The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Yankees Fans Interference, Texans On The WR Hunt, Why Are Jets Favored?

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the New York Yankees forcing Game 5 in the World Series with Tuesday's 11-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. In the first inning, two fans were ejected at Yankee Stadium after they tried to pry a foul ball from the glove of right fielder Mookie Betts. Matt and Ross also:talk with UFC's Derrick Lewis about his upcoming heavyweight matchuppreview Thursday's game against the Dallas Mavericks with Rockets head coach Ime Udokarecap the Cougars victory over the Utah Utes with head coach Willie Fritztell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1 in H-town. What's happening to lunch timers? Good afternoon to you. I almost coughed in the middle of that. Welcome to a... What is today?

Tuesday. Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Are you okay? Are you having an episode? No, I just can't... This cough, I cannot shake, and it usually happens for about two weeks. It sounds like our president. Oh, too soon.

Sorry. For right now. Yeah, you actually have... You can do this much. you want to until next Tuesday and then we're going to move along after that. Oh, Lord. You know, you call four games in five days. I can work in a couple of weeks. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

All right, no, I'm actually, I look fantastic. I mean, I'm almost basically Adonis-like. But again, you get a little scratchy coffee, talk for multiple hours a day. You look like you just got checked out of the hospital. That's not true at all. You look like you just checked yourself out of the hospital. Oh, my God. You are just the... Against doctor's orders.

You hear that? You got 45 seconds in the show of... Hey, I had to be nice for a whole hour. I know. How painful was that for you? I made it. It wasn't that bad. We still did a good show. Yeah, we did. We have a really busy fun show today. Oh, my gosh, we're busy.

I mean, I know. You want to cuss and discuss all the Texan Jets game. Yeah, we do. Jesus Christ, how much more can we break down a game involving a sucky Jets team and a Texan team that's hurt? Hey. I mean, we'll get to it. Hey, Jets team's good, quarter to Vegas, better than the Texans.

This one. Oof. It's still one? Jets by one? It moved to two. What is going on? Is this Stefan Diggs worth a point? Yeah, I don't know.

Apparently, he's kind of crazy. He's not. All right, so we got that going on today. I mean, ad nauseum coverage of Texans Jets preview. Non-stop. Let's go. Although we do have a few detours. We do.

1250 today, we're going to talk to Derek Lewis. He's a Houston guy. Yes, he is. You know him. I mean, we have met. It's not like we're broskeys. But, I mean, we've got a chance to establish a relationship here. Okay, good. And he is a UFC fighter and he will be competing this week in Edmonton, Alberta. They've got a big event and they said, hey, would you like getting a Houston guy on to talk about a little UFC? So we'll mix that up a little bit at 1250 today. The first of our weekly appearances with the one and only

EMA Adoka at 1 o'clock today. Rockets are on the practice court right now as we speak and they'll be heading later on this afternoon to Dallas. Take on the hated Mavericks. We'll have it for you at 1 o'clock. Okay. We have shut your bum ass up at 1.30. afternoon. Can't wait. And then at 2 o'clock, we'll talk to Willie Fritz. Houston Cougars with a very nice win against Utah this past Saturday. And we'll now have the ferocious Kansas State Wildcats inside Td ECU Stadium this Saturday for a 230 tilt on Fox. Not plus, not one, not two, the regular Fox. The Cougars?

Yeah. They must be playing a ranked team. Well, I mean, Kansas State's ranked, yeah. What time? 2.30? AM. No, PM. Legit start time.

What? Yeah. Well, Kansas State. You know what's crazy? Fox does weird programming times? When the Cougars are down 21, are they going to switch games? No, they don't switch games in college, Ross. Is that?

And a whip-around coverage? So, last Friday, Rockets played Memphis. Then we got out of the plane and flew to San Antonio. Yes. Right after the game. Got to the host. The game won of the World Series had just ended with Freddie Freeman hit in the grand slam.

You know there was a live football game on after the World Series on Fox? It was Rutgers against USC. They put the game on the Fox, the Big Boy Network. It started like 1030. I mean, that's a classic Big Ten matchup, Matt. Let me tell you something. It didn't suck to get to the hotel in San Antonio at 1.15 in the morning and gets the final five minutes of Rutgers USC. It was a little peculiar, but it worked.

Yeah. we love late night pack 12 well now it's big 10 action and i don't know why the pack 12 hated so much you got a segment of the population that were degenerates drunks uh drunks drug addicts uh munchies yes people that had just had relations insomniacs ins yeah all the about late travelers like myself check in all the boxes yeah i mean there were millions of people that would watch pack 12 after dark yes now you wouldn't want to do it every single night like when the astros play Pack 12 after dark, or Astros after dark. It's not bad once in a while, but playing 20 games at 9 o'clock at 9 kind of sucks.

Now it doesn't feel like it was as bad now whether there's the balance scheduling around baseball, you play everybody now. But yeah, I was like, it's $1.50 in the morning. I'm like, why is Foxx playing a replay? No, it was still live because in the upper right-hand corner it said live to it. So, you know what? I'm all for 10.30 kickoff times on Fridays and Saturdays. Like if I was in network, I'd sign up Hawaii games every time I could.

They kick off at 11. They click off at midnight. I love being in Vegas and betting on the Hawaii. So good. Rainbow Warriors. So, so good. All right. What else we got going on?

Oh, we got, shut your bum ass up. We got, I got a, had a ruling on Twitter yesterday that was kind of mixed with the results. Okay. We'll discuss that probably during. The Winniama ruling? No, the getting, asking for a penny from Starbucks ruling. Oh. You're the only man in America that pays cash at Starbucks.

I don't normally pay cash. I have an app, but I have a bunch of stars, but I was trying to get rid of some cash. Mm-hmm. So I... Why are you trying to get rid of some cash? I had a lot of... A lot of loose bills. Mm-hmm.

Okay. But lesson learned, I will not be using cash anymore at Rarux. You should not. Because I didn't realize a penny was... Like, when I worked at McDonald's when I was in high school, they wouldn't give you any grief if your, if your cash register was a dollar late. Okay. After a dollar, you had to pay the difference.

Ooh. Yeah, I mean, if you, if you handle your business, you're fine. Okay. That was the time when I worked at McDonald's, everything was cash. There was no credit card whatsoever. Right. So you had thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in your till. Okay.

But apparently I can't get a single penny from the... It's 20-20 formatting. Unfortunately, this is the way of the world. Yeah. It doesn't mean it's better, does it? No, it doesn't mean it's better. I'm not saying that it is. Yeah.

Because I went to another... I'll tell more or later. All right, let's get to it. So last night, the Yankees finally pick up a victory in the World Series. Yes, they did. But honestly, nobody cares about the game result because we hate the Yankees. We now, if we didn't despise Yankee fan, which we did. Which we did going in, we find them to be less than human scum after what that homeboy did out.

And there are two of them out there out there in right field last night. All the more loathsome. Now, help me out with something. Why did the guy in the New York Road jersey have a black cap on with no logo on it? Were they trying to black shield that out or whatever? I mean, I'm looking for pictures of the guy, and all I see is this generic black hat on. Maybe that's his style. What style would that be?

I don't know, wearing a plain black cap. You know, you put that Yankee logo on you, man. It goes up 30 bucks. Is that what it is? Yeah. Rossi, I have seen some fan player interactions. Yes. That are, that dude's got balls for doing that.

they not only tried to pull the glove off of Moogie Betts' hand but they're basically going for Oh, I think it's the black New York Yankees logo. It has a Yankees logo. Oh, you just can't see it. Okay, okay. Yeah.

It's black on black mat. Black on. Are you okay? I'm fine. Almost cough there. They tried to hurt him. Pull the glove off. The other guy's holding his wrist.

Yeah. What if that wrist would have, either one of the wrists would have snapped in half because of the pull. These guys are idiots and goofballs and they should be ejected. They obviously were ejected and they should be banned for life. And I'm not even kidding. Banned for life. It was the most egregious attempt to interfere.

And then they were interviewed. Because you're going with a smile on his face too. Yeah. And they were interviewed saying, well, no, it was maybe they were interviewed, but somebody was saying, well, it was in the fan section. No, it wasn't. There was the clear evidence. They reached over the wall.

It was in the field of play. Now, grand foul territory, but it was in the field of play. I hate the Yankees. I despise the Yankee fans. I don't know what else more I can say. I can't use words that I really want to describe the New York Yankees on a family radio station such as Sports Talk 790. If we had a podcast called dudes on dudes,

we would be crushing them using swear words left and right. The funny thing is, how much of those things? tickets cost them. First row, first base line. I guess towards the outfield because obviously bets was out there. Now you're down 3-0. They probably came at a bit of a discount.

But still in New York. But you bought those way in advance. Perhaps. I would say what, probably a thousand each. And they got ejected in the first inning. Don't you feel like an idiot? You spend that kind of cash and you're out. You're ejected.

And you're a national disgrace for your fan So what are Yankee fans? You know what? What's our buddies name? It's our Yankee. Alex Middleton? No, the guy that calls the show that's our sick. Oh, Yankees Keith.

No. No. Alex and Gordon Oaks. Is that who it? Yeah. God Noakes. Guy. Not Alex.

That's the other guard nox. James and God Nox. James, you listen to the show. Call 66. These Yankees fans are a disgrace. You know, Yankee fan James, call the show 66WFFN. And let's get in this. Let's get in this right now.

Is that him right? That's James and Klein. That won't work. Lou Gehrig is rolling over in his grave. Lou Gehrig? Yeah, sure what? You really went with that one, huh? I don't know. Oh, then you go Yogi Bear or something like that. I don't know. That's crazy. So we'll get, I mean, it was absolutely one of the most embarrassing displays of a fan.

That's why fans suck. Your takes are typically terrible. And you interfere with play. He's like smiling. laughing. It's terrible. He's an idiot. Good God. 713. 212.570. 713. 212.570. M.MA. E. Maedoka. Shut your bum ass up. Willie Fritz. And, believe it or not, and...

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So if this hits and the Dodgers win tonight, I'm going to be insufferable for a while. Because you ripped. Insufferable. You ripped on me for picking the Dodgers in five. You said, well, wait a minute. They just went a long series before the Yankees did. Or it was the Dodgers.

Yeah, the Mets pushed him to six. Yeah. You're like, that doesn't make any sense. You don't make any sense, Matt. You don't make any sense. Your takes are terrible. Yeah, your takes are bad. Just like how you said Kukuchi wasn't going to throw seven innings

and he did the next week. or literally like four days later When the Dodgers win tonight What was the other one? I want an official coronation tomorrow on the show Okay I want a tribute with great sound bites You didn't apologize for saying the asses

If you apologize for your takes Then I'll give you your coordination I apologize for saying You say Kikuchi couldn't go seven Okay and you need to apologize for your You say I apologize for my bad take That the Astros would sweep Whoever they play in the wild card

I apologize for the bad take on the sweep See I can do it You don't mean it though You didn't ask me if I meant it You asked me to do it. Okay, you're right. That I will give you your flowers, as it were. There better be a lot of flowers.

That's all I'm telling you. You are the greatest predictor in sports radio history, Matt. They don't call me Noster Thomas for a reason. You call you Nosturongus. No, they do not. Nobody calls me that. All right. Garrett KonaMobil coming up at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790.

Wow. That's a huge get. It's big. I mean, other people are breaking down backup left guards. Not this show. Vinny and the Woodlands at 1220 on 790. Vinny, good afternoon. New York.

I'm the fan. What's up, my better? You know the Bronx is going crazy. We won that game last night. We're going to win every single game. That ball was coming right at me. I was just trying to defend myself. Hey, Jay, Vinnie,

you, they eject you from the game after that? Vinny, you're from Queens or the Bronx. You're a Staten Island guy, aren't you? I'm from the Bronx Of course I'm from the Bronx And we're gonna win every game Judges where it's at He's gonna get hot

He's got he's got like two hits in the series No no no He's just trying to fake you out He's about to get super super hot And blow everyone away All right Thanks for calling Thank you Vinny

Thank you Vinny Seriously That's the one benefit of working in New York Because you always got something to talk about You got Yankees You get the Jets Sump. Giants suck.

Giants suck. The Rangers, are the Rangers any good? The Knicks. We've caught Antique Towns. All the Knicks are good. I don't know if they do much hockey breakdown. They don't ever talk college sports. Maybe a little college basketball.

No recus football. No UConn football. No Sunni schools. No Fordham Rams basketball talk. St. John's? Maybe a little St. John. Little St. Hall.

It's a hole. You know, Seinfeldon Hall, I'm in the same as PJ left. Carlisselmo? Yeah. He took Seaton Hall of Final Four, Rossi. You should know that as a New York floor. I didn't know they went to the Final Four. Congratulations to PJ.

Hey, I don't know that. Come on, you're on 66, WFA. Then he hung out with a La Charles Spiewell. Well, hung out relative to him. Rung out. Yeah. Choked out. All right. Thank you, Benny.

Thank you, Benny. Appreciate it. Seriously, that dude's got James' name. He has to call us, right? And God and Oaks? Got Noakes. Yeah, I hope so. He's got to.

It reminds me, I gotta get Conner some new 66 WFA in liners. Why, that one's great. It just plays a lot, though. All right. 66. Yeah. We'll pull some more. You know some people up there or what?

You know what I should do? After the show today, I'll try to find and get a 66 WFAN guy on the show. Okay. On a mobile or for real? No, probably should be for real. But I really want somebody with a thick, I mean, super thick, Mr. New York accent. It talks with jet. I want to have met what Mike Frances is doing right now.

Sleeping. Even if he's on air. I think he does a podcast. Oh, he does? Is he done? I think it's called New York on New York in the same category as dudes on dudes. Okay. Seriously, we have a wonderful company.

We promote the absolute god-awful worst podcast ever. I hope we're cutting a nice check to Rob Gronkowski and Julianne. What do we have a Polynesian women's basketball podcast? Filipino. Filipino. Men's basketball. Oh, okay. I think their greatest player of all time is Manny Pac-Yow.

And then the John Wall podcast, which probably lasted about two weeks before he quit that bad boy. What about the D-Way podcast? What about the D-Wade statue? Okay, let's get to the D-Wain statue for a second. He had to go defend it. He did. What did he say?

He's like, it was one of the most incredible moments of my career, and they captured the face off of that. How would you describe the audience that has not seen the D-Wade statue? How would you describe the face? It looks like a screaming Lawrence Fishburn, I would say. First of all, it looks like the person's in his mid-length 70s. It actually looks like a female in some respects. Really?

I mean, it's deplorable. It's got boobs. What are you saying? No, it doesn't have movies. No, it does not. That was a late career, Dwayne Wade. He was just a guy on the broadcast, but I was not overly impressed. Yeah.

He's going to be one of those guys that's going to be hard to criticize a player. He could get better. Well, I mean, he's got good energy. If you start with good energy, that matters. All right. Speaking of energy, James, we need some from you. Hi, James. Great.

Can't find it. Hello. You there? Of course. Okay, well, I had a little trouble with my phone. College football, this has been the best college football season I can remember in a long time. I mean, you've got two conferences, the Big Ten, the SEC, who's better? It's hard to tell.

I mean, it's, and then there's so many teams that, could make the playoffs and pastures couldn't make it. So I just love the college football this year. That's all I really want to say. I just think college football hit a home run with its expanded playoffs. Thank you. Yeah, I don't disagree. I mean, anything was going to get better from four to 12 teams.

You got so many dogs in the fight. You got a lot of people that when you lose a game, you still have a chance. It's going to give you definitely a group of five or group of six school an opportunity to be seated. And, yeah, I don't think there's any issues with it at all. It's exactly what we've been talking about. talking about for, I don't know, Ross, 25 years? Who's the best group of five team? Boise State? It was UNOV. They lost.

I think it's Boisey State. Is it? Okay. Yeah. With Ashton Jeenty. Genty. He's the running back, right? He runs for like 900 yards a game. But he's also like five-nine.

It's like Darren Sprouls, right? Little guy. Yeah. Or people have been comparing him to Maurice Jones Drew. Oh, that's actually a better comparison because Sproles was just big in stocky. And Maurice Jones Drew was, I mean, once he got downhill, he was unstoppable. One of the greatest moments in the, he was. the history of this show was when I was interviewing Maurice Jones Drew at the Super Bowl.

Who got you that interview? I don't know, but it was a rare good time that I, that Gordy got me a good guest. It was me. Oh, was it you? Yeah, exactly. It wasn't even Gordy that got me the guest. It was you. That was an indie, wasn't it?

And the caller was ripping on him and said, I'll tell it to his face. I said, well, it's funny enough, I got on Maurice Jones drew right here. It was hilarious. And they were smack talking to each other. It was very good. All right. We've got to take a quick break here because we are getting, look, when you pitch a World Series game like you're going to do tonight, your time is

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This is the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's... I don't know why we're playing this, but we need to segue to our next guest. Joining us right now is the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series tonight in the Bronx. We visit with Garrett Cole on a mobile here on the Sports Talks. I'm Garrett, it's Matt here in Houston.

First of all, thank you for joining us, and B, really thank you for joining us on the day that you're pitching. This is really cool of you. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of time. What was your name again? It is Matt M-A-T-T. You've been on the show before. Matt. Oh, I don't really remember, but sounds like you like sleeping with people in hotel rooms, but that's okay. I know, we can make this quick, Matt, but yeah, you're welcome for the time.

How nervous are you about pitching tonight with your season on the line? Well, I'm not very nervous. I know that the Dodgers are a very good team, and they're really going to be tough to get some outs with them tonight, because we started off down 3-0, and so it's really house money at this point, and they've got some really good hitters over there, and Jack Flaherty's a really good pitcher, and he's just a heck of a guy, too. And for Pete's sakes, it's going to be a tough one, but I hope we get a win.

You know, it's funny. I forgot to ask you about this when you left Houston, and I thought you kind of left in a disappointing way. You know, one of the requirements of being... Why? Because you wore the Scott Boros hat. You didn't really say your final farewells to Houston. because I think people took it as a shun to Houston after the loss losing the World Series. Well, what the heck are you freaking idiots?

I wore that hat all the time in the season and no one ever really said anything. And all of a sudden, I'm a free agent and I wear one of my favorite hats. It's my lucky hat, by the way. And everyone gets all upset with me for wearing my lucky hat. Well, if I wouldn't have won so many games, if I wasn't wearing it. What makes it such a lucky hat? I mean, is it the texture? Is it the what was made of who gave it to you?

what makes it so lucky. No, are you stupid? It's just a regular hat, but it's lucky. Oh, just the lucky hat. The Scott Borough's hat is lucky. Okay. What the heck? All right. I don't need you to be up. You're getting a little, you get a little terse. This is supposed to be good. Goddang it. Come on, Matt. I'm pitching today. What else? All right. Let's see. Who worries you in that Dodger lineup? Well, they've got a lot of really good hitters and especially guys like showing. Hey, Otani, and you know what Freddie Freeman has been doing? It's so tough to get those guys out.

You really, especially with Shohei, you kind of have to gamble in a way that he's not going to hit one out for you. And are you worried about Mookie Betts at all? Mookie Betts. Yes, I'm very worried about him. As you know, he did a lot of cheating with the Red Sox and nobody talks about it. But, you know, I guess I had Spider-Tack as well. So gosh, dang it, what are you going to do? Now, by the way, I forgot to ask you, do you miss pitching here in Houston?

You miss the great community that is Houston, Texas? No. Why not? Well, New York is a lot nicer, and they paid me $330 million. And you people in Houston, I feel like, didn't embrace me the way that they have here in New York. And I grew up a Yankees fan, and really, it's really hot and humid. And you just go outside, and son of a biscuit, it's hot out there in Houston. Did you just say son of a biscuit?

Yes. What's the problem? I don't know. I've never quite heard that phrase that often. I mean, is that... Why are you trying to be angry with me, Matt? Well, I just... I'm trying to be nice and come on your show.

And then I'm just getting treated bad in Houston, like when I was there. You were not treated poorly in Houston. What are you talking about? Well, you just asked me about wearing a freaking hat. And you got all upset about me just because I was wearing my favorite lucky hat. they didn't work out because we lost the World Series because of that luck you have supposedly. Well, A.J. Hinch, that blockhead wouldn't put me in the game. I was all ready to go and we talked about putting me in. And the next thing you know, Harry Kendrick is hitting a home run and we lose the World Series. Yeah, I was angry.

Have you talked to Will Harris since then? Never. I blocked him on my phone. I've blocked AJ Hinch and I've also blocked Trevor Bauer. Okay. That seems fair. A couple more questions here. Garrett Cohna Mobile joining us here from New York City. How about those fans that interfered with that fly ball and the foul ball in the first inning of the game last night? Oh, those guys are freaking idiots. I can't believe they did that.

That's just not, you know, Yankees fans, they're known for spitting on people and throwing things and getting in fights, but you've got to conduct yourself better than that. You're not known for trying to rip off the wrist of opposing players, which they tried to do last night. I don't condone that type of behavior, Matt. All right, thank you. Lastly, let me ask you, we played the Kermit the Frog song from The Rainbow Connection,

which is a very famous song from the movie, The Muppet movie. Did you, have you ever seen it? No, you know what? I was going to try to let that slide, Matt, but I'm going to go ahead and address it head on. You come here with this Kermit stuff and you're trying to make fun of it and they always call my wife Amy, Miss Piggy. And look, I was born with the voice I have just like you were born with the freaking voice you have. And that's just the way that it is, and this is the way that I talk.

And no, I'm not a Kermit. No, I'm not in a rainbow connection. And no, my wife, Amy, is not Miss Piggy. All right. Who is your favorite, to wrap this up, who is your favorite Muppet's character? See, now, this is what I try to be nice and come on your show. And then you're asking me Muppet questions. I wanted to talk some baseball.

All right, let's talk some baseball. Do you miss Spider-Tag? Well, see, I'm glad. That's, you finally got to why you brought me on. Yes, Garrett Cole's Spider-Tack is available at sporting goods stores all throughout the Northeast. And, I mean, for Pete's sakes, it's hard to grip a baseball, but you'll be okay with Garrett-Col's Spider-Tack. All right. And what's a website on that? Do you have one? That's Garrett-Colspidertack.net.

Dot net. Oh, you didn't go to the dot-com. Yeah. Okay. Well, it was available. Garrett-Cole Spider-Tack was actually, it was a website making fun of me for not striking people out and struggling when I first became a Yankee. All right. Any last words for the great people of Houston that supported you for all those years as an astro? Let's go, Yankees.

I got $330 million and suck it, Houston. Garrett Cole and a mobile joining us here on this Sports Talk 790. Connor, how about you? There was a lot of hostility in that conversation. I think he wanted, I don't think you, why would you get all, it was the Houston radio interview. It was a nice simple conversation. You know what? I don't think there's anything I said anything that was out of line. Yeah, he got a little, he came into this interview angry, I think.

Yeah, I mean, is he worried about tonight's game? Is he worried about losing this one? And maybe he wearing a Scott Borough's hat when he leaves the... How about this? When he leaves the clubhouse tonight, what hat will he be wearing? The lucky Scott Borough's hat, or will he be wearing the Yark Yankees cap? Or none of the above. That's right, Ross.

You and I've argued about this for years. By the way, where the hell have you been? I just had Garrett Conno Mawlobola. I should go to the bathroom. if you really want to know. Everything okay? Everything's great now. You look like you've dropped a couple of pounds.

Yeah, what is hat? Is he going to wear that lucky Scott Burroughs hat tonight? So he said it's his lucky hat? Yeah. Is that what he tried to say? He wasn't trying to make a statement? No. That's interesting.

Yeah. Hmm. And he didn't like the fact that we played the Rainbow Connection. It depends on if he wears it before the game. Because as you know, Matt, as a professional, what they wear to the game, they wear out. Okay. Well, we need to be on I, we need to be on Capwatch tonight. please Dodgers

twin there even hurts for me to say that oh Carlos saying wild that Yankees Garrett Cole was on the show before Justin Verlander that's pretty funny but Ben Verlando

can't wait to get on 7-9 and guess what Bianchi you're not getting on this station if Justin ain't getting on you're not getting on Ben Verlander's been on the station a lot well not on this day part and we got Garrett call

before we got Justin Verlander that's Pretty crazy. Well, Justin's a free agent now, so I don't know if he's going to be talking to anybody. Yeah. But if you wants to come out here and announces retirement, we can make things a minute. We can, you know. Okay.

That'd be kind of a good hit for us. I've not been on your show in the seven years I've been here, but I want to announce my retirement. You know what they must keep that in the down low? What? Where they stay? Probably. Why would they announce it? No, I'm saying that you would think,

because people always want to tell people stuff. Like, somebody had to move Justin Verlander's stuff out of his apartment here in town. Probably a moving company. Moving company. And they must keep it, I mean, they must not say a word. You think they got to sign an NDA? It wouldn't surprise me. Maybe.

Because we used to it back in the day, people would call up and say, you wouldn't believe what happened. I saw this guy here. Remember when we had, was it Chris Paul and LeBron James were in town? And we had other guy, Dwight Howe was looking for something. And people would call and tell us stuff. Yes. We had to vet it out to see if it was true or not.

Nobody said word one about Justin Verlinder moving out. Like, do we even, I didn't even saw JV and Kate Upton around town. Did you ever see him around town? Yeah. What did you see? I saw them in big lots. Did you really? Yeah.

Mm-hmm. I'm sorry, mig Muggets. Were they buying luggage or something? Or what were they getting? Yeah, they were just browsing, I think. Like, the only person that, you know, Rantz Rerline used to tell us that he would, he had a buddy that would run into James at Rarget. Oh, okay. Now, treasures?

Well. Or dreams? That's true. When you have a jersey retired, that's really saying something. But the big question is, would you really have your jersey retired at a strip club or would you have something else retired? What's that, Matt? I don't know, a bottle of a cologne maybe? A box of prophylactics?

Hmm. Well, are the kids using the prophylactics these days? I hope so. I would hope so, too. All right, thanks again to Gere for joining us here on Sports Talk 790. We're going to come back and talk some UFC. Yes. That's what the show does.

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Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston Sports? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. We are expecting to guests to join us here in just a couple of moments. It is the Matt Thomas show at 1248. EMAIDOK is going to join us for sure in about 12 minutes from now. Ross, a little bit of breaking news, not worthy of a sounder, but just worthy of putting out there. Taylor is back out doing her picks.

Who? This is not breaking news. Well, I just for it's going to. I mean, I guess this is huge for you and your personal life. It might break the internet. Oh, my gosh. She's just going to pretend her whole crypto scam didn't do it. Is she in prison gear?

Or has she been? No, she's not in prison gear. I can take of that for sure. She's not in an orange jumpsuit suit. She hasn't been contacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for her pumping dump scheme yet. She's on a top. And she's walking. Okay.

And she's keeping her breasts in frame, I'm sure. She has Garrett Cole over 16 and a half out tonight. Oh, wow. We should have let Garrett Cole know that. She has the Yankees in the first five money line leading.

Okay. There's no way she's analyzing this. Somebody's not mad. Somebody's giving this to her. It's a bunch of robs who like you, she's just picking stuff out of a hat probably. And it's robs like you who are going to click on it and give her two billion impressions. And then we'll see what kind of

what sportsbook goes back with her. Now remember the people that I don't follow her, but we do have people that listen, uh, that are listeners and employees of the station that follow her. So, it's giving you that. Hmm. Okay. Your man, you're not impressed? I mean, she's, she's, impressed. What are you? Yeah, she's very talented, Matt. Yeah. She's able to withstand the storm. I think she wanted to kill herself and now

she's back out doing her walking bed. So good for her. I'm glad she's okay. All right. So again, we will, uh, have email, Doka troning us in just a couple minutes right now. We are very happy to have a Houstonian on the program that is going to be fighting this week in Edmonton, Canada. Derek Lewis from the UFC is joining us here on the Matt Thomas show. Derek, it is Matt and Ross. It is really great to have you with us. Why did you choose Edmonton? Why did anybody choose Edmonton?

Are you going to freeze your ass off up there or what? Yes, my balls with cold out here right now. I don't know why. I don't know they this is the place they said I could I needed to be I told them I they're not even allow me in the country because you know so I have to do a whole back background check through the FBI trying to get over here I'm like man trying to do all these moops just trying to come to emminton but you know it's a good good country you know good your city you know I don't say nothing bad about it's no peaceful no we wouldn't make you we wouldn't want you to do that but

man it's good to hear your voice we're so happy to you represent the city of Houston and UFC and you got this fight. This is fight number 30 for you and I would like to try to pronounce the guy you're going against but I don't want to butcher his name. John, I told Janice. How about that? I think. How about that? That's good. That was going to be close enough. Did Derek get you to get close

in the name on that? Man, y'all just reminded me as I couldn't pronounce it. You don't even care what his name is. You just want to knock him out, right? You're just going to end his... Yeah. If there ain't no call, Ben, or something easier I could pronounce. I nobody's trying to sit here and try to pronounce the name.

Why don't you go after a guy named Greg, like Greg Smith? That'd be a lot easier next time, Derek. I'm going to tell you that for sure. This is your 30th fight. How much different are you in terms of preparation, the mechanics, the art, the sport, than you were in, say, your first or your fifth fight? I think I'm doing pretty good. You know, I'm finally starting to do two days.

I never really did that at the beginning of my career. In the middle of my career. Now I'm doing two a day. So I think the two of days have really been helping. Is that going to help you with the kind of getting in the later rounds as well? Yes, and also it's not five rounds, so I'm happy about that. So I'm very excited about three-round fight. I can really try to finish them in the first round now and be happy that I can last at least another round.

And we appreciate you always representing Houston. You still coming out to Topps Drop? Yep, that's good. Time's drop. No, you're not going to mix it up. with any like 25 lighters or south side or anything like that? No, they're not ready for that. Okay. Okay.

Who do you like in the Texans' Jets game tomorrow night? Of course, the Texans, even though we're not even a favorite. That's crazy. I know, two-point dogs. That's crazy. By the way, your UFC Fight Night's going to be on ESPN Plus, for those that want to catch you. I know they will because, look, there's nothing going on on Saturday. The World Series will be over with.

football, all the good college games will be done. We're going to catch you on ESPN Plus. Let me ask you this. You have not fought since May. How do you space out your schedule? So if people that were to follow you on a regular basis, know when you were going to get back into the octagon? I wanted to fight a lot sooner than that,

but they just couldn't find out a worthy opponent for me. And so I had to wait until the end of the year. We were supposed to be guaranteed three fights a year. so they really can hold up they end up bargain so I'm only two fights this year

so hopefully next year we'll get three fights and I hate waiting this long and in between fights though and the recovery time after each individual one I mean I guess it depends on how long you go

but how long do you feel it no matter if you're you know obviously you won a lot more than you've lost but I mean how long does it take you to kind of recuperate after going in a match a fight

Probably like two weeks, two weeks. You probably like to sleep. He probably sleep for like two days after the fight, no matter how it goes because there's so much of drilling and nerves and everything goes into a match. So that right there, mentally it wears you out. And also it depends on the type of injury you have physically. 39 years old.

Two weeks. Yeah, so most knockouts. and UFC history with 15. You're 39 years old. You just want to keep on fighting until they tell you no more? Or what do you feel like the rest of your career is going to pan out like? Hopefully it pan out pretty good. But it all depends on my body, my mind, and my family.

And my family say that they don't want me to do it anymore, then I'm not going to do it anymore. But we're just making it smart investments right now, just so I can still live the lifestyle that I live right now. and so that's all we're working on right now and just the right of estimates. All right, so you've had 15 knockouts. Final question.

Is there a common theme except, please leave me alone? I mean, give me, do you, have you thrown one punch and you heard the cry or a scream or something? It was like, damn, I can't believe I did that to that man. Yeah, actually it's like, man, it's like, whenever you look at your opponent and you make a certain type of face, I hear out so many hunted visuals of a lot of opponents,

like when they're rolling their eyes and stuff like that. It's like, man, I'm definitely going to need some type of therapy after whenever I'm saying them because... Wow. I'm going to have PTSD for real. We don't want you to have that, so you've got to stay up right. So it makes you that then become an issue. Hey, we wish you the very best, Derek. Thank you for coming on.

Thanks to represent in Houston. Good luck this Saturday and stay warm, I guess, in Edmonton, and we'll look forward to seeing you on ESPN Plus this weekend. Yes, thank you for helping. All right, Derek, take care of yourself. Derek Lewis, represent the city of Houston. Big Texans fan. He's upset that he's so upset he's going to crucify his opponent

because the jets are two-point favorites. He's upset that they're underdogs. Yeah. I like that. Is there sports books in Edmonton? I don't know. I think there's just sports books everywhere in the world except where we have them. Something that actually makes me worried.

80%, I think 86. percent of the public is on public money is on the Texans. I'm not going to change your mind, is it? It's not going to change my mind. It's not going to me feel good. They keep building sports books, Matt, for a reason. All right. 713, 2.1,

27.9. Keep that number in mind because coming up at 1.30, we're going to do shut you bum ass up. But we're going to talk to IMA adoka. Ema adoka versus Derek Lewis in an MMA fight. Who do you like? Probably Derek Lewis. Just because of the training, right? I mean, he's got the most knockouts in UFC history, so I'm going to go with him.

Okay. But Emia Doka and you, I got Edoca minus a 15,000. You don't think I can hang, could I last one round? No. He'd put me like in a wrestling stranglehold kind of thing, right? I would say over under 45 seconds. Could I go 45 seconds with EMA and an MMA? If you sprint in a circle, or I guess in an octagon shape for 45 seconds, maybe.

So you're saying there's a chance. I appreciate that. Ross, it's a nice thing you've said about me all day today today. 713-212-5-79 if you want to get in IMA adoka joins us after we talk about the folks over at two creeks crossing resort this is the place up in livingston that is unbelievable beautiful opportunities to enjoy nature and the cooler weather yes it's coming and still all the modern amenities like a pickleball court like a barbecue grill area like a swimming pool like a hot tub like a bar like a movie theater like uh They've got workout facilities. They've got laundry facilities. So if you're looking to get away for a couple of days, but still at the same time, enjoy the modern amenities, get out to the living scenario and go to two creeks crossing resort. So much more than an RV site rental.

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With the Mavericks, every Wednesday around 1 o'clock, we will spend time with Rockins Head Coach E. E. May Doaker. Coach, Matt Ross, how are things today? Good, how are you guys doing? Man, great to have you with us. Two and two start of the season. Give me the super high and the super low through the first four if there's such a thing. The highs would be that we battle back in some games and obviously got out to some really good leads. And so we've done some good things to get those leads or fight our way back into a game.

The lows would be the inconsistency that got us in that deficit or ended up losing a lead at times. And so, you know, consistency was a theme coming into the season, how we can improve in that area. And so far, after these four games, we've been up and down, but had some really good stretches that we're looking to build on. You know, I mentioned this to you a couple nights ago, but you're still looking for that first kind of complete 48-minute game. And you kind of tease that to a byproduct of it's early in the season. You still staying with that philosophy, you think? How long does it take to kind of get past that and go, you know what? We need one of those nights where we can play four complete quarters.

Well, I mean, that's been the case for sure. I think, you know, we've, at times last year, went through that a little bit, and then we really kind of hammered down on some things late in the season that made us more consistent, obviously, with the winning streak and things like that. But for us, it's really, you know, defending at a high level initially. You know, we had some 38-point quarters given up in the last two games, but we're scoring enough, and so we want to obviously play better defense there. And then when we do get those leads, how can we maintain those?

and for instance the other game, the second game with San Antonio, you know, they got 10 offensive rebounds in the third quarter, allowed them to go from a 20-point deficit to down to 13 or 12 going into fourth quarter. So small things like that, the little details that we go back and look on and how we built the lead and then how we lost it and how we can improve in those areas. You know, part of the fun of watching Janlin during the last couple months of last year with those nights where he would take over games where he'd make four or five, three-pointers in a short period of time.

the second quarter, he was unconscious against the Spurs. And you've seen more of that, at least early going on so far this year. What did he do for you in the offseason and in training camp that maybe better prepared him for nights where he can kind of take over offensively? Yeah, I think in general, you saw his growth last year and, you know, the game is really slowed down for him. He's not only scoring, but he's, you know, become a secondary playmaker with Fred and, you know, and Alpi. And so I think his reading of the defense has been night and day from last year. He's taking on chief chances. I'm taking on the challenges defensively on that end.

But I would say, you know, he was a recipient the other night. They went zone quite a bit, and he was the guy that got the open shots and knocked those down. But overall, his confidence in the game kind of slowing down for him is the thing that's most noticeable for me. Three point attempts for him ticking upward is that something that has just been a situation where it's been the matchups and what the defense has been giving him? Is that something that is targeted that you guys want to do? And are you okay with the shots that he's taking from there?

Yeah, I would say a little bit of both last year. Him reading defenses, you know, he has such a quick first step and he's so explosive that teams will try to go under a lot of pick and rolls to, you know, stay in front, keep him out of the lane. And so we want him to be confident and knock down those shots, knowing it'll

open up everything for him on the drives and bring the big up a little bit higher. And so this is a combination of that. They're going under, but as well as E.D., for example, and Webayama being back in a deep drop. You know, they're obviously two big guys that are good rim protectors. And so for them, they want to funnel everything to those guys. And, you know, when he has that shot when those guys are back, as long as Alpy, Jock, Stephen, get a good piece. He has those white-up looks.

We know we can knock him down a high clip. Rocket's head coach, Emo Doka, with us here on Sports Talk 790. Mavericks in the next game. And we could ask you probably 100 questions about how to defend Luca Donchie. but I want to be specific. When you have a player like him who pump fakes like a hundred times a game, is there like a message or like something you can do in practice to try to help the team not bite on somebody like that who pump fakes so much?

Yeah, I mean, it was something we did drills with during preseason. It felt like every game in the preseason we're going for too many shot fakes. We're going to be second off the floor. And, you know, it's a big thing with KYP, knowing your personnel, knowing who you're going against. I think we did a good job the other night on Harrison Barnes, where he got some guys in game one with some pump fakes and then he saw Cam, Jabari

and some of those guys stay down and really challenge the shots there. So we go deep into the personnel and obviously he's a big one as far as that before and after the shot after the dribble. And so you got to stay down on him. He loves to get the frithal line, loves the big guys. And for us it's a game plan discipline. And we've worked on that in preseason,

staying down, being second off the floor and using our length. We got a couple of early good looks in the first couple of games. play a whole lot in that San Antonio stretch of games. It's going to be ebb and flow. I mean, that's what a normal rookie does, correct? It feels like to me, no matter what drafts spot or what you're expected to be in the lineup. Yeah, I mean, they're going to have some ups and downs at times, of course, and we know that.

And guys, too, went through it last year with our young guys and all of them have over the last few years. But as many consistent minutes we can find them, we'd love to. You know, a game kind of was dictated by matchups last game. We pretty much matched Dillon with Webbingyama's. minutes and that threw off our normal rotation. So when Webbyon went out, Dylan went out and came back and that kind of squeezed read a little bit there. But a guy that we know has a high IQ, he's super confident and looking to get a more opportunity

when possible. And he'll continue to grow because of that. You know, you had Fred guarding Wemby a little bit. You had Dylan doing it a lot. I mean, you obviously, that's intentional. When you go to those guys and say, here's what we're doing the defensive switch, I mean, they're going to do whatever they want, but in terms of doing what's best for the team, but that

has to be still a challenge for those guys going against a guy of his height and of his frame. Yeah, I would say we're comfortable with all of our guards and wings on him, especially on the perimeter. You know, we switch a lot of their pick and roll actions or him getting a walk away. They set

some downscreens for him, so we're fine with our guys crowding him, taking up his space on the perimeter. It doesn't matter if you have Alpi and Stephen or a guard on him. He's going to be able to shoot over. It's just being physical and getting him off his spot, and I think we did a great job of that, especially in game two.

We were much more physical. When he starts to roll down to the post, obviously we have our bigs ready to kick our guards out, and we can guard them from there as well. So we have a few counters. But when he's on the perimeter, I think a lot of his advantages are against five men that, you know, can't take up that space.

He can shoot his threes. He can kind of handle and go around, but we love our guards taking the space and being physical with them, and Dylan was ahead of that. Tell more minutes here with IMA, doka, getting ready for tomorrow night's game with the Dallas Mavericks.

You've Jacques a little bit early on. Stephen Adams got his first appearance for you in the second game against San Antonio. Just give us a little glimpse into Stephen as a competitor and now with you, him in your group and working with the guys and more importantly, just being what exactly what you thought he would be is a guy that would set a bunch of good screens and would get a bunch of offensive rebounds for you. Yeah, I mean, he is working his lamb to shape. I saw a number where he hadn't played in 646 days, I think.

So he's been out for quite a while, obviously, and he needs to get his conditioning down, timing, down game shape. And so even with that being said, while he figures out his rhythm and gets his body back in shape, I think his IQ and communication has been very invaluable for our young guys. It's another coach out there, just like Fred and Dillon were last year. And it's just another guy to throw out there. Obviously, he sets screens against guys open,

but the talking, teaching, extra coaching he's been doing guys, has been really good. And so as he makes his, gets his way in the shape, we understand what he brings to the team. Whoever he sets the screen on is going to get space to operate. And then you have to account for him on the offensive glass. So he's done those little intangibles that he's done his whole career, but we'll only get better going forward. And lastly, it looks like Tara Easton is really enjoying himself. You know, here's a guy in his rookie year played all 82 games. The injury's got to him a lot last year.

But for a guy that can do so many different things for you, offensive rebound, stealing and him the occasional three, just to have that kind of versatility from a guy off your bench. It's got to be something you like right now. Yeah, you're just plugging in with a man, Dillon, and some of those guys, and you don't miss a beat as far as

his defensive versatility. Very instinctual, gets his hands on everything, and pretty much comes up with it, and so we love what he's bringing. He's another guy that had been out for a while, and so we had to move him along slowly in the preseason, but now that he's had a minute increase lately, we can

running for some longer stretches and finish games if we'd like to. You know, it's tough on him and us at times when he's playing so well, but you were restricted some, you know, to a certain amount of minutes or stretches he can run. But I think as he gets himself back in shape, same with Stephen. I think those guys will play more and more. And what they bring to our team is obviously very noticeable. Coach, thank you for the visit. Safe Travels of Dallas.

We'll see you later on tonight. And thanks for the time as always. Thank you guys. All right. We'll see. It's Amy Dukka joining us here on Sports Talk 790. 12 is the time. We've got shut your bum ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Ross, we have Coach Willie Fritz at 2 o'clock. Wonderful. We've had Derek Lewis. We've had Garrett Colonel Mobile. Okay. I mean, we've got guest stars galore, interesting topics, and when we come back, the last injury report before tomorrow night's Jets' Texans game is out. Oh, yeah.

And I don't think Texans fans are going to like it. It's not. It's not a lot. ideal. It's rather lengthy. You can't clip that. I didn't say anything wrong. I know you were thinking about it. I didn't say a word.

You were thinking about it. No, I was thinking about World Series Game 5. You were? Couldn't stop thinking about it. So you're endlessly thinking about Game 5 of the World Series. Okay. Kind of weird old... And little Jeff Passett in his gray suit.

A twerb. God, I'm so thankful he didn't go to the NBA. That'd be terrible. The Yankees are looking to make history tonight to be the first team to get down and force at game six. He sounds like a Muppet's character. You know what he is? He's Beaker.

He's just a nerd. Just let him be. Some people are nerds. I know. I work with one. Yeah, that's fine. I'm a nerd. 7.1.3, 212.790. Let's say about Game Day men's health. These are the wonderful folks that have said, hey, if you're worried about your testosterone levels, please let Game Day men's health help you. Free testing is available at gameday men's health.com slash Houston.

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on Monday. Walk through today. Walk through today in a flight to New York. Great. Kalin Bullock did practice today or did participate. Camarie Lasseter did, so that's good news. And Henry Toa Toa did participate after going through the concussion stuff. So that's good. Okay.

These four players will not play. Jimmy Ward, out with a bad groin. Damien Pierce. His groin is also sore. So there goes your kick returner who was actually pretty good last week. Oh, great. Joe makes him please to help him. Jared Patterson is out with a concussion.

No surprise there. And LZ's Ishaar is out with a bad knee. Kenyon Green will be your starting left guard this week. But apparently he's on thin ice. According to what Aaron Wilson says from wherever he works. Well, if Jared Patterson's out with concussion, I wonder if Jared Patterson would be starting. Because that's who he got pulled for. Oh, there would be no doubt on any of his mind.

be starting. That's right. That's for sure. I mean, I'm rooting for Kenyon Green, but it's not pretty. So let me ask you this. Again, Matt, 77 guards rated by pro football focus. He's 77. You know what we're going to have to do? We hear on the Matt Thomas show, even though we make

fun of those dudes because they don't sleep with women and don't have many friends. They actually take the time to look at that stuff that normal person wouldn't. So you have to kind of go on, well, at least they put the time in. You don't have to take their word as gospel, but I would say it's educated. I would say it's educated informed opinion there's no bias i don't think they go oh here comes a text i'm going to drop

them down i'm going to add one because my favorite team's the packers well you should be happy they don't have laramie tonsel as a top 20 tackle they have them 23rd out of 76 that's no surprise lemmy tonsel good not great pass blocking elite run blocking not as much yeah but i think if you're going to be in an elite left tackle in the association well if you're going to get paid like the number one guy, you're going to reset the market a couple times, you would like him to be better. Yeah. You can't be, now, obviously one part of the game is going to be better than others, but he's not ever been considered elite as a run protector, ever.

No. Yep. Okay, so back to the bigger issue. If this will be the year for the Texans to go all in, right? Well, it was when they traded for Stefan Diggs. Yeah. So there's a precedent already being set

that the Texans believe this year's team is good and I mean and again the record indicates it they're six and two they're in a log jam for the second best record in the AFC right now

they stand alone as a second seat right oh I thought Pittsburgh was a six and two okay you're right and you know who else let me look at the standings

right now in the end they have the bills have the same record but they have the head to head okay but I mean I mean, it's a log jam for sure. There are three teams at six and two.

There are two more teams at five and three. The Texans do have the tie break. Look, I mean, this is we're in week nine. So they have the head, they are the two seat. Yeah, if the season was to start today, which it doesn't because it's in playoffs. If there was a strike and then it ended until the playoffs? You don't remember that, but when I was a kid, they had a season where they went like nine games or something crazy. 85, 87 somewhere around that?

Yeah, and then they had, well, they had one year they strives. and then one year they had replacement players. 82, it looks like they had replacement players and then, yeah, maybe. 87, 87, I don't know. 87 and definitely had replacement players. Okay. I don't know if 82 did or not, but yeah, it was weird. Point being is this.

There are a number two seed right now. You're as close as this organization has legitimately ever been to probably playing for aFC championship. Not saying going to win it, but you're as close as you've ever been. Is that fair to say? Yes. Unless you're of the belief that the losses were so terrible that the six wins are fools gold. Now, the Green Bay game was a coin flip loss. Yeah, but you...

Minnesota was... You won that turnover battle, 3-0, and you got a free seven points off a muff punt in that game. But the Minnesota game was the one that really was a kick in the teeth. But that's going to have a lot of teams. That was, yeah, one of the worst games, the worst game in the Dimeco-Ryans era. So if that is the case and you think you are as close as you are, then he's got to do something.

He being Nick Aserio. It'd be nice. Just to give a, again, not to cross over sports here, but you say Kikuchi was a, what are you doing now move? But it wound up helping for sure. I think if you just stand pat, it's going to give the indication that you don't know, you don't think your team is ready to win it this year.

You also don't want to make a move, Maddie. You don't want to overpay. But in what regard? I mean, you want to... I don't know. I don't know what the conversations are. I don't know what left cards are on the market. But look at what's been giving out for trades already so far. Nobody is breaking the bank on any of these deals.

No one is going. We just gave away a first round pick for a average wide receiver. Well, no. But, I mean, Deonté Johnson has been good, but it's not like he was a pro-baller a few years ago. But you didn't give up the kid. kitchen sink to get that guy. I would have liked to have a fifth, sixth swap for Donate Johnson. I would have liked to have seen that move mainly.

Yeah, I mean, if that's what the tenor of the world of trades are come trade deadline, then they can absolutely pick swap, give up a fourth, give up a fifth to get some depth of this offensive line. Missing out on Devante Adams, I wasn't really upset. Well, at that time, let's just say if Devante Adams was traded yesterday, I would have been like, okay, whatever, he's a little older, he's not having a good season. Yeah. I would say the same thing for Amari Cooper.

Mari Cooper's got 11 drops this year. That's more than anybody in the entire planet. But Deontay Johnson, for a fifth six swap to me is the one where I really was like, really. I'm going to correct you on one thing. If any of those three receivers came in to replace Stefan Diggs, there would be a positive energy about the deal. There would be a positive energy, but I'm not saying what was the Devante Adams deal? None of them revolved around day one picks. I think it was a fourth rounder.

a fourth rounder for a 32-year-old receiver who's not having a great year. At the time, I had a hamstring injury. You know what? You give up a second round for a guy that you basically were signing to a one-year deal. Well, Stefan Diggs is better at this point in his career than Devante Adams. And he was good in eight games. It's basically pacing for 1,000 yards and six touchdowns. Well, all this would be telling me if they don't go get a wide receiver,

is that this would be the case that they think that Xavier Hutchinson and John Mechie and the return of Nico Collins, hopefully next Sunday against the Lions. Devante Adams was a third that could become a second if Adams is an all-pro ain't going to happen or active for an AFC championship. Yeah, make that move. No.

And you had digs at that time. Okay, but I'm talking about right now. Would you have gone and gotten DeAndre Hopkins available for a fifth round pick? Now, he's never coming back to Houston for a variety of reasons. I can't really discuss those on air, but DeAndre for a fifth. Sure-handed. Yeah.

Now, lost his step. Way past his prime. Never was a necessary to begin with, but basically you threw the ball up and he caught everything. And C.J. Straud is a guy that gets you in the same vicinity. How much better is DeAndre Hawkins than John Mechie and or Zager?

Significantly. Absolutely. Been there, done that. Not a missing piece, but a better piece. He's been there and done that. He's 32 years. How many meaningful catches is John Metchie made in his entire Texan's life?

Not few, but I'm talking about at this point. Yeah, I'm not talking about 2017. I'm saying I want as many reinforcements as possible and I would trust DeAndre Hopkins over Xavier Hutchinson. Last three years, DeAndre Hopkins, he's only played eight games.

He's gotten 200... Oh, wait, sorry. No, last year he was a thousand-yard guy. This year he's played seven games. He's got 200 yards and seven games. 200 yards and seven games. He's nothing close to what he was. But if I'm in a important, big game,

am I trusting John Metchy to make the grab for me? Or am I trusting DeAndoron? Or I'd go get Jerry Rice in. Well, that's being ridiculous. I mean, look, going to get guys that are passing from, I get it. But there's nobody bumping around town right now that's looking at this.

receiving core going, I can't wait for Xavier Hutchinson to make a difference. Now, if he makes four catches for 75 yards and touchdown, we can reconfigure this and go, you know what, Nick Assner, you're a smart guy in the room. He's a good blocker. Oh, geez. Look, let's see. What is John Matchy done? Well, he's got 36 yards in five games.

You can, look, I know it sounds stupid, maybe, but DeAndre Hopkins and John Matchy, it's not like one is, at this point in their careers. One is not leaps and bounds ahead of the other. and I'm not even trying to say that John Metchie's good. I'm talking about DeAndre Hopkins. I don't know. Maybe it's a poor example. Cooper Cups apparently not available.

No, now they say not available. Dude, if you can get Cooper Cops, that would be... You wouldn't even think twice about that. For an organization that doesn't have a history of making meaningful pre-deadline moves, they're not going to get Cooper Cubs. They're not going to break the bank for that. No, I wouldn't think. I guess the bigger question is, Ross, is what...

Go get some additional offensive line depth. Yeah, get a left card. I would rather than get a left guard than wide receiver. I'd totally agree with you on that. Totally. Swing, whatever it takes. Somebody. Because Kenyon Green is,

by some metrics, he's the worst guard in football. By one, the metric that we actually talk about. Yes. Now, does Casero subscribe to PFF? Don't know. If I make the statement, a lot of, actually a lot of NFL teams do.

Yeah, yeah. All right, 713, 212, 5790. 713, 21, 5, 5,000. somebody irritate you ross this week daily how about on saturday nope what do you mean you said daily yeah i'm trying i'm trying to i'm trying to get monday through friday i'm trying to take myself out of this conversation here mondays through fridays usually between

the window of 12 and 3 yeah kana that's not very nice to say that about you all right 713 212 5 790 it's time for us to have our fun this week with your opportunity to tell somebody to shut their bumasses up. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want, tell somebody to shut their bum-ass up. Also, if you have somebody you want to say, ain't nobody got time for something.

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Ain't nobody getting time. Ain't nobody getting time for that. Ain't nobody getting time for that. 134 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-1-2-5-79 if you want to tell somebody you're irritated with them, you're mad at them, you're being totally ridiculous, just frankly tell them to shut their bum-asses up, man. Shut your bum-ass up, man.

Or if somebody at the office is telling you a story that's going like two and a half minutes, three minutes longer than you wanted to give him, when you say hi, how are you? And it gives you his life story. You say nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Ross, my story is this. Yesterday after the show, I went to the Rarux right down the street.

Yes. And I had a bunch of $1 bills in my wallet. I was trying to pay with paper money. And my bill, I got a muffin and a coffee that was $8.1. Hmm. So I went to the drive-thru and she said, hello, how are you? I said, I'm great. How are you?

Had a nice conversation. I said, hey, can you spare me a penny? I've got $8 here. And she goes, unfortunately, no. I was completely shell-shocked. So I gave her the dollar. I said, keep the change. I don't want to have a bunch of loose change in there.

So I don't know if he was trying to get an extra tip from me. Very nice. Or whatever the case may be. I was stunned that she said, I can't give you a penny. So later on in the day, we went to go see my daughter play volleyball. And my wife wanted a coffee before we got to the match. So we went to the Rar Rucks in Kingwood. Okay.

And I asked the woman at that Rar Rucks. said, hey, if my order was $8.1. Could you spare me the penny? And she says, of course I could have. We do that all the time. So I say to the woman at Rarrux at Post Oak Lane, shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man.

And give me the damn penny. Sounds like you got got. Sorry, Matt. And by the way, people on Twitter are like, use carda card, brew, use the app, brew. I'm sorry. People can use cash. Credit, don't indict me for how I pay for it.

It's to be happy that I paid for it. I'm not happy that you paid for it. That's what you're trying to get your Starbucks points. Use the app. I wanted to get rid of this cash. I felt bad. Last time I went, the app had to update in the middle of me. Oh, no.

And people are waiting behind me. I'm like, I'm sorry the app is updating. And he's like, it's okay. Anybody got time for your app updating while you're trying to pay for the drinks. I'll say that in general. Ain't nobody got time for these. It's probably, it's all these soft. Software engineers who are trying not to get laid off.

So they make like 76 changes a year to their apps. And it's like bug fixes. And nothing changes on the app. So I've got to update my app every five times I want to use it. Every time I want to go to a Rockets game, I got to update the AXS app. It's too much. Ain't nobody got time for your incessant app updates. Do they do not even help the app out?

Ain't nobody got time for that. But I'm really mad at this because I love this RarRucks down the street here. It's right. It's literally you can walk out. unfortunately not. I almost wanted to say one GD. Penny. You know what she said to you? She said, shut your bum ass up. That's what she said. Get on the app.

Shut your bum ass up, man. All right, that's all I got. Okay. I was just so disappointed in how that turned out yesterday. I'm going at the Yankees fans from last night who apparently did get their tickets refunded, which is ridiculous and soft. You are wrestling with a player on the field. I think people that are celebrating this are idiots.

This sets a bad precedent. This is not funny. This is not cool. Mookie Betz could have gotten hurt. You are not there to take part in the game. You are there to witness the game. So you idiot Yankees fans with that one guy on the left with a smile on his face as he's trying to wrestle the ball from Mookiee Betz. You're an idiot and a loser.

And ain't nobody got time for you. And the people supporting them, shut your bum ass up. Yeah. People are taking pictures with these jayoffs is what they were. doing. Yeah. You make a time for taking pictures with douchebags like that. God, I hate the Yankees. Oh, Yankees are going to lose tonight. Let's go. You know what? I will take having to bear you being right for the Yankees to lose tonight with Garrett Cole on the mouth. Thank you, Ross. Appreciate that very much. Appreciate it. You having my support sort of. Kind of. Kind of. Connor, what's the matter with you? 713, 2, 1-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9-0.

so I was at a concert in Austin this weekend was with a group of people after the show nobody was volunteering to call the Uber so I didn't like I want to get home I want to get to bed next day I sent out to text like hey like here's my Vennel so you can Vennel me a little bit of money for the Uber that'd be great because it's a bit expensive after leaving a concert venue how much was it yeah it was like 60 so it was quite a bit I mean but there was how many people in the group five people is 10 a P you got an Excel What? An Excel?

Uber XL? You said five people? You said five people? You said five people? No, yeah. It was an XL. The driver's cool. No, it was XL. We had to do that. But I sent my Venmo and nobody sends me... Only two people send me money. And I felt weird asking again, call people out because I was new to the group. But, hey, nobody got time for you just taking a free ride.

Give me my money. How many broskies and how many chicks? Three girls and then me and one other guy. Three girls. clearly thought you guys were picking up the tab. Did the girls pay? Two of them did. Really?

So none of the bros paid. There was only one other dude, yeah. Hmm. Are one of your bro's names, Austin? No. Connor? Wait, oh, that's your name. That's not, don't do that.

It's not as far. You didn't name himself. You got a bro name Brody? I do not. Okay. Like, what is your three top bro's names? Jack. Oh, Chase and Kenny?

Chase, definitely. Chase. What's wrong with Kenny? No, Kenny's fine. Kenny's a good dude. Kung Fu, Kenny. No, Chase definitely is a broskey. All right, there we go. I'm sorry. I'm seriously. That is terrible. You know what? You are, you got, you need some new friends. I mean, but he doesn't want to make waves. As he said, it's kind of a new friend group.

Yeah, it's tough. I was invited to the show. Like, I wasn't, I wasn't planning it, you know? That's one of the benefits of being old. You don't have that many friends. I've had friends all my life, and I'm not old. How many friends you hang out with? hundreds that you don't travel with hundreds and the last week I do I do travel not the traveling rockets group

I feel like that doesn't count okay forget I was going to say something but I'm not going to interesting I'll tell you all fair 713-212 570 712 2190 Seth on 790

Seth what's the matter with you Hey guys I got two incidents that have happened last Friday while I was out early voting. And by the way, first of all, Houstonians, if you haven't voted yet, please get out and do it at your civic duty. Anyway, first incident that happens

while I'm waiting in the early voting line, I believe it's at the place off Congress Avenue. I get that there's a long line, so I'm not mad about that. But a guy behind me just comes up and starts blabbing about his trip to New York City a few weeks ago and starts talking to everybody at this amazing barbecue he has up there.

Man, we're in line to vote. We don't, New York City, people don't know what real barbecue is. So, man, shut your bum ass up when it comes with that. Nobody wants to hear that. Shut your bum ass up, man. And then second, while I'm fixing to go into the room to go vote, there's a man that goes in there carrying a can Coke. First of all, I'm not sure if drinks are even allowed in the voting room,

but for some reason these people allowed him in there. And then he loses his balance or something, drops the Coke and spills it all over the voting machine. Oh my God. So then, for then, a little bit of delay, they have to take one voting machine out, and then we have to weigh a little bit longer, and then when all this is done, we're waiting about an extra 15 minutes. So for the people that think it's okay to bring Coke into the voting booth,

come on, y'all. Ain't nobody got time for that. There you go. Thank you, Seth. Do you have time for canned beverages, by the way? Yeah, why not? I think people go on cold brusky? No, I said just can beverages in general.

I said a can of can, yeah. I mean, a can of beer, yeah. But, I mean, like, if you go to a convenience store, are you more likely to go get a bottle of Coke or bottle of soda or a can of soda? I would say 70-30 bottle. I would say, for me, it's probably 90-10. It's not that I'm anti-can. I'm just curious why.

The only time I were going to drink out of a can is when it's either you're getting a six-pack at the grocery or you're getting out of a soda machine. But even soda machines are not doing the bottle. Don't you like to pop the top, Maddie? What is that? What did you just say? You like to catch, don't you? You don't like that sound? When you hear a kach, you're like, I've been waiting to kachch for quite some time now.

Yeah. It's been about a week. 713, 2.1. What are you talking about? You asked me one of the last time I kosh. Yeah, I popped a can. Exactly. I've been about a week.

You said you never do it. But I mean, it's okay. 713-212-5-7-90 something's bothering you don't you shake your head at me something's bothering me for sure 7-13-212-5-790 7-13-212-1-2-5-7-90 you know your Houston Cougars are in action this Saturday it's a blackout that's right it's a blackout to see your beloved

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Here on a sports talk 790 as we continue. Ain't nobody got time for that. Shut Joe bum ass up. You want to get in, 713, 212, 570 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I am Ross. And well, hit it, Connor. James of Garden Oaks, go ahead.

Okay, thank you for taking my call, Governor Thomas. You'll be the only one that, according to me and the legions of fans known as in Yankee Universe. You're the only guy to get a pass. All these clowns here locally and even with Fox Sports and everything. that Jason Smith, that Marrow character at night, look, man, they all can go to hell because first of all, the mistake was made by Aaron Boone in game one that kind of just set the present and blew it for the Yankees. So they put the Yankees in their basketball and I agree. They probably not going to win, but at least I was proud of them yesterday. They didn't just

die out there. They showed a heartbeat. They showed some pride like the proud of the Yankees that we all know and love. And the bottom line, is still the bottom line. We represent. New York represents everywhere, locally, across the river, or across wherever they go. Everybody knows who the Yankee fans, the Yankee uniform represents. So that's all I gotta say. And they can shut their bum asses up because I'm tired of hearing all that stuff and everything, you know. And I want to give a shout out to that guy, that you rip a lot of everything, that guy Brad. He ain't that bad a guy, man, so you should eat up on him once in a while.

Thank you for taking my call. Mr. Thomas, appreciate you. Radio. WFAN. Thank you for taking his call on WFAN. FN. We got calls from Yonkers on line two.

We got statin out on four. We got somebody calling from Hoboken Rossi on 66. And bread sucks, James. I don't care what you said. I like James, but James, your fans are idiots. And I hope your Yankees lose. They're going to. Yankees. Remember, I told you. Dodgers and 5.

Let's go. Let's go. 713-212-5-790. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bell masks up, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Brian, what's the matter with you? To all the drivers here in Houston, I know there's stuff falling from the sky, which we probably haven't seen in two months. That's called rain. We've driven in it before, people.

get your act together. I'm seeing police cars everywhere, ambulances, like y'all forgot how to drive in the rain all of a sudden. I know it's been a couple months and we had a little bit of a drought, but man, stuck your game up over here. Traffic in the cities are any bad enough. We don't need

your crap-ass driving on top of it. Ain't anybody got time for that. Yeah, nobody got time for that. There you go, Brian. How about that? Woo, lorry. Now, every city says they have bad drivers. Yeah. Is Houston one of the worst? Because People do always say that. And I don't know.

I've only lived ever in Houston and Austin. And in Austin, you can't have bad drivers. Nobody moves. I've lived in my life in four cities. I've only driven in three of those. When I was in Detroit, I was a kid, so I doesn't count. You never stole the car? No.

You never stole the AMC Gremlin, went for a ride? Good pull for you on that part. You know, my mom's car was a Valari, though. The worst drivers I've ever had in my entire life as an adult, Salt Lake City, Utah. Really? And it ain't even close. It's because they're running from the round. capture. The views expressed by

sports RV or by sports RV and sports RV alone. They do not represent I-Hart Media or its parent company. I-HartMedia, Houston or its parent company. They're not chasing the Angel Moronai is what you're trying to say. All right. That's a good fantasy team name.

Angel Moronai? Tom and downtown on 790. Tom, now you have a big date tonight. Is that correct? I do have a big date. Now, let me ask you this. Why are you giving her flowers? Just a first date or has this been down, is this a few dates down the list here? This is the first date.

Jay, don't you think you're being a little pushy with the flowers early on? No, no, no, no. You don't give a ton of flowers. Just give a couple. And where did you meet her? I met her at a venue in Houston. Mitch Smunny's Mive. Oh, okay, he's rhyming.

That's five. Smitch, Mimey, Schmive. We've been there. Shmish, smush. Yeah, I'll tell you, I've learned a break. All right, so Okay, well, good luck. We wish you the very best on that.

Again, don't overflower. Maybe like a one or two single roses, something like that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. All right, what's the matter with you? Really? It should be Connor giving the date advice? Man, you haven't dated since the 90s. That's true.

Let's get the dating advice from Connor. What does Connor have to say about the first date? I want to hear his advice. I mean, I don't know about the flowers, our gifts right off the bat. I mean, do the gentleman thing, like open the door for her and your car door and things like that and pick her up.

But yeah, the flowers, I mean, it's a nice gesture, but yeah, not a whole bouquet. The center of VEMO request after? Yeah, yeah, split checks. No, yeah, maybe just a couple flowers. Okay. Thank you, Connor. Okay, well, back to the reason I call.

Back to you, I know. That was totally our fault, Tom. Sorry, but. We have short attention spans, Tom. You know that. Go ahead. Oh, I've been listening long enough to know that, and that's cool.

Speaking of short attention spans, I'm calling about my ex-girlfriend. That whore? Who left me seven months ago to get back with her ex and decides last night to message me, she's ready to date again when are you asking me out? Oh. Ain't nobody got time for that. All right, Tom, I got one question. How was it?

I told her no. No, no, no. What time a night was it? What time? What time? What time? What time? Yeah, that's a huge part.

Drive time home, like, after work. So she wanted to meet you that night or just down the road? I say you get at 1 a.m. or you go for it. Well, no. This was a set it up in the future kind of time. Oh, then definitely no. If she had said come over right now, then I would have gone. Yeah.

That's each of all. Oh, that wasn't on the table. No. You know what? You should have said, hey, do you want to, here's what you do. You put it back into her court. You say, I can meet you in 30 minutes. Are you in or not?

Well, that's probably a good idea in general, but with this one, no. Okay. It wouldn't have worked. All right. Well, get rid of her. Future done in row after seven months. No chance. No way, no how.

All right. Let's go. Felipe, before we hear it from Willie Fritz on 790. Hi, Felipe. What's on, guys? Hey, well, mine is real simple, real quick. You know, I hope, you know, you know, I get to watch the game tonight, but, you know, hey, I hope the Yankees lose.

I really do, I really do, man. This goes all out to the Yankees fans, you know. Ain't nobody got time if you ought to be arguing a foul ball that got caught and trying to break this guy's arm. I mean, you're going to get this player hurt. You're going to get bets hurt if you do that again, man. That's uncalled for. So this goes up with the Yankees fans up there, man. Such your bum-ass up.

You know, we got time for that. James and Garda knows, bro. I understand your loyalty, but, you know, this is Astros' country. down here, brother. Sorry. Yeah. The Yankees losing fives. There you go. Yankees losing five.

Shut up. Man, I think he was just being polite for James. I like phrasing it that way. It's not that the Dodgers win and five. It's that the Yankees lose. Whatever it works. I like looking through that prism. You know what?

Yankees lose. Let's go. Should we invite ourselves at the Dodgers parade? No. You want to get stabbed? Oh, I don't want to get. You know what? If I would dodge, if LA'd say, you know what?

We're good. No parade. No parade. We'll do what you do a cyber parade. Just go on your computers. You zoom in? All right, let's talk to Willie Fritz next. It is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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That's big citywings.com for $8 specialty burgers and $5 whiskey. Whiskeys from Big City Wings. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 203 on Sports Talk 7-90. Let's spend a few minutes with the head football coach of your Houston Cougars. He's Willie Fritz and he's brought to you by the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor of the University of Houston Athletics. Coach Fritz, I saw the ice cream truck outside the facility after last week's game.

Is that all you can eat for the players when they win a big game? like that? It's always a good thing when you see the ice cream truck. It means you won. So they don't get all they can, but they get quite a bit. That's good. Congratulations. What a nice way to bounce back after the disappointment against Kansas. It felt like to me it was going to be similar in some respects to the Kansas game where every possession was going to mean a little bit more because let's face it, Utah's had their troubles with quarterbacks. You guys have had your troubles as well offensively scoring. Did it kind of feel like that you had to make the most of every opportunity, whether it would be a turnover or a long time-consuming drive?

No, we really did. You know, when you got the ball, generally speaking, you're playing pretty good defense. We did a good job with running the ball. You know, there's a do. There's a statistic that we look at, I guess, as far as coaches are concerned about, you know, the top defense in the country. And they're the fourth-ranked defense in the nation out of 134 Division I schools. We knew it was going to be tough to score on them.

Unfortunately, we had a couple opportunities at the one-yard line. we weren't able to punch in, but I did a good job at the very end of the game, getting a touchdown and a big field goal by Jack Martin. So we're very, very happy with the win. And we've moved on. Like I tell you all the time, it's kind of like we played that game a few months ago.

But we've got another big one coming up this weekend against a ranked Kansas State team. It'll be another challenge. For sure. Let me give you an opportunity here to discuss eight straight running plays after halsey with the interception. Now, I know for a fact you've called a straight running plays, but do you even

keep track of that kind of thing? Was that a concerted effort? Did you go, you know what? We've got to put ourselves in the best possible position, and the best thing to do that was to establish the ground game late in the contest. You know, they had a really good defensive line, and they were, you know, right now we're struggling a little bit,

we drop back pass, and then they play press coverage on the perimeter. And, you know, it was, they did a great job of sticking with our guys like glue on the outside. We were having success running the ball. So we went ahead and kept having a little bit of success, stayed with it. So often coaches get away from what's working, you know,

and they want to surprise you. They can't throw it three times in a row or run it five times in a row. They got to go to something else. And, you know, I thought Coach Barbary did a good job of driving it down the field and, you know, setting it up not for an easy field goal, but a 43-yard or certainly something within Jack's range and he was able to hit it. And we ran out all the time too. So at the very least, we're going overtime at the best.

We're walking off the field with a win. You know, a lot of teams, maybe every team in college football, when the fourth quarter comes up, all the players and the coaches put the four fingers up and you're down to 15 minutes. And sometimes it may be just, hey, this is what's coming up, or hey, this is we got to play our best. It felt like to me watching the game that you wanted to get something out of the guys that you had worked so hard to keep the game close.

You needed 15 really good minutes and you got so weak because you scored the last 10 points in the game. Yeah, we really did. You know, we do high fours. Everybody goes around just high force to each other and just, you know, we want to start fast and finish, you know, even faster. You know, we hadn't had, you know, the great fortune like I talked about with having the ball on the one-yard line twice. you're not coming away with points, which would have been, you know, awesome against the defense like Utah's,

but we were able to play better in the fourth quarter. You know, AJ Halsey, big interception. They were having a tough time throwing the ball, too, and that set us up for that final drive. Well, Willie, the only blemage so far for Kansas State this year was a loss to BYU would have to be probably the biggest surprise right now in the conference of the way the Cougars are playing. A thought or two about Kansas State,

they are putting up some huge numbers offensively this year, what multiple games into 40s so far. Yeah, they've, you know, they're primarily a running team, but they've got some great receivers. Their quarterback is, you know, the young man, there's a really good player for him, and they kind of let him go to Ohio State, you know,

and this guy's the, you know, because he's shown so much their last four or five games of the year. You know, he's a quarterback similar to the, you know, kid we played against Kansas a few weeks ago. He can run it and you can throw it. He's, you know, really does a good job of manufacturing plays when you think you got everybody covered. You know, but they're a very, very potent offense.

They'll run it right at you. I mean, you just have had a lot of success. They've kind of dominated the big 12 over the last few seasons. And I know Zeon only three. the ball 13 times. First of all, when I ask about his health going into the game against the wildcats, and secondly, I'm going to assume, now, you're not expecting him to throw the ball 30 times, but if you're at 13, that probably means either your team has not been on the field very much offensively or your ground game is having an amazing afternoon. Yeah, you're right. You know,

you never know what your path to victory is going to be. You know, once you figure that out, second quarter, third quarter, you need to make sure you emphasize that. but, you know, we'd like to, you know, be a 50-50 team. You know, that's our goal every year coming in. And some years you're capable of it and some years you're not. Sometimes you, some teams you throw the ball a little more than you run it and vice versa. But whatever it takes to, you know, keeping the game, give you the opportunity to win.

It's like I've said many times, our players and media and everybody, you know, we've got to play real, real good to win this year. You know, I'm not going to roll the ball out and just, Just whips somebody. And, you know, if we play real good, we've got an opportunity against every team, we got left on our schedule. That includes this weekend. So we just got to play good offensively, defensively, and then the kicking game. And I've noticed in the last 20 years of following college athletics really closely,

these kids are big uniform guys. And I'm assuming they're loving these black uniforms, right? Oh, my goodness. They're excited about it. We told them that's what we're going to do on Monday. They were pumped up. So you'll be a black eye. We need all the Houston fans to come out and wear black, be proud, be loud.

And you'll see a really good ranked Kansas State team. And it's going to be a tremendous challenge for us. We need all the help we can get. We'll leave it at that, my man. Congratulations again, the huge victory. Look forward to seeing you in the squad on Saturday at 2.30 at TDUCU Stadium. Thank you, Matt. Go Coogs.

You got it. Willie Fritz with us here on Sports Talk 790, and he is brought to you by the joint chiropractic, the official chiropractor of the U.S. University of Houston Athletics. I'm telling you, Rossi, and I'm sure every college is this way, because you're seeing all these uniform changes year after year after year, you would have never thought 18, 19, 20, and 21-year-olds who are looking for that NIL money,

still care about the gear they wear. Everybody's trying to change. I mean, look at, and really Oregon started it. They're mixing and matching every other week. You got to have the drip, Matt. Well, my drip is amazing. Now, granted, my drip is more of a nasal drip, but it's a, but I'm, That was a dad joke and I apologize for that.

Well, in advance. But seriously, did we love uniforms like that we were a kid? Like when I was a kid watching college football, I thought the Penn State all white uniforms were good. And then the blue was good on the home games, they're all white. Traditional. You know, Notre Dame, the Golden Dome hats. The drip matters, Matt.

A lot of wide receivers wear single-digit numbers. and don't wear stuff in the 80s because they don't think it looks as cool. Like Miami's got like 14 different uniforms going. Yes. The Longhorns, the higher-ups in Texas want to keep traditional. They don't want to do a bunch of alternate stuff. They're like, we're Texas. We wear burnt orange or we wear white.

The all-white of Texas is good. The burnt oranges. People always call out the all-whites, but I prefer the burnt-orangees. But maybe that's just, what about going with the burnt-orange pants? Hmm. With the white tops. Hmm. Could you even imagine seeing that?

You know the old story Why they went to Burn Orange, right? Uh-uh. Because Darrell Royal used to run the triple option and burn orange is more looks like the color of the football so it was easier to hide.

So you wanted to cheat? Well, I don't think, how's that cheating? It's a circumvent the system. It's not against the rules. It's not cheating. It's slimy. It's being smart.

It's slimy. Oh, by the way, you were not the only school that throws water bottles in the field. Who was throwing bottles last weekend? Oh, somebody else is taken from the example. Who was it this past year? I can't remember.

I know what you're talking about. Oh, now it's going to bug me. Who thrown bought water? It was Texas two weeks ago, and then last Saturday, something happened with water bottles. I know who you're talking about. I can't think of it either. Ohio State? Yes.

But they won their game. Yeah, what were they wanting about? Yeah, because they're in, they're elitist. Did they ever track down these people? Aren't they supposed to use video to track down all these kids? What are they going to do? Ban them for life or reprimand them in some way? Nobody's getting banned for life anyway.

You got Gibranie Yankee fan out there in right field doing it. I can't believe they refunded their tickets. I mean, I can't guess, but they shouldn't have. By the way, they've been banned for game five tonight. Well, they should be banned for life. I don't disagree. They went onto the field and grabbed a player. That is lifetime ban.

I'm sorry. It's embarrassing. You have to have a zero-tolerance policy on this type of behavior. And the fact is those guys were living it up. Taking pictures with fellow brosings. right after the game. They're idiots. Let's go Dodgers.

Yankees lose in five. Let's go. I'm on board with it. Let's go. Should we do overnight call-in shows? Why? Remember when the Astros won the World Series? We went all night.

The Yankees lose? We'll go through the evening. I'm in Dallas. I can do it. What's your, yeah, what's your favorite Yankees Luz memory? Course Al-2-A's home run. Oh, yeah. What else would be an Aaron-Judge strikeout for Orlando Game 7? Well, yeah. He's been striking out.

He got a hit last night. Yeah. Who was the guy running third last night that was like taking forever to get a score and he eventually got tagged out at the plate? That was the night before. Oh, John Carlos Stanton? Yeah. Was he on a rickshaw or what was going on with that?

He was moving very slowly. He was not motoring, as they say. Remember when Sid Bream scored for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the day? That's the kind of speed he had. Yes. He was taking his sweet time getting around. He, yeah. Now, there's a part of me that's a little scared about.

tonight because when the Dodgers win then the clock starts what clock is that? The five days qualifying offer it doesn't matter you know the tweets in the draft five days closer the tweets in the draft did you do the dig one? Oh yeah

oh you did I missed it it's because I'm probably muted you're not muted all right thankful anymore 713 212579 if you want to join our conversation 713 212-5-7-90. Texans and Jets, who am I going to call for 66 WFAN in New York?

There's got to be some guy named New York Lenny or something like that. I mean, I want somebody with a super thick accent. Guido da Ducci or something. Lenny Stugats. Lenny Vinny from the South Bronx? Yeah. South Bronx Vinny here on 66.

Flushing Queens. I think Flushing Queens is a nice neighborhood. Flushing Meadows. You can call it Flushing Queens. No, you flush Queens at the card table. Oh, geez. That's two in one segment. Let's regroup.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow's a very important day on the radio program, Ross. We just found out that it's Conner's one-year anniversary with us. Wow. He's regretting it. That's also a record, by the way, for the show since I stepped into the studio from the booth. You know why?

because you give all the producers we've had stink eye. You know as good as I am? You never will be. We've had a cast of characters. Needless to say. Yeah, Conner's top five. Oh. Conner's top one.

Top eight. He's going to get a great Christmas gift for me and a great engagement gift. I'm trying to give a gift, but I don't know. what's going on. And his great engagement gift once number one or two come into play. You never know. Oh, please. Slow down. How old are you?

23. Oh, yeah. Wait to your 30. Wait to your 30. Forget what I said. You're not getting anything from you five years. That's for sure. 713212.57.7.7.7. We'll give you an update again in the Texans injury status coming up at about seven minutes from now. We don't have to. Why don't you do it? We can move on. It's going to make me cry. You want to do with the ER theme in the background? No, I don't. How about any song with the word? Not the song from Platoon or everyone's dead in the field either. Why don't you play it like anything with the song with the words,

it's over in the middle of it? It's not over. They're six and two. Sell it. Sell it. Joe Mixon's going to run for 150 yards. Aaron Rogers is washed. King Green's could be great against Clayton Williams.

You can't even do it. You're such a fraud. You can't even do it. Zare Hutchinson's. catching 80 yards and a touch. You hear that, folks? Battle Red can't even do it. John Mechie's going to be tearing it up.

You think dumb-ass Darline's going on the trip? Why are you so angry with her? I'm not. There's no such thing. You called her dumb-ass Darlane. That seems rude. Okay, but that's just a figure of my imagination. When I envision a stupid Texans fan, I think of dumb-ass Darlene.

Why don't the traveling Texans might go up to? Oh, my God. They can't afford that. No chance. Why not? How are they doing it? They've been tweeting lately? I don't know.

I hopefully have blocked every single one of them. Let's go to Maricio on 790 and 225. Hi, Maricio. Hey, how's it going, man? Good, how are you? All right, policing my pipeline. I'm a pipeliner. Excuse me?

You're releasing your pipe? Is that what you just said? You're releasing a pipe? No, sir, I'm policing it. Oh, policing your pipe. Okay, I got you. Yes, yes. All right. Not in public. hopefully.

Anyways, what I had about the Yankees, I think the best moment the Astros had against those Yankees was, I believe it was 21 or 22 when we swept them. And I bought the plaque just for that reason. Yeah, 22. Remember they chanted we want Houston? Yes. Oh, that was great.

We want Houston and then they got swept. And then Martin Maldon goes, they wanted Houston, they got Houston. they got Houston. That's beautiful. That was good times. Yeah, that was a good time. And for the Texans fans,

and don't sweat the Jets, man, we're going to get them. It doesn't matter how many injuries we got right now. Like you said, Aaron Rogers ain't playing like he used to. So I'll give him that. Just be confident. Yeah, he's washed. All right, Marcia. You just placed your pipe.

Thanks very much for doing that. Appreciate you listening. I can't believe how bad he is, honestly. Honestly. Aaron Rodgers? First of all, he was never quick a foot. No. But he can move around.

But he's not even moving around. His passing accuracy is not spectacular. He's got plenty of targets, got a good running game. They should be significantly better than what they are. And by the way, there's a lot of people that are like, firing Robert Salah was a very poor decision by the Jets. I think Sala is very highly regarded in NFL circles. I wonder what happened there. Clearly, he wasn't the problem.

Well, I mean, is there any more AFC franchise that has not, look, the Texans haven't been great, but at least they've gone to the playoffs on a semi-regular basis. I'm trying to think the last time the Jets were relevant on a regular basis, was that when Rex Ryan was running them? Mark Sanchez, Rex Ryan, they had a great defense. And if they had any sort of good quarter, they had one of the great defenses like football. They had Dorel Revis, what they had Bart Scott. They had, I don't even know who else.

We could probably go find up, but dig up a bunch of pro bowlers on that defense. It just, yeah, Cromartie and Revis and Barts Scott, like, they had a great defense. Yeah, remember it was Revis Island? No one was ever going on Revis Island. Yeah. And then it was Mark, if they had anybody but Mark Sanchez. They had a good running back to them. It wasn't Curtis Martin.

It was after that. Not dead, but. Damn, Ross. Trying to kill off running backs? You know Curtis Martin, I think he's top 10 in all time in Russia? We used to have a caller. This is how long we've been doing this. We used to a caller who's a Mark Sanchez truther.

And he would get mad. We wouldn't call him Mark Sanchez like Indy Kalu did. Yeah, but he also called a lot of foreign players strange names. I hope that, whoever that Mark Sanchez truther was back in the day, I hope you're doing great. Who was the running back after Curtis Martin? I can't remember who was the great running back on that team. They had good running game, though. Once I read it, I'm going to be like, oh, yeah.

Give me the initials and see if I can get it wrong. Okay. When you figure it out. Hold on. Initials. I say it, you should know. L.T. O'Ladine Tomlinson?

Yeah. I forgot about that. Sean Green was a good guy. Was a good running back on those cities? How did LT do as a jet? He ran for 900 yards in 2011 at the age of 31. 900 yards ain't squat though anymore It's pretty good

By the way what do we have for bets this year On running backs and receivers that I have with you That I said there was going to be a Texan running back That was not going to rush for 1,000 yards Thomas Jones ran for 1,400 yards Yeah Thomas Jones wasn't bad Thomas Jones he ran for 1,400 yards with them Yeah

Jets are still winning tomorrow The vibe just doesn't feel right It just doesn't I pick the Jets in the under Yep It's my I think first time picking against the Texas It's part of your L'October selections. We're in the lock of the week.

I got the New York Jets and I got the under on the game. But the big question is, are your selections on a recorded line? They're on a recorded line. I've hit 14 pileys in a row. We're going for the world record. It's 15. By the way, the Jets will have a new position player for Sunday's game that could be, or tomorrow's game that could be a huge difference maker.

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yes Matt Thomas the legend continues now Greg Zerline is going to the injured list for the Chetrapolitans so they've added two kickers he's been bad for them

By the Zerline this one spells it Z-U-E-R-L-E-I-N no relation to NFL.com Lance Zerling. Yeah. It'll be Riley Patterson. Riley Patterson. Oh, he was let go from the Lions.

And then who else did he let him go? Was it the Browns or somebody? And it'll be Spencer Schrader. I don't know that guy. They had six kickers audition for the job yesterday. Man, it's tough because those kickers only get a couple kicks. But I guess that's the point. There's high pressure and they want you to make the high pressure kicks.

Yeah, it was Cleveland. Oh, I forgot. He was briefly with Jacksonville. Yeah, Riley Patterson's been bouncing around. not good he's zerline was 9 of 15 on field goals this year he was terrible if you are not hitting at 85 90% in 2024 yeah and you're not kicking 56 yards on oregano you're probably gonna be out of work yeah long gone are the days that you'd get the guy from like i don't know checkless of vacia and he'd go out there with a sig in his mouth and just

kick a 40 yard yeah yeah like martin grammatica 275 several chins got a dunlap on his belt Sebastian Janakowski. Yeah, is that what I said? You said Martin Gramatica. Oh, no, no. Gramatica was thin. It was Sebastian Genakowski. That's right.

Wasn't it Bill Gramatica who was celebrating and ripped his ACL? Yeah. It wasn't automatic event at that point. I remember when Kickers used to only have a single bar on their helmet, you know, face. What do you call those things? Right. Not face masks, but the bar. Yeah, the bar on the, yeah, single.

On the helmet, face mask. Can you, this is for 10,000 M. Morton Anderson. No. Can you name the last. last quarterback that had a single bar? Quarterback, I think you're going to say kicker. Because Mort used to do it.

He was grandfathered in. He could do it until like his 40s. Right. The last quarterback. Joe Cap. A little further down. All right. I'm going to give you some hints here.

Vinnie Testa Verdi. Super Bowl quarterback. I don't know. I believe winning quarterback. He has been a guest. He has been a guest on the Matt Thomas show. Oh, okay. Bobby Abert didn't win a Super Bowl

Nope I don't know who Joe Thaisman Oh see what did I say I said Vinnie Testerverty Joe Thysman popped in my head But his name didn't pop in my head You know what I'm saying? No

Well somebody pops in your head And you can't think of their name That happens Oh okay okay Because usually when you come up with Rando guesses You get some right Like I said name the last great

Jacksville University basketball playing You went I don't know Artist Gilmore like oh damn Yeah I don't know That was disgusting. Why was that disgusting? Because you just went with some rando player and it worked. And I hated it.

What's the issue? So let me ask you this question. Okay. So we have all these kickers that are knocking down 58-yarders and whether it's on grass, whether it's in the wind, whether it's in a dome stadium. And the success of kickers today is incredible as compared to what it was maybe even 10 or 15 years ago. Why can't that translate into college? Because I feel like, and when I imagine.

I'm not even counting like Middle Tennessee versus U-TEP. I'm talking about you and I will sit down on a Saturday big football game and watch a kicker blow a 31-yard field goal. Is it because the hash marks are so far wide? I would say that could be part of it. It's also that there's only 32 NFL kickers and how many D-1... But I'm not even counting those. I'm talking about like, let's be honest.

There's a how many Division 1 football teams are there? 120 or whatever. We're only watching about 20 a week. Right? 10 games we give two blanks about. Maybe 15 games. If we're in Vegas, we're betting 20, okay? Oh, hurry.

We're Vegas. But we're not watching Fresno State play, I don't know, Arizona and going, oh, there's a potential kicker there. Okay. It just seems like to me that we can't. I always mention this on Twitter. You can't trust college kickers, but you sure is hell can trust NFL kickers. 134 schools in FBS. There may not be a more difficult job than going for.

from being a college kicker and proving that you're good enough to be in the NFL to being an NFL kicker because when you get there, you're supposed to knock down 50s on the regular. I remember growing up, if you got a guy that was kicking 52 yards, he had to have like an extra cheeseburger to muscle through.

Now, you get Kami Fairbair and like your chip shots. Or your Texas and your kicker, you. I mean, frankly, Justin Tucker got this thing started. Cameron Dicker. Who's that guy that was kicking forever for the Niners? He was pretty good. Oh, oh, I know you're talking about. You know what?

Same thing that means. I'm staring at him and I can't. It's like 41, 42 years old. Yeah, yeah. I know. I know. We'll find it. Oh, good. This is why we're...

Phil Dawson. Phil Dawson. Longhorn legend. You know what it is? The rest of your school provides nothing but disappointment except the kickers. It's not true. Running backs have been decent. Yeah.

Charles. Yeah. Ricky Williams. Yeah. Earl Campbell. Yeah. Okay. Come on now. Bejohn Robinson.

It's been good. Is Atlanta one in the NFC South, by the way? I think running away, right? Buccaneers might have something to say about it. Yeah, but they beat the Bucks in Tampa this past week. They beat them twice, right? Didn't they win the first one when Cousins threw for 500 yards? And by the way, shout out to the Bucks for wearing the creamsicles.

Oh, my God, they're so good. I really do love those. Yeah, let's see. Falcons, 5 and 3. Yeah, they're game up on the Buccaneers. And the tiebreaker. I need to confirm they beat them. I know it was a shootout.

But anything that Kurt Cudson touches is just pedestrian. He's been better. Last few weeks. He's been a lot better. He got the tight end finally going, thank God. My fantasy league wasn't ridiculous. How's Kyle Pitts doing? He had two long touchdowns this past week.

See? What are we winning about? I'm still getting out of fantasy football. Matt, come on. I'm in 11th place. We need you. No, you don't. Yes, we do.

No, you don't need me. All right, Connemargover, can you take Matt's place? Because Clayton's trying to quit on us too. Matt, will you sponsor me? Yeah, well, you put up the money and take the winning. You split the winning. So you're like a stock investment? Yeah.

Yeah, if he wins, you need to take like 70% of that. I don't know. How is your... Can we do like 64? Are you really good player? I pay attention. I pay attention. Oh, no, we don't need you.

Matt doesn't pay attention, so we need him in the league. I do pay attention. I go to the waiver wire every week. That's why I had like seven defenses one week. Trying to find something that worked. You got seven defense. and four tight ends. I don't know if you're managing the squad properly, Matt.

Don't out me like that. Connor, what are we playing for on today's edition to believe it or not? We got tickets to go see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra this December. That sounds pretty good, right? Yeah, I'd go. All right. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-2-7-90.

That's a good date-night thing. Trans-Siberian orchestra? Yeah, why not? Family, a nice family affair? Okay, family, yes. Date night and... What's the most Christmasy date-night thing you can do? Is the Carol of the Bells get you in the mood? What about driving through the hoardy-torty parts of town with... That's what I do.

Looking at Christmas lights. That's a good one. Zoo lights? Yeah. Or zoo lights. Zoo lights is good. I like that. But they don't get...

And if you see a house with a door open, you bring your ski mask. Do you think real quick. What do you... Are you endorsing robbery? I'm just kidding, Matt. I will say this, Ross doesn't have a ski mask in the back of his car. Is this ski mask in a shoddy just in case? I'm uncomfortable about this.

I'm kidding. You're fully endorsing a rando robbery for your friends. You're back to my Greenspoint roots, Matt. Well, I mean, it is one of the classes. They're changing the name. Aldeen Robbery 101. Aren't they changing the name of Greenspoint? The PR is so bad.

They're changing the name. To what? I can't remember. Somebody told me. Malls are a thing in the past. Northwest Mall is gone. Greens Point Mall is gone. Yes.

Is Sharptown Mall still around? North Houston District. Yeah, good luck with that. Still Guns Point to all of us that are from here. That's how bad the PR is at Guns Point. Like, no, it's like Edo. Come on. East downtown.

Edo hits. Yeah, but that was. isn't always the nicest part of neighborhood. It still has a lot of work. I think I made a randau declaration years and years and years ago before we ever did gut feelings. I thought we were going to get a sports facility in Edo.

We do. Well, the soccer stadium? Yeah, the Dynamo Stadium. Okay, but I guess I was thinking more like a legit sport. They play rugby in there. Okay. No, they don't. They used to, didn't they? Rugby has their own stadium. Oh, okay. Well, I thought they started maybe with their early

seasons did they play there? The Dynamo, first of all, soccer's a legit sport. The MLS in a legit league, I would say, they have the greatest player of all time now, Leonel Messi. Pele? In the twilight of his career. They dug Pele out? They dug Pele as an acceptable answer, but to me, it's

Leonel Messi. Okay. All right, let's play, believe it or not. 713, 212, 5, 79. What is today's category? I didn't even look. It's former guest of the show. Well, not former, earlier today, guest of the show. Oh, Derek Lewis. Yes.

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If you miss any of our guest today, that would include Derek Lewis, email Adoka, Willie Fritz. Those conversations can be found on the nightcap. Tonight it's 6 o'clock. Yeah, I mean, I've been telling you all for, I don't know how many years. The nightcap is just a rip off of this show. That is not true. I say so.

I can actually talk on that show. I let you talk as much as you want. Matter of fact, I wish you would talk more. Maybe Coach Udoka. That's about it. Willie Fritz, no thanks. Aw. What?

Our Cougars is a huge win? Catch you on the podcast. Is it a blackout if the stadium's half empty? It's like a half out. You haven't given me, I'm actually scared now. I haven't given me a death stare like that in a while. I'm sorry. Did I cross the line?

The best part is when you get to purgatory. You're no way going up. Bill Escalator. See you there. Five minutes. He's right. Five minutes have to go on the show. What should we do?

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by affordable tree service at 7-13-699-2663. evaluate your trees right now before winter comes. Do it today. An affordable tree service. 713 699-2663. All things about Derek Lewis is today's edition of Believe or not. I'll read your statement about Derek. Statements completely not really accurate.

You'll say this. Believe it. If the statement's erroneous, full of munk and made up, you'll say this. Two believe or nots in a row. Win your prize. What are you playing for today, Connor? A pair of tickets to see the Trans-Iibuon orchestra on the Lost Christmas Eve tour December 26 at the Toyota Center and some 790 t-shirts.

Brian on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Brian? All right, here we go. In 2017, Derek Lewis earned his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under the guidance of trainer Hollis Gracie. Believe it or not? Not. That's right. Statement number two for the win, Derek Lewis briefly trained in boxing under the tutelage of George Foreman.

Believe it or not? Not. He did. He's 39 years old, so he'd actually have some family reference to George. Tony on 790. Tony, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? I actually left work right as I was, right as I called. Before his 2021 fight with Curtis Bladis, Derek Lewis tested positive for the banned substance Nadr alone, but the B sample came back clean and he was allowed to fight. Believe it or not.

Believe it? No, we talked about it all day long every second. If you to listen to the show, you don't want. Michael on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Before his MMA career took off, Derek Lewis did small circuit professional wrestling as the Black Beast, which is his current UFC nickname. Believe it or not. I'm going to not.

Yeah. That's actually his nickname, but he never was a wrestler. Statement number two for the win, Derek Lewis served about three years in prison after violating his probation stemming from an aggravated assault charge. Believe it or not. Not. Yeah, we didn't bring that up. I thought that was going to be your first question. I don't think it was.

Matt on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Yeah, believe it. During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Derek Lewis saved an estimated 100 people stranded in floodwaters with his lifted truck. Believe it or not. Yeah, he did. We should have brought that up. That would have been a good topic. John on 790.

ready to play, believe it or not? Yeah. Derek Lewis has scored 15 knockouts in the UFC, which is a record. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. Statement number two for the win, Derek Lewis has 12 combined

Fight of the Night performance of the nights and knockouts of the night awards, which is a UFC record. Believe it or not. I believe it. No, you shouldn't. He's only at eight of those. The record is 19. We gave away nothing today.

Ross, you did a good job, I guess. Hey, let me tell you about love volleyball. I love volleyball. My daughter loves volleyball. My family loves volleyball, and you will love volleyball because professional volleyball is coming to the Houston area this January. They're going to be playing starting January 9th at the Fort Bend County Epicenter. And the league is called League One Volleyball. It's actually spelled L-O-V-B-E, but it's pronounced love.

It will feature some of the world's best and volleyball players from all over the world from Olympic medalists to NCAA champions and international superstars. Now, if you want to go check this out, a great family event, a great event to go with your daughter, for daughters and athletics like mine is, go to L-O-V-B-B-V-B-for volleyball, and get all the information, tickets for Love Houston matches. It is the next major league.

It's Love Volleyball, L-O-V-B dot com, to see the Houston team begin January 9th at the Fort Bend County epicenter. That's it for today's radio. program up next. It is Adam Clayton, Adam Wexler. I will join you tomorrow from Dallas, getting you ready for the Rockets and the Mavericks, but now it's

the team on Sports Talk 790.