself. I only do it legally with you when we go to Lake Charles or Vegas. Of course. The rule that my buddy has is it's plus or minus $500. You guys have a gentleman. You settle up.

What do you do? if, I'm not paying you. You've got to break some knees. This used to happen in college all the time. People would, one kid would be the bookmaker, usually the rich kid. Yeah. And then people sometimes just wouldn't pay. So you're going to go hire somebody and pay them several hundred dollars.

Not normally. Normally you just say that person's a scumbag and you stop being friends of them. Okay. If it's a circle of friends. I think that very seriously. But there are serious bookies out there that are probably listening to this show right now. I mean, serious, that's how they make their living in their life is being a bookie. Maybe they find people they can trust or people they refer.

I don't know. Or maybe they make them put it on a deposit? Well, you know what? I've got a suggestion, but I don't want to mention it because I don't want to be like, man, what's wrong with you? You should just deposit it. Yeah. First of all, if you're going, if you're loading up in Draft King's Sportsbook, you deposit money in the way. They don't let you bet.

They don't put you on your honor. Yeah, I would, no more, it's 2025. No more honor. No more honor bets. Because you're not going to go pay somebody a thousand dollars to break some legs. Right? Good. You know some shady folks.

I guess so. I got people in mind. Would you do it? No, I wouldn't break anybody's legs. Thank you. I'm a lover, not a fighter. Thank you, Tom. Thank you.

Tom, what's the, uh, who you're apologizing to this week, Tom? Okay. I'm apologizing to my friend Melissa. Sweet Melissa. Name the song. Sweet Melissa. Don't know that phone. All right.

Continue on. All right. So our friend Bill called me and asked me to meet him up for lunch. And I said, hey, I'd love to go, but I've got to auction on the way to court because Melissa's getting married today. And I got to go do that. And he's like, she's getting married. And I was like, yeah, it's kind of a shotgun wedding. And he's like, oh, okay, cool.

He's like, well, another time. And then, like, later on during the day, he, like, sends her this. weird message about how it's abomination to God and all this business. I'm missing out. He's lecturing her about getting pregnant before she got married. Oh, okay, okay, yeah. And so, yeah, it's collateral damage. He mentioned the shotgun wedding.

Yeah. And so then she got preached at by the friend. Nope, no, no, no. You were dry snitching. Yeah, yeah, it was a dry snitch, Tom. So you're apologizing for a dry snitch. right yeah there you go there you go

all right thank you Tom appreciate you by the way sweet belissa can be found in the classic by Barry Mantolo

could this be magic a wonderful wonderful song a few six minutes long by the way oh wow lots of instrumental

yeah I believe they play that Guantanamo Bay to get the terrorist to crack that's my bedtime story you know

I put them yeah yeah could this be magic I thought it was babe is going to be magic so I thought your name of your song was

all right Let's do this. We got to wake the strippers up. Yes. We have the news at noon. And we got that little bit of NBA injury news we need to talk about. We do? We've not talked about it yet. Oh, the Rockets okay?

The Rockets are great. Oh, my God. The Lakers may not be. Oh, okay. The news at noon with Wake the Strippers up is next. 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1203 in H-town.

There's this. This is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Sports Talk 790. Home stretch at 12.06 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And as we do each and every day at this time, around that time, we present to you the main headlines in the world of sports. And with that, we go to Sports RV for the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, so much stuff to get to at the news at noon here on Sports Talk 790. you have the Dodgers defeating the Phillies in 11 innings.

Matt's favorite relief pitcher, Orion Kirkering, committing an error at the end of that game in 11 innings. Dodgers win the game 2 to 1. They win the series 3 to 1 and are headed to the National League Championship Series. How about those mighty Cubs with the swinging Kyle Tucker? A couple of hits for him, including a home run.

He also had a couple of walks. OPS in the Post season is well over 800 now at this point for Kyle Tucker who's had a couple of good games. A must win game five coming up. It's the Brewers versus the Cubs

in Milwaukee on Saturday. Tonight game number five the Detroit Tigers taking on the Seattle Mariners. Terrick Scoobal, the Detroit Tigers ace, is on the hill to face George Kirby. Vegas has this one tabbed with the Tigers at favorite. And

minus 120. Seattle Mariners, even money. Hey, Terrick Scoobel goes on the road and wins games. We've seen it firsthand, unfortunately. And we had the, we had an instapult. We had an instapult. We had 11 people bowed on the insta poll. 10 were saying, go taggers.

And one said Mariners. All right. Also in the news at noon, are the Giants going to be good now? They lost to the Saints last week. So, I mean, it's not like Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo were great, but they beat the Eagles at home.

34 to 17. Three rushing touchdowns for Cam Skadaboo. He also ended up with 19 carries for 98 yards. He had a couple of catches for 12 yards as well. Even with Malik neighbors down, Jackson Dart and the New York Giants getting it done. Do we have to put the Philadelphia Eagles on pretender status, Matt? They barely beat the Cowboys in the opening week.

Close one against the Chiefs was a win. Should have lost against the Rams. and now they've lost two straight. The NFC is wide open. I could make an argument for Tampa. I can make an argument for Detroit. I can make an argument for Green Bay. I'm going to right now give you,

who don't even predict them win the NFC this year? I don't remember. Was it Philadelphia? I think we both had Philadelphia, maybe? I want to say yes. I think Detroit's playing the best football right in the NFC. Oh, you mean the NFC? You said NFC East or you mean the NFC period?

I could go look that up. I can't remember what I had. I think I had the Ravens in the Super Bowl. It's going to have. happen. And they were betting favorites. Your team Lamar Jackson. I like Lamar Jackson. The two-time MVP? The guy who had like 40 touchdowns and two picks last year?

Yeah, he's pretty good. He's got a Eastside Paredes hamstring right now. About to fall off the bone. That's not great. And that team might not make the playoffs. But anyways, elsewhere, Matt, some sad news to report. Beloved Loyola Chicago Chaplain, sister

Jean has passed away at the ripe old age of 100, and six. Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the folk hero, of course, during the Cinderella run for Loyola, Chicago to the Final Four in 2018,

passed away peacefully at the age of 106. One, if I gave you the chance at 106, would you take it? Sure, why not? See, people argue with me about, they wouldn't want it because if they're thinking 90 to 106 is pretty miserable.

She looked, she was chilling. She was in a hundred. She was looking fine. She had a good seat for the game. She's looking fine. You know what I mean? She would look fine.

You know, like, she'd get around. Her team of the final four. Good for her? Mm-hmm. I'm going to go ahead and say, I'll take 106. Sure, why not? I'm not going to turn it down. I remember that 106 didn't say 60.

That way. You're creeping up on that. Stop. I don't. That wakes me out when you talk like that. What? Matt, we're all going to die. Yeah, but I don't want to die.

60. I know, man. We all have to go sometimes. So just live your life to the fullest. Thanks. And live, laugh and love. Yes. And be arrogant as well. You know, I should be more arrogant. That's pretty good. Also in the news, Lane Johnson, Philadelphia Eagles right tackle calling out his own team

saying the offense needs to be, quote, less predictable. There have been a lot of Twitter film aficionados calling them predictable, saying depending on where Sequin Barclay is lining up, they can tell if it's a runner pass. Perhaps a little bit too predictable for the Eagles offense the last several weeks. I mean, I think they're under their fifth offensive coordinator or fifth play caller in five years over there

because guys keep getting either fired or hired away to be head coaches elsewhere. So Lane Johnson calling out his own offense. It seems a lot harder than it needs to be, maybe moving forward, just have a little bit more variety and hitting the perimeter some.

You know what? We got our own issues here in town. Let them worry about their own. I have no opinion. Fair or foul? Lane Johnson. I mean, he's a great right tackle. Fair.

Calling out. His own. Fair. Offensive philosophies. When you have, as good as he's been, you can do that. Yeah. If you are Ariante Eursary doing,

getting your spot and shut up. Yeah, that's true. Rookie. Yeah. All right. LeBron James. Oh, yes, man. He got the sciatica.

He's going to be out at least a month to start the season. Three to four weeks, set to miss the Lakers season opener. This sounds like an old man injury. I got the sciatica about four weeks. Meanwhile, all the new TV networks and our new TV deals are like scrambling to put other games on. Yeah. Well, Luke is still going to be there. That's still a draw.

That's true. That's true. And they're on opening night as well. I think it's Golden State Lakers right after the Rockets and the Thunder. Yes. Golden State Warriors And that will be Where is that game?

Is that game in L.A.? I think it's in L.A. Okay. All right. I have one not really newsy thing but it's just under the category from yesterday's second week call I just don't get it.

I brought this up a few weeks ago. I don't get the bananas, the Savannah bananas. I just don't. Yeah. But it teaches on it. I mean, there's all the things I don't get.

Oh, you guys don't like fun. It's for children. I'm not a child. Yeah. In that respect. They announced yesterday they're playing at eight, excuse me,

nine, more stadiums this year coming up. They are doing Dyken Park, right? A couple of games there? Or they were, they did? Among the new ones. You're right. I think they're going Dyken or a constellation or something. They're doing it. They're staying on here. They're going to Doke Campbell Stadium, the Superdome, Keenan Stadium, Kyle Field,

Wow. Neeland Stadium, Memorial Stadium, Outson Stadium, Kinnick Stadium, and Gillette Stadium. What all those have in common? Those are all exclusively football stadiums. So you're going to have left field like 475 from home plate and right field will be 186. It'll be a disjointed like a bad maze or something for a baseball field. It's a bit. So you put bits in football stadiums. Yeah, I guess.

Good for them. I won't be there and I won't be watching. But there are people that lose their mind over Savannah Banana stuff. I'll tell you what I will be watching. Pick aside, Matt. Old Dominion or vanilla Villanova field hockey. Who you got? Can you get some volleyball on or something?

No, it's field hockey. Let's go. Pick aside. Villanova. All right, let's go Old Dominion. All right. And that, my friends, is the news at noon. 713212-5-7-90.

Oh, we have ladies. Oh, we have ladies lacrosse? No, it's field hockey. Oh, okay. You got Villanova, you said? Yes. All right, Old Dominion for life. Let's go.

I'm going to go. We'll keep you updated, folks. What is Old Dominion? Are they Sunbelt? Patriot League? No, no, no. Conference USA. They work.

Yeah, I think they're moving up a little bit. I have no clue. I've never done how I play a field hockey before. These girls are locked in. She looks mean. I mean, they're physically fit. Okay. That's enough.

I just said physically fit. That's all I said. You got to be physically fit to play hockey, right, a lot of running. Feels like field hockey's bad for your back. Yeah. Always hunched over and stuff, yeah. Yeah. Oof.

You don't want the ladies hunched over. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-790. I have to tell you've got one day left. If you need your fantasy football advice, You're going to get it from Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. We've got non-floor stories at 1.30 today. I have sent Ross a couple of stories.

I've sent Jonathan a couple. So they should be locked and loaded with some great non-flora stories today. It's going to be entertaining, folks. And they're all disturbing. Yeah, that's why I might not use those. Well, again, anything you don't use send to Jonathan? Because Jonathan ain't scared or read stories. Okay.

713. It's scared. Ain't scared. Okay, OU Texas, really quick before I go the phones. Yes? John Meteer. List of questionable? List of questionable.

It's a wrist, right? Am I right? A wrist of hand? He had hand surgery three weeks ago. Okay. I'm not a doctor, but I'm going to play one on the radio. You've had a hand surgery three weeks ago, and you're going to maybe play against the University of Texas and the huge rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl?

Can't you save yourself for, like, I don't know, South Carolina? they're 5 and 0 number 6 in the country is it a must win game well put it this way it's a must win game if you want to go to play for a playoff game yeah you can't if you're Texas you can't lose any more of this right you sure right I mean that I would imagine not

competitive things are this one and then win out with a win at Georgia and home versus Vanderbilt and home versus A&M maybe they could sneak in well then the question is going to be do you take a three lost Texas over a one loss A&M if they were fighting for one spot.

No, that wouldn't be their first loss, I wouldn't think, right? I mean, I don't know. I guess we'll see what happens. Who knows? It's an important game because it's the big number one rival for the Texas Longmore. So split down, man, I keep seeing these pictures. OU's line is better. Offensive and defensive line is Texas is better than Texas, correct? Not according to PFF grades, but also Texas

has an easier schedule, so depends on what you want to take that. I don't know. How about, and again, I don't know. It's basically a toss-up game. Right now, Oh, you's favored by one and a half. I haven't deep-dived this at all. Not that I ever would,

but point being is that Texas is, it's on the edge. It's got no, little room for air. Can't desperation with really good athletes overcome some things? Can't Arch be just sick and tired

of hearing about how he sucks and he's the worst thing ever to play in college football and just ball out for four quarters? Is that going to make his arm stronger? Is that going to make him a more accurate, thrower. Did his arm get gimpy when he got to Austin? I mean, was arm strength an issue going in? If you're

the phenom, you're the number one quarterback in the country, you can't have arm strength issues. You just can't. Did we misinterpret his arm? I guess so. Arm strength hasn't looked great. He's thrown a lot of dead ducks out there. It's quite frankly looking a lot like Quinn Ewers. Which is going to

then ask the question. Is there really something wrong with him? Because as I've said before, if I was to go look two years ago at every scouting report, if you're the number one quarterback in the country, the term decent arm is not a part of the conversation. It doesn't have to be a rocket, but it doesn't have to be a guy can barely throw. I don't know.

Should he have a shoulder wrapped at the Florida game? Is that what they said? No, I'm pretty sure he had an athletic tape wrapped around his right shoulder. That's not any typical for quarterback, so. Okay, okay. No, it doesn't mean he's not hurt, though. Because if he's hurt, then go, get fixed. Well, maybe it's

something he's trying to play through. Didn't Quinn Ewers played through his shoulder injury all of last year? Yeah, because he got the beat down against the Cougars and had spent 12 months back. Yeah, he did. They were probably taking cheap shots. No, it's not true. They were all legal hits. Thank you for asking. Go for his knees. Yeah, cheap shotters.

Mm-mm. We played clean and right by the book. 100%. Especially Now, Willie. Yeah, he played, he had a torn oblique since week two did Quinn Ewers. So he played through it because he was fighting for his playing time.

He had a guy named Arch Manning behind him. He had a torn oblique and wasn't very good and couldn't get passed by Arch Manning. Yikes. All right, let's move on. Now I'm depressed. All right, U.H. beats Oklahoma State given. Get in prices down to 243. You're still looking at $800 for the trip.

Probably. Now, if you got a sugar mama or you got a sugar brother. Sugar brother. Ray, if you're listening, somebody did. What's up? Pony up. Somebody did hook you up with rocket tickets tonight.

Oh, these are $397, the middle of the... This is actually not bad. You can't shake this thought of going. What's wrong with you? I'm just going to tell you, folks. I heard I said on the radio. I don't know how to explain it. The energy and the atmosphere

is completely unmatched going to that game. If you went to that game, you will see why I call OU Texas's biggest rival and why many people who go to that game and are Texas fans and especially not, you know, maybe in the 80s, in the 90s it was Texas A&M, but it's just you can't beat that game. Being in the state fair, being the 50-50 split,

the energy, the atmosphere, that game, it's just, it's addictive, man. I would say this, and again, I'm not going to tell you how to fanboy because you do it very, very well and you do go to events, and I'm proud of you for that. If the game was in Houston, I would say absolutely 100% go, but you're going to spend all that time getting up there, getting back. And then they lose like 27 to 3. And it's not like you've not gone before.

That's a risk, baby. It's all part of the risk. I was there when they won 49 to 0. That was so amazing. It was awesome. I'll be on my death bed thinking about how great that was. 2.30 Saturday afternoon. You're at your house.

No, I'm going to be at a local watering hole. Okay, you know, with the family. Spending 4% of what you're spending. I know, but you can't. Can't beat the atmosphere. That's like saying, why don't you just watch a concert and couch? I will do that now. I love Paul McCartney.

I've seen him five times. I'm done. Well, yeah, that's because all your heroes are in their 90s. But I'm talking about, like, you've spent that money and you've gone, and those are memories you cherish, right? I will say, can I, and this is the gods honest truth. I cherish every moment of going to the San Antonio for the final four, even though we lost.

Yes. If they go the final four this year, I'm not going. I understand. It was so much if I have a hassle. then I'd be sick to my stomach. See? But I can take that chance. I know.

Because look, it took me an incredible travel trip. I got sick right after the game. It just, and we lost. It was nothing pleasurable about it. I mean, singing Texas fight after a big touchdown, high-fiving a bunch of strangers, and then the Texas fight chance back and forth, it just gives you goosebumps.

I just love it. I just love Longhorn football. It's a fault of mine, Matt. This isn't the year to go. It's a toss-up, I've been when they've been underdogs. They're four and one when I go. They need me. I've been five times.

By the way, Old Dominion and Villanover are tied at one. Yeah, baby. Let's go, baby. Let's go Old Dominion monarchs. Is this live? The Monarchs? Is this live? I think so, yeah.

I don't see the live tag anywhere. Oh, it's, uh... Because if it's not, if it's not lie, we're going to be really stupid. That's fine. You can root for it doesn't matter. I'm going to go see if it's live. I don't know the result. We got, what do we bet a dollar on this?

Well, oh, what happened? We bet a bag of chips on a baseball game. I don't remember who won. Let's bet a dollar on this. Okay. I got Villanova for a dollar. You got Old Dominion. Oh, man.

That chick right there. That's Amazon right there. Old Dominion's about to be set in the edge, baby. She should be playing middle linebacker for the football team. It's strong. Randy, my buddy, wants to talk about the Cougars. We'll get to him next. We'll get to the rest of you.

We got Roto coming up in half an hour from now. And now in Florida Stories. No believe you're not today because I'm bumping out a little early for the Cougar flight. But that's fine. We're giving you bonus of non-flora reaction today. And I want you to really sell. I want you to, I want you to be an orator for the audience. I want you to give it like Paul Harvey, we used to do it. Yeah, we'll see. 120 and make it 1229 on Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to jump in and say hello,

7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. If you are bumping around town tomorrow and want to catch the Longhorns game, right here on 790, beginning at 1-30 with the pre-game show. The game will be at 2.30. The post-game will go to, I believe, 1.30 or 2 a.m. It's the longest post you ever heard about my entire life. You got to get those sponsors in there. Oh, Lordy. A Cougar post game show. We're tight. 30 minutes out. Do you hear me saying these tickets are a good price? I need to send them. They just sold.

I got to get off this page. That's fine. Just won't go. I'm going to the Aggie game. Okay. Well, then consider yourself blessed. That should be good. Maybe. Maybe the Long Corns can get their ass, whooped. What games are left? At Kentucky. The home games? Or you may any game? Overall. Overall, what's left?

Overall is going to be home. The home games are Vanderbilt. They at Georgia. Okay, so this week and then at Kentucky. Okay. At Mississippi State. Yeah. Home for Vanderbilt.

At Georgia. Home for Arkansas. And home for A&M. You get Oklahoma, Arkansas, and A&M. What a nice old school schedule. SEC. Powerhouse. Longhorns are in 11th place in the SEC right now.

But boy eligible. Close to being. Off the backs of wins versus San Jose State, Utep, and Sam Houston. How many wins do those three schools have combined? You really want me to look it up? No, don't look it up. Let's go to the phones. You can look at a lot. They're sure, San Jose State's good.

They got two wins. They beat Idaho and New Mexico. All right. Nice. Sam Houston? Powerhouse. Sam Houston. They're 0 and 6.

Ooh, Sam Houston. Yikes. Utep minors, one in five. Okay. but they were competitive games Randy is with us on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross at 1235. Hi Randy. Hey, how are you doing?

Randy, your phone is terrible, my brother. What's going on with you? You know, I don't think this is our fault on this. Do you think, Jonathan? Because you was bad when you answered. Randy, try to call back. We like Randy.

We like Randy a lot. Randy's great. Big Cougars fan. Big Cougars fan. But that's a bad phone line right. there. And we know, look, we are, we are the presidents of the bad fam phone club fan fan. I don't think it was our fault. Okay. But who knows? All right. 713, 212.5.790 if you want to get into anything goes Friday here.

You want to talk about the Phillies game last night? I want to talk about Kyle Tucker's big game with two big hits, including a home run for the Cubs. They beat the Milwaukee Brewers and that took a game five. If you want to get into Cam Scataboo and Jackson Dart and the rest of New York Giants as they beat the Philadelphia Eagles. Can I ask a really stupid question? Yes. This is among the dumbest things I've ever asked. Oh, I love this. So every week, Kirk Herbstree on his Twitter account tells us where he's going. Uh-huh.

Okay. He is going. He last night left from his house in Nashville, or the night before, and flew to New York to call the Philadelphia Giants game on Amazon without Michaels. I believe Game Day is in Eugene, Oregon. I'm not 100% sure of that, but I'm pretty sure of that. Okay. So he's going to get on his private plane and fly from New York to Eugene.

Yes, Oregon, Indiana. In Eugene, correct? Yes. Okay. He's going to have to leave game day early because he's doing the OU Texas game in 230. Okay. All right. So I'm going to assume there's going to be a pit stop for gas from New York.

to Eugene. Okay. But even if there isn't, you know, he brings his dog with him. Yes. The dog's got to go to the bathroom. Mm-hmm.

Poor dog? You can't tell... Where does dog pee on the plane? I mean, I'm asking. You can lay down one of those wee-wee mats. But what if he doesn't want a wee-wee-wee? Yeah, well, then he can do some there too. Is that what's that,

and you wrap it up? Yeah. So you think that's what he's doing? Do you think... I mean, people bring, you can buy these little, like, they're basically like turf mats. Because I would, I imagine. I imagine that's what he does. I don't know.

I can't imagine he'd want to go from, say, New York to Eugene, stop in the middle of the Midwest somewhere so the dog can go on the runway in a local airport at 3 o'clock in a morning and do his business. Yeah. They have potty training mats. Get him for about 30 bucks. Well, that's not, so you're telling me this is legit. Or you get the one on shine for eight bucks. Not everything else. chemical. And I think that

probably Kirk can afford it. But dear with, I may be, I'm clearly, it's a dumbest thing I've asked you in a long time. Is how is the poor dog who travels with them all over the place? Yeah. His emotional support dog. Is that what he is really? It seems like. It feels. Don't you think so? Yeah.

Do you have a wife? And kids. How do they feel about all this? This dogs get more shine than us. I mean, the dog is first one more popular than any member of the family. One of them died and then just went next man up. to the next dog. The other, and then the dog gets better air flood accommodations than most of us as Americans do.

That's true. That dog has a rapid rewards account? You don't need that. You don't need freaking fire miles. The dog racking up points. Now, I'll say this, if you are buying the jet, the private jet,

you may get points on your private jet company. That's true. But my guess is that Kirk Curb Street's not writing that check. It's going to be the ESPN or Amazon Prime doing it. I mean, Kurt's really, really good. But he's got to be feeling pretty good. He's not traveling commercially ever again. But they put Lee Corso in the basic economy.

They did put Lee Corso on a flight from Orlando to Columbus on Darkbreast. With connections. With two stops to change the planes. He went Orlando to Columbus, had to change planes in Las Vegas and Sacramento. Long layovers. Really long layovers. It's very rude. It made him sleep on the ground at the airport.

anyone get him a hotel room in between. He had to sleep on the dog's wee-wee pad. Carson was like, why does this dog get treated better than I had? Sorry, Randy. Shut up, old man. So rude. Yeah, Randy, the floor is yours. Hi, Randy.

Can you hear me better now? Yes, sir, go ahead. Okay. I wanted to get your sense of when you, when you enter, view Willie Fritz, how he comes across because I have so many friends that are either at TED coaches in high school and they think so highly of him. I just wanted to get your take on it. So are you saying you don't think highly of him when you hear him or are you just asking just in general? No, I think real highly up and but I've wanted your sense.

because I don't get a sit down and talk to him. Sure, sure, yeah. Can I just tell you, I'm going to peel the curtain a little bit back for you guys, a little bit on Willie Fritz. And look, I've only gotten to know him the last year change because obviously he was busy at beating us at Tulane. I have never heard one person in the football coaching world or the academic world or the high school world that has ever said a bad thing about Willie.

doesn't mean that Willie hasn't had to cut players. Doesn't mean he's had to be not tough. But he's just as genuinely of a nice person, Ross, as I don't know. My two favorite coaches of all time in terms of just being good people, to me, were Kyle Winningham, the head coach at Utah who's still there. And Ken Hatfield was a coach at Rice. And not Urban Meyer. No, no, he was an A-hole.

But that's not here nor there. Willie Fritz is just a really good person. I get to hang around the team hotel live on game days. I see how he interacts. He waits for us to get on the plane. And he, before we get on the plane, you know, we walk up the stairs, he greets everybody personally and says, hello, how are you doing? That's great.

I've never seen that in my life. Most coaches can't run to their seat fast enough and put a book or a tape on so they can hide themselves. Willie talks to you. Willie does not like it when I call him coach He likes to be called He's like a lot of people in my life call me coach You can call me Willie I feel like coaches like to be called coach

In general In general, that's what I'm saying Yeah, yeah He's tough He's obviously screaming to people Because his voice is scratchy Yes But I'm telling you

Go Cougars Matt Let's go Cougars He's just a really good person And I don't mean to pregnant pause here, but it's so abnormal in coaching. Yeah. Especially football coaching. It's a cutthrow business. And, you know, he's just good.

Now, he's got to win. He's getting paid a lot of money. I mean, you know, he's, there's a lot of coach tennis. You know, he didn't come here because he was blanking giggles. He got here because it was a better opportunity and more money. I mean, he moves on. He's just like every other coach in that. respect, but, and he may move on again one more time.

I don't know. He's in his mid-60s. I don't know if he's going to be doing a lot more moving in the rest of his life. What I'm afraid of is I'm afraid the NIL world's going to kill him because it's a lot of work. That's why I really believe, and I don't know, I know you of H doesn't have a general manager yet. I think we're going to eventually see in the next 10 years, Ross, we're going to see general managers at almost every high end, at least P4 school. What is the, forgive my ignorance, why don't they have one? Does because some people every program has one

I guess. Because what you can do is you can have administrators, player personnel guys, you can do it. Effectively do the job. But player personnel guys

10 years ago were only worrying about well I've got 12 defensive I've got 12 defensive players who are graduating. I need to fill that spot. I mean you're your roster constructing but you just roster construction

is based off of what you need and what's left and who's graduating. Now you're manager's 18 and 19 year olds. Yeah. Now you need The reason we need a general manager is because you can have guys leave, leave every single year.

You're managing $20 million a year in school money that you can pay. And then you're also having to have a conduit to the NIL world. That's why Andrew Luck is the general manager at Stanford. What was Ron Rivera, the former Carolina Panthers coach, is a GM somewhere. Ross. I can't remember where he is. you see college basketball teams having general managers all the time. Michael Lombardi was at UNC, I think.

Michael Lombardy? Woj, Wodge Bomb. Oh, that's right. General manager saying Bonaventure? Because he is a Bonnie. He's a Bonnie, but he also knows that he can probably get some Mnale money over there to improve them. Yeah, I envision general managers now becoming as prevalent and as important in the college game that I see in the pro game. I just had a caller say that U of 8's top.

does have a GM and it's Willie's son. Is that true? I know Willie's son is heavily involved. I don't know if he carries a title or not. But Willie, yeah, that would be the closest thing to what the Cougars have as a general manager. Let me see what his exact son's title is. Is it Wes? Yeah, let's see. Wes Fritz is general manager.

It does say he's general manager? Yeah, that's right. I'm looking at it right now. General manager of the University of Houston. Yes. he was first, his first job was director of personnel slash pro liaison. Oh, here it is.

Here it is. Yeah. 2025 season will be his second with the program and first as general manager. There you go. Now his young guy. Thank you to that person.

So yeah. He knew somebody. Yeah, shout to Jesse. Thank you, Jesse. So yeah, Wes last year was exactly what I was saying. I wonder how he got the job. Director of personnel and pro liaison.

Okay. And now he's got the new. What's the interview process like on that? Dad, can I do it? The job is yours, son. That's a terrible Willie Frick. That's awful.

You're not right. I just said that Willie's a nice guy in the world and you're trying to do terrible impersonations. You got the job. I'm going to record this and show you. Excellent interview. He graduated in high school in 2008. So what would I put him at age-wise?

That's 16 years ago. I was 2003. I'm 40. So he's 35-year-old general manager. Okay. Good for him. So yeah, last year. You got great references, son.

That's it. That's it. I want to record your voice right. now and play it for him on the plane and he'll put me in the back of the plane. You're not right for that. You hear that, Joan? How rude and mean he is? That's it right there, Joan.

My good friend, Joan. What did I do? That was rude. Everything. We just talked about how great Willie Fritz is and you're doing a terrible impersonation in. He's amazing. That's not right, man. Thank you.

Oh, by the way, Old Dominion's up 2-1 over Villan Oval with 40 seconds left to go in the second. Let's go Monarchs, baby. You're about to owe me a buck. How many quarters are there? Are there four quarters? No clue. Zero clue. Field hockey.

Hockey's normally three periods, right? No, you don't know. What about when it's on the field? I am, my back is hurting watching this. They need longer sticks. They need longer sticks. I just Googled some study says 59% of girls who play college field hockey

say they have backhand. Let me tell you some. My daughter is 6-1. I would never allow her to play field hockey. No. Yeah, you know what? She's 5'4. You find a bunch of fast four-foot girls.

That's what you do. I just cracked the code. Out of a team full of 5-4 fast girls. Yes. All right. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-70. Come on, let's go Villanova.

Let's go cats. I want to tell you right now about up-time. It was half-time, so there is four quarters. Okay. Yeah. Oh, they're both four and seven, but they're two and one in the big east. Old the man is in the big... It must be just for field hockey only.

That is an OG liner there. We're not going to be on very long in this segment because we've got to get the Roto. We got to get some serious. I got to be honest, I got to take a lot of the time up for my own team. Oh, my. You're serious. I need to. The Toros are fine.

You're four and one. Yeah, but I got issues. It's a must win game for Cal's Rough Riders and I only got seven points from Sakelon. Do you realize that Adam used two players and got 47 points from two players. Cam Scadaboo, 98 yards and three touchdowns? It'd be like that sometimes, Maddie. Wondale Robinson. If you'd have said, who's Wondell Robinson, 24 hours ago.

I know who Wondell Robinson's been a staple of a waiver wire guy for the last few years. Well, that's when I actually didn't care about my team. Six for 84 in a touchdown yesterday. I'm screwed. And I had Dallas got it on my bench, but he's been up and down. He had 21.5 points. Oh, God. I've been playing Kelsey because he keeps getting to the end zone every week.

He just, you know, I mean, I can't bench him. No. I understand, Matt. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm just going to tell you, I love all of you a lot. I love some more than others, but I'm going to have to use the first five minutes of Dr. Rodo for my own team. Okay. Rico Dattle is one I'm really curious about. Rico Douth.

Can you do it for two straight weeks? He's probably not going to get 200 yards. Dallas is a defense. It sucks. Yeah. The defense is bad. I got Keenan Allen I want to use. I mean, are we really going through your whole roster right now in this segment?

No, we will in five minutes. minutes, though. We're doing it right now. No, I'm moving on. Okay, thank you. You are so funny. I'm glad you're in the league, though, Matt, and I'm glad you're performing well. Well, I'm about to drop my second consecutive game. It's going to put me in terrible bad terrible. Bad news. I'm one and four, and I'm about to lose. And Brock Purdy's still hurt. Shut your bum ass up. Let's just knock this out, because this is probably the last part of the time we're going to talk

baseball. Let's go Tigers tonight. Yes. Let's go. Brewers and Cubs, I don't care. How about a Kyle Tucker hits two bombs and they lose? See? You're thinking about your belly all the time, aren't you? Yeah, well. That's exactly what you're doing.

That's a way to a man's heart. All right, so now that we have that settled, after that, we will say, let's go. Okay, tigers, blue jays are we rooting for? Don't care. Blue Jays for Springer? In straw? I'll go slightly lean Tigers. Tigers for AJ.

Tigers for AJ? Yep. Okay. And then National League, anybody against the Dodgers. Let's go Brewers, let's go Cubs. Agreed. But we all are in agreement, except for one person. No Mariners.

Suck it, Mariners. And you're ridiculous fans. We're going to have softy on a week from Monday, because that'll be the week before the Texans play the Seahawks on that ESPN-Ocho game. Yes. Seattle, could they be hosting playoff games during that same time?

I mean It could be, yeah. Because Toronto would have the home field. So I would assume that 3, 4, 5 in that series will be in Seattle. You know, those stadiums are right next to each other too. I think they're talking about moving some start times around because of that.

Okay. I think those stadiums share one parking lot. They're very close to each other. Yes. I've not been, so I don't know. They're on the same alleyway. You know, let's not make this in a year. and go pregame at sluggers?

No, no pregame at sluggers. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And I've got over I need, Roto. Give me the news. I really don't know what I should do. Act I've got to. All right, enough for the small talk. Roto, we got to have a serious heart-to-heart-heart talk.

I lost last week, and I need your advice. Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize. This is for all the people of Houston. This is a segment should be, Matt. I don't care. This is for me. Oh, my God. This is for me for three minutes, okay?

Here we go. Are we loving Drake May against New Orleans this week? Yes or no? Yes, big time. Okay. Thank you very much. This Rico-Dottal thing, is this going to happen this week again for the Panthers against the Cowboys?

Oh, it's a thing, and it's a good thing. And you better get him in your line. Okay. And Keenan Allen, how we feel about him against the Miami-D-Wy. dolphins this week. Love Cian Island this week. See, that wasn't too painful, Ross. All right, let's move on.

Jesus. The Toros look pretty good this week. Toros are looking good. But the problem is, guess what I had to go against yesterday? Cam Scataboo and Wendell Robinson. I'm already down Fitty. It's terrible. Well, look, Rico Dowdell could put up 30 himself.

Yes! So, in a revenge narrative. Yes, let's go. All right. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. If you want to get it for Dr. Roto, he'll take your questions the second segment of the show. Can Baltimore, look, they were woeful defensively, didn't do much offensively. The Rams defense is probably pretty good as well.

If you've got any skill position players, are you playing them for the Ravens this week against the Rams? I would play Zay Flowers. I would. Henry's a tough one. I mean, the Rams are going to be ready for him, right? You're going to put a bunch of guys in the box and you're going to say Cooper Rush, try to beat us.

But am I going to bench Derek Henry? More likely, I'm not going to do that unless I had two sensational starts. Like, would I play Rico Dowdle over Derek Henry? Yes. Right? Chuba Hubbard's not going to play. RICO's in a great spot against Dallas. It's a revenge narrative. This dude looked great last week.

But I'm not benching Derek Henry for Chase Brown. So, you know, you got to pick your spot. Say flowers in a great spot. The Rams are, look, after last week's debacle where the Rams blew it on fourth and one running the football when they should have thrown it. I got to think the Rams are going to put four touchdowns

up on the Ravens this week. So I like Kiron Williams, love Puka, like Stafford, maybe even Devante Adams finds the end. We're not huge Jacksonville Jaguar fantasy football players, but are they sneaking up on us here? I mean, their record certainly is, but what about their fantasy impact?

Yeah, I think that, you know, the Thomas Trevor Lawrence has been very inconsistent. He's made Brian Thomas Jr. more like a fifth round pick than a first round pick. Travis Hunter is supposed to be this, you know, great talent, but we really haven't seen it offensively. But it's, you know, the whole is better than the sum of the parts. Travis T.M. He's a must-start. Brenton Strange, who's their tight end, he's out.

But Hunter Long should fill in and do well. I think Jacksonville is going to play well. Vegas has this game as even, right? This is an even game. So this is about how does JSN play against the Jaguars takeaway defense, how to Sam Darnal play? But I think the Jaguars can win this week. All right. We've got a quarterback change in Cincinnati.

Nobody thought they were going to win in Green Bay to begin with. But do you like the fantasy impact that Joe brings, Falco brings to the Bengals, or is this just the latest gasp of trying to find something that works for them? Well, you know, there was a report that Cincinnati, didn't even reach out to the Giants. How do you not reach out for James Winston? I mean, how do you not reach out for Russell Wilson? I don't like Russell Wilson, but he's better than Joe Flacco.

The thing about Joe Flacco is he can play in this league. You give him three or four weeks, he's fine. Are the prospects for Jamar Chase and T. Higgins and Chase Brown better on Sunday than they were last week? I think so. Jake Browning just lost any confidence that he had. So I think this is a tough game. I think Chase Brown will be used way more.

I think Flacco will dump it off to hand a ton. I think Jamar Chase is legitimate. Do I love T. Higgins? No, but I guess if, you know, if you have to start them, you know, if let's say you have some Vikings or some Texans, then maybe you would. All right. Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Are we due for an Aaron Rogers stinker here eventually or in, I guess it would be this week against the Browns?

I mean, the Browns have kept things relatively close. The Browns are better than we think they are. Dylan Gabriel did not look bad last week. Quinshan Judkins is downright good. and you know who is a what is a rookie tight ends rookie quarterback's best friend a tight end david nijoku and harold fanon had like nine receptions out of his 16 completions last week so i think nojoku's it firmly in play i think judkins is in play for sure on the other side i like jalen warren a ton i don't love dk metcalf um i know that we're supposed to especially

because the browns play a lot of man coverage but dk doesn't thrive in that coverage i'm going to ask this one for you is there anybody that you wouldn't play if you own a lion or a chief this Sunday in Kansas City. Yeah, I can't imagine it. I mean, that's just one where you just rev the game up and you know that it's going to be a high-scoring one. You're playing Mahomes. You're playing Kelsey.

You're playing Worthy. I don't know if I like Pacheco, right? I think I don't want any Kansas City running backs. I'll stay away from that. I think I like juju-Jew-Smitha more than I like Pacheco. On the other side, you're playing Gibbs. You're playing St. Brown. You're playing Leporta.

James and Williams are killing teams right now. I mean, really, he's killing fantasy teams. But what are you going to do? You're going to bench him? The second you bench Jameson Williams, the dude scores a 40-yard touchdown. So it's like, you know, damned if you do and damned if you don't. I mentioned Rico Donald and the Carolina on the Dallas side. Two big point totals for them in back-to-back weeks.

Is this a little hot streak or has this been a recurring trend for them all season long? It's kind of a trend. Offensively, they're not bad. And, you know, the Panthers play a lot of cover three. Well, who thrives in cover three? Jake Ferguson, Dag Prescott, George Pickens, the three guys that Dallas uses right now. So, I mean, if you were playing in DFS and you wanted to run, you know, those three guys and bring it back with McMillan, you might be on your way to being my rich friend if you have a lineup like that. Dallas is in a good spot. I think Bryce Young is in a good spot.

I think Dowdell's in a good spot. I think McMillan's a good spot. This is the game that, you know, right now is about a 50 total. This easily could end up closer to 60. Are you also playing everybody humanly possible for Indianapolis? this week as they take on Arizona with Tyler Murray questionable for the game? I think Kylo Murray plays.

I think this game is going to be a little uglier than we want it to be. I'm not saying that it won't be good. I mean, look, Jonathan Taylor's always in play. I love Tyler Warren. That guy is just amazing. I don't know if I love Michael Pittman this week. For the Cardinals,

look, Marvin Harrison, Jr., going back to where his dad played. I mean, that's a story. But the Cardinals are all about this. If Kyler doesn't play, I don't want anything with Jacoby Burr's. set. If Kyler does play, then let's play Michael Carter. Let's play Marvin Harrison. And of course, let's play Trey McBride. Because if they're losing, you know what Kyler does? He throws a million

passes to McBride. Chicago plays Washington on the Monday night game. Boy, the commanders go to L.A. and get that huge win on the left coast. I would assume that the quarterback return made a huge difference for them, not only that week, but also from a fantasy perspective. Yeah, Jayden Daniels played great. Kroski Merritt. It's fantastic. I love him this week. Chicago. That guy's a must start for sure. McLaren likely out once again, I think that they use a little Zach Hertz. They piece it

together with Debo Samuel. On the other side, I mean, look, Kaelin Williams might actually have a good game this week. Roman Zunze is always in play. DJ Moore could surface this week. So this is one where if you're losing on Monday night and you've got a couple of guys in this game, you might have a really

good chance to come back. All right. If you got a question for Dr. Roto, the rest of time is yours. at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We'll also get his thoughts on the big game of the weekend, which would be San Francisco, Tampa Bay, with a pair of 401-team's meeting. 7-1-2-7-90.

If you got a question for Dr. Roto, we'll take those questions to the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. We will live with a good doctor the fastest 30 minutes and major market radio continues. All right. So,

rhode before I go to the phones, how are we feeling about this Brock Purdy injury update about Sunday? And Matt Jones was so good in that opportunity he was given. Where are we on the skill position players against the bucks this weekend?

Yeah, we have no problem with Mac Jones. I mean, Christian McCaffrey is in a great spot. I think Jake Tonsius isn't a good spot. The tight end for San Francisco, who's going to play another week until Kittle comes back. On the other side, Baker Mayfield, play him. Amika Egbuka. Oh my God, this guy's been a fantasy superstar.

And I think you play Rashad White. So right there, if you stick to that court, one of those guys, all right, let's go on the phones and talk to Kenneth for Dr. Rodo on 790. Hi, Kenneth. All right, I got two out of these three I can start. JSN, Devante Adams, and Keenan Allen. Yeah, I mean, we're definitely starting at JSN. We're never not starting. him the guy might arguably be the best wide receiver in football outside of Pooka and Ocuna C. Look, Adams and Keenan Allen, those are tougher ones. So I love Devante Adams this week, but you're dealing with Kairn, Williams, and you're also dealing with Pooka Nakuwa, right? So Adams, I think they're going to score four touchdowns. Is he going to get one?

Keenan Allen, they don't have a running game because Hampton's hurt, Naji Harris is out, and they've had a lot of issues with the offensive line. If Miami blitzes, you've got to think that Keenan Allen's going to get a lot of quick, short receptions. So I think you have more receptions with Alan, but a better chance of a touchdown with Adams. Thanks for the phone call. Let's go to Kyle on 790 for Dr. Roto here on the Dr. Roto segment of the show. Good afternoon to you, Kyle. Hi, Dr. Roto.

I got three as well. I got Tony Pollard, Jacoby Myers, or Michael Pittman. Yeah, I mean, this is a tough one, honestly. I don't love Pittman this week. I don't think he's in a bad spot. I mean, I think he's certainly playable. Jacoby Myers, the problem is, Gino Smith stinks.

And I really like Ashton Genty this week. Tony Pollard, they've mentioned that they want to get to Jay Spears more touches, but they always seem to say that and never do. So give me Pollard and Pittman. It's not that I don't like Myers. I really like Trey Tucker a lot this week for Las Vegas. And I really like Genti, I think he's going to have a big week. Thanks for the phone call.

713-212-5-790. If you want to get in for Dr. Roto, a couple lines are available. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Koso, what Chicholican question for Dr. Roto? Thank you, Mr. Texas. Quickly, where do we think about Sam Donald against Jacksonville, it's on Haskins, and then quickly, Raiders defense this week or Detroit defense. Thank you.

Thank you. Yeah, I think I'm always going to pick the Raiders. I don't want to get against Tennessee, right? You got to think that they could do something there. I mean, I like Detroit's defense, but I'm not going to do that against my homes. Hassan Haskins is a risk. Is he going to play? Yes.

Did he play at Michigan and Harbaugh knows him? Yes. Do I think he's a great talent? No. Kamani Vidal is also going to get a lot of touches there. So watch to see that be very 50-50. Sam Donald does look great this season, but this is a very opportunistic Jaguars defense.

I don't like West Coast teams who travel for the U. early slate. Bad things tend to happen. I don't hate Donald this week, but he's not a guy that I'm seeking out to play. Any thoughts in this Denver Jets game this week? Up in London? Or are they in London this week again, or were they? They are. I don't know if they're in London, but

I know they're away. Maybe it's Germany or something like that. Look, the Jets are a mess. I mean, who do you really want to start there? You start Garrett Wilson, you start Brees Hall. I think you start Justin Fields begrudgingly. But do you do that against the Broncos? I mean, the Jets are, you know, they're going to score it's less than 20 points.

But I guess if I had those three guys, I certainly would use Breece Hall and I certainly would use Garrett Wilson. I don't hate Mason Taylor either. Mason Taylor is Jason Taylor's son. He's a good young tight end. For Denver, Cortland Sutton, in play. J.K. Dobbins, in play. Bo Nix. In play.

I don't like the peripheral guys. I don't like R.J. Harvey. I don't like Marvin Mims. I don't like Troy Franklin. But I think you could keep to the stars, it'll be okay. You mentioned Zay Flores. He's still listed as questionable this week. Are we nervous about him at all?

Not yet. I mean, I'm happy playing him right now. I mean, we'll know more tomorrow, I expect. I think that he's expected to go. But, I mean, if they don't have Zayflowers, this game could get ugly fast. All right. Let's see here. Trebionn Henderson or Algier? Look, Antonio Gibson's gone for the season. They like Ramandra Stevenson.

But I've told you, Trevionn Henderson is the best running back there. Stevenson's been fumbling every game. I don't know what this guy has to do, but they're playing in New Orleans, and the good thing is the Saints run a lot of plays. It's one of the reasons why I like Drake May this weekend, T. When you run that amount of plays, plays equals opportunity, opportunity equals points. Can Trayvion Henderson finally get 15 touches? If he can, I think he's a really good start. Alger, you know what happens?

Bejohn Robinson runs like 50 yards, and they give him a breather, and then Alger comes and sometimes gets the touchdowns. He would be a thing if there was no Robinson, but so long there's, is there Bejohn? There's no Alger. Drake May or Baker Mayfield? Oh, man. Kimmy Baker, but it's really close. Okay, let's go to Josh on 790. Hi, Josh, you're on for Roto.

Well, you kind of answered all my questions, but I'm going to ask one. Ninjoko or Henry at the tight-in position, and then Garrett Wilson or Matthew Golden. Thank you. Yeah, you know, don't laugh. I really like Matthew Golden this week. You know, they're playing against Cincinnati. who can't stop anybody. Will Jordan Love take a couple of shots

deep downfield? I mean, we want to see more from Golden. I want to see more from Golden. Garrett Wilson's going that's a tough matchup. I'm not against you going Golden. I don't think that's a terrible idea. I love David Nizuco this week. I love him. I think he's in a great spot. I think he's overlooked. All right, let's go to Robert

on 7-90 for Dr. Roto. Hi, Robert. Hey, how's going? I got two for you. Quarterback, Matthew Stafford, or Caleb Williams. Look, the only thing that keeps Stafford from having a great 300-yard-3 touchdown game is if Kyron Williams gets the ball in the red zone. But if that doesn't happen, Matthew Stafford could have 303 easily. Caleb Williams is an okay play.

I don't hate Caleb Williams, but I think I want Stafford in a game that really could go out of hand. I mean, could the Rams drop 35 on the Ravens this week? They really could. The Ravens need a buy more than any team I've ever seen, and they'll get one next week. Fred on 790. Fred, you're on with Dr. Roto. There you go, sir. I have a question. I had both Chase Brown and King Henry. I'm thinking about sitting both of them. I have Rashon White, but my other two are on my bench are secure and Kincaid. Should I play one of them for maybe Henry or Chase Brown?

I mean, I'm playing Rashad White. I agree with you about that one. He's definitely a play. I think, you know, the Henry Chase Brown, I don't think I'm playing Shakir over either of those guys. Kincaid has been good and the bills should actually score a bunch of points this week, but I don't know. Do you want to be the guy who benches Derek Henry for Dalton Kincaid? If Kincaid goes like 4 for 44, I mean, even with a bad week, Henry scored last week. So I'm probably starting Derek Henry.

Stephen on 7.90. Hi, Stephen. Hey, just a quick question. Alvin Tomar is playing this week? I don't think we know that right yet. I think that's going to come out last second. He's got an ankle injury. If he doesn't play, Kendra Miller will play. And then this kid, Devin Niel, will finally be activated.

And you might see some Taysam Hill. You see a lot more Taysam Hill than you want to play than you want to see. So no answer. I don't have any news for you just yet. All right. Let's go to Augustine on 790. Go ahead, Augustine. Hey, what's up, Doc?

I left Wondell Robinson on the bench. So I'm trying to make up those points. should I keep Laporta as Flex or switch a mile of somebody like Cooper Cup or a Kendrick Bourne or something like that I'll hang up the list of thank you

yeah I mean look don't blame yourself for not playing Wondell right you're playing against the Eagles nobody expected the Giants to play as well as they did last night right so you did nothing wrong there Laporta is it solid play I mean Laporte is you know what you're getting

the problem with Cooper Cup is he hasn't been really good at all this year right? I mean, is this going to be a Cooper Cup week? I don't know. I know Sam Leporto's going to be out there. I know he's probably going to get 10 to 12 points. Born as somebody I would play. But so here's what we're going to do. We're going to wait until Sunday late. If Pierce Saul is out, which I think he is out, if Jennings is out, which I think he could be, you definitely get born in the lineup over Leporta. If you see Jennings is playing, then it's 50-50 for me because Jennings is going to soak up a lot of those targets. All right. Let's go to Anthony for Dr. Rodo. Go ahead, Anthony. Yeah, I've got two for you real quick. Baker Mayfield or Matthew Stafford and then another one, Justin Herbert or Bo Nix. Yeah, I'm going Herbert over Nix. That's pretty easy. The Baker and Stafford, man, their boat, here's the beautiful thing about Tampa. Tampa's defense is leaky enough that it forces the team score a lot of points.

Well, Tampa's got a good offense. So, I mean, this game is going to be close to like 48 to 50 points. That's a high scoring game. I love Matthew Stafford. The only thing that scares me, once again, is Kyron Williams being there. Because you know how Williams could steal two touchdowns. So Stafford should go 260 and 2. Baker could get worse than that, or Baker could go 3, 14, and 3, right?

In one of those Baker-Mayfield games. The big thing is Mike Evans is out. Chris Godman is out. Keep an eyeball on K-Dott as well. All right. Last call belongs to Willa on 7-9. Go ahead, Willa. Yeah, real quick, man.

I want to see if you would take Kraft from Green Bay or La Porta and also do last week the guy Warren from Pittsburgh or like the week before he sort of like didn't play. Is that a situation for this week? No, Warren's playing this week. I mean, it's not a great

matchup. He should catch some passes out of the backfield. I just don't love him running the football against Cleveland. I love me some Tucker craft this week. Guys should score. So let's get him into our lineups. Ladies gentlemen, we asked Dr. Roto once a week to give us a complete 100% unbelievable performance.

We're going to get from him and get from one particular NFL player. It's Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. Like the week. I just can't find a way how Josh Jacobs doesn't score one touchdown, maybe two. I mean, Green Bay loves running the football, playing at home, playing against the Bengals. We can't find a lot of offense. And Josh Jacobs, 100 yards and a touchdown.

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on all that you send him for fantasy football. Good doctor. Thank you. As always, my we'll do this again next week. Can't wait, Auntie. Take care. You got it. That's Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. I have infused the non-Florida story segment, even though I'm not reading them. How many of the stories will I have sent to Ross and to Jonathan will they read on the air? We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people.

It's time for non- That is correct. It is that time of the week where we go to stories that are from outside of the state of Florida, but still weird, wacky, wild stuff. Should we just read these weird stories that Matt sent and put him under his umbrella? We might as well. Okay. Well, let's do our stories and then we can kind of rotate.

I don't know. I'll go ahead and let you start. All right. Okay. Mr. Allen. So mine's from China, I believe. This is how it starts. Looking for a get-rich scheme.

Start saving those fingernail clippings. And traditional Chinese medicine, Odyssey Central reported on September 26th, Clippings are incorporated into medicinal products to treat abdominal distension and tonsilitis. Companies that make the treatments purchase the clippings and wash them thoroughly before grinding them into powder. and the prices paid for them are relatively high. One woman sold clippings for $21 U.S. dollars per kilogram. Kilogram? How are you getting a kilogram of clippings?

She had been saving them since childhood. All right. This is disgusting. Oh, my goodness. He said this to me yesterday at a clock. This is from Matt? I was like, what's going on? You know, a kilogram, what is that?

Like two and a half pounds, right? You know what? I got to look it up. I'll look at it up right now. Yeah, 2.2 pounds. That's a lot of, oh my. And that's grinded up, right? Yeah. That is disgusting.

And you're only getting $21? I mean, unless you work at a literal nail shop. Or they're doing manis and petties. There's no way you're accumulating that amount of volume. I mean, nails are very light. I guess you're helping the community. Are you taking them off corpses? Is this a mortician?

This is disgusting. Get risky. Get risky. Get risking $21 for a kilogram? I don't think you're getting rich any time soon. Good God. That's my first story from that. Okay, well, let me give you one, and then we'll keep rotating here until we run out of stories, basically.

Let me tell you about a woman. 82 years old, just only going by her surname Zhang. This is somewhere in China, where unfortunately she had some lower back pain as she was experiencing some pain from a herniated disc. Well, she was hospitalized after trying to treat the pain by eating eight live frogs. Okay. Swallowing them whole. How do you even have the stomach? Without letting them in on her plan, she had asked her family to help her catch frogs,

which were smaller than a palm of her hand in September. She consumed three of the frogs right away and ate the remaining five the following day. soon after she began to develop abdominal pain as was sent to the hospital when there she had disclosed what she had done her son saying quote my mother ate live frogs

now the sharp pain has made her unable to walk doctors conducted around a test and confirmed she had a parasitic infection from eating the live frogs how did that even digest it damaged her digestive system and resulted in parasites being present in her body. According to the hospital in Hangzhou, Eastern China.

The doctors were luckily able to treat Zhang and she was discharged after two weeks of hospitalizations. Apparently, it's common in China for them to treat people who have eaten amphibians as cures. Traditional Chinese medicine often includes the use of animal parts, including amphibians like fries, frogs, excuse me, snake bile or salamanders to treat

various medical conditions. So folks, if you're having issues with a herniated disc, don't eat live frogs. Yo, this Villanova person just stopped the penalty shot in this field hockey game, which I'm winning, by the way, 4 to 1. Let's go Old Dominion

Monarchs. 4 to 1. Oh my, oh. It's a beat down, baby. Give me my dollar, Matt Thomas. All right, sorry. What else you got there? This next one I just found is from England. Yaz Chapman, the 34, was diagnosed at age four with pika. A disorder, a disorder that involves eating items that aren't typically thought of as food. Oh, Matt gave me this one. Matt gave you this one?

No, I just bought this one. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. No, go ahead. Go ahead. It's fine. As a child, she tried talcum powder, chalk, and cigarette rolling papers. Cigarette rolling papers.

The mama four currently eats about 10 sheets of paper each day. I look forward to the postman, Chapman said. Oh my God. Certain papers taste different and they have different textures. I'll rip a corner off just to test it. Oh. She said she drinks plenty of water to help with constipation. Constipation.

When someone likes chocolate and they're craving something sweet, they eat it and they feel those happy chemicals being released in their brain. It's like that. So this is like an actual thing. Like this is like a, like this is what like makes her happy. God. Some people drink. Some people do this.

This is disgusting. I can't believe I found the same story he sent to. That's crazy. That is, have you ever, there's that show they had. It was like weird addictions or something like that. Oh, yes. Strange addiction show. Something like that.

That's a real thing, I guess. Wow. I saw somebody on there. They were eating like ceramic. pottery and cigarette butts and stuff like that. Yeah, this woman eats

a toilet paper. Yeah, my strange addiction. Is that show still on? Apparently, he ran for six seasons on TLC. It made some money. The Learning Channel. He's got a rating of 5.7 out of 10.

Yeah, I only saw an episode or two. That show was disgusting. But yeah, I've heard of this before. Ugh. All right, let's move on. Anything else? Do you want to read that first story I sent you? Yeah, you want to read her?

You go ahead. Okay. I don't know. Here, I'll read it, I guess. You read that one. It's my turn. In Russia, doctors at the cure of regional clinical hospital were astounded.

A 65-year-old man showed up with a tumor the size of his head growing from the back of his neck. The New York Post reported. The surgeons were able to remove the tumor on September 22nd and identified it as benign lipoma, a fatty lump that grows between the skin and the muscle.

The patient said he had been living with the lump for 16 years. Okay. And tried treating it with simple ointments. Okay, 16 years, you've got a tumor the size of your skull. And you're just sitting there? And you're like, eh, put some balm on it. Igor Poparin. Head of surgery at the hospital said many patients postponed a visit to the specialist, hoping that the formation will disappear on its own.

The only effective treatment is surgical removal. Again, he had been living with this thing for 16 years. Goodness gracious. And that's my non-Florida story. Or my non-Florida stories. I bet you read that one. That was disgusting. All right, there you go.

I'm sorry, I was watching this field hockey game. I thought Old Dominion scored again, but it's 4 to 1. All right, anyways, quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt Thomas ducked out early because he is traveling with the University of Houston Cougars as they take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Quick break here, anything you guys want to get to, we're not going to play, believe it or not, because Matt is not here and I didn't bother writing the questions. So anything you guys want to get to, 713, 21, 5, 790. 7.1.3, 2.12.5.790. 1 to 50 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790.

Ross, Vio, we are with you for a couple of more minutes. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He ducked out a little bit early. Congratulations to the Old Dominion Monarchs defeating Villanova and me winning $1 from Matt Thomas. Adam and Adam coming up with the A team here on 2 o'clock. Yeah, 2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 792 to 6. Of course you got a big sports weekend.

Houston Texans are off, but the Major League baseball playoffs continue. OU versus Texas. other college football action. And look he who is calling in. Yankees Keith. We played taps for the death of the Yankees as they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays. Yankees, Keith, what do you got?

You doing okay? Mm-hmm. Oh, oh, you're there? Okay, so baseball season is over with. I'm a rocket to Keith again. That's good. All right, let's go. I got a couple of questions.

one The dude that was Playing for the G league He was high score for the G league or whatever He plays for us now Is he competing with Reed Shepard? I don't think so I think he's just competing to

To make the roster It's J.J. What's his name Davison? Something Davidson, right? Look it up Okay JD Davidson, excuse me, not JJ. All right, a couple other questions.

All right? Why are y'all on a radio and Adam and Adam on TV? They're on the radio too. Well, I'm just saying, well, why are y'all not on TV? My understanding is that they wanted something that would be lead-in programming to the Rockets and the Astros, and that time of day made more sense for them in their programming schedules, so I don't know if it was a choice of We Like Their Show Better Than Y'alls. Maybe it was.

That's not what I heard, and it's not like they would. tell me that if that were the case. But my understanding is they want lead-in programming to the rockets and astros, which they carry. Of course, we carry the rockets and Astros, and it made a natural fit for them to go ahead and use that show. Okay. One last question, Ross. Okay. When are you going to do another remote because me and my wife want to come? Oh, really? What part of town you live in?

Right close to Stafford. Yeah, we were at the brewery a couple of times recently over there in Sugarland. My true answer is I don't know. Normally these pop-ups with sales and depending on, of course, sponsors who want to pay to get guys out there and all that type of stuff and pick which location they want to showcase. For example, we were recently at the Cyprus, Big City Wings location, thanks to all of you who came out there because that was a new location. So they wanted to highlight and us mentioned multiple times on air that were out there. So I don't think anything is on the horizon at this exact moment. So I guess I'll just let you know when we know, Keith.

All right. I'm looking forward to what I like to come feel my face in a play. Okay, good. Okay, I thought you were Texans Keith too. Oh, not really. What? What happened? I became battered Ross and then you became Texans Keith.

I thought we were boys on this. Well, I still watch the Texans. I not cheer for them. Because I know you're a Titans, Keith, and I know you jumped off of that bandwagon. That's been a long time. Well, it ain't been that long ago. But no, I don't want to deal with nothing Titans related. Hey, Texans have won two in a row.

Maybe come on back. Let's go. I still watch them. I watch them every hour. I watch them because they're on TV all the time. I watch them every game. I watch the game. All right, Keith.

Anyway, I hope you have a good day. and I'm looking forward to coming to the next remote. All right. Thanks a lot, Keith. I appreciate you calling in, and we'll try to see what we can do. Just make sure you don't show up any Yankees gear. Anybody got time for that. So we'll see what happens.

Like I said, those things normally come together. I mean, it depends. I'm going to be honest, we should do a better job of promoting when we're out on the road here at Sports Talk 790. But sometimes they pop up on short notice. Sometimes things are in the works. We had a big event in the works for December. I'm not sure if that's still happening

or what's going on with that. So we'll see because things are in flux with sponsorships and different things going on. Of course, you know that there have been some shakeups up here at Sports Talk 790. So that'll be something we'll keep an eye on as we go along here. And we'll try to keep you informed as best we can. As I mentioned, big sports weekend coming up. You do have the Texas versus OU game.

I think John Materer is going to play, right? That seems like the writing on the wall with OU now is a one and a half point favor. That line opened up Texas two and a half. I saw it was like a fan dual sports book reporter or somebody else said the line would be Texas minus five and a half. If he wasn't going to play, maybe Vegas knows something. We don't know. Still not sure if I'm going to go. Tickets are pretty expensive.

But I'll tell you this. If I'm the OU coach, we got to win this game and then you can rest the next one and wait. It's a must win game. I don't know what's on the sooner schedule. It's Texas this week. And everything says TBD on their schedule. That can't be right. The times are TBD, but what about the dates?

Yeah, okay. Yeah, they don't have an off week. They're coming. No, they didn't have it. They had an off week before playing Kent State last week. And so, yeah, then they have at South Carolina, home for Ole Miss, who's top five now at this point, at Tennessee, who's number 12 in the country, at Alabama. Oh, home for Missouri. Oh, my gosh.

See? This Oklahoma schedule is insane. Number four Ole Miss, then at 12 Tennessee, at 8 Alabama, home for 14 Missou, and then home for number 11 LSU. No rest for the weary

in the SEC. My goodness. All right, that's going to do it for the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He will be back on Monday. He only left for a couple of segments. He is traveling with the University of Houston Cougars. Now it is time for, not one Adam. It's two Adams. They call themselves the 18. They're coming up next year on Sports Talk 790.

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