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Speaker 1: Yeah, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show zen.

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Speaker 2: No one in h town. What's happening to lunchtimers? Well

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or brunch timers? Good morning to you and welcome to

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a Thursday edition or is it win? It's Thursday edition

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross This is sports Shock

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seven ninety A fifty nine yarder.

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Speaker 3: Snap replacement sweaks the leg fair pair. It's gone clock City.

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Houston gets the w twenty three to twenty the final.

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They knock off the bills half the buzzer and.

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Speaker 4: Carries twenty two yards before that thirty yard run and

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now mixing again sweeps the left side into the in

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zone for a Houston touchdown.

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Speaker 5: We're you aware situational ball in these spots.

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Speaker 6: The crowd rolls.

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Speaker 2: To the answer, I touchdown personal batist cloud. The drum

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rolls out Stroud on the run. That's calm touchdown.

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Speaker 7: Dunn shuts Man needs to win and get help.

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Speaker 8: There's a one pass looking for.

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Speaker 2: Hill and that's a good deal. That's interceded. Stiglas did

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it again. Steglias again, Rossie. We told the audience it

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would take us a couple of days to kind of

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get into the mood of the big playoff game Saturday

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three point thirty inside the Energy Stadium. I ask you

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one simple question. At ten oh four on this glorious Thursday,

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can you feel it?

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Speaker 4: The city is a buzz everywhere you go. People are

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wearing battles red and liberty and white all week and

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talk about is the Houston Texans taking on the Los

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Angeles Chargers three point thirty Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Or the endless rain for the next twenty hours.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently it's supposed to rain a lot as well,

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and snow in Arlington and Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Wo yikes.

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Speaker 4: Ticket price is going down, Maddie. You won't, But Thomas,

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I don't have to ditch you.

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Speaker 9: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna ditch you.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that isn't It's fine.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't just leave this show out of nowhere in

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the middle of the week. That'd be weird.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, you've known for a couple of weeks about

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these days off, this day off. Oh what are you

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talking about? It's different. No, I'm saying I wouldn't do that.

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I would That's why I said that. That's why I

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sent a calendar out three weeks ago. I was the

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same page.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't just leave and then talk about people

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never being there and then just be gone all the time.

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That'd be crazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, apparently we get vacation time at seven. I mean,

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thus we're going to take it. You're trying to get

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my goat, and that's fine.

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Speaker 4: There was a certain seven ninety member prodded me to

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do that, and then I will not say, who, oh.

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Speaker 2: My god, you mean the guy who's gonna work probably

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I don't know, fifty to the next one hundred and

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fifty days because of astro spring train start times. Oh,

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I know it is. You know what he can do.

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He can take his razy ranch rips and eat that

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all day long as he sits at his humin releaxis.

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Speaker 4: Great to have you back, Matt. You're ahead of a

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huge just Saturday wild Card weekend, which, by the way,

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they're not calling it Super wild Card weekend anymore. Quietly,

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why is that they just took the Super off? It's

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just Wildcard weekend?

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Speaker 2: Is it because people? You know what it is? I

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wonder if they just like the words super to be

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attached to the last game of the year.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just because it was kind of special

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to add the extra wild card, so they started calling

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it wild card, and now it's just the norm.

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Speaker 9: So it's not super, it's just regular.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So ladies and gentlemen, it's regular wild card weekend. Yes,

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you know one I we always argue about, not you

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and I, but just generally, do you have too many

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teams in the playoffs? I don't know this feels about right.

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I don't know if the NFL should go to any more,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more money, more playoffs. Every league figured it out. NBA, Oh,

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we're we've got to go to seven game series in

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Speaker 9: Let's get half the league in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball has seventeen wild cards now, and NFL

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did what they did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would suggest if I mean, if Adam Silver

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was listening to the show, which I believe he is

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on the regular, I would suggest the NBA going back

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to the five game first round.

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Speaker 4: College football and college basketball, by the way, adding teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how long do you think we're stuck at sixty

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eight for the NCAA basketball tournament?

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Speaker 9: Not as long as you think.

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Speaker 4: There feels like there's been strong push to continue to

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add to the to the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just stupid. You know why. You know why that is?

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ROSSI more money. Everybody wants more money. We're they're either

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putting more money in their treasure chests or they're trying

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to distribute more money. Case in point. I saw a

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story today about the University of Houston Scott. I want

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to say at least ten million dollars locked and loaded

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for paying student athletes in the next couple of years.

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I mean, legitimately cutting them checks. Well, they've got to

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make up that money somehow. I mean, as cash flush

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as I would like to say that Alma Mater is,

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we're not. I mean the reality is, we got to

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figure out other ways to do it. So if they

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can get a bigger piece of an NCAA tournament that

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ninety six? Is that right? Would that be?

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Speaker 4: This is the on that you can just add a

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couple of more and make extra plans. I don't know

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exactly what they would do.

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Speaker 2: I mean in the reality, Ross, how about this? Why

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does college football stop at twelve games. Mean, we've worried

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about college time and kids missing classroom time. I mean

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they miss Friday's.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what is the FCS Championship? Is that thirty two

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Speaker 2: Know what it is, but it's they go a long

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time too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and those are actually more there's more serious students

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in the FCS and Division one two three BRAD two

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three bracket than there are in FBS.

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Speaker 2: Probably, so probably.

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Speaker 4: LSU in general studies. You're not gonna take a jab

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at LSU academic.

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Speaker 9: Sorry, I'm just kidding, are you really?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 10: No? I didn't think so.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's about Look, we talked about ten or

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fifteen schools every year that are playing for a national championship,

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and of those ten or fifteen, probably eleven or twelve

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of them are open enrollment. And I think probably LSU

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Speaker 4: Looks like FCS is sixteen. Okay, I think no, that's

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not accurate.

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Speaker 9: I'll shut up. They get buys as well.

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Speaker 2: All right, Hey, we are with you today until two o'clock.

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I'm coming to you today from Memphis. I didn't I

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did want to work yesterday, and look the travel schedule

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just you know, I can't control some things. I would

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like for the Rockets to live on my travel schedule,

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but they don't like to do that, so I have

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to go in the team since we got to go.

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So I like to say, listen to the show yesterday,

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but that would be false. That's okay.

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Speaker 4: It was great the way twenty four teams into the

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FCS Championship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.

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Speaker 4: Let's see, it was an hour solo than two hours

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with Gordy and then an hour with Adam Clinton.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And who was your favorite person to tell they

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shut their bomb asses up yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Who did I go with?

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Speaker 4: I don't even remember. Oh I think it was SI

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dot Com. I told them they shut their bomb asses up.

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Speaker 2: They can't.

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Speaker 4: They put false and misleading headlines on all their articles.

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Speaker 2: Now, isn't it? Everybody though?

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Speaker 4: No, but this is blatant. This is more blatant. Yes,

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number one, you're right, but this is blatant. Like they're

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putting out their New York Mets emerge as favorites to

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sign Alex Bregman, and then it's like one blurb from

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Bob Nightingale saying don't rule out the Mets.

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Speaker 2: So not only are they running bad headlines but they're

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aggregating other people's stuff.

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Speaker 4: They're aggregating and then lying on the headlines. And then

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there was another one. It was like Astros Astro strong

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candidate to resign Alex Bregman to one hundred and seventy five.

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Remember we had that caller last week and we're like,

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what are you talking about? He was talking about the

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one hundred and seventy five million dollars deal for Alex Bregman.

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The in the Astros that was some New Jersey writer

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making his preseason predictions and he made like, you know,

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thirty two things coming up in next year, and one

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of them was like I predict Bregman's gonna do this.

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Speaker 2: And then SI runs with the headline and they.

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Speaker 4: Say, oh, Astros close to signing, Like it's what, it's.

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Speaker 2: Just flat out lies. Huh.

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Speaker 4: S I a Sports Illustrated used to be one of them.

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Oh my god, outlets for sports news.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you the SI history, Rossie. This is

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in the last forty five years, excellent journalism, in depth pieces,

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great covers, swim stand edition and that one swimsuit edition. Okay,

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and then you fast forward to about twenty five thirty

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years later, it was an occasional nice story, an occasional printing,

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and of course the swimsuit issue. Now in the last

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five years, it's just a swimsuit issue.

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Speaker 4: Right, It's a joke. It's a joke, and it's sad,

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and I need to figure out I'm trying. I literally

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had been trying to figure out how to block a

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website completely from my browser.

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Speaker 2: You really aren't the anger towards SI. I mean, I

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respect the game, I do.

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Speaker 10: I do.

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Speaker 9: There's no standards in practices.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like putting it's like being a news reporter

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and putting information on Twitter. If you get it right,

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you brag if you get it wrong. Oops.

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Speaker 4: But these are blatant lies in headlines for clicks, like

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sensationalizing and clickbaiting. Yeah, I mean it's kind of the norm.

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This is just flat out lies.

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Speaker 2: Yep. All right. On the radio program that they we're

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going to talk at eleven o'clock with Chris Haney. He

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is with KKEL nine Sports in Los Angeles. Uh and

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apparently my good friend John Ireland, who's a voice of

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the Los Angeles Lakers, says, this is a guy that

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goes to practice every single day with the LA Chargers,

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So Chris Hayry's going to join us at eleven o'clock.

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And frankly, to me, it's probably as much about what's

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going on in California with the fires and it is

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about the Charger game. I mean, I don't. I mean,

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we've had a really essy twenty twenty five, between thousands

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of people losing their homes in California to what happened

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in New Orleans on New Year's Day? I mean, can

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we can we restart twenty twenty five? Mmm? We can't.

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Speaker 4: I guess some bad news, Matt, what now? I think

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it's gonna get only worse and worse. Okay, it was

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the driest nine month period they said in California history,

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I think on record, right.

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Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a shame.

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Speaker 4: That's just And then the eighty mile I wire eighty

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mile an hour winds breaking out in January in California.

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Speaker 2: It is crazy. And then apparently late last night before

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I went to bed, there are people setting fires by

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the Hollywood Hills just to do it. I mean, I

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didn't really is evil infiltrated our world? I knew evil

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hit Twitter. I don't know evil hit the rest of

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Speaker 4: It's getting worse and worse. And yeah, I have a

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friend who lives in Long Beach. They're like forty miles

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away and their cars are covered in ash.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's terrible. I was telling my wife

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nowhere in the world right at least in the United

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States that just is not immune to some sort of

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weather issues. Mean, now I'm trying to think, wait, the

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mud slides. They've got these fires that are happening. We

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have hurricanes and tornadoes, and you know, you got people

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in the I mean, DC got absolutely bamboozled by six

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inches of snow yesterday, and now I'm here in Memphis

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where they're expecting snow and ice today. That the snow

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that the ice is in Dallas right now is headed

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this way, and then it's going to Atlanta. We're going

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after the tonight's game. So I just can't shay. Mother

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nature is always winning at this point here in twenty

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twenty five. All right, So we will talk to Chris

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don't get it's coming up at eleven thirty. Well of

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the News at noon at twelve noon. Emao A dook

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the Rockets take on the Grizzlies and a matchup of

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two verses three in the Western Conference. Did you anticipate

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me saying that I don't know two months ago what

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we are? We got the rotten five? Uh coming up

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at one thirty. It's your last rotten five in the year.

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Ross your thoughts, you know, I'm sad to see it go.

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I don't believe it for a second. You don't have

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to believe that, not for one second. And believe it

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or not. Today at one fifties, we've got a lot

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to get to today. It is Mattnus Ross, it's you,

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It's Connordy McGovern our, producer, and it's you on the

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phone lines. I'm gonna ask you a simple question. Can

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you feel it? The Texans Chargers Saturday, three thirty seven

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three two one two five seven ninety This is the

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ten eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. Matt Thomas and

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coming up on the show today, including again a check

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out and what's going on in Los Angeles. We'll becking

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this is an opportunity for you guys. Very few radio

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shows in the marketplace like to take phone calls because

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they find them annoying. We do not. We enjoy visiting

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variety of things, whether it be about the Texans Chargers

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game on Saturday, any of the NFL games. We've got

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a college football semi final matchup tonight down in Miami.

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We've got the Longhorns tanking on Ohio State tomorrow in Dallas,

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where the weather apparently is not good. And so have

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you been actively looking or just kind of seeing what

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the prices? I mean, I've seen a couple of tweets

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here and there saying the prices are dropping.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been checking the market.

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Speaker 2: It'd be simply about the weather, right, It's something about

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it about the interest itself.

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Speaker 4: Correct, It's I mean, look, prices dropped normally. Anyways, this

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is a good draw closer to the game. And then

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closer to kickoff. But uh, this has been like this,

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about half the price from a week ago, although it

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looks like it's bouncing back up. Get in price a

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few days ago was ninety seven bucks for standing room.

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Now it's back up to two hundred. So I guess

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I missed my window.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask a stupid question? Yes? How do people

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like if I wanted to, Let's say Rosk I said, Hey,

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I'm gonna take my boys up to Arlington for this

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national semifinal game, not knowing when the teams were. You

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just can't go to your local ticket master and buy

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the tickets, can you? Or could you have done that?

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You could have before they sell out? I think, But

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I guess I'm not trying to. I have a hard

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time connecting the dots here because if these tickets are

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already in the resale market, who got a hold of them?

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Speaker 4: I think they have to deal with some of these

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resellers either, I don't know. This is above my head,

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That's what I'm saying. And they have official partners. For example, uh,

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meat Meek I believe is the official resale partner with

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the Mottain Mole. Right, you can say Cotton Bowl Okay,

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jump put the corporate spot with the mud deer cotton mole.

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Speaker 2: There you go much better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, these prices already doubled. Bottom level end zone yesterday,

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literally two days ago, was four hundred bucks.

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Speaker 9: Now it's back up to nine hundred bucks.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if it's because they're thinking the worst the

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weather is going to be there today and yeah, it

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looks like the time to buy was or maybe you

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could find some joker who forgot to re raise their prices.

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These are decent. Oh, this is what doub fees. I

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hate this. So why is there?

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Speaker 4: Why is there two hundred dollars fee on a on

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a on a ticket for you to process an online transaction?

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Speaker 9: Correct?

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Speaker 2: Is this? Yeah? So twenty years ago, back in the day,

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you had all these ticket brokers that you'd have to

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go to their physical location and grab the tickets. Yes,

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they would charge of the upsell. Those are all gone.

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Those are long gone. Now now you just have these.

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So what you have again, I'm trying to guess here

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on this. You have all of these big national games

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that have these deals with the secondary ticket market. So really,

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when they say the face value is seventy five dollars

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one hundred dollars. They were never face value to begin with.

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You could not go up and say, hello, cotton Ball,

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I'd like two of your seventy five dollars tickets.

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Speaker 9: Correct.

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Speaker 2: The only way you get that now is if you're

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associated with the school, for instance of with a pen

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Bate and Notre Dame Tonight. My guess is they were

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each given I don't know, six thousand tickets, right, Those

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probably were sold or given to the school for them

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to sell back at a at fair market value. Everybody

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else in the building is paying some sort of up charge, correct,

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So yeah, it's funny. You know what. You never hear

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of these ticket companies offering pr people to explain how

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great their values are because you can't justify him. That's ridiculous,

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I hope.

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Speaker 4: I mean, wasn't there, isn't there an anti trust suit,

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wasn't didn't wasn't the government trying to break up Ticketmaster

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slashing the Live Nation.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who they were trying to break up,

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but what's not working whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I like our dogs at Live Nation up

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here at iHeart and it helps me.

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Speaker 2: So as long as it doesn't hurt you and you

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get the free tickets. You're all for the company. But

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if it's for anybody else that doesn't get the free tickets,

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you want to admonish them.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to America, Matt. If it works for me, I

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love it. If it hurts me, I hate it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that seems that seems brutally us A U s

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A U s A. Yeah. Well you know we ought

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to do is we ought to Where's the championship this

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year in Atlanta? Right? Yes, if Texas goes, I'm gonna

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call I'm gonna call them already Wrens Stadium, and I'm

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gonna say, guy, my name is Matt, my friend Ross

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wants to go. I'd like two. It's please, all right,

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let's do it. The face value, Yeah.

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Speaker 9: The the rick Rolet would be open since it would

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be a Monday.

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Speaker 2: Oh that is true. You at least get a decent,

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decent chicken sandwich at a low cost inside the stadium.

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The flights are going up. Let me tell you that,

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you know, you probably could drive to Atlantic pic I

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make going out on that. It's twelve hours. I looked

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into that too. Oh did you really? Yeah? God, I

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love how you're thinking about this, because I you know,

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I don't get this, you know, because I am a

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graduate of the University Houston. I'm not a graduate of

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the University of Texas, so I don't get to think

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like this, Well, i'm not a graduate high school. You

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can come with me my chance. Well, I know, it's fine,

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but you're an alum. It's you weren't there for like

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three for three semesters, so it sort of counts mm hmm.

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But I don't. I don't get to do this. So

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if I have to li vicariously through you, I'll do it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Actually you can find some decent seeds here.

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Speaker 2: But that's why. When that's why, when you have h

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went to the final four four years ago, I'm like,

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I got to get there somehow, some way.

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Speaker 9: I know, and you regret it.

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Speaker 4: It's like when I went to and I went to

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the I didn't regret it necessarily, but I went to

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the Sugar Bowl last year and they got their ass beaten.

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Speaker 9: It wasn't fun.

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Speaker 2: Well, I regretted it because I was in Indianapolis and

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it was a uh it was COVID, so you had

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to separate by a bunch of seats and whatnot. And

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I watched my team get their ask by bail in

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the first half. Yeah, it is what it is. But yeah,

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I just it's it's unfortunate that America and whatever it

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is just can't call up and say, I'd like a

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seat because you've only got let's say of let's say

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of the Cotton what does what does the what does

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at and T Stadium seat about a hundred plus thou

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around there? I guess is those the number of people

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in that building paying an authentic face value amount for

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that ticket. It's probably what twenty percent tops?

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Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, we were thinking the same number. I

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was thinking twenty k. But maybe you have people who

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are vendors and stuff like that, like if they're you know,

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executives or friends that get good deals with Muggy your.

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Speaker 2: Or you are you are a client of re restree

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in you know what I'm saying. Right, That's how the

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Super Bowls always been. I mean, we we we We've

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a little bit accustomed to that. I mean you just

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you just can't ask for a regular old Super Bowl

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ticket and not expect to pay thousands of dollars. But

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now it's everything. Now it's college football semifinals. M Yeah,

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the feebit is the worst especially when you have a

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concert like you get online and you've been waiting to

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get the concert tickets of your dreams. Like when my

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daughter and my wife went to go see Taylor Swift

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the New Orleans stuck. She got in at the dollar

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amount on face value, didn't have to go to a

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secondary market, and then all of a sudden the charges

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come in off of that. I mean they just make

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the charges up.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's completely made up. Convenience stick.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Administrating fee like what that's to

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make sure the administrators make their their their their their number. Yeah,

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it's tough. It's tough. It makes you, you know what,

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it makes you do, Rossie, It makes you just not

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you want to go to the games. I'm with you.

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Makes you want to get in front of a big

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screen TV and relax on your couch and eat your

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food for free and get instant replays and out to

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fight traffic and crowd noise.

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Speaker 9: That's the thing.

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Speaker 4: When I went to the AT and T Stadium Nos

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for a boxing match, so that's a ring is obviously

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smaller than the football field, but we were in the

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two hundred second. We paid a lot for those tickets

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and we watched the TV the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. That is crazy, all right. Seven one

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two one two five seven ninety It is the Matt

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Thomas Show with Ross. Uh. The Texans injury report is

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out from yesterday. We'll give you some of that. We

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have the Rockets and the Grizzlies tonight here in Memphis,

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which is a really intriguing matchup between two of the

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three best teams in the Western Conference. The best team

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of the West last night played the best team in

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the East. Did you catch any of that? I think

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I know the answer, but doesn't mean we can't at

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least bring it up. Seven one three two one two

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seven NINTI. It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. And

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this is Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas, Ross Veriel. It's a Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: Ten thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety it is

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We will get to

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the recent after departure in the next segment of the show.

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But as advertised, the Texans practice report, or at least

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from an injury perspective, was out yesterday. Shack Mason did

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not partake. My guess is he will not play. Danico

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Autra was out there, John Metchi was out there among those. Also,

474
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Jeff Akuda and Christian Harris were among those that were

475
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full participant. Pence, I'm trying to think if anybody on

476
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the Chargers side that would be of a huge issue.

477
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Jake K Dobbins played a little bit yesterday in practice,

478
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so too did Gus Edwards. Meanwhile, full participation for cornerback

479
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Eli Apple and linebacker Denzel Perryman was also a full

480
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time participant. That kind of gives you an update of

481
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what's happening between the Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers.

482
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So it felt like yesterday Ross was a day that

483
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some of the Texans players were kind of reacting at

484
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least a day last day or two about what Rex

485
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Ryan said that basically the Chargers have a bye this week. Now.

486
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They were all saying the right things yesterday and the

487
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day before practice. Do you believe them? Do you believe

488
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that they're thinking who first ball is? Rex Ryan? Number two?

489
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He's got a shoot toe fettige get away from me

490
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and number three, I don't need Rex Ryan to motivate

491
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me to try to want to play off time. That's

492
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how I would take it.

493
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Speaker 4: So you think Rex Ryan is going to have his

494
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foot in his mouth after this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it would matter if the Texans won

496
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or loss, He's still his foot in his mouth, or

497
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he'd have somebody else's foot in his mouth. I'm sorry

498
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I took the low hanging fruit.

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Speaker 4: I like to apologize to everyone in Houston for listening.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 9: I don't think it matters that much.

502
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Speaker 4: No, I think you at this level, if you need

503
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Rex Ryan to get you up for a playoff game,

504
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you've got problems getting motivated in the first place. So

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the Texans are gonna be focused, They're gonna be locked in,

506
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They're gonna say all the right things. For the most part,

507
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I don't think anybody's gonna come out now after the game.

508
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If they win, you're gonna see somebody on ig or

509
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somebody in a post game like shout out Rex Ryan

510
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or something like that. Definitely it would be talked about.

511
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But I don't think they're They're putting up eight x

512
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ten of Rex Ryan and throwing darts at him, and

513
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then that's what's motivating. What's motivating them is going on

514
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and trying to win a Super Bowl.

515
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Speaker 2: Yeap. What's motivating them is the fact that they have

516
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not performed up to expectations for much of the regulars

517
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season and that the postseason is a brand new beast.

518
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It's an opportunity for you to be in a tournament

519
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where you have to be really good for four weeks.

520
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I right, your best four.

521
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Speaker 4: You gotta get lucky too, by the way, no matter

522
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who you are, and we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 9: You said, did you mention Shack Mason?

524
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Shack Mason a d n P as well, something

525
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to keep an eye on that you might have him

526
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out of the fold at guard. Then it would be

527
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what Jared Patterson juice drugs, juice scrugs.

528
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Speaker 9: And then Blake Fisher as the right side of your.

529
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Speaker 2: Line, which I don't think is something we should have

530
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a tremendous amount of faith. Then no, but wasn't last year.

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And again I hate to keep going back to this,

532
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but do it. We spent the last time bitching about

533
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the last year's offensive line and CJ was able to

534
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survive all that.

535
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Speaker 9: Well, not to this extent. It just doesn't feel like

536
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it was that. But good thing?

537
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Speaker 2: Was it? Kit? I want to say good thing.

538
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Speaker 4: It's kind of rude, but Kenyon Green was out for

539
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the season last year.

540
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Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible.

541
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Speaker 4: But also Kenyan Green isn't on this offensive line right now,

542
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And you're absolutely right in that. I was looking at

543
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our good friends at Pro Football Focus did their final

544
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offensive line grades. They had the Texans at twenty ninth.

545
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They had the Bengals at thirtieth. Matt, how is Joe

546
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Burrow look this season? Well, you know, Joe Burrow has

547
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been hit more than anybody else. It feels like since

548
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he's started in his NFL career. I mean, the Bengals

549
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,920
have had for about ten years a wretched offensive line,

550
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no matter who the quarterback was. And that was really

551
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one of the comparisons that we made with how good

552
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that CJ. Stroud was playing with bad offensive line play?

553
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But also it helps that I mean, you got Nico

554
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Collins here, but T Higgins and Jamar Chase also helped

555
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help matters.

556
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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I mean, Nicol's gonna have to have a

557
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big game tomorrow on Saturday. I mean that goes without

558
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saying right. So let me give you this. It is

559
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do you have to have mix and and Collins have

560
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the huge games because you just don't trust the rest

561
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of the guys in the skill position category to make

562
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that big of a difference.

563
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Speaker 4: I would say mix in number one winning this game.

564
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This game is going to be old school Dimiko Ryan's formula.

565
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Stop the run on the other side, limit them scoring.

566
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Speaker 2: CJ.

567
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Speaker 4: Stroud makes four or five plays, and Joe Mixon controls

568
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the game. By the way, Matt, I was doing some

569
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fun digging for some stuff I got coming up for DraftKings.

570
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We'll get more on that tomorrow. When the Texans, I

571
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was pulling up some stats. When the Texans run to

572
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the left tackle, it's seven point six yards per carry

573
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Joe Mixon. When they run to the right tackle, it's

574
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two point five yards per carry. And you know the

575
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Chargers know that, yes they do. But it's just funny

576
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how bad it's been on the right side for them

577
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trying to run over the over there.

578
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Speaker 2: So I guess the question I would be then asking you,

579
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and I don't know if you have the answer to this,

580
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is that who's been on the other side is Are

581
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we just talking about the right side of being so

582
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atrocious or are we saying that the better players the

583
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,720
Texans face and the defensive front on the left side

584
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of the posing team's defensive line.

585
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fully contextualized. Look at man, I'm so

586
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proud of you, Matt. You're asking for context on a number.

587
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Speaker 9: This is great. That's a great important question.

588
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but the but the difference is so

589
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stark that it has to be that the right side

590
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:20,880
is just not anywhere close run blocking on the left side.

591
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Speaker 2: So that's why Larmie Tunsil was like, hey, bro, I'm good.

592
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,480
I mean, I know I've been committing a few false

593
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hoar penalties, but you know, my man, Rossville are out

594
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just gave us a stat that made me sound good. Yeah.

595
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Speaker 4: So obviously they've been running a lot more to the

596
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left side than to the right. Other teams know that

597
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as well. From my game theory perspective, this is Matt

598
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and you just run left every time. But it's not Matt,

599
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and you got to run right a little bit. Try

600
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to keep everybody honest.

601
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Speaker 2: Right.

602
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Speaker 4: So well, we'll see what happens. But a very interesting

603
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how how starkly different. It is running to the left

604
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side to the from the right for the Texans. For

605
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this is actually Joe Mixon's numbers for Joe Mixon this year.

606
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's put this in perspective. Then then honestly,

607
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you can't play to the right because that's going to

608
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come across as that was never going to happen to

609
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begin with. You can play action to the left because

610
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if there's been that kind of success on the left side,

611
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actually have full defenders.

612
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Speaker 4: Or you have to say, you know what, we're just

613
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gonna have to try to earn some yards and maybe

614
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we can catch them off guard.

615
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Speaker 9: So you definitely have to mix it up. If you're Bobby's.

616
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Speaker 2: Slowk, do you think Slowick? And I'm just saying this

617
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off the top of my head, do we have a

618
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,480
panic button with Slowik and Demiko this year on the

619
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offensive side that maybe we didn't have last year, that

620
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they they just this year gave up on the run

621
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when Joe wasn't doing his thing, that they didn't stay

622
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true to it to try to establish it at least

623
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deeper in games. Because that's that's kind of a sense

624
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I got, is that some of the numbers that CJ

625
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would put up this year was simply because he was

626
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taking more dropbacks than they or did a year before.

627
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Speaker 9: I think they did.

628
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Speaker 4: They still run the ball as much as anybody else

629
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that's on first down and throughout the game, so it's

630
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not necessarily to me that they've been abandoning the run.

631
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It's just the run hasn't been good and they've ended

632
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up on like third and twelve all the time. And

633
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then that's when when you have what you need, you

634
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need third and four, third and five. When you are

635
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third and twelve, guess what they know you're passing, so

636
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guess what they're bringing pass rushers, and they're bringing different guys.

637
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Speaker 9: They can give you different.

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Speaker 4: Looks, and that's exactly what this offensive line has struggled at,

639
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communicating who's picking up this guy, who's picking up that guy,

640
00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:21,599
and then they can they can disguise their pressure, and

641
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then you end up with free runners on third and twelve.

642
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So it kind of all lends itself. It's complimentary football.

643
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:31,119
It's really not that difficult. If you're running the ball better,

644
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you're better on schedule. On third down, you can't have

645
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,640
them bringing as much pressure, and then the offensive line

646
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you can kind of hide the warts as it were

647
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that they have there as well.

648
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Speaker 2: So if the Chargers splits a lot, Rossie, that means

649
00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:45,960
there's going to be nobody covering or maybe covering Dalton

650
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Schultz in single coverage.

651
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Speaker 9: Okay, I like that is he gonna get open?

652
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Speaker 2: Though? So let's put the number at number of catches

653
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for Dulton. How about this number of targets for Dalton

654
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:58,519
Schultz on Saturday afternoon? If I put the target number

655
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at sixty like the over.

656
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Speaker 4: Or on under, I think the real number is probably

657
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around three and a half four. I don't know targets, but.

658
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Speaker 2: Yeah, six sounds like a good number for Tucket wise,

659
00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:12,359
that's right. Seven one three two one two five seven

660
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ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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We'll start our visits today with Kyle and Paarland at

662
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ten forty on The Matt Thomas Show. With Ross it

663
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is Kyle. Good morning to you, sir.

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Speaker 10: Good on a gentlemen.

665
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Speaker 2: I hope you are doing good.

666
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Speaker 12: UH got a question for you.

667
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Speaker 7: I watched some of that game last night you were

668
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talking about with Cleveland and Oak City. Yeah, two very

669
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,759
good teams, two very good teams. Uh, play good defense.

670
00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:36,920
They didn't show a lot of defense last night. But dad, come,

671
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they can. Everybody on that team can score for both teams.

672
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I don't know how Houston's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Match up with them in the future.

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Speaker 12: But uh, but that was fun basketball last night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you got to watch it. I

676
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saw a little bit of it. Uh, it was a

677
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back and forth. He saw game for a while and then, uh,

678
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,240
Cleveland kind of pulled away. You know, the NBA did

679
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,200
its best to really try to show them out. They

680
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probably made broadcasters on they did, you know, linky kind

681
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of a pregame visit. They talk with the guys before.

682
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,559
It's gotta be smart ross in the NBA because these

683
00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:12,359
two teams are spectacular. And you know, Oklahoma City had

684
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:14,279
what a fourteen or fifteen game winning streak a snap

685
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last night in Cleveland's. Those two teams have less than

686
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six losses between the.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they said only the third time was

688
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a the third or fourth time in NBA history two

689
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:26,079
teams with ten plus game win streaks played each other. Yeah,

690
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,319
it was a great game. I watched three quarters of it.

691
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Speaker 12: Hey, man, I got.

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Speaker 2: A question for you.

693
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I know, Jabari Smith got hurt.

694
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Speaker 2: How in the hell do you get hurt on a

695
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,599
shoot around and break your hands? Uh?

696
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Speaker 4: I mean you could get hurt and playing in a practice.

697
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I mean, I don't you know, I might have dunked

698
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and hurt his hand or something.

699
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Speaker 2: Who knows. I don't know the extent of what it was.

700
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:52,680
But it was not considered serious when it first happened.

701
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Then it just and it just got worse. The one

702
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thing I can tell you is it never swole up.

703
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So that's why I don't think there was an initial

704
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,200
amount of concern on it. But yeah, uh, he is

705
00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:05,519
has not had surgery, and he's with us here this week. Uh,

706
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And I don't and I think they're they're still going

707
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,039
through some second options as to whether or not he's

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going to have that surgery. But yeah, that's Uh, it's

709
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:14,880
one of those situations that you know, he could happened

710
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,160
in the game. It could happen in a shooter and

711
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,720
shoot arounds. Again, they're like eighty percent shooting, but there

712
00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,440
is twenty percent of a practice type atmosphere, so it

713
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,240
would not be completely foreign for a player to suffer

714
00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:30,039
some sort of injury. Yeah, that sounds good.

715
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Speaker 10: Hey, I appreciate it, buddy, you have a good good day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kle. Nice to hear from you. Seven one

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three two, one two five seven ninety seven one three

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two one two five seven nine is zero our time.

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He's at ten forty two. It is a Matt tomasoel Ross.

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We will check in Los Angeles not only to find

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out what's going on with those horrific fires, but to

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get a sportsman's perspective on what's going to happen for

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the Chargers and the Texans this Saturday at Energy Stadium

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when we also return. We're gonna uh. I'll put a

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little ps on the announce of a couple of days

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ago that Justin Verlander is now a San Francisco Giant.

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Speaker 1: Slash promos mattin Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 14: It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.

756
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: ROSSI, I brought the house down last night. There's a

757
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,280
noble mass.

758
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 9: We're all proud of you, Matt.

759
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,559
Speaker 2: Next, No, you're not.

760
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 9: What do you mean you did great?

761
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:57,639
Speaker 2: You know? The one realization of singing karaoke is that

762
00:35:57,679 --> 00:35:59,400
when were there were songs as a kid and as

763
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,440
a young adult, you could sing because of the high

764
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:07,079
I know, father time has hit me with some higher stuff.

765
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Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Matt.

766
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 4: And it never sounds as good when it's in your

767
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,199
car and the song is blasting, and the song is

768
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,519
at a ten and you're at like a two.

769
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Speaker 9: You're like, man, that sound great.

770
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 4: Then when you're on karaoke and it's all you yeah,

771
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,360
you're like, oh wait a minute, now, I don't sound.

772
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: Like a del I did sound like I did sing

773
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,800
Sweet Caroline yesterday I thought was good. But I've just

774
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,639
there were just some songs we tried last night.

775
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,559
Speaker 4: Oh man, you're playing you were playing all the hits,

776
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:33,880
then you're playing all.

777
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:34,679
Speaker 9: The two AM jams.

778
00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 2: Sweet Caroline, Tiny Dancer was a bad example. Yeah, and

779
00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:46,280
unfortunately my age and just because your boy, I mean

780
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,360
that happens. We you have a lot of famous people

781
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,199
as they get older, they can't hit the high notes.

782
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,119
Like Paul McCartney tries to sing. Maybe, I'm amazed. That's

783
00:36:55,159 --> 00:36:56,039
not a good look for him.

784
00:36:56,079 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 9: He just goes out there and talks.

785
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm learning to refine my karaoke game to

786
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:08,119
sing songs that are in my octave. So yeah, yet

787
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:10,199
another sign of getting old sucks.

788
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 9: Sorry, Matt, you look great.

789
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,159
Speaker 2: A good time was had by all. It's Memphis, Tennessee.

790
00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:19,840
What are you gonna do in this town except avoid criminals?

791
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,119
This is probably the worst city when it comes to

792
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:26,800
criminals that we travel to Memphis. Oh yeah, why what happened?

793
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,000
You got robbed? No?

794
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 4: But all my friends get robbed here? Who got robbed? Justly?

795
00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:38,079
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's it's the number of break ins and vehicles,

796
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,639
especially in the inner city is is an at all

797
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:45,920
time high here. Not that every city doesn't have these issues,

798
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,760
but it just feels like it's magnifying when we come here.

799
00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:51,159
But the food is good. Beale Street to me is fine.

800
00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:53,800
I wouldn't say it's overrated, underrated properly, right, I would

801
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,440
just say it's okay, okay. There is some good jazz,

802
00:37:56,519 --> 00:38:02,159
some good blues, good barbecue, people generally speaking, are nice here.

803
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:07,280
It's just you just there's no regulation of like one

804
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,800
street in downtown Memphis. It looks great and looks like

805
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,719
you feel safe, you know, when you just can't run

806
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:12,760
away from fast enough.

807
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 9: Oh so it's like a Houston sister city.

808
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,039
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if you wanted to say it

809
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:20,440
that way, that's true. But every one thing I learned

810
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,159
about last night is as we went with a bunch

811
00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:26,159
of people to sing some songs, was that there's some

812
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:30,119
songs in my library and my karaoke library that I

813
00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:32,360
will no longer be performing in tiny The answer with people.

814
00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:33,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, you got to wheetle down the set list.

815
00:38:34,039 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: You got that right, all right? Verlander one year deal

816
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,039
San Francisco at fifteen million dollars? Is he just going

817
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:43,360
to spend the rest of his career just catching those

818
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:44,880
one year deals? And again, he's not out of the

819
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,840
ordinary doing that. Teams are not gonna want to give

820
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,920
him multi year deals for a guy especially forty plus. Look,

821
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,639
fifteen million dollars, what does that get you about? A

822
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:59,519
four starter now major League Baseball, give or take. Yeah,

823
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,360
good for him. I mean, he you know, if there's

824
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,840
anybody that I would like to see get to three

825
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,679
hundred to be him. I think he's not going to

826
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:06,199
it now.

827
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 4: He's gonna pay to play at least sixty and he

828
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,559
needed to count some of those with the Savannah bananas

829
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:11,360
or something.

830
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: Right, right, But point being is that it's you know,

831
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,079
I knew from the day that he was saying his

832
00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:21,119
farewells here that he wanted to still play. I think

833
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,760
last year for him was disappointing because he couldn't stay healthy.

834
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,960
And he said, look, remember he had kept saying all

835
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,400
the time that he wanted to rev up and get

836
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,800
himself going. He's gonna probably think to himself, I need

837
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,480
to get into spring training, be healthy, have a full year,

838
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,400
and either reinvent myself and be that forty year old

839
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:42,000
scrappy mid level starter, or my body is telling me

840
00:39:42,039 --> 00:39:42,800
I need to retire.

841
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can kind of, as you know, Matt, when

842
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,519
you're in like an immedia scrum in the locker room,

843
00:39:46,559 --> 00:39:48,480
especially at the end of the season, you can kind

844
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,960
of tell a direction somebody's leaning and stuff like that,

845
00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:53,880
and it's like, you know, we were all standing there

846
00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:57,039
like he still wants to play, He's gonna plays. You

847
00:39:57,079 --> 00:39:59,119
can sell that he's still got that fire in his eye.

848
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes, and again, every athlete's built differently, but

849
00:40:03,199 --> 00:40:06,039
athletes sometimes they want to get it out before it's

850
00:40:06,079 --> 00:40:08,559
too late. Some will stay maybe too long. I feel

851
00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:11,679
like Justin's probably going to stay about the right time. Again,

852
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,480
I think in his mind, whether it's accurate or not,

853
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,239
he's thinking last year, because of all the ailments, that

854
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,320
was not a real way to end it, as compared

855
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,480
to let's go to training camp. Let's go to spring

856
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:24,800
training with a new team, a team that doesn't have

857
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,400
the expectations that obviously maybe other teams would have of me,

858
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,440
and we'll see what I got left.

859
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 9: He's broken and he's just breaking down the last couple

860
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:33,280
of years.

861
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is incredible that a guy that has

862
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,039
had as many injuries as GP has had the last

863
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:41,280
couple of years can still get fifteen million dollars. So

864
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,519
the demise of Major League Baseball Rossie is largely exaggerated,

865
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:49,079
greatly exaggerated for sure. Seven one three two one two

866
00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:51,880
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

867
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,360
seven nine zero. We go to Los Angeles coming up

868
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,119
in less than ten minutes. Right now, Roger's with us

869
00:40:56,119 --> 00:40:58,760
on the Matt Thomas Old Ross, Roger, thanks for holding

870
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,360
good morning, Good morning, Matt.

871
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 15: My concern right now is for Tarry Easton. Nobody seems

872
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:08,440
to be saying anything about his soreness. Is this Kyle

873
00:41:08,519 --> 00:41:11,320
Tucker level type sowredness that we don't know about. He's

874
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,599
a big part of what we're trying to get get accomplished,

875
00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:16,880
and his presence of so messed that depth this is.

876
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 16: Doesn't look to I mean kudos to uh Dave Shaan

877
00:41:20,039 --> 00:41:22,480
Tape for We'm doing a bangup job, but that I

878
00:41:22,519 --> 00:41:24,840
don't know how long that's going to be sustained because

879
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,320
you know it's so Yeah, I just.

880
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 15: Want to know if you know anything, I've you heard anything.

881
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,000
And yeah, as far as Verlin is concerned, he could

882
00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:37,000
go pick are batting practice somewhere. And I re really

883
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,119
appreciate Everything's much.

884
00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:40,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, thank you for the phone call, Roger.

885
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:43,639
You know they're trying to get him back in there.

886
00:41:44,199 --> 00:41:46,480
This isn't a question of you know, in the NBA,

887
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:49,719
unfortunate Ross has a series of players over the last

888
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,480
ten years that have gotten these ailments that have just said,

889
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,039
you know, I'm gonna kind of milk this for all

890
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:56,639
that it is, Tari is very anxious to get back

891
00:41:56,679 --> 00:41:59,840
out there. I don't know how much this has to

892
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,400
do with last year. I think it'd be fool of

893
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,039
something that there's gotta be some connection to it. There

894
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:05,920
was no new injury, and if they was, the Rockets

895
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,519
would obviously report that. So this is still going off

896
00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:10,599
of what they did last year. And it's so strange that,

897
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,880
you know, he gets off to that really fast start, uh,

898
00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:18,039
top five and steals uh. He's a good finisher at

899
00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:20,440
the basket. They started to calling the him and the

900
00:42:20,519 --> 00:42:22,400
men Tooms and the Terror Twins, and then all of

901
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,199
a sudden it has just stopped in its tracks. And

902
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,000
so whatever it is, you know, you're battling, you know,

903
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,440
working out and then waking up sore the next day,

904
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,320
you know, taking a day off then try I mean

905
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,079
they're literally going through every possible option as to what

906
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,679
schedule works so he doesn't wake up the next day.

907
00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:44,679
I feel like you can't move, and that's a pretty

908
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,719
bad feeling for a young man who's you know, still

909
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:47,880
very much in his young twenties.

910
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an unfortunate reality, is you know, you always

911
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:53,960
you're projecting the season and thinking about how things are

912
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,480
gonna go. You always picture everyone is one hundred percent healthy,

913
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,559
but that's just not the way that it goes. Luckily,

914
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,039
the Rockets in the way this roster is built, they

915
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:03,320
do have a good amount of depth and to where

916
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,519
you do miss Tari, but Jayshon Tait has filled in

917
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,960
and he's done very good. Maybe that means you're getting

918
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,000
a little bit more Steven Adams. Of course some cat

919
00:43:11,119 --> 00:43:13,800
whitmore and I mean Thompson doing his thing on the

920
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,840
starting lineup now, especially with Jabari Smith Junior out, They

921
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,280
dare I say they just about having skipped a beat,

922
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,280
but they got some tough games coming up, starting tonight

923
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,760
against Memphis seven o'clock.

924
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 9: Tip here on Sports Talk seven.

925
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 2: Honey Man. Yeah, and who has the losch pad don

926
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,119
on at six o'clock?

927
00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 9: That would be yours, truly. Can I tell you a secret?

928
00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:35,159
Speaker 2: Well, can I guess it?

929
00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 9: Sure?

930
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 2: Give me a hint. That's It's it's hard to give

931
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,800
you a hint. I'm just gonna tell you this.

932
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 4: Is the most excited I've been to do a pre

933
00:43:46,039 --> 00:43:47,360
and post game show in a while.

934
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 9: I'm really excited on like a road game.

935
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 2: So let me let me just tell the audience then, folks, look,

936
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,960
I am the voice of the Rockets and love it.

937
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,639
And I'm at the site and I'm in the game,

938
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:03,360
and I'm in the atmosphere, and I live a very,

939
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,400
very blessed life. My man, Ross, Tonight, it's gonna be

940
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,559
raining in Houston. It's gonna be cold. He's gonna be

941
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sitting at the studio at nine point thirty at night.

942
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Is it gonna be raining hard? And it might be

943
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,320
at home. Whatever, You're gonna be somewhere where you're not

944
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,119
gonna be watching God knows what you like to watch

945
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:24,719
when you're not watching sports. Call the man tonight, Incode

946
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,639
or bad. It's okay if they lose and you want

947
00:44:26,639 --> 00:44:29,159
to call, and if they win, you can call. I

948
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,599
like that, Thank you, Matt. But Ross's life right now

949
00:44:31,679 --> 00:44:34,280
is basically waiting for Gerrod to call to kill three

950
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,000
minutes of the show.

951
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,199
Speaker 4: I think we got I got Biscuit. Biscuit called too.

952
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,719
Last time it was Girodd and Biscuit appreciate y'all.

953
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: Okay, So Jerrod and Biscuit we massive shot outs to

954
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:44,960
you guys.

955
00:44:45,079 --> 00:44:48,199
Speaker 4: Now, Luke and Pearland calls. We got some REGs actually back.

956
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 2: Now, okay, so let's let's you know what, I'll say this,

957
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,400
Let's just diversify the group. We will all of our

958
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,800
regulars in plus the diversity mm hm. So Jimmy Fair,

959
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,280
just call Ross and just say, hey, man, watch the game.

960
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,719
Enjoyed a great experience. I wish this would have happened.

961
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,159
Wish this would have happened. Why did this happen? And

962
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,400
just make Ross feel like he's his his valuable time

963
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,920
is actually valuable, thank you, matt As compared to sitting

964
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,800
in a cold studio with probably the internet not working

965
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:19,679
and a massive delay of some sort of maybe the

966
00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:21,559
phones don't work. I mean, you never know these things,

967
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:26,239
m hm. And say a small prayer for me as

968
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,320
I go through the snow between Memphis and Atlanta on

969
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,320
a fun I would fight that. I hope you make it.

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00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,679
That that'll be fine. You'd be great great seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

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two one two five seven. Hoety, Chris, hang tight, we'll

973
00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:42,199
get to you coming up in a little bit. We're

974
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:45,599
gonna go to Los Angeles next. And let you hear

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from a reporter in the southern California area who covers

976
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the Los Angeles Chargers on a regular basis, and sadly

977
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we're gonna actually have to ask him what his life

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has been like being a news reporter in sports reporter

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in Los Angeles having to cover the task for that

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is those terrible fires out in the Los Angeles area.

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Speaker 1: Launch Timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show eleven.

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Speaker 2: O three on Sports Talk seven nine of The Matt

1017
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,480
Thomas Show today with Ross. We are coming to you

1018
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:01,880
at least I am from Memphis, Tennessee, where the night

1019
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,440
tonight the Rockets will take on the Memphis Grizzlies. We're

1020
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,239
going to spend more on the Rockets coming up with

1021
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,719
them Aadoky Hill join us at two one o'clock this afternoon.

1022
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,840
Right now, we're going to spend a few minutes with

1023
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,360
the Chris Hayry, who is a sports anchor and reporter

1024
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,719
for ky CAL nine in Los Angeles. He also hosts

1025
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:23,599
a weekly Chargers podcast, And unfortunately, we're gonna probably spend

1026
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,360
a little bit of time talking about life's events as

1027
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,280
compared to the Chargers Texans game with Chris. Chris is Matt,

1028
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,000
thank you for joining us. First of all, and again

1029
00:48:33,039 --> 00:48:34,800
I hate to paint with a broad brush on this,

1030
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,079
but you have been working with a TV station and

1031
00:48:37,079 --> 00:48:39,199
a group there that have been doing NonStop cover to this.

1032
00:48:39,639 --> 00:48:41,599
How has this been for your colleagues, how's it been

1033
00:48:41,639 --> 00:48:44,400
as a citizen of southern California with all the fires?

1034
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:47,639
And please tell us what areas are safe, what or not?

1035
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,400
And what is your current situation if you don't mind.

1036
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,559
Speaker 13: Well, man, I appreciate you having me on it's you know,

1037
00:48:54,119 --> 00:48:55,559
I think the best.

1038
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 2: Word is just surreal.

1039
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 8: It's just a surreal.

1040
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 9: Scene out here.

1041
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,639
Speaker 13: Kissay, enough about not only my colleagues, but everybody out here,

1042
00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:06,639
just in the field and reporting, and people don't know

1043
00:49:06,679 --> 00:49:07,559
if they have homes.

1044
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Speaker 8: I mean, the.

1045
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Speaker 13: Pacific Palisades in Malibu is destroyed. Altadena, parts of Pasadena destroyed.

1046
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There was a fire in the Hollywood Hills last night.

1047
00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:22,559
I mean, it's it's pretty devastating. I've lived out here

1048
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:24,920
for eighteen years. I've never seen anything like it, and

1049
00:49:25,039 --> 00:49:27,719
you know, wildfires all the time out here in California,

1050
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,559
but this one, it's just it's a different beast right now.

1051
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 8: There are you know, me and my family are safe.

1052
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 13: We live about twenty to twenty five miles from the

1053
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,000
Altadena fire, and you can just see the cloud of

1054
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:44,159
smoke in the sky right now, and it's just just amazing.

1055
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,840
You're twenty miles away, and you know, you go to

1056
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,719
that scene, it looks, frankly like a war scene, a

1057
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,760
war zone. It's it's just it's devastating, and you know,

1058
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,159
our hearts are with everybody that's affected right now.

1059
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 2: Part of my ignorance on this, but I'm a assuming

1060
00:50:00,559 --> 00:50:03,599
that people that live in those areas in this area

1061
00:50:03,599 --> 00:50:07,159
we're speaking of is growing by the day. People are

1062
00:50:07,199 --> 00:50:10,679
grabbing what they can, can't be much getting in their

1063
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,679
cars and getting out. I mean, how are roads, how

1064
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,719
are people able to circumvent leaving neighborhoods that are you know,

1065
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,079
on the on the precipice of these fires destroying their homes.

1066
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Speaker 13: Well, you know, I think fortunately a lot of people

1067
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did get out when they were supposed to get out

1068
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when when the evacuation warnings came.

1069
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Speaker 8: I do think people got out. But you're right, I mean,

1070
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it's you know, like the Hollywood Hills. Just imagine trying.

1071
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,519
Speaker 13: To get out of there last night, just the gridlock

1072
00:50:36,599 --> 00:50:38,599
on the road because there's not many ways in and out,

1073
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,679
so the roads obviously were were gridlock last night. And

1074
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,519
you know, it's you just hope that this this thing

1075
00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:51,159
gets contained, and you know, I know that the winds

1076
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:54,519
have let up a little bit, and the hope is

1077
00:50:54,519 --> 00:50:56,119
that we get some good news over the next couple

1078
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:59,920
of days. And again, I just you know, I was

1079
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,679
being this week. I'm just so excited to talk football,

1080
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,719
and obviously we're going to talk football here in a

1081
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,719
minute and get ready for this Wildcard game. But I'll

1082
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,840
tell you it's the last couple of days puts a

1083
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,239
lot in perspective for people.

1084
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Speaker 2: Last question about this is Metro Los Angeles of ultimate concern.

1085
00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:20,280
And I know, again this has been mostly to the coast,

1086
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,639
but it's going a little bit more in the inland,

1087
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,199
some of the valley areas, and obviously mentioned Pasadena. I

1088
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,199
heard Chavez Ravine was in conversation a couple of days back.

1089
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:34,000
How about the inter city downtown Dodgers Stadium, you know,

1090
00:51:34,119 --> 00:51:37,039
Beverly Hills. Are those areas of ultimate concern for the

1091
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:37,599
folks there?

1092
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,679
Speaker 13: You know what, It's a good question, and I'll be honest,

1093
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,519
I don't even know as of this morning. I saw

1094
00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:45,280
a little bit of our coverage about an hour and

1095
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,280
a half ago, and I haven't heard anything about downtown.

1096
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,280
You know, the Palisades in Malibu, if you know, if

1097
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,079
you've ever been to Los Angeles, it's very close to

1098
00:51:54,079 --> 00:51:57,679
Santa Monica. There's some some just wild images of the

1099
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,400
fire behind the Santa Monica Pier that.

1100
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 9: I saw this warning online. Somebody somebody had.

1101
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 8: A picture from yesterday. It's just like it's just I

1102
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,800
don't know, and there's really no words for it.

1103
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 2: But I don't know what.

1104
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 13: The status is of downtown LA at this point Chavez Ravine,

1105
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,800
as you mentioned, and I do know that there's a

1106
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,440
Monday night footballame thats supposed to be played at so

1107
00:52:17,559 --> 00:52:20,760
Bike Stadium, and you know, the continguency plan is is

1108
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:25,000
Arizona for that? And you know, I think it's they're

1109
00:52:25,039 --> 00:52:27,480
fortunate that the game's Monday and not let's say Saturday,

1110
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:29,920
like the Texans and Chargers, because I don't know if

1111
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:30,800
you could play that game.

1112
00:52:31,559 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris hayry K Cal Sports in Los Angeles joining

1113
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,079
us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. So

1114
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,239
let's get to some football. Now. You cover the Chargers,

1115
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,199
you have a podcast, but you have to balance it

1116
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,320
with other professional sports teams. Have the Chargers been able

1117
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,599
to make inroads with Southern California sports fans because it

1118
00:52:48,639 --> 00:52:52,599
feels like to me, and maybe it's a generic narrative

1119
00:52:52,639 --> 00:52:55,800
that Charger games are largely full, but they're full of

1120
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:56,880
fans of other cities.

1121
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 8: You know, it's a it's a good question.

1122
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 13: I do think that they have made tremendous inroads since

1123
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,719
they moved here in twenty seventeen.

1124
00:53:07,159 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 8: To present day. And the thing is, you could say

1125
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,159
the same.

1126
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,679
Speaker 13: Exact thing about the Rams that people do about the

1127
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:19,119
Chargers nationally, Like when there's a San Francisco forty nine

1128
00:53:19,199 --> 00:53:22,800
Ers Rams game, where you know, a Vikings Rams game,

1129
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,920
there's gonna be a ton of opposing fans. It's just

1130
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,400
I think that's part of Los Angeles is that, hey,

1131
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,559
you know when the schedule comes out in April and

1132
00:53:31,639 --> 00:53:34,559
may you circle LA is the potential road game for

1133
00:53:34,599 --> 00:53:37,519
you and your buddies or you and your family. But

1134
00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:42,400
I'll say this, since Jim Harball was announced as head

1135
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,000
coach of the Chargers on February first of last year,

1136
00:53:46,559 --> 00:53:51,840
the last eleven months I've seen probably the biggest shift

1137
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,519
in terms of fans buy in. You have a franchise

1138
00:53:56,599 --> 00:53:59,119
quarterback and you have a head coach coming off a

1139
00:53:59,199 --> 00:54:02,400
national championship, a team that won five games last year,

1140
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:07,400
that that won eleven this year, and the culture that

1141
00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:12,679
Jim Harball has established has really I think brought some

1142
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,639
life to this fan base. And you know, going back

1143
00:54:15,639 --> 00:54:18,199
to the fans in San Diego, Jim Harball was a

1144
00:54:18,199 --> 00:54:20,960
San Diego Charger, so I think you're seeing a lot

1145
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,320
of fans from San Diego and Los Angeles come together,

1146
00:54:25,199 --> 00:54:28,599
the fan base is energized. And you know, I worked

1147
00:54:28,639 --> 00:54:30,519
at the Lakers for nine years, so I always tell

1148
00:54:30,519 --> 00:54:34,440
people this, like the Dodgers and Lakers, they're the show

1149
00:54:34,599 --> 00:54:37,559
in LA, but everybody else can have a piece of

1150
00:54:37,599 --> 00:54:39,639
pie if you win. And right now, I think the

1151
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:44,440
Chargers have that upwards trajectory of potentially having some sustained

1152
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,079
success over the next few years with Herbert and Harball

1153
00:54:48,119 --> 00:54:48,400
in Ton.

1154
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 2: Now Herbert's number is first. I want to say the

1155
00:54:51,559 --> 00:54:54,840
quarter pole the season were probably down from years past.

1156
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,480
It was that Harball trying to establish a running game,

1157
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,840
a little more of a balance. And overall from start

1158
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,840
a season to where Justin comes into today's or Saturday's game,

1159
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,679
where has his development been as a quarterback with Hardball

1160
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,559
running things, Well.

1161
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 13: It's been remarkable and I think you're right. I think

1162
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,880
at the beginning of the year it was a product

1163
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,320
of Hey, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Austin Exlo are out

1164
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,800
the door. I have a bunch of new weapons, a

1165
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,920
brand new offense. And then, by the way, in week

1166
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,920
two he had a terrible high ankle sprain that that

1167
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,599
took him out of that game in Pittsburgh in the

1168
00:55:27,639 --> 00:55:30,679
second half and basically was playing on one one leg

1169
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,039
against Kansas City the following week before.

1170
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 10: The bye week.

1171
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 13: So the one thing is, I'm sure you guys have

1172
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,719
discussed this week that that Justin's just so good at

1173
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:40,760
is taking care of the football. You know, I think

1174
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,440
he only had three interceptions this year, and he's just

1175
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:49,599
he's built chemistry with these receivers who you know, I

1176
00:55:49,599 --> 00:55:51,480
don't think a lot of people had high hopes for

1177
00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:54,599
this receiving corps coming into the year, and then you

1178
00:55:54,679 --> 00:55:57,119
see what rookie led macaukey has done, and just a

1179
00:55:57,159 --> 00:56:00,480
chemistry that Justin has developed with him. Quentin Constin, who

1180
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,599
a lot of people were down on after his rookie year,

1181
00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:05,119
coming off a thirteen catch, one hundred and eighty six

1182
00:56:05,199 --> 00:56:08,239
yard performance against the Raiders. You know, Joshua Palmer, who's

1183
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:13,000
hurt at the moment, but Darius Davis, the emergence of JK. Dobbins,

1184
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:16,360
who's you know, comeback Player of the Year nominee for sure.

1185
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:20,000
So just a lot of different weapons that Justin has

1186
00:56:20,039 --> 00:56:21,760
seemed to find week in a week out. You don't

1187
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:23,679
know whose week it's gonna be It could be a

1188
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,679
Lad mccaukeey week, could be a Quintin Johnson week.

1189
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,639
Speaker 8: Could be a Wolf Disley week.

1190
00:56:28,679 --> 00:56:31,119
Speaker 13: I mean, it's it's just been remarkable how Justin has

1191
00:56:31,159 --> 00:56:33,360
been able to trust and spread the ball around to

1192
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,159
a bunch of different guys that at the beginning of

1193
00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:38,239
the year you weren't sure who was going to be

1194
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,480
And now yeah, I just think the comfortability with his

1195
00:56:42,599 --> 00:56:45,760
receivers and just having that full year in greg.

1196
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 8: Rorovan's offense has really done wonders for him.

1197
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 2: All Right, lastly, we'll let you run. Actually, I'll probably

1198
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,119
get two things in the since offensive line has been

1199
00:56:56,159 --> 00:56:59,000
at venturesome would be maybe the most polite way of

1200
00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:02,480
saying things. Tell me about joe Bosa this year is

1201
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:05,280
compared the last couple of years. Denzel Perriman obviously is

1202
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:09,000
starting to practice again. Uh is there enough pass rush

1203
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,880
from the Charger front seven that's going to cause the

1204
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:13,400
text and some issues on Saturday?

1205
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 13: Well, I think that's that's the key to the game,

1206
00:57:16,519 --> 00:57:21,719
mat is the how much pressure can the Chargers.

1207
00:57:24,159 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 8: I look at Khalil Mack.

1208
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:30,039
Speaker 13: Joey Bosa, Tully, Toy, Polo too and Bud Dupree, those

1209
00:57:30,079 --> 00:57:35,039
are four starting caliber edge rushers that the Chargers keep

1210
00:57:35,079 --> 00:57:36,119
presh throughout.

1211
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 8: The course of a four quarter game. You mentioned Denzel Perriman.

1212
00:57:39,039 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 13: You know, they they certainly have missed Denzel and you

1213
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,159
guys know him as well as anybody, just his his

1214
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:48,400
hard hitting nature, his ability to stop the run. But

1215
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:51,280
it's really going to come down to can can Joey

1216
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:56,440
Bosa and Khalil Mack be superstars on Saturday? And Tully

1217
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,480
toy Polo to second year guy from USC who's just

1218
00:57:59,519 --> 00:58:03,719
been fantastic player since he stepped onto the football field

1219
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,960
with the Chargers. And then that veteran presidence of Bud Dupree.

1220
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,840
Can the Chargers get after Stroud make him uncomfortable against

1221
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,320
that offensive line? And you know, I know that Joey

1222
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,960
has had some injuries throughout the last several years, but

1223
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,239
I do think that that he's come on, especially the

1224
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:24,239
back half of the year. And you know, Khalil has

1225
00:58:24,239 --> 00:58:27,800
had some pretty dominant games. But I think just keeping

1226
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,480
those guys fresh that's been kind of their their their

1227
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,360
go to And then Darwin James up front. You know

1228
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,360
Darwin James's five sacks this year, him playing close to

1229
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:39,239
the line of scrimmage that that's presented problems for teams

1230
00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:41,119
throughout the season.

1231
00:58:42,119 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 10: All right.

1232
00:58:42,639 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 2: Lastly, and we always don't mean to put you on

1233
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,480
the spot when it comes to predictions, but the folks

1234
00:58:47,519 --> 00:58:50,400
in Vegas have the Chargers about a field goal. Favorite

1235
00:58:50,599 --> 00:58:52,760
Rex Ryan thinks that won't not even count. This is

1236
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:54,599
a bye week for the Chargers. Clearly, I don't believe

1237
00:58:54,599 --> 00:58:58,360
the Chargers think that, but what you have seen. And look,

1238
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,000
one of my best friends in mine life is a

1239
00:59:01,039 --> 00:59:03,880
lifelong Charger fan, and he says, Matt, they always invent

1240
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,639
ways to lose games when you think they're ahead for

1241
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,280
ninety percent of them. So, with all that being said,

1242
00:59:09,679 --> 00:59:12,400
and again it's a new regime, and obviously Hardball's really

1243
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:16,159
changed the feeling of what it is to be a

1244
00:59:16,199 --> 00:59:18,599
Los Angeles Charger fan and a team that follows him.

1245
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,159
What's your gut feeling right now? And I'm holding you

1246
00:59:21,159 --> 00:59:22,719
to it completely, but your gut about what's going to

1247
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,239
happen on Saturday and how things will play out, Well.

1248
00:59:26,239 --> 00:59:29,599
Speaker 13: Let me just say nobody thinks what Rex Ryan thinks here.

1249
00:59:31,119 --> 00:59:33,159
That's just not the case. And Texas are a very

1250
00:59:33,199 --> 00:59:35,639
good football team. I think that the Chargers one of

1251
00:59:35,679 --> 00:59:38,360
the five seed, because hey, you don't want.

1252
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,079
Speaker 8: To go to Baltimore in January.

1253
00:59:40,119 --> 00:59:44,679
Speaker 13: It's breathing, you know, and be you know, if you're

1254
00:59:44,719 --> 00:59:46,679
the five seed, who knows if you get a divisional

1255
00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:49,039
playoff game, depending on how it shakes out in the

1256
00:59:49,119 --> 00:59:49,679
second round.

1257
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,719
Speaker 8: I think that the Chargers right now are.

1258
00:59:52,639 --> 00:59:55,559
Speaker 13: Playing their best football of the season, right that the

1259
00:59:55,639 --> 00:59:59,119
second half that Denver game on Thursday night to present

1260
00:59:59,199 --> 01:00:01,679
days when they they've really hit their stride. All three

1261
01:00:01,719 --> 01:00:04,599
phases have played really, really well. This is not going

1262
01:00:04,679 --> 01:00:06,960
to be an easy game by any stretch for the Chargers.

1263
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,559
I think if they can kind of withstand the momentum,

1264
01:00:09,559 --> 01:00:12,639
the early momentum of the crowd, and maybe get off

1265
01:00:12,679 --> 01:00:14,320
to a fast start, I think the Chargers have a

1266
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:15,480
good chance to win this game.

1267
01:00:16,679 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 8: So I would give the slight edge to the Chargers.

1268
01:00:20,239 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 13: But I do think that sometimes we look at one

1269
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,199
game of the Houston Texans season on Christmas Day and

1270
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,320
think that that's what happened all year, and this is

1271
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,800
not the case. You know, thirty one to two didn't happen,

1272
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:31,840
you know, at the beginning of the year, where you

1273
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,760
almost beat the Lions, and you had some dominant games

1274
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,679
against other teams. So I give the slight edge to

1275
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:40,800
the Chargers just because of the coach and the quarterback.

1276
01:00:41,079 --> 01:00:42,719
Speaker 8: I know Denico and c. J.

1277
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 13: Stroud are some of the brightest young stars in the

1278
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,679
coaching ranks and quarterbacks. But I think justin right now,

1279
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,920
the way he's playing and just having Jim Harball going

1280
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,800
back to the scene where he won his national championship

1281
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,039
exactly a year ago, just the slightest of edges of

1282
01:00:58,079 --> 01:00:58,840
the Chargers.

1283
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 2: All right, we'll leave it at that, Chris, Our thoughts

1284
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,719
are with you, your viewers. Uh, entire Southern California. We

1285
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,920
as I was telling the audience last hour, and there's

1286
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,280
no part of the country that doesn't have to go

1287
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,440
through something, whether it's hurricanes or blizzards, or earthquakes or

1288
01:01:13,519 --> 01:01:16,920
mudslides or tornadoes. We uh, we just can't. We have

1289
01:01:17,119 --> 01:01:19,280
these elements sometimes get in the way of our normal

1290
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,199
lives and so please be safe to you and your

1291
01:01:21,199 --> 01:01:23,480
family and in the Citizen Southern California. Thank you for

1292
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,599
your analysis, and we really appreciate your time on the

1293
01:01:25,639 --> 01:01:26,159
show today.

1294
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 8: Say man anytime. Appreciate you guys. We'll getting on a

1295
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:30,960
plane here soon. So we'll see you in a bit.

1296
01:01:31,559 --> 01:01:34,039
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Chris Heyry joining us from cake Hel Sports

1297
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:36,639
in Los Angeles. On the Charger's Beat. We take a

1298
01:01:36,639 --> 01:01:39,079
time out. Bottom of the hour. We've got I just

1299
01:01:39,119 --> 01:01:41,599
don't get it. That's something in your life that you

1300
01:01:41,639 --> 01:01:44,639
simply don't get, and Ross Connor myself try to help

1301
01:01:44,679 --> 01:01:48,360
you understand what you just don't get. Seven one three

1302
01:01:48,599 --> 01:01:51,400
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1303
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,000
one two five seven ninety. Your phone calls are also welcome. Next,

1304
01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:58,079
it is Matt Thomash Old Ross. It's Sports Talk seven ninety.

1305
01:02:00,159 --> 01:02:05,039
Speaker 1: Tana Show with Ross continues so on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1306
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,639
Speaker 2: Eleven twenty one. I have Sports Talk seven ninety and

1307
01:02:10,719 --> 01:02:12,719
he is the Matt Tomas Joe with Ross. We've got

1308
01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:15,199
I just don't get it. Coming up at the bottom

1309
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:16,679
of the hour. The News at noon will be up

1310
01:02:16,719 --> 01:02:20,679
in about forty minutes. We'll have the Rotten five at

1311
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,519
one point thirty Doka with us at one o'clock. Rockets

1312
01:02:24,559 --> 01:02:26,519
right now on the floor over at the FedEx Form

1313
01:02:26,519 --> 01:02:28,440
getting ready for tonight's game with the Grizzlies. We'll have

1314
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,280
it for you here on seven hinety with a Emai

1315
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:35,079
Adoka largely drinned launch pad at six pm? Is that

1316
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:36,760
close to being fair to say, what do you mean?

1317
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,159
I think you're gonna take probably twelve minutes of it

1318
01:02:40,199 --> 01:02:41,639
and just run in and just take a break and

1319
01:02:41,719 --> 01:02:42,960
do a couple of stats and call today.

1320
01:02:43,119 --> 01:02:45,079
Speaker 9: We'll normally get him for a full twelve minutes.

1321
01:02:46,079 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 2: Okay, well then I'll make it nine minutes. Then. Yeah,

1322
01:02:49,519 --> 01:02:50,840
we'll see, we'll.

1323
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 4: Play a little bit of it, we'll recap the last

1324
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,760
game against Wizards, we'll preview the game injury reports. Yeah,

1325
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:59,559
it's gonna be an informative, fun entertaining Rockets launch pad

1326
01:02:59,599 --> 01:03:00,840
coming up at six pm.

1327
01:03:01,159 --> 01:03:02,599
Speaker 9: You're on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1328
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,239
Speaker 2: No one's gonna say it's fun entertaining. It's maybe informative,

1329
01:03:05,239 --> 01:03:06,800
but I want people are like, man, I gotta stop,

1330
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,920
I gotta quit dinner plans. Oh yeah, Ross got the

1331
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:09,400
launch pad.

1332
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, people are gonna forget to stir their soup. They're

1333
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,000
gonna be so entrenched in what I'm what I'm talking about.

1334
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. Sorry, seven one three,

1335
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,079
two one two five seven, Unty, Rossi's the line move

1336
01:03:20,159 --> 01:03:22,239
bunch on this Charger game at all or seeing it

1337
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:23,159
now ESPN.

1338
01:03:23,199 --> 01:03:25,519
Speaker 4: Bet you always go to ESPN as a default, So,

1339
01:03:25,639 --> 01:03:28,159
I mean, you know that's that's just one source. But

1340
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:30,320
I've been seeing it flip from two and a half

1341
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:33,239
to three, kind of back and forth. Yeah, at the

1342
01:03:33,239 --> 01:03:35,280
moment it's back to three. It was three, then two

1343
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:39,800
and a half, then now it's three again. Total keeps

1344
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,360
going a little bit lower. It was I think forty

1345
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,280
four and a half. Now it's down to forty two

1346
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,280
and a half. And you get a little extra juice

1347
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,280
on there, the one fifteen instead of one to ten.

1348
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's uh, if we if we got any betters

1349
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,760
out there, Ross is giving you the information you need

1350
01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:58,800
in a recorded line.

1351
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:00,239
Speaker 9: I've hit fifth team.

1352
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,559
Speaker 4: Polly's in a role, man, I'm taking the Houston Texans

1353
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:05,280
plus the three lock it in.

1354
01:04:07,239 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 2: It's been a funny you never they never have like

1355
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:09,840
Greek accents.

1356
01:04:10,559 --> 01:04:13,599
Speaker 4: Yeah, how does even Greek go?

1357
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:18,639
Speaker 2: This is more difficult. Yeah, I think we probably stay

1358
01:04:18,679 --> 01:04:19,639
away from the accents period.

1359
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 9: Loisy had a baby. We had used to do Louisiana

1360
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:25,079
locks on this show.

1361
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 2: Well that was the segment util we lost the producer.

1362
01:04:28,519 --> 01:04:32,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, he was he went back to

1363
01:04:32,719 --> 01:04:35,079
he went back home to Bathton Rouge. I ran into

1364
01:04:35,119 --> 01:04:37,039
him by the way and my my trip in New Orleans.

1365
01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:38,760
He drove down to New Orleans to come say hi

1366
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,039
to me. He really did, Yes, he did, and I

1367
01:04:42,079 --> 01:04:43,000
appreciate him for that.

1368
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 2: Cad you buy him a drink while he was there?

1369
01:04:45,639 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 4: Uh no, he oh that s o B. He slipped

1370
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,280
me some cash on his way out and then ran away.

1371
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,960
I couldn't give it back to him.

1372
01:04:56,079 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 2: M I know, one of the great producers and Hall

1373
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:04,880
of Fame group of producers that have once been.

1374
01:05:05,039 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness, we should put a rough mount

1375
01:05:07,079 --> 01:05:07,800
Rushmore together.

1376
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,599
Speaker 2: Of course at the top of it, we're we're locking

1377
01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:13,400
in Connor. He doesn't know this, but he signed a

1378
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,480
five year contract. Well yeah, you know.

1379
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 4: There are many facets of producing that Connor far surpasses me.

1380
01:05:19,159 --> 01:05:21,559
Speaker 9: Oh like paying attention, being one of.

1381
01:05:21,519 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 2: Them, showing up on time no one, Yeah, that's two.

1382
01:05:26,599 --> 01:05:27,840
You're for those of people.

1383
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,119
Speaker 4: Curtain back, not huffing him puffing every time you tell

1384
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:30,960
me to do something.

1385
01:05:33,639 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 2: Connor, the show used to be at noon and then

1386
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,480
at two, and there was probably a time where he

1387
01:05:38,559 --> 01:05:40,719
was probably batting about seven fifty and being this.

1388
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,039
Speaker 9: It's not accurate. This is not accurate.

1389
01:05:43,079 --> 01:05:46,079
Speaker 4: I was literally late like twice, and then Matt's gonna

1390
01:05:46,119 --> 01:05:48,920
over in ten years. And so Matt's acting like it

1391
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:53,440
was every other week, Like there's like five seconds. Let's

1392
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:54,679
find him.

1393
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 2: No, I don't. Yeah, get rid of text quickly. That's

1394
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,880
funny now, But Connor's always there early now, putting in

1395
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,239
the hours. I mean, I don't know whoever taught you,

1396
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:12,920
but man, it's refreshing. Most everybody else has been much

1397
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:16,440
more punctual than me. Yeah, it's fine, but you have

1398
01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:19,679
a certain cachet with you. I mean, I can't expect

1399
01:06:19,719 --> 01:06:21,880
perfection from a co hoster. I mean, Laura knows I'm

1400
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,639
not perfect. And then clue, don't even get me started.

1401
01:06:25,519 --> 01:06:26,079
Speaker 9: Quick news.

1402
01:06:26,159 --> 01:06:28,199
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead. I was just gonna say, it's part of

1403
01:06:28,199 --> 01:06:31,679
your charm. Ross. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Quick

1404
01:06:32,039 --> 01:06:32,760
quick news item.

1405
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,599
Speaker 4: Matthew, the Astros, and Mauricio Dubon have settled at five

1406
01:06:35,719 --> 01:06:36,320
million dollars.

1407
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 2: They will be avoiding arbitration. Good for them, man, today's

1408
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:41,719
an arbitration. Are you gotta get that stuff done or

1409
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:43,920
they're going to have to go to hearings and those

1410
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,280
things don't ever turn out well. Ask Kyle Tucker. Kyle

1411
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,400
Tucker asked the Chicago Cubs, Kyle Tucker.

1412
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,039
Speaker 9: Kyle Tucker told the Astros shut their bumb ass up.

1413
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, think about it for a second. We've

1414
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:00,360
all negotiated things in life, right, Yes, imagine that if

1415
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:03,679
you can't get a negotiation resolved, you then have to

1416
01:07:03,719 --> 01:07:06,119
go to get a third party involved. So you get

1417
01:07:06,119 --> 01:07:09,599
that third party, this is called classic arbitration, obviously, and

1418
01:07:09,679 --> 01:07:11,039
you have to go in front of this arbiter or

1419
01:07:11,079 --> 01:07:14,440
this arbor arbitration board the team, and you have to

1420
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,760
sell yourself. I hit, you know, two ninety five, and

1421
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:19,599
I hit thirty one home runs and I had eighty

1422
01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:22,119
four RBIs, and guys at this level have made this

1423
01:07:22,239 --> 01:07:24,119
much money based off of my production. And I'm going

1424
01:07:24,159 --> 01:07:26,440
to be here for the long term and I'm under

1425
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:30,599
team control, but I'm out performing my numbers expected for

1426
01:07:30,679 --> 01:07:32,760
a guy that's been the league three years or four years.

1427
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,360
And then the other team, whether it's the Astros or

1428
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,360
anybody else, comes in and says, yeah, you know, we

1429
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,079
got this game against the Phillies back in April where

1430
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,360
you wentz for four with three strikeouts and left seven

1431
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:45,719
men on base. You basically have to dog cuss them

1432
01:07:46,239 --> 01:07:50,679
and make them feel bad, And most teams don't want

1433
01:07:50,719 --> 01:07:53,119
to do that because they know there is some long

1434
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,679
not resentment but forgive but not forget kind of thing.

1435
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,559
Jeff Luno, to his credit, Rossie, I think may have

1436
01:08:00,559 --> 01:08:03,280
had one arbitration case his entire time as a general manager. Now,

1437
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,039
granted there were some years that were pretty lean here,

1438
01:08:05,079 --> 01:08:08,320
but he always would tell me, please, you got to

1439
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,599
stay away from arbitration because again, there are going to

1440
01:08:10,639 --> 01:08:12,840
be some hurt feelings one way or the other. Yeah,

1441
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,400
didn't even if the guys win the case, because they're like, man,

1442
01:08:15,639 --> 01:08:18,039
you made me waste my time with this, just paying

1443
01:08:18,119 --> 01:08:22,640
my damn money. Yeah, didn't end up going to arbitration

1444
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:29,359
with Brendan Barnes and the gang. How did the how

1445
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:33,479
did the uh, let's see Bud Norris and go for

1446
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:34,920
Matt Dominguez?

1447
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:41,359
Speaker 4: Giovanni Meyer says, Hello, not a link arbitration, not a

1448
01:08:41,399 --> 01:08:42,079
lengthy hearing.

1449
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 2: Doctor maxwellbell I think it's a dentist what Yeah, great

1450
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:47,119
for him.

1451
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:51,119
Speaker 4: Legendary Justin maxim Worth, a legendary astro's number number forty four.

1452
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, who also be in the arbitration Hall of fame

1453
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:59,039
for the astros.

1454
01:08:58,359 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 9: Like actual or making fun like we are now, No,

1455
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:01,319
we're making fun of me.

1456
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:05,319
Speaker 2: Night. We can't. We can't be. Let's move on. All right? Hey, Ross,

1457
01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:08,800
what don't you get your entire existence?

1458
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 4: I mean that feels rude, but I know I do

1459
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,359
believe you were. You're doing a great job. You have

1460
01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:17,600
a story to here career here in Houston. You've got

1461
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:20,359
my vote for the Texas Sports Radio or Texas Radio

1462
01:09:20,399 --> 01:09:20,880
Hall of Fame.

1463
01:09:21,399 --> 01:09:22,359
Speaker 2: I have not been nominated.

1464
01:09:22,359 --> 01:09:23,239
Speaker 9: How do I nominate you?

1465
01:09:24,079 --> 01:09:26,079
Speaker 2: I don't have to pay? Do I pay the entry fees?

1466
01:09:27,399 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 12: No?

1467
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 2: I'm good. Can you spot me? I mean if I

1468
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:31,880
get in, I get in, that's fine.

1469
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 9: Can you spot me?

1470
01:09:34,199 --> 01:09:35,840
Speaker 2: I mean you're saying you want me to pay for

1471
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,000
your entry fee to get me nominated, So that would

1472
01:09:38,039 --> 01:09:46,920
be basically isn't that like illegal? Oh? It does cost money, yeah,

1473
01:09:47,359 --> 01:09:49,319
And I don't think it's a really super formal thing.

1474
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,680
I think it's a very all right.

1475
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 4: It's fifty bucks to become a member, and come give

1476
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:56,399
me fifty bucks and I'll vote for you.

1477
01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:00,640
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, all right? Seven one three, two two five

1478
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,520
seven Aunty, if there's something in your life you just

1479
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,560
don't get. That's all simple. We speak here on the

1480
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:09,279
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one

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01:10:09,399 --> 01:10:11,520
two five seven Aunty. If you's something you don't get,

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Speaker 4: Your life that's just don't get No need to worry,

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:41,760
no need to press.

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Speaker 2: We will discuss the something.

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Speaker 4: Just see if we comprehend the things that they can

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use our friends.

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Speaker 2: It's time to say, I just don't get it. Seven

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01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,600
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

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three two one two five seven nine zero Ladies and gentlemen,

1515
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something in your life you just don't get. Let us

1516
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know what it is. Seven one three two one two

1517
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,039
five seven Honey mine ROSSI is on a form of

1518
01:12:10,079 --> 01:12:15,079
social media? Why do husbands and wives share Facebook accounts?

1519
01:12:15,199 --> 01:12:17,359
I say to you both, I just don't get it.

1520
01:12:19,319 --> 01:12:22,319
Speaker 17: I don't get it either. I see I see couples

1521
01:12:22,359 --> 01:12:24,880
do that on Instagram. They have like they make a

1522
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:27,159
share account. I'm like, unless you are a celebrity couple.

1523
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,439
I don't think you should be doing that, guys. I

1524
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:34,760
don't need to see double super easy answer.

1525
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 2: I think. Can I guess what you're thinking? Yes, the

1526
01:12:38,079 --> 01:12:39,800
other spouses and trust the other.

1527
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 4: One insecurity, watchdogging, possible history of cheating as well.

1528
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 2: WHOA. Okay, so you're saying you totally get it.

1529
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,279
Speaker 17: Then you're saying the wife doesn't let the husband have

1530
01:12:51,399 --> 01:12:54,279
his own account, or the husband doesn't let the wife

1531
01:12:54,279 --> 01:12:57,239
have her own account. Correct, I was not thinking that.

1532
01:12:57,279 --> 01:12:58,960
I was thinking they had their separate accounts, but they

1533
01:12:58,960 --> 01:12:59,840
also went together.

1534
01:13:01,159 --> 01:13:03,079
Speaker 2: But at what point would you put something on your

1535
01:13:03,119 --> 01:13:05,880
together account that you wouldn't put on your individual account? Exactly.

1536
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,039
That's why I don't like. I don't I don't understand it.

1537
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:15,319
But he has her own friends. I have my own friends.

1538
01:13:15,359 --> 01:13:17,960
We do have a lot of mutual friends, so duh.

1539
01:13:18,359 --> 01:13:21,439
So if you want to make sure that your spouse

1540
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,720
is a part of the conversation, you just tag them.

1541
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:25,840
But sometimes you just don't need to tag because it

1542
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:30,479
doesn't relate to her or her friends. But man, it's

1543
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:37,840
just it's weird having a husband wife Facebook account. It's weird.

1544
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:38,760
I just don't get it.

1545
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,520
Speaker 4: That's my theory. Anyways, I don't know anything about anything.

1546
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 2: I don't think it's terrible. Ross. I gotta be honest

1547
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:46,840
with you. I think it makes a lot of sense.

1548
01:13:47,159 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 17: To call anybody out so the wives can make sure

1549
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:52,800
their husbands aren't following like Instagram models, right, Okay, I

1550
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:53,960
get it, like.

1551
01:13:54,399 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 9: Keeping an eye on each other.

1552
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,079
Speaker 2: Through social media.

1553
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 9: Okay, and then you got to make a burner.

1554
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 2: Then what happens if somebody sneaks in the dms? What

1555
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:05,960
are you supposed to do at that point?

1556
01:14:06,159 --> 01:14:07,119
Speaker 9: Nobody's gonna do that.

1557
01:14:07,239 --> 01:14:13,600
Speaker 4: When it says Jane and John Simpson, Hey, hey, Jan,

1558
01:14:14,159 --> 01:14:14,840
sit this one out.

1559
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:16,279
Speaker 9: I want to talk to John real quick.

1560
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:21,119
Speaker 2: I know somebody that has to that doesn't communicate through

1561
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:26,000
Facebook because he this person thinks the spouse has the password.

1562
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:28,399
Hm m hm.

1563
01:14:31,359 --> 01:14:32,840
Speaker 9: Be careful at their folks.

1564
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 2: Just be careful. Just behave yourself. How about this?

1565
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 9: Is that a little bit true?

1566
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:40,680
Speaker 2: Behave yourself, stay true to your woman or man or man.

1567
01:14:44,359 --> 01:14:46,479
Do you think Emmanuel Acho and Joey Taylor share a

1568
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:47,399
Facebook account?

1569
01:14:48,079 --> 01:14:49,279
Speaker 9: No, they're not married, Matt.

1570
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 2: Do you think Joey Taylor and the Fox Sports one

1571
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,319
executive shares a Facebook account.

1572
01:14:53,359 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 9: But they're also not married Matt she was getting married

1573
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:56,640
by his wife.

1574
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,239
Speaker 2: Probably share a Facebook account. When is Earl Watson gonna

1575
01:14:59,239 --> 01:15:03,039
speak up about all that? He's like, Man, get me

1576
01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:06,680
out of this conversation. I want no part of it. Connor,

1577
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:07,800
what don't you get?

1578
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 17: So for Christmas, I brought I bought my brother hockey

1579
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,079
tickets to UH. He lives in near d C. So

1580
01:15:14,119 --> 01:15:17,840
I got in Washington Capital's tickets. He's his work schedule

1581
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:19,960
change so he's no longer able to go unfortunately. So

1582
01:15:20,039 --> 01:15:23,319
I went on Ticketmaster make it Master to UH put

1583
01:15:23,319 --> 01:15:28,760
the tickets up for sale, and I saw similar tickets

1584
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,600
in my section go for a little bit higher prices.

1585
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:32,720
So I'm like, okay, I can sell them for a

1586
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,119
little bit more than what I got, maybe make a

1587
01:15:34,159 --> 01:15:38,640
little bit of profit. And turns out I'm still gonna

1588
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:42,800
lose money based off you know, I pay the service

1589
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:44,239
fees for the tickets in the first place, but they

1590
01:15:44,279 --> 01:15:46,520
also take some off for the sale of the tickets.

1591
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:48,680
I just don't get that. I'm selling them for more

1592
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,359
than I bought them for, but I'm still gonna lose money.

1593
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:54,920
So how much to make a profit or even break even?

1594
01:15:55,039 --> 01:15:57,439
How high do I got to list these tickets? Nobody's

1595
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:58,399
gonna buy them.

1596
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 4: They get you twice, they get you coming and they

1597
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:03,319
get you going. This is it's it's a huge grift.

1598
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:04,520
Well are they gonna get me twice?

1599
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:06,359
Speaker 9: I get it for money?

1600
01:16:07,079 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 2: Make itt that? So let me ask you this. Can

1601
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:12,199
you you see your brothers like, man, I'll take this job.

1602
01:16:12,239 --> 01:16:13,760
I can't wait to be a part of this company.

1603
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,920
But man, my brother, my bro my flesh and blood

1604
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,239
gave me this really awesome set of caps tickets. Can

1605
01:16:20,279 --> 01:16:21,720
I at least have the night off of that? I mean,

1606
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:23,319
is he a waiter or what kind of night? What

1607
01:16:23,399 --> 01:16:24,079
kind of work does he do?

1608
01:16:24,199 --> 01:16:26,399
Speaker 17: He's a broadcast engineer in the job that he got

1609
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:27,680
in early February.

1610
01:16:28,119 --> 01:16:32,039
Speaker 2: You can't really deny if you don't damn. So he'll

1611
01:16:32,039 --> 01:16:36,960
be in New Orleans where in that game? So he's game. Yeah,

1612
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:41,840
he can't say no to that. Well I didn't realize

1613
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,279
the McGovern family was full of broadcasting people.

1614
01:16:44,359 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got offensive guards to the bills. Yeah,

1615
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,560
I did know he had his brother had a broadcasting job.

1616
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,760
That's got to talk to Conny matt I type of

1617
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,000
Connor town. Just ask him prying questions about his woman.

1618
01:16:55,039 --> 01:16:56,039
I ask him about his life.

1619
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 2: No, I respond to his text. What did I ask you?

1620
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:02,000
What did I You texted me something yesterday? Did you not? Connor?

1621
01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:06,520
Speaker 17: I did, yes. I asked Matt for Texas and basketball tickets.

1622
01:17:07,319 --> 01:17:08,399
Speaker 3: I gotta say.

1623
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,279
Speaker 4: I asked if he had a connection life advice?

1624
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: Sir?

1625
01:17:13,119 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 4: You know, no got your hand out versus tickets.

1626
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,159
Speaker 9: That's right, That's where you go to Matt Thomas for though.

1627
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:25,359
Speaker 2: That's what I'm used from everbody's ticket bitch. All right,

1628
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:30,319
h Ross, you mad think that you're the best.

1629
01:17:31,039 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 9: We love you.

1630
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:36,079
Speaker 4: Actually, I was gonna go in the same realm now,

1631
01:17:36,319 --> 01:17:38,439
I guess I was looking it up. The Justice part

1632
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:42,159
Department did suit Live Nation slash ticket Master to try

1633
01:17:42,159 --> 01:17:44,720
to break up their monopoly. But I was looking at

1634
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:50,680
the tickets for the Cotton Bowl Classic and the tickets

1635
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:52,640
that I mean, I just clicked on some random ones.

1636
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:56,319
There's seven hundred and fifty nine dollars. Now, I guess

1637
01:17:56,359 --> 01:17:58,920
my answer to getting this is the same for Connor.

1638
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:03,439
But the fee are two hundred and eighty three dollars,

1639
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,920
almost three hundred dollars in fees for a ticket that

1640
01:18:08,039 --> 01:18:09,199
is seven fifty nine.

1641
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 2: What is happening here? A single ticket says, is this? Yes?

1642
01:18:14,119 --> 01:18:18,239
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so a seven hundred and fifty nine

1643
01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:22,159
dollars ticket becomes one thousand and eighty four dollars. I'm sorry,

1644
01:18:22,159 --> 01:18:24,039
one one thousand and forty two dollars?

1645
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 10: Right?

1646
01:18:26,319 --> 01:18:33,319
Speaker 4: How is this allowed? I'm not gonna say what I

1647
01:18:33,359 --> 01:18:35,600
want to mention on this, for sure. I tell I'm

1648
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,479
not gonna say what I want to say. I don't

1649
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:39,359
want to get a watch list because it would be

1650
01:18:39,399 --> 01:18:41,600
a joke. But you get where I'm going. I think

1651
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:48,319
like something needs to happen here. This is ridiculous. This

1652
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,199
is for section two hundred, by the way, or like

1653
01:18:51,359 --> 01:18:53,920
by the by the goal line on the side.

1654
01:18:54,039 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 9: This is not premium tickets.

1655
01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 2: God, that's crazy. You know what, you know it's doing this.

1656
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:02,760
This is going to give you more reasons why to

1657
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:05,920
stop going to sporting events. It just is.

1658
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,359
Speaker 4: That's thirty seven percent. By the way, two hundred and

1659
01:19:09,399 --> 01:19:12,199
eighty of seven sixty is thirty seven. That's a thirty

1660
01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:15,840
seven percent feet How does that make sense?

1661
01:19:17,359 --> 01:19:19,359
Speaker 2: Where does no one can regulate this at this point?

1662
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,279
Speaker 9: No, I guess people are gonna pay it. I don't know.

1663
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing and I don't have an answer, you know what, Rossie,

1664
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:31,880
I just don't get it. I don't get you Ether.

1665
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:33,680
I just don't get And.

1666
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:35,640
Speaker 4: I'm not a big fan of government oversight, but like

1667
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:39,039
something that somebody has to do something, somebody has to

1668
01:19:39,079 --> 01:19:40,279
defend the people.

1669
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 2: And then why are you something they don't win?

1670
01:19:42,079 --> 01:19:42,239
Speaker 8: There?

1671
01:19:42,319 --> 01:19:43,079
Speaker 2: That was really weird.

1672
01:19:43,159 --> 01:19:46,159
Speaker 4: Oh but Matt, the tickets to the Cotton Bolt Classic.

1673
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 2: Oh but Matt, you cannot pay the fees. That's inside

1674
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:54,880
baseball and the Matt top.

1675
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:57,119
Speaker 9: That is way inside. But here I got you, Matt

1676
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,159
edder if we get Tom Brady instead of Matt show.

1677
01:20:02,319 --> 01:20:04,600
Speaker 2: I hood the ready and you have a you have

1678
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:06,960
a bounty on me? Did you try to take out

1679
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:11,000
my my? Aho? I got I'm just gonna keep coming.

1680
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,640
Speaker 9: Humility and restraint. Now, this is the best one. I think.

1681
01:20:15,159 --> 01:20:18,119
Speaker 2: I was down at Texans practice and I couldn't tell

1682
01:20:18,199 --> 01:20:20,239
if it was a football team or a bunch of

1683
01:20:20,319 --> 01:20:27,000
school girls. That clip is at least ten years old,

1684
01:20:27,039 --> 01:20:28,039
and it's so good.

1685
01:20:28,199 --> 01:20:30,640
Speaker 9: But you can always use it even if the team

1686
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:31,600
is fifteen and one.

1687
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 2: You could use it. That's right, That's right? Yeah? God,

1688
01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:44,600
Oh I love that it's a regular season award. Dylant.

1689
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:46,119
Speaker 9: This has tickled you this.

1690
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:50,399
Speaker 2: Oh my god, alright, Dylan, I totally get you, my man,

1691
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:54,319
I miss you. I totally get it. All right. Phone

1692
01:20:54,319 --> 01:20:56,079
calls are next. If you guys living in your life

1693
01:20:56,119 --> 01:21:00,279
you just don't get, let us help you. Seven one three, two,

1694
01:21:00,279 --> 01:21:02,720
one two five seven ninety seven one three, two, one

1695
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:04,079
two five or seven.

1696
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:09,640
Speaker 1: Ninety more Matt Thomas Show with Ross now Sports Talk

1697
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:14,960
seven ninety.

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01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 2: All Right, you know what we don't get? What don't

1699
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:20,399
you get? Seven one three, two, one two five, seven

1700
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:22,199
ninety It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. The News

1701
01:21:22,199 --> 01:21:23,840
at noon is coming up at the top of the hour.

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01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,760
We have an email don't at one and the Rotten

1703
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,479
five at one thirty, the final one and Believe It

1704
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:33,039
or Not today at one point fifty. Jacob nor Side

1705
01:21:33,079 --> 01:21:35,399
on seven ninety. Jacob, I have one simple question for you.

1706
01:21:35,479 --> 01:21:36,399
What don't you get?

1707
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,600
Speaker 11: I don't get how Rex Ryan could say that it's

1708
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:45,439
gonna be a bye week for LA. I think the

1709
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:49,520
criticism that the Texas are getting from CJ.

1710
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:50,680
Speaker 2: And coach Ryan.

1711
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:55,279
Speaker 11: Well, all the injuries, Okay, CJ's Rob receiver was injured.

1712
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,439
There's this top receive after the third game, injured, d

1713
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:06,760
is injured, the little guy injured, offensive line trash tight

1714
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:11,039
ends trash, and he stn ended up winning his division

1715
01:22:11,159 --> 01:22:13,560
with a tennis seven record. I just don't get in

1716
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:15,880
and I got one for you, Matt. How could you

1717
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:19,479
keep saying that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow is the guy.

1718
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:21,239
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow Man is done.

1719
01:22:21,279 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 10: He's in the wrong division.

1720
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 11: He might go to the NFC because he slungs in

1721
01:22:25,079 --> 01:22:27,479
there with Pittsburgh in the Ravens.

1722
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 2: He is not going to be making it to the playoffs.

1723
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,920
All right, thanks, that might be the case, But Joe

1724
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:38,920
Burrow is an excellent, excellent quarterback. I could easily build

1725
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,279
my franchise around Joe Burrow and not think twice about it.

1726
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:50,800
And as far as the national disrespect, I mean, Rossie,

1727
01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:53,359
the Texans had two opportunities on a national stage to

1728
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:56,279
prove that they were better than their ten and seven

1729
01:22:56,319 --> 01:22:59,520
record indicated, and losing the Kansas City on the road

1730
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,359
is no. You know, it's not an embarrassment. But you

1731
01:23:03,399 --> 01:23:06,359
were embarrassed by Baltimore on Christmas Day thirty one to two.

1732
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:12,560
Speaker 4: And then you roard back to beat the Tennessee Titans, Davis.

1733
01:23:12,239 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 2: Money Mills, Roardback, Damian Pierce, roardback, Hey.

1734
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:17,039
Speaker 9: CD Strow got a touchdown.

1735
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,399
Speaker 2: Then he looked good in the first series. But you

1736
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:23,359
had one last opportunity to improve the ten, to show

1737
01:23:23,399 --> 01:23:24,880
folks that maybe you were going to be a serious

1738
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:29,159
playoff contender, and you fell flat. So you shouldn't be

1739
01:23:29,199 --> 01:23:33,560
surprised that people are expecting you to not win this

1740
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:35,520
playoff game. So I get it.

1741
01:23:38,279 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 4: No, stop, don't. You don't get it to the extent

1742
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,760
of Rex Ryan calling it a bye.

1743
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,279
Speaker 9: Of course not, that's absurd. I mean I get it.

1744
01:23:46,039 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 2: That's hot take at its hot take, its best, right, Yeah,

1745
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:49,039
I get it.

1746
01:23:49,079 --> 01:23:51,359
Speaker 4: How many times have we said Rex Ryan the entire

1747
01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:52,960
year of twenty twenty four on this.

1748
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:56,399
Speaker 2: Show, Matt zero.

1749
01:23:57,359 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 9: How many times have we said it this week? Fifty? Yeah,

1750
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:01,640
so yeah, I give you said.

1751
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 2: We've also said toe fetish multiple times this week.

1752
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,680
Speaker 4: The instructions from whatever network and whatever show he was on,

1753
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,319
not even gonna mention it right, are to to make waves.

1754
01:24:11,399 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 2: And he made a wave, and we're talking about it.

1755
01:24:13,359 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 4: And he's being in Demico, rans is being asked about

1756
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:17,359
it in the media and all this type of stuff.

1757
01:24:18,039 --> 01:24:22,239
Speaker 2: Again, always good. Yeah, Polisy isn't always good.

1758
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,520
Speaker 4: A former NFL coach knows that there's no such thing

1759
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,760
in the buy as a buy in the regular season,

1760
01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:27,840
let alone the playoffs.

1761
01:24:28,239 --> 01:24:30,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're the Jets and you hear

1762
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:32,680
him say that, does that make them think twice about

1763
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:33,560
trying to hire the guy?

1764
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,399
Speaker 4: Well, he said he thinks he's getting the job. Maybe

1765
01:24:37,399 --> 01:24:40,000
he's just delesied, Maybe he's gottte.

1766
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 2: Maybe it's guy he's been inhaling too much toe jam. Well,

1767
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:43,199
he didn't really play in the NFL.

1768
01:24:43,239 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 4: Right, he's played in Oklahoma something or other A and

1769
01:24:46,039 --> 01:24:48,479
m right, I mean it's directional something.

1770
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:54,319
Speaker 2: He's sucking off of the daddy teat may Buddy rest

1771
01:24:55,199 --> 01:24:58,680
Man Mike on seven Outie, Mike, What don't you get

1772
01:24:58,680 --> 01:24:59,079
my friend?

1773
01:25:00,199 --> 01:25:01,760
Speaker 6: Well, I have two of them that are real close

1774
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,359
and they don't take long. When I was in school

1775
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:08,520
in the fifties, hazing. Hazing is not as prevalent today

1776
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:10,760
as it was when I was in school, but I

1777
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,600
was traumatized by having to eat mustard out of a

1778
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:17,279
dirty baby diaper. And the other one that I don't

1779
01:25:17,399 --> 01:25:19,840
like is shooting guns in the air. Why don't they

1780
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,479
shoot them in the ground. I say, a human kill

1781
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:22,920
a worm.

1782
01:25:23,199 --> 01:25:28,079
Speaker 2: That's it. Thank you. Ross. Let's go first to the

1783
01:25:28,199 --> 01:25:30,840
mustard and the dirty baby diaper. Your thoughts on.

1784
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 4: That, Mike, Well, yeah, that's the reason that hazing isn't

1785
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:36,760
as prevalent as used to be, because people went through

1786
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:38,800
a lot of trauma. I mean, when I was on

1787
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:42,800
campus in ut somebody died at one of the fraternities,

1788
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,840
and I am so sorry that you have to eat

1789
01:25:48,359 --> 01:25:53,000
mustard out of a used diaper. That's one of the

1790
01:25:53,079 --> 01:25:55,640
most disgusting things I've ever heard. Sorry for those of

1791
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:56,560
you heading to lunch.

1792
01:25:57,279 --> 01:26:01,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, in the fifties, what were they doing in

1793
01:26:01,399 --> 01:26:04,279
the fifties hazing? I thought I was just leaving to

1794
01:26:04,319 --> 01:26:11,800
beaver and let's go to the hop. God, and then

1795
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:13,600
the old shotgun down up in the air.

1796
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 15: Yeah.

1797
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,720
Speaker 2: I don't think fireing any sort of weapons unless you

1798
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:18,720
absolutely have to is probably the best thing to do.

1799
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:19,600
Uh Yeah.

1800
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,159
Speaker 4: People like to do that for whatever reason, to celebrate

1801
01:26:22,239 --> 01:26:25,800
New Year's and things, and it's a waste, ammost expensive man.

1802
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:28,680
Maybe it's a solution that Chris Rock came up within

1803
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:31,560
his stand up routine ages Ago. Make every bullet one

1804
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:36,520
thousand dollars. You see a lot less needless killings.

1805
01:26:37,039 --> 01:26:40,520
Speaker 2: That's right, That's right, all right? That is Are we done?

1806
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:43,760
I think so? Or is Mike and Clear like new

1807
01:26:44,359 --> 01:26:46,680
Mike Clear because who we just talked to? Okay, Mike,

1808
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:49,159
thank you very much. All right, let's turn this down. ROSSI.

1809
01:26:49,279 --> 01:26:50,920
You know, as part of this show, and I wonder

1810
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:54,439
this for the news at noon, we talk about blackjack

1811
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,479
a lot of the show. Yes, and how I believe

1812
01:26:57,479 --> 01:26:59,600
I am a a player, not a plus better name.

1813
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,840
I would consider you an a player as well. Thank

1814
01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:07,199
you most of the people. I don't know why that is.

1815
01:27:07,239 --> 01:27:09,840
In my life I get stuck with C minuses and

1816
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,399
D pluses and sometimes borderline f's. But if you're a

1817
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:14,159
five dollars table, you kind of expect the F to

1818
01:27:14,159 --> 01:27:16,359
be a part of the category. Yes, you're twenty five

1819
01:27:16,399 --> 01:27:18,359
dollars a table or higher, you should you'd have some

1820
01:27:18,399 --> 01:27:21,159
sort of basic rule indication of how to play the

1821
01:27:21,159 --> 01:27:23,439
world a blackjack. Right? Were you gambling recently?

1822
01:27:24,119 --> 01:27:24,239
Speaker 10: No?

1823
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:26,520
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean do I want to? Yes? But no,

1824
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:29,800
I gotta tell you something. A funny little clip happened,

1825
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:32,039
you know, I go through these Twitter reels and catch

1826
01:27:32,119 --> 01:27:36,840
me here's a comedian talking about blackjack and not how

1827
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:39,880
to play it, but his own way he wanted to

1828
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:41,319
play it. And by the way, Connor, what is the

1829
01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:42,840
what is the gentleman's name that said this.

1830
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:45,119
Speaker 9: Is Hannibal Burrs? I saw this as well. Is this clean?

1831
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 2: Yeah? It is clean? It is clean. Here is Hannibal Burr?

1832
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,600
Is he funny? Generally speaking? Rossie game? Because I laughed

1833
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,159
at this, He's kind of.

1834
01:27:56,239 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 9: Yes and no.

1835
01:27:56,840 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 4: Sometimes he makes me laugh and sometimes he kind of

1836
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:03,079
does that like non comedies, straight face, dead pan comedy

1837
01:28:03,119 --> 01:28:06,119
that and it doesn't resonate with me. But I would

1838
01:28:06,119 --> 01:28:08,239
say funny, yes, but he's not my favorite.

1839
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 2: This made me chuck.

1840
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:13,319
Speaker 8: You're not supposed to hit on seventeen.

1841
01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 5: But if I have seventeen and the dealer is showing ten,

1842
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,000
I'm supposed to assume that there is other cards are ten.

1843
01:28:19,079 --> 01:28:21,880
So I'm staying on seventeen against the twenty. I'm going

1844
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:23,800
out like a bitch. That's not how I like to live.

1845
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:27,560
So sometimes I hit on seventeen.

1846
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:29,520
Speaker 9: Situation came a pac table.

1847
01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:32,119
Speaker 5: I had seventeen dealers showing ten. I was the last

1848
01:28:32,119 --> 01:28:34,039
one to go before the dealer port Again, I said,

1849
01:28:34,159 --> 01:28:36,880
hit everybody at the table gash.

1850
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 9: Oh no, this dude is on.

1851
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:43,159
Speaker 2: Till he's on full, till he's out of control. Even

1852
01:28:43,199 --> 01:28:45,399
if Phyler said, are you sure, Yes, I'm sure.

1853
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 5: I'm hitting on seventeen, I busted out twenty seven.

1854
01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:58,520
Speaker 2: Turns out Dealer's other car was a five. I took

1855
01:28:58,560 --> 01:28:58,920
his ten.

1856
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 5: He would have busted out, which twenty five is?

1857
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 2: Ness cars? A six?

1858
01:29:02,319 --> 01:29:03,279
Speaker 9: He got twenty one.

1859
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 2: Everybody lost.

1860
01:29:05,319 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 9: I took everybody down with me.

1861
01:29:10,479 --> 01:29:13,079
Speaker 2: ROSSI. That happened to me in New Orleans, not this

1862
01:29:13,199 --> 01:29:13,840
previous trip.

1863
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 9: At the time before somebody hit US seventeen.

1864
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:22,319
Speaker 2: Somebody hit US seventeen. He busted Was it Hannibalworth? He

1865
01:29:22,399 --> 01:29:24,359
was wearing an LSU cap, which I should have never

1866
01:29:24,399 --> 01:29:26,560
been playing cards with the LSU because they don't know

1867
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:35,319
what twenty one is except maybe they're IQ levels. That's rude, Matthew.

1868
01:29:36,279 --> 01:29:42,520
It's not. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, but I

1869
01:29:42,560 --> 01:29:45,079
was not happy. It doesn't seem like you're kidding. I

1870
01:29:45,079 --> 01:29:46,920
think I called didn't I call you a text? You're

1871
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:48,520
like you wouldn't believe what just happened. You might have

1872
01:29:48,560 --> 01:29:52,359
texted me, Oh god, you just got mad? You gotta

1873
01:29:52,439 --> 01:29:54,600
let it go. You know what I gotta start doing honestly,

1874
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:56,920
which is not great because it's the odds go back

1875
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:58,640
to the house even more so than they before. I

1876
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:02,399
gotta put by myself. Well it's not only that, Yeah,

1877
01:30:02,399 --> 01:30:05,199
it's just did you play so fast? And well what

1878
01:30:05,239 --> 01:30:06,680
I what I'm gonna what I'm gonna do is if

1879
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:08,439
I have the money, I will play by myself and

1880
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:10,039
play two hands at Lisa, slow it down.

1881
01:30:10,199 --> 01:30:12,039
Speaker 4: When you play by so fast, You're like, man, I

1882
01:30:12,119 --> 01:30:13,880
just lost seven hundred dollars in six minutes.

1883
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 9: This is great.

1884
01:30:16,079 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 2: It's happened before Rossie. It has the news at noon,

1885
01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:22,000
starts the third hour the Matt Thomas Show with Ross

1886
01:30:22,039 --> 01:30:23,640
This is Sports Talk seven.

1887
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:27,560
Speaker 1: Ninety lunchtimers.

1888
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 9: This is the Matt Thomas Show.

1889
01:30:30,399 --> 01:30:32,960
Speaker 2: Here we go. It's twelve oh two on Sports Talk seven.

1890
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,560
Hunting shout out to my friend Cajun Tiger. Yes you

1891
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:39,000
are a Tier one research school, Lsu. I believe the

1892
01:30:39,039 --> 01:30:42,319
Tier one research is in. I believe gumbo production. Ross

1893
01:30:42,319 --> 01:30:42,920
is that correct?

1894
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,479
Speaker 4: And they hand out the handout to anyone. Didn't you

1895
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:47,159
of age get that designation recently too?

1896
01:30:47,199 --> 01:30:49,359
Speaker 2: Have it? We just just pay your fee we have

1897
01:30:49,399 --> 01:30:52,439
a great new medical school. We've got a great law school.

1898
01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:55,840
We've got an outstanding broadcasting school. Should be the Thomas

1899
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:57,760
School of Communication, but the Cault the Valentin.

1900
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 9: I'm going Nance, It's fine.

1901
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 2: Whatever. Shout out to Jim Nance. By the way, I'm

1902
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:05,680
gonna call this five hundred the NFL game wow this

1903
01:31:06,119 --> 01:31:09,520
Sunday when the Bills take on the Denver Broncos.

1904
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 9: Congratulations to him.

1905
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:13,640
Speaker 2: Great job, great friend of the show.

1906
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:17,159
Speaker 4: Wonderful friend of the show. It really admires your career, Matt.

1907
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:18,680
Speaker 2: He said it before.

1908
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:23,760
Speaker 4: Remember, yeah, he was, Yeah, I remember. He's like, Mick,

1909
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:25,560
I just admired your career for so long.

1910
01:31:26,319 --> 01:31:27,720
Speaker 2: I think he did call me by the wrong name.

1911
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:32,119
That's fine, that's okay, Matt. You're doing you. Guys that

1912
01:31:32,159 --> 01:31:34,279
have told me that they followed my career is Kevin

1913
01:31:34,279 --> 01:31:36,399
Harlan and Jim Nance. I don't know. Is that one

1914
01:31:36,399 --> 01:31:38,159
of those things when you become a big time networker,

1915
01:31:38,399 --> 01:31:40,000
anything you're going to show, you're supposed to your follow

1916
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:40,560
the guy's career.

1917
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,079
Speaker 4: No, Matt, it's because you're so great they're actually following

1918
01:31:43,119 --> 01:31:43,439
your career.

1919
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:45,079
Speaker 9: Kevin Harland's probably listening right now.

1920
01:31:45,239 --> 01:31:49,159
Speaker 2: Sub keV keV. What's up, dude? Great calls per usual

1921
01:31:49,159 --> 01:31:51,319
on the NBA on team. Yes, hopefully you'll be doing

1922
01:31:51,399 --> 01:31:54,119
some games on I'm going to presume Amazon because I can't.

1923
01:31:54,119 --> 01:31:56,000
You can't work for NBC because you work for already

1924
01:31:56,039 --> 01:31:57,319
for CBS, so.

1925
01:31:58,199 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 4: H you know I should turn to the play by

1926
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:01,520
play NERD on this, man. I saw an argument breaking

1927
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:06,199
out on Twitter the other day Mike Breen's bang versus

1928
01:32:06,319 --> 01:32:08,000
Kevin Harlan's good.

1929
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 2: Can I play the fifth on this?

1930
01:32:17,239 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 4: You could say they're both equally deserving.

1931
01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both great because first of all, they're really

1932
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:28,199
really nice people. That's the thing about the We're very

1933
01:32:28,319 --> 01:32:30,000
and not that you, I mean, you didn't trust me

1934
01:32:30,039 --> 01:32:32,279
when I tell you that Iron Eagle, who's doing the

1935
01:32:32,279 --> 01:32:35,479
Texans game against the Chargers on Saturday, is super nice.

1936
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:41,520
I've only Jim Nance amazing, Kevin Harlan the best of

1937
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:45,000
the best. I don't know, who would you like to

1938
01:32:45,039 --> 01:32:46,279
know if I know these people or not?

1939
01:32:47,399 --> 01:32:49,279
Speaker 4: I don't know, Tariko, We're gonna have to start getting

1940
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:52,880
a name dropping cow for you too, now, no chance,

1941
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:55,600
no chance.

1942
01:32:55,359 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 2: All right, ladies, And that's another deep in side baseball

1943
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:03,079
on the battop the show of Ross. That was more

1944
01:33:03,079 --> 01:33:07,359
proper gentleman. Yes, that's funny, all right. Time down for

1945
01:33:07,399 --> 01:33:12,760
the news of dude. And with that we go the

1946
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:19,199
news desk. Yes, Matthew, the Edward R Moral of journalism

1947
01:33:19,239 --> 01:33:19,640
not here.

1948
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:22,680
Speaker 4: Instead, it's Ross. I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm filling in this week.

1949
01:33:23,319 --> 01:33:27,279
So the Texans getting ready for the Los Angeles Chargers.

1950
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:32,960
Maligned offensive coordinator for your Houston Texans. I have a

1951
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,319
couple of bites from him. Let's start with an easy one.

1952
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,880
Bobby Slowick, what's going on with you and the New

1953
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:38,680
York Jets.

1954
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:40,600
Speaker 2: I have no idea.

1955
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 18: That's not even allowed this week, So that's far from

1956
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:44,520
anywhere on.

1957
01:33:44,399 --> 01:33:46,960
Speaker 2: My radar, believe him or not.

1958
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 4: The Jets job not on Bobby Slowak's radar. Not He's like, dang,

1959
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:57,159
I better call a good game this week. Try to

1960
01:33:57,159 --> 01:33:59,279
get that six seven million or whatever you get for

1961
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:00,520
being a head coach.

1962
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:02,800
Speaker 2: If I call a good game, I'm in the top

1963
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:06,399
of the list if I am. If I call it

1964
01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:08,600
bad game, I got fanboys looking for my job.

1965
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:11,520
Speaker 4: And you know that's another reason to believe in Bobby

1966
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:16,279
Sloan this weekend, right right, Bobby slock this is good news,

1967
01:34:16,279 --> 01:34:18,960
says he has seen the defensive scheme from the LA

1968
01:34:19,159 --> 01:34:20,880
Chargers that he's going to face this weekend.

1969
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:21,720
Speaker 2: Seen it before.

1970
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:26,319
Speaker 18: You know, anytime you have similar type systems that you're

1971
01:34:26,319 --> 01:34:29,600
going against, you know, just familiarity with it, I think

1972
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:33,000
helps breed confidence for the entire offense and not just

1973
01:34:33,079 --> 01:34:35,720
coaches but players just as much, maybe even more so.

1974
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,439
And we've really faced this type of tree or system.

1975
01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:43,000
I feel like, I feel like five times in the

1976
01:34:43,079 --> 01:34:45,640
last seven weeks or so, like Tennessee's kind of from

1977
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:49,159
the same fold. So I think we have a pretty

1978
01:34:49,159 --> 01:34:51,960
good handle on what we can expect, especially when you

1979
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:55,000
get to situational football. Like I said, they're a little

1980
01:34:55,039 --> 01:34:57,760
different what the Chargers do in first second down and

1981
01:34:58,039 --> 01:35:00,840
in particular in the middle of the field and kind

1982
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:01,640
of how they play that.

1983
01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:03,119
Speaker 2: So that's some adjustments. Will it to me.

1984
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:11,920
Speaker 4: Coaching for his Jets head coach life familiar with the

1985
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:16,239
scheme home game, Let's go Texans. You don't want that job,

1986
01:35:17,279 --> 01:35:20,479
the Jets job. Nope, it's kind of cursed, right.

1987
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 2: Let me let's go this really quick. I know what

1988
01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:24,079
you got other headlines to get too. Let's go to

1989
01:35:24,119 --> 01:35:26,279
the job. That're open. Raiders, jab you want that?

1990
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:27,239
Speaker 8: Nope?

1991
01:35:29,359 --> 01:35:33,319
Speaker 2: Jets job? Do you want that? Nope? Jaguars job? You

1992
01:35:33,319 --> 01:35:34,680
want that? Nope?

1993
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:36,000
Speaker 18: Uh?

1994
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:40,199
Speaker 2: Who else? Gott let go of Bears? You want that job?

1995
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:46,000
Maybe that seems to be I mean, the best of

1996
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:46,479
the worst.

1997
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:52,760
Speaker 4: Patriots Drake may Roster's horrible, by the way.

1998
01:35:53,359 --> 01:35:54,920
Speaker 2: And by the way, a one and done coach just

1999
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:55,800
got finished there.

2000
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 9: New Orleans Saints.

2001
01:35:59,239 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 2: Let's let's flip what's the most attractive of those all

2002
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:03,239
those jobs we just brought up.

2003
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:05,279
Speaker 4: I mean, the first thing you think of his quarterback,

2004
01:36:05,319 --> 01:36:07,119
I'm gonna go with the Bears. They have a good secondary,

2005
01:36:07,159 --> 01:36:09,640
they have some defensive pieces, and they have Caleb Williams,

2006
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:13,359
who I mean his raw He has a lot of

2007
01:36:13,399 --> 01:36:14,840
bad numbers, but at the end of the day, what

2008
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:17,000
was it like nineteen touchdowns, three picks or something, So

2009
01:36:17,159 --> 01:36:18,800
those numbers are good something to work with.

2010
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:20,359
Speaker 9: He can get better in his second year. I'd go

2011
01:36:20,359 --> 01:36:20,880
with the Bears.

2012
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 2: I guess best of the worst is the Chicago Bear job.

2013
01:36:25,119 --> 01:36:27,439
Speaker 9: Maybe if you're the worst, would.

2014
01:36:27,239 --> 01:36:30,600
Speaker 2: Have to be probably Jet Raiders.

2015
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:31,399
Speaker 9: The Raiders.

2016
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:34,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Raider? All right? What else happened?

2017
01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:35,560
Speaker 9: Saints turn good?

2018
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 4: The Saints have like a horrible, horrible cap situation, and

2019
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:40,560
Derek Carr is their quarterback and.

2020
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:42,159
Speaker 2: No quarterback, I mean a lot of money tied up

2021
01:36:42,159 --> 01:36:42,479
into him.

2022
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:43,920
Speaker 9: You know what, Let's put the Saints last, just to

2023
01:36:43,920 --> 01:36:45,199
make Gordon band fine.

2024
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:46,840
Speaker 2: I like that.

2025
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:48,600
Speaker 4: All right, Let's keep it moving along. Let's go to

2026
01:36:48,600 --> 01:36:52,199
some baseball here. Mentioned this earlier on the show, Chandler

2027
01:36:52,279 --> 01:36:56,239
Rome of the Athletic reporting that the Astros and utility

2028
01:36:56,279 --> 01:37:01,159
man Mauricio Dubon have settled at five million dollars avoiding arbitration.

2029
01:37:01,640 --> 01:37:06,199
Astros have settled with some other players, including Luis Garcia

2030
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:07,560
fromber Valdez.

2031
01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:08,520
Speaker 9: Chas McCormick.

2032
01:37:09,119 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, no, Luis Garcia is the only one they

2033
01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:15,079
have settled with at this moment. The ones that remain

2034
01:37:15,239 --> 01:37:20,119
unsettled fromber Chas McCormick, Jake Myers, Jeremy Pania, Brian Abrad,

2035
01:37:20,159 --> 01:37:23,279
you and Essik Paratus.

2036
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:23,960
Speaker 14: M.

2037
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:28,319
Speaker 2: I think they'll all get resolved. I don't think we

2038
01:37:28,359 --> 01:37:30,520
should be sitting here worried at twelve o nine that

2039
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:31,880
these things would not have been resolved yet.

2040
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:33,920
Speaker 9: Yes, six of them. When's the deadline? It's today?

2041
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 2: Correct? Right?

2042
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:35,159
Speaker 10: Yeah?

2043
01:37:36,359 --> 01:37:38,560
Speaker 2: They usually come pretty fast and furious. You will see

2044
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:41,039
a plethora of people tweeting it out and they of

2045
01:37:41,239 --> 01:37:43,520
other bunch of other people that will say I've confirmed

2046
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:44,960
with other legitimate media.

2047
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:48,199
Speaker 4: Have said yeah, and sticking quickly with the baseball angle.

2048
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:54,880
Justin Verlander one year, fifteen million dollars. Some people wondering, Matt,

2049
01:37:55,079 --> 01:37:57,399
if the Astros should have been interested in a one year,

2050
01:37:57,479 --> 01:37:59,960
fifteen million dollar deal with Justin Verlander.

2051
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:06,319
Speaker 2: This may be an unpopitar belief. I would have offered

2052
01:38:06,319 --> 01:38:08,600
it to him.

2053
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:12,640
Speaker 4: Come good, worst season of his career, forty two years old,

2054
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,960
been hurt last two years. Not like his injury health

2055
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,560
is gonna get better when you're forty two, Matt, you're

2056
01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:19,479
injury prone.

2057
01:38:20,079 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 2: But you know what the ross I have to start

2058
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:27,960
realizing that that's basically about average compensation for a mid

2059
01:38:28,039 --> 01:38:33,159
level starting pitcher, as crazy as that sounds.

2060
01:38:33,359 --> 01:38:36,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, it depends on where Luis Garcia is in his rehab.

2061
01:38:36,359 --> 01:38:40,119
Same thing for Lance mccullor's junior JP France. But you

2062
01:38:40,199 --> 01:38:42,319
do have some options. Dana Brown has come out and said,

2063
01:38:42,319 --> 01:38:45,239
Hazen wood Zinski, the trade piece back from the Cubs

2064
01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:47,279
is going to be in line to start. Then you've

2065
01:38:47,319 --> 01:38:50,520
got from Er. You've got Hunter Brown, Renew Blanco, Spencer Raghetti.

2066
01:38:51,159 --> 01:38:54,119
You do have some names, not necessarily them that carry

2067
01:38:54,119 --> 01:38:54,520
the weight.

2068
01:38:54,399 --> 01:38:57,079
Speaker 2: Of justin ge JP France. He's like, Hey, I'm I don't.

2069
01:38:56,880 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 4: Say JP France, all right, So I mean I wouldn't

2070
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,159
say it was the craziest thing ever. One year fifteen

2071
01:39:04,199 --> 01:39:08,279
million is you know, that's not the craziest contract ever.

2072
01:39:09,279 --> 01:39:13,039
But he is now a San Francisco Giant.

2073
01:39:13,319 --> 01:39:15,640
Speaker 2: But as you say all these things, and I told

2074
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:17,680
y'all it was either a gut feeling or to tell

2075
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:20,279
the truth that they tech the Astros should try to

2076
01:39:20,319 --> 01:39:23,199
move Farmber. You can't move now, not unless things fall

2077
01:39:23,239 --> 01:39:24,920
apart here before at the end of the season, where

2078
01:39:25,199 --> 01:39:26,800
you may make him as a trade deadline.

2079
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:28,720
Speaker 4: Unless you're hunting on the season, which clearly they're not

2080
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:30,800
with the signing of Christian Walker.

2081
01:39:31,039 --> 01:39:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you absolutely need a veteran innings eater, and that's

2082
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:36,720
what Farmer Valdas is.

2083
01:39:37,239 --> 01:39:38,680
Speaker 9: All right, Matt moving along.

2084
01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:41,399
Speaker 4: This is kind of offbeat, but this is kind of

2085
01:39:41,399 --> 01:39:46,000
on beat because it is sports news. Dan Hurley, did

2086
01:39:46,039 --> 01:39:50,000
you see what happened to yukon as Alex Caraban, the

2087
01:39:50,119 --> 01:39:54,399
red Shoot, red Shirt junior on the Yukon Husky squad

2088
01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:58,560
missed three clutch free throws at the end of the

2089
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:02,239
game as Yukon lost sixty eight to sixty six.

2090
01:40:02,399 --> 01:40:05,399
Speaker 9: Well, Dan Hurley, take it away.

2091
01:40:06,039 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 19: You know when you've had, you know, the incredible moments,

2092
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:14,119
the fairy tale uh, you know, the fairy tale back

2093
01:40:14,159 --> 01:40:17,920
to back national champion coming back for a third, it's

2094
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:21,159
like life. Sometimes you gotta go, uh you know, sometimes

2095
01:40:21,239 --> 01:40:25,079
you you got each you know, like sometimes you know

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01:40:25,119 --> 01:40:27,199
you're gonna have bad moments. Just what I told him

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01:40:27,239 --> 01:40:29,840
to do, though, is you know when you feel sad tonight,

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01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:32,119
just get off the bus and get back to campus

2099
01:40:32,159 --> 01:40:34,479
and do what I did after maw We just pull

2100
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:37,039
your your your box and rings out and maybe just

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01:40:37,119 --> 01:40:39,800
kind of play with your back to back national championship

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01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:41,119
rings and get ready for Georgetown.

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01:40:42,439 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 4: Sometimes you gotta eat bleep, says Dan Hurley.

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01:40:53,039 --> 01:41:00,239
Speaker 2: Dan Hurley was thinking about going to an NBA. I

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01:41:00,239 --> 01:41:04,479
think the Lakers wanted him, did they not? Yes, Dan

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01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:09,199
Harley would have lasted forty games in the NBA. As

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01:41:09,239 --> 01:41:11,479
soft as these guys' egos are at the NBA level,

2108
01:41:12,279 --> 01:41:20,520
it would have never ever ever lasted by the way

2109
01:41:20,359 --> 01:41:22,079
they did they lose that game at home? Or was

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01:41:22,079 --> 01:41:24,880
I on the road. Don't know. I can go back

2111
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:26,920
and look it up, because I want to say, I'm

2112
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:29,319
gonna look this up right now. I believe the longest

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01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:35,399
division at Villanova. Yeah, let me take a look here.

2114
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:40,359
I think the longest nash and longest run for consecutive

2115
01:41:40,399 --> 01:41:44,000
wins at home would happen to be to belong to

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01:41:44,039 --> 01:41:52,720
the University of Houston Cougars. You don't seem impressed. It's great.

2117
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:57,239
Good for them, at least they're tired. Yeah, because I'm

2118
01:41:57,279 --> 01:41:59,359
looking at Yukon's record, I don't have lost a home

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01:41:59,399 --> 01:41:59,800
game yet.

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01:42:00,039 --> 01:42:03,079
Speaker 9: The Cougar's poised for another. They keep climbing the rankings.

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01:42:03,119 --> 01:42:06,800
Speaker 2: I assume YEP. Playing Kansas State this Saturday in Manhattan.

2122
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:10,279
Hm hmm. What a day of Saturday. You got Texans,

2123
01:42:10,319 --> 01:42:12,359
You got Rockets in the afternoon game. You got the

2124
01:42:12,399 --> 01:42:14,680
Cougars at afternoon game. You got the Texans playing at

2125
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:15,560
three point thirty.

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01:42:15,359 --> 01:42:20,399
Speaker 4: Oh Man Prime, napping weather sitting our friends at kN Palm.

2127
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:24,720
Big believers in the University of Houston. Cougar's again got

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01:42:24,720 --> 01:42:27,119
them as the number three team in the country behind

2129
01:42:27,159 --> 01:42:28,560
Douala and Auburn.

2130
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 2: Love it best defense in the country right there, stifling

2131
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:33,039
as the kids would say.

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01:42:33,159 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, and actually got shooters this year.

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01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:37,720
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, they do. Shooting evolved very very well. That's

2134
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:40,319
what it feels like. That's what they've been missing back. Yeah,

2135
01:42:40,359 --> 01:42:40,800
it's good.

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01:42:41,079 --> 01:42:41,239
Speaker 8: L J.

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01:42:41,359 --> 01:42:44,319
Speaker 2: Carrs are okay for himself, wonderful.

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01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:45,279
Speaker 10: All right.

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01:42:45,720 --> 01:42:47,079
Speaker 2: I want you to get a board. I want you

2140
01:42:47,159 --> 01:42:48,680
to love them. What you need your love?

2141
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, get a board.

2142
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:54,319
Speaker 2: No, get on on board. Oh, get a board.

2143
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 9: I got you. I'm stupid. What kind of board do

2144
01:42:56,880 --> 01:42:57,640
you want?

2145
01:42:58,119 --> 01:43:03,359
Speaker 2: Skateboard? Uh, monopoly board, snowboard? No, they were good. You

2146
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:06,640
mean it's Dallas people named me meaning a snowboard. And

2147
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:10,800
Matt there is your news at noon. Thank you very much.

2148
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:13,640
Ross at the news desk seven one three two one

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01:43:13,680 --> 01:43:16,119
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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01:43:16,239 --> 01:43:18,960
five seven ninety We will have em Adoka coming up

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01:43:19,239 --> 01:43:22,119
in forty five minutes. Now, Ross, you have a let

2152
01:43:22,199 --> 01:43:23,479
me just give you. Make sure you're planning out the

2153
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:26,720
rest of your day. Rotten five at twelve thirty, one

2154
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,640
thirty excuse me once, thank God, and believe it or not.

2155
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:36,039
Today at one fifty the category is ummm, you know,

2156
01:43:36,079 --> 01:43:37,560
it would be actually kind of funny what you do

2157
01:43:38,079 --> 01:43:43,680
hazing incidents. Uh, I said funny. Oh, you should do

2158
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:45,399
things and we should have the people figure out if

2159
01:43:45,399 --> 01:43:49,079
it's if you're just talking about Jim Harbaugh or John Harbaugh,

2160
01:43:50,159 --> 01:43:53,439
Jim or John. I'm good. Yeah, like you'll give a

2161
01:43:53,479 --> 01:43:55,720
statum about somebody, you'll say it's a Jim or John.

2162
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,439
Got a little bit, a little bit of a uh differential,

2163
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:01,920
different way to do, believe it or not today. No,

2164
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:06,319
I'm good. Okay, what about Josh is dad? Uh? Is

2165
01:44:06,359 --> 01:44:10,000
he so alive? That's a great question. I'm gonna say no,

2166
01:44:11,119 --> 01:44:18,920
I'm gonna say he's live. And then their sister is married. Yeah,

2167
01:44:19,039 --> 01:44:22,039
see their sister married Tom Crean, who used to be

2168
01:44:22,119 --> 01:44:27,079
a college basketball coach. I think he works for ESPN now,

2169
01:44:27,119 --> 01:44:29,199
I think if you don't hold me to that, all right?

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01:44:29,279 --> 01:44:32,079
Seven one three two one two five seven Nintie seven

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01:44:32,119 --> 01:44:35,920
one three two one two five seven Hounty, I have

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one question for you that I need to get a

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response from from you on the phone lines at seven

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one three two one two five seven Hontie. Can you

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feel it the it is a Texan victory? Seven one

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Speaker 1: Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Viareal Fine Fine Sports

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Talk seven ninety.

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01:46:07,680 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 2: Twelve twenty two on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:12,000
I'm here in Memphis, Ross back in Houston, and I

2200
01:46:12,079 --> 01:46:14,119
forgot something Ross, and that's my fault. We have a

2201
01:46:14,159 --> 01:46:20,199
sports MPT theater coming up on the show today, wonderful

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01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:24,000
and it's at twelve thirty. I can'n out. Yes, Can

2203
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:27,239
we give an audience of the a little hint as

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01:46:27,319 --> 01:46:28,119
to what it's gonna be about?

2205
01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:34,159
Speaker 4: H I would say U two Hall of Fame big men. Yes,

2206
01:46:36,239 --> 01:46:38,039
that you'd give it away for those who've been paying attention.

2207
01:46:38,760 --> 01:46:40,920
Speaker 2: Uh, real quick, before we go to the phones, I

2208
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:42,840
sent you a text about something about one of your

2209
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:45,439
sponsors that I think is interesting at least worth reading about.

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01:46:45,479 --> 01:46:47,640
Since they do spend money on our radio show in

2211
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:51,279
this station, You're more than welcome to read it. Okay,

2212
01:46:51,319 --> 01:46:54,520
Oh you sent me a text. I certainly did. I'm sorry.

2213
01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:56,640
You know. I focus on the show me man, I'm

2214
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,960
not on my phone during this. That's what I'm telling

2215
01:47:00,079 --> 01:47:03,399
you right now on the radio, Organic Baby, let's go.

2216
01:47:04,239 --> 01:47:06,720
Speaker 4: In case you missed it, DraftKings and Delta announced a

2217
01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:10,279
partnership that will include DraftKings powered gaming options on the

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01:47:10,319 --> 01:47:16,079
back of Delta seedback screen Further details have not been released,

2219
01:47:16,079 --> 01:47:19,119
but federal law prohibits real money sports betting while in

2220
01:47:19,199 --> 01:47:19,720
the air.

2221
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:21,560
Speaker 9: Then what are they doing?

2222
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,079
Speaker 2: Well, somebody's gonna have to make a phone call to

2223
01:47:25,119 --> 01:47:29,359
a special interest group, right, I guess is it interesting?

2224
01:47:29,399 --> 01:47:34,920
How you can? I honestly think unless you get massive internet,

2225
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:37,880
better Wi Fi coverage, I think it's a very slippery

2226
01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:41,760
slope that your your friends over there at DraftKings are

2227
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:45,039
going through right now, don't you think? I mean, we've

2228
01:47:45,399 --> 01:47:47,079
how many time? Many times have you been? You thought

2229
01:47:47,079 --> 01:47:50,159
you'd something done, connected and purchased, and all of a sudden,

2230
01:47:50,159 --> 01:47:51,159
the Internet just goes away.

2231
01:47:51,239 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 4: WiFi is horrible, you know what I've God, this is

2232
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:57,119
how they got me. I forgot to tell American Airlines

2233
01:47:57,119 --> 01:47:59,960
I wanted a refund on the way back from Korea.

2234
01:48:00,119 --> 01:48:01,760
Speaker 9: Been thirty dollars on that internet.

2235
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:05,039
Speaker 2: Well you can still you can still argue it, can't you.

2236
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:08,039
Speaker 4: I didn't tell somebody. It wasn't even working. It wasn't

2237
01:48:08,079 --> 01:48:08,640
working at all.

2238
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 2: Now, Schmid, it is using Elon musk New satellites for

2239
01:48:15,119 --> 01:48:18,960
their better WiFi. Okay, is that working? I don't know.

2240
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:20,560
I don't know if they've done anyet but that's the plan.

2241
01:48:20,760 --> 01:48:23,439
So there every airline is trying to do their best,

2242
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:25,560
and Elon and Musk is helping out Schmiden.

2243
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:27,000
Speaker 9: So what grift is that?

2244
01:48:27,079 --> 01:48:28,720
Speaker 4: By the way, they keep taking more and more of

2245
01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:30,840
your leg room, they give you worse and worse food

2246
01:48:31,159 --> 01:48:33,199
they take away. I mean, they charge you more and

2247
01:48:33,239 --> 01:48:35,239
more for bags, they charge you for Wi Fi that

2248
01:48:35,279 --> 01:48:36,119
doesn't work.

2249
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:41,000
Speaker 2: Right, and they're not as hot. What do you mean

2250
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:50,680
they're flying attendants? Maybe? Maybe Why are you worried about that?

2251
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,680
Because don't you want a pleasant smiling face when you're

2252
01:48:55,079 --> 01:48:55,359
I just.

2253
01:48:55,319 --> 01:48:57,520
Speaker 4: Want good service. Matt, Hey, I'm on an airplane. What

2254
01:48:57,560 --> 01:48:58,239
are you gonna do.

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01:49:00,039 --> 01:49:00,159
Speaker 10: Well?

2256
01:49:00,159 --> 01:49:02,039
Speaker 2: I mean maybe you're a single guy, You're like, what's up?

2257
01:49:02,039 --> 01:49:02,279
Speaker 6: Girl?

2258
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 9: You lay them down sweetly in the bathroom.

2259
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:09,840
Speaker 2: No, you cannot mile high up anymore. That's not gonna happen.

2260
01:49:10,399 --> 01:49:13,319
You're so weird. I'm just bringing it up as a

2261
01:49:13,319 --> 01:49:14,199
conversation piece.

2262
01:49:14,399 --> 01:49:16,119
Speaker 4: I guess you know what I heard, by the ways,

2263
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:19,079
what I wasn't able to fly on Korean air but

2264
01:49:19,119 --> 01:49:22,079
I heard it's like a huge thing to be like,

2265
01:49:22,119 --> 01:49:27,640
there are auditions to be a Korean Air flight attendant,

2266
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:30,399
So maybe you should fly Korean air to.

2267
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:33,680
Speaker 2: Go where you can't fly Houston to Atlanta on Korean Air, you.

2268
01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:35,960
Speaker 4: Could fly like Dallas to LA because the flight's going

2269
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:37,640
over there from La to to Korea.

2270
01:49:37,640 --> 01:49:42,520
Speaker 2: Anyways, they're gonna drop me off maybe, Okay, I see

2271
01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:46,520
how you're working it. I'm just you know, one of

2272
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:48,880
my very good friends married a flight attendant on a

2273
01:49:48,880 --> 01:49:49,640
flight one time.

2274
01:49:49,960 --> 01:49:50,920
Speaker 9: They met on a flight.

2275
01:49:51,880 --> 01:49:56,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. M you know there's a song called Love Is

2276
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:58,039
in the Air, and it makes a lot of sense.

2277
01:50:00,279 --> 01:50:02,520
Speaker 4: Is that what it's about? The Mile High Club? I

2278
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:03,119
didn't know that.

2279
01:50:03,239 --> 01:50:07,439
Speaker 2: No, no, no, they didn't Mile Hyatt Bob Wai? Do

2280
01:50:07,479 --> 01:50:09,000
you really want to do that? Is that? Is that

2281
01:50:09,039 --> 01:50:13,479
one of those checklist things in your life? No? Cramped bathroom? No,

2282
01:50:14,079 --> 01:50:14,680
that's zero.

2283
01:50:14,880 --> 01:50:18,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a much more. It's much more. Weren't

2284
01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:20,800
there bigger bathrooms on the planes like in the sixties?

2285
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:23,239
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't alive, so I can't really give you

2286
01:50:23,239 --> 01:50:25,760
any sort of that. Well that was around your time.

2287
01:50:26,840 --> 01:50:31,640
It's not around my time. No thanks though. Seven one

2288
01:50:31,760 --> 01:50:34,079
three two one two five seven hounty. I asked you

2289
01:50:34,119 --> 01:50:35,880
all in just a minute ago, a few minutes ago.

2290
01:50:36,239 --> 01:50:41,199
Can you feel the buzz the energy now? Naturally, it's

2291
01:50:41,279 --> 01:50:45,000
playoff time. You're gonna be optimistic. You're gonna say, look,

2292
01:50:45,039 --> 01:50:49,239
the Chargers don't have this deep playoff history. You know,

2293
01:50:49,279 --> 01:50:52,159
it's not like Justin Herbert has loads of experience. It's

2294
01:50:52,199 --> 01:50:53,920
not like the Chargers have not let an egg over

2295
01:50:53,960 --> 01:50:56,119
the course of the year. And the Texans typically with

2296
01:50:56,199 --> 01:50:58,239
exception of the Baltimore game and the Tennessee game, had

2297
01:50:58,279 --> 01:51:01,000
played significantly better at home than they have on the road.

2298
01:51:02,319 --> 01:51:07,920
There's no reason why they can't beat the Chargers. They're

2299
01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:09,359
going to beat the Chargers. Let's go.

2300
01:51:10,119 --> 01:51:10,640
Speaker 9: I believe.

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01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:14,840
Speaker 2: Okay, you heard it from sports Harvy seven one three, two,

2302
01:51:14,840 --> 01:51:17,680
one two five, seven eighty Robert and Katie at twelve

2303
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:20,079
twenty seven on seven eighty Robert, good afternoon to you.

2304
01:51:20,960 --> 01:51:23,439
Speaker 20: Hey guys, I guess you were talking about love at

2305
01:51:23,439 --> 01:51:24,079
first flight.

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01:51:25,560 --> 01:51:26,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:31,359
Speaker 20: I believe that the Texans are gonna win. That's if

2308
01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:36,039
because we got home field advantage. So tunsl is not

2309
01:51:36,119 --> 01:51:40,199
gonna have illegal motion three times, you shouldn't have any

2310
01:51:41,159 --> 01:51:43,319
Our quarterback is going to be protected, he's going to

2311
01:51:43,399 --> 01:51:48,479
be throwing accurate without any indeptions, and our defense is

2312
01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:51,920
just going to have the turning turnover. The have turnovers

2313
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:57,079
like they do always. So I'm really optimistic about our team.

2314
01:51:57,600 --> 01:52:00,479
Speaker 8: And last year we very made it. This year we

2315
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:02,560
clinched it, and we're going to go.

2316
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:07,960
Speaker 20: Further than we did last year. I'm just I'm happy

2317
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:11,159
for our team once again we're in the playoffs and excited.

2318
01:52:11,199 --> 01:52:12,000
Speaker 10: We got a good team.

2319
01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:14,640
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say what, Robert, if they go further than

2320
01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:16,239
they did last year, that means they would play for

2321
01:52:16,239 --> 01:52:19,199
the AMC Championship, and that would mean a significant victory

2322
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:22,359
over Kansas City. That would rock the world. So you

2323
01:52:22,359 --> 01:52:26,039
know that man's glasses half full of Rossville Riale.

2324
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 9: Is spilling over. Maybe let's go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have they have they done lines on divisional playoff games?

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Even though we have no we're not at the division

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around here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, there are perspective lines. I believe Texans would be

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seven and a half point dogs.

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Speaker 2: To the Chiefs. Okay, not that that's everything, but it's not.

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Speaker 9: It is, But I'm glad you're asking to get a feel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's by no means

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when I go off my analysis strict laugh of point spread.

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But it's just a it's just a note that unfortunately

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in Texas can't can't take advantage of this point until

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we get legalized betting all the way through. We'll get

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there someday. Don't hold your breath, You're probably right, all right.

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Sports Empty Theater is up next. Now we've not done

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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas ross Viel gets the Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, twelve thirty five Sports Talk seven ninety. It's

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01:55:00,640 --> 01:55:04,439
time to present to you another edition of spaltse Empty Theater.

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Today we celebrate the lives of two big men in

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01:55:13,479 --> 01:55:18,359
the National Basketball Association. Playing the role of Dwight Howard

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01:55:19,279 --> 01:55:27,079
is Matt Thomas playing the role of Shaquille nil On Twitter,

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Ros Reale and now, without any further ado, to present

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to you Spaltsmata Matt Thomas playing the role of Dwight Howard.

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That's the thing, you know, should I go with an

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01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:54,720
accent here? Let's see here? No, no, okay. That's the

2381
01:55:54,760 --> 01:55:56,560
thing that I hate the most is the fact that

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01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:59,279
he being Shack, always thought I was trying to be

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01:55:59,439 --> 01:56:02,560
him or be like him. But again, if I wanted

2384
01:56:02,600 --> 01:56:05,319
to be you or be like you, shouldn't you take

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01:56:05,359 --> 01:56:08,840
that as a compliment and to show you how great

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01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,279
you are as a player or a person. I ain't

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01:56:11,439 --> 01:56:13,760
never wanted to be Shack at any level. Now I've

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01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:16,520
wanted to take certain things from him his life and

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01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:19,439
implement it into my life. Hell yeah, I do that

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01:56:19,479 --> 01:56:23,880
with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Lebron James, all these people.

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01:56:26,199 --> 01:56:28,239
Speaker 21: The fact you think I care about you is funny.

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01:56:28,600 --> 01:56:30,720
But I would never bring your name up again, sensitive

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01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:33,119
big man a joke, So that can't take a joke,

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01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:37,279
Shack wrote Monday on X won't ever say your name

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01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:40,399
ever ever again. Have a great day, and now you

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01:56:40,479 --> 01:56:44,439
have been deleted. Have a great day. Hashtag I never cared.

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01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:47,960
Hashtag trust me, hashtag I don't need validation.

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Speaker 13: You do.

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01:56:49,079 --> 01:56:52,800
Speaker 21: Hashtags stay off podcasts hashtag the fact you think I

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01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:57,119
care is funny. Hashtag you got to show respect to

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01:56:57,119 --> 01:57:00,000
give respect. Hashtag now you're dead to me?

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01:57:02,239 --> 01:57:07,840
Speaker 2: Hashtag sore throat shack. I know you care cause your

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01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:11,439
insecure ass has been hating and talking blank for twenty years.

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01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:14,600
You're too big to be this insecure. I hope you

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01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,840
didn't bring up my name up again fifty two years old,

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01:57:17,880 --> 01:57:20,680
tweeting me and still hating now. All this time you

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01:57:20,720 --> 01:57:25,560
were joking. You've always been jealous, jealous of Kobe, Penny Dwyane,

2408
01:57:25,760 --> 01:57:30,319
You jealous of Charles too. Go move around, big, lazy,

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01:57:30,359 --> 01:57:33,640
insecure ass. I still have that long, five paragraph you

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01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:35,520
ric message you sent me a couple of years ago

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01:57:35,600 --> 01:57:38,399
telling me that I'm not that great to hate you.

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01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:41,520
Still doing it. It's twenty twenty five. Throw the hell

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01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:43,039
up and move on, mate.

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01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:47,600
Speaker 21: Still don't care. Nice move. I see what you're doing.

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01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:50,399
Your legacy is now your podcast. That's how you be remembered.

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01:57:50,439 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 2: You need views. Damn.

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01:57:51,720 --> 01:57:54,920
Speaker 21: I taught you well. Great job, Hall of Fame podcaster,

2418
01:57:55,720 --> 01:57:57,880
but still don't care. You need to sit down. You

2419
01:57:57,920 --> 01:58:00,720
need my validation. I don't need yours? How will you

2420
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:04,119
be remembered? Think about that podcast, boy, I have an

2421
01:58:04,159 --> 01:58:06,760
empire to run. Now leave me, son. I've been talking

2422
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:10,039
twenty years, but you want to squabble at fifty. Well,

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01:58:10,039 --> 01:58:15,119
I decline I'm too old. Nice move, Love you, son.

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01:58:18,279 --> 01:58:23,000
Speaker 2: And that, my friends, was another roudsing rendition of balts

2425
01:58:23,039 --> 01:58:31,520
empty Yata. Your shack was quite impressive, by the way,

2426
01:58:32,079 --> 01:58:34,000
and I'm glad you chose Shack because that would hurt

2427
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:36,319
my throat. Thank you. I've been working on it for

2428
01:58:36,359 --> 01:58:43,079
about three minutes. So how do we side on this,

2429
01:58:43,239 --> 01:58:45,039
this argument between these two bohemoths.

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01:58:47,079 --> 01:58:50,479
Speaker 4: Well, Dwight Howard hold the age advantage if they did fight,

2431
01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:53,439
as Shaq said, trying to squabble.

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01:58:53,039 --> 01:59:02,640
Speaker 2: Up with an old man, Umm, Shack do you think now?

2433
01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:06,079
Speaker 4: Obviously, when you're one of the all time greats, you're

2434
01:59:06,239 --> 01:59:11,039
sensitive in a way. Michael Jordan, Kobe bryantch Keill O'Neil.

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01:59:11,800 --> 01:59:15,760
I mean those types of guys you want to take

2436
01:59:15,840 --> 01:59:18,239
what's yours, You want the credit that you feel like

2437
01:59:18,279 --> 01:59:19,840
you're due. You have to have some kind of edge

2438
01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:22,319
like that to reach that level of greatness. But it

2439
01:59:22,479 --> 01:59:25,760
does seem like Shack just leave Dwight Howard alone, I

2440
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:28,680
kind of understand where Dwight's coming from. It's like, yeah,

2441
01:59:28,760 --> 01:59:31,199
they called me Superman, and Shaq got all mad about it.

2442
01:59:31,279 --> 01:59:34,279
But Dwight Howard was like painting homage. That means he

2443
01:59:34,399 --> 01:59:38,479
respects Shack, as he said, and wants to implement some

2444
01:59:38,560 --> 01:59:40,039
of the things from his game and try to be

2445
01:59:40,119 --> 01:59:42,640
as great as Shaquille O'Neal, and Shaquille O'Neal took it

2446
01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:44,159
as disrespect the entire time.

2447
01:59:45,079 --> 01:59:47,560
Speaker 2: I honestly can tell you this Ross. I don't think

2448
01:59:47,680 --> 01:59:51,439
Dwight Howard thinks he's in the same category as Shaquille O'Neil.

2449
01:59:52,079 --> 01:59:54,359
And there's nobody in America that puts Shaq and Dwight

2450
01:59:54,439 --> 01:59:56,800
in the same category. I mean, Dwight, for a five

2451
01:59:56,920 --> 02:00:02,359
year run, prop probably ninety percent of his Orlando tenure,

2452
02:00:03,239 --> 02:00:05,560
some of his Laker tenure, and some of his Rocket tenure,

2453
02:00:05,760 --> 02:00:08,079
was as dominant of a big manager to find the NBA.

2454
02:00:08,359 --> 02:00:11,880
But there were certain things about he wasn't at d

2455
02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:14,840
The best of Shack versus the best of Dwight was

2456
02:00:14,840 --> 02:00:18,199
not even close, not even close, not even nothing about it.

2457
02:00:18,199 --> 02:00:21,279
I mean, because Dwight didn't shoot further back. His free

2458
02:00:21,319 --> 02:00:25,039
throw percentages wasn't significantly better. He just wasn't.

2459
02:00:25,199 --> 02:00:27,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shack was just the most dominant. He called himself

2460
02:00:27,399 --> 02:00:29,760
the MD most dominant ever. And that's probably him or

2461
02:00:29,800 --> 02:00:32,640
will it as far as you know, big Man, right,

2462
02:00:34,239 --> 02:00:38,239
Dwight was great, but he never was really good. Yeah, Shack,

2463
02:00:39,039 --> 02:00:41,520
he won at least the scoring championship, maybe two. I'm

2464
02:00:41,520 --> 02:00:45,520
gonna go look this up, like getting Dwight Howard was

2465
02:00:45,600 --> 02:00:48,720
never winning a scoring championship two scoring championships.

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02:00:49,119 --> 02:00:51,039
Speaker 2: I think Shack was just barking up a tree that

2467
02:00:51,199 --> 02:00:52,319
you know, the wrong Treeott.

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02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:55,880
Speaker 4: Who knows twenty two year old Shaquille O'Neal won a

2469
02:00:55,960 --> 02:00:57,079
scoring championship?

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02:00:57,319 --> 02:00:59,600
Speaker 2: And why is shaq messing with Dwight? Why did you

2471
02:01:00,159 --> 02:01:02,039
just why it's not in the headline, Shack. You're on

2472
02:01:02,079 --> 02:01:04,039
the headlines every week because something crazy you say. On

2473
02:01:04,239 --> 02:01:10,680
the TNT show. Yeah, they were arguing about Jimmy Butler

2474
02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:13,720
the other day. Charles Barkley was like saying, this is

2475
02:01:13,760 --> 02:01:18,880
about money, and he's absolutely right. Jimmy Butler went to

2476
02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:21,359
the Miami Heat and said, I want another extension to

2477
02:01:21,479 --> 02:01:23,399
pay me fifty plus million dollars a year, and Pat

2478
02:01:23,479 --> 02:01:25,039
Riley's like, man, I shut your bom mass up. You

2479
02:01:25,079 --> 02:01:29,600
ain't that good anymore. The number one thing that Charles

2480
02:01:29,680 --> 02:01:32,079
Barkley said during this whole conversation when they were arguing

2481
02:01:32,079 --> 02:01:35,079
about Jimmy Butler was that the NBA player at the

2482
02:01:35,199 --> 02:01:37,399
megastar player, and I put Jimmy Butler in that category.

2483
02:01:37,439 --> 02:01:39,479
I mean, he's been doing it for a long time. Megastar,

2484
02:01:41,760 --> 02:01:44,159
not a mega player, but a megastar. Is that they

2485
02:01:44,199 --> 02:01:47,359
don't understand that there is a certain level of depreciation.

2486
02:01:47,479 --> 02:01:50,199
It's like a vehicle. He still thinks he is Jimmy

2487
02:01:50,239 --> 02:01:53,600
Butler of twenty twelve when he wants to be paid

2488
02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:55,800
like Jimmy Butler in twenty twenty five. And that's just

2489
02:01:56,119 --> 02:01:59,680
they're not the same player. Yeah, he's old, he gets hurt,

2490
02:02:00,079 --> 02:02:02,840
he takes games off, He has a terrible history of

2491
02:02:02,960 --> 02:02:05,640
being getting sideways with three different organizations while he played.

2492
02:02:06,039 --> 02:02:12,399
Doesn't necessarily scream fifty million dollars a year. But yet

2493
02:02:12,479 --> 02:02:14,560
the only team that's showing any interest right now. Again,

2494
02:02:14,600 --> 02:02:17,439
if you believe what the Twitter streets are saying, are

2495
02:02:17,439 --> 02:02:20,199
the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix Sun's like, we can give you

2496
02:02:20,279 --> 02:02:22,720
Bradley beal In the stim He's like, I don't want

2497
02:02:22,800 --> 02:02:25,800
Why do I want to shut your bubbles up? Pat

2498
02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:27,479
Riley's been saying a lot of that is hecause I'm

2499
02:02:27,479 --> 02:02:29,600
eighty years old. I'm old, but shut your ball mass up.

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02:02:29,600 --> 02:02:34,800
I can say that. M hmm. What does that tell

2501
02:02:34,840 --> 02:02:37,079
you that if there's only one team that's even if

2502
02:02:37,199 --> 02:02:39,720
you begin, if you believe the Twitter streets, there's only

2503
02:02:39,840 --> 02:02:41,880
one team that's showing a little bit of interest, and

2504
02:02:41,960 --> 02:02:44,119
as a team that's got a player that's making gazillion

2505
02:02:44,159 --> 02:02:47,840
dollars and he's underperformed, they're essentially trading one underperforming player

2506
02:02:47,840 --> 02:02:50,800
for another, with the only guarantee that Butler goes to

2507
02:02:50,840 --> 02:02:52,520
Phoenix at Butler would get a new contract.

2508
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:58,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently, Brian Brian Winhors has said no team really

2509
02:02:58,159 --> 02:03:00,800
wants him because Butler is basically already said he's not

2510
02:03:00,840 --> 02:03:04,479
going to sign an extension with anyone. Right and by

2511
02:03:04,520 --> 02:03:06,399
the way, quick NBA news while we're on it, uh

2512
02:03:06,479 --> 02:03:10,079
Sham Shawani reporting the Lakers Hornets game tonight at Crypto

2513
02:03:10,119 --> 02:03:11,800
Arena has been postponed.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I gotta be honest with you, Ross,

2515
02:03:14,680 --> 02:03:17,000
that's that's that's the easiest decision. They can make Why

2516
02:03:17,039 --> 02:03:20,319
would you want to put any LA Police Department folks

2517
02:03:21,039 --> 02:03:27,079
wilayers on the street. Yeah, yeah, it's it's not smart,

2518
02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:29,279
not smart at all. Seven to one to three. And

2519
02:03:29,359 --> 02:03:30,720
by the way, would you how about this? What do

2520
02:03:30,760 --> 02:03:34,239
you do for Monday night? Those fires Rossier are not

2521
02:03:34,319 --> 02:03:37,399
gonna be done Monday night. What are they talking about?

2522
02:03:37,399 --> 02:03:37,520
Speaker 10: Oh?

2523
02:03:37,560 --> 02:03:38,399
Speaker 9: The LA game?

2524
02:03:38,680 --> 02:03:40,760
Speaker 2: Yeah? Should you go to Phoenix New Just call to

2525
02:03:40,800 --> 02:03:41,479
day get get the.

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02:03:41,479 --> 02:03:43,760
Speaker 4: Guys's that's a good question. They're gonna have to figure

2527
02:03:43,800 --> 02:03:44,199
something out.

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Speaker 2: Now. I know that LA has to resume life eventually,

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02:03:48,640 --> 02:03:50,159
but it feels like it's not going to be in

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the next twenty four hours. Crazy all right? Uh twelve

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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas, Ross Uriel, It's the Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: All right, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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We've got emey a Dook coming up in about ten

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minutes from now seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

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nine zero. If you want to jump in emy dook

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at one o'clock, The Rotten five at one thirty and

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we've got believing or not? Today at one fifty this afternoon.

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Did you see the story, Rossie? You and I didn't

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talk since we worked together last on Tuesday. There are

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NFL teams that are kicking the tires on Bill Belichick

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in that he's got a pretty significant buyout pre June first,

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but after June first, it's much more manageable. Do you

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think he would take the job and then ultimately never

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step foot at least on a coaching standpoint in Chapel Hill,

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North Carolina?

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Speaker 4: Dang, I forgot about that. For I just don't get it.

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Why would you sign on with the North Carolina tire heels?

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I mean, he did not do any vetting or talk

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to anybody about how interested people would be in his

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services as an NFL head coach.

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Speaker 2: So crazy? How stupid?

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like if you're like a recruit and

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you believe in Bill Belichick, not stupid?

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Speaker 9: You've got bamboozo. It's not your fault, right, you know

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what I mean?

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Speaker 14: Like?

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Speaker 9: How foolish.

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Speaker 4: If you bought into this unc Bill Belichick thing, you

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transfer into the program and then Bill Belichick leaves you

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for the Raiders, which is the big rumor because obviously

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the obvious tie with Tom Brady.

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Speaker 2: Right, And apparently Tom and Belichick have made up. I mean, whatever.

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Speaker 4: Strained relationship they had when he was still playing is

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long gone. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, man. And

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that a celebrity rose at the forum too, don't forget that. Yeah,

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they had a good time there. And I think you know,

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when you work with someone every day for fifteen years.

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I mean, I'm telling you, Matt, it wears on you

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at the time off.

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Speaker 18: I know.

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Speaker 2: What was I going to tell you? Oh, I know

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what we're going to do. OK. I need to put

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your name on something right now. Really, I really, really

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truly believe this, and I have not no inside intelligence

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on this. Mm hmm. I'm going to put my name

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on it that in less than three years, tom Brady's

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off Fox less than three I think you you put

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that as a gut feeling. Let me look, well, I'm

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upgrading it to putting my name on it. Oh you

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did it.

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Speaker 4: November seventh, twenty four. Tom Brady does not see out

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his Fox contract.

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Speaker 2: Is that gut or is that uput? My name is?

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This is on the notion wrongest file. So I'd put

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in a dendum. I I think he is going to

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get this taste of ownership life and he is going

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to love it. He is going to love that. The

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greater return on NFL ownership is crazy. Mark Davis has

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got to be rossy, what mid seventies something like that.

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So you say not with it.

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Speaker 4: Within so three more years of Fox or under three

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more years of Fox. I'm trying to get the facts straight.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna say with less than three years,

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either one more year or two more years, but within

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three years, he will tell Fox thanks but no thanks,

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and he will get into a bigger whether it's responsibility wise,

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or he will purchase a larger group of percentage of

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that or get an investment group together to purchase a

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larger group of the of the Raiders. Hmm okay, I'm

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just throwing that out there. There's somebody like him.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It needs to be around the game somehow. And if

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you're I guess you're a part owner, you are around

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the game. I'm not saying you crazy. I could see

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Charyler Brown. How long how old is Mark Davis here?

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Let's see he is the owner of the Raiders. Let's

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see how old he because.

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Speaker 2: I mean, hell, his dad was sixty nine. He looks eighty.

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Speaker 4: So you think he's going to get more of a

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controlling interest. I thought he only bought like three percent

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of the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying I think he's going to own. I

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think the nffs are ten percent and Fox are not comfortable.

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More so on the NFL side. I think there's a

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lot of uncomfortableness with Tom Brady being involved in the

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Raiders hiring, and yet he's supposed to be an objective

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broadcaster when he's working the games.

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Speaker 8: Of the week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's too much, and I'm sorry his steak is

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he and a partner bought ten percent, so five percent

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is Brady's.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I don't even know what the net value of

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Brady is, but I'm going to assume. I mean, he's

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probably going up. It's certainly going up with the next

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couple of years. Maybe he needs two more years to

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put it to buy a bigger chunk. Mark Davis's net

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value net worth two point three billion dollars. God is

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that sick? Oh my god? Could you be imagined worth?

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You're just not normal. I mean, he's so handsome too. Ugh,

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you know, it's crazy to me they've got so many

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of these people. I mean, think about the NFL owners groups.

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These are kids. These are kids that are now grown

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adults that are inheriting all these teams. Amy Krunk's drunk

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inherited the Titans from Dad. Cal inherited the team from Jenison,

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from Bob al Davis, who was you know, in his heyday,

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Ross was one of the pioneers of professional football, as

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a player, as a scout, as a general manager, as

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a as an owner. I mean, these guys did a

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lot of the heavy lifting, and now all these kids

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are just bumbling around, screwing up, messing things up until

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Cal did the right thing and said, Hannah, this is yours.

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Let me go play my video games and leave me alone. Yeah.

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I think it was that Mike Florio floated the idea.

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Speaker 4: You know, when an owner wants to buy a team,

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everybody he has to be approved, and would you want

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the same procedures with if an owner is bequeathing their

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team to to you know, then that's just going to

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cause fighting, right.

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Speaker 2: Do you know why they're not arguing that? It's because

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these own these kids that are on and these teams

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are not doing a good job. I mean, Callan Hanner

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are doing great since Hannah stepped in, well since Hanna.

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But had the Texans ever been a serious contender for

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a Super Bowl champion? I mean they have not even

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been a chance. Don't care about that.

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Speaker 9: They keep printing money, Matt, I'm a care about Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Want owners in there that will not threaten your supremacy

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as a great team. That's true. But but honestly though,

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I mean Lamar Hunt's son runs the Chiefs did. Did

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the Broncos sell Pat Bowland that he went for he

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passed and he sell the team or did he give

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it bequeath it to one of his kids? I don't

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remember on that situation. The Rooney family has led that

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has owned the Steelers forever.

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Speaker 9: We know about Amy Adams Strunk Ugh, what a mess.

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Speaker 2: All she does is fire coaches, general managers up to

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two years.

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Speaker 9: This is from last year.

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Speaker 4: In February, an article says sixteen of the league's thirty

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two owners inherited their teams from family.

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Speaker 2: So essentially did nothing to deserve it. They're just getting it.

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Speaker 9: Six in the NBA, sixteen in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, the NFL has been around longer, I guess.

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Speaker 2: But let me tell you this, Ross, If you and

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I own the NFL team, we give it to our kids, right,

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you know, unless said we don't want it, like Drake

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McClay when he sold the Astros. The kids are like, Dad, no,

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I wouldn't have given it Cal.

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Speaker 4: Although all the business interests went to carry controls those

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That's why Cal's like, eh, maybe Robert c was like, well,

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you can't mess up an NFL team. We'll give that

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to Cal.

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Speaker 2: You really can't.

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Speaker 4: He tried to mess it up there. Still they've been printing.

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No matter all this stuff and this jackieus are being

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controversy blah blah blah, they continue to print money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you have to be basically doing illegal activity

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to lose money. To even Shad Khan, who runs a

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Jaguars crappy stadium, crappy team fan base, small fan base

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is smaller than everybody else's can buy, you know, around

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the end, and he's still printing money.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Mine to be lucky, lucky enough to be the kid

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of a team that is, you know, owned by dad,

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did all the heavy lifting and you just come on

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in and inherit.

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Speaker 9: Well, we're all lucky to be here.

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Speaker 2: Oh how about Jim Irsay in Indianapolis is another example. Yeah,

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must be rough, must be rough. All right, let's talk

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to im a dook. He'll be with us next start

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the final hour the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This

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is Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 9: Launch timers.

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Speaker 2: This is the Matt Thomas Show one two on Sports

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Jock seven Night seven ninety. Tonight here in Memphis, the

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Rockets will take on the Grizzlies. It'll be a matchup

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of two versus three in the Western Conference. And the

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preview that and to recap what the Rockets have been

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the last week or so. Is our friend Imaadoka, head

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coach of your Houston Rockets coach. It's Matt and Ross.

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Good afternoon. Uh, kind of excited about tonight. This Memphis team,

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along with you guys, probably the two greatest, not surprises,

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but most improved teams in the Western Conference. It's kind

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of a good measuring stick against this very good team.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it's another game, but you know, due

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to our position in the standings, means a lot obviously.

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And then I haven't seen him since the second game

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of the season when they didn't have Jan Jackson Junior.

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Some guys were missing, so be a good test for us.

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But yeah, more about what we're going to do anyway

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and on to the next Does it.

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Speaker 2: Feel like that was a situation first quarter? I think

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you guys were down ten to the Wizards, he kind of.

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I don't know. It was because the arena was stale,

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there was not a great crowd, hard to get kind

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of get motivated for them because they've gone through so

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many injuries. But when you got going in the third quarter,

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especially Jalen, it was nice and easy way to finish

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things off against the Wizards a couple night a couple

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nights back.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we definitely looked the little sluggist coming out of

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the gate. You know, got downtown. They were just playing

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much harder than us. We weren't moving the ball, and

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then even in the second quarter to be up to

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a halftime, obviously we went plus twelve in the second quarter,

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and you know, third quarter was obviously a tail of

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two games.

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Speaker 10: We came out with the energy, went on a crazy run.

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Speaker 12: Alprind and Jalen got going, and we and we guarded

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the way we're capable and stretched the.

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Speaker 2: Lead thirty points per game for Jalen the last three nights,

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shooting forty eight percent from the floor, forty three from three,

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just seeing the ball go through the hoop a little

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bit more, better shot selection, And I feel like we

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we kind of always ask about this, but you know,

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the alpha dog is on the team, the main go

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to guys always get this kind of microscope looked upon him.

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But it has been a nice run for him as

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of late.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean sometimes it's just made a misshots. He

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had really good looks at other games that he's knocking

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down now. But I do say his recognition has continued

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to improve. Understanding how teams are guarding him when they're

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trying to double team run.

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Speaker 10: He's handled on the blitz is better.

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Speaker 12: He's recognizing guys going under to ty to take away

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his driving lane, and he's shooting the ball extremely well,

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which opens everything up for himself and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Man Thompson is six seven and two fifteen measurable wise.

2785
02:16:27,119 --> 02:16:29,880
He has thirty one rebounds in his last two games.

2786
02:16:30,600 --> 02:16:34,000
Man the I hope America he may catches on to

2787
02:16:34,120 --> 02:16:36,440
how good this young man is and it feels like

2788
02:16:36,520 --> 02:16:39,159
he's doing something different, whether he's coming off the bench

2789
02:16:39,200 --> 02:16:41,959
for you. And now he's been starting because Jabari's out.

2790
02:16:42,120 --> 02:16:44,000
He just knows where the basketball is, knows where he

2791
02:16:44,120 --> 02:16:46,040
is on the floor, and I just think his on

2792
02:16:46,319 --> 02:16:48,360
court IQ just continues to grow and grow.

2793
02:16:50,239 --> 02:16:53,319
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's obviously a special athlete, So if he was

2794
02:16:53,879 --> 02:16:56,840
six two hundred, he'd probably get the same rebounds with

2795
02:16:56,920 --> 02:17:00,440
that athleticism. So has a knack for the ball game

2796
02:17:00,520 --> 02:17:03,040
in several different ways. And obviously we know who he

2797
02:17:03,159 --> 02:17:04,879
is and a lot of people are getting to see

2798
02:17:04,920 --> 02:17:06,920
it now that he's in the starting lineup, But he

2799
02:17:07,040 --> 02:17:09,159
was doing that stuff off the bench for us, you know,

2800
02:17:09,680 --> 02:17:11,719
all season, and so he gives us a ton of

2801
02:17:11,799 --> 02:17:15,079
versatility with matchup wise defensively, him and Dylan out there

2802
02:17:15,120 --> 02:17:17,040
can kind of tag team different.

2803
02:17:16,760 --> 02:17:19,280
Speaker 10: Guys, and he's doing what we've seen him do pretty much.

2804
02:17:19,319 --> 02:17:23,719
Speaker 4: This guy here, team's been keen on alprnching good more

2805
02:17:23,760 --> 02:17:25,840
and more as he's gone along in his career. We've

2806
02:17:25,840 --> 02:17:29,040
been seeing some fronting defense, some doubling as well. What

2807
02:17:29,120 --> 02:17:31,000
has it been like going through those types of things

2808
02:17:31,040 --> 02:17:32,879
with him where sometimes he struggled and what do you

2809
02:17:32,879 --> 02:17:34,639
want to see from him as he goes along In

2810
02:17:34,920 --> 02:17:36,840
the conversations you guys are having and what you want

2811
02:17:36,840 --> 02:17:37,399
to see from him.

2812
02:17:39,040 --> 02:17:40,280
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, he got to take it as on

2813
02:17:40,440 --> 02:17:42,879
or Obviously he's one of the best low post scorers,

2814
02:17:43,680 --> 02:17:45,559
one of the scoring big men, one of the best

2815
02:17:45,559 --> 02:17:47,399
scoring big men in the league in general from all

2816
02:17:47,440 --> 02:17:50,280
over the court, and so teams just paying him that respect,

2817
02:17:50,360 --> 02:17:52,879
going after him quite a bit, putting different smaller guys

2818
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:55,840
on him, doubling with the big and so he just

2819
02:17:55,920 --> 02:17:57,639
has to see it quicker adjust And what he's been

2820
02:17:57,680 --> 02:18:00,440
doing is picking the gym part lately. So it's sometimes

2821
02:18:00,520 --> 02:18:02,520
just simplify it, like make the right play whatever that is.

2822
02:18:02,559 --> 02:18:04,680
If they don't double, you go score. If they double,

2823
02:18:05,159 --> 02:18:07,639
make the right read. And so he's been doing that great,

2824
02:18:08,159 --> 02:18:10,799
especially lately. Washington went after him a ton, and even

2825
02:18:10,879 --> 02:18:13,000
in the games before that, just making the right read.

2826
02:18:13,079 --> 02:18:15,360
He's he's a hub for us that it creates shots

2827
02:18:15,360 --> 02:18:17,559
for everybody else, and so we'll welcome that all the

2828
02:18:17,639 --> 02:18:19,680
time because we love the open shots that he creates

2829
02:18:19,680 --> 02:18:19,920
for us.

2830
02:18:20,079 --> 02:18:22,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially like in double teams, you have to coach

2831
02:18:22,840 --> 02:18:24,840
everybody on that because when he passes out of him

2832
02:18:24,840 --> 02:18:27,760
and there's four on three situations and get everybody prepared

2833
02:18:27,840 --> 02:18:28,440
to score.

2834
02:18:28,479 --> 02:18:29,719
Speaker 9: In those situations.

2835
02:18:31,440 --> 02:18:33,239
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, we understand what our spacing is and

2836
02:18:33,399 --> 02:18:36,079
where we want specific players on the court, but you know,

2837
02:18:36,159 --> 02:18:37,479
we'll feed them with the guys that we like to

2838
02:18:37,559 --> 02:18:40,399
initiate the action out of the kickout, and a lot

2839
02:18:40,399 --> 02:18:42,120
of times that's for it and our shooters, you know,

2840
02:18:42,600 --> 02:18:43,959
being more of a threat right there and then they

2841
02:18:44,000 --> 02:18:45,879
can swing it and we have numbers and advantage on

2842
02:18:45,920 --> 02:18:48,079
the backside. So the thing is for opping to read

2843
02:18:48,120 --> 02:18:49,399
it and our guys to react off of that. And

2844
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:51,639
anytime we know he can create an advantage with the

2845
02:18:51,639 --> 02:18:53,520
double teams on the post, we've been really good when

2846
02:18:53,520 --> 02:18:56,000
the balls popping moving and then it loosens up for

2847
02:18:56,079 --> 02:18:56,879
him and he can go to work.

2848
02:18:57,879 --> 02:18:59,799
Speaker 2: You may and dooca with us here on sports talks

2849
02:18:59,840 --> 02:19:02,440
up a coach. When I run into Rocket fans, they

2850
02:19:02,479 --> 02:19:04,719
always ask me, how's Tarry doing? How's Tarry doing? And

2851
02:19:05,360 --> 02:19:07,000
I don't mean to make you a doctor on the

2852
02:19:07,079 --> 02:19:11,559
radio here, but to the best of your generalization, where

2853
02:19:11,600 --> 02:19:13,840
are we on tari I know it's got to be

2854
02:19:13,920 --> 02:19:15,959
frustrating for you as a coach to see a young

2855
02:19:16,040 --> 02:19:18,280
man who played so well for you first quarter point

2856
02:19:18,319 --> 02:19:20,120
of the season have to miss as much time as

2857
02:19:20,159 --> 02:19:21,479
he's done the last month or so.

2858
02:19:23,120 --> 02:19:25,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, So we're just being cautious and being smart about it.

2859
02:19:25,879 --> 02:19:27,920
You know, he went through obviously a surgery last year,

2860
02:19:27,959 --> 02:19:29,879
and so for us, we want to be smart with it.

2861
02:19:30,719 --> 02:19:33,120
You know, the pain is lessening day by day, and

2862
02:19:33,200 --> 02:19:35,520
so he's trended in the right direction and when he's.

2863
02:19:35,399 --> 02:19:36,520
Speaker 10: Ready to play, he'll be ready to play.

2864
02:19:36,559 --> 02:19:39,040
Speaker 12: And so I'm not going to make a hasty decision

2865
02:19:39,079 --> 02:19:41,239
or rush anything in December January. I want to be

2866
02:19:41,280 --> 02:19:43,280
smart about it and have them when it really counts

2867
02:19:43,360 --> 02:19:44,920
later in the season. And that's where our depth comes

2868
02:19:44,959 --> 02:19:47,399
into play. Other guys have stepped up. But obviously he'll

2869
02:19:47,399 --> 02:19:48,600
be a welcome sight when he comes back.

2870
02:19:49,440 --> 02:19:51,399
Speaker 2: Is there a threshold email that he's got a wake

2871
02:19:51,479 --> 02:19:53,360
up two three days in a row not feeling sore.

2872
02:19:53,520 --> 02:19:55,600
Is it a workout then followed by a good wake

2873
02:19:55,680 --> 02:19:59,040
up in the morning. What is your sports medicine team.

2874
02:19:59,079 --> 02:20:00,760
You got great folks that were with you. What have

2875
02:20:00,840 --> 02:20:03,840
they said about when it's time to push it a

2876
02:20:03,879 --> 02:20:06,280
little bit further into the testament to a different level

2877
02:20:06,280 --> 02:20:08,120
than maybe he was, say three or four days ago.

2878
02:20:09,280 --> 02:20:11,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's he's going harder on non game days and

2879
02:20:11,559 --> 02:20:13,440
seeing how he feels on game days, and so that's

2880
02:20:13,479 --> 02:20:16,799
been the plan as of now, and sometimes a little

2881
02:20:16,840 --> 02:20:19,479
more sore than others, but they're being cautious, like I said,

2882
02:20:19,520 --> 02:20:21,479
with being smart about it and really ramping up his

2883
02:20:21,559 --> 02:20:24,079
off days, and when we have two three good days

2884
02:20:24,120 --> 02:20:27,239
of the paying lessening and lessening, he'll be back out there.

2885
02:20:27,239 --> 02:20:28,799
Speaker 10: And so that's the plan right now.

2886
02:20:29,360 --> 02:20:31,799
Speaker 12: He's been really good at you know, attacking the rehab,

2887
02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:35,360
getting after in the workout sessions, and so anticipating coming

2888
02:20:35,440 --> 02:20:35,760
back soon.

2889
02:20:36,680 --> 02:20:40,760
Speaker 2: Did you catch in the okay, see Cleveland game last night? Yes?

2890
02:20:40,840 --> 02:20:43,840
I did. What do you think Lee gonna do a

2891
02:20:43,879 --> 02:20:45,719
good job of? I mean, look, I want the Rockets

2892
02:20:45,760 --> 02:20:48,079
get as much publicity as possible because that's a team

2893
02:20:48,120 --> 02:20:50,200
we love here in this town and you guys certainly

2894
02:20:50,239 --> 02:20:51,680
deserve it. But it was kind of nice to not

2895
02:20:51,840 --> 02:20:54,399
to have you know, Lebron James and Golden State on

2896
02:20:54,479 --> 02:20:56,360
television for like the nineteenth consecutive night.

2897
02:20:57,680 --> 02:20:57,879
Speaker 10: Yeah.

2898
02:20:57,879 --> 02:20:59,840
Speaker 12: I mean, that's a good matchup with the two top

2899
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:02,600
teams in the West and East right now, so you know,

2900
02:21:02,680 --> 02:21:05,680
with really good records and obviously talented players. So we'll

2901
02:21:05,719 --> 02:21:07,680
see Cleveland coming up in the next few weeks twice,

2902
02:21:07,719 --> 02:21:10,000
and uh, obviously I've seen, okay see a few times,

2903
02:21:10,040 --> 02:21:12,000
so it's good to kind of see see what they're doing,

2904
02:21:12,079 --> 02:21:12,879
how they're playing.

2905
02:21:13,120 --> 02:21:15,760
Speaker 10: And obviously shoot the aim to try to catch these guys.

2906
02:21:15,799 --> 02:21:17,520
And so good game back and forth.

2907
02:21:17,559 --> 02:21:19,520
Speaker 12: Obviously two of the top teams, and it pounded out

2908
02:21:19,559 --> 02:21:22,280
like you thought it would our guys on.

2909
02:21:22,360 --> 02:21:24,840
Speaker 2: The squad and maybe today's NBA players have they use

2910
02:21:25,079 --> 02:21:27,760
measuring sticks against other opponents or is it just what's

2911
02:21:27,879 --> 02:21:30,000
ahead of me now? And we'll just you know, keep

2912
02:21:30,040 --> 02:21:31,399
winning games that are right in front of us.

2913
02:21:33,040 --> 02:21:35,920
Speaker 12: Well, obviously, uh, you got to play consecutive games, and

2914
02:21:35,959 --> 02:21:37,000
you gotta play who's in front of you.

2915
02:21:37,079 --> 02:21:39,159
Speaker 10: So that's really how the NBA goes. You're on to

2916
02:21:39,200 --> 02:21:40,000
the next pretty quickly.

2917
02:21:40,079 --> 02:21:43,559
Speaker 12: But matchups and teams, you know, personal personnel wise, and

2918
02:21:43,719 --> 02:21:46,440
and teams in general are good measuring sticks all the time.

2919
02:21:46,479 --> 02:21:49,159
And so we've had a tough stretch of games at times,

2920
02:21:49,200 --> 02:21:51,520
and we had teams with tougher with lesser records, and

2921
02:21:51,600 --> 02:21:54,040
so for us, we want to always measure ourself against

2922
02:21:54,079 --> 02:21:56,399
the better teams, and regardless of who we're playing, we

2923
02:21:56,440 --> 02:21:57,920
want to play the same way but it's always good

2924
02:21:57,959 --> 02:22:00,360
to have measuring stick and and I know guys get

2925
02:22:00,479 --> 02:22:02,840
ramped up and amped up for certain matchups and so

2926
02:22:03,040 --> 02:22:04,920
that's just human nature and it's always going to be

2927
02:22:05,000 --> 02:22:05,120
like that.

2928
02:22:06,120 --> 02:22:09,159
Speaker 4: Rockets head coach Imyadoka was here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

2929
02:22:09,200 --> 02:22:11,239
We had you on last week talking about the comments

2930
02:22:11,319 --> 02:22:13,840
from Cam Whitmore. Since then, how things been with him?

2931
02:22:13,840 --> 02:22:15,239
What you've seen off the floor.

2932
02:22:15,040 --> 02:22:15,440
Speaker 5: And on.

2933
02:22:17,479 --> 02:22:20,280
Speaker 12: Coun's been good. He's been, you know, playing hard. You know,

2934
02:22:20,319 --> 02:22:22,920
I heard people mentioning body language or whatever. It seems

2935
02:22:22,920 --> 02:22:24,479
like people are kind of looking for something now. But

2936
02:22:25,239 --> 02:22:28,600
very efficient last game in Washington, eighteen points in seventeen

2937
02:22:28,600 --> 02:22:29,360
minutes on sixth race.

2938
02:22:29,399 --> 02:22:32,520
Speaker 10: Shootings continue to obviously score as natural.

2939
02:22:32,639 --> 02:22:34,319
Speaker 12: Like I said, I'm always harping on your little things,

2940
02:22:34,319 --> 02:22:37,239
the defensive things and you know, recognizing who was where

2941
02:22:37,280 --> 02:22:39,079
on the court and how we have to guard specific guys.

2942
02:22:39,120 --> 02:22:40,760
And so that's always going to be the thing with

2943
02:22:40,840 --> 02:22:43,840
him and the young guys is defensive coverages, just schemes

2944
02:22:43,879 --> 02:22:46,280
and knowing your personnel. So that's that's a big thing there.

2945
02:22:46,280 --> 02:22:49,239
Stop selection has improved vastly and then he's scoring it

2946
02:22:49,479 --> 02:22:51,879
like he always does. So I think people are making

2947
02:22:51,920 --> 02:22:53,440
a little bit too much out of nothing.

2948
02:22:53,840 --> 02:22:57,040
Speaker 2: Before I let you run reach Shepherd. I mean, my goodness,

2949
02:22:57,120 --> 02:22:59,040
as soon as we finished playing that game against the Wizards,

2950
02:22:59,079 --> 02:23:01,680
everybody on the bus was watching the highlights and Jack

2951
02:23:01,760 --> 02:23:04,159
Landell's giving me like, minute by minute of there's another

2952
02:23:04,200 --> 02:23:06,239
three pointer for Reid, He's got what are he finished

2953
02:23:06,239 --> 02:23:08,799
with forty nine points. I mean, I don't know if

2954
02:23:08,840 --> 02:23:11,680
you want to put that on the all time great

2955
02:23:11,799 --> 02:23:14,239
our GV Hall of Fame scoring for one night, but

2956
02:23:14,559 --> 02:23:16,280
obviously he got down there and got some of his

2957
02:23:16,399 --> 02:23:17,000
mojo back.

2958
02:23:18,399 --> 02:23:19,280
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was good to see.

2959
02:23:19,760 --> 02:23:22,399
Speaker 12: We wanted to see some things from him to be aggressive,

2960
02:23:22,479 --> 02:23:25,520
confident and run the team and hunt his shots, you know,

2961
02:23:25,719 --> 02:23:27,520
guard defensively as well, and I think he did all

2962
02:23:27,520 --> 02:23:29,000
of the above, and so it.

2963
02:23:29,079 --> 02:23:30,600
Speaker 10: Kind of took and it was it was pretty natural.

2964
02:23:30,639 --> 02:23:31,639
It wasn't like he was for a thing.

2965
02:23:31,680 --> 02:23:33,120
Speaker 12: He took what they gave him, had a bunch of

2966
02:23:33,200 --> 02:23:35,079
walk in threes and he got to go in there

2967
02:23:35,120 --> 02:23:38,120
and so loved his aggressiveness, didn't miss a beat from

2968
02:23:38,319 --> 02:23:40,600
not playing much with us, and so obviously a good

2969
02:23:40,639 --> 02:23:43,200
sign one of our most talented young guys going forward

2970
02:23:43,200 --> 02:23:45,879
and big plans for him obviously, so with the lack

2971
02:23:45,920 --> 02:23:47,159
of time with us, it was good to see him

2972
02:23:47,319 --> 02:23:49,000
go down there and play a little bit and you're

2973
02:23:49,040 --> 02:23:50,399
looking forward to get him back as well.

2974
02:23:50,920 --> 02:23:52,760
Speaker 2: How much do you guys talk on a daily basis

2975
02:23:52,799 --> 02:23:54,440
about how long you think he needs to be there?

2976
02:23:54,440 --> 02:23:57,840
Obviously injuries could play a role up here, rotation times,

2977
02:23:57,879 --> 02:24:01,479
opponent's number of games in a certain days, But anything

2978
02:24:01,600 --> 02:24:03,600
right now or is that kind of a fluid situation.

2979
02:24:05,239 --> 02:24:06,920
Speaker 10: No, he looked at the three game road trip we

2980
02:24:07,000 --> 02:24:07,200
were on.

2981
02:24:07,440 --> 02:24:09,639
Speaker 12: It went perfectly with their schedule of three home games,

2982
02:24:09,680 --> 02:24:12,840
and so we'll reevaluate.

2983
02:24:11,559 --> 02:24:11,959
Speaker 2: It after that.

2984
02:24:12,079 --> 02:24:13,479
Speaker 12: But that was the plan of the Now, he'll be

2985
02:24:13,559 --> 02:24:15,520
back with us when we played Memphis at home and

2986
02:24:16,120 --> 02:24:16,559
go from there.

2987
02:24:17,479 --> 02:24:20,559
Speaker 2: Last question, where are we on Jabari? I know he

2988
02:24:20,680 --> 02:24:22,239
was with us. He's on with us on the trip here.

2989
02:24:22,319 --> 02:24:24,920
Now what have they told you in terms of I

2990
02:24:25,079 --> 02:24:26,520
know that you mentioned a couple of days ago the

2991
02:24:26,600 --> 02:24:29,719
media that there was not surgery scheduled. Is that an

2992
02:24:29,799 --> 02:24:32,760
option that maybe he can't avoid that or is that

2993
02:24:32,920 --> 02:24:34,520
ultimately going to be the plan of action?

2994
02:24:35,840 --> 02:24:38,159
Speaker 10: Oh, he's looking at both options. You know, one takes

2995
02:24:38,159 --> 02:24:39,040
a little longer than the other.

2996
02:24:39,120 --> 02:24:42,959
Speaker 12: But they're both available, and I think the rehab process

2997
02:24:43,040 --> 02:24:44,959
is different with no surgery and versus getting the pin

2998
02:24:45,040 --> 02:24:47,120
in there. And so he's figuring it out, looking at

2999
02:24:47,159 --> 02:24:50,239
some second opinion doctors and he'll make a decision soon.

3000
02:24:51,239 --> 02:24:52,840
Speaker 2: Sorry to get some medical on you, but you know what,

3001
02:24:52,920 --> 02:24:54,520
you got a couple of key guys out. So that's

3002
02:24:54,520 --> 02:24:56,479
what I had to be asked. Hey, thanks for the visit.

3003
02:24:56,520 --> 02:24:58,479
We'll'll see you tonight, and good luck against the Grizzlies.

3004
02:24:59,239 --> 02:25:01,959
All right, thank you, guys, We'll see that's EMAI. I

3005
02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:04,079
don't go with us here. On the Matt Thomas Show

3006
02:25:04,120 --> 02:25:06,959
with Ross, our time is one twelve. We will have

3007
02:25:07,639 --> 02:25:10,280
the Rotten Five, the final Rotten five of the year,

3008
02:25:10,360 --> 02:25:14,000
the five worst teams in the NFL. You will hear

3009
02:25:14,079 --> 02:25:17,319
it from the only person that absolutely can give you

3010
02:25:17,639 --> 02:25:20,600
the worst five teams, and that of course is Ross

3011
02:25:20,639 --> 02:25:25,040
Villery out up next, some astro arbitration updates. One thirteen,

3012
02:25:25,159 --> 02:25:26,239
Sports Talk seven.

3013
02:25:26,120 --> 02:25:31,879
Speaker 1: Ninety, lunchtimers, Lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with

3014
02:25:32,159 --> 02:25:34,399
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

3015
02:25:39,159 --> 02:25:41,040
Speaker 2: All right, Ross, we're gonna send you to the g

3016
02:25:41,159 --> 02:25:42,559
LI We're gonna We're gonna see if you can work

3017
02:25:42,600 --> 02:25:43,840
on your sports talk game.

3018
02:25:45,079 --> 02:25:47,520
Speaker 9: Let's go maybe I'm dropping fiddy see.

3019
02:25:47,639 --> 02:25:49,559
Speaker 2: Let's let's wish we send you to for a couple

3020
02:25:49,639 --> 02:25:53,840
of hours. I'll send you to Lufkin. Let me get

3021
02:25:53,879 --> 02:25:55,399
you that talent.

3022
02:25:55,479 --> 02:25:56,159
Speaker 9: What are we talking?

3023
02:25:56,239 --> 02:25:56,399
Speaker 2: There?

3024
02:25:57,479 --> 02:25:58,879
Speaker 9: Is that Aggie Country? I don't even know.

3025
02:25:58,959 --> 02:26:00,280
Speaker 2: It's a SFA scoot sorts.

3026
02:26:02,520 --> 02:26:04,200
Speaker 9: What are the lumberjacks up to act?

3027
02:26:04,319 --> 02:26:09,000
Speaker 2: Some jacks? Baby? Yes, I don't know. By the way,

3028
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:11,000
a couple of news items. General manager of the Raiders,

3029
02:26:11,040 --> 02:26:13,200
Tom to LESCo, has been fired after one year on

3030
02:26:13,280 --> 02:26:13,600
the job.

3031
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:14,559
Speaker 9: One year.

3032
02:26:15,399 --> 02:26:23,239
Speaker 2: That's Tom Brady making that What are they doing? Wow? Wow?

3033
02:26:23,639 --> 02:26:32,680
Wow Wow. M Rams Vikings playoff game Monday still schedule

3034
02:26:32,760 --> 02:26:35,600
for Sofi Stadium. The NFL is a contingency plan at

3035
02:26:35,639 --> 02:26:37,920
the event the changes needed, which we'd do about before,

3036
02:26:37,959 --> 02:26:40,040
but as of this moment, within the last hour, they

3037
02:26:40,079 --> 02:26:46,040
have said it is still happening there. What else? I

3038
02:26:46,239 --> 02:26:48,920
saw a bet that somebody made in Vegas on the

3039
02:26:49,079 --> 02:26:52,000
ut game with Ohio State. I wanted to it was

3040
02:26:52,040 --> 02:26:53,680
on the four utab and it went away quickly. So

3041
02:26:53,719 --> 02:26:55,159
I don't know what I hate. What don't you hate

3042
02:26:55,159 --> 02:26:57,760
when that happens. Well, I mean it was something informational

3043
02:26:57,799 --> 02:27:00,639
that I wanted to pass along me. Let me try

3044
02:27:00,719 --> 02:27:02,479
to put in Texas bet and see if.

3045
02:27:02,440 --> 02:27:05,959
Speaker 9: It'll help out Texas plus six. You heard it here first?

3046
02:27:06,760 --> 02:27:09,799
Speaker 2: Oh, here it is. It worked out a better at

3047
02:27:09,799 --> 02:27:14,799
a certain casino. Wager ninety thousand dollars on Texas plus

3048
02:27:14,879 --> 02:27:16,559
one eighty five to beat Ohio State.

3049
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:18,840
Speaker 9: Oh, money line, I'm not going there.

3050
02:27:21,840 --> 02:27:25,559
Speaker 2: Yet. Personally, a ninety thousand dollars bet would win one

3051
02:27:25,719 --> 02:27:29,799
sixty six y five. Nice. That's not a bad payout, right,

3052
02:27:30,000 --> 02:27:34,559
I'm rooting for him very hard. Well, again, you don't

3053
02:27:34,600 --> 02:27:36,040
believe me when I tell you this, but I believe

3054
02:27:36,200 --> 02:27:38,319
I'm rooting for it too. I don't believe it. Why

3055
02:27:38,360 --> 02:27:41,399
don't we have somebody we have a rooting interest, because again, honestly,

3056
02:27:42,040 --> 02:27:44,520
is Ohio State versus either Penn State or notre name

3057
02:27:44,520 --> 02:27:46,239
that it moved the needle for us as as Houston

3058
02:27:46,280 --> 02:27:47,639
sports fans. The answers, No, it's not.

3059
02:27:48,280 --> 02:27:50,680
Speaker 4: This is the national championship game. In my opinion, I

3060
02:27:50,719 --> 02:27:52,319
think whoever wins this game is gonna win it all.

3061
02:27:54,159 --> 02:27:56,239
Speaker 2: Now, the only issue I'm concerned about is if you

3062
02:27:56,319 --> 02:28:01,799
are going to be basically un unworkman. I mean, you'll

3063
02:28:01,840 --> 02:28:04,760
be hard to work with. Why, like, if you're were like,

3064
02:28:04,959 --> 02:28:06,959
I mean, could you imagine being a fan of a

3065
02:28:07,040 --> 02:28:09,120
team and jumping in land and wearing the gaer of

3066
02:28:09,159 --> 02:28:11,879
that team every single day you came to work. I

3067
02:28:11,959 --> 02:28:16,200
don't do that, but others at are stationed do. Oh no,

3068
02:28:16,399 --> 02:28:16,639
not me.

3069
02:28:18,319 --> 02:28:20,440
Speaker 4: I've I got my two thousand. I'll wear my twenty

3070
02:28:20,600 --> 02:28:22,879
nineteen n I T Championship shirt to prove it.

3071
02:28:22,959 --> 02:28:24,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I and folks, for those of you that

3072
02:28:25,000 --> 02:28:27,319
don't know, it doesn't really fit well. He still tries

3073
02:28:27,360 --> 02:28:28,799
to pull it off, but it's it's not a great

3074
02:28:28,799 --> 02:28:30,959
What do you mean. I mean it's a little snug.

3075
02:28:31,879 --> 02:28:33,360
Speaker 9: No, actually, that one's loose.

3076
02:28:36,319 --> 02:28:39,719
Speaker 4: Because the only size they had left that it was

3077
02:28:39,799 --> 02:28:42,559
so sold out, Matt, they only had a lot.

3078
02:28:42,840 --> 02:28:43,799
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a lie.

3079
02:28:43,959 --> 02:28:44,760
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're talking.

3080
02:28:44,799 --> 02:28:46,600
Speaker 9: I'm telling you they didn't have any Xcel left. He

3081
02:28:46,600 --> 02:28:47,520
had to get the double X.

3082
02:28:47,879 --> 02:28:50,879
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. All right, let me

3083
02:28:50,920 --> 02:28:55,040
give you some arbitrary I'm growing into it. Uh and

3084
02:28:55,079 --> 02:28:57,719
we're not gonna mention the dollars unless people really care. Okay,

3085
02:28:58,159 --> 02:29:02,200
Dubond sign arbitration deal five million dollars for this year.

3086
02:29:03,079 --> 02:29:06,280
Eastsek Peretti is at six point six two five million dollars.

3087
02:29:06,319 --> 02:29:09,719
At third Base, Chas McCormick at three point four million,

3088
02:29:10,239 --> 02:29:14,440
and for the members of the Jake Myers fan club,

3089
02:29:15,200 --> 02:29:18,600
he also avoids arbitration at two three million dollars.

3090
02:29:18,799 --> 02:29:20,159
Speaker 9: Jake is back, Baby.

3091
02:29:21,799 --> 02:29:26,239
Speaker 2: Under you avoids arbitration three point four to five million dollars.

3092
02:29:31,760 --> 02:29:33,360
You know what, Ross, I think we should as a

3093
02:29:33,600 --> 02:29:41,120
as an act to segue between our show and baseball. Rossie,

3094
02:29:41,159 --> 02:29:43,200
let's do an arbitration case for you. Let's say what

3095
02:29:43,280 --> 02:29:47,799
you're looking for me right now? Yeah? Okay? And Connor,

3096
02:29:47,959 --> 02:29:52,840
you play the role of the iHeart and Ross. You

3097
02:29:52,959 --> 02:29:55,360
play the role of Ross where you're trying to sell

3098
02:29:55,479 --> 02:29:56,840
us while you're worthy of more money.

3099
02:29:59,319 --> 02:30:03,079
Speaker 4: Uh, let's see you added another hour to my work week.

3100
02:30:03,719 --> 02:30:07,079
I also do spot fill in when asked, perhaps in

3101
02:30:07,159 --> 02:30:11,360
the A team other places. I believe it was over

3102
02:30:11,559 --> 02:30:15,079
eighty games I did last year, combined with the Astros

3103
02:30:15,200 --> 02:30:17,760
and Rockets pre and post games, so that is like

3104
02:30:17,959 --> 02:30:20,239
literally extra on my plate. I don't get paid extra

3105
02:30:20,319 --> 02:30:26,200
for those, and I think I'm a good talent.

3106
02:30:27,120 --> 02:30:29,639
Speaker 17: Well, we appreciate all that hard work that you do

3107
02:30:29,719 --> 02:30:32,079
in the passion that you have for sports TX seven

3108
02:30:32,200 --> 02:30:33,600
ninety and I hard being a team player.

3109
02:30:33,680 --> 02:30:36,600
Speaker 4: However, budgets are tight. So yeah, so you've been laid off.

3110
02:30:36,959 --> 02:30:40,200
Be happy with what you got, and your bonus will

3111
02:30:40,200 --> 02:30:44,520
be keeping this job. This is remarkably accurate. Actually, Connor's

3112
02:30:44,559 --> 02:30:45,200
got it nailed.

3113
02:30:45,319 --> 02:30:47,520
Speaker 2: I am I am the arbiter, and I've listened to

3114
02:30:47,559 --> 02:30:50,000
both of your arguments very closely, and I side with

3115
02:30:50,040 --> 02:30:51,920
my heart. You'll get nothing. I like it.

3116
02:30:53,440 --> 02:30:55,399
Speaker 4: We're gonna spit at your feet and tell you thanks

3117
02:30:55,440 --> 02:30:58,000
for having your Yeah, your reward is having a job.

3118
02:30:58,239 --> 02:30:59,799
Speaker 2: So as soon as you become a free agent, your

3119
02:30:59,840 --> 02:31:01,639
life out of here. Like I'm going, I'm Kyle Tucker

3120
02:31:01,680 --> 02:31:04,920
and as bad boy. I don't know if I'm getting

3121
02:31:04,959 --> 02:31:06,319
Kyle Tucker money, but we're gonna try.

3122
02:31:07,680 --> 02:31:07,840
Speaker 20: Uh.

3123
02:31:08,680 --> 02:31:11,879
Speaker 2: By the way, there are hundreds of arbitration cases still

3124
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:16,000
to be settled today. Those expected to get super big

3125
02:31:16,040 --> 02:31:18,799
money would be Vlae Guerrero at twenty nine point six

3126
02:31:18,920 --> 02:31:25,040
million dollars mm hmm fromber Valdez at seventeen point eight

3127
02:31:26,680 --> 02:31:33,239
really ufta, yiesh ufta. That's a lot of money. What

3128
02:31:33,360 --> 02:31:36,799
is it? What is ufta? That's just a Yiddish that's Yiddish.

3129
02:31:38,639 --> 02:31:40,719
We are your official Yiddish sports radio.

3130
02:31:40,840 --> 02:31:43,719
Speaker 4: This is his last year of arbitration, so usually the

3131
02:31:43,799 --> 02:31:46,120
numbers go, especially for a player of his caliber, they

3132
02:31:46,200 --> 02:31:46,920
go up and up and out.

3133
02:31:47,000 --> 02:31:49,040
Speaker 2: So guess who's not going to make as much money

3134
02:31:49,079 --> 02:31:50,799
as Fromber Valdez and arbitration?

3135
02:31:52,559 --> 02:31:52,920
Speaker 8: Hmmm?

3136
02:31:53,719 --> 02:31:55,520
Speaker 2: Who? Chicago Cup?

3137
02:31:55,600 --> 02:31:55,799
Speaker 10: Great?

3138
02:31:55,879 --> 02:31:56,479
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker?

3139
02:31:58,200 --> 02:31:59,639
Speaker 9: Their numbers were similar last year.

3140
02:32:00,040 --> 02:32:02,559
Speaker 2: What's his numberation number is expected to be about fifteen

3141
02:32:02,639 --> 02:32:08,159
point eight million dollars? Okay, so close. Who's more valuable

3142
02:32:08,280 --> 02:32:12,879
to their respective teams? Valdez or Tucker? Now, again, it's

3143
02:32:12,920 --> 02:32:13,719
two different positions.

3144
02:32:13,760 --> 02:32:16,200
Speaker 4: Obviously I would go with the position, the everyday position

3145
02:32:16,239 --> 02:32:20,000
player to me, Yeah, but you take Fromber on this

3146
02:32:20,280 --> 02:32:20,879
off this team?

3147
02:32:22,200 --> 02:32:26,319
Speaker 9: Oh, I mean a Hunter Brown was ace level for

3148
02:32:26,559 --> 02:32:29,760
half a season? Can he keep that up? Spencer Raghetti

3149
02:32:29,959 --> 02:32:31,879
was very very good for half a season? Can he

3150
02:32:32,040 --> 02:32:32,559
keep that up?

3151
02:32:33,200 --> 02:32:36,719
Speaker 2: Yeah? And let's face it, this is last year for

3152
02:32:36,840 --> 02:32:40,000
Fromber with arbitration. He's going to be a fragent after

3153
02:32:40,079 --> 02:32:42,799
next year. And what's going to help you get to

3154
02:32:42,920 --> 02:32:44,959
that big dollar you want? Des By winning, you know,

3155
02:32:45,079 --> 02:32:47,760
maybe seventeen eighteen games for the Astros in twenty twenty

3156
02:32:47,799 --> 02:32:51,079
five contract a year, baby, let's go. Oh I'm a

3157
02:32:51,159 --> 02:32:53,079
huge fan of Devin guys in their contract year. Now,

3158
02:32:53,120 --> 02:32:58,000
sometime it doesn't work out per se Stefan Diggs. Is

3159
02:32:58,040 --> 02:32:59,360
it working out for Bragman right now?

3160
02:33:01,319 --> 02:33:04,200
Speaker 4: He had a good year, He won a gold Glove

3161
02:33:04,239 --> 02:33:06,280
and he got your twenty six bombs. That's pretty good.

3162
02:33:06,399 --> 02:33:12,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Do you wonder if he's texting Scott Boris

3163
02:33:12,520 --> 02:33:15,040
every year, every day, going man, what's going on? And

3164
02:33:15,440 --> 02:33:18,159
he just responds back, new phone? Who dis see in

3165
02:33:18,200 --> 02:33:24,000
a week? Or be patient? Or I got you? Yeah,

3166
02:33:24,040 --> 02:33:27,000
that's what he says, g O T C HU got you.

3167
02:33:27,600 --> 02:33:29,559
He's not going no new phone? Who is Huh?

3168
02:33:29,959 --> 02:33:31,440
Speaker 9: I don't think he's going new phone?

3169
02:33:31,440 --> 02:33:34,360
Speaker 2: Who dis on one of his prized clients map? Did

3170
02:33:34,440 --> 02:33:35,360
you have matched that?

3171
02:33:36,559 --> 02:33:36,680
Speaker 10: Man?

3172
02:33:36,719 --> 02:33:38,239
Speaker 9: He might have done that to Jordan Montgomery?

3173
02:33:39,840 --> 02:33:41,639
Speaker 2: How about the one? Do you like when people send

3174
02:33:41,680 --> 02:33:44,479
you to automatic text replies saying sorry, I'm driving, I'll

3175
02:33:44,520 --> 02:33:46,760
get back with you when I can. What's wrong with that?

3176
02:33:47,040 --> 02:33:48,600
Speaker 8: Oh? No, you too?

3177
02:33:49,120 --> 02:33:50,600
Speaker 2: There may be nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying

3178
02:33:51,639 --> 02:33:53,399
I don't have it. I don't have an automatic text

3179
02:33:53,440 --> 02:33:56,840
response because me and SyRI are tight. Although Siria has

3180
02:33:56,920 --> 02:34:01,440
not been she just hasn't been behaving herself. What does

3181
02:34:01,520 --> 02:34:03,600
that mean? Well, I've been swaring a lot in my

3182
02:34:03,719 --> 02:34:06,559
tweg and my text tweets. Uh, text back, and she's

3183
02:34:06,600 --> 02:34:07,440
not catching the whole shit.

3184
02:34:07,479 --> 02:34:08,559
Speaker 9: She catches all my curses.

3185
02:34:09,079 --> 02:34:10,639
Speaker 2: Oh she does. I mean she's still bat in like

3186
02:34:10,719 --> 02:34:12,840
nine to twenty got you got a enunciate, Matt.

3187
02:34:13,120 --> 02:34:13,360
Speaker 10: Yeah.

3188
02:34:13,639 --> 02:34:15,680
Speaker 2: So then when she when she missed, I read it

3189
02:34:15,719 --> 02:34:17,200
back again. And you know it's hard. When you were

3190
02:34:17,239 --> 02:34:18,959
swearing at somebody, you typically do it in a very

3191
02:34:19,000 --> 02:34:21,840
fast fashion. Mm hmm. Like if I want to call

3192
02:34:21,920 --> 02:34:23,680
you a certain name, Ross, I don't slow it down

3193
02:34:23,719 --> 02:34:27,000
and go, hey, Ross, you're a blank blank.

3194
02:34:27,719 --> 02:34:30,959
Speaker 9: Sometimes you got to slow it down for emphasis, well.

3195
02:34:30,920 --> 02:34:33,879
Speaker 2: For seriat works. But if you're in a rush trying

3196
02:34:33,920 --> 02:34:35,239
to respond to a bunch of people, tell him to

3197
02:34:35,360 --> 02:34:36,920
f off. You gotta do you really quick about that.

3198
02:34:37,559 --> 02:34:40,520
Let's get to a call. Before we get to the

3199
02:34:40,680 --> 02:34:44,600
rotten fible, say hello to Augustine in friends, would it's

3200
02:34:44,600 --> 02:34:49,319
sports Talk seven one eight one twenty eight Augustine, Good afternoon, Hey, listen,

3201
02:34:49,479 --> 02:34:51,959
guys about to think about Bregman.

3202
02:34:52,319 --> 02:34:54,520
Speaker 22: Do you think teams are kind of like hesitant on

3203
02:34:54,639 --> 02:34:58,639
them because of how Spring Air and Korea are performing?

3204
02:35:00,360 --> 02:35:02,840
Speaker 2: Nothing to do with it to everybody's in those cases,

3205
02:35:03,000 --> 02:35:06,000
nothing to do with it whatsoever. You know what it

3206
02:35:06,079 --> 02:35:08,079
really is to me, Augustine, I'm gonna give you the

3207
02:35:08,120 --> 02:35:11,840
true honest. I think Scott Morris is looking for the

3208
02:35:11,920 --> 02:35:16,040
two hundred million dollars contract. That's that's the sexy number.

3209
02:35:16,719 --> 02:35:18,680
And how many years it gets to get that number

3210
02:35:19,079 --> 02:35:21,319
is where I think he's waiting for. And at this point,

3211
02:35:21,600 --> 02:35:23,680
I don't think anybody's given him that two hundred That's

3212
02:35:23,719 --> 02:35:25,559
what I think is a slowing downpoint.

3213
02:35:27,600 --> 02:35:29,719
Speaker 22: And all the teams are just following with the astro

3214
02:35:29,920 --> 02:35:31,600
give them. Huh, they're not kind of much.

3215
02:35:31,760 --> 02:35:33,799
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think I think every team has

3216
02:35:33,840 --> 02:35:38,040
their own interpretation. I think that Matt Chapman deal is

3217
02:35:38,079 --> 02:35:40,159
a pretty good sign of what third basement are worth.

3218
02:35:40,879 --> 02:35:41,000
Speaker 1: Uh.

3219
02:35:41,120 --> 02:35:43,200
Speaker 2: If you think he was worth that, then he's gonna

3220
02:35:43,239 --> 02:35:46,239
get more than what Matt Chapman got. I think you

3221
02:35:46,399 --> 02:35:48,799
look at the contracts of the last five years of

3222
02:35:48,840 --> 02:35:51,920
what free agent infielder's got that played multiple positions. I

3223
02:35:51,959 --> 02:35:53,799
think the age plays a role on it. I think

3224
02:35:53,959 --> 02:35:57,440
the Breggy's slow starts in the first couple of months

3225
02:35:57,479 --> 02:35:59,360
have played into it. And they're also thinking, yeah, you

3226
02:35:59,440 --> 02:36:01,959
know what, do I want to tie up somebody for

3227
02:36:02,159 --> 02:36:04,399
seven or eight years? And that's why Rossie and I

3228
02:36:04,520 --> 02:36:06,600
made the bet that I think he's gonna get a

3229
02:36:06,799 --> 02:36:10,360
deal of five years or less, and Rossie thinks it's

3230
02:36:10,360 --> 02:36:12,879
gonna be seven years or higher. So we'll see. But again,

3231
02:36:13,040 --> 02:36:15,799
it's all about a waiting period. And remember to this Augustine,

3232
02:36:16,200 --> 02:36:20,440
if somebody gets hurt, he would be an He's gonna

3233
02:36:20,440 --> 02:36:22,159
be an addition, no matter what team he goes to.

3234
02:36:22,239 --> 02:36:24,920
He's a gold glover, gold glove third basement just aren't

3235
02:36:24,920 --> 02:36:28,159
sitting around. He will get compensated, and he should be compensated.

3236
02:36:28,559 --> 02:36:31,360
But I do believe the two hundred million dollar number

3237
02:36:31,399 --> 02:36:33,040
has been something that has been in their heads since

3238
02:36:33,120 --> 02:36:35,319
day one, and I don't think at this point they've

3239
02:36:35,360 --> 02:36:35,760
received it.

3240
02:36:36,879 --> 02:36:39,280
Speaker 22: Do you think he's gonna go to like a non

3241
02:36:39,440 --> 02:36:41,719
contender team for the two hundred million or he's just

3242
02:36:41,799 --> 02:36:44,719
gonna wait and see who he can best offer.

3243
02:36:46,079 --> 02:36:48,239
Speaker 2: Rossie, I've not hurt anybody that's not a contender being

3244
02:36:48,239 --> 02:36:53,040
associated with him. No, I haven't either. So I mean,

3245
02:36:53,399 --> 02:36:55,680
I'm not hearing the Marlins are in on Bregmann. I'm

3246
02:36:55,719 --> 02:36:58,360
not hearing that the Oils are interested. I'm the teams

3247
02:36:58,399 --> 02:37:01,719
that are being talked about are Boston the match to

3248
02:37:01,799 --> 02:37:07,760
a smaller extent, the Yankees, the Tigers, the Diamondbacks, I think,

3249
02:37:07,879 --> 02:37:10,239
but hell, who knows. It's all speculation at this point.

3250
02:37:11,719 --> 02:37:14,040
Speaker 10: Allright, guys, appreciate it. Man, thank you, thank you, thank you.

3251
02:37:15,159 --> 02:37:16,760
Speaker 2: I mean you tell me Ross, am I misreading it?

3252
02:37:16,840 --> 02:37:18,799
I I believe the two hundred nine million was that

3253
02:37:18,959 --> 02:37:21,200
was the was the magic number that made them twinkle

3254
02:37:21,239 --> 02:37:21,719
in their eyes.

3255
02:37:22,040 --> 02:37:28,719
Speaker 4: I think when one Soto got his deal, Scott Boris

3256
02:37:28,760 --> 02:37:31,600
said one soda reset the market, and team said not

3257
02:37:31,719 --> 02:37:35,879
for Alex Bregman. And that's I wonder if if that

3258
02:37:36,120 --> 02:37:38,319
did the Mets overpaying as much as they did for

3259
02:37:38,440 --> 02:37:40,719
Juan Soto slowed things down. I thought they would speed

3260
02:37:40,799 --> 02:37:43,000
things up for Bregman. I wonder if they slowed them down.

3261
02:37:43,559 --> 02:37:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. Real quick.

3262
02:37:45,280 --> 02:37:48,239
Jonathan wants a question, well answered, Hero, I'm not a

3263
02:37:48,280 --> 02:37:50,840
big baseball guy. What exactly is arbitration? Just nearing a

3264
02:37:50,920 --> 02:37:53,079
contract end, so you have to renegotiate. Why just go

3265
02:37:53,159 --> 02:37:57,319
straight to open market, Jonathan. To be a open market

3266
02:37:57,440 --> 02:37:59,680
free agent, you have to have six years of service time,

3267
02:38:00,200 --> 02:38:05,040
meaning six seasons. Essentially the final three years of your arbitration.

3268
02:38:05,639 --> 02:38:08,120
Of your years are called arbitration years, where you sign

3269
02:38:08,840 --> 02:38:11,840
one year contracts year after year after year for the

3270
02:38:11,879 --> 02:38:15,959
final three and that's where the that's where the arb arbitration.

3271
02:38:16,120 --> 02:38:18,360
The market sets the dollar value for these guys based

3272
02:38:18,360 --> 02:38:20,600
on their performance and what other guys are getting. Now,

3273
02:38:21,319 --> 02:38:24,399
some teams, Jonathan, I may to be pointing directly to him,

3274
02:38:24,440 --> 02:38:26,840
but in case you don't know, some teams will buy

3275
02:38:26,920 --> 02:38:30,719
out your arbitration years. The Astros bought out jord On

3276
02:38:30,799 --> 02:38:35,200
are Albaretz arbitration years, the Astros bought out Alex Bregman

3277
02:38:35,319 --> 02:38:37,760
arbitration years. They have bought out jose L Tuove, meaning

3278
02:38:38,000 --> 02:38:40,399
they will pay above what they normally would have paid

3279
02:38:40,440 --> 02:38:42,799
for arbitration in order to sign them to a longer contract.

3280
02:38:42,920 --> 02:38:47,239
So it's essentially three individual one year contracts the final

3281
02:38:47,319 --> 02:38:50,600
three years before you become a true free agent after

3282
02:38:50,760 --> 02:38:51,399
six seasons.

3283
02:38:51,879 --> 02:38:53,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have to agree on the terms if

3284
02:38:53,879 --> 02:38:57,879
the player says one number, and then the ownership says another,

3285
02:38:58,280 --> 02:39:00,120
and then you can't come to an agreement, and then

3286
02:39:00,159 --> 02:39:00,680
you go to an.

3287
02:39:00,639 --> 02:39:03,959
Speaker 2: Arbitration hearing, you go on opetrition hearing, and that's where again,

3288
02:39:04,040 --> 02:39:06,120
you don't want to do that because you have to

3289
02:39:06,159 --> 02:39:07,920
go in and argue why you don't think this guy

3290
02:39:08,000 --> 02:39:10,200
is worth the money, and it can cause some resentment,

3291
02:39:10,719 --> 02:39:13,879
ladies and gentlemen. It takes absolutely no ability. What's over

3292
02:39:14,000 --> 02:39:15,760
to you? The five best teams are in the NFL?

3293
02:39:16,120 --> 02:39:18,559
Who are the five worst this NFL season? You'll hear

3294
02:39:18,799 --> 02:39:23,239
the rotten five next on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers.

3295
02:39:23,479 --> 02:39:27,920
Speaker 1: Lunch Timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on

3296
02:39:28,120 --> 02:39:29,799
Sports Talk seven ninety.

3297
02:39:34,000 --> 02:39:37,639
Speaker 2: One. Five. On Sports Talk seven ninety Ross, the voice

3298
02:39:37,799 --> 02:39:40,159
of the Tennessee Titans, is leaving to become the voice

3299
02:39:40,159 --> 02:39:46,079
of the Tennessee Volunteers. Really, that touchdown Titans guy.

3300
02:39:46,879 --> 02:39:52,840
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know his name, Mike Keith. He's been

3301
02:39:52,920 --> 02:39:54,079
there for years and years.

3302
02:39:54,000 --> 02:39:57,840
Speaker 2: Right, I believe since the team moved from Houston.

3303
02:39:59,000 --> 02:40:03,520
Speaker 4: Is there's some I'm rotten in Nashville. GM's getting moved,

3304
02:40:03,600 --> 02:40:07,360
coaches not liking it there. This guy's going to to

3305
02:40:07,440 --> 02:40:10,559
take the volunteers job. I mean, maybe it's more money,

3306
02:40:10,680 --> 02:40:12,959
but probably not right or comparable.

3307
02:40:15,000 --> 02:40:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't I don't really pocket watch other people's broadcast

3308
02:40:18,680 --> 02:40:20,280
just in general, though, I mean, do you think I

3309
02:40:20,319 --> 02:40:22,120
don't know? I mean I wish, I wish I had

3310
02:40:22,239 --> 02:40:28,399
some at first blush. So what Mike Keith does. He

3311
02:40:28,559 --> 02:40:31,280
calls the games and then he's he does what Vandermier does.

3312
02:40:31,360 --> 02:40:33,600
He works for the team twelve months a year and

3313
02:40:33,719 --> 02:40:37,000
does other things. So there's probably a a large a

3314
02:40:37,200 --> 02:40:38,200
salary that would be.

3315
02:40:39,600 --> 02:40:40,040
Speaker 10: Just for that.

3316
02:40:41,079 --> 02:40:46,719
Speaker 2: As a full time Titans employee, You're gonna call more

3317
02:40:46,840 --> 02:40:50,680
games at Tennessee. You'ren gonna do football, basketball, baseball, you

3318
02:40:50,799 --> 02:40:53,799
might host some coaches shows, you might do some speaking engagements.

3319
02:40:53,879 --> 02:41:01,879
But I would say it's probably a salary drop, honestly.

3320
02:41:03,520 --> 02:41:08,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's interesting. Seems like everybody's

3321
02:41:08,280 --> 02:41:10,520
fleeing from that organization as fast as they can or

3322
02:41:10,559 --> 02:41:13,159
getting fired from it, or I mean, it just seems

3323
02:41:13,200 --> 02:41:13,639
like a mess.

3324
02:41:15,000 --> 02:41:16,760
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't now this guy, Mike Keith did

3325
02:41:16,840 --> 02:41:20,159
go to Tennessee and it's a it's a hair broadcasting job.

3326
02:41:20,239 --> 02:41:22,079
A guy who's replacing him. Been there twenty six years,

3327
02:41:22,120 --> 02:41:24,680
so it's not like it's you know, interesting, Okay, guys

3328
02:41:24,719 --> 02:41:27,760
out and left. You know, I would say professional jobs

3329
02:41:27,799 --> 02:41:32,920
pay more than collegiate jobs. But I've always said this.

3330
02:41:33,159 --> 02:41:35,879
I wanted to get into play by play broadcasting because

3331
02:41:35,879 --> 02:41:37,559
I wanted to do as many games as possible, and

3332
02:41:38,079 --> 02:41:39,920
it'd be hard for me just to do the NFL all.

3333
02:41:39,959 --> 02:41:42,600
The NFL is awesome. You only call eighteen games a year,

3334
02:41:42,719 --> 02:41:45,319
nineteen games a year of plus some playoffs. I like

3335
02:41:45,440 --> 02:41:47,600
doing basketball because you get to do you know, eighty

3336
02:41:47,639 --> 02:41:49,559
five or eighty six. He do some baseball here and there,

3337
02:41:49,600 --> 02:41:51,799
and you you kind of get your play by play fix.

3338
02:41:52,200 --> 02:41:55,079
Maybe that's what he's doing, or maybe Tennessee's like, man,

3339
02:41:55,159 --> 02:41:58,239
we love you and we want to make your I mean,

3340
02:41:58,520 --> 02:42:00,680
Knoxville's got to be probably a little cheaper than living

3341
02:42:00,799 --> 02:42:03,319
than Nashville. I guess, I don't know who knows.

3342
02:42:04,120 --> 02:42:06,639
Speaker 4: It's closer to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maybe

3343
02:42:06,639 --> 02:42:07,479
that's what he's focused on.

3344
02:42:07,840 --> 02:42:09,680
Speaker 2: Tennessee underrated state generally speaking.

3345
02:42:09,680 --> 02:42:13,079
Speaker 4: Would you say, Okay, I've never been, so I'll take

3346
02:42:13,079 --> 02:42:14,479
your word for it, but I do I am planning

3347
02:42:14,520 --> 02:42:17,559
in Nashville Slash Great Smoky Mountains trips at some time.

3348
02:42:17,959 --> 02:42:20,920
Speaker 2: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, our final time of the year,

3349
02:42:20,920 --> 02:42:23,239
little tier. Actually we're here there in early January, but

3350
02:42:23,280 --> 02:42:24,799
it's our final time this season. We'll tear in the

3351
02:42:24,840 --> 02:42:27,559
eye as we present to you Rosses Rotten five.

3352
02:42:29,600 --> 02:42:33,840
Speaker 9: They've gone there, they draw flies.

3353
02:42:35,600 --> 02:42:42,719
Speaker 2: It's Rosses Rotting five. This don't smell quite right, Yes, Matthew.

3354
02:42:43,479 --> 02:42:46,559
Speaker 4: It is a bittersweet end to the twenty twenty four

3355
02:42:46,760 --> 02:42:50,440
regular season of the NFL with the Rotten five. Oh

3356
02:42:50,520 --> 02:42:53,799
my goodness, what a season for the Jacksonville Jaguars. They

3357
02:42:53,879 --> 02:42:56,719
started off the year with their owner Shad khansa quote,

3358
02:42:57,399 --> 02:43:01,879
winning now is the expectation for the Jaguars. Well, apparently

3359
02:43:02,040 --> 02:43:04,680
winning three games or four games wasn't exactly what he

3360
02:43:04,799 --> 02:43:07,040
was talking about. He has now fired head coach Doug

3361
02:43:07,120 --> 02:43:11,040
Peterson and inexplicably kept general manager Trent Balky.

3362
02:43:11,120 --> 02:43:13,360
Speaker 9: What is going on over there in Jacksonville.

3363
02:43:13,399 --> 02:43:15,559
Speaker 4: The Jaguars do have a promising young wide receiver in

3364
02:43:15,639 --> 02:43:19,520
Brian Brian Thomas Junior some other pieces, but team looking

3365
02:43:19,559 --> 02:43:22,600
to rebuild now with a new coach after their awful season.

3366
02:43:22,719 --> 02:43:25,399
As they finished twenty twenty four as the fifth worst

3367
02:43:25,399 --> 02:43:27,840
team in the NFL, and in honor of them being

3368
02:43:27,920 --> 02:43:30,879
here most of the season. Here is the entire Jaguars

3369
02:43:31,000 --> 02:43:31,639
Lady interview.

3370
02:43:33,280 --> 02:43:36,200
Speaker 14: Certainly not the first year we took it to the

3371
02:43:36,360 --> 02:43:40,360
limit and I was in Miami win my new beach house. Well,

3372
02:43:40,399 --> 02:43:42,040
it was a couple of minutes from the beach.

3373
02:43:42,079 --> 02:43:43,479
Speaker 2: It's been twenty years since then.

3374
02:43:43,639 --> 02:43:45,840
Speaker 22: We haven't been too strong in the last few years.

3375
02:43:45,920 --> 02:43:48,520
Speaker 14: Oh, we've been strong. We're just playing by the rules.

3376
02:43:49,000 --> 02:43:53,200
You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show.

3377
02:43:54,200 --> 02:43:56,000
Speaker 2: Oh I miss you.

3378
02:43:56,440 --> 02:43:58,879
Speaker 9: I'm gonna miss you in the offseason, Jaguars Lady.

3379
02:43:58,799 --> 02:44:00,760
Speaker 2: Any chance he's alive this moment?

3380
02:44:02,399 --> 02:44:02,520
Speaker 11: Uh?

3381
02:44:04,959 --> 02:44:09,879
Speaker 4: And you're just really I I'm not answering that question,

3382
02:44:10,319 --> 02:44:11,680
all right, you don't have to trying to get me

3383
02:44:11,719 --> 02:44:12,159
in trouble.

3384
02:44:12,760 --> 02:44:13,360
Speaker 2: I had a joke.

3385
02:44:13,799 --> 02:44:15,159
Speaker 9: I had a joke pop up in my mind.

3386
02:44:15,200 --> 02:44:16,799
Speaker 4: I'll tell it to you off air. Why don't you

3387
02:44:16,879 --> 02:44:20,399
just say, yes, Yes, she's doing great, she's in perfect health.

3388
02:44:22,600 --> 02:44:24,680
All right, let's move on. Man to the New England

3389
02:44:24,719 --> 02:44:26,840
Patriots that egg on their face. The season started with

3390
02:44:27,000 --> 02:44:31,000
extremely low expectations, but somehow they fell short of that,

3391
02:44:31,479 --> 02:44:34,879
at least on as Robert Croft is concerned, shockingly firing

3392
02:44:34,959 --> 02:44:37,520
at Girod Mayo after just one season as the headman

3393
02:44:37,639 --> 02:44:40,879
in Foxborough. Gerd very little to work with Patriots, one

3394
02:44:40,879 --> 02:44:43,239
of the worst rosters in all of football, a rookie

3395
02:44:43,319 --> 02:44:45,719
QB finding his way in an offensive line that ranked

3396
02:44:45,799 --> 02:44:48,799
thirty second in the league since the beginning of the season.

3397
02:44:49,280 --> 02:44:52,360
Disgraceful that Robert Craft would spend all that time talking

3398
02:44:52,360 --> 02:44:54,840
about gird Mayo's their heir apparent, only to fire him

3399
02:44:55,159 --> 02:44:58,000
in a bad situation. The New England Patriots were the

3400
02:44:58,040 --> 02:44:59,840
fourth worst team in the NFL.

3401
02:45:00,799 --> 02:45:06,079
Speaker 10: This whole situation is on me. I feel terrible for Girard.

3402
02:45:06,520 --> 02:45:09,719
Speaker 4: Yes, we were't gonna blame anybody else, Robert Okay, good God.

3403
02:45:09,760 --> 02:45:12,799
If things gone downhill for this seemingly well forever for

3404
02:45:12,879 --> 02:45:16,159
the Cleveland Browns. They started off the season with playoff aspirations,

3405
02:45:16,479 --> 02:45:19,879
functional defense, getting back to Sean Watson from injury. Turns

3406
02:45:19,920 --> 02:45:22,559
out well just about about every metric you can find.

3407
02:45:22,639 --> 02:45:25,520
Deshaun Watson the worst quarterback in football. Then he tour

3408
02:45:25,559 --> 02:45:28,479
his achilles, Then they went to Jamis Winston experience, then

3409
02:45:28,520 --> 02:45:31,479
they went full tank mode. With Dorian Thompson, Robinson and

3410
02:45:31,680 --> 02:45:34,959
Bailey Zappi. The Browns sticking with Watson don't really have

3411
02:45:35,040 --> 02:45:36,920
a choice with the way the cap has been They

3412
02:45:36,959 --> 02:45:40,040
did restructure his contract. An absolute mess of a franchise

3413
02:45:40,319 --> 02:45:42,959
that deserves every bit of it. The Cleveland Browns, the

3414
02:45:43,040 --> 02:45:45,000
third worst team in the NFL this year.

3415
02:45:46,000 --> 02:45:47,680
Speaker 2: You are a factory of sadness.

3416
02:45:48,200 --> 02:45:50,879
Speaker 4: Let's keep it moving along. The New York Football Giants

3417
02:45:50,920 --> 02:45:53,799
coming into the season. Bounce back year from Daniel Jones

3418
02:45:53,879 --> 02:45:55,520
while they straight up cut the dude in the middle

3419
02:45:55,520 --> 02:45:59,399
of the season. Brian Dable and Joe Shane keeping their jobs.

3420
02:45:59,440 --> 02:46:01,719
So the Giants going to run it back and hope

3421
02:46:01,760 --> 02:46:04,159
they can rebuild around some of their defensive pieces and

3422
02:46:04,239 --> 02:46:07,319
star rookie wide receiver Molik Neighbors. It'll be interesting to

3423
02:46:07,319 --> 02:46:09,120
see if they take a QB at the top of

3424
02:46:09,159 --> 02:46:11,360
the draft. A lot of decisions to be made. The

3425
02:46:11,440 --> 02:46:14,600
New York Football Giants so horrible, the second worst team

3426
02:46:14,959 --> 02:46:16,000
in the NFL this year.

3427
02:46:16,639 --> 02:46:20,959
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's bad, It's real bad.

3428
02:46:21,680 --> 02:46:24,159
Speaker 4: Oh we come to the bottom of this list and

3429
02:46:24,280 --> 02:46:28,399
it's satisfying. The Tennessee Titans. How about a team that's

3430
02:46:28,399 --> 02:46:31,239
spent a ton in the off season, building pieces around

3431
02:46:31,319 --> 02:46:34,879
a Mayo loving quarterback that would get benched multiple times

3432
02:46:34,920 --> 02:46:37,719
throughout the season. Despite a vote of confidence in GM

3433
02:46:38,239 --> 02:46:41,719
Ron Carthon last year, Amy Adams was shrunk, deciding to

3434
02:46:41,799 --> 02:46:44,120
fire him and move on, which begs the question what's

3435
02:46:44,159 --> 02:46:46,399
going on in Nashville? Well, I tend to say the

3436
02:46:46,479 --> 02:46:49,239
fish rots from the head down. Mike Vrabel has to

3437
02:46:49,280 --> 02:46:51,200
be thankful he got out of that dumpster fire.

3438
02:46:51,520 --> 02:46:51,920
Speaker 2: And well.

3439
02:46:52,239 --> 02:46:55,319
Speaker 4: The Titans also ended their season decorating their stadium in

3440
02:46:55,399 --> 02:46:58,719
oiler's logos, wearing their uniforms, only to lose for this

3441
02:46:58,920 --> 02:47:01,479
checkant straight year in those cursed uniforms.

3442
02:47:01,719 --> 02:47:03,319
Speaker 2: To case Keenum and.

3443
02:47:03,520 --> 02:47:07,239
Speaker 4: Davis Mills, you know what, Tennessee, you deserve the oilers.

3444
02:47:07,440 --> 02:47:09,840
You can keep them because the Tennessee Titans were the

3445
02:47:09,959 --> 02:47:17,920
worst team in the NFL. Yes, they were number one

3446
02:47:17,959 --> 02:47:21,000
on this list. The Titans, you suck and Matt that's

3447
02:47:21,040 --> 02:47:21,680
your rut in five?

3448
02:47:22,120 --> 02:47:25,280
Speaker 2: Oh God, bless you, sorry about it? Really fast for

3449
02:47:25,399 --> 02:47:27,680
we go to break ROSSI I was as you were

3450
02:47:27,719 --> 02:47:29,280
starting to do your rotten five. I went and check

3451
02:47:29,319 --> 02:47:32,399
the Google app on my phone. Okay, first star that

3452
02:47:32,479 --> 02:47:35,319
came up couples who lived together but sleep in separate

3453
02:47:35,360 --> 02:47:42,520
beds usually display nine traits according to psychology. Okay you ready, No,

3454
02:47:43,159 --> 02:47:47,719
they value their sleep that number one, they appreciate personal space.

3455
02:47:47,840 --> 02:47:52,840
Number two, they communicate openly three. Number four, they have

3456
02:47:52,879 --> 02:47:57,040
a strong sense of security. Number five, they prioritize each

3457
02:47:57,040 --> 02:48:03,520
other's needs. Number six they adapt to changes. Number seven

3458
02:48:03,639 --> 02:48:07,239
they often have a vibrant intimate life. Number eight they

3459
02:48:07,360 --> 02:48:11,559
respect boundaries. And number nine they're happy. Number ten one

3460
02:48:11,639 --> 02:48:15,120
through nine are all false in love. Number eleven one

3461
02:48:15,159 --> 02:48:17,959
of them is in the closet one. Number twelve, one

3462
02:48:18,000 --> 02:48:20,799
of them sleeps around on the other. Number thirteen one

3463
02:48:20,920 --> 02:48:22,799
previously slept around with the other, but hopes it ain't

3464
02:48:22,799 --> 02:48:29,639
gonna get caught. I sleep with my wife. I don't

3465
02:48:29,639 --> 02:48:31,520
know where this came from. This is why? Why is

3466
02:48:31,600 --> 02:48:34,120
this showing up on my algorithm? That's I don't need that.

3467
02:48:37,120 --> 02:48:45,120
Geez crazy? All right, that's it. We're moving on. No

3468
02:48:45,159 --> 02:48:46,440
out of the believe it or not. What are we

3469
02:48:46,479 --> 02:48:48,399
playing for? We're playing for mantra jam tickets.

3470
02:48:48,440 --> 02:48:48,639
Speaker 8: Still.

3471
02:48:48,799 --> 02:48:52,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, topic today ROSSI is.

3472
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Speaker 4: I'm Memphis. I'm working on it right now. Shut up,

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all right, it's a wait hop talk. I'm shutting up.

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Speaker 2: Wait a man to say, I have to shut up

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because you have to talk about some great folks.

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Speaker 3: Craig Ackerman here when I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm

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following at sports RV on Twitter.

3504
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk

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seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: And to think I was talking about how great of

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a singer Craig was on karaoke until you put that

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liner out there? Not nice at all?

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02:50:40,959 --> 02:50:42,360
Speaker 9: What's wrong with it? How's that not nice?

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Speaker 2: He says, he follows you, didn't follow me.

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Speaker 9: Don't always it to be about you?

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Speaker 4: Matt curious, he said, just because he says he follows me,

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that's not mean towards you.

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Speaker 2: He follows you. But he was doing a liner for

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this show.

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02:50:57,159 --> 02:50:59,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, Matt Thomas show was ross.

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02:51:00,079 --> 02:51:05,280
Speaker 2: Mmmm all right, you make me laugh, You make me laugh,

3518
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all right? Uh real quick. We're getting a new area

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code in Houston. Apparently.

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Speaker 9: Oh I think I saw this recently.

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Speaker 2: What is it again? Six one? Okay?

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02:51:18,559 --> 02:51:21,000
Speaker 9: You all right? It's like eight, It's like two eight one.

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02:51:22,719 --> 02:51:29,239
Speaker 2: Six two one okay whatever, six two one, all right.

3524
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That's it. That's we've given you nothing information. We give

3525
02:51:31,719 --> 02:51:34,559
you nine reasons why people don't sleep together. We give

3526
02:51:34,600 --> 02:51:36,879
you a new area code. We've given you arbitration numbers.

3527
02:51:36,920 --> 02:51:39,639
We gave you the Rockets update, We've given you sports

3528
02:51:39,680 --> 02:51:42,799
empty theater. This has been a great radio show. My goodness.

3529
02:51:43,360 --> 02:51:47,719
Give yourself a a hawkeye on your buckeye on your helmet. There,

3530
02:51:47,799 --> 02:51:51,159
ROSSI Coachi Doka was great. You said he was good.

3531
02:51:51,399 --> 02:51:53,159
It was good. Five minutes left to go in the show.

3532
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What should we do? We should play a kiss fastest

3533
02:52:00,879 --> 02:52:03,239
growing sports radio game show. We simply call it be

3534
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Believe It or Not. And here's how it works. You

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call seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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02:52:08,840 --> 02:52:12,000
seven one three two one two five seven ninety today's

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02:52:12,040 --> 02:52:14,600
category I Believe it or not? Oh, it's about Memphis.

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02:52:14,760 --> 02:52:17,559
How about that? Why don't we have a little Mark

3539
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cohensing and uh walking in Memphis? Close out the show

3540
02:52:20,280 --> 02:52:22,079
today'd be a good way to have a little production value.

3541
02:52:22,399 --> 02:52:25,440
I'll read your statement about Memphis statements completely utterly accurate.

3542
02:52:25,479 --> 02:52:27,959
You'll say this, believe it if the same as your

3543
02:52:28,000 --> 02:52:30,120
running as football get made up, You'll say this not.

3544
02:52:30,760 --> 02:52:31,920
Do you believe it or not? In a row and

3545
02:52:31,959 --> 02:52:33,799
all things about the city of Memphis, Tennessee wins you

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02:52:33,879 --> 02:52:35,639
a prize. What are you playing for today, Connor?

3547
02:52:36,040 --> 02:52:38,120
Speaker 17: A four pack of tickets with pitt passes to Monster

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Jam on Sunday, February second at NRG Stadium and some

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02:52:41,319 --> 02:52:42,280
seven ninety t shirts.

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02:52:42,760 --> 02:52:44,680
Speaker 2: Victor on seven? Are you ready to play Believe it

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02:52:44,719 --> 02:52:44,840
or not?

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02:52:46,280 --> 02:52:46,680
Speaker 10: Believe it?

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02:52:47,360 --> 02:52:50,399
Speaker 2: Victor? The population of Memphis is about six hundred and

3554
02:52:50,440 --> 02:52:53,200
twenty thousand. The city of Memphis. Believe it or not

3555
02:52:56,120 --> 02:52:56,559
believe it?

3556
02:52:58,000 --> 02:52:59,040
Speaker 9: Try to lay it.

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02:53:00,360 --> 02:53:03,479
Speaker 2: That's on the first line of the Wikipedia page. Scott

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02:53:03,799 --> 02:53:05,920
on Sevenintie Scott, you're ready to play Believe.

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02:53:05,680 --> 02:53:05,920
Speaker 18: It or not?

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02:53:06,959 --> 02:53:12,159
Speaker 2: I am Memphis, Tennessee is named after Memphis, Egypt. Believe

3561
02:53:12,200 --> 02:53:19,559
it or not? Not believe it? Oh my god, I

3562
02:53:19,600 --> 02:53:24,840
thought I pretty knew that. Let's go to John on seven. Nintie, John,

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02:53:24,879 --> 02:53:26,760
what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

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02:53:28,159 --> 02:53:30,120
Speaker 8: All the fact you give us Matt every day.

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02:53:30,680 --> 02:53:33,079
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. The southern borter of Memphis is also

3566
02:53:33,159 --> 02:53:36,600
the state line between Tennessee and Mississippi. Believe it or not,

3567
02:53:37,879 --> 02:53:40,799
I believe it, Ben There you go. Statement number two

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02:53:40,840 --> 02:53:44,399
for the wind. Sister cities from Memphis Tennessee include Liverpool, England,

3569
02:53:44,959 --> 02:53:50,959
and Kolac, Senegal. Believe it or not. Believe it, believe it?

3570
02:53:51,280 --> 02:53:53,120
There you go. Nice thing you've done. You're going into

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02:53:53,120 --> 02:53:56,040
the monkey community there. You're proud of you. Thanks for listening.

3572
02:53:56,639 --> 02:53:58,559
Chris on Sevenaintie, Chris, you're ready to play.

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02:53:58,559 --> 02:54:01,239
Speaker 10: Believe it or not, nothing but nylon.

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02:54:02,079 --> 02:54:08,079
Speaker 2: The of Memphis is classified as humid subtropical, the same

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02:54:08,120 --> 02:54:09,639
as Huston or the climate of I don't know if

3576
02:54:09,639 --> 02:54:11,680
I did that wrong. Yeah, the climate of Memphis is

3577
02:54:11,760 --> 02:54:15,200
classified as humid subtropical. It's exact same as Houston. Believe

3578
02:54:15,239 --> 02:54:19,639
it or not? Nah, believe it? Oh, I'm so sorry.

3579
02:54:22,280 --> 02:54:30,520
Sat'sfires and missus oll Hi Bell happen New Year, Matt whatever.

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02:54:30,879 --> 02:54:33,479
According to trip Advisor, the number one thing to do

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in Memphis is visit Bill Street. Believe it or not, Bill,

3582
02:54:40,559 --> 02:54:48,120
believe it not? Graceland Bell, come on now, see on

3583
02:54:48,319 --> 02:54:50,319
seven ninety see what was your favorite part of today's

3584
02:54:50,399 --> 02:54:53,719
radio show? One where the Titans are the worst team

3585
02:54:53,719 --> 02:54:57,879
in the NFL on Russi, all right, Memphis is home

3586
02:54:57,920 --> 02:55:00,399
to the world's first holiday inn. Believe it or not.

3587
02:55:02,559 --> 02:55:05,440
Believe it, believe it right? Stayment number two for the

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02:55:05,479 --> 02:55:08,239
wind The jersey sponsor the Memphis Grizzlies is the same

3589
02:55:08,280 --> 02:55:15,399
as their arena sponsor, FedEx. Believe it or not. Note

3590
02:55:15,680 --> 02:55:21,399
it's right, it's Robin Hood congratulated. All right, Rossie, that's

3591
02:55:21,479 --> 02:55:22,719
it for today. We did a great We had a

3592
02:55:22,760 --> 02:55:24,840
great show today. Thank you everybody for listening, spending the

3593
02:55:24,879 --> 02:55:26,520
next last four hours with us. We want you to

3594
02:55:26,600 --> 02:55:28,680
spend the next four with this radio station that we

3595
02:55:28,760 --> 02:55:32,360
call seven ninety because it'll be Clinton, It'll be well,

3596
02:55:34,079 --> 02:55:35,879
ross what do you put this on your one hit wonders?

3597
02:55:36,879 --> 02:55:42,040
Speaker 9: A depth far down the list, really, Marky Mark number one.

3598
02:55:43,879 --> 02:55:47,680
Speaker 2: Actually, by the way, word coming in the last two minutes.

3599
02:55:47,799 --> 02:55:51,399
Jeremy Penia arbitration settled at four point one million dollars.

3600
02:55:55,559 --> 02:56:00,159
That's topic A with Wexler and Clinic. They are eight.

3601
02:56:00,440 --> 02:56:04,000
Talk to you tonight for Rockets and Grizzlies at seventh right,

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02:56:04,040 --> 02:56:08,840
here on Sports Talk seven, Walking in at them