The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Worst Teams, Fantasy Football Fortune-Telling, Nadal's GOAT Case

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

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What's happening in lunchtimmers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. We are very happy to have you with us. As we navigate these murky waters of, not the action-pack thrill-seeking headline-chasing game watching events of the week. We've got a Texan's game Sunday in New England.

We've got baseball playoffs, which are interesting, but when they don't involve the local nine, it's just not nearly as interesting. We had a Rockets preseason game that I swear to God, I've never called so many players in my life. I've never called an overtime preseason game in my life. Thank you, Jack McVeigh for doing that for me. Who? Jack McVeigh. Okay.

This is Sean's cousin. He's a secret agent. Okay. I don't get that. I don't need that. I'm just saying it's a secret agent Jack McFadge saying he's an Aussie. Okay. Or an Aussie, I think. They prefer.

Okay, Ozzy. I'll have to ask my other buddy. Jacques Landale. How's he doing? He's great everything. He calls me mate every time. And again, that's what you call everybody. Yeah, that's fine. It's like he's your mate.

He's got a little nickname for you, Matt. It's just for you. It's just between you two. I don't believe it to be accurate at all. I am mate to Jack Landell. I am boss of Jabari Smith, and the rest of the players have no idea who I am. That's great. That's good.

What up, boss? That's what you, nobody calls you chief, big dog. Nope, no. Okay. I mean, don't give them ideas. That's fine. Don't give me a hand. Well, welcome back from Oklahoma City.

Yeah. Yeah, we won't get it too much of that, but it was interesting. Okay. Seeing Tar He said back on the floor for the first time. No Fred Van Vleet, a good steady diet of Reed Shepard. And then a bunch of New Orleans, a bunch of Oklahoma City players that I had no recollection who they were and won't be on the roster with certain. in the season. Welcome to the preseason

and the NBA. Yeah, that's exactly right. So you need to do a post-game show last night? There was no Rockets Wrap. Oh. We should do that. Unfortunately. We should do that. I forgot to watch the game too. Is that bad? What did I miss? You're down two games. Yeah, I know. I got it recorded. Your DVR is like, I'll catch you. It's not a big deal. It's fine. You know, I was diving into the slate, man.

Getting ready for my big debut as your fantasy expert. Now, Roto's going to, Roto texted me this morning. He will be on with his tomorrow. I think I'll be in the normal slot. So I will. So I wasted my time. I know you well enough to know that you didn't spend much time. I've spent hours. Really? I made spreadsheets.

I'm ready to go. All right. But forget it. Let's get into it. Who sits and starts in the Arizona Green Bay game? Well, I think the problem is the waters are a little bit muddied right now with the Green Bay pass catchers. You got Christian Watson coming back from practice. Same thing from Robino Dobbs.

As you know last week, he was out because he was suspended by the team because he was upset with his target share. There wasn't a whole lot publicly said about that. We have been playing Dantavian Wicks in the absence. So obviously fire up Jaden Reed, no problem. Tucker Kraft has really emerged as a tight end that you're going to want to go with. And I really like the pass catching matchup. Arizona past defense is horrible. So definitely fire up those guys.

And I think Josh Jacobs should be able to get close enough to score a couple times as well. So all system go on the Green Bay Packers. And on the other side, Marvin Harrison, Harrison, Jr., I would keep an eye on Jair Alexander. If he's going to practice this week, he's going to probably shadow Marvin Harrison Jr. but he was, I think, limited in practice yesterday, so we'll see what happens there. Michael Wilson has been getting a lot of the target share. James Connor, of course, is a go,

and I think Kyla Murray could be behind, throwing a lot, running a lot, and scoring a lot of points. Who the hell are you? What the hell was that? I told you I was ready. You just gave the audience literally irrelevant information for 75 seconds. You've never done that. You've never given 75 seconds of relevant information.

in 13 or 14 years, whatever it is. Jesus, what the hell is that? That was unexpected. I told you I was getting ready. I just threw a random game at you. I didn't even give you a chance to look anything up. You just went off the top of your, there is nobody in the marketplace

that gives you more on the Arizona Green Bay game that Ross Field of Reale just gave you. That's what I'm here for. But that's okay. Dr. Roto is the expert. I'm glad he can make it. That's great. So everything's okay with him in.

Fort Myers. I mean, I'm sure a lot of us were watching the hurricane hit and it just look like devastation all over the place. Fort Myers is a little bit south. Did they call that the dirty side or something like that? It was whatever. I think the thing was so holidiously big. Yeah, it doesn't even matter. I think, yeah, the storm surge looked awful in Fort Myers. I was worried about our guy, Dr. Roto. He says lots of crazy madness, tornadoes, wind, rain, but we got lucky. Now, ironically enough, this should show you how crazy the storm was yesterday. On the other side of the state, West Palm, beach where the Astros have spring training. They were tornadoes like every five seconds. There were tornadoes just ripping through. I mean, so that just shows you how wide this bad boy was. Now, the benefit was, we all woke up this morning and I was in the car at 1.15-ish, listening to Weather Channel Radio on my phone, on my app in the car, because I wanted to kind of hear what was going on.

You woke up this morning, six, seven hours later, and it was all gone. It's already out in the Atlantic. I mean, it's going to, it's going through my, it's going through Orlando and it's going to be out. I mean, it's a fast-moving storm, thankfully. Yeah, thankfully it didn't linger. Like, how many days was Harvey just hanging over Houston and just pouring rain? It was like a mushroom cloud over it. It just wouldn't move.

So, to me, it's about wind, debris, tornadoes all throughout the state, lots of rain. And then rest in peace, tropic hinder field, because the tarp. They were trying to house people there, right? Yeah. Now, the coating of it, the top, the roof, is not made of any sort of... It didn't seem like it. Anything sturdy. I don't know what exactly it's made of.

But whatever it was, it could not sustain the winds of a hurricane. I believe it was tissue paper. That's what it looked like they put on top of there. I believe it was called the Kleenex dome at one point. Seriously. Wow, that was incredible. Yeah. So I have relatives that live in Newport Ritchie, which is north of Tampa, not far from

north of Tampa. and their power is out so they don't have phones or anything working. So I will check on them later today. But yeah, at least again, it's just what we kind of expect. Huge winds, debris, trees down, power lines down, lots of rain. But thankfully, people got out. Now, here's the question. And I don't mean to get morbid on you here for a second.

But in my life, I've never evacuated. Tropical Storm Allison, when we had that here many, many years ago, I worked. Harvey happened. I worked. Barrow, which just happened. It was a quick one. Do we know what to do?

Do we really know what to do? Do we, like, if you ever evacuated? I, I don't think so. I mean, would you, so you have relatives? But I think a lot of that is because we have work responsibilities. Yeah. If you haven't had work responsibilities, has your family evacuated? No, they never have.

Okay. But I mean, if you evacuate, so you have relatives in Fort Worth, correct? That's your nearest one. No, we have Corsacan. My mom has evacuated a couple times to Corsacana because I have, I have her sister's there. Yeah, I was going to say. So you've got a spot. I have relatives in Dallas. But even if he had relatives, do you just get in the car and you just drive and go, okay, we're far enough away from the storm. Let's get a hotel and call today. Fill up your gas, maybe even fill up a gas can. Yeah. And then get out. But that'd be hard for any of us. And I'm sure many people that listen to our voices right now. I've done this before. Get in the car, grab your dogs, grab a couple of valuables, and you don't know what you're coming back to.

That's pretty freaking scary. I should have evacuated in Harvey. I had to swim out of my mom's house. That's great. Into the front of the neighborhood. I was pretty sure I was going to get any kind of E. coli and dysentery. That water was nasty. Oh, okay.

Thankfully, I was okay. But I literally had to basically wade out to the front of the neighborhood, of my mom's neighborhood, get picked up and get taken to my dad's house, which is thankfully nuts. That's nuts. So Trotfield, the top, the roof is, it looks like about 80% gone. They were able to, one side last night was being filmed, and then they got up in the morning and went around the other side and said, yeah, the same thing was kind of happening.

So I don't know if that's going to, how, where do you buy parts for that? I don't, I mean, does that get fixed a lot? Has the roof changed over the years? Poor Tampa Bay, you know, they don't like spending money. They're going to have to ship off a couple. They're going to have to trade away a couple more players now. All right, I got to, let's do this real quick. The one player they played Wanderfranco, they paid him, didn't they give him some kind of big deal?

All right, gut feeling. Do the race playing Tampa in St. Petersburg this year? Ooh, oh, is the stadium going to be ready? Yeah. I will say gut feeling, it'll be okay because it's October and, well, they're not playing right now. Is he got six months? I would say six months, they should be fine? I don't know.

I have no idea. This is more of a question for an architect or an engineer. I guess the question is, where are the priorities? Yeah. That would be so Tampa Bay raise of them. Yeah, we could have spent $30 million fixing this roof, but we're just an outdoor team now. Or we didn't pay any insurance because it wouldn't be an issue.

Yeah. Now they're shooting, we're looking at video right now of inside the stadium, which are where the first responders were supposed to be hanging out. Yeah. Not a great situation. A debris falling in? Oh, my gosh. What a mess.

713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach the program today. Look, I'm hearing lots and lots of Texans preview from no one. Ross, we're here for the people today. Okay. We're going to break it down. See the entry report for the Texans? It's lengthy.

It's not great. But it is the Patriots. It's Drake May. First game. It's the Patriots. Let's bring it down. Let's cuss and discuss. All right. Let's do it.

I'm ready to cuss and discuss. Yeah, I'll give you some more break down. What's what you discuss? Okay, let's do it. You know what? You may be able to break the whole thing down because you just gave us Arizona Green Bay. Yeah. Imagine if you gave us Texans Patriots. Mm-hmm. I'm ready. You do that next.

220, rotten five today. 2.30. The return, I just don't get it. And that's an easy one. There's a lot of things in our life we just don't get. What are we going to get? Okay. We'll have that 230 today. Believe it or not today, 250. Some tennis players retiring. Nadal.

Oh, is it Rafa? Yeah. No. How do I know that before you? I saw somebody saying, please Rafa don't go, but I didn't know that meant he was retiring. Oh, that makes me sad. Probably unpopular opinion. He's the greatest of all time to me.

I think most people would go with Federer or maybe even Jokovic, but I'll go with Rafa. And what do you? Well, we'll save it. We'll save it. The first tennis tease. We've never teased tennis to the history of his show until right now. That's really going to get him to hang on, Matt. Let me taste. I'm listening a lot of sports radio today.

There's people tuning out every five seconds, and we're going to keep you entertained. If we go to Tennessee's, we'll do it. 713-212-5-7-9. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We got Thursday-night football tonight. We have Major League Baseball going on, a full-sight of college baseball, and that means over the next handful of days, you are going to watch a lot of sports, and you're going to want to say, hey, I know how this player is going to particularly do in a game. or I know what the stats are going to be in this college football game I'm going to watch on Saturday or this pro football game on Sunday.

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and if you have the player stats in your mind that how guys are going to do, make some cash with Underdog Fantasy promo code SportsMT. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1220 on Sports Talk 790. We always invite you guys to join the show. There's no if, answer, buts that we probably, I would say, safely say we take probably more phone calls than any other show in the marketplace by fivefold.

Now, that's a benefit sometimes because I feel like interaction between our audience and our friends is good. Yes, sometimes we get some dumbasses that call the show. It happens. And that's going to just be part of the requirement of, you know, not everybody is awesome when it comes to phone calls. But we love you nevertheless. Yes. So today is really, frankly, I mean, peeling the curtain back, I don't think we're going to do a deep dive of the Rockets, Oklahoma City game last night. I think the game is the Texans Patriots has already been kind of already exhaustively talked about.

Now, tomorrow we'll get a little more energy because it will be closer to Sunday kickoff. Can I just call out for somebody right now? Okay. I would like someone to smack talk you on OU, Texas. Oh, like a sooner fan? Yeah. Can I get a sooner fan? Is a sooner fan?

They're 14.5 point dogs. Are they going to be really excited about it? We have, we have Astros are out. Yes. Cougars are, you know, off the huge. A huge win against TCU aren't playing. We have no baseball team that we really particularly care about in the playoffs. We have a Texans team that's going to go up there probably and beat the kick, kick the crap out of the Patriots on Sunday.

Only a seven point spread. I want a little, I want a little something, some. A little juice. Okay. So I'm going to actively ask, and I'll probably ask maybe once or twice an hour. Okay. Twice an hour? Well, I'm not overly encouraged by the prospect of this happening.

Okay. So if you have to keep asking, just to get a different audience. Rossi, I would love for an OU fan to come in here, and I don't care if he's breaking it down like a mutter, just smack talk you. Well, their 14 and a half point dog's in their number one receiver was just ruled out. So I don't know how good sooner fan is feeling about this.

But I don't think we need to. I'm not looking for a deep dab because, look, I saw Oklahoma play. I think you guys are going to kill them. I think their defense is pretty good. I think, I'd have to go look at what the total is, but I don't think it's going to be super high scoring. If they can get it, they're going to need to get obviously a couple of turnovers. That is true. Oklahoma will play without their five best wide receivers.

How many? Five. Five. They don't even have five great receivers. Well, their best one is out. Okay. So if you are an Oklahoma fan, Dionne Burks. Or you know someone that is.

Forget about the game. because you're probably going to lose by about 15 to 18 points. Okay. Just come in and do your some normal insults. Like what? I don't know. They're in Norman, Oklahoma. What do OU and Aggie fans say about Texas fans?

Well, I would say OU definitely goes to the seven championships to four card, which I mean, hey, they have scoreboard there. Texas has the all-time head-to-head lead, but OU has been dominating since about 2000. All right. Okay, push all that aside. Let's get to the brass tacks on this. whose girls are hotter. OU or Texas. Oh, you just got some talent.

I've been to... That's what I'm saying. I went to OU to do... I did it once around while we're up there. Just to check it out. Once around campus. Just check what out? Check the beautiful architecture.

Oh, okay. What was it? Trade, don't be shaking your head in there. I don't need you shaking your head. Was it Victorian style? Postmodern. What did you see? It was Greco.

It was Roman Greco. It was Del Greco? It was Vinny Del Necro. So that's a toss up on that. I've got to be honest with you. I would give the edge to Texas. I would say 5248 Texas. Having gone to five OU Texas games, five times I've been like, hey, it's not too bad over there.

All right. Let's talk about education. If you're going to get a better education, where are you getting it from? Oh, you or Texas. Texas is probably one of the top 20 institutions publicly in the country. I believe it's officially a public Ivy now. I don't know that that's not an official title No that's that the kids are saying that

And then I'm guessing Oklahoma's close to open enrollment basically I mean I don't think it's overly difficult to get in Well, let's see Let's accept the right right in Norman these days Look God you didn't I don't mean you to chuckle there I'm sorry I'm getting choked up

As the allergies or the weather's changing 77.2% Wow That's that's steep They're not too discriminating over there. Yeah. All right. The city itself, I was in Norman a few weeks ago.

It ain't great. A lot of CBD places. Not that if you're judging, you know what I mean? I don't know. Oklahoma had it legal or is that not true? I don't even know. No, I mean, there was dispensaries in and around Norman. Or is it medical only?

Now, they do have a big casino there. Big, big casino right off of 35. Do you still Annie on Blackjack? That I don't know. I have a friend that says they still do it, but I have not seen it myself. But, I mean, their casino has got all the table games. They used to be they didn't have craps and all that stuff. They would just play like slots, but they have everything now.

Food? Got to get the edge to Austin. Stuff to do outside of campus. You argue football stuff. What is, yeah, what is Barry Switzer's alive? Is Barry Switzer's won more games? than John McEvick. Yeah, I think it's dominating since 2000.

That's what I just told you. Seven championships to four dominating since 2000. Those are the cards, the go-to. When you're playing the hits, that's what you're playing. Yeah. But also, I think there's respect between the two fan bases. So there's no one's going to call between now and three-clock. I think there's less respect between another fan basis.

We have no one OU fan that's going to call in today. We see the ultimate Spurs fan is an OU fan. That's right. OU, Cowboys, and Spurs. Oh, God. How bad is all of that? Yeah. Is there anything we like about her except her personality?

She's very nice. She's very nice. That's what's the most important, actually. Yeah, but the team she loves. It's from bad to worse. All right. So if you're an OU fan, 713-212-5-790. Just come in and say something.

Tell us a joke towards Texas. Because I got some news for you, Ross, and you're getting mad at me. When we got A&M Texas Week, we're going to get a lot. Baggy fans coming in. Okay. Test-day, no, fans are going to call in? Are they going to, are they going to hiss at me? Should Peyton Reese call the show? Actually, he might curse. So we have the dump on ready. Let me say something. Peyton, if my son Peyton called you, he would, he'd probably hang up and go, Dad, why did you make me do that? I don't like Ross to begin with. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We will go over that Texans injury report because yesterday it was quite lengthy. We'll see what's going on in Texanville.

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We do have OU Texas this weekend. We do have the Texans heading up to New England to take on Drake May. and this Patriots offense has just been horrible all year long. They are over 45% of three and out rate from New England. By far the worst in all of the NFL, so they're trying to shake it up. They're going with Drake May. They're throwing them into the deep waters against the Texans. Some people think it's disrespectful that the Patriots would do this,

and they're trying to show some disrespect to the Texans, and we don't respect your pass rush. I don't think so. but Drake May is getting the start this weekend. We'll see how it looks, and that should be Advantage Texans. It hasn't moved the line at all, funny enough. It opened up at 7. The Drake May announcement came,

and I believe it's still been holding at 7 as the Texans head up to Foxborough. Yet again, and it doesn't have the same feel that it did in years past Matt one. Like Bill O'Brien would be going up there to face Bill Belichick, and it was the student versus teacher. Now it's a Texans, and it's, well, just a crappy Patriots team. All right. So let's do this. Let's make the most out of this injury report.

Treg, would you give us the music to the TV show? What's the most about ER? ER theme. Let's go the ER theme. And we don't pull out the Dr. Villarreal card very often. Oh, no. Okay. But I would like to you, is this yesterday's practice report?

Yes. Okay. That's all, because the new one won't come out until. Yeah, the Thursday one is usually more telling. And the Friday one is basically it's the fit of complete for some people. So find the ER theme. and when you find it just start playing it, because we're going to find out from you, Dr. Villarreal, how concerned you are on the variety of injuries.

Okay. Because this is a lengthy list. This list is so long we might even have to play the song twice. Okay. We can get it ready. All right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Their nine did not participate.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Limited participation three and one full participation. So Kurt Heinish, we will not give you any run. Oh, no. Not Kurt Heinish. No, he's fine. He's fine. He has a calf.

He has a calf. What's he got like five snaps this year? Yeah, I don't think that made a huge difference. All right. We find this song? Here we go. This is a jam right. Here we go.

Gets the people going. Ross, defensive and Derek Barnett has a shoulder issue. Okay. Worst case? Was a D&P limited or? It's a DnP, baby. Oh, D&P, certainly not good. You'd like to have him as a pass rush.

The Texans do like to rotate their guys in and out, but they were going with a little bit of Dylan Horton last week, and Damico Ryan's talked about how well he was playing. So you do miss some, certainly, with the veteran presidents of Derek Barnett, but they should be okay. All right. Let's go to Guard Kenyon Green. D&P Limited?

These are all DMPs. Oh, you're telling me, I'm sorry. You're all DMPs. Yeah, that hurts. Kenyon Green isn't great. I mean, you can go to Kendrick Green, or I don't know exactly what they're going to use as a backup plan, but he has been somewhat effective in the run game. He's had a couple of good games.

He's had a couple of bad games, but still, even mediocrity at the offensive line, it's probably going to be a drop down from Kenyon Green. Jake Hanson, out linebacker with a bad back. Who's that? Jake Hanson, Special Teamers. Oh, okay. They'll be fine. Titus Howard with a hammy.

This one hurts And I really look, Blake Fisher Nice kid, I'm sure he's smart, went to Notre Dame Look at you stereotyping There are some dumbasses in with the South Bend There's no question about it I mean, they probably know I tell you how to fake girlfriend

It wasn't bright Well, that's a different type of it He had a bad social intelligence Maybe he's got good book smarts I got you, I got you So Blake Fisher sucked On Sunday

PFF has Blake Fisher has the second worst tackle in the NFL. He was getting bull rushed to death. He was getting destroyed on multiple plays. So the drop-down from Tadis Howard to Blake Fisher is significant. All right. For those who don't know, PFF is Pro Football Focus. Yes.

It's run by a bunch of guys that don't have sex, but they do give you good information. They do watch a lot of football. A lot of football. Camari Lasseter's got a bad shoulder. Oh, my God. He DMPed? That's significant. I got a hot take that I don't know if I'm ready to go with, but I'll go ahead and

I'll tell you something. It's the middle of the week and no one's listening. Go ahead to it. He might already be better than Sting. What? What? I told you it's a hot tank. That is so fine. That's a strong, hot Sting is good, but Lasseter, I mean, he made some big tackles in the run game, his cover, he's very good covering. I've been really impressed with Camarie Lasseter. And that's not, and that's actually not even anything against Sting.

Sting's been good. You're not, you're not, so close, you just call him Sting? That's not, he's not a lockdown guy. To me, he's not the shutdown corner that, say, a sauce gardener is, man. Thomas Sports Enterprises He's had some misses But that was a huge hit Patrick's Surtain the second But he's not one of those guys

But I like Lasserer, that's a huge loss All right, Joe Mixon did not participate Because of an ankle Oh my God Laramie Tonsel did not participate Because he's an ankle And he's also a loafer He'll be, yeah, that's probably veteran rest

I'm not worried about that one Which is stupid What do you mean? Gordy brought that up He's 30 years old He ain't 39 Get out there in practice For what? As long as he's ready to go on Sunday

Because Laramie tons of suck this year He's absolutely a. He is a false start holding formation machine. Okay. Pre-snap, he's sucked. Post-snap, he's still very good. Well, guess what? It's all part of the equation. Absolutely. It all adds up. Pre-snap, he's been awful. Post-snap, he's been their best offensive lineman, and it's not even close. So you need him healthy. If he goes down and you have Titus Howard down, the whole thing crumbles, let that man get his rest.

I think he's been babyed ever since he's been here. Could have been called for a couple false starts last week, I think. You see him a little early? You know, I look at the all 22. I don't say... You know what? We're the same thing. We raise our voices.

We just don't want to say something like... Like, is this made me look fat? No, doesn't make you look fat. All right. Jimmy Ward, bad groin. Man, you can't have a bad groin. He... I expect him probably still to play.

He played some limited snaps. I think Kalin Bullock has been doing very well. Eric Murray is kind of just a guy. So, yeah, you do need the safety help of Jimmy Ward, but they didn't have him much last. week. Now, Nico Collins is not on this list because he is definitely out for four weeks. But Robert Woods did not participate because of the bad foot. I don't know if that's veteran. I mean, obviously, probably you would have continuing to slot up.

I think Xavier Hutchinson ahead of him in the pecking order, so John Mechie would get some more looks. It has been nice having some steady-handed Robert Woods as far as punt returning, but you'll be fine. All right. And last one, this is limited participation. Deshawn Phillips. I don't know who that is. Del Sean. Damien Pierce had a limited participation because of a hamstring. and Stefan Diggs did not practice yesterday because of rest. Okay, good. Yeah, keep Stefan Diggs fresh, ready to go. Tank Dahl's going to get some more looks.

Dalton Schultz back in the game plan. It'll be all right. So the question is, with all these things in play, now, granted, some of these things are not going to be very serious, but I'm going to assume off this list of nine players that did not practice yesterday that there's going to be a handful that are not going to be available for the game. Yeah, today is a bigger day. of course to find out what's going on with the practice.

Some of those guys at rested may practice today. And then tomorrow, of course, we'll really get a clearer picture. Yeah. All right. 713212-5-7-19. Dr. Villarral, not a bad job by you. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it.

You did not predict doom and gloom for any of these people. Well, Titus Howard being down is going to hurt the most, I would say. Well, Joe Mix him first, maybe. Yeah, that Texans running game just still has not much going right now. Let's go to Bill and pass a get-down, Dena, 1240 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Bill, good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. How are y'all doing? Wonderful.

Great. I appreciate listening to your show. Listen to it every morning. Thank you. I've got a quit OU joke for it. I've got a quit OU joke for. All right. Two guys from OU went up north to go ice fishing. They never been ice fishing before.

Didn't have a clue. So they go into the bait and tackle shop. And they ask a guy behind the counter, what do we need for ice fishing? And they say, well, you need bait, you need tackle, and you need a couple ice fish. So these two guys say, well, we got the tackle sales to bait you all use. And a couple ice picks. So off they go. About three and a half, four hours later, they come back into that same bait and tackle shop.

And they're sweating their butts on. And the guy behind the counter says, what's up, fellas? And the guy from OU says, listen, I need every cotton pick and ice pick you have. And the guy says, why? And the guy from OU says, we just now got our boat in the water. That's it. Hi, Bill. Yeah.

That's about the correct response. Bill, we love you. You know that, right? That's just to insert whatever these people are, yeah. Yeah, that was, you could say two guys from Dallas or two Aggies or two Red Raiders. Originally, it was an Aggie joke. My son went to A&M. Oh, so you flipped it.

You know what, Bill, you did a great job, my man. Thank you very much. Yeah, we're going to probably try to deal. We're going to try to eliminate any further jokes from the conversation. That includes you and me. Shee. Hmm, man. You know what?

Bill, you tried. You can't fail if you don't try. Of course, sometimes things are better said, not said, right? But you know, Bill trying to add something to show. I appreciate that. People always trying to add to the program. Turned my mic off. Bye.

Yeah, bye. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-70 We've got to pay off on this tennis take Because I'm getting Twitter Being inundated with Matt You didn't get rosted The phones are ringing out of the hood

Didn't Didn't finish on why he thought Who do you think is the greatest tennis player of all 10? Nadal. Nidal Raffiel Raffiel Adol Or Rapha Nal? I go with Rafa. We're close like that. We're tight. Well, you were calling Stingley Sting. Yeah, we're tight.

If five guys walked in here right now, Fleet? Yeah. Why does Stan call himself Fleet? Does the North Fleet fly? I mean, it's just, it's just easier. I don't know. Do you think he put it on the back of his jersey when he's point in Virginia? Fleet. I'm going to start calling you Matt Tom.

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I'm getting fired up for more Houston Sports Talk. Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Astros baseball lives here. You know that heavy, sigh. Can we get rid of that? Have we had enough? Have we just had enough? That's pretty funny.

You know, the Matt Thomas show of Ross will not have that liner in it. I hope not. Well, whenever we get those. We're looking for quarter to in 2025. That's fine. You got May? I was thinking more like April 15th. All right.

Tomato, Tomp. 1249, Sports Talk 790, the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. And Ross, you can, you've got as much leeway as you want on this about tennis. I don't. Because I can give a rat's ass about it. So. Okay.

Does that make me a bad person? I don't think so. Let me tell you what I like. I like basketball. I like baseball. I like football. I like college sports. I like volleyball.

I will watch an account. occasional major if Sunday's really cool in golf. I'll watch a little bit of Wimbledon just because it is what it is. French Open maybe a little bit. But that's about as deep as my sports fandom goes, bro. I just can't do it. So, you know what? I can't do hockey.

Certainly can't do soccer. You've just got a, you got to, your depth is way more impressive than mine, and I give that to you. I just like more sports, I guess. I don't know why. So the floor is yours. What would be a good tennis song? Is there a such thing as a tennis song?

Wimbledon theme? Game set match. Oh, breakfast at Wimbledon. That's what you picked for one. You picked that as one of the best themes of all time. It was a terrible pick on my part. And I deserve the L on that. That would have been one of those weeks.

Okay. So for the four people that remain on this radio station that may like tennis, the floor is yours. Yeah, I mean, I guess the argument definitely. could be for Novak Yolkovic. He does have the most Grand Slam titles of all time with 24. Rafa Nadal's got 22 and to me, the dominance on clay is what sets him apart. And let me explain. It's to me more pure tennis, whereas Wimbledon on the grass, like Pete Sampras can win seven, eight Wimbledons or whatever it was, because he just has a bigger serve than everybody. And then he's just going to serve in volley and you into oblivion.

And Pete Sampers barely had a backhand and he could win at Wimbledon because he has a big. a big serve. On clay, you have to have the shot making. You have to have, it's more of a mental game. It's more of a physical game. It's more of the stamina is more important because you're going to have like 30 hit rallies more on clay than you are anywhere else. So the shot placement has to be better and everything has to be better. It's more pure tennis to me on clay and nobody was better on clay than Raf and Adele all time. Even if you take away his 14 majors that he won on the clay surface. He won eight off of clay, talking about Wimbledon's, Australian opens, U.S. opens. That's as many as

Andre Agassiz. That's as many as Jimmy Connors. So you take off all the clay and then you add 14 of those, greatest of all time. That's my argument. It's just a more, you can't just overpower someone on clay. You've got to outfox them. You've got to outplay them. You've got to be more consistent than them. And you have to have more stamina than them. So to me, Pure tennis. And this is somebody who grew up as a Pete Sampras fan. Pete Sampras was like my goat.

And then I realized I'm stupid. Rafah Nidal's better tennis player. So if you were at a bar, at a tennis bar, would people say your take was ridiculous or pretty good? Or controversial? They would just say 24 over 22, bro. It's got to be Novak. First of all, no tennis player ever says, bro.

Sir. Maybe lad. I think you can argue for all of Novak, Nadal, or Federer. I'm going to stump for Nidal just because, like I said, I think the most French OpenC won is 14. Let me see who's second most. Oh, no. I lost my page. By the way, this is not a terrible song.

It's not great, but it's not terrible. It fits the sport. Not rock and roll. When you hear this, you think tennis. No, when I hear this, I think it sounds like a 1980s or 90s Sega Genesis video game. Yeah. So there you go. All right. So for the rest of us that don't care about tennis and we want to care about what's most important, what was Nadal's female clientele like over the day?

I think you said a wife for very many years. Why would you ask that? What does it have to do with anything? Because when I think of Pete Sampras, I think of what's her face? Oh, Bridget, whatever her name is? And then when you think of Andre Agassiz, you think of Brooke Shields. Let's see. Bjorn Borg won six French opens, and that's the most. And I think it wasn't at Clay his entire time. like he dominated one surface more than anybody else dominated one surface.

I mean, Sampress won seven Wimbledons, but Federer 1-8, Novak-1-7. Nobody was as good at one surface as Nadal was. And like I said, he's got eight championships that are not on that surface. All-time great, the greatest in my opinion. Let me tell you something. As a novice, you gave a logical thought-provoking conversation. Why don't you bring that to baseball? Maybe next year.

give me time so in the first hour of the show let's just put things in perspective you gave the audience an Arizona Green Bay break down from a fantasy perspective and then you gave us an enlightening conversation about why Rafi Nadell is the greatest tennis player of all

time imagine Ross imagine ladies and gentlemen if he brought the same you know what in vinegar to Houston sports how good the show would be what do you were talking about let's just put everything on perspective the other stations in town are talking Texans and they're talking Texans and they're talking some more Texans

and we gave you Arizona Green Bay Fantasy and Raphael Nadel goat conversation. That separates us from the rest of the marketplace and I would have it no other way. Thank you. We are getting tennis responses on Twitter.

What are they saying? Anybody chastising you for your commentary? Someone says they're going to fight me. No, they're not. You're fighting tennis. Yeah. That would be our good friend, ATX, ATX. That's the big tennis honk of the She's a...

Yeah. She, no. She's like she's bragging about going to OU Texas this weekend. She's a fan of every team she ever goes to see. She loves the Red Raiders. She loves the Texas Longhorns, Pittsburgh Steelers. Any game she's at or watching,

she's the fan of that team. Yeah. That's fine. So now she hates you because you're tennis take. I don't even know. I mean, I don't know who she's... I mean, she can disagree. She's wrong.

on. But you won't make fun of her because you always respect other people's opinions on sports takes. Do I? No. That's far from it. Far from it. 1256.

Second hour of the Matt Thomas show begins in a matter moment. It's 220 this afternoon. We will have the Rotten 5. 2.30, I just don't get it. If you don't know what I just don't get it is, it's just we call up and say, Matt and Ross, I don't get why this happens. Anything. It's an open-ended.

It actually makes a pretty good segment. that in a few weeks, but it's kind of fun. Can't wait. Just don't get it. And then we'll do Roth and Adele, believe it or not. Wonderful. Which I guarantee you, every person that will be calling into playing that game will be completely guessing on every one of those.

Unless they're looking at Wikipedia right now. 713-212-5-790. 12-57. Second hour, Matt Thomas Show next with Ross here on 790. Hi there. Yes. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 102 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here.

We're with you till 3 o'clock this afternoon. Well, that storm moved quick. We're looking at the weather channel right now. That bad boy is out in the Atlantic. I mean, it went right through the state quick. Yeah, I'm no expert. Is that somewhat of a blessing that it kind of just blew through and it's gone and it didn't linger and do more damage or something like that?

If you're scheduling a vacation to Bermuda, you may want to postpone that bad boy. It's great. The thing, it's as. big as the state of Florida. Yeah, it's huge. Absolutely crazy. And now Florida, I'm looking at the, we're looking at the radar right now, it's clear. Not even a cloud in the sky.

Insane. Yeah. All the tornadoes, all the damage. We've been there and done that, my man. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm. All right. On the other things.

We'll get a Texans update. They're practicing right now. We'll figure out who's out there, who's not. We'll give you an update on a few minutes on that. Oh, you Texas this weekend. big, big, big college football game. It's so big, the University of Houston decided not to play a game this week to kind of give you guys

your space you needed for that. Appreciate that. Yeah, I figured you'd like that. What else is going on? I do want to get into what's going on over the TOTA Center. It's kind of interesting what's happening there. Rest of the SEC, the Aggies this week, are off.

Hmm. Okay. Not bad. Cool. Missouri Tigers are Connor's team. They're looking their wounds. at UMass this week? Oh, man. That's a nice,

that's a get-right spot right there. Did Missouri lose a bet or something? That's crazy. I don't know. We had all those top 25 teams lose last week. What's the other sexy match of in college football here top 25? I don't know.

I'm focused on the Longhorns because they got OU, then Georgia. And then Matt, at Vandy. That ain't a freebie anymore. No, Home versus Florida should be in Arkansas, at Arkansas? I mean, that's a rivalry game.

Let me ask you this. Does taxpayer dollars pay for the gold post to be removed from the river? Well, is that a private school, Vandy? Oh, absolutely. Okay. Then, oh, to remove it? Yeah, probably. Yeah, that's so crazy.

And thankfully, you ready for an unpopular take? Yes. I don't think it's a good idea. Somebody could get hurt. Yeah, removing gold post and dragging it three miles. Oh, here comes the fun police. No, I mean, I get where you're coming from. It's just far, I guess, far be it to, for me,

me to tell a bunch of drunk 20-year-olds what to do? I mean, you beat Alabama. That's once in a lifetime for a Vandy fan. Number one Alabama. You know what, if there's one day, yeah, don't do it for, I don't know, any other team, basically. You beat number one Alabama, you can do whatever you want. I don't know if you saw the Saturday or not, but the last eight times Alabama has lost, fans have rushed the field.

Okay. That makes sense. I don't know if that's exactly right, but I've seen numbers of something. say basically every time you beat Alabama, it's such a big deal. You take it as a compliment, yeah. But the thing I want you to go back and look at it if you have a chance to do this is you've got to go look at the stands before the game in Nashville. It was all crimson. It was 80% crimson because it's only about three and a half hours from Alabama to up to Nashville.

Okay. So, you know, people that go to Alabama games, they can't afford them because you got to, if you're going to Alabama games, you've got to put down the donor money and then you got to get tickets. You can just go to Nashville and just buy it and scoop them up. Two for 20. Fries and... Bring a Coke can. Fries and drink with it. Get half off.

Yeah, so... All right. So, among the games of top 25 interests, there's nothing. Oh, okay. Oh, you text. Oh, no, that's actually not true. Ohio State plays Oregon Saturday night. Oh, yeah, that's a big one.

That's a big game. I forgot about that. How are you feeling about this new-looking Big Ten? It's weird. I still don't know who's in it. I know who's in it, but it does take me a millisecond to kind... Like, for instance, when you think of Penn State USC, It sounds like a Rose Bowl.

It sounds like it's January 1st. Yeah. No, it's just a regular old Big Ten game. I mean, it's pretty incredible. Yeah. Ohio State Oregon. Okay? Are they playing for the National Championship?

No, it's a Big Ten game. That's why I don't know what's going to ultimately happen in a sports RV, but if you're the SEC in the Big Ten, aren't you just taken off and going by? That's going to happen. Or they're going to try to. Absolutely. They're going to try to hold these TV networks. They're going to try to make an alliance or do whatever. Hold these TV networks hostage.

They're going to accumulate all the big brands, which they basically have done outside of a couple. Because realistically. And look, I love my Big 12. It's nice to be in it. And it's got good cachet. It just doesn't have the same cachet the other ones. Who's got the most cachet in the league?

Among those in football? Probably Utah. Utah's had a decade of sustained success. Well, and Cam Rising's been there for all of it. Cam's also got gray hair at this point. Two children, and I believe he's got a 401K built up there. Utah, not a national power. Oklahoma State, to a smaller, smaller extent.

Baylor was until about three or four years ago, and then Dave Miranda's turned that into a cesspool at this point. Not his fault. Well, I mean, it is his fault, but there ain't much. Okay. Point being is this. If the SEC and the Big Ten just said, you know what, bro? I'll take our conference champion.

We'll take your conference champion. We're going to play for our own national championship. I know who's got the most cashier. Colorado Buffaloes. No. They get the most press. But they have a lot of notoriety. It's good or bad.

If you subscribe to the no such thing as bad publicity, they're number one. That's exactly right. But they actually had some nice decent wins lately. Yeah, they're undefeated in Big 12 play. Yeah. All right. So that's going on on that front. Do you ultimately think that those two conferences will break off and say

Mega Conference A versus Mega Conference B for a Mega Championship? I don't know how long it's going to take, but I think so. They're going to be doing their own thing. Which ultimately would be the elimination of a 12-team tournament, which is what ESP is paying for. It would be 12 of their teams. Well, think about it. At the end of the day, there'll be probably 7 at least maybe from the two conferences.

Well, I think what they're already trying to get more pay than the other conferences or something like that? As far as the playoffs? I'm sure they are. I wouldn't surprise me at all. Yeah. I wouldn't surprise at all. One other college note before we get back to the other stuff going on in the world. By the way, we've got arbitration, not arbitration.

We have one-year deal numbers in from Major League Baseball. Tender deal. So the Astros are going to offer Alex Brugman a one-year deal. He's going to decline it. He's going to decline, but the number is out. We'll take about that come up in the next segment. But let me get to this football. Qualifying offer?

Qualifying offer. Kendrick Perkins, is UCNASPN. Yes. Has started up an NIL company. How's that going? Well, let me ask you this. So basically he's taking these kids and he's offering him a little guarantee, signed with Kendrick Perkins Incorporated,

and we're going to give you $10, $15,000, $25,000. And then anything you get for the next seven years, we're going to take a pretty good chunk of it. So they're giving the upfront money. Uh-huh. And then taking money on the back end. Well, it's not very popular in the world of college athletics. In fact, ESPN is even doing a story about it, which is strange.

Uh-oh. Because their own guy is out there. Lay off or fire with cause. Shams contracting is going to pay for itself. The company is called Nilly. It offers high school. Nilly? Nilly?

He named his NIL company Nilly? Yeah. Go on. Offers high school and college athletes upfront cash. in exchange for the right to sell their name, image, and likeness while taking a percentage of the profits. The upfront payments range from 20, excuse me, let me correct one thing.

The upfront payments start at $25,000, can go up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, with a company receiving between 10 and 50% of the players' NIL earnings for up to seven years. Wow. This is the first, NILI is the first company, apparently, to offer one cash advance on NIL earnings. ESPN obtained one contract that Nilly signed with a high school athlete, which pays a player $50,000 in exchange for the exclusive rights to his NIL deal for the next seven years.

The company takes 25% of the player's future NIL earnings up to $125,000. Nilly. If you're taking advantage of, this is shame on you. If you're taking advantage of poor teenage athletes who probably don't know, a whole lot about... Nobody, who by the way... ...knowing knows anything about handling money. Let's be brutally honest. A lot of disadvantaged families that could take the upfront money and help right away.

Yeah, even not. Yeah, exactly. That's... That's even makes it even worse and even more predatory that you're going to give this upfront cash and take long term on the back end. Shame on you. Yeah. That's sickening. And you know why you can do this? Because, again, there's absolutely zero regulation of NIL. All right?

This is horrible. Name one person in the 60 seconds we have left in this segment. Who's going to be the savior for this? Who's going to come in? Nobody. It's a broken, we've been talking about how broken this system is for decades. Well, I mean, since I know, it's gotten brokener.

Brokener? Something I would say. Who's the most, could Mark Cuban come in and save this? Savvy. No. Businessman who knows both sides of it, runs a prudent business, but is still very player-friendly.

I think didn't, they're looking at the, measures for salary for these players, and I think it's clearing legal hurdles. But then how do you say these are amateur athletes? I don't understand. Oh, I'm forgetting about the compensation just to pay these kids. I'm talking about just the NIL. Who could be the NIL czar? Who is the most responsible fiscal American that can say, we've got to take care of these kids, we have to regulate it so we don't have this shadiness that's going to be, obviously, with Kendrick. And on top of this, the shadiness that could

be one school paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and one school not being able to do that. The NCAA can't get into regulation. They're keeping it. Yeah, they don't want to get into it. They want to keep their non-profits guys. Correct. Which has huge massive tax implications, correct? Yes.

And more money for the, yeah, they would ultimately cost them money. Their billion-dollar television deal would be. Yeah. Who'd be the guy? Just think about it. Who could be the most? I mean, you'd have to get the conferences to, the conferences to together, I guess.

You'd have to get the schools and the conferences and the NCAA stay out of it. But how are you going to collectively bargain? How are you going to all get to agree on the same document or whatever? You're not because SEC schools don't have two craps about what Mountain West schools do. Exactly. So I don't think that's what I'm saying. I don't know that there's a solution. That's why you need a commissioner because commissioner in sports, like in baseball,

looks over Kansas City like they try to look over the angies. And then so where is the, I mean, are all these players, all these 19-year-olds going to form a union? They tried to at Northwestern. That got struck down, I think, by the Supreme Court. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-213-2-5-7-90. Some new bells and whistles over at TOTA Center.

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And Shay Gildes Alexander did play. Chad Holmgren played. Who else was it? You guys, Jalen Williams, One of them played, the one that's the good one of the two. It was Alex Caruso, former fighting Texas Aggie, is now a member of that team. He was traded from Chicago for Josh Giddy. And then they put a bunch of scrubs in the second half.

I couldn't tell you who they were. Okay. So I got an email today. The Toyota Center is going to have some new stuff. New scoreboards in. Really? 6200 square foot display. 6200?

Yeah. It's like a giant mansion house. It has 84% more LED surface error than the previous version. 80% more. That first thing was giant and gouty. It measures 34 feet high. What? 57 feet wide.

It's like it's almost the size of the court. 94 by, what is it? 94 by 50. 34 by 57. 6,200 square feet. Damn. Four underbelly screens. That's for those of you that are down low, they have the good seats.

You don't have the, you know, you know, to break your neck looking at the stat board. I don't have to worry about that. Yeah, I know. I know where you said. Let's see what else. There's a new renovated PNC club. It's going to have a luxurious new look with new food, food and beverage selections. Wonderful. The Golden Nugget Club and Lexus Lounge. Oh, the Golden Nugget Club. Can I get in there with my rewards card? I don't believe you can't. Oh, man. Let's see. 50 cents going to have his wine and spirits company in there. Fitty? Fitty? Fitty. All right. And let's see. Oh, and here's the big one.

Hold on to your MF and hats on this one. I'm ready. The Rockets are excited to bring back a fan favor promotion in collaboration with Rudder Ruger. At any home game, if the visiting team misses two consecutive free throws in the final quarter, everyone in attendance at TOTA Center will be rewarded with a free rudder rutter rigger. Yeah. Okay.

Now, when I was doing the PA, it was Mick. mom lay and i would scream free chicken yes so will jonathan sanford scream free burgers probably because he'll be bits stealing cheese is gonna be extra i imagine and probably the alipinos as well right gotta go with the cheese and jalapinos

see i love jalapinos they just they tear you up they tear me up but if i grill them they're not nearly as bad am i just making it yeah yeah it takes a little of the sting out of it yeah so they'd cook anything i give you fresh jalapeno yeah it's gonna be real no no no no no that won't be at work then next day. You've just roasted. Okay, so we've got to go grilled jalapinos, grilled onions, mustard,

yes, bacon, yes, cheese. Okay. Boom. I go no pickles if I do jalapenos because there's double pickles and the tomatoes on there too. Double salinity. You're anti-solidic. No, I mean, I don't want both. Picles and jalapenos is just too salty to me. Okay. So I just take the pickles off.

Now I'm hungry. What do we do this? Why don't we do this? Let's go eat. somebody else could do the rest of the show i was going to say wax come in here and talk texans defensive line for an hour and a half yeah let's do it all right have you been checking progress reports what's going on on our on our texans at practice today i have not been checking no aaron wilson what's what's a dog what's what's jonathan in m alexander saying um probably there's a good chance of texas can win this game this week i just and you and i disagree on this a little bit I don't feel any buzz about this game.

I don't know if there's any buzz, but I think it's interesting. I think Drake May getting his first NFL start is interesting. I think operating without Nico Collins is interesting. We'll see what happens to the run game. I think, actually, I mentioned that the line had moved. It looks like it's at least on ESPN. They got it back, it's down to six and a half from seven.

So slight movement. Slight. I don't know. I've done sports radio long enough to know that preview talking only the last. so long. Like if you're previewing a baseball game, it's quick because you just had a game to recap and you've got a game coming up. To get into five days, I feel

like everybody's doing this. We haven't been doing it for five days. Well, what do we do on, let's say, Monday I was here. Yes. We recap the bills, Texans game like a bottom. Yeah, recap? Yeah, we're not previewing. We don't get preview modes. What'd you do on Tuesday? On Tuesday, first hour, Stan Norfleet hung out. We did talk a lot about the Bills and the Texans.

Did he get measured or no? I don't know that he did. No. Did he get one of the jerseys? I don't think. My guess the only person that got a jersey here would be Wex. Texans Wex. Texans Wex. But he loves a team. That's fine. Let's see.

You should be getting... You're a bigger chillier than anybody else I know on this place. That's true. Battle Red Ross. Let's see. One o'clock hour. I was solo. And we did NFL rewind at 1.30.

Then Wex came in. We talked some Texans and we talked some Bregman in Astros. Okay. Speaking of Breggman. The Taylor Scott stuff. We played some of it yesterday. Yes. Taylor Scott.

Great friend of the show. Great friend of the show. Talked about how important Bregman is. His scouting reports apparently better than what the Astros were providing him. Isn't that crazy? That's insane. That he is, that's why I said, what I say, 2035? For what?

Manager of a majorling baseball team. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you. I don't know what the hell you were talking about. But yes, could be the manager of a baseball team at some point. All right. And you can't really put a dollar value on what that type of preparation does for a team. Yeah. I'm just looking for that numbers on the

arbitration, not the arbitration. It's the, what do they call it, the qualifying offer? Qualifying offer. Okay. 21 million dollars. He's going to say thanks, but no thanks. So all the Astros have to do within five days in the season ending is offer him a one-year deal over $21 million. Which they will do. And he will do it. He will take the offer. He will rip it up and say, thanks, bro. And then he will search for his new team or stay with the Astros. Now, as long as they have a qualifying offer, they will get draft compensation for him. if Bregman was to leave. I'm trying to think.

Have the Astros ever not offered somebody something? When Verlinder was a free agent, they did a qualifying offer. Springer got a qualifying offer. Correa got a qualifying offer. That's what you do because you want your job. I'm assuming Garak Cold. I mean, anybody that's any good always gets a qualifying offer. And I think it's the average of the top 125 players in baseball?

Something like that. I'll take your word for it. $21 million. It's pretty good. Imagine being a human being. 30 years old. Yes. Someone says, I'm going to give you $21 million to do a job. I'm saying?

You say no, because I'm about to get $200 whatever million. Or we'll see. We got a chip bet, you know. Line is 6.0 years. Oh, we do. Is it just a bag of chips? That's it? I think so. So if it's a six year or it's a wash, if it's a seven year you win, well, I'm going to win. You think so? I think we should up the bet.

Okay. What's the next bit up from Chisot? Yeah, I guess so. You think he's not getting more than five years from anybody? Yeah. Why? I think you're insane. I think age.

He's 30. Okay. Well, yeah, we can't have a bet. I think six is probably about right. Now, see, the problem is that what's his face from the Giants? Matt Chapman, he got six, correct? Yes. And he's actually older.

No, let's up the bet. You know what? I still... Yeah, let's up the bet. Let's up it a little bit. Okay. Let's do your lunch. Let's do lunch.

Heavy, heavy app. Heavy app? Like a fried mushrooms, cheese, fast casual lunch. Like a Rerolte, Ray? A Rorot Ray or Ray, or a Mive dies. Yeah. Fast casual lunch. Fast casual lunch.

Six years, nobody gets anything. Yes. Five or less, I win. Okay. Seven or more you win. Okay. Okay. I think six may be the sweet spot.

I think it's a good line. Yeah, I think so too. But I think I won't. All right. 713, 212, 570. 7132-1-2-5-790. We'll also check the rest of the sports news headlines coming up in a little bit. And again, if you want to get in on anything on the Texans-related, what is your energy level for the Texans game on Sunday?

My feeling is, again, I had the Tex this past week. So what do I know? Remember last year when I was making pretty? the Texans, I never got them right. I mean, never got them right. It's week to week. Yeah. By the way, I went to get a reporter tomorrow for the show tomorrow from the Patriots.

I don't think I can this week, but thank you for the offer. That's nice. That's polite. Very nice. You didn't say busy traveling. Love Tom. Who was it, Bill Belichick? It was just a rain old guy.

Oh, Tom Brady? We're going to get time. So, so far I've been shut off by Kevin Harlan and a Patriots Beat writer. Well, at least Kevin Harlan. He, like, wrote you a whole solilo. He sent me. He sent me a box of chocolates. That's very nice.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. 134 Sports Talk 790. Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show. By the way, Roto normally in this spot will with us tomorrow. He is just kind of not. not digging out of what it's going on, but certainly trying to make sure his house is able to sleep and live in, and that kind of thing.

With the bad weather and whatnot down in the Fort Myers area. That was the first direct hit to the west coast of a hurricane there in a hundred years. Really? Yeah. Wow. Now, they did receive some storm surge off of, what was her name last, like, Helene? Two weeks ago. So that caused a lot of problems, but this was a direct hit. This was in Siesta Key, which is

for those of you anywhere it's near Sarasota it's about 60 miles from Tampa so due south of Tampa if I give you any frame of reference or where that is okay how about the fact that Disney World was late to close the park so they're like we gotta get every dime in before we get

going ridiculous I think so there weren't some of the workers having problems leaving yeah but they always have sex in their employee areas anyway so what are they worried about what? Yeah you know that's what that's you go to work what does that have to do with a hurricane because why is that where your brain goes No.

You know what? No, no. Are you donating your brain to science? No, it's because they don't, they can hang out with their fellow 21-year-olds. You're a sick individual. There's a, there's a natural disaster bearing it down these folks, and all you can talk about is Aladdin sleeping with snow white. Yeah. Is Golden Locks hanging out with their three bears?

I don't think the bears are interested in her. All I can tell you is I've known plenty of people that have worked at. Disney and they always go back to the same story. Like, what was it fun working with kids and being able to make small children have a great time with the excitement of riding these rides and doing these

big theatrical productions and whatnot? I'm like, no, man, we would party so damn hard on the Disney employee headquarters. Basically the same thing as like an Olympic Plaza. Okay. Three things that are similar. Olympic Plaza?

Olympic Village, yeah. Olympic Village. Disney employee headquarters and when you would be a summer camp later and when you're in high school. Okay. So. But yeah, they kept the park open as long as they could. I guess Orlando's airport finally closed yesterday. I don't know if the airports are still closed there or not, whatever, but I know there's a preseason Orlando game that had been postponed or just can't have flat out canceled it.

You know, you feel terrible for them, but you're like, damn, we're okay. because we've been there and done that. Crazy. I mean, Helene was just affecting the baseball playoffs. Yeah. With the Braves and the Mets. Braves didn't seem overly concerned about the situation. Or Mets didn't seem overly concerned about the situation.

How about game five coming up between the Padres and the Dodgers? Yes. How many objects will be thrown on the field at Fernando Tatis? Can we say let's go Padres? Absolutely. Let's go Padres. Would that be okay with that? Absolutely.

I'm rooting hard for the Padres. And the Royals are letting me down big right now. And I got some more news for you. Let's go Royals. Game 4, that series is tonight. And then tomorrow, actually, let me give you the schedule for tonight. Tonight it's Guardians and Tigers at 5 o'clock. Tigers lead 2-1. Could A.J. Hinch be taking another team to the American League Championship Series?

He could. I mean, look, even if they lose this game, they got scuba in game five. And he is sitting there going, I'll throw left-handed, I'll throw right-handed. I'll throw 175 pitches. Does that make this a... Wait, it is a must-win game for the Guardians, never mind. Yeah, yeah. So to answer your question, yes, it is a must-win game.

Yankees and Royals, we need the Royals to win the series. First of all, their uniforms are spectacular. Second of all, they beat the Yankees. Let's go Royals. Because I have a friend of mine who travels with us with the Rockets. Oh, it's Garrett Cole for the... Oh, we're screwed. Against Michael Waka?

Waka had a good year. Old man Michael Waka. How old is he by now? 33. Remember he was like a young? He first came up with, what, the Cardinals, right? Yeah, yeah. He was like a phenom.

And then Friday is game number five between the Padres and the Dodgers. If the Padres beat the Dodgers, if you're a Padres fan and you're at that game, the number one thing you can do is leave the stadium as fast as possible. And second, as you're leaving the stadium, take off your Padres gear and put a Dodgers cap on or something, just to protect yourself. Or put on a shirt that says security. That's your best shot. Yeah.

So what do you think of the finals? dangerous place to watch a game. Dodger Stadium 1, SoFi Stadium 2, Staples Center. Rose Bowl 3. No, what's so bad about Rose Bowl? L.A. Coliseum, I'll give you that.

It's not the great part of town. Staple Center is okay. I've been there before and after games. I've been outside with the people. It used to be Oakland Coliseum. Yeah, whatever the name was. So it's the L.A. facilities. I don't know if New York and Boston are dangerous.

they're just going to yell at you and call you names. They're not going to necessarily try to beat you. No. I don't know. Is the Bronx, how's the Bronx are doing these days? Everything all right over there in NYC? They have a cushy plush stadium now. Yeah.

Old Yankees stadium, probably so. New York, New Yorkie stadiums not so much. And then in Boston, it is calling you an arse, you know, and finish it from there. Okay. So I don't, I don't know. It just seems to be that L.A. has the dynasty on terrible places to get get your ass beating in sports events. You know who can throw some fists in town is this one here.

We live in. Houston. Oh, there's been. NRG Stadium fights. Minut made. NRG can throw hands, too. Wasn't there an Astros fan? They got knocked out by a Dodgers fan a couple years ago?

Yeah. Yeah. We've seen Texans fans fight with other people before. I think there's been Rangers Astros fights, too. There's been a couple. They don't fight in Arlington, do they? No, I'm talking about it Minuteman. Oh, I was going to say.

Arlington's more of a wine and cheese crowd, I think. Is it? Arlington? Well, I mean, Ranger fans come out. There's the Steinmart. They don't live in Arlington. They drive in and get out as fast as possible and stop at Arby's on the way out. Yes, seriously. Fine dining in Arlington. Arbys. Yeah. Fine shopping. Steinmart.

Hey, don't bag on Steinmart. RIP. I used to buy stuff on Steinmart all the time. Look, I use the darshals and the moss. Let me tell you something. I used to lose three belts a year. I would go to Ryan Rard all the time to buy them. I'm not saying I know it's up there. I'm just saying that's the nicest joint in Arlington. Hmm.

Okay. So what else going on, Ross? Not a whole lot. How's Jalen Green looking? I made a gut feeling on Tuesday that I'm already regretting. You want to run through them? No, just, I said after Jalen Green knocked out all those threes, I said he's going to have his best offensive season in his career.

Why are you laughing about it then? Uh, didn't he miss a ton of threes? Yeah, but it's a preseason. Who cares? Okay. Well, Tray's got one. What does Trace? I don't remember.

I'll have to check the archives. He just said in my ear he's going to stand by on his. Okay, well, I tune out when he talks. Mine was that the Rockets would make the play-in. That's not crazy. That's not crazy. 7, 8, 9-10? Yeah, I'm okay with that.

We'll see. I would like him to be right. Let me tell you something, Trey. If the Rockets make the playoffs, not the play-in. I'll buy you a play lunch if you're choosing. Okay, there we go. I want that in writing and I want there to be like real specifics around what play lunch means because I don't want anything fake. Plate.

Yeah, like you get a protein, a couple of sides and maybe a tortilla. Yeah. Say less. You cut the audio. What's you talking about? You'll be fine. Okay. Cool, cool, cool.

Yeah. I'm thinking $11, $12 max. That's reasonable. Yeah. I'm not going to overspend on you. I mean, you hardly work here. So it's not even. Although he's doing a great job.

Although if Connor winds up marrying one, two, or three. and they make she makes a move out of town we'll have to get another producer so what okay i don't think he's that's i don't think he's that's i don't think he's that's i don't think of that man's business on air yeah he likes it he likes his part you know it's his own small way of being part of the show why it's easier then okay seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two five seven nine zero so again dr rhodo normally in the spot he'll be with us coming up tomorrow. I think he'll be at 130 but could be at 2.30. We're still trying to

figure that out right now. Oh, did you any other observation with the Rockets you wanted to tell me about? No. I told you. I got to catch up. I'll watch the games tonight. Both of them. Yeah, it was good to see Tari Easton back out there playing. That's great. What else? I'm trying to think of anything that was noticeable

from the first. Because again, it's these preseason games are so choppy. It's hard to figure out what's what. Because again, you're going to like, for instance, the rocket started their starters in the second half. Last night in Oklahoma City. enter their bench. So it was like, what do you gain on a play in that? And vice versa. The five of the Florida to end the game their night was, this is the overtime game last night. Nate Hinton. Okay. Germain Samuels Jr. I know who those two are at least. Jack McVeigh.

That sounds made up. That's really a really, it's really a really, it's really a really a really alive person. Who else? Nate Williams is out there and Jeff Green. It was kind of an interesting. Jeff Green. Jeff Green was out there. He's like, man, I want to play. Okay. Hmm. Interesting. And an overtime victory against Oklahoma City. A huge. 713.212.570.790. 713.2.212.570. Anything you want to get into on the world of sports, you may do so.

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Most whales don't watch sports. They're Dallas fans. And when I think of whining, I think of Dallas. Oh, and speaking of whales, back to former whale, Matt Thomas. I'd be back to my girlish weight of 286. On Sports Talk 790. I've got a very, very bizarre tweet coming into the Matt Thomas show Twitter account at SportsMT. Hey, Sports Harvey, with basketball season around the corner,

asked SportsMT about the time he was in the Rockets locker room, bet down during a player interview, assuming he was getting out of the way of the TV camera, and a towel is removed. Yeah, I don't think so. I've heard that story. Oh, I know. I still tell it to people. Yes.

I'm still scar. by it. Yeah. Staring eye to eye. Yeah, why do we want to bring that up? What's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's what's about with you, uh, let's see who this is? Stoic?

Come on, stoic. Come on, stoic. I'm still trying to get past that. Hmm. You're still scarred. What's your most uncomfortable locker room moment ever? Oh. Uh, this was when I was first, okay, I'll give you, I'll give you one.

We used to hand out, uh, player of the game certificate, gift certificates from KTRH to MoGo to Chemau, the Brazilian steakhouse. We got you, we got you. And so I was in there with the Mighty Gwen and we were giving the

award. When they go on the road and their player of the game, when they came back, we would go into the clubhouse and give them their certificate. It's like, hey, here you go, man. What a great way to bomb with players, by the way. Exactly. You're a player of the game while you're on the road. Here, you go, here's a certificate for dinner for two to this Brazilian Steakhouse. And so while they were on the road, Brett Myers had pitched a good game. And so when we came back from the road trip, Dylan and I went in there to give him his

certificate. Well, the Astros happened to have lost at night. And Brett Myers wasn't pitching, but they lost. And it's just going to shock you, Matt. He was in a funky mood. One of the biggest douchebags ever I've ever covered in Houston sports. The gift certificate. This is free Brazilian Steakhouse.

He looks at it. He's like, what the bleep would I want this for? Why the bleep would you give this to me? He throws it on the ground and like rubs his foot into it and kicks it away. Zero surprise. And so we picked it up and kept it. But I mean. Good play by you.

What a D-bag. I'm sorry. You were a player of the game on the road trip and we're giving you free Brazilian Steakhouse. For a guy who's making millions of dollars. Yeah. So that was weird. And then there was a certain Astro in that same era who liked to, like most players are very discreet when they're changing their clothes.

There was a certain player that liked to parade around with no clothes. And that was weird. I'm not going to say who. So he would walk around. So that era of Astro was around 2010. Yeah, I'll think about it during the break. I don't want to name names. I'll tell you during the break.

Yeah. Yeah. So he would just walk around and just let it all hang. Yeah. And it was very cold in there. What did you expect it to be hot? That's all I'm going to say. Because it was hot, it would be the opposite, correct? Or if we just got out of the pool, like a stanza? Significant drinkage.

Yeah, that one. My young sports casting in life had a lot of issues. Just never get into a catcher stance ever for an interview. you in the locker room. I don't know why you would do that. Well, because the summit had really small locker rooms at the time. Okay. You're trying to get... You're really packing in there. He was packing for sure.

Oh, that's nobody... No, that wasn't necessary. Well, I mean... I mean, I put that on the tea. I didn't know if you were going to hit it. You did. Yeah, I did. Look, it's a light time in the world of sports right now. I mean, we can give you Texans Patriots break down to what you're in the face. What do you think Drake May is going to do, Matt? You want to guess the number of completion?

Well, I'm also out a number for you right now. You ready? Sure. 12. I'll say over because they're probably going to work like six screens in there. What if he gets hit? What if he gets concussed before the game? That's true.

A couple Antonio Gibson dump-offs. Mm-hmm. We could probably find the player props to get you the actual number. Oh, look. You know what the best part of the game's going to be is hearing Kevin Harlan call the game? He can take a horrifically non-competitive, uninteresting game. And with his verbiage, just add drama to it. Yes.

Let's see. Oh, they have rushing attempts on here? It looks like 154.5 passing yards. Off of 12? No, he'd have to get more completions than that. If he's going to hit that number. All right, how about this? Who's the leading receiver for the Texans on Sunday?

Stefan Dix. No tank Dahl? I think Dell is your second guy. then probably I would go Hutchinson or maybe you get Schultz in there. Yeah. I think Diggs has been getting a high volume of targets. Some of it has been short stuff and all that. But I think the targets are going to be there.

I think they're going to work more of the short passing game with him. I think they're also going to try to use Tank Dell more in the running game. They've got to get something going where they're not consistently setting up a second down and eight. I think he ended up with, was it four catches last week? He didn't have a ton of yards. But they were definitely working him in. He had the end around. They lost five yards on it.

They're clearly trying to get Tank Dell the ball. CJ Stroud said that. in the press conference last week, so that's going to be even more so with Nico Collins out this week. Do you think some fans are letting Bobby Sloick have it, or is that just media driven that Bobby's got to be more innovative? I think right now that even with the Texans offense not firing off on all cylinders, I hate that term. I hate that term. But I think Bobby Sloick is going to be a name that you're going to hear a lot about in openings for the NFL. I just, regardless of what's going to.

on right now. I think the play design is very good. I think the play calling people have issues with because they continue to try to establish the run. People are like, well, they average more, they have more EPA success rate on passes than they do on runs. So why don't they pass it all? That's not how NFL works. You don't pass every single down just because you get more yards per pass. You have to establish somewhat of a run. You have to make a threat. A lot of these passes that they're getting that are so successful, it's predicated off a play action. It happened on Sunday where you had the Bill's linebackers, biting down on a lot of the play action stuff, and then that was opening things up in the passing game. And you can't throw 50 to 60 times with C.J. Stroud getting hit like he is, certainly if Titus Howard is going to continue to be out, and everybody outside of Titus Howard is basically an average pass block. I mean, to simplify it to its core,

the more times that C.J. Stroud is in passing formation, taking a five, seven-step drop, the more times he has a chance of potentially scrambling, or the more times he has a potential of getting sacked, and the more times he's got the potential of getting hurt. You've got to get some assemblance of a running game. And if it's not going to be Damien Pierce, and it's not going to be Kamakers,

and it's not going to be, what's Guma Waleigh's first name? Dari, Darya, Guamala. I think you're going to see at least two ender rounds on Tankdale. Just trying something to diversify this. I love it. Okay. And the screen games are working as well. Yeah.

Quick throws. One step drop on the flight to like maybe Dalton Schultz, something. You've got, you're playing with fate here if you're going to continue to let CJ drop back 40 times a game. Agree. All right. Final hour of the show features the rotten five in 20 minutes, 30 minutes from now. Well, do I just don't get it? Where if there's something in your life, sports or just in your life, that you just don't get.

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This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, special shout out to one of our favorite listeners. Chase listening to the show right now. Big fan of the show. Chase called Trey, our producer off air. said want to let Matt know he's the biggest D-head on 790. I mean, I don't know how I could possibly disagree. I mean, I would either.

He's making a lot of good points. I called him back and thanked him for it. You did? Oh, yes, I did. And he said, I'm a cross-dresser. And I said, that's fine. It's not a big deal. I mean, people can cross-dress.

He says he has not been touched by a woman in 25 years. And apparently he's a barista that makes $3 an hour. That feels illegal. Is he in the Philippines or something? He's probably committed crimes. Okay. I think Chase is a tax evader. I believe he's also, I mentioned a crossdresser.

Yes. Taxivator. What else is? Not that there's anything wrong with that. What? Taxivating. I don't think it's great. I think he's a pill popper and just an overall douche.

But thanks, James Phillips for us to the show. Weekday is 12 to 3. Here on Sports Talk 790. So if you're going to call and you're going to rip on me, I want to call you back. Okay. This feels fair. It felt good. That's good.

I'm invigorated. Yeah, you do. You look it or energetic. I'm excited. You're woken. That was the touch. They're going there and tell them. I'll unleash the beast.

Exactly. Poor Chase. Has no friends. Doesn't know what the touch of a woman's like. Never mind. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212. If Ross has ever de-head, let us know too.

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713-212-5-7-9. Let's go to Felipe on the Mount Thomas show with Ross at 204. Felipe, good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. Good afternoon, Dr. Ross. You are, Dr. Ross. Yeah, he's after Ross. That was actually a good one with the Pack, well, the Packers and Green in Arizona.

Yes. Yeah, really great. No, I mean, you're talking about Dodgers Stadium and all the fans fighting. You know, I went to Dodgers Stadium last year. when the Astros went, and it wasn't really that bad. I'm not going to love you. Like, it, I don't, it was a lot better than what I thought it was going to be, because I really thought I was going to get in fights, and I was looking for a fight.

Did you wear? You were? Wait, wait, wait. Wait, whoa, time out. Did you wear Astros gear? I wore, look, every game I go to, I go head to toe, my socks, my underwear, everything is Astros. Okay, good. I had my rings, my little replica rings on, all that.

So you were looking to throw hands? You were looking to bust somebody up with those rings, weren't you? Yes. I was looking for a fight. I didn't drink, I don't know that, but I was looking. I was like, I told my wife, I said, look, if I'm going to be mouths off and it gets too crazy, I'm fighting. I told me this. She's like, see you on YouTube.

I wanted to be on YouTube, and I never got that. Oh. Like the fans were, I sat right behind the Esch was dugout, and I did walk around the stadium and nothing. I mean, I got a little heckles here and there, and, you know, the typical stuff you get going to another stadium, I didn't even get in a fight, nothing, none of that. Like, some guys even offered me beers.

So you were frankly disappointed. You couldn't go get into a fracas, a fist to cuff, if you will, at Dodgers Stadium. Yes. Well, I mean... I've seen Dodgers fans fight here in Minime whenever they come.

Oh, yeah. I see them fight each other. Yeah, I mean, I think Houston, I don't mean to... I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing, but I think we're top 10 in cities that like to fight at sports events. I mean, I'm a four.

but I was really disappointed. I know. I mean, if I was from San Diego or half-odger's gear, that's a different story. Yeah. But I don't get that with the daughters. But I did like the stadium. It's a little old, but it shows this age, but it's nice. No, it's the oldest stadium in sports today that still carries a tremendous mystique to it. Yeah, the whole atmosphere is great.

One thing I didn't like, though, is the game started and our first. seats had the sunlight shining right in our faces, so you know, we're blinded for a few, for an hour or two, but it was great. Well, you know what? You are the official bodyguard of the Matt Thomas show with Ross, because if you want to throw hands, you know, people that want to attack us. People call me off air, call me a D-head. So I want to have you go chase after chase for me, Felipe. And we'll fix him and make sure his mouth doesn't move for a month.

Anytime. But yeah, I'll be going next year. They're going to Colorado then the Dodgers, so I'll be going next year to Colorado. Yeah, just go to dispensoring in a bunch of stuff ahead of time. just fine when you get to L.A. Well, that's my wife, but she'd stop doing that now, but I'm good with that. But, man, I think my next trip is to actually sit in the outfield with all the Cholos and the, you know, the, what do you call it? The gangbangers sit out there with them, man. Are you going Cripside or Bloodside?

I don't know. I don't know. I sort of don't want to get arrested or get beat up right here. I don't think I want to sit with you if you're sitting between the cribs and bloods. Just a personal preference of mine. I'll sit on the sidelines and let them handle that. Oh, okay. I got you.

I got you. Yeah, I'll just watch. But they'll throw hands down. I was, trust me, mad. I was looking for it. You know what, again, if we ever go to a road trip, thanks Felipe for the call. Good to hear voice, as always. I want to have Philippe in our side.

Not often does a person call a radio show to admit, you know what? I went to a stadium looking to get into it. That's how Raider fan thought for basically. with 30 years. Yeah. You don't dress up at Oakland Raider games expecting to dress up

just for the hell of it. Not every game's Halloween. You want to do it because you want to scare people. Well, they want to be in the get on TV and be in the black hole. Yep.

Now it's the bullpen. Is that what it is? That's what the Texans have. Oh, okay. I guess. Is that what they still collect that? Yeah. Okay.

There's a bunch of people that dress up in that area. If you ever dressed up to go to a sporting event? No. I'm not talking about jersey wear and I'm talking like face,

pain and spiked shoulder pads. No. And lots of bling like you're working at TGI Fridays. No. I just wear either a polo or a... I haven't worn a jersey in many years. Not since I was a teenager probably. Yeah, I think I've worn a jersey, but it was my own name on the back of it. Yeah. I'm not a huge jersey collector, so I don't know. There's more of a question for Adam Clayton.

Yeah, Adam. Yeah, what is up with Adam and be buying all these jerseys? I think he got the H-Town blue one. Did he really? Yeah. You were out of town. He wore it just so you could say something about him and then you were out of town. Oh, yeah. He was just so he was quite disappointed. Yeah, that's fine. He knows me. He knows my schedule. I mean, yeah, no, he doesn't. Nobody can't. Nobody keeps track. Okay. Well, I'll be home for sure. I'll be home for sure with us. I'll be happy to. Okay. I'm home all next week. You, although I'm going to Kansas City just for the day next Saturday. So you're not. I'm only going on Saturday. U.H is playing Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium. I've never been at Arrowhead Stadium. Why are they doing that? Because Kansas is refurbishing their stadium. Oh, I was going to say, why would they invite 6,800 people to... Oh, God.

To Kansas. Hey, the game is at 2.30 on ESPN next Saturday. What are you talking about? ESPN what? Plus. Excuse me? ESPN. Is that the subscription website?

Plus. ESPN Plus? You know why? You couldn't even get you on ESPN news? You know what? You know what's not plus is because it's so much better. It's plus every other match. Yeah.

Yeah, it's that in second division Belgian soccer on ESPN. ESPN Plus on Saturday. Looking forward to it. That feels rude. It might be a little accurate, but it still feels rude. Then after that, Utah's coming in. That's the top 15 team. How are you feeling about that?

We're going to storm the field, too. You are? Beat those Utes. Yeah, all 9,800 of you? Stop. What do you keep doing that for? What's the attendance been like? It's not been great.

But we're going to fill the building up. We're going to pack the TDC, pack the, what they called the credit union? I thought they were changing. They are. It'll be next year. What's it going to be? Well, I'm not giving me the sponsor, I mention. I don't spend money with us.

Oh, you're not? It's another. Okay. I think it's a T-moo.com. T-dumu? T-doo? I think they called the, I don't even know what they call it. The cash buy.

I don't know what that. What is the nickname for? I don't even know what it is. It's the deck. Excuse me? The what? The deck. Oh, okay.

That's what a certain, former 790 host, that nickname. Oh, by the way, that former 790 host just sent me a text and said that, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but there's only one person this town is giving tennis takes, and it's not Ross, Villarreal. I had an unpopular take of a shirt. I went to the sales pit. Yes? Every person back there is like, Matt, how are we going to sell y'all show when you're talking tennis?

You did it. The collective city of Houston, they went to go look to, they went to KSBJ to find something else to listen to. They're like, we're not listening to Ross's tennis takes. Well, we do have some quick career highlights of Raf and Adol, Matt, if you'd like to hear this. Go ahead. he got. Oh, I thought my computer, I thought you said, must be quick. I thought you said you're really your thoughts. Your thoughts? It was competitive for a while. Could you imagine doing tennis play by play on the radio? Oh, what is that like? Do people tune in to Wimbledon? My guess is, and he hits it.

And it's like a Bobon. That Wimbledon has a radio channel. Probably. Now, I've heard golf on play by play. Now, you can somewhat do that, but tennis to me would be about as uninteresting as if a play about play on radio. Hmm. Left? You got to do it in your British accent, Matt. I don't have a British accent.

Oh, Roll for Nadeau, wins the point, in it. That was your British accent. I'm rather give me some more Arizona Green Bay takes. I'm good. I think I tapped out all that. Can I throw you another random game? Right now? Sure, do it. You want another rando game?

Okay. Hold on. I got to find the... Don't look at your computer. Okay. I'm going to try to get fantasy analysis of a rando NFL game that I would think no one cares about. Let's go...

Oh, God, these are... All right, let's go. Jaguars, bears, go. Oh, Jaguars, Bears. Okay, nice bounceback week for Trevor Lawrence last week. Brian Thomas really emerging as a star and the number one overall wide receiver. Gabe Davis really just hasn't shown you much. Evan Ingram practicing this week should be back into the fold.

I think that helps out. Obviously, the water's a little muddied in the backfield there with Tank Bigsby getting a lot more of the work. So you're still going to get in full PPR leagues, more pass catching with Travis A.T.N. Biggsby not really catching a whole lot out of the backfield. But I don't expect a whole lot against that really good secondary with the Chicago Bears. flip side, all systems go with Caleb Williams, with Keenan Allen, with DJ Moore, because that Jacksonville secondary is just not very good. DeAndre Swift emerging, now he's not

getting the goal line work with Rochon Johnson getting a lot of the one-yard touchdowns recently, but still, with the past catching and playmaking ability with Swift, I would still start him. Thoughts Houston? That's good. Thank you, Matt. There is not another host in this town that gives you Arizona Green Bay and Jacksonville, Chicago break down. And maybe no other host of town would want to do that for their personal future. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The Rotten 5 is next on Sports Talk 790.

The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. 219 Sports Talk 7-98 real quick. Cougar fans. Time now for the Cougar update brought to you by the joint chiropractic. Cougar basketball team Rossi predicted to finish Second in the Big 12 conference. Only team expected to finish higher? Jayhawks. Kansas Jayhawks. They're pretty good.

Yep. Big 12 basketball, going to be fun. Far superior than Big 12 basketball. There you know football. Yes. So, unfortunately, football drives the revenue, but the basketball league should be really fun.

In every conference. Even ACC football revenue. SEC, yeah. SEC. I mean, everything, yeah. Sunbelt. Kentucky makes more off of football than they do off of basketball. Pretty crazy.

Which is crazy because they're buildings like 20,000 seats and they filled up every single time. Louisville. It plays in a 19,000 seat center. The... Maybe one of the more peculiar names in sports. The KFC Yum Center. Yum. What's wrong with that?

When do you use the word yum? In general. When I'm eating food? Really. Give me in context, please. Wow. this sirloin steak is yummy in my tummy

Is that what you say? Absolutely. I don't believe that for a second. Can I speak to the manager? I would like to compliment the chef as well. Do you have any of how yum this is? Do you have any of that yummy yogurt? No grown-ass man use the word yummy.

What are you shaking your head for? Are you sure? Who's last, again, you're just, you don't say yummy? You're talking about how yummy Taylor, what's her name is all the time? I want to talk about food. I didn't check on her to this.

Stop. You know what? This is on me. It is on you. It's your fault. I didn't mean to bring her up. I think we're on a streak of 47 straight shows. Let's take a look here. She's been brought up. Her Twitter account is blowing up. She's now on $199,000.

Good God. Oh, now she's recapping from her bed. How did her picks go? She was three and two. That's not great. Yeah, see, but this is the problem. She picks like big favorites and like, oh, yeah, I went four and one. Well, yeah, three of those were,

minus 300 favorites and you're adding it up. That's what Tony the Hatchet Man Valentine used to do. Yeah, but Tony doesn't have 1099,000 followers on Twitter. Not anymore. And she's traveling the world. She was at the Minnesota game with the Jets on Sunday.

Before that, she was in a Rupa. Girl Taylor gets around. The world. Okay. 222. That absolutely takes no talent whatsoever to give you the five best teams in the NFL. It takes something special

to tell you the five worst time. We present to you Ross's Rotten Five. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't

smell quite right. All right, folks, let's get it going to another edition of the Rodin five and the worst teams in the NFL. And this week, we have a new team on the list. If it isn't the Los Angeles Rams, who now sit at 1 and 4 on the year. Strangely enough, the lone win was a pretty good one against the San Francisco 49ers.

They have been hampered with injuries with Cooper Cup and Pooka and Nakua going down, but the defense has just been absolutely one of the worst in the league. They have lost to some bad teams like the Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals. Stafford and the boys face Aidan O'Connell. Oh, Aidan O'Connell in the Las Vegas Raiders this week, but they probably could get the win. They better get the win because matchups after. After that, the Vikings and the Seahawks who have been very good.

Could be a win this week, but as of now, the Rams, the fifth worst team in the NFL. Oh, no, it's bad. It's real bad. Well, I guess Andy Dalton wasn't going to be the savior of the Carolina Panthers in 2024 after all. Coming off like gangbusters with the win over the Raiders, the Panthers have followed that up with two double-digit losses, including getting absolutely destroyed by the Bears this week, 36 to 10. The Panthers allowing an NFL high 33 points per game.

Well, how's the offense going? Their 29th in points per game. Other than that, things are going real great for the Carolina Panthers as their number one overall pick quarterback sits on the bench. Things probably get worse. They do have the Falcons and the commanders in the next two. I predict losses in both of those. The Panthers could slide down the list,

but right now the fourth worst team in the NFL. You suck, you jackass. All right, congratulations to the Jackson. Jaguars, you won a game. The last winless team in the NFL finally got on the board, even if it was against Joe Flacco in the Indianapolis quotes.

They're simply not a good football team. Trevor Lawrence actually didn't look awful, but that indie defense is horrible. We'll still count it as a step in the right direction. Jacksonville Jaguars do take on the Bears defense this week, so I expect some regression for the Jags and for Trevor Lawrence, but right now the third worst team in the NFL. You can't have a new cup.

or come in and steal a show. I want the Jaguars on this list for the whole season just for Jaguars Lady drops. Can we find her, by the way? I hope she's okay from all the storms. Oh, the storms. Yeah. That's bad. Hopefully she's all right.

All right. Safe to say things going pretty poorly for the New England Patriots here. They lost four games in a row. A three-and-out rate over 45% far worst in the NFL. Things are so bad. They're throwing their quarterback in the future in the fire against one of the best defenses in football in the Houston. Drake May getting the start this weekend for the Patriots searching for something, anything, to get things going this year.

The defense hasn't been that great either. So all in all, bad season for the Patriots who are the second worst team in the NFL. Getting right for Kansas City. That's what I'm doing. No, you're getting ready for Houston and you're not even the coach anymore, Bill. What are you talking about? All right. Holy smokes that Cleveland Browns are trash.

They have only managed to win one game all year. That was against the Jacksonville Jaguars who appeared earlier on this list. Since then, the Browns have lost three straight. This last weekend they got destroyed by the Washington Commanders, which is, I mean, I guess, excusable. But that Commander's defense is terrible. They gave up 34 points to the commies. The offense only mustering 13 against one of the worst defenses in the league. Deshawn Watson continues to play like he's broken.

The defense has not lived up to where we thought they were going to be. And oh, by the way, you go to Philadelphia this week as the biggest underdog on the NFL slate this weekend. The Cleveland Browns are horrible, terrible, awful. and rotten. They're the worst team in the NFL. You are a factory of sadness. And that's your Rodin 5. Good news. Joe Mixin. Back on the football field today, practicing. What? That is great news.

Damien Pierce is out there as well. Okay. So maybe you've got a little more depth in that running back situation. Look, the Texas can't go up there and lose that game, right? I mean, that would be very non-suitable contender-esque of them. It may not be pretty. maybe a close game again, but they're not. They're far superior, even with the injuries to what New England can throw out them. If, as long as they don't play like they did the first few weeks of the season,

turning the ball over like crazy and a bunch of penalties, they're going to be, they're going to win by double digits, I think. Okay. We'll make our grandiose predictions tomorrow on the show. Oh, I cannot wait. All right. Now, listen, there are things in your life you just don't get. Right?

Yes. Mine happens on airplanes all the time. And I'll discuss it next. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. If there's something in your life you just don't get, we're here to help you because maybe we get them. Maybe we don't.

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And Ross, I feel like that at least half of my stories about, what I just don't get are involving my travel, whether it's Uber, whether it's hotels, whether it's airplanes. And I might have brought this up early in the game, but I need to bring it up again. I have been on probably four or five commercial flights in the last month. And of those flights, every single one of them is involved the following. Somebody taking their shoes off. God, it feels like it is an epidemic that's getting worse, right?

So, by the way, if you have something you just don't get in your life, something's going on. Let us help you out because maybe we can give you some logic to why things are happening. So if you just don't get something, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. So I will say to you, Houston, Texas, and to you, Rossville or Yale, people taking their shoes off on airplanes. This isn't your living room. This isn't your bedroom. You're in a public place.

Now, I'm going to assume that they're going to be, that planes are vacuumed, but I don't think they're the most, they're not the cleanliest places on Earth because there's thousands of people getting on planes each and every day and they have very little time in between changing, you know, crews out and cleaning things up. I would say to those of you that take your shoes off,

why are you doing it? Trey, you may actually absolutely chime in because I can tell you this, Trey. I just don't get it. Okay, so I have a follow-up question with that. And is it, is there a threshold in which it is acceptable? That's what I'm going to ask you for. Oh, no, you take your shoes off on a plane, don't you?

You sick human being! There's no, no, no, no. The only time I have done it was when I came back, when I went to and from Italy, on an 11 and a half, 12-hour flight. And I took my shoes off because I'm sitting there. I'm tired of having my shoes. on, my dogs need to breathe. Yes, they are covered with socks. They are covered

with socks. No. I'm not one of those. Oh, that's worse. Eleven hours is worse. Okay, now, if they're fresh. Hold on. Hold on. They're fresh. I would normally destroy this comment, but what do they say typically when you're on a plane of that length? You need

to get some sleep. Who sleeps with their shoes on? Me, on a plane. Okay, so you're saying that they're long trips. You can maybe untie them if you need that much room. What is that doing? You give you a little space. Come on. They give you slippers. Do your shoes not fit? They give you slippers on flights that long for a reason. Do your shoes not fit? They give you slippers in a bag for a reason because they expect people to take their shoes off.

Okay. So, Ross, Trey gets it. Yeah. He's, yeah, he takes his feet. He takes his dog's barking on the plane. I would say, it's inconsiderate. Like tomorrow I'm going on a trip. It's inconsiderate. Nobody wants to smell your foot odor. I'm going on a trip to the East Coast after the show. I'm going on a trip to the tomorrow. It's the first part of the trip gets me, I fly to New York first. I'm not going to take my shoes off. It's a three and a half hour flight. I can live with my

shoes on for three and a half hours. And I agree with that. Okay. I think that's fine. I will be flying. In November, I will be flying to Korea. It is a 16 hour flight. I will not take my shoes off. You're punishing yourself only. No, I'm not. You're only punishing yourself. To make a point. You can say it to make a point. It's to be considerate of others. I'm sorry. I'm considering others.

of others is covering your mouth and your nose when you sneeze and cough on a plane in general but on a plane not talking about that it's fine you're selfish taking off your feet I mean taking off your shoes you're sick and selfish I don't want to hear it off then we have a problem then we have a problem

but your shoes is fine on a 16 and a half hour flight that's fine you'll see how goes all right there you go so one of us gets it and one of us does not get it what you got this week um I don't know how you've been locked in,

how much you've been locked in on the Major League Baseball playoffs, Matt. But I've been watching a fair amount. Okay. And unfortunately, there is a certain man on play-by-play. Oh, yeah. It is giving lethargic calls of big moments. He's getting stuff flat out wrong

calling line drive hits when it's a soft pop to second base that gets caught. He seems to be openly rooting for the New York Yankees of all the play-by-playmen we have on the planet. Why are we still trotting old-man Bob Costas to sleepwalk through these calls of playoff games on television that are supposed to be,

I mean, playoff baseball, as you know, is some of the most intense sporting in America. Why is Bob Costas on the call? I don't get it. Bob Costas is 72 years of age. There's nobody better? There's hundreds of people that are better. Costas, as I mentioned with you on the show a couple days ago.

In the 80s and 90s was the premier sportscaster. Olympics, NFL, NBC, basketball, baseball. If there was a big sporting event, seven times out of ten, he was there. And was polished. Remember, he used to do a TV show called Later with Bob Costa. It was an interview show. Really good. But something happened to him where he has gone bat-blank crazy.

and he gives two craps about the game he's calling. Unless the Yankees winning. Because very few 72-year-olds get to call major league baseball playoff games. It's not the demo. So I would say to you, I just don't get it either. Thank you, Matt. But he was good back in the day. But now he's just really super cranky.

And by the way, I've seen those memes of people giving these long explanations and then saying Ron Darling saying, that was a good curve ball you through, you know, which you were talking about it a couple days ago. All right, so if there's anything you would like to get to that you just don't get, 713, 212, 5, 719. Now, Trey, you have jumped into the fray on this, and so I'm afraid whatever you're going to say,

Ross is going to disagree with you because he just wants to be antagonistic towards you. So without any further ado, Tray, what don't you get? Mine's a bit of an old one. Uh-oh. That's, it's a couple weeks old. Go ahead. And it's because watching the Saints, can be so painful at times, particularly within division rivals.

But I guess this extends past that into all special teams' returners. And that is, if you are going to field, if you are going to fair catch a punt or a kick inside of the five-yard line. Which had happened last week for the Texans. Why are you trying to field it at all? with what three possibilities that can happen and two of them being bad ones why I feel that at all and instead not just take the chance of letting it be a touchback so a basic fundamental of special teams is still having difficulty among certain return people I just don't get it you know I don't get it's the same thing

wrong same thing guys with why coaches still maintain complete deficiencies in calling timeouts and using of the clock in two minutes of games These are coaches that are coaching at the highest level in college and pro football, and they still don't have any idea how to massage timeouts or use the clock. Yeah, they're under a lot of pressure and they still just don't get better somehow. When you, again, I don't know why, and some have done this before, why don't you just have somebody that's like your backup that just text you or like, on a pager says, get them on the headset?

Get them on the headset. Like Nick Casario? Yeah. Allegedly. Is Casario on the headset with D'Amico? Do we have confirmation on that? Oh, we would never know that. Do you think D'emico wouldn't let them do that?

I mean, as much as he respects, because he's not letting him consider it on the headset. But you need a timeout, like, you know, you have like a good angel on your left shoulder and a bad angel on your right shoulder? You have to have like a, you have to have a good timeout guy on one shoulder and a bat on the other.

Oh, go for it. Maybe two goods would be helpful. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, we're seeing fundamentals of football still at the highest level, the NFL and college suffering. So I don't get it either.

Isn't the rule inside the 10, you let it go? I don't know. That sounds seems like, but I'm with you. I'm seeing fair catches the seven-yard line. I'm like, bro, you're not doing yourself any favors here. All right. That's all I got. Thank you.

But the whole shoes thing is just, it's becoming more and more popular. My part, one of our broadcast partners in the U of H broadcast, Ted Pardee, takes pictures of people when they take their shoes off. He's a foot guy. He says, put your shoes on. He hates it worse than I do. Are you sure he's not saving him for later? What? That's disturbing.

You think you're saying that tab party is a foot fetish? I didn't say that. You did. I'm saying he does not. I'm saying he does not as well. Me too. By the way, what kind of fetish is that? Is that like the word for it?

I'm like, no, I'm like on your fetish list. All right, all right, let's move on. Which are number one finish? Time for a break here on the next to Thomas show. You're not going to tell us. Okay, that's fine. I don't have one either. I'm fetish-free.

I think I am. Trying to think. Oh, right. I mean, Taylor Mathis is... Please stop. Not counting her, obviously. All right. 713, 212, 5...

Never mind. Believe it or not today. All things, Raffy Nadal. There is no way in the world that anybody has a firm grasp of Raffi Nadal's career. So, Rossi, have fun with this bad boy, because everybody is going to be calling in. It's going to be guessing.

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Ros Vial, Matt Thomas with you, believe it or not, coming up in just a moment. As, well, I'm going to be honest, I am sending the questions right now to Trey. And, well, we'll get to that in just a moment. Tomorrow on the show, we will have Dr. Roto. Of course, it will be in anything goes Friday. Are we going to have a Patriots guest? I'm not sure, but we can ramp up a little bit more on that. Drake May making his first start and then Dr. Roto, hopefully, as long as the, I mean,

no, Roto's in. Okay, four Myers. He is going to be here. Okay, great. We were just talking, Adam Clinton and I were talking about the Wizard of Oz. and how when I was a kid, when the character turned into which, I'd run out of the bathroom and shut the door

and wait for my mom to tell me the scene was over with. Okay. It doesn't do with the Texans and Patriots. I just wanted to tell you that. That's why I was late. Sorry. We were talking about as long as you think it was worth it. It wasn't worth it.

That's why I'm coming to apologize to you. Thank you. Appreciate you. All right. Tomorrow we'll do not in Florida stories as well. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah.

And definitely stay out of Florida. It's almost going to need to be nice and give them a Florida store. I kind of light things up a little bit. That's true, actually. All right. Let's see what else we got going on. Tonight Thursday night football, San Francisco, Seattle. We have the Tigers playing the Guardians tonight.

We have the Royals against the Yankees. Go Royals? Absolutely go roos. Go tigers. Go Padres tomorrow. It doesn't matter, I guess. Nothing could be more painful than what happened last year. You can't win a game at home against the Rangers who then beat up on the Diamondbacks in the World Series.

Win one home game and you face the Diamondbacks? You probably sweep them? Could that have been the least sexiest World Series maybe in the last 30 years? Rangers Diamondbacks? Rangers. Well, yeah. I mean, two fan bases. Or Tiger.

But at least Padre fan love the Padres. Yeah. And I don't think Royals fans love the Royals too. Although they have star power. They do. Yeah, but Kansas City, it's, it's my home's country.

Royal's a kind of an afterthought. I think the Yankees are going to win that series. Fox is praying for Dodgers, Yankees. Garretel on the Hill against Michael Walkup, minus 155 for the inks. So those are you playing. Imagine someday we're going to be able to actually play

in Texas that way. It's going to be beautiful. All right, let's do this. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Should we simply call it Believe it or not? And here's how it works.

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7-13-6-9-2-663. Category today is all things about Rafi Nadal. I'll read your statement about Nadal. If the statement's completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. Believe it. Statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up. You'll say this.

Two believer in a row in your prize. What are we playing for today? Trey. A pair of tickets to Jeff E-L-O. There you go. 16th. There you go. On sale now at LiveNation. And if you get three in a row right, you get to take your shoes off on any flight you want any distance. Not. We can't endorse that. No, we cannot. Only apparently to Italy and Ross, I guess you're bald to take yours according to Trey. You know what, we'll see. I will be honest. When I come back from that trip, I'll tell you if I took my shoes off if I felt any. You better have them on since you stood on it. John on 790. You're ready to play, believe it or not? John? John's not ready to play. Let's go to Matt on 790. Matt. You're ready. to play believe it or not. Believe it.

Although Raphael Nadal plays tennis left-handed, he is naturally a righty. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. State number two for the way.

And Rafael Nadeau was also an elite swimmer as a junior athlete but decided to focus fully on tennis at age 13. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. Ross, you know what?

That's now, that's 10 in a row. We'll get somebody who'll get somebody he'll get one wrong today. That's 10 in a row. Just give me one. Davis on 790 Davis, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Davis? Hello? Are you there?

All right, he's not there. Let's go to Tony on 790. Tony, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Hey, they're speechless. Are we having technical problems here? What's going on here? All right, let's try. Mike, can you hear me, Mike?

Mike? We hear you. All right. Raffey on the doll is an avid Catholic and has met two different popes, Benedict the 16th, and Pope Francis. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he's an atheist. That would be just the opposite. And the streak of 10 correct answers is out. Let's go to John on 790. John, what was your favorite part of today's radio show, John? Everything. All right. Raphael's father, Alvaro, was also a professional tennis player. He reached his peak world rank of number 76 back in 1980. 84. Believe it or not. Believe it? No, I don't think he ever played.

Let's go to Matt on 790. Matt, you're ready to play, believe it or not? I already played. Oh, you did? Well, that's not great. No, you can call tomorrow, my friend. Call tomorrow. Thank you for playing. All right. I don't know why these people are dropping here. John on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. John, good luck to you. Rafiel Nadal has won an astonishing 26 tennis titles on clay courts without even dropping a set.

Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. As far as the Spanish La Liga goes, Rafael Nadal supports his hometown club, Valencia. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, he's a Real Madrid fan. Everybody should know that. Let's go to Tony on 790. Tony, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Raphael Nadal is also a fashion and third. enthusiast and has twice walked the runway at Paris Fashion Weeks. Believe it or not?

Believe it? No, he's never done that. I'm sure he's a handsome man, but not good enough for that. Greg on 790, Greg, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Raphael O'Dahl is an avid poker player and has even been sponsored by the poker star's website. Believe it

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